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Acknowledgments

A book never owes its existence to its authors alone, and this is definitely the case with our book. We have registered, as references, the traces of myriad others, but we cannot and do not claim to have provided a definitive map of all the knowledge on which we built. Our editor, Mascha Jacobs, accepted the challenge of crafting a coherent text out of a manuscript in two voices, ensuring that both voices remained distinctly audible. Ina Kerner, Ilona Pache, Jasmin Siri, Imke Schmincke and Michaela Volkmann read our first drafts and provided comments: we would like to thank them for their ever-critical, ever-comradely support. Sabine Hark thanks Ilona Pache in particular for her incessant encouragement and unwavering confidence in the relevance of our project, and for the sheer serenity of her shared life with this author. Paula-Irene Villa thanks Michael Cysouw for much in general, and for his kind enabling of her intensive writing periods in particular. Karin Werner and Anke Poppen from transcript publishing house, who came up with the idea for this book. Without them it would not have been written. Last but not least, we would like to thank Sophie Lewis for her thoughtful and considerate translation.