1: Berlin Shorts: The German Capital in the Short Story of the Twenty-First Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on Translations viii
5. Introduction to the Contemporary Short Story in German 1
6. 1: Berlin Shorts: The German Capital in the Short Story of the Twenty-First Century 17
7. 2: The German Crime Story in the Twenty-First Century 35
8. 3: Performance, Performativity, and the Contemporary German Kurzgeschichte 51
9. 4: Cramped Spaces, Creative Bottlenecks: Sudabeh Mohafez’s das zehn-zeilenbuch and the Short-Short 76
10. 5: Bodo Kirchhoff’s Widerfahrnis: A Novelle for Our Time? 97
11. 6: The Liminal Space of the Short Story: Clemens Meyer’s Die Nacht, die Lichter and Die stillen Trabanten 118
12. 7: Framing the Presence: Judith Hermann’s Lettipark 137
13. 8: Of Unhomed Subjects and Unsettled Voices: Alois Hotschnig’s Die Kinder beruhigte das nicht 156
14. 9: Authorial Development and Fluid Spaces in the “Complete Stories”: Peter Stamm’s Der Lauf der Dinge 175
15. 10: On Disappearing: Reading Ulrike Almut Sandig with Sylvia Bovenschen 191
16. 11: Metamorphic Becomings: Yoko Tawada’s Opium für Ovid: Ein Kopfkissenbuch von 22 Frauen 211
17. 12: Melinda Nadj Abonji and Jurczok 1001: Performance, Politics, and Poetry 231
18. 13: Rhizomatic Wanderings: The Writings of Gabriele Petricek 252
19. 14: Trends and Issues in the Contemporary German-Language Short Story 272
20. Appendix: Contemporary German- Language Short Stories in Translation
21. Roman Ehrlich, “Engineers of Time” 291
22. Saša Stanišić, “The Factory” 301
23. Sudabeh Mohafez, Selection of Short-Shorts 305
24. Bibliography of Primary Texts 315
25. Notes on the Contributors 323
26. Index 327