Lyn Marven, Andrew Plowman, Kate Roy

List of Illustrations
Note on Translations
Introduction to the Contemporary Short Story in German - Andrew Plowman, Lyn Marven, and Kate Roy
Chapter 1: Berlin Shorts: The German Capital in the Short Story of the Twenty-First Century - Katharina Gerstenberger
Chapter 2: The German Crime Story in the Twenty-First Century - Todd Herzog
Chapter 3: Performance, Performativity, and the Contemporary German Kurzgeschichte - Emily Spiers
Chapter 4: Cramped Spaces, Creative Bottlenecks: Sudabeh Mohafez's das zehn-zeilen-buch and the Short-Short - Kate Roy
Chapter 5: Bodo Kirchhoff's Widerfahrnis: A Novelle for Our Time? - Helmut Schmitz
Chapter 6: The Liminal Space of the Short Story: Clemens Meyer's Die Nacht, die Lichter and Die stillen Trabanten - Gillian Pye
Chapter 7: Framing the Presence: Judith Hermann's Lettipark - Leonhard Herrmann
Chapter 8: Of Unhomed Subjects and Unsettled Voices: Alois Hotschnig's Die Kinder beruhigte das nicht - Heide Kunzelmann
Chapter 9: Literary Development and Rewriting Spaces in the "Complete Stories": Peter Stamm's Der Lauf der Dinge - Andrew Plowman
Chapter 10: On Disappearing: Reading Ulrike Almut Sandig with Sylvia Bovenschen - Heike Bartel and Elizabeth Boa
Chapter 11: Metamorphic Becomings: Yoko Tawada's Opium für Ovid: Ein Kopfkissenbuch von 22 Frauen - Áine McMurtry
Chapter 12: Melinda Nadj Abonji and Jurczok 1001: Performance, Politics, and Poetry - Rafaël Newman and Caroline Wiedmer
Chapter 13: Rhizomatic Wanderings: The Writings of Gabriele Petricek - Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
Chapter 14: Trends and Issues in the Contemporary German-Language Short Story - Lyn Marven
Appendix: Contemporary German-Language Short Stories in Translation
Sudabeh Mohafez, A Short-Short Selection - Translated by Kate Roy
Roman Ehrlich, "Engineers of Time" - Translated by Lyn Marven
SaSa StaniSic, "The Factory" - Translated by Lyn Marven
Bibliography of Primary Texts
Notes on Contributors