The rich contemporary literature of travel has been the focus of numerous recent publications in English that seek to understand how travel narratives, with their distinctive representations of identities, places, and cultures, respond to today's globalized, high-speed world characterized by the dual mass movements of tourism and migration. Yet a corresponding cutting-edge discussion of twenty-first-century travel writing in German has until now been missing.The fourteen essays in

After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a significant impact. Some, like Karen Duve, Daniel Kehlmann, and Sasa Stanisic, have achieved international recognition; some, like Julia Franck, have won major prizes; others, like Clemens Meyer, Alina Bronsky, and Ilja Trojanow, are truly "emerging authors" who have begun toattract attention. Between them the...

"Jenny Erpenbeck ist die zurzeit wahrscheinlich international erfolgreichste deutsche Schriftstellerin. Ostdeutsche, könnte man genauer sagen (…)." Der Standard, Wien Ihre literarischen Texte wurden mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, u. a. mit dem Preis der Jury des Ingeborg-Bachmann-Wettbewerbs (2001), dem Joseph Breitbach-Preis (2013), dem Thomas-Mann-Preis (2016) und jüngst mit dem International Booker-Prize 2024 für den Roman "Kairos". Erpenbecks literarisches und essayistisches We...

How do we as scholars envision Europe? Participants in a two-day research symposium bring a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary responses to this complex question. Distinguished US scholars address the European continent, its history and culture, and its politics in essays that range from the intellectual tradition to poetics and world literature, from the air war to plurilingualism, from religious symbolism to Europe’s colonial legacy. These contributions comprise a portrait or ...