Part I: The Nacheinander: the German reception of Joyce -- 1. Exiles, Act I: Enter James Joyce, a "poet of silence and truth" -- 2. "The Homer of our time": the German reception of Ulysses, 1919-1945 -- 3. "Joyce has made me a different reader: I am just glad I don't have to understand him": The institutionalization of "Joyce" after 1945 -- Part II: The Nebeneinander: intertextual echoes -- 4. "A great poet on a great brother poet": a parallactic reading of Goethe and Joyce -- 5. Joyce, {DADA} & Co.: modernist Con{I}{n}fluences -- 6. The epitome of the epiphany: Stephen and Malte, Joyce and Rilke -- 7. ""Concordances" of utter chaos post rem": a portrait of James Joyce as a chapter in German (Marxist) literary history.