Böcker i Companions to Contemporary German Culture-serien

This companion provides a comprehensive overview of German pop music from the post-war period to the present. It highlights specific German varieties of pop music within an international context with chapters on German punk, industrial music and techno.

This broad-ranging, English-language anthology introduces the renowned public intellectual Christa Wolf in her times and for today. Scholars from across the globe explore the East German author¿s variously received oeuvre and her influence in world literature. From new perspectives, they highlight topics such as subjective authenticity, agency, gender, environmentalism, geopolitics, war, and memory, and Wolf¿s work on film.

Ulrike Draesner is a prize-winning writer of novels, short stories, critical essays and poetry, and one of the foremost authors in Germany today. While a number of volumes have been published in German on her work, the current Companion offers the first volume on Draesner in English, capitalising on the interest in her work in Germany and further afield. Introducing Draesner's major novels and short stories, poetry collections and essays, as well as giving an overview of existing research focusing on migration, memory, science, gender and bodily experience, chapters by international scholars in this volume also break new ground by focussing on visual culture, poetology, nature, the posthuman and Draesner's reception of English literature and medieval culture. A comprehensive bibliography, commissioned interview and original writing by Draesner make the volume a valuable research tool for scholars and students. This will become essential reading for all those interested in Draesner, women's writing, literature and history, and contemporary German prose and poetry.