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The paper analyzes phrasemes with Biblical proper names as a component in German as the source language and Croatian as the target language, relying on the equivalence typology in the framework of contrastive phraseology. The aim of the paper is to analyze Biblical origin of phrasemes, explain their background, motivation and meaning as well as to determine the level of their equivalence. For collecting materials we used monolingual and bilingual phraseological dictionaries and monolingual and bilingual general dictionaries. According to the expectations, the most dominant are the phrasemes with Biblical proper name as the component, which show partial or full correspondence of the lexeme and morfosyntactic structure with equivalence of phraseological meaning. The unexpected result is a big group of phrasemes that are not recorded in Croatian materials, although literal translations can be found very often in Biblical texts.

The paper will analyze the influence of terrorism on modern society and literature on the example of work Really ground zero written by Austrian author Kathrin Röggla. During the attack on WTC on September 11, 2001, the author was only a kilometer away from the place of the event. Using the elements of pop-literature, pop-culture, colloquial speech and even photography she shows the newly arisen situation in New York. The work is composed of the series of texts in which she surpasses everything a human can experience by the structure of events, testimonies of New York citizens and poetics of her writing. All the elements of pop-literature used in this work have a role to show us perversion of the modern society, society which functions with the help of mobile phones, society which in crisis situation does not possess the real know how, society which develops the so called Catastrophe Tourism (Katastrophentourismus) after big catastrophe. Combining all the mentioned elements, the author clearly visualizes the problem of terrorism and its influence on everyday life and consequently on literature. She creates a unique and real picture of life in New York in which terrorism became inseparable from reality and pervades all the spheres of life after “9/11”. She also emphasizes that Ground zero does not mark only the place where the attack happened but also the zero point in literature i.e. the new beginning in literature. The author thinks that after “9/11” writers do not retell anymore, but start to collect facts, report and realize what happened.

Phraseology as a linguistic discipline does not have long tradition, but that does not alleviate its importance either within one language or in contrasting two languages. Translation of phraseological terms in literary works is an interesting and topical part of contrastive linguistics. While translating it is not always possible to find the adequate equivalent in the target language, therefore it is better to use descriptive translation in those cases in order not to loose splendor and expressivity of a certain image. This paper deals with contrastive analysis of phraseological terms in Andrić’s short stories and their translations in German. In analysis special attention is paid to structural characteristics of phrasemes and their mutual full, partial or zero equivalence.