VOLUME 15, ISSUE 1, 2026

WORDS AND LIVES IN TRANSLATION

Ambika Athreya & Kayla Rose van Kooten, Co-Managing Editors

FOREWORD

Foreword by the Managing Editor

by Ambika Athreya

FEATURE ARTICLES

Anna Seghers und das Elfte Reich

by Britta Lange

English translation by Ambika Athreya

At home, together

by Veronica Williamson

German in Transit

by Claire Kramsch

FEATURE ESSAYS & REFLECTIONS

A Wanderer of the World—Lost and Rediscovered

by Behrang Samsami

DaZ—Deutsch als Zweitsprache and the Politics of Silence

by Dîlan Şirin Çelik

FEATURE TRANSLATIONS AND INTRODUCTIONS

Critical Examination of the History of the Geography of the New Continent and of the Progess of Nautical Astronomy in the 15th and 16th Centuries

by Alexander von Humboldt

translator’s introduction by Vera M. Kutzinski

“The Inheritance”

by Safa el Khannoussi

translator’s introduction by Elizabeth Sun & Thomas Siemerink

Didem Placeholder

by Rafik Schami

translator’s introduction by Didem Uca

BOOK REVIEW

Interrogating Integration by Kate Zambon

reviewed by Kasturi Chatterjee

SUBSECTION: SELBST VERSUCH CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Re-enacting the Holocaust in Maryan’s Ecce Homo (1975)

by Achim Schmidt

“wer ihn zu verwenden weiß”: Pädagogik und Ästhetik der Isolation in Rudolf Arnheims Rundfunk als Hörkunst

by Anton Vogt

Der Körper als experimenteller Ort der Extreme in Terézia Moras Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent

by Roxanna Lisaru

EDITORIAL BOARD