Time in German literature and culture 1900 2015 : between acceleration and slowness Introduction: faulty clocks human errors and the management of time in modernity and late modernity Anne Fuchs and J. J. Long Temporal Ambivalence: Acceleration Attention and Lateness in Modernist Discourse Anne Fuchs How Long does the Present Last Seven Approaches to a Fleeting Phenomenon Aleida Assmann Architecture in Transit: Three High Tech Historicist Airports Kathleen James Chakraborty Epistemology Poetics and Time in Modernist Short Prose around 1900 Dirk Gottsche Observations on Time and Motion: Kafkas Betrachtung and the Visual Arts around 1912 Elizabeth Boa Icons of Speed Icons of Crisis: Acceleration Effects in Weimar Culture Matthias Uecker Snapshot Composite Blur: Photography and Speed in the Weimar Republic J. J. Long Syncope Pause Caesura: Robert Musil and the Psychotechnics of Acceleration Carolin Duttlinger Good Work : Speed Slowness and Taking Care in Christian Petzolds Barbara Andrew J. Webber Writing and Acceleration in the Aftermath of German Unification: Riding the Information Rapids with Angela Krauss Gillian Pye The Temporality of Boredom in the Age of Acceleration: The Car Crash in Contemporary German Literature Mary Cosgrove