Letting The System Completely Absorb Me Would Be So Much Easier: An Interview with the Novelist-Activist SchwarzRund
TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Translated by Patrick Ploschnitzki Download PDF SchwarzRund is a Black Dominican queer femme feminist, active in intersectional education, Black German publishing and spoken word, empowerment around Fatness, Blackness, Queerness, and allyship, and critical media research. In this interview, SchwarzRund speaks about the German publishing world, the role of Black queer […]
Ungehaltene neue deutsche Literatur: Ein Interview mit Deniz Utlu
TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 1 Daniel Schreiner PDF herunterladen English Translation Einführung Interview mit Deniz Utlu, Autor von Essays, Theaterstücken sowie des Romans Die Ungehaltenen (Graf Verlag, München, 2014), Herausgeber des Kultur- und Gesellschaftmagazins freitext. Das Interview wurde in Berlin, kurz nach dem Erscheinen seines Debüt-Romans von Daniel Schreiner, Universität Bonn, geführt. Das Interview war […]
Unbeholden New German Literature: An Interview with Deniz Utlu
TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 1 Daniel Schreiner Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF German Original Introduction An interview with Deniz Utlu, author of numerous essays and plays, as well as the recent novel, Die Ungehaltenen (Graf Verlag, München, 2014), and editor of the culture and society magazine, freitext. The interview was conducted in Berlin by […]
Who Said Heimat? I’m Only Renting
by Selim Özdoğan TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 1 Introduction and Interview by Kristin Dickinson Translated by Milena Beltrama, Brittany Boyle, Brandon Cummings, Kristen Datta, Hannah Kelley-Watkins, Nathan Korth, Edward Kosta, Ted Ma, James Margard, Sydney McConnell, and Sabrina Walker Download PDF Introduction Throughout the Fall semester 2016, the Department of German at the University of Michigan hosted Selim […]
A Conversation with Bernard Banoun
Kurt Beals, Erik Born, Robin Ellis, and Deniz Göktürk Download PDF Abstract: A conversation with the translator and scholar Bernard Banoun. The following conversation took place in Berkeley on October 29, 2009. Bernard Banoun has translated the works of numerous German writers into French, including novels and prose by Thomas Jonigk, Werner Kofler, Yoko Tawada, […]
Zafer Şenocak im Gespräch: Auszüge
Elke Segelcke Download PDF Der deutsche Autor türkischer Herkunft Zafer Şenocak (geb. 1961) bezeichnet sich selbst als Wanderer zwischen den Welten, der in beiden Sprachen und Kulturen Zuhause ist. Seine häufig im Themenbereich Orient-Okzident angesiedelten transnationalen Werke werden international rezipiert und gehören inzwischen vor allem in den USA zum festen Bestandteil der German und Cultural […]
Switzerland, a Country of Paradoxes: An Interview about Swiss Identity, Politics and Culture with Hugo Loetscher, Roger de Weck and Iso Camartin
Jeroen Dewulf, Kezhen Feng, Susan Hunsicker, and Andrew Tweed Download PDF Abstract: The following interview was compiled from conversations with Hugo Loetscher, Roger de Weck and Iso Camartin during their visits to Berkeley in Fall 2008. The three authors took part in the lecture series “Multicultural Identity in Europe: The Swiss Model.” The series was […]
Deleuze, Feminism, and the New European Union: An Interview with Rosi Braidotti
Pascale LaFountain Download PDF Abstract: Rosi Braidotti is at the vanguard of politically active theorists. Her engagement is marked by her intellectual prowess in feminism of the European Union and by the formation of the Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, which she founded in 1988 and where she is currently Distinguished Professor. This interview […]
‘Schriftstellerin zu sein und in seinem Leben anwesend zu sein, ist für mich eins’: Ein Gespräch mit Terézia Mora
Anke Biendarra Download PDF Abstract: A conversation with the author Terézia Mora. The following interview was conducted in Berlin on September 11, 2007. Terézia Mora was born in 1971 in Sopron, Hungary, in the border region close to Austria, where she grew up as part of the German-speaking minority. When the borders were crumbling in […]