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Preliminary Material /Ian Foster and Juliet Wigmore -- Introduction /Juliet Wigmore and Ian Foster -- ‘Böhmen liegt am Meer’, or When Writers Redraw Maps /Brigid Haines -- The German Imagination and the Decline of the East: Three Recent German Novels (Edgar Hilsenrath, Jossel Wassermanns Heimkehr; Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Der Verlorene; Günter Grass, Im Krebsgang) /Julian Preece -- Rumänität in den Büchern eines Deutschen /Mariana-Virginia Lǎzǎrescu -- ‘A German comes home to Germany’: Richard Wagner’s journey from the Banat to Berlin, from the periphery to the centre. /David Rock -- Die Migrantenschriftstellerin Irena Brežná /Dagmar Košt’álová -- The Return of the Native, or the Neighbours are back: Anna Mitgutsch’s novel Haus der Kindheit /Anthony Bushell -- Dreams on the Danube. Elisabeth Reichart’s Nachtmär /Juliet Wigmore -- ‘immer weiter ostwärts und immer weiter zurück in der Zeit’: Exploring the extended kith and kin of W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz /Arthur Williams -- Culture Clash: The Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the Austrian Avant-Garde in the 1990s /Anthony Murphy -- The limits of memory: Christoph Ransmayr’s journalistic writings /Ian Foster -- ‘Gedächtnisgeschichte’ – Ein Vergleich von Deutschland und Österreich in Bezug auf Pierre Noras Konzept der lieux de mémoire /Nicole L. Immler -- Albanische Bräute, Monokeleffekt und montenegrinische Barbarei: DDR-Erfahrung in der Fremde und Subjektutopie in Irmtraud Morgners Hochzeit in Konstantinopel /Ricarda Schmidt -- Irene Böhme’s novel Die Buchhändlerin. A Case of Reconstructing the Past in the Image of the Future? /Renate Rechtien -- Contemporary German Drama as Aesthetic Resistance against Right-wing Radicalism /Birgit Haas -- ‘Heimat’ in Central European Cinema /Alexandra Ludewig -- Notes on Contributors /Ian Foster and Juliet Wigmore. The 15 essays collected here focus on literary and cultural relations between Germany or Austria on the one hand and the neighbouring countries of eastern and southern Europe on the other, with particular reference to the period since the Wende, but also with a glance back to the period of German division. Topics include the overarching theme of psychological, political, historical and geographical boundaries and the perspective offered by German writers from both East and West on Poland, Russia and neighbouring countries. Equally important to the contributors are specific authors who have crossed national and cultural borders, such as Libuše Moníková, Irena Brežna, Richard Wagner and Hans Bergel. The role of memory, Vergangenheit, time and space are examined in the context of works by Anna Mitgutsch, W G Sebald, Christoph Ransmayr and Elisabeth Reichart, and the reception of the theories of Pierre Nora in the German-speaking countries. The re-emergence of the Right in politics, drama and film forms a further dimension explored in these essays. Neighbours and Strangers will be of interest to students and scholars working on contemporary German and Austrian culture
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