Volume 8, Issue 1, 2012
Open Forum
- Briefwechsel: freitext - TRANSIT
This exchange of letters between the editors of freitext and TRANSIT was also published in freitext , no. 19 (April 2012) .
- Vibrationshintergrund
This text originally appeared in Die Zeit and in freitext , no. 18 (October 2011 ).
- Vibration Background
Translation of "Vibrationshintergrund" by Selim Özdoğan.
- Der den Klang der Worte liebt
This text originally appeared in freitext , no. 18 (October 2011 ).
- The One Who Loves the Sound of Words
Translation of "Der den Klang der Worte liebt" by Selim Özdoğan.
- They Misoverestimate Us: On the Attempt to Throw a Middle Class Pearl Necklace like a Lasso Around the Ballhaus Naunynstraße – A Comedy
Translation of "Sie missüberschätzen uns" by Marianna Salzmann.
- Wutvögel singen (Auszüge). Eine Korrespondenz der Angry Birds
This text originally appeared in freitext , no. 18 (October 2011 ).
- Angry Birds Sing (Excerpts)
Translation of excerpts from "Wutvögel singen" by Marianna Salzmann and Deniz Utlu.
- Der Besuch
This text originally appeared in freitext , no. 18 (October 2011 ).
- The Visit
Translation of "Der Besuch" by Hakan Savaş Mican.
- Fragments of Memory (Selections from Zafer Şenocak’s Zungenentfernung )
Translated from the German by Jessica Nicholl and Martina Schwalm
Zafer Şenocak's Zungenentfernung. Bericht aus der Quarantänestation was originally published by Babel Verlag in 2001.
Book Reviews
- Foreword: Orienting Europe
A foreword to Isabel Dzierson’s review of Interkultur , by Mark Terkessidis; Alex Lambrow’s review of Tracking Europe: Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location , by Ginette Verstraete; and Özgür Yaren’s review of European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe , edited by Daniela Berghahn and Claudia Sternberg.
- Interkultur , by Mark Terkessidis
Reviewed for TRANSIT by Isabel Dzierson, University of Konstanz.
- Tracking Europe: Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location , by Ginette Verstraete
Reviewed for TRANSIT by Alex Lambrow, University of California, Berkeley.
- European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe , ed. Daniela Berghahn and Claudia Sternberg
Reviewed for TRANSIT by Özgür Yaren, Yüzüncü Yil University.