Austenitic high nitrogen (AHNS) and austenitic high interstitial steels (AHIS) are of interest for mechanical engineering applications because of their unique combination of mechanical (strength, ductility), chemical (corrosion resistance) and physical (non-ferromagnetic) properties. But despite their high strength values e. g. after cold deformation up to 2 GPa in combination with an elongation to fracture of 30 %, which is based on twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) mechanisms and transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP) mechanisms, the fatigue limit remains relatively small. While for chromium-nickel steels the fatigue limit rises with about 0.5-times the elastic limit it does not at all for austenitic high-nitrogen steels or only to a much smaller extent for nickel-free austenitic high-interstitial steels. The reasons are still not fully understood but this behavior can roughly be related to the tendency for planar or wavy slip. Now the latter is hindered by nitrogen and promoted by nickel. This contribution shows the fatigue behavior of chromium-manganese-carbon-nitrogen (CrMnCn) steels with carbon + nitrogen-contents up to 1.07 wt.%. Beside the governing influence of these interstitials on fatigue this study displays, how the nitrogen/nickel-ratio might be another important parameter for the fatigue behavior of such steels.Keywords: Austenitic high strength steels / Ramberg-Osgood / twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) / transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP) / nitrogen-nickel ratio / cyclic behavior Schlü sselwö rter: Austenitische hochfeste Stä hle / Ramberg-Osgood / durch Zwillingsbildung induzierte Plastizitä t (TWIP) / umwandlungsbewirkte Plastizitä t (TRIP) / Stickstoff-Nickel Verhä ltnis / zyklische Belastung Corresponding author: S. Gü ler, Institut fü r die Technologien der Metalle, Lehrstuhl Werkstofftechnik, Universitä t Duisburg-Essen,