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Juergen Boos in Conversation with Jonathan Landgrebe the Ghost In
the frankfurt magazine Juergen Boos in Conversation with Jonathan Landgrebe The Ghost in the Machine – Artificial Intelligence in German Books The Bauhaus in the World – A Century of Inspiration Time for a Second Look – Graphic Adaptations of Multimedia Worlds EDITORIAL Dear readers, Bauhaus. And they’re not just for display: anyone Are you intrigued by our cover photo? I’d like to can try the costumes on. Their first appearance is tell you the story behind this image. In 2019, we’re at the German Guest of Honour presentation at Cicek © FBM/Nurettin celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Bau the Taipei International Book Exhibition in Febru haus – the most important art, design and archi ary. And of course, this isn’t all we’re presenting in Bärbel Becker tecture school of the 20th century. On our cover, Taipei: we’ve put together a special collection of has been at the Frank you see three costumes based on the original new books about the Bauhaus movement which furter Buchmesse drawings and colour swatches of Oskar Schlem is also on display. This magazine will give you an for many years and is mer, the painter and sculptor who created the Tri insight into our Bauhaus showcase as well. the director of the adic Ballet – a modernist dance concept. From This is the second issue of the frankfurt magazine. International Projects 1920, Schlemmer led Bauhaus workshops in paint We received lots of positive feedback from the department. ing murals, and in wood and stone sculpture, and readers of our first issue – publishing colleagues, from 1923–1929, the Bauhaus theatre. -
German Studies Association Newsletter ______
______________________________________________________________________________ German Studies Association Newsletter __________________________________________________________________ Volume XLII Number 1 Spring 2017 2 German Studies Association Newsletter Volume XLII Number 1 Spring 2017 __________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Letter from the President ................................................................................................................ 3 Letter from the Executive Director ................................................................................................. 6 Conference Details .......................................................................................................................... 9 Conference Highlights .................................................................................................................. 11 A List of Dissertations in German Studies, 2015-2017 ................................................................ 14 Statement of the German Studies Association on the Admission and Vetting of Non-Citizens to the United States, January 2017 .................................................................................................... 26 Announcements............................................................................................................................. 27 Austrian Cultural Forum New York: Young Scholars GSA Travel Grants 2017 .................... 27 Berlin Program for Advanced German -
Social & Behavioural Sciences 9Th ICEEPSY 2018 International
The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences EpSBS Future Academy ISSN: 2357-1330 https://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.01.41 9th ICEEPSY 2018 International Conference on Education & Educational Psychology LEARNING HISTORY THROUGH STORIES ABOUT EAST GERMANY Nadezda Heinrichova (a)* *Corresponding author (a) University of Hradec Kralove, Faculty of Education, Rokitanskeho 62, 50003 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, [email protected] Abstract The article presents the results in which university students – majoring in teaching German as FL – expressed their ability, viewpoint and experience with using contemporary German literature to understand the life in East Germany as a part of history of the 20st century. The research was carried out in the winter term 2016 and 2017 on the basis of the following books, all awarded / nominated for the German Book Prize: Eugen Ruge’s (2011) In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts (In Times of Fading Light); Lutz Seiler’s (2014) Kruso; Uwe Tellkamp’s (2008) Der Turm (The Tower) and Angelika Klüssendorf’s (2011) Das Mädchen (The Girl). The aim of my literary course was, firstly, to provide the skills to read literature as a resource for understanding life and historical change, how other people experience emotional issues, and secondly, to give students an outline of the life in East Germany, to see the parallels with other countries in the Eastern Bloc and to stimulate students’ interest in the history of other countries in the Eastern Bloc. Thirdly, the aim was to use the texts as a stimulus to practice writing and speaking in discussions. Last but not least, to present how a teacher can enrich the foreign language lessons with literary text because the future teachers should not neglect the possibility of using literature in FLT. -
Books from Germany
