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Immigrant Literature in the Mother Tongue/ الأم
Posted by Iman Humaydan | Permalink | filed under: 2015, The Migrants
“Did you go to the Salon du livre in Paris this year?” This is a question I posed in passing to a number of Arab writers who live in Paris and write in their mother tongue. The answer given by most ...
The Hungarian Window in Vienna/ Das ungarische Fenster in Wien
Posted by Wilhelm Droste | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
Anybody who wants to get to know Hungary now – to understand or even to want to understand – should switch off the radio, put down the newspapers and not go online. Instead, he or she should pick up ...
Exile and the burden of home on us/ Das Exil und die Last der Heimat auf uns/ المنفى ووطأة الأوطان فينا نجم والي
Posted by Najem Wali | Permalink | filed under: 2015, The Migrants
It is right, of course, that many writers and artists are ‘geographically’ in exile. Yet in my view, back ‘home’ they had already gone into inner exile since they became aware of the pain in the ...
ELit Dossier July to September/ Juli bis September 2015
Posted by Walter Grond | Permalink | filed under: 2015, ELit Dossiers
Is The Political Making a Comeback?/ Kehrt das Politische zurück?
Posted by Rainer Moritz | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
On Literature in 2015. It sounds so easy: you pick the most important novels, short stories and poetry editions from a year; you assess and evaluate them, and finally you say what these novels, short ...
Is technology a help or a hindrance for writers?
Posted by Sam Sedgman | Permalink
The internet can be a real problem. Or at least that’s how many writers, including Zadie Smith and Nick Hornby, sometimes feel. They are two of a cohort of writers who confess to keeping their ...
On the diary as a literary genre/ Über das Tagebuch als literarische Gattung
Posted by Peter Zimmermann | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
Awake. Get up. Snow outside.
About Change and Digital Oblivion/ Változás – A frissítés mint felejtés
Posted by Szilárd Borbély | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Innovations in the Digital Field
I am searching on the internet. I am searching for the word “change.” The most important change to shape the technology of research is the fact that now we always start with the internet. Myself ...
Media Tax, Not TV Licence Fees/ Mediensteuer statt Fernsehabgabe
Posted by Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Innovations in the Digital Field
Swiss citizens recently voted about new regulations for their radio and television licence fees. The result was an extremely close vote for a licence fee that, similar to the German model, is not ...
Wrong and right – right or wrong?/ Falsch und richtig – richtig oder falsch? (3)
Posted by Anna Kim | Permalink | filed under: 2015, The Migrants
Finally, I would like to speculate on three (almost) non-polemical (non-partisan) thoughts:
