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Contemporary German literature features an important number of highly acclaimed work that tells Black, queer, and transcultural stories. What prompted this shift from the margins to the center? As a possible response to this question, the seminar intends to explore to what extent non-normative perspectives produce aesthetics and imaginaries that can confront and transform the transgenerational reproduction of collective trauma. We will discuss novels and plays, fiction, autofiction, and antiautobiography, pertinent theory, and, where available, stagings of works by authors such as Fatma Aydemir, Kim de l’Horizon, Nino Haratischwili, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Falk Richter, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Olivia Wenzel, and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah.