In recent years Culture Studies Anthropology German Studies History Political Psychology and other fields have used the concept of exile in close connection with terms like migration border crossing identity and transnationality. Views of a homogeneous culture and of centricity collide with ideas like multiculturalism pluralism creolization and the globalization of differences. A transitculture inhabited by the flaneur and the nomad is supposed to have replaced citizenship in a nation. At the same time there can be no doubt that the experience of those writers artists and intellectuals who were driven out of Germany and Europe by the Nazis was in many ways unique. This book investigates the exile experience in a theoretical and comparative way by exploring the possibilities and limitations of concepts like diaspora delocalization and transitculture for understanding the lives and works of German and Austrian refugees from Nazi persecution. It revisits the interaction of the exiles with the culture of their host countries in light of recent debates about migration and identity studies and it analyzes texts paintings and other methods of artistic expression which connect the experience of the refugees of 1933 with postmodern notions of delocalization hybridity and marginalization.