Frauke Matthes 
Edinburgh German Yearbook 14 
Politics and Culture in Germany and Austria Today

Examines the heightened role of politics in contemporary German and Austrian cultural productions and institutions and what it means for German Studies.






As debates about Europe, migration, resurgent nationalism, and neoliberalism intensify in Germany and Austria, politics has gained particular prominence in cultural production and cultural institutions. How does this development affect German Studies as a discipline and a practice? Volume 14 of
Edinburgh German Yearbook examines political or politicized aspects of contemporary life that have become increasingly significant for culture today. The contributions gathered here offer engaging readings of contemporary literary texts (including work by Saša Stanišić, Anke Stelling, and Timur Vermes), films (by Fatih Akın, Ruth Beckermann, and Andreas Dresen), and other forms of cultural intervention (the polemics of Max Czollek and Oliver Polak, and the activism of the left-feminist group Burschenschaft Hysteria). These encourage us to consider how communities are being (re)shaped by current political and social crises, antagonisms around memory cultures, questions of European identity, as well as challenges to the status of an assumed
Leitkultur and the discourse of integration.

Daftar Isi

Introduction

Frauke Matthes, Dora Osborne, and Katya Krylova

Writing the European Refugee Crisis: Timur Vermes’
Die Hungrigen und die Satten (2018)

Linda Shortt

Pluralized Selves and the Postmigrant Sublime: Isolde Charim’s
Ich und die Anderen (2018) and Wolfgang Fischer’s
STYX (2018)

Teresa Ludden

‘Never an innocent game’: The Center for Political Beauty and ‘Search for us!’

Mary Cosgrove

Irreconcilable Differences: The Politics of Bad Feelings in Contemporary German Jewish Culture

Maria Roca Lizarazu

Geography, Identity, and Politics in Saša Stanišić’s
Vor dem Fest (2014)

Myrto Aspioti

Precarious Narration in Anke Stelling’s
Schäfchen im Trockenen (2018)

Stephanie Gleißner

Limited Editions: Politics of Liveness at the Berliner Theatertreffen, 2017-19

Katie Hawthorne

The Akın Effect: Fatih Akın’s Cultural-Symbolic Capital and the Postmigrant Theater

Lizzie Stewart

Goodbye, Sonnenallee, Or How
Gundermann (2018) Got Lost in the Cinema of Others

Evelyn Preuss

Ruth Beckermann’s Reckoning with Kurt Waldheim:
Unzugehörig: Österreicher und Juden nach 1945 (1989) and
Waldheims Walzer (2018)

Joseph W. Moser

Burschenschaft Hysteria: Exposing Nationalist Gender Roles in Contemporary Austrian Politics

Regine Klimpfinger and Elisabeth Koenigshofe

Notes on the Contributors

Tentang Penulis

Elisabeth Koenigshofer is Oe AD-Lektorin (Teaching Fellow for the Austrian Exchange Service) at the University of Reading. Her research interests are political dissent in Austrian popular culture, identity studies, and accessibility of cultural heritage through digital tools.