Short Story in German in the Twenty-First Century

LYN MARVEN is Reader in Contemporary German Literature and Translation at the University of Liverpool. Andrew Plowman is Senior Lecturer inGerman at the University of Liverpool. Kate Roy is Adjunct Professor in Literature and Modern Languages (German) at Franklin University, Switzerland. LYN MARVEN is Reader in Contemporary German Literature and Translation at the University of Liverpool. Andrew Plowman is Senior Lecturer inGerman at the University of Liverpool. Kate Roy is Adjunct Professor in Literature and Modern Languages (German) at Franklin University, Switzerland. Katharina Gerstenberger is associate professor of German at the University of Cincinatti.

• List of IllustrationsNote on TranslationsIntroduction to the Contemporary Short Story in German - Andrew Plowman, Lyn Marven, and Kate RoyChapter 1: Berlin Shorts: The German Capital in the Short Story of the Twenty-First Century - Katharina GerstenbergerChapter 2: The German Crime Story in the Twenty-First Century - Todd HerzogChapter 3: Performance, Performativity, and the Contemporary German Kurzgeschichte - Emily SpiersChapter 4: Cramped Spaces, Creative Bottlenecks: Sudabeh Mohafez's das zehn-zeilen-buch and the Short-Short - Kate RoyChapter 5: Bodo Kirchhoff's Widerfahrnis: A Novelle for Our Time? - Helmut SchmitzChapter 6: The Liminal Space of the Short Story: Clemens Meyer's Die Nacht, die Lichter and Die stillen Trabanten - Gillian PyeChapter 7: Framing the Presence: Judith Hermann's Lettipark - Leonhard HerrmannChapter 8: Of Unhomed Subjects and Unsettled Voices: Alois Hotschnig's Die Kinder beruhigte das nicht - Heide KunzelmannChapter 9: Literary Development and Rewriting Spaces in the "Complete Stories": Peter Stamm's Der Lauf der Dinge - Andrew PlowmanChapter 10: On Disappearing: Reading Ulrike Almut Sandig with Sylvia Bovenschen - Heike Bartel and Elizabeth BoaChapter 11: Metamorphic Becomings: Yoko Tawada's Opium für Ovid: Ein Kopfkissenbuch von 22 Frauen - Áine McMurtryChapter 12: Melinda Nadj Abonji and Jurczok 1001: Performance, Politics, and Poetry - Rafaël Newman and Caroline WiedmerChapter 13: Rhizomatic Wanderings: The Writings of Gabriele Petricek - Margarete Lamb-FaffelbergerChapter 14: Trends and Issues in the Contemporary German-Language Short Story - Lyn MarvenAppendix: Contemporary German-Language Short Stories in TranslationSudabeh Mohafez, A Short-Short Selection - Translated by Kate RoyRoman Ehrlich, "Engineers of Time" - Translated by Lyn MarvenSaša Stanišić, "The Factory" - Translated by Lyn MarvenBibliography of Primary TextsNotes on Contributors