The purpose of this study is: (1) to focus on the accomplishments of women authors in exile in order to evaluate their experiences of persecution, exile and adaptation; (2) to highlight five yet undiscovered women writers by means of their autobiographical accounts; (3) to illus…
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This study examines Luise Rinser's travel reports and diaries on the Soviet Union, North Korea, Iran, and Indonesia, writings that have to date only received marginal attention. While Rinser's novels have earned her the reputation of a self-absorbed, subjective fiction writer, w…
My project deals with an area of German literature, that has been referred to as “Migration Literature”. While the study of the whole complex of works, is not possible, I have chosen one aspect of mostly prose works, in which the clash or more precisely the encounter of the fore…
In the process of defining the Self, cultural, ethnic or religious differences often serve to mark the boundaries of identity. One preeminent example of the interplay between images of Other and Self can be observed in the relationship of Europe to the Orient. However, European …
This dissertation explores how migration to Germany and the experience of cultural, linguistic, and social displacement are conveyed in the prose texts of three women writers of Turkish origin, Emine S. Özdamar, Aysel Özakin, and Renan Demirkan. Focusing on issues of cultural id…
Ethnic minorities are an invisible segment in Austrian society yet are perceived as a problem. To date, there are not many literary texts that represent them. In addition, Austrian literary criticism virtually ignores the few texts that deal with this significant part of Austria…
This thesis investigates cross-dressing as a historical practice and as a literary motif German texts around 1800. It is interested in how cross-dressing allowed real women and their fictional counterparts a wider sphere of action, and how the figure of the transvestite affected…
How can readers identify a text as being "Jewish" if there is no Jewish language? How can they explain the term "Jewish literature" if there is no Jewish nation and if an author can declare himself Jewish while denying any relationship to Judaism? This study seeks to clarify a J…
The present study refers to language style and style definition in the framework of translation. In how far is it possible to separate the essential, i.e. indispensable contents of a text (of a special kind) from the source and target language styles? The comparison of German an…
The alienated soul of the German-Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schuler, divided between the real world and fantasy, her social position in Germany, and her forced emigration to Switzerland and Palestine reflect her state of constant exile. Scholarship concerned with German exile liter…
Women have been healers since the dawn of humankind. They had learned their medical skills in a natural way since, as child bearers, they were also the first midwives, nurses, health carers, apothecaries and physicians. That women were skilled in the practice of medicine and tha…
My dissertation investigates how migration to Germany and the experience of cultural/social Otherness and marginality are conveyed in the writings of three Turkish women writers: Aysel Ozakin, Alev Tekinay and Emine Sevgi Ozdamar. My key interest lies in examining how ethnicity,…