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Sociological research on intersectionality deals with the feature overlap of privilege and marginalization, including gender, class, race, nation, religion, sexuality, disability, and age. This volume has two innovative objectives: on the one hand, the development of intersectionality research for literary and cultural studies; on the other, its extension to a historical view. Two testimonies of the German 'high culture' serve as a case study: the medieval Nibelungenlied and Fritz Lang's two-part film Die Nibelungen (1924).