TRANSIT vol. 14, no. 1 Jean E. Conacher Download PDF Abstract Over centuries, the mutual existence of German- and Polish-speaking communities formed expansive cultural borderlands stretching down from the southern Baltic coast across frequently moving, and at times aggressively enforced, political dividing lines. The 1945 Potsdam Agreement saw the establishment of the Oder-Neisse line, only […]

TRANSIT vol. 14, No. 1 Sabine Egger Download PDF Abstract In the last two decades, flight and expulsion have emerged as critical topics in contemporary German literature and culture, with authors exploring narrative modes in literary texts that open transnational perspectives. Reinhard Jirgl’s Die Unvollendeten (2003) and Sabrina Janesch’s Katzenberge (2010) are examples of such […]

TRANSIT vol. 14, no. 1 Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova Download PDF Abstract This article examines the artistic rendering of post-German objects in Stefan Chwin’s 1995 novel Hanemann [Death in Danzig] through the lens of new materialism theories. In his depiction of the historical transformation of Danzig/Gdansk from a German to a Polish city Chwin applies two strategies: […]

TRANSIT vol. 14, no. 1 Alicja Kowalska Download PDF Abstract This article focuses on the role of contemporary Polish literature in bringing back that which has been repressed under communism: the Germanness of the so-called “regained territories”, i.e. territories that became Polish due to the changes of national borders after the Second World War, as […]

by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky  TRANSIT vol. 14, no. 1 Translated by Ross Shields Download PDF Abstract Central Airport THF is a documentary film about the temporary housing of refugees in the halls of the former Tempelhof Airport, located at the edge of Berlin’s Tempelhofer Feld. As if by accident, the director contrasts the arrested life in […]