「跨文化性」的概念，一方面特別是作為西方社會認為的最新後工業化文化發展的診斷工具。另一方面，它似乎也是規範性的假設，對這些個別、社會及科學的發展作出合適的反應。第二，跨文化性概念的範圍將會被審視。透過移民所忘卻的其他跨文化性的概念變化來檢驗那些根據暫時性的經驗研究。而跨文化性和來自跨領域移民研究的「跨國主義」概念相較，以獲得跨文化性概念的關聯性及持續性的證據。第三，提出德國與移民相關及文化記憶改變的例子，以了解而對過去的觀點在遷徙過程的記憶中是否被改變。第四，借助於專業討論、課堂範例，如同在德國文學研究及學說般討論德文外語教科書及跨文化影響的文學貢獻。

The term transculturality is currently being used more and more to analyse and to diagnose recent developments mostly within Western post-industrial societies while, at the same time, it also serves as a normative postulate to appropriately react to these developments on individual, social and scientific levels. Secondly the theoretical range of the term with regard to the understanding of 'Self' and 'Other' is scrutinised. Therefore, empirical explorations into the changes of perceptions of the 'Other' are examined, using migration phenomena as an example. Transculturality is also compared to the concept of transnationalism, which originated from interdisciplinary migration research. Thus, it can be tentatively assessed how relevant and sustainable the term transculturality is to describe the afore-mentioned societal developments. Thirdly-as a case in point-it is asked how migration has impacted on the culture of remembrance in Germany. This takes into consideration if and how perspectives on the past and the corresponding memories have changed due to migration processes. Fourthly, taking subject-specific discussions, teaching approaches, textbook exercises for German as a Foreign Language and literary contributions as examples, the (potential) effects of transculturality on German Studies are preliminarily assessed.