Vibrationshintergrund Selim Özdoğan Translated by Kristin Dickinson Download PDF Read the German text. Acknowledgements: This text originally appeared in Die Zeit and in freitext, no. 18 (October 2011). Like most children have probably done, I too have understood words, as they had not been said. For a long time I thought there was a word “civil garage,” and […]

Volume 8.1: Foreword Dear Readers, We are pleased to publish the first installment of texts in our 2012 issue, consisting of essays, translations, creative writing, and book reviews. The first part of this installment is the result of a collaboration with freitext, a Berlin-based “Kultur- und Gesellschaftsmagazin” that publishes contemporary literature and essays from a transcultural […]

Vibrationshintergrund Selim Özdoğan Download PDF Read a translation of this text. Acknowledgements: This text originally appeared in Die Zeit and in freitext, no. 18 (October 2011). Auch ich habe, wie wahrscheinlich alle Kinder, Worte so verstanden, wie sie nicht gesagt wurden. Lange Zeit dachte ich, es heißt Zivilgarage und habe mir immer eine Garage voller Polizisten ohne Uniform […]

Sie missüberschätzen uns. Über den Versuch, das Mittelstandsperlenkettchen wie ein Lasso um das Ballhaus Naunynstraße zu werfen – Eine Komödie Marianna Salzmann Download PDF Read a translation of this text. Acknowledgements: This text originally appeared in freitext, no. 18 (October 2011). http://vimeo.com/19538758/ Lachen: ist ein angeborenes Ausdrucksverhalten des Menschen, das nicht nur, aber vor allem in […]

Der Besuch 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 […]

Tracking Europe: Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location, by Ginette Verstraete 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 […]

Interkultur, by Mark Terkessidis 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 […]