Beate Baumann: Sprache, Kultur, polyphone Narration

Reviewed by Feline Kleimann, 2025-09-17
Translated from German version by DeepL

Beate Baumann: Sprache, Kultur, polyphone Narration. Entwicklungen im postmigrantischen Deutschland. Frank & Timme (Berlin) 2024. 242 pages. ISBN 978-3-7329-1062-5. D: 39,80 EUR, A: 39,80 EUR, CH: 59,70 sFr.

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Summary

The book "Sprache, Kultur, polyphone Narration. Developments in Post-Migrant Germany" by Beate Baumann makes an important contribution to visualising the post-migrant and multilingual character of German society. After a cursory presentation of academic approaches that explore post-migrant and multilingual phenomena, readers are given authentic insights into post-migrant artistic, cultural and literary projects, as well as into the views of their protagonists on topics such as migration, multilingualism, marginalisation and diversity. Insights that also provide inspiration for the inclusion of post-migrant perspectives in German (as a foreign language) teaching, for which Baumann calls for a paradigm shift away from the paradigm of monolingualism towards a German didactics that takes into account the post-migrant and multilingual reality of German society.

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Feline Kleimann
M.A. Mehrsprachigkeit und Bildung, Integrative Lerntherapeutin mit Fokus Schriftsprachtherapie und Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Hamburg, im Fach Linguistik des Deutschen mit dem Schwerpunkt Schriftlinguistik
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