Selim Özdoğan Download PDF Read a translation of this text. Acknowledgements: This text originally appeared in freitext, no. 18 (October 2011). Ich hätte auf meinen Vater hören sollen. Als ich ihm meinen ersten Track vorspielte, sagte er: »Was ist das denn? Das ist doch überhaupt keine Musik. Das klingt wie dieses Zeug, das du in letzter […]

Hakan Savaş Mican Download PDF Read a translation of this text. Acknowledgements: This text originally appeared in freitext, no. 18 (October 2011). Der Besuch premiered at the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse on December 13, 2008, and was renewed on September 13, 2011. http://vimeo.com/28017101 Personen Ada, will das geerbte Grundstück in Berlin verkaufen und mit dem Geld ein Haus in Israel kaufen. […]

Reviewed by Alex Lambrow Download PDF Ginette Verstraete. Tracking Europe: Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. 220 Pages. Ginette Verstraete’s Tracking Europe: Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location provides a succinct analysis of a cross-section of the debate concerning the emergent “new European” identity and this identity’s interplay […]

Reviewed by Isabel Dzierson Download PDF Mark Terkessidis, Interkultur. Berlin: Edition Suhrkamp, 2010. Pp. 220. Journalist and author Mark Terkessidis develops in his book by the same name, the so-called concept of “Interkultur”—a programmatic change of the perception of German society, which is today facing a diverse and complex reality. Terkessidis challenges the often polemic […]

Reviewed by Özgür Yaren Download PDF Daniela Berghahn and Claudia Sternberg (eds.), European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. 321. Hardback, £55.00. As transnational mobility and migration are reconfiguring Europe, their echoes and reverberations in cinema are attracting more and more academic attention. […]

Translated by Jessica Nicholl and Martina Schwalm Download PDF Translators’ Introduction In Tongue Removal (2001) Zafer Şenocak offers readers an intimate insight into his personal migration from Turkey to Germany and raises awareness for all those who have questioned the meaning of home, migration, and belonging. At times light and playful, at others critical and […]