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Romanische Studien 2, 2015 rst romanische studien Heft 2 • 2015 SEKTION Du camp au mémorial, de la littérature à l Histoire Isabella v. Treskow 2 Romanische Studien 2, 2015 ROMANISCHESTUDIEN Vgl. auch die Informationen online: „Über uns“ www.romanischestudien.de Weitere Informationen zur Zeitschrit: Editorial von Het 1 (2015). issn 2364–4753 Die Begutachtungsform (blind peer review, edito- rial review) ist online je nach Rubrik ausgewie- Inhaltsverzeichnis REDAKTION sen. [email protected] Editorial: Die Ambivalenz eines romanischen Europa . 7 Redaktion Romanische Studien Kai Nonnenmacher PD Dr. Kai Nonnenmacher SEKTIONEN Universität Regensburg Institut für Romanistik Die Artikel der Zeitschrit stehen unter einer Du camp au mémorial D–93040 Regensburg Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Préambule – Prefazione – Vorwort . 23 [email protected] Abbildung Titelseite: Isabella von Treskow Hätlingsbrief aus dem KZ Flossenbürg vom De l’exploitation des carrières de granit au réseau concentrationnaire . 33 Redaktionsass. (Rezensionen) August 1940. Poststempel: „Flossenbürg (über Le camp de concentration de Flossenbürg Jonas Hock Floss)“. Private Sammlung. Jörg Skriebeleit [email protected] Les récits mémoriels français du réseau concentrationnaire de Flossenbürg : écritures et évolutions . 43 Isabella von Treskow MITARBEITALSRUBRIKREDAKTEURE Le genre, le récit et le corps . 81 Aucun de nous ne reviendra de Charlotte Delbo et L'espèce humaine de Robert Antelme Prof. Dr. Ursula Bähler | Geschichte der Romanistik, [email protected] Silke Segler-Meßner Dr. Reto Zöllner | Balzac-Lektüren, [email protected] Le testimonianze dei reduci italiani del lager di Flossenbürg . 105 WISSENSCHAFTLICHERBEIRAT Chiara Nannicini Streitberger Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Asholt | Osnabrück/Berlin, Frz. Gegenwartsroman Penser le passé. 129 Prof. Dr. Ursula Bähler | Zürich, Geschichte der Romanistik Inscriptions de l'Histoire dans le roman français contemporain Prof.Dr.RudolfBehrens|Bochum,Lit.Anthropologie,Imagination,Rhetorik,Macht/Wissenschatu.Lit. Anne Sennhauser Prof. Dr. Brigitte Burrichter | Würzburg, Frz. Mittelalter u. Frühe Neuzeit Prof. Dr. Marc Föcking | Hamburg, Ital. Mittelalter u. Frühe Neuzeit “Nell’occhio che riscopre la luce” . 137 Prof. Dr. Andreas Gelz, | Freiburg i. Br., Spanische Literatur der Moderne Tempo, storia e memoria nella poesia di Salvatore Quasimodo Prof. Dr. Thomas Klinkert | Zürich, Französische Literatur der Moderne Alessandro Martini Prof. Dr. Peter Kuon | Salzburg, Ital. Lit. der Moderne Éducation artistique et culturelle – Patrimoine, mémoire et identité . 147 Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink | Saarbrücken, Frz. Kulturwissenschat Isabelle Milliès Prof. Dr. Jochen Mecke | Regensburg, Span. Kulturwissenschat Prof. Dr. Olaf Müller | Mainz, Um 1800 und 19. Jahrhundert Artikel Prof. Dr. Christiane Solte-Gresser | Saarbrücken, Allg. u. Vergl. Lit.wiss. La Réforme et la réforme poétique . 159 Prof. Dr. Isabella v. Treskow | Regensburg, Ital. Kulturwiss. u. Gewalt Les Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde d'Antoine de La Roche de Chandieu Prof. Dr. Jörg Türschmann | Wien, Medienwissenschat Marina Hertrampf Prof. Dr. Christian Wehr | Würzburg, Span. Mittelalter u. Frühe Neuzeit Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wild | Frankfurt, Katalanistik u. Lusitanistik Lektüren Lectures de Balzac . 