Contemporary Germany is a product not only of its history up to 1945 but also of the process of understanding that history and acting upon that understanding since the defeat of National Socialism. This volume assesses how contemporary German-language writers and filmmakers have approached the ‘national question’ over the last decade. Das heutige Deutschland ist ohne Zweifel ein Produkt seiner Geschichte bis 1945, aber auch von Prozessen des Verstehens und der Verständigung über diese Geschichte seit dem Ende des Nationalsozialismus. Dieser Band zeigt Antworten von deutschsprachigen Autoren und Filmemachern zu der ‘nationale Frage’ in den letzten zehn Jahren.

Ilija Trojanow established his name as an international writer with the novel or (2006). This volume contains an interview with Trojanow, a previously unpublished essay on Lessing’s , and essays by European and North American scholars on central aspects of Trojanow’s growing œuvre.

A prolific and acclaimed writer, Feridun Zaimoglu made a spectacular entrance onto the German cultural scene in 1995 with . This edited volume features an unpublished first chapter of , his first novel (2006), an interview with the author and critical essays on his writing by major scholars in the field.