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.
Sie missüberschätzen uns. Über den Versuch, das Mittelstandsperlen-kettchen wie ein Lasso um das Ballhaus Naunynstraße zu werfen – Eine Komödie
This text originally appeared in freitext, no. 18 (October 2011).
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.