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Abstract: Otto Dix has been deemed central to the Weimar-era Neue Sachlichkeit by contemporary critics and subsequent art historical study, and his work offers a vivid window into the tumult of Weimar Germany. Recently, writers have taken a more nuanced approach to Dix’s work and its relation to Weimar culture. Anne Reimers’s focused study of Dix’s portraiture is a welcome addition to this recent stream of art historical analysis, deftly creating a constellation of artist, artwork, and broader cultural forces and the ways that they impact each other.Across four chapters, Reimers analyzes examples of Dix’s work through the major themes of fashion, temporality, and the mass media. These themes accumulate significance across ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the field of musicology, several key studies have examined how categories of “Germanness” and “Otherness” have been constructed and negotiated in musical discourse, ranging from such topics as the musical practice of Martin Luther’s aesthetic reform, or the revival of J. S. Bach’s work under the auspices of the Enlightenment-era German Jewish patron Sarah Levy. The rise in antisemitism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found its way into music criticism, with composers and music critics—such as Rudolf Louis and Richard Wagner—frequently attacking German Jewish composers such as Felix Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler for the supposed aural “tainting” and eastern “accents” of their music. The Third ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Anja Tröger’s 2021 monograph Affective Spaces: Migration in Scandinavian and German Transnational Narratives examines twelve novels whose fairly recent publication dates are bookended by Vigdis Hjorth’s Snakk til meg (2011) and Zeshan Shakar’s Tante Ulrikkes vei (2017). The novels are written in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and German, take place in the respective countries, and are all transnational narratives, populated with characters who are in transit or have already arrived in one of the respective countries. The study is organized into five chapters that thematically follow the chronology of the “migratory journey” (4), from examining personal motivations and circumstances of migrants’ decisions to leave ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Frank Trommler’s beautifully illustrated tome is both an autobiography and a personal history of German studies in the United States over the course of the last six decades. As someone who served as president of the GSA at the moment of German reunification, who organized the humanities program of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, D.C., from the early 1990s into the twenty-first century, and who played a central role in planning the academic commemoration of the three-hundredth anniversary of German immigration to North America in 1983, Trommler is uniquely placed to offer insights into the ways that the field has changed.These changes are both positive and negative. When ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: “Was heißt es, für andere zu sprechen' Was, wenn für einen gesprochen wird'” Der Umschlagtext des vorliegenden Buches von Katrin Trüstedt ist so kurz wie prägnant: in wenigen Worten wird hier umrissen, was in der als Habilitationsschrift verteidigten Studie auf dem Spiel steht und zugleich werden Bezüge aufgerufen, mit denen das umfangreiche literaturhistorische Forschungsprojekt an aktuelle Konstellationen und Debatten anzuschließen gedenkt. Es liegt auf der Hand an gegenwärtig gerade in den USA mit Vehemenz geführte Auseinandersetzungen über kulturelle Aneignung und identitätspolitische Positionen zu denken, sowie an die an postkolonialen Theorien geschulten Diskussionen über die Notwendigkeit der ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Between 1975 and 1981, the documentary film group futurum within the state-owned East German film studio DEFA (Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft) made forty-one so-called Discofilme (hereafter referred to as disco films).1 These 35mm short films were four to eleven minutes in length, and they consisted of a few ideological pieces, although most of them were early music videos comparable in aesthetic quality to Western music videos.2 It should be noted that in the East German context, the word “disco” did not imply disco music, but rather referred to the dance club or Disco—one of the intended venues for these short films. They were also designed to be shown at cinemas before the feature film and to be screened in ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the past two decades, liberal democracy—defined as a political system that combines popular sovereignty and majority rule with minority rights, the rule of law and separation of powers—has come under pressure in many countries around the world from socio-political movements, political groupings, and populist leaders that operate to the right of mainstream conservative parties. In European countries with a history of fascism—Italy, Spain, Hungary, Austria and Germany—new and more radical right-wing parties have steadily secured greater parliamentary representation. In some of the largest democracies, Jair Bolsonaro, Recip Erdoğan, Donald J. Trump, and Narendra Modi have incorporated and normalized far right ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the last couple of decades, cognitive theorists have preferred to use the metaphor of simulation when explaining what happens in the brain when we read fiction. As Keith Oatley posits, reading fiction creates “carefully constructed simulations of the social world, that run on minds, such that these minds can perceive for themselves meanings of movements beneath the surfaces of social life.”1 In other words, reading fiction exposes us to an array of experiences that, whether exceptional or banal, prepare us for unforeseen circumstances in our social lives in the real world. Of particular importance is the emotional charge of fiction, as emotion is key to our understanding of the world, the formation and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: As the two-year anniversary of the racist killings in Hanau on February 19, 2020 passed, Germany’s highest-ranking politicians emphasized national cohesion regardless of background or immigration status in Germany. In his remarks on the occasion, Chancellor Olaf Scholz reminded the German public that the victims of the attack were “a part of our country, a part of us.”1 Nancy Faeser, Federal Minister of the Interior and Community remarked, “We will do everything we can to better protect those people in our country who are threatened or attacked.”2 The remarks by Scholz and Faeser represent a political aspiration which inadvertently highlights the shortcomings of reality, papering over the extensive xenophobic ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Over the past ten years, Olga Grjasnowa has established herself as a highly prolific, successful, and critically acclaimed novelist in contemporary Germany. In addition to her novels that consistently touch upon urgent political and social issues, in her public interviews and essays, she advances crucial current debates and rekindles other lesser-known debates in German society. In her role as a public intellectual and novelist, Grjasnowa invariably draws on her own experiences of migration, refugeeism, and Otherness in contemporary Germany, which makes her work particularly attuned to topics of diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice, while at the same time eschewing the labels “migrant author” or ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Since