title: Sprachreise zum Ich
abstract: Ilma Rakusa's autobiography Mehr Meer published in 2009 and Elias Canetti's first part of his three-volume autobiography Die gerettete Zunge published in 1977, both portray the multilingual language development of a German-speaking author, since both authors do not write in their first language. Concerning the topic of becoming an author both texts have numerous points of contact, such as the staged utilization of foreign language words. However, the texts differ from each other regarding two co
journal: Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik