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{"title":"Rilke's Parentheses","authors":"David Kretz","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"99 2","pages":"143-148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148647779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Melusine, Emblem of the Self: The Female Traveler and the Contours of Acceptable Difference","authors":"Andrew C. Sternhagen Schwenk","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Though the foreign roots of <i>Volksbücher</i> such as Thüring von Ringoltingen's <i>Melusine</i> (1457) have long been recognized, these early modern German prose novels are still characterized as insular and folksy. Taking <i>Melusine</i> as an example, this article uses the framework of mobility to offer a new interpretation that posits the <i>Volksbuch</i> as an outward facing genre that deeply engages with the world and contemporary debates. My analysis of <i>Melusine</i> holds that the seemingly traditional narratives of the titular character's sons are key to understanding Melusine's own alterity. Using the idea of directionality, I show how Melusine's foreignness, power, and proto-colonial activity subtly unbalance notions of a masculine western European center and a feminized eastern periphery. Through the analysis, a picture of a tale emerges that presents how a late medieval Christian society's understandings of Self and Other were explored and questioned.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"99 2","pages":"131-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.70046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148647667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politics of Home and Bodily Corporeality in Soul Kitchen: Toward a New Reading of Fatih Akin's Heimatfilm","authors":"Varol Kahveci","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70045","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The contentious concept <i>Heimat</i>—the German word for home(land)—is often considered to generate autochthonous, exclusionary, and regressive significations and holds a notable presence in far-right politics. In this article, I delineate new methods to engage this term in ways that inflect it with more critical, progressive, and democratic significations. Affect theory, I argue, helps unsettle the radical sentiments and implications that <i>Heimat</i> may evoke in the postmigrant era. Centralizing Fatih Akın's <i>Soul Kitchen</i> and attending to affects and episodes of bodily breakdown in it, I demonstrate how this concept offers a productive register to address systemic issues within society and to assess complexities of what I call trans-diasporic engagements. This reading sheds further light on Akın's cinematic praxis. It demonstrates how, already with <i>Soul Kitchen</i>, his filmography adopts a new trajectory and develops a structural critique of German society, its institutions, norms, and practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"99 2","pages":"119-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148647672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From terra nullius to Silicon Valley: Tracing Utopian Thought in Theresia Enzensberger's Auf See (2022)","authors":"Theresa Sambruno Spannhoff","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70048","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article reads Theresia Enzensberger's 2022 novel <i>Auf See</i> as a critique of contemporary techno-utopian thinking. Through the artificial island <i>VINETA</i>, modeled on Silicon Valley libertarian projects like <i>The Seasteading Institute</i>, the novel traces a historical continuity between colonial <i>terra nullius</i> ideology and today's “blue acceleration” of commercial maritime expansion. Drawing on utopian theories from Bloch to Bauman, the article argues that <i>VINETA</i> exemplifies a shift in utopian ideals from promoting social emancipation toward technological progress. The latter, under the guise of innovation, reproduces the colonial logics of environmental resource appropriation. The article further examines how Berlin's Tiergarten briefly offers an alternative, precarious dwelling model that eschews utopian projection, before being reclaimed by the same <i>terra nullius</i> imagination it temporarily escaped. Ultimately, <i>Auf See</i> diagnoses Western utopian thought as inseparable from its colonial foundations and questions its capacity to imagine societal continuation outside of utopian ideals.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"99 2","pages":"106-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148647791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rafik Schami und die Migration aus dem Mittelmeerraum. Die Wortergreifung der Figur des Migranten","authors":"Benoît Ellerbach","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70047","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Der 1946 geborene syrisch-deutsche Schriftsteller Rafik Schami gehört als Mitbegründer der Gastarbeiterliteratur und der Künstlergruppen „Südwind“ und „PoLiKunst“ zu der ersten Generation von Autor:innen, die in die Kategorie der sogenannten deutschen Migrationsliteratur fallen. Seit Beginn seiner schriftstellerischen Karriere hat Schami alle Phasen dieser „Migrationsliteratur“ durchlaufen, von einer kaum beachteten Randerscheinung in der deutschen Literaturlandschaft – zuerst als Gastarbeiterliteratur oder als Literatur der Betroffenheit –, über die Chamisso-Literatur1 bis hin zur fast vollkommenen Aufnahme in die bisher exklusive und sakrosankte deutsche bzw. deutschsprachige Literatur. Schami gehört heute, nach über drei Jahrzehnten literarischen Schaffens, zu den international erfolgreichsten und produktivsten deutschsprachigen Autoren. Obwohl sein Werk im Laufe der Zeit eine beachtliche formale und inhaltliche Entwicklung erfahren hat und Märchen, Erzählungen, Essays und Romane umfasst, wurde es von der feuilletonistischen wie auch der akademischen Literaturkritik lange Zeit kaum ernst genommen. Häufig wurde Schamis Werk als harmlose Unterhaltungsliteratur abgestempelt, als folkloristisch anmutende orientalische Literatur oder als niedliche Kinder- und Jugendliteratur klassifiziert2 – und nicht selten wurde es gleich ganz aus der deutschen Literaturlandschaft herausgelöst und pauschal der „arabischen Literatur“ zugeordnet (Ellerbach, „Autor und Werk“ 153–71). Zwar wird der unterhaltsame Geschichtenerzähler geschätzt, beachtet wurde er aber lange als Autor kaum. Bis heute polarisiert er: Die einen loben ihn als Meister des mündlichen Erzählens, der eine vermeintlich vom Verschwinden bedrohte Tradition zu neuem Leben erwecke; die anderen werfen ihm vor, auf „ethnisches Kapital“ zu setzen und mit einem exotisierten Bild des Orients triviale Literatur für den Buchmarkt zu produzieren. Diese vereinfachenden Etikettierungen offenbaren, wie schwer sich die Kritik mit dem Werk eines Autors tut, dessen Erfolg, um mit Uta Aifan zu sprechen, „darauf [beruht], dass er mit der Sehnsucht nach einer besseren Welt spielt, die er hinter dem Bedürfnis nach Exotismus bei seinen Lesern vermutet, und sich scheinbar spielerisch leicht auf dem schmalen Grat zwischen Trivialität und Belletristik bewegt“ (Aifan, „Über den Umgang“ 214; vgl. Aifan, „Staging Exoticism“ und Aifan, „Der inszenierte Exotismus“).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Das Migrationsphänomen und die Migrationserfahrung – sei es in der Form eines einwandernden, auswandernden oder schlichtweg wandernden Migranten – durchziehen das gesamte Werk Schamis. Dies gilt selbstverständlich für das Experiment der Gastarbeiterliteratur am Ende der 1970er und in der ersten Hälfte der 1980er Jahre, aber auch für spätere, ausschließlich in Syrien spielende Werke, wie – um nur zwei Beispiele zu nennen – &lt;i&gt;Erzähler der Nacht&lt;/i&gt; (1989), in dem etwa eine Migrantenfigur vorkommt, oder den Roman &lt;i&gt;Die dunkle Seite der Liebe&lt;/i&gt; (2004), de","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"99 2","pages":"91-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.70047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148647754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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