Die Sommer
“Die Sommer” (“The Summers”) is an important book about the world’s dividedness, about religious and political conflicts, about prejudice and identity.
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Queer Afropolitanism in Germany: SchwarzRund
This essay is the last in a four-part series on Afropolitanism and literature. SchwarzRund’s intervention in the Afropolitan literary market thus stands out not only because of the setting and language of the novel, but also because of its evidently intersectional approach.
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Postcolonial Potsdam: digital insights into German colonial history
Postcolonial Potsdam has developed a web app. It introduces users to German colonial history through images and sound.
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In the belly of the queen
In an undefined neighbourhood of an undefined German town live a boy and a girl. They grow up, experience first love affairs, first disappointments. So far, so conventional – but Karosh Taha’s novel In the Belly of the Queen is not primarily a heterosexual coming-of-age story.
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Gegen Morgen
At first glance, Deniz Utlu’s novel Gegen Morgen (Against Tomorrow) could be read as the story of a man in his mid-thirties going through a midlife crisis. Only at second glance does it become clear that it is about the fundamental questioning of value systems.
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Speaking and being: how language binds and frees us
Kübra Gümüşay looks for ways to make our society more just and explains convincingly that language plays a central role in doing this.
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1000 Coils of Fear
Olivia Wenzel’s strange and powerfully poetic debut tackles many pressing topics ranging from race to relationships with family members and coming to terms with one’s past and present.
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