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As a first compilation of its kind on jazz in German language
literature, the present volume contains 16
articles that broaden the current discussion about
jazz in German, Austrian, and Swiss literature. Scholars
from diverse backgrounds trace the influence of
North American jazz on Western and Central Europe
through readings of novels, novellas, poems, radio
plays, and essays about jazz, written or published in
German from the mid-1920s through the twenty-first
century. At the core of modernity and urban sociohistorical
culture, jazz maintains its relevance for
German-speaking cultures as a vehicle for addressing
issues of social class, gender, race and ethnicity, as
well as regional, national, and transnational identity.

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Dr. Kirsten Krick-Aigner is coordinator for the German program and is very active in promoting German subjects to students as well as to the local community at Wofford College. She is the campus representative to the national Fulbright Scholarships program. Marc-Oliver Schuster; Studium der Germanistik und Philosophie in Salzburg und Toronto. Forschungsprojekte zu "Semiotik und Postmoderne", "Der Wiener Biedermeier-Maler Eduard Ritter" und "Jazz in deutschsprachiger Literatur". Dissertation H. C. Artmann´s Structuralist Imagination: A Semiotic Study of His Aesthetic and Postmodernity (2004).

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