University of California, Berkeley

Department of German

A Journal of Travel, Migration and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World

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Introduction

Writing Video - Writing the World: Videogeographies as Cognitive Medium
Ursula Biemann

VIDEO: Ursula Biemann in Conversation: A Screening and Discussion of Black Sea Files (2005)
With an introductory text by Deniz Göktürk

My Place
Peter Weiss; Translated from the German by Roger Hillman

FEATURE: "Multicultural Identity in Europe: The Swiss Model"

Switzerland and its Past: An Uncomfortable Relationship
Roger de Weck

A Fine Self-Deception
Roger de Weck, Translated from the German by Ted Dawson

Switzerland: Advertising a Strange Case

Iso Camartin

Bumperfatscha
Iso Camartin, Translated from the German by Kurt Beals

Plea for a Mobile Identity

Hugo Loetscher

If the Good Lord were Swiss
Hugo Loetscher, Translated from the German by Rafaël Newman

Switzerland, a Country of Paradoxes: An Interview about Swiss Identity, Politics and Culture with Hugo Loetscher, Roger de Weck and Iso Camartin
Jeroen Dewulf, Kezhen Feng, Susan Hunsicker, and Andrew Tweed

Points of Entanglement: The Overdetermination of German Space and Identity in Lola + Bilidikid and Walk on Water
Nicholas Baer

Selections from Kopfstoff
Feridun Zaimoğlu, Translated from the German by Kristin Dickinson, Robin Ellis, and Priscilla D. Layne

Translating Communities: Rethinking the Collective in Feridun Zaimoğlu's Koppstoff
Kristin Dickinson, Robin Ellis, and Priscilla D. Layne

Deleuze, Feminism, and the New European Union: An Interview with Rosi Braidotti
Pascale LaFountain


BOOK REVIEWS

Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili Poetry as Historical Source, by José Arturo Saavedra Casco
Reviewed by Bryan Aja

The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality, by Wolfram Wette
Reviewed by Steve Choe

Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein: German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations, Jörg Esleben, Christina Kraenzle and Sukanya Kulkarni, eds.
Reviewed by Ashwin Manthripragada

MULTIMEDIA

Ursula Biemann in Conversation: A Screening and Discussion of Black Sea Files (2005)

Hugo Loetscher, "Plea for a Mobile Identity," at UC Berkeley, December 4, 2008

Slam poets Michel Abdollahi and Sulaiman Masomi at UC Berkeley, October 3, 2008