TY - JOUR A1 - Miclea, Rodica-Ofelia T1 - Am deutschen Bürgermeisterwesen soll Balkanien genesen? : Einige Bemerkungen zur Funktionalität von positiven Stereotypen in kritischen Zeiten T2 - Germanistische Beiträge N2 - The paper focuses on the way Romanians perceive their co-nationals of German origin and analyses the building up of auto-stereotypes and foreign-stereotypes. Starting point of the essay and corpus is an online-petition to back up the German Mayor of Sibiu as the Prime Minister of Romania in the autumn of 2009, a proposal made by a coalition of several political parties. The arguments of the petitioners for their support are being interpreted by using instruments and principles of imagology. The patterns of perception discovered show the interesting ways Romanians relate to their own ethnicity and their perceptions of ethnic minorities. KW - imagology KW - auto-stereotypes KW - foreign-stereotypes ethnicity Y1 - 2011 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/65397 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-653977 UR - https://uniblaga.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/28.1.10.pdf SN - 2247-4633 SN - 1454-5144 VL - 28 SP - 149 EP - 169 PB - Lehrstuhl für Germanistik an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Sibiu/Hermannstadt CY - Sibiu / Hermannstadt ER -