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The article "Literature of (Post-)Migration. Complexity and Identity Issues of German-language Literature in the Globalized Age" in the "Aussiger Beiträge" of 2024 discusses contributions from a conference on German-language literature and migration. It analyzes well-known authors such as Terézia Mora and Emine Sevgi Özdamar as well as less researched writers like Sasha Marianna Salzmann. The contributions show how authors depict the complex present in a literary way and redefine identities. It also addresses formal aspects and linguistic peculiarities of the texts. [Extracted from the article]

This article is a case study of the aspects of power and attention in literature, and examines both in the context of the German Book Price. This prize has become a powerful marketing tool in the German-speaking world during the last ten years. The creators and organizers of the German Book Prize recognise the importance of attention in literature and have tried to get as many actors as possible involved in prize-related attention: publishers, authors, retailers, the Börsenverein [Book Publishers and Retailers Association] itself, and the many kinds of literary critics. The problem remains that this attention is maximized within certain power structures. So who draws attention in this process and how does it happen? Who has the opportunity, within the framework of the hierarchies of the field, to use this attention or to participate in it? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]