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 Download PDF I had inherited a case full of papers. A small black […]
“Empty Archives – Lost Letters”
by Zafer ŞenocakTRANSIT 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) Download PDF My mother was a diligent letter writer. But what was in these letters that […]
Translations from the Poetic Archives of Migration
TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Deniz Göktürk Download PDF In spring 2021, the seminar on Archival Resistance in Modern German Literature evolved as a small but intense research collective entirely online, utilizing Zoom, a course website on bCourses, shared documents on GoogleDocs, and a blog on the Multicultural Germany Project website. The participants of the […]
The Hour of Assembly
by Zafer ŞenocakTRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Translated by Oliver Arter and Elizabeth Sun Download PDF The Enlightenment is currently experiencing its second major global crisis. The first crisis can be traced back to the Romantic Period, when it was an immediate response to the new belief in reason and the power of ratio. By […]
Church Bells in Istanbul
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) Download PDF Whenever I am in Istanbul, I stay in a neighborhood that had once […]
Differenzerfahrung und transnationale Grenzüberschreitung im Europadiskurs Zafer Şenocaks
Elke Segelcke Download PDF Abstract: Im Kontext der aktuellen Identitätsdebatten in Europa wie in der Türkei will dieser Beitrag jenseits eines territorialen Kulturverständnisses und der Verkürzungen auf “Osten” und “Westen” die Differenzen sowie vielfältigen Überlagerungen beider Kulturen anhand des essayistischen und literarischen Werkes des deutsch-türkischen Schriftstellers Zafer Şenocak näher untersuchen. Der Analyse liegt dabei ein […]