Until the second half of the 19th century, writing in Slovene was seen as a decision for otherness in relation to the dominant and standard German. But when Slovene literature was established, the status of otherness in the Slovene cultural space was taken by the writing in German by Anastasius Grün, Luiza Pesjak, Ivan Gornik, Karl Deschmann, Jakob Alešovec and others, which was also excluded from the public discourse. Today, the principle of tolerance for otherness and the Slovene admiration of all things foreign are paving the way for those writing in German (this new ground was first broken by Alma Karlin and Maja Haderlap) into Slovene literature and Slovene literary history.
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