REPRESENTATIONS OF EUROPE IN TRANSITION

Abstract

The article discusses three dystopian visions in contemporary German literature in order to attain revelatory perspectives for the future of Europe. If the first example is a trivialization of the image of Europe, against the background of which a more pessimistic forecast emerges, the second and third emphatically plead for a fundamental structural renewal of the old continent and thus launch the idea of Europe as a borderless transit area.