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 […]
Migration and Its Discontents: Israelis in Berlin and Homeland Politics
Yael Almog Download PDF Abstract The essay discusses some ethnic and racial presumptions which subtend discussions of the recent Israeli migration to Germany, specifically the description of the Israeli presence in Berlin as signifying a “return” of Jews to Europe after the Holocaust. The essay argues that this description perpetuates the grounding of Zionism in […]
Istanbul Next Wave and Other Turkish Art Exhibits: From Governance of Culture to Governance through Culture
Barbara Wolbert Download PDF Abstract: Exhibited from November 12, 2009, through January 17, 2010, three art shows under the common title Istanbul Next Waveintroduced a newly narrated Turkish history of modern art to German audiences. This Turkish intervention, which led to unprecedented curatorial co-operations by established German and Turkish institutions of contemporary art, is juxtaposed […]
Berlin’s Ruetli School – Campus of Hope
In February of 2006, at Berlin’s Ruetli School ,students erupted into a violent mob after teachers of the school wrote a letter in protest of their students’ lack of concern for academics and their dangerous behavior towards educators. Now, four years later, the school has been converted from a Hauptschule to a Gemeinschaftsschule and was given over 25 […]
‘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 […]
Glub
Mieke Bal Download PDF Abstract: GLUB (Hearts) is a film about seeds – the eating of them, the shells, the shops and stalls, the people cracking the shells and spitting them out; you see it and you don’t, hidden as it is in ordinariness. It is a phenomenon that embodies the invisibility that comes with […]