Before the Festival BOOKS Literature in German: Highlights from 2014 FROM Vor dem Fest Höhepunkte deutschsprachiger GERMANY Literatur 2014 * Curated by Denis Scheck www.book-fair.com #fbm15 b blog.buchmesse.de In 2015, Germany celebrates the first Thanks to the generous funding by the Federal 25 years since Reunification. Foreign Office this book collection will be on Our cover shows young people in show on German collective stands at many book March 1990, climbing on the remains fairs worldwide in 2015. of the Berlin Wall. Wir danken dem Auswärtigen Amt für die 2015 feiert Deutschland 25 Jahre großzügige Unterstützung, dank derer diese Buch Wiedervereinigung. kollektion 2015 an deutschen Gemeinschafts Unser Covermotiv zeigt Jugendliche ständen auf vielen Buchmessen weltweit zu sehen auf den Resten der Berliner Mauer sein wird. am Brandenburger Tor, aufgenommen im März 1990. Our special thanks go to Denis Scheck who, as curator of this year’s collection, chose the titles and wrote the reviews. Besonderer Dank gilt Denis Scheck, der als Kurator in diesem Jahr die Titelauswahl und das Verfassen der Rezensionen übernommen hat. Contents Inhalt Foreword Vorwort 5 On Books and Drivel 8 Über Bücher und Blödsinn Denis Scheck Book Collection Buchkollektion 11 Selected Books from A to Z Ausgewählte Bücher von A bis Z 22 Longlist dbp 2014 (German Book Prize) Appendix Anhang 45 Index of Publishers Verlagsverzeichnis 47 Picture Credits Bildnachweise 48 Imprint Impresssum On Books and Drivel During the Frankfurt Book Fair recently, I was sitting in a car with a highly successful German writer. She said to me that writers have bigger souls than other people, which is why writers experience things more profoundly, and why they suffer more – more than normal readers, and especially more than literary critics. -
Veränderte Landschaft: East German Nature Poetry Since Reunification
Veränderte Landschaft: East German Nature Poetry Since Reunification Axel Goodbody, Bath ISSN 1470 – 9570 Veränderte Landschaft 103 Veränderte Landschaft. East German Nature Poetry since Reunification Axel Goodbody, Bath This paper asks what has become of the distinctive tradition of GDR landscape poetry since reunification. It examines the representation of the physical changes which have come over the East German landscape in the work of older and younger poets, and considers the extent to which they provide objective correlatives for the socio-political and cultural changes experienced since 1989. The role played by landscape poetry in identity construction is also discussed. The past, travel and Heimat are themes associated with a new critical regionalism in the new Länder founded on personal and collective, local and East German experience. The principal focus is on the poems of Volker Braun, Heinz Czechowski, Wulf Kirsten and Thomas Rosenlöcher, but reference is also made to texts by younger contemporaries such as Kurt Drawert, Durs Grünbein and Michael Wüstefeld. 1. The Landscape Poem as a genre articulating responses to social transformation ‘Veränderte Landschaft’ was the title of an anthology of GDR landscape poetry published by the Insel Verlag in 1979. Its editor, Wulf Kirsten, paid tribute to his former teacher at the Johannes R Becher Literature Institute in Leipzig, Georg Maurer, by opening the volume with Maurer’s poem ‘Veränderte Landschaft’, which expressed the feeling of a new beginning at the end of the Second World War, and adopting the phrase to denote a poetic programme celebrating the transformation of society in the GDR under socialism. -
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Program of the Thirtieth Annual Conference German Studies Association September 28 – October 1, 2006 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Hilton Pittsburgh German Studies Association Main Office: 1200 Academy Street Kalamazoo, MI 49006-3295 USA Tel.: (269) 337-7364 Fax: (269) 337-7251 www.thegsa.org e-mail: [email protected] Technical Support: [email protected] Officers: President: Katherine Roper (St. Mary’s College), 2005-06 Vice President: Sara Lennox (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst), 2005-06 Secretary-Treasurer: Gerald A. Fetz (University of Montana), 2005-08 Executive Director: David E. Barclay (Kalamazoo College) Executive Committee: Volker Berghahn (Columbia University), 2006 Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon University), 2007 Gary Cohen (University of Minnesota) 2007 Carol Anne Costabile-Heming (Southwest Missouri State Univ.), 2008 Sabine Hake (University of Texas at Austin), 2006 Mary Hampton (Air Command and Staff College), 2007 Dagmar Herzog (Graduate Center, City University of New York), 2008 Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University), 2007 Patricia Herminghouse (University of Rochester), 2006 ex officio non-voting Diethelm Prowe (Carleton College), ex officio non-voting Institutional Patrons Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsinstitut U.S. Liaison Office Potsdam American Institute of Contemporary Nanovic Institute for European Studies at German Studies the University of Notre Dame Austrian Cultural Institute Northern Arizona University Austrian Fulbright Commission United States Holocaust Memorial -
Schleswig-Holsteinischer Landtag Umdruck 18/4670
