Rumänisch-deutsche Interferenzen in Herta Müllers Collagen

Abstract Herta Müller outlined several times the differences between the German and the Romanian languages. The presence of the Romanian language in the texts of Herta Müller has already been analysed in various publications. The present paper focuses however on the German-Romanian linguistic interferences in her collages. The paper investigates both the Romanian interferences in the collages of the German volumes and the German interferences in the collages of the Romanian volume Este sau nu este Ion by providing concrete examples. A German-Romanian collage is also highlighted.