Table of Contents

Doris SAVA (Sibiu): Serving higher goals through professional contacts and immeasurable impact. In memoriam prof. Horst Schuller……………………………………………………………………………………..13

I. Literature and Cultural Studies

Joachim WITTSTOCK (Sibiu): The mythical existence of a novel and its reality. A prose manuscript by the Transylvanian poet Gerda Mieß……………………………………………………………………………………………..23

Eszter PROPSZT (Szeged): Hungarian German literature as an opportunity for Hungarian German identity formation…………………….31

Grazziella PREDOIU (Timisoara): Writing with scissors: Herta Müller’s collagebook Father telephones the flies…………………………50

Claudia SPIRIDON-ȘERBU (Brasov): Aesthetic forms of representing the communist past in Carmen Francesca Bancius Lebt Wohl, Ihr Genossen und Geliebten! (2018)………………………………………………….67

Réka Jakabházi (Cluj Napoca): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious in Hermann Hesse’s Demian (1919) and in Ősvigasztalás (1924) by Áron Tamási…………………………………………..83

Sunhild GALTER (Sibiu): Between Fiction and Historical Reality: Gusel Jachinas Novel “Wolgakinder”……………………………………………98

Elẑbieta NOWIKIEWICZ (Polen): Space. Place. Topography of the Poznań Province Local Literature……………………………………………….112

Carmen Elisabeth PUCHIANU / Delia COTÂRLEA (Brasov): German Literature Written in Romania Reflected by Kronstädter Beiträge zur germanistischen Forschung. Review and Future Outlook…….145

Roxana NUBERT/ Ana-Maria DASCĂLU-ROMIȚAN (Timisoara): Intercultural dialogue and German regional studies in Timisoara 176

II. Linguistics and didactics

Sigrid HALDENWANG (Sibiu): The names of saints „Bartholomäus” and „Johannes” in Transylvanian-Saxon, which go back to biblical saints and their birthdays………………………………………………………..193

Doris SAVA (Sibiu): In times of Corona. Language in crisis In times of Corona. Language in crisis……………………………………………………….209

Sebastian MAŚLANKA (Opole): Some remarks on the most productive word formation strategies in the German technical terminology of the railway system with the contrastive consideration of Polish…………………………………………………………………………………………225

Alexandra NICOLAESCU (Bucharest): Culture and civilization in the teaching of German as a foreign language: cognitive, communicative, intercultural or discursive?…………………………………………………………245

Ana-Maria DASCĂLU-ROMIȚAN (Timisoara): German as a foreign language in Romania – using the example of the Polytechnik University……………………………………………………………………………………260

Ioana CUSIN (Bucharest): The role of radio interviews in cultural studies lessons. “Ein Mediascher in Paraguay”…………………………….273

III. Book Show

Maria SASS (Sibiu): Review …………………………………………………………285

Doris SAVA (Sibiu): Review………………………………………………………….295

Alexandra GREAVU (Brasov): Review………………………………………..302

Sunhild GALTER (Sibiu): Review…………………………………………………318