Contents
From the Editors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Contemporary Queer German-Language Fiction in Historical Context
I. History
Michael Roes
from Zeithain (2017)
Angela Steidele
from Rosenstengel (2015)
Christoph Poschenrieder
“Schulze Takes a Swim,” from The Grain of Sand (2014)
Odile Kennel
from Lakeside View (2017)
II. Berlin
Tania Witte
from and/or love (2011)
Joachim Helfer
“Wedding in Berlin after Two Decades of Marriage” (2021)
“Finally, with Daniel” (2021)
“Berlin, September 18” (2018)
III. Intertexts
Friedrich Kröhnke
“Prague,” from Ciao Vaschek (2003)
“Alexandria,” from Nach Asmara (2011)
Hans Pleschinski
from Königsallee (2013)
from V or the Fourth Wall (2016)
IV. Intercultural Encounters
Antje Rávik Strubel
“The White Rock,” from In the Forests of the Human Heart (2016)
Marko Martin
“What Remains,” from Babylon Transfer (2016)
Gunther Geltinger
from Gasoline (2019)
Yusuf Yeşilöz
from The Wedding Flight (2011)
V. Youth
Alain Claude Sulzer
“Soloist’s Shower,” from Youth Is a Strange Land (2017)
Antje Wagner
from Unland (2015)
from The Glow (2018)
Claudia Breitsprecher
from Behind the Appearance, the Truth (2017)
VI. Relationships
from Boymen (2011)
from A Hush Falls over the Room (2011)
from The Window to the World (2013)
“Bonnie in Clyde” (2016)
Sources