1. 1 kapitel Bericht über programmliche Leistungen und Perspektiven des nationalen Hörfunks 2014 – 2016 1. 3 kapitel Bericht über programmliche Leistungen und Perspektiven des nationalen Hörfunks Impressum Herausgeber: Deutschlandradio, Körperschaft öffentlichen Rechts Raderberggürtel 40 50968 Köln www.deutschlandradio.de Redaktion: Dr. Helmut Buchholz, Dr. Sebastian Engelbrecht Inhaltsverzeichnis 5 inhalt Vorwort ................................................... 7 1. Information und Kultur – der Auftrag von Deutschlandradio ..........12 2. Der Hörer als Adressat der Programmgestaltung . 14 3. Deutschlandradio als Radio der Länder . 15 4. Deutschlandradio als Radio für Deutschland in Europa ..............16 5. Umfassende Berichterstattung über das Weltgeschehen . 18 6. Deutschlandradio als Quelle kompetenter Fachinformation...........19 7. Bildung als Schwerpunktthema................................. 21 8. Schwerpunktsendungen zu Kulturthemen ........................ 23 9. Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte................................. 25 10. Weltanschauliche Orientierung und interreligiöser Dialog . 27 11. Deutschlandradio als Kulturproduzent und -vermittler.............. 29 12. Deutschlandradio als Förderer und Spiegel des Musiklebens..........31 13. Eigenproduktionen . 33 14. Integrationsprogramm für alle Generationen . 34 15. Förderung des journalistischen und künstlerischen Nachwuchses . 35 16. Die Online-Angebote von Deutschlandradio . 37 17. Deutschlandradio als Kooperationspartner . 38 18. Deutschlandradio als Partner von ARD -
Von Dem Trauma Des Anderen Und Der Sehnsucht Nach Behausung in Lutz Seilers Roman Kruso (2014)
Arcadia 2017; 52(2): 320–345 Sophie Wennerscheid Von dem Trauma des anderen und der Sehnsucht nach Behausung in Lutz Seilers Roman Kruso (2014) https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2017-0036 Abstract: Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s concept of the ‘body not at home’ on the one hand and on the concept of the disturbing ‘foreign body’ (Fremdkörper) as deploy- ed in various trauma studies on the other, this article explores how the traumatized body is to be understood as a disoriented and unstable body. Trauma, however, is not only something that leaves one restless. It also connects one with the trauma of another and leads to mutual understanding. Having been affected by the wound of another, a certain kind of communication among the wounded emerges, which makes traumatic memory accessible. How such an affective impact may look can be shown by examining Lutz Seiler’s award-winning novel Kruso (2014). Set on the isle of Hiddensee shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Seiler tells the story of two men, Kruso and Ed, both traumatized by the loss of a loved one. As both are East German castaways and equally affected by their loss, they develop an intimate relationship, one not void of suppressed desire, mistrust, and aggression. Only years after Kruso’s death is Ed able to come to terms with the past and find a place for burying the vanished dead. Keywords: trauma, body, affection, suppressed desire, fall of the Berlin Wall Lutz Seilers 2014 erschienener und im gleichen Jahr mit dem Deutschen Buchpreis ausgezeichneter Roman Kruso erzählt von verunsicherten, zerschlagenen, ge- flüchteten und ertrunkenen Körpern. -
The Enduring Legacy of GDR Literature and Culture: an Introduction
The Enduring Legacy of GDR Literature and Culture: An Introduction Jean E. Conacher, Deirdre Byrnes and Gisela Holfter Since the tumultuous events of 1989/1990, writers, film-makers and academics have responded to, reconstructed and reflected upon the process and impact of German reunification. Each milestone anniversary has generated a wave of new publications, thereby demonstrating an ongoing fascination with, and evolving interpretations of, the literary and cultural legacies of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) within a united Germany. In the years which have elapsed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, certain broad narratives of events have been established within general discourse, while access to unpublished materials and personal accounts has increasingly allowed a rich cultural landscape to be explored, both on its own terms and as an important foundation to our deeper understanding of contemporary German society. As early as 1990, Günter de Bruyn had warned against making the type of sweeping statements which risk downplaying the extent of different experiences and thought processes; instead, he pleaded for a nuanced engagement with difference, for open discussion and space for contradictory reactions and emotions.1 Such calls have all too often been disregarded. Bringing together academic articles and interviews from a wide range of backgrounds and voices, this volume, therefore, seeks to enrich current literary and cultural debates in multiple ways: the different contributions enhance our understanding of artistic responses in different genres, inform our reading and re-reading of literary reconstructions of pre- and post-Wende events, and combine in-depth reflection on literary expressions and nuanced critique of, and engagement with, past and present cultural and societal developments. -
Moments of Rupture
