William Collins Donahue & Georg Mein 
andererseits – Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies [PDF ebook] 
Vol. 4, 2015

andererseits is a collaborative project undertaken by students and faculties of universities in the USA (Duke and the University of Notre Dame), in Luxembourg (University of Luxembourg), and in Germany (University of Duisburg-Essen). It provides a forum for research and reflection on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, academic notes, lectures, as well as traditional peer-reviewed academic articles. By publishing such a diverse array of material, we hope to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, on a variety of intellectual and cultural levels.
This edition features special sections on the writers Reinhard Jirgl and Barbara Honigmann as well as – for example – essays on Beethoven’s ‘Heroic New Path’, ‘Antisemitism in Germany (1890-1933)’, the reception of German literature in Great Britain, and a study of post-Wall East German melodrama.

About the author

William Collins Donahue (Prof. Dr.) teaches courses in the humanities, on German literature and film, and on European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, IN.
Georg Mein (Prof. Dr.) teaches in the fields of contemporary German literary studies, cultural- and media studies at the Université du Luxembourg.
Rolf Parr is professor emeritus of German literature and media studies at the Universität Duisburg-Essen.