The thresholds of political asylum. A literary and cultural history

在沃尔特·本杰明奖学金的框架内的研究项目是我对欧洲（政治）庇护的历史，因为法国大革命的中断项目的一部分。“庇护”一词及其相关实践的转变，一方面将被描述为一部法律史，另一方面，将被描述为民族国家时代文化交流过程的一个竞技场。根据指导性的论点，庇护，自世纪末以来，已经成为一个不稳定和有争议的言论场所。因此，直到今天，（非法）跨越国界与叙事形式有关，有时甚至是强迫叙事。将庇护作为一个话语过程进行建模，语言的表演力量，尤其是“文学”的机构发挥作用。一方面，计划中的书位于德语研究领域，因为-除了法语和英语作者之外-主要是德语文本。另一方面，它的目标恰恰是违反国家的遵守。它关注的是“德国文学”的文本，这些文本并没有再现语言、领土和国家的多重身份，而是将它们问题化。该项目的目的是配合最近的研究领域，并制定一个话语历史概念的庇护作为一个具体的，政治文学交流的基础上，在法律，移民，政治学和文化研究的研究。因此，它的目的是在文学和法律之间的关系，并在移动的文化编码的作用更精确的理解一个鲜为人知的领域。对于在艾克斯-马赛大学的时间，这可能会在秋季学期开始2021年（九月），我计划在书上的章节工作上半个20世纪世纪。其中，20世纪30年代和40年代涌向巴黎和马赛的难民潮尤其起着核心作用。在交换的高度有趣的文化研究的研究流亡在艾克斯-马赛大学由我的东道主教授亚历克西斯Nuselovici，但也由其他同事，如凯瑟琳Mazauric教授（艾克斯-马赛），以及在研究的基础上，在相关档案在马赛，叙事，法律的历史和飞行的官僚之间的联系将详细阐述和有关庇护的概念。在此期间，我将能够参加由Nuselovici教授发起的关于文学和流亡的“研讨会”，并展示我自己的成果。我还将了解世界研究学院（巴黎）的“流亡与移民”研究小组的工作，该小组也由Nuselovici教授领导。在我的研究结束时，我将在同行评议的文学研究杂志上发表一篇文章。

The research project within the framework of the Walter Benjamin Fellowship is part of my habilitation project on the history of European (political) asylum since the French Revolution. The transformations of the term 'asylum' and the practices associated with it will be described, on the one hand, as a history of law, and, on the other hand, as an arena of cultural communication processes in the age of the nation-state. Asylum, according to the guiding thesis, has become a site of precarious and contested speech since the late 18th century. Thus, to this day, the (illegal) crossing of a state border is associated with forms of narrative, sometimes even of coerced narration. Modeling asylum as a discursive process, the performative power of language and especially the institution of 'literature' comes into play.On the one hand, the planned book is located within the field of German studies, insofar as - besides French and English authors - predominantly German-language texts are scrutinized. On the other hand, it aims precisely at the transgressions of national adherence. It focuses such texts of 'German literature' that do not reproduce the multiple identities of language, territory, and state, but rather problematize them. The project aims to tie in with recent fields of research and to develop a discourse-historical conception of asylum as the site of a specific, political-literary communication on the basis of studies in law, migration, political science, and cultural studies. It thus aims both at a little-noticed area in the relationship between literature and law and at a more precise understanding of the role of cultural encodings of mobility.For the time at the University of Aix-Marseille, which could start in fall-term 2021 (september), I plan to work on book chapters on the first half of the 20th century. In these, the waves of refugees in the 1930s and 40s towards Paris and Marseille in particular play a central role. In exchange with the highly interesting cultural studies research on exile conducted at the University of Aix-Marseille by my host Prof. Alexis Nuselovici, but also by other colleagues such as Prof. Catherine Mazauric (Aix-Marseille), as well as on the basis of studies in relevant archives in Marseille, the connection between narration, legal history and the bureaucracy of flight will be elaborated and related to conceptions of asylum. During my stay, I will be able to participate in the "Laboratoire" on literature and exile initiated by Prof. Nuselovici and present my own results. I will also get to know the work of the research group "Exil et Migrations" at the Collège d'études mondiales (Paris), which is also directed by Prof. Nuselovici. At the end of my research stay, I will publish an article in a peer-reviewed literary studies journal.