Three films of the 1990s by director Doris Dörrie—" Happy Birthday"," Türke"," Keiner liebt
mich", and" Erleuchtung garantiert"—foreground the question of ethnic identity. These films …

This article advocates for the inclusion of queer and queer of color discourse into graduate
curricula in North American German Studies. It presents a brief overview of major …

OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS a remarkable increase in publications by black German
writers, mostly in autobiographical form, has occurred. These texts represent a diversity of …

In her work on queer relationality, Miranda Joseph articulates a critique of what she terms 'a
celebratory discourse of community'. This chapter discusses Joseph's critique as a point of …

This article argues that racism alongside the verbal and physical neo-Nazi violence
perpetrated in Leroy (2007) against the film's eponymous teenaged Afro-German male lead …

The film Alles wird gut was groundbreaking when it was first broadcast on German television
in 1998 in that it was the first German comedy film to feature non-white protagonists; that the …

Karl-Heinz Käfer's film Lippels Traum (1990) foregrounds the question of Muslim identity in
German cinema shortly after reunification. This article examines the film with the aid of the …

This thesis shows how the female characters of recent‗ Turkish-German 'films are situated in
transnational, frequently transcultural space, in which they have greater self-determination …