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The introduction explores the theme of border crossings in language and literature, examining various facets of intercultural experiences. Arnd Witte discusses foreign language learning and the development of intercultural identity. Gerald Bär offers poetic insights into the event character of significant occurrences and their fictionalization. Michael Ewert traces the evolution from Chamisso to "Chamisso literature," focusing on spatial awareness, transit experiences, and transnationality in German-speaking intercultural literature. Yvonne Duzik analyzes the motif of waiting in desolate spaces, particularly train stations, in Yoko Tawada's works. Elin Nesje Vestli compares Sibylle Lewitscharoff's "Apostoloff" and Melinda Nadj Abonji's "Tauben fliegen auf," considering transit as a theme. Silke Pasewalck critiques society and envisions social utopia through the transit space of the subway in Volker Ludwig's musical theater "Linie 1." Anna Stiepel examines adolescence as a transit space, using Wolfgang Herrndorf's novel "Tschick" to discuss identity negotiation through travel. Joseph Zoderer's "Das Glück beim Händewaschen" is analyzed by Stiepel, highlighting online identity formation as a transit space. The volume also includes contributions on aesthetic pursuits in literature and reviews of recent works, alongside conference reports.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction CONSTRUCTIONS OF HAPPINESS / KONSTRUKTIONEN DES GLÜCKS HANNAH DINGELDEIN „Groß kann man sich im Glück, erhaben nur im Unglück zeigen“: Schillers Philosophie des Glücks und Unglücks HANS J. HAHN Glückskonzeptionen bei Eichendorff und Keller NADINE WERNER „Denn im Glück erstrebt alles irdische seinen Untergang“: Mit Walter Benjamin dem Glück auf der Spur ANJA GERIGK Exzentrisch glücklich. Autor- und Subjektposition post-idyllischer, post-utopischer Fiktionen (Doderer − Handke − Bernhard) PETRA M. BAGLEY Living the dream? Birgit Vanderbeke’s perspective on happiness in Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst (1999) and Der Sommer der Wildschweine (2014) TANIA BAUMANN Schönen Urlaub! Zum Ausdruck von Glück in Reiseführern aus textlinguistischer Sicht GENERAL CONTRIBUTIONS EMMA RIORDAN Factors Affecting Target Language Use in the Post-Primary German Classroom in Ireland FLORIAN KROBB On the Misappropriation of Origins: Wilhelm Raabe’s Keltische Knochen and 19th-Century German Celtology

Despite claims that utopian thought is obsolete due to harsh realities like technological warfare and crises, there is a notable resurgence of utopian ideas in popular and political discourse since the early 2000s. Robert J. Tally observes that traditional “blueprint” utopias, which envision ideal societies through spatial or temporal separation, are inadequate in a globalized context. Instead, the critical project of utopia serves as a vital form of opposition to prevailing conditions. Tally asserts that utopia has reemerged as a significant theme in literature, critical theory, and cultural studies, especially under the anti-capitalism slogan “another world is possible.” This contemporary interest is reflected in the rise of micro-utopias within social networks, which may embody the concept of the Foucauldian heterotope—a space where we reflect on our absence by envisioning ourselves elsewhere. However, the line between utopia and dystopia remains thin, as visions for a better world can lead to disaster for others. Dystopian narratives, while often bleak, express the desire for improvement, suggesting that they are part of the same social dreaming that fuels utopian literature. Fátima Vieira notes that dystopias lacking hope fail in their purpose, reinforcing the connection between utopian aspirations and dystopian critiques.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ABOUT TIME: CONCEPTUALIZING AND REPRESENTING TEMPORALITY IN GERMAN, SWISS AND AUSTRIAN CULTURE ELIZABETH BOA The Meaning of Time in Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg and Vicki Baum’s Menschen im Hotel. JANET PEARSON Time, Space and No Future? Time and Spirituality in Hermann Broch’s Der Tod des Vergil and Marianne Gronemeyer’s Das Leben als letzte Gelegenheit: Sicherheitsbedürfnisse und Zeitknappheit JEANNE RIOU Occupied Time: Loss, Mourning and Time as Haunting in Freud’s Trauer und Melancholie and Totem und Tabu ANNJA NEUMANN Zur ästhetischen Zeitlichkeit des Gedichts – Paul Celans Gedicht DAS GESCHRIEBENE KATYA KRYLOVA “Kranksein an der Zeit”: Trauma, Time and Space in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina CAROLIN BENZING Aeblis Zeit – (Schreib-)Spuren zeitlicher Losgelöstheit in Kurt Aeblis Erzähltexten Der ins Herz getroffene Punkt (2005) und Der Unvorbereitete (2009) GENERAL CONTRIBUTIONS SABINE EGGER Between Hölderlin and Heaney: Thresholds and Boundaries in Johannes Bobrowski’s Poetry RACHEL MAGSHAMHRÁIN Ways of Talk: The Sonic Making Him Afterlives of Hitler’s Silent Home Movies in Philippe Mora’s Swastika (1974) and David Howard’s Hitler Speaks (2006) BUCHBESPRECHUNGEN / BOOK REVIEWS

In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, concerns about the environment and the future of global capitalism have dominated political and social agendas worldwide. The culture of excess underlying these concerns is particularly evident in the issue of trash, which for environmentalists has been a negative category, heavily implicated in the destruction of the natural world. However, in the context of the arts, trash has long been seen as a rich aesthetic resource and, more recently, particularly under the influence of anthropology and archaeology, it has been explored as a form of material culture that articulates modes of identity construction. In the context of such shifting, often ambiguous attitudes to the obsolete and the discarded, this book offers a timely insight into their significance for representations of social and personal identity. The essays in the book build on scholarship in cultural theory, sociology and anthropology that suggests that social and personal experience is embedded in material culture, but they also focus on the significance of trash as an aesthetic resource. The volume illuminates some of the ways in which our relationship to trash has influenced and is influenced by cultural products including art, architecture, literature, film and museum culture.

This collection features a range of scholarly contributions exploring various facets of literature and culture. DAGMAR PAULUS examines female madness and societal perceptions through the lens of Adalbert Stifter and Wilhelm Raabe. LAURA THÜRING delves into the fantastic elements in Karl May's works, contextualized within Expressionism. ROSE SIMPSON analyzes Ina Seidel’s reimagining of normality in her literary contributions. BRITTA C. JUNG discusses the modernization processes in German youth literature during the Third Reich, highlighting the impact of postmemorial changes. JOSEPH TWIST explores themes of mortality and community in Navid Kermani’s writings. LINDA SHORTT investigates friendship dynamics in Heinz Helle’s narrative set against extraordinary circumstances. In general contributions, DAGMAR DRABENT reflects on female spheres in Robert Walser's "Geschwister Tanner." LISA MARIE ANDERSON addresses Ernst Toller's pacifism. TERESA CAÑADAS GARCÍA presents images of Germany from a Mexican exile perspective. JULIA ILGNER compares Fernando Meirelles’ "360" with Arthur Schnitzler’s "Reigen," while MICHAEL BRAUN discusses unreliable narration in films about the Nazi era. MAGDALENA ROZENBERG raises questions about visual aids in foreign language education, and JÜRGEN BARKHOFF analyzes the interplay of entrepreneurship and imagination in the German merchant novel.