Dr Katya Krylova, together with colleagues at the universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews and Oxford, has co-edited volume 14 of the Edinburgh German Yearbook on the topic of 'Politics and Culture in Germany and Austria Today'.
Volume 14 of the Edinburgh German Yearbook (published in April 2021 by Camden House), edited by Frauke Matthes, Dora Osborne, Katya Krylova, and Myrto Aspioti, focuses on Politics and Culture in Germany and Austria today.
As debates about Europe, migration, resurgent nationalism, and neoliberalism intensify in Germany and Austria, politics has gained particular prominence in cultural production and cultural institutions. How does this development affect German Studies as a discipline and a practice? Volume 14 of Edinburgh German Yearbook examines political or politicized aspects of contemporary life that have become increasingly significant for culture today. The contributions gathered here offer engaging readings of contemporary literary texts (including work by Saša Stanišić, Anke Stelling, and Timur Vermes), films (by Fatih Akın, Ruth Beckermann, and Andreas Dresen), and other forms of cultural intervention (the polemics of Max Czollek and Oliver Polak, and the activism of the left-feminist group Burschenschaft Hysteria). These encourage us to consider how communities are being (re)shaped by current political and social crises, antagonisms around memory cultures, questions of European identity, as well as challenges to the status of an assumed Leitkultur and the discourse of integration.