181 Reto Zöllner et Kai Nonnenmacher 4 Inhaltsverzeichnis 5 „Konstruktive Vorbilder“: Strukturprinzipien bei Balzac . 183 Der Flug der Danteforscher . 315 Reto Zöllner Gespräch mit Sibylle Lewitscharof zum kommenden Dante-Roman Das Pfingstwunder Kai Nonnenmacher Land, Kultur, Medien „Sembrava una nuvola“: Pascal Dusapin liest Palazzeschi . 329 „Perché sono tutti cattivi“ . 197 Gedanken anlässlich der deutschen Erstauführung der Oper Perelà. Uomo di fumo in Strategien der Anziehung und Abstoßung in Gomorra – La serie Mainz Tanja Weber Caroline Lüderssen „This is just a fucking movie. Also fahrt ab damit!“ . 233 Un’esile impronta: profonda fino al centro della terra . 337 Eine Rezensionsreise durch Abel Ferraras Film Pasolini, anlässlich des 40. Todestages Laura Canali von Pier Paolo Pasolini Angela Oster Forum Geschichte der Romanistik Festrede bei der Abschiedsfeier für Charles Grivel an der Universität Mannheim, 12. Juli 2002 . 343 Tagungsbericht: „Literaturwissenschaften in Frankfurt, 1914 – 1945“ . 253 Joseph Jurt Fachgeschichtliche Rückblicke auf die universitäre Germanistik und Romanistik in Frankfurt am Main Entre deux langues . 353 Frank Estelmann Charles Grivel Warum man sich in eine norditalienische Stadt im Meer begeben sollte, Ars legendi oder: Das Deutsche Studienzentrum in Venedig . 365 Ein Jubeljahr für Don Quijote? . 261 Romedio Schmitz-Esser Zur Abschafung der Literatur an Schule und Universität Dante Alighieri: quo vadis? . 369 Wolfram Aichinger Nuove prospettive nel dialogo delle discipline Rezensionen Franziska Meier Tagungsbericht „Terrain vague: Die Brache in den Stadt- und Michael Bernsen, Geschichten und Geschichte: Alessandro Manzonis ‚I promessi Kulturwissenschaften“. 379 sposi‘ . 273 Daniel Ritter und Jacqueline Maria Broich Friedrich Wolfzettel Das vielfältig Böse in der Gegenwartskultur Spaniens und Lateinamerikas. 279 Kapitel Zu Susanne Hartwigs Sammelband Culto del mal, cultura del mal « Ma patrie est caravane » . 397 Hubert Pöppel Amin Maalouf, la question de l'exil et le savoir-vivre-ensemble des littératures sans Krise der Männlichkeit als identitäres Spielfeld . 285 résidence fixe Zum Sammelband Der verfasste Mann: Männlichkeiten in der Literatur und Kultur um Ottmar Ette 1900 von Gregor Schuhen Markus Alexander Lenz Anhang Post vom weißen Tyrannen . 291 Abbildungsverzeichnis. 437 Erste kommunikations- und mediengeschichtliche Monographie zu Grimms Corres- Verfasser- und Schlagwortindex . 439 pondance littéraire – Kirill Abrosimovs Auklärung jenseits der Öfentlichkeit Jonas Hock Essay und Kritik Allgegenwärtig und gehoben. 