Table of Contents

Literature and Cultural Studies

Matthias BAUER (Flensburg): Revolt and Mediation. Petru Dumitrius essay ‚Die Transmoderne. Zur Situation des Romans‘ …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..13

Carmen Elisabeth PUCHIANU (Brasov): Romanian Reality Surrealistically Embodied – Joachim Wittstock’s Narrative Hades, a Postmodern Reading ……………………………………………………………………………..41

Delia COTÂRLEA (Brasov): Re-writing History and Literature through Romanian Cultural Policy. The Weekly Karpatenrundschau (1968-1970) …………………………………………………………………………………………..59

Joachim WITTSTOCK (Sibiu): Hungarian Surroundings in the Literary Work of Emil Witting Starting from a more recent Publication ………………………………………………………………………………………………75

Roxana NUBERT / Ana-Maria DASCĂLU-ROMIȚAN (Timişoara): German-Romanian Language Interferences in Herta Müllerʼs and Balthasar Waitzʼs works ………………………………………………………………………87

Réka JAKABHÁZI (Cluj): The Black Church as a topos of individual and collective identity construction in the German and Romanian poetry of the interwar period …………………………………………………………103

Maria SASS (Sibiu): Not even what seemed very stable did have any durability. The Representation of the own and other Image in Andreas Birknerʼs Novel Die Tatarenpredigt [The Tartaric Sermon] ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..118

Nadjib SADIKOU (Flensburg): Home and Fragile Values in Lavinia Branişte’s Null Komma Irgendwas………………………………………………….140

Doris SAVA (Sibiu): Nothing for Hasty Viewers: Doina Ioanid’s The Poesy of Gentle Tones ………………………………………………………………………155

Martin STANGL (Sibiu): Comments and Thoughts on Goethe’s Planetentanz. ……………………………………………………………………………………..169

Andreea DUMITRU (Sibiu): “… and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil…” Thoughts on Eginald Schlattner’s Text “Never say yes. Walther Gottfried Seidner on the 80th birthday.” ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………181

Gerhild RUDOLF (Sibiu): Naming Practices in a GermanRomanian Context between Regional Customs and European Trends ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..189

Linguistics

Sigrid HALDENWANG: In reference to the verbs kopulieren (copulate), kaufen (buy) and verändern (change) in Transylvanian document sources and the Transylvanian-Saxon vernacular …………………………………………………………………………………………207

Cristina MIHAIL: „So I’m laying my plow down…” Obituaries and death notices with reference to the professional environment ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..224

Book Show

Markus Oliver SPITZ (Luxemburg): Review ………………………………243

Larisa PIOARU Brasov): Review …………………………………………………..246

Index of authors ………………………………………………………………………………252