Beschreibung:
Examines the heightened role of politics in contemporary German and Austrian cultural productions and institutions and what it means for German Studies.
IntroductionFrauke Matthes, Dora Osborne, and Katya KrylovaWriting the European Refugee Crisis: Timur Vermes' Die Hungrigen und die Satten (2018)Linda ShorttPluralized Selves and the Postmigrant Sublime: Isolde Charim's Ich und die Anderen (2018) and Wolfgang Fischer's STYX (2018)Teresa Ludden"Never an innocent game": The Center for Political Beauty and "Search for us!"Mary CosgroveIrreconcilable Differences: The Politics of Bad Feelings in Contemporary German Jewish CultureMaria Roca LizarazuGeography, Identity, and Politics in Saša Staniši¿'s Vor dem Fest (2014)Myrto AspiotiPrecarious Narration in Anke Stelling's Schäfchen im Trockenen (2018)Stephanie GleißnerLimited Editions: Politics of Liveness at the Berliner Theatertreffen, 2017-19Katie HawthorneThe Ak¿n Effect: Fatih Ak¿n's Cultural-Symbolic Capital and the Postmigrant TheaterLizzie StewartGoodbye, Sonnenallee, Or How Gundermann (2018) Got Lost in the Cinema of OthersEvelyn PreussRuth Beckermann's Reckoning with Kurt Waldheim: Unzugehörig: Österreicher und Juden nach 1945 (1989) and Waldheims Walzer (2018)Joseph W. MoserBurschenschaft Hysteria: Exposing Nationalist Gender Roles in Contemporary Austrian PoliticsRegine Klimpfinger and Elisabeth KoenigshofeNotes on the Contributors