Looks by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jonas Teupert Download PDF Back to “Love” or continue on to “Insult” by Enrico Ippolito. A friend and I walk through the museum quarter of a West-German city, surrounded by a throng of tourists. There are plenty of attractions here, but none seems […]

Visible by Sasha Marianna Salzmann TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Lou Silhol-Macher Download PDF Back to “Translators’ Introduction” or continue on to “Work” by Fatma Aydemir. I will never know what it means to be invisible. I will never know how it is to be able to kiss carelessly in the park, […]

Foreword to the Collection by Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Back to “Foreword to the Translations” or continue on to “Translators’ Introduction” by Jon Cho-Polizzi and Michael Sandberg. In March of 2018, Germany introduced its so-called Ministry of Heimat, which could be translated as […]

Translators’ Introduction by Jon Cho-Polizzi and Michael Sandberg TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Download PDF Back to “Foreword to the Collection” or continue on to “Visible” by Sasha Marianna Salzmann. Working on a translation project of this scale has been a tremendous honor. We are humbled both by the opportunity to work closely with some […]

­The Other Side of Things by Zafer Şenocak TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Translated by Ardo Ali, Oliver Arter, Deniz Göktürk, Jezell Lee, Elizabeth Sun, Qingyang Zhou on Zoom and Google Docs in the seminar on “Modern German Literature: Archival Resistance” Excerpt from the forthcoming novel Eurasia [Related Links: Deniz Göktürk’s introduction; an earlier excerpt […]

“Empty Archives – Lost Letters” by Zafer Şenocak TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Translated by Kristin Dickinson Excerpt from Das Fremde, das in jedem wohnt: Wie Unterschiede unsere Gesellschaft zusammenhalten [The Foreign Dwells in Everyone: How Differences Keep Our Society Together] (Hamburg: Edition Koerber, 2018) [Related Links: Deniz Göktürk’s introduction; Kristin Dickinson’s translation of “Church […]

Ten Years After Fukushima by Yoko Tawada TRANSIT  Vol. 13, No. 1 Translated by Elizabeth Sun [Related Links: Deniz Göktürk’s introduction; Elizabeth Sun’s co-translation of Zafer Şenocak’s “The Hour of Assembly”; Elizabeth Sun’s (et al.) collaborative work in a translation of Zafer Şenocak’s “The Other Side of Things”; Aaron Carpenter and Jon Cho-Polizzi’s introduction to […]