Over the past twenty-five years Turkish-German films have emerged and achieved prominence among German cinema. Tevfik Basers 1986 film 40 Quadratmeter Deutschland paved the way and inspired many of todays successful and diverse Turkish-German directors. Recent research on Turkish-German cinema has been primarily concentrated on the representation of Turkish and bi-national identity issues in German society. However, another angle I examine in my thesis is the representation of non-minority Germans and the role of the German and Turkish language. I will focus my analysis on films by Fatih Akin and Thomas Arslan, who have had a significant impact in Turkish-German cinema. While these directors offer different perspectives on identity issues facing Turkish-Germans, both depict Germans as minorities within the confines of their own cities. One strategy for this marginalization of the majority revolves around these directors use of language and subtitles.