Moments of Rupture: Narratological Readings of Contemporary German Literature Olivia Albiero A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Washington 2016 Reading Committee: Brigitte Prutti, Chair Richard T. Gray Sabine Wilke Susan L. Gaylard Program Authorized to Offer Degree: Germanics ©Copyright 2016 Olivia Albiero University of Washington Abstract Moments of Rupture: Narratological Readings of Contemporary German Literature Olivia Albiero Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Brigitte Prutti Germanics “Moments of Rupture: Narratological Readings of Contemporary German Literature” explores the representation of disruptive moments in contemporary German novels using a narratological framework of analysis. Joining the larger conversation on narrative practices in contemporary German literature, the dissertation focuses on key questions of literary form, narration and storytelling in four major novels published at the beginning of the twenty-first century: Christoph Ransmayr’s Der fliegende Berg (2006), Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Sand (2011), Lutz Seiler’s Kruso (2014) and Saša Stanišić’s Vor dem Fest (2014). The project investigates the use of narrative elements to relate, mend and overcome moments of personal, hermeneutical, political and social rupture. By drawing on influential works of narratology, from Aristotle’s early narratology to pertinent contemporary theories (e.g. Bakhtin, Brooks, Fludernik, Genette, Phelan), my study shows how narratives shape and are in turn shaped by the ruptures they describe. Chapters are organized around key narrative categories, which serve to explore one literary text. The opening chapter discusses the significance of time and space in Der fliegende Berg. It shows how a moment of personal rupture is reflected in the transitions between physical, virtual and mythological times and spaces, and in the encounters that characterize them. -
Memory in Contemporary German Prose by Jenny Erpenbeck and Judith Schalansky
Memory in Contemporary German Prose by Jenny Erpenbeck and Judith Schalansky by Ariana Orozco A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Germanic Languages and Literatures) in the University of Michigan 2016 Doctoral Committee: Associate Professor Kerstin Barndt, Chair Assistant Professor Kristin Dickinson Professor Julia Hell Professor Johannes von Moltke © Ariana Orozco 2016 To Jamie my love, my light ii Acknowledgments This dissertation is the culmination of years of hard work, which would not have been possible without the generous support of countless individuals and institutions. I am grateful to my committee, which has steadfastly accompanied me on this journey. Thank you Kerstin Barndt for reading multiple drafts of all of my work, for your challenging questions, and your care and support. Thank you Johannes von Moltke for encouraging me to think deeply about genre, form, and media. Thank you Julia Hell for never letting the German Democratic Republic rest. Thank you Kristin Dickinson for joining me in the last year of this journey. I could not have written this dissertation without the generous funding from the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Rackham Merit Fellowship, and the Sweetland Writing Institute at the University of Michigan. I also received support from the Social Sciences Research Council-Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives and the Fulbright Commission, through which I spent one year as an English TA in the small town of Johanngeorgenstadt in Saxony. I began this journey on a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellowship and am indebted to the advice and mentorship I received from Helga Druxes, Gail Newman, and Molly Magavern at Williams College. -
Lutz Seiler Short Biography
Lutz Seiler short biography Lutz Seiler (born in 1963) grew up in East Turingia. His home village of Culmitzsch was demolished for uranium mining in 1968. Afer training as a skilled building construction worker in Gera, he then worked as a carpenter and bricklayer. During his national service, he began to take an interest in literature and to write himself. Up to the start of 1990, he studied History and German Studies at Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale). In 1990, he went to Berlin where he worked for a few years as a waiter. Extended stays abroad in Rome, Los Angeles and Paris. Since 1997, he has been the director of the literary programme at Peter Huchel House near Potsdam. He is also a freelance writer and lives with his wife in Wilhelmshorst and Stockholm. From 1993 to 1998, Seiler was the co-founder and co-editor of the literary journal moosbrand. He initially wrote mainly poems (publishing four poetry collections) and essays, later also short stories and novels. In 2007, he won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for the short story Turksib. In 2014, he won the German Book Prize for his $rst novel Kruso, which has been translated into 25 languages, adapted several times for the stage and $lmed by UFA. Lutz Seiler has been awarded the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2020 for his new novel Star 111. Awards • 1999 Kranichstein Literature Prize • 2000 Meran Poetry Prize • 2000 Dresden Poetry Prize • 2002 Anna Seghers Prize • 2003 Ernst Meister Prize • 2003 Villa Aurora grant, Los Angeles • 2004 Bremen Literature Prize • 2005 SWR Best