the early 1990s, contemporary German and Korean cinemas have respectively seen a proliferation of fictional narratives featuring topics of national division and (re)unification.1 Recent German films and television series on GDR culture have enjoyed popular success and critical acclaim.2 South Korean spy thrillers, war films, and romantic dramas with national division as their narrative background have also contributed to the worldwide popularity of South Korean film and media.3 Despite this trend, there is a relative scarcity of transnational artistic productions that reflect on Germany and Korea’s historical legacy through a comparative lens.4 While Japan and China have captured the German imagination of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Book in Literature/Cultural StudiesPrize Committee: Jason Groves (University of Washington—Committee Chair), Barbara Mennel (University of Florida), and Sean Franzel (University of Missouri)Margareta Ingrid Christian, Objects in Air: Artworks and Their Outside around 1900 (University of Chicago Press, 2021)Thoroughly original, elegantly written, and invigoratingly interdisciplinary, Objects in Air: Artworks and Their Outside around 1900 is an engrossing study of the myriad material and conceptual continuities between artworks and their immediate atmospheres. Disputing both dominant understandings of the modernist artwork’s self-containment and the trajectory of aesthetic encounters as ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Divided into four riveting parts, this co-edited volume in honor of Leslie A. Adelson centers migration, translation, and temporality as key terms emanating from the main areas for her interventions which are also presented as threads that appear in a variety of thematic, disciplinary, and analytical guises. Scholarly contributions are framed by two literary tributes from Yoko Tawada (“Der Name und die Zeit,” The Name and the Time) and Zafer Şenocak (“Ausreisen und Reißaus nehmen,” To Exit or to Escape) who “stand out for their recurring place in her scholarship from the 1990s to the present” (19). Thanks to English translations provided by co-editor Bettina Brandt, these original literary texts are accessible to a ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Street Life and Morals: German Philosophy in Hitler’s Lifetime details a survey history of philosophical thought in Germany during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At various times in Lesley Chamberlain’s book, she stresses that philosophers from Friedrich Nietzsche to Hannah Arendt struggled to answer a trio of questions raised by the forces of modernity: how to manage liberal, capitalist social relations; technological change and innovation; and the fate of reason itself. The sections of the book lay out in detail the various interventions and suppositions made by major philosophers of Germany’s early twentieth century to answer these questions. Organized in a basically chronological order, the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The late nineteenth century saw concerted efforts in Germany to mitigate the destabilizing effects of unfettered industrial capitalism, such as environmental pollution and the unsanitary living conditions of an immiserated urban working class, by seeking to optimize efficiency in production (for instance, by reducing harmful waste) and by aiming to improve working and living conditions (primarily in order to maintain a productive workforce). In his introduction to this fascinating book, Paul Dobryden outlines how the medium of cinema that emerged during that same period can be viewed as an “apparatus of modernity” (10) that participated in this pursuit of “hygiene,” defined broadly as a conglomerate of practices ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: During the last years of his life, Michel Foucault, the central figure to whom we are indebted in our approach to the question of life, moved away from the concept of biopolitics he had developed over the preceding decade and toward questions of the subject. Whereas his previous work had concerned the history of modernity, his lectures, devoted to the hermeneutics of the subject, to the care of the self, and finally to parrhesia, now focused on sources from Greek and Roman Antiquity. Andreas Gailus’s pathbreaking study of what the subtitle of his book calls “aesthetics and biopolitics in German culture” now offers the groundwork for an account of modernity that includes the dimension of the subject Foucault ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Stimulated by pertinent anniversaries, researchers have reexamined the history of the Thirty Years’ War in recent years. A noteworthy aspect has been the widespread focus on individual suffering. Sigrun Haude’s study of personal experiences and coping strategies during the great central European cataclysm of the seventeenth century fits in perfectly with this scholarly reorientation.Having analyzed the confessional era in central Europe in several previous books, Haude came well-prepared for her task. In her current study, she explores how people tried to survive the Thirty Years’ War; on what resources they drew to endure violence, hunger, loss, and disease; and how they tried to make sense of a conflict that ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Since 2000, the popularity of life writing has exploded. Prince Harry’s memoir Spare certainly confirms that memoir has become a central form of culture. It is just one very public example of trauma narratives mixed with historical recollections ostensibly presented by a non-professional writer (but in fact, ghostwritten). Spare exemplifies what editors Katja Herges and Elisabeth Krimmer argue in their introduction: today, the genre is so broad as to be almost meaningless, and yet, here we are. Life writing, the term settled on by the editors, includes memoirs and autobiography (the editors use these two terms interchangeably), letters, diaries (including calendars and date books), blogs and Twitter messages, and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia offers an in-depth study of the symbols displayed on the badges provided to German citizens, soldiers, and veterans during WWI and through WWII. Each chapter outlines the historical and political backdrop of the period as a means to establish the functionality of a given badge. Hughes gives examples of the quintessential emblems, how, where, and by whom they were produced, in which materials and quantities, and concludes with a note on the collectors of the pieces and the current market. The text fills a gap in historical Third Reich studies since, as Hughes states, “there is a shortage of scholarly literature on the symbols and ritual objects produced and deployed by the Nazi Party ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Christine Meyer’s Questioning the Canon masterfully treats the representative works of Rafik Schami, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, and Feridun Zaimoglu through a postcolonial methodology to reveal their overlooked counter-discursive aspects. In response to a field of scholarship that lags behind its Francophone and Anglophone counterparts, Meyer calls for the necessity of utilizing a postcolonial approach to Germanophone literature and its authors originating from stigmatized countries. This work questions the power relations between the center, the canon, and the margins. Utilizing Genette’s theories of “hypertext” and “hypotext,” Meyer shows which authors have written into the canon and essentially asserted themselves as ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-27T00:00:00-05:00
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