VOLUME 15, ISSUE 1, 2026

WORDS AND LIVES IN TRANSIT

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

FOREWORD

Foreword to the Issue

by Ambika S. Athreya

FEATURE ARTICLES

Anna Seghers und das Elfte Reich

by Britta Lange

At Home, Together: KUNSTASYL at the Museum of European Cultures

by Veronica Williamson

German in Transit: The Migrant Mindset

by Claire J. 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

The Fourth Memory

by Grégory Chatonsky & Yves Citton

FEATURE TRANSLATIONS & 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

Journey to the Eleventh Reich

by Anna Seghers

translator’s introduction by Ambika S. Athreya

“The Book of the Future” and “Enrichment”

by Rafik Schami

translator’s introduction by Didem Uca

“The Inheritance”

by Safae el Khannoussi

translator’s introduction by Elizabeth Sun & Thomas Siemerink

BOOK REVIEW

Interrogating Integration by Kate Zambon

reviewed by Kasturi Chatterjee

SUBSECTION: [SELBST]VERSUCH CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

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

by Roxanna Lisaru

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

EDITORIAL BOARD