TY - JOUR A1 - Karlstedt, Ana T1 - Fremdheitskonstruktionen in Karin Gündischs Roman "COSMIN. Von einem der auszog, das Leben zu lernen" T2 - Germanistische Beiträge N2 - Cosmin, a twelve-year-old Roma boy from Transylvania, only goes to school for a short while. For his mother, it is more important, that he, the only male of a household with many mouths to feed, help her with work. But Cosmin’s teacher does not give up and proposes a bargain: If Cosmin’s mother lets her children go to school, she will get electricity from the school to be able to watch TV. Due to this arrangement, Cosmin returns to school for a few days, becomes a little thief and embarks on a journey that can become an opportunity for him. A kind of a bildungsroman, a coming of age novel focused on the ups and downs between two worlds on Romanian soil, that could not be more different from one another: the Romanian majority and the Roma minority. This article sets out to document life at the brink of society, with all of its facets. KW - image of the self KW - image of the other KW - understanding otherness KW - intercultural hermeneutics KW - intercultural communication KW - intercultural education Y1 - 2022 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70867 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-708673 UR - http://uniblaga.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/48/Karlstedt.pdf SN - 2247-4633 SN - 1454-5144 VL - 48 SP - 193 EP - 207 PB - Lehrstuhl für Germanistik an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Sibiu/Hermannstadt CY - Sibiu / Hermannstadt ER -