Literary career milestones, crucial tools of cultural promotion and foreign cultural policy, hubs of artistic mobility abroad, German residency programs are seen as all this and much more. What criteria guide their support for literature? What are their goals? How do they influence the literary landscape and forms of literary production? This volume delves into these questions.

Autorentext
S. Keppler-Tasaki, University of Tokyo, Japan; A. Ksenofontova und J. Müller-Tamm, Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland.