Table of Contents

 

Doris SAVA (Sibiu): From clear to cloudy. The 50th anniversary of the Chair of German Studies in Sibiu……………………………… 15

Literature and Cultural Studies

Laura CHEIE (Timișoara): Gradually clownfaced. About a Literary Mask of the Modern Author in a Text by Paul Celan .. 51

Olivia SPIRIDON (Tübingen): “Reeds grow above, reeds always grow above.” Homland Danube Landscapes in the German-language literatures of Southeastern Europe after 1945…………………………………………………………….. 70

Ioana CRĂCIUN-FISCHER (Bucharest): “Oscillating between two cultures”. Some Remarks about Ion Barbu’s Germany-Related Poetry…………………………………………………… 92

Eman Mohamed ABDELFATTAH SAID (Kairo): Far from Aleppo: Narrative theme development in an intercultural context ……………………………………………….. 108

Ana KARLSTEDT (Bucharest): Making up stories in order to survive: The role of Stories and History in Jan Koneffke’s novel Die sieben Leben des Felix Kannmacher. …………………. 130

Roxana-Andreea GHIŢĂ (Craiova): Between the Loss of the Heimat (Motherland) and the Uncertain Present: Social Change in Zonenkinder (2002) by Jana Hensel and Scotch (2010) by Ioana Bradea …………………………………………………………………. 142

Béatrice-Kristine NICORIUC (Cluj-Napoca): The Waiting and the Dead Time. Approaching Herta Müller’s Short Prose Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt. ………………………… 160

Elżbieta NOWIKIEWICZ (Poland): (Transnational) migration of German settlers to Greater Poland / Poznań Province / Eastern March in the view of autobiographical literary texts (memoirs)…………………………………………………… 174

Monika CZOK (Poland): A bridge, boundary stone, smaragd… Metaphoric portrayal of Silesia and its inhabitants……………… 203

Alexandra GREAVU (Braşov): An outline of the reception of Franz Kafka’s literary works from the 20th to the 21st century………………………………………………………….. 226

Rudolf WINDISCH (Rostock): Summary Gendering in German……………………………………………………………………… 239

Francisca SOLOMON (Iași): The Czernowitz Language Conference of 1908 and its reverberation in the pressusing the example of the periodical Czernowitzer Tagblatt ………….. 253

Adina-Lucia NISTOR (Iași): Lucian Blaga and the German Middle School from Sebeș, Transylvania (1902-1906). ………. 268

Linguistics and didactics

Sigrid HALDENWANG (Sibiu): Midwives and their designations in the Transylvanian-Saxon vernaculars…………. 283

Joanna SMEREKA (Polen): Ontical and pragmatical Questions of the mediaeval Texttype Testament from the Perspective of Text-Linguistics…………………………… 306

Claudia SPIRIDON ȘERBU (Brașov): A didactic approach to Robert Musil’s “sense of possibilities” and “sense of reality” in university German-courses…………………………… 333

Sakina Saleh MAHMOUD (Sohag/Egypt): Is creative writing a dream? Creative writing as a mental and linguistic ability when learning German as a foreign language in Egypt ……….. 347

Larisa PIOARU (Braşov): The applicability of concepts of theater pedagogy in literary studies based on a few examples………………………………………………………….. 363

Book Show

Doris SAVA (Sibiu): Consistency in action: Linguistic culture and its context. Review. …………………………………………………. 379