301 Ob unsere Gegenwart das Schöne absorbiert Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Romanische Studien 2, 2015 Editorial: Die Ambivalenz eines romanischen Europa Kai Nonnenmacher zusammenfassung: Empire latin: Romania und Europa – Nach dem ersten Het – Perso- nalia – Zeitschrit ‚Junge Romanistik‘ – Zu diesem Het schlagwörter: Romanische Studien; Zeitschrit; Wissenschatlicher Beirat Empire latin: Romania und Europa – Einladung zur Artikeleinreichung Hiermit soll eingeladen werden, mit den Instrumentarien der Romanistik eigene Beiträge aus der Literatur-, Kultur- oder auch Sprachwissenschaft bei den Romanischen Studien einzureichen, die die Ideengeschichte eines (ro- manischen?) Europa aus der aktuellen Erfahrung heraus diskutieren, kultur- wissenschaftliche Reflexionen zur europäischen Identität bzw. Erinnerung vorzuschlagen, landeswissenschaftliche Berichte aus Ländern der Romania und ihren jeweiligen Perspektiven auf Europa, Stellungnahmen zur Diversi- tät europäischer Gesellschaften, zu den Migrationsströmen in die ‚Festung Europa‘, eine Analyse der laufenden Debatten um die Krise der Union und schließlich Entwürfe für das künftige Europa, aber auch Lektüren fiktiona- ler Texte oder sprachwissenschaftliche Analysen von Europadiskursen. „Der hässliche Deutsche ist wieder da“, lesen wir im Juli 2015.¹ Auf die Be- sorgnis erregenden Renationalisierungs- und Entfremdungstendenzen der letzten Zeit werden Ideen wie Ernst Robert Curtius’ Stiftung eines geistigen Europa in Europäische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter (1948)² keine Ant- wort mehr bieten. Zwischen der Vision von Vereinigten Staaten Europas des Grafen Coudenhove-Kalergi und der Ernüchterung, die zu Agambens panro- manischer Provokation führte, liegen 90 Jahre: ¹ Matthias Naß, „Der hässliche Deutsche ist wieder da“, Zeit online, 29. Juli 2015, www.zeit. de/politik/deutschland/2015-07/deutschland-nationalismus-deutsche-frage-europa. ² Vgl. Manfred Fischer, „Europa“ und „das Nationale“ bei Ernst Robert Curtius (Aachen: Fischer, 2000). 8 9 Der n a t i o n a l e n Entfaltung im kulturellen Sinne setzt Pan-Europa keine Dass Europa als Empire latin und damit ein ‚romanisches‘ Europa aus Schranken. Ziel ist nicht Entnationalisierung der Völker Europas – sondern deutscher Sicht ambivalent bleibt, sei kurz skizziert. Die Romanistik ist ein Zusammenfassung ihrer nationalen Individualitäten zu einem politischen Kind der politischen Romantik, (Re-)Konstruktion eines Zusammenhangs ³ und wirtschaftlichen Zweckverband. der neolateinischen Kulturräume.⁵ Das macht sie zunächst empfänglich ⁂ für Europa als ‚lateinisches Reich‘, diese französische Idee einer romanisch- Non seulement il n’y a aucun sens à demander à un Grec ou à un Italien de vivre comme un Allemand ; mais quand bien même cela serait possible, cela katholischen Vereinigung, die tief in die Geschichte reicht, man denke an aboutirait à la disparition d’un patrimoine culturel qui se trouve avant toute die Klimatheorie des 18. Jahrhunderts mit ihrer Nord-Süd-Opposition, an chose une forme de vie. Et une unité politique qui préfère ignorer les formes den politischen Klassizismus der Frz. Revolution und Napoleons, schließlich de vie n’est pas seulement condamnée à ne pas durer, mais, comme l’Europe an den Panlatinismus⁶. Die französische idée latine des 19. Jahrhunderts (Al- le montre avec éloquence, elle ne réussit pas même à se constituer comme phonse Roque-Ferrier und Charles de Tourtoulon), noch im 20. Jahrhundert telle.⁴ vertreten etwa durch den Okzitanen Roger Barthe⁷, geht von einer Zusam- Warum bleibt die deutsche Romanistik so auffällig still, wenn im Ringen um mengehörigkeit des
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