ABSTRACT
Mutual narratives and images about Germany and the Netherlands as they are 'mediated' in newspapers and on TV, for example, very much rely on the past that is related to World War II. In greater detail and as a result of analysing innumerable narratives on Dutch German 'encounters' between 1789 and 1995 - described as 'broken mirrors', Groenewold has developed a 'Dutch-German interpretation array' that consists of differentially defined characteristics. The Dutch-German borderland is one of those that are officially conceived as reconciled that is being characterized by a reconciliation that results in the border's porosity. Paasi carries on with elaborating that 'the construction of territoriality is essentially a process of production and reproduction of mental representations which arises on the basis of diverging social and material practices and interests'. Researching representations of the border between Germany and the Netherlands thus requires consideration of the three sites of production, image and audience.
