MAX KADE CENTER

FOR GERMAN-AMERICAN

STUDIES

MAY 2002

Anniversary Celebrated

At a reception on February 13, in the humanities. At present, the fessor Toni Burzle described that re-

we celebrated the tenth anniversary Sudler House is in the midst of its sec- lationship on the occasion of the do- of the Max Kade Center’s move to ond major renovation. With another nation of Max Kade’s personal col- the Sudler House and lection of graphic art welcomed our Max Kade to the Spencer Art Distinguished Visiting Pro- Museum in 1970: fessor, Ulrich Gaier of the “Our relationship be- University of Konstanz. gan in the fall of 1949 We also took this occa- when my wife and I sion to present the new first visited Dr. Kade brochure for the Center. in his office in New The Sudler House, York, asking for and built in 1929 for Dr. receiving aid for our Mervin T. Sudler, dean of first exchange schol- the School of Medicine in arships to Germany

the 1920s, was left to the . . . . The formula for University. Since then it Pertussin, the cough has served as home to remedy, had brought several University offices him fame and fortune, including the KU Endow- and had enabled him ment Association, Archi- Professor William Keel introduces Max Kade Visting Professor Ulrich Gaier to assemble one of tectural Services (now the finest private col- Design and Construction lections of graphic Management) and Audio Reader. generous grant from the Max Kade arts in the world. Our friendship was With a grant of nearly a quarter of a Foundation and additional assistance maintained through the years. He million dollars from the Max Kade from the College and the Office of helped us establish the Max Kade Foundation, the Sudler House was the Provost, we are replacing the heat- Distinguished Professorship; he aided completely renovated in 1990–1992 to ing and cooling systems and prepar- the KU junior year abroad in Germany; house both the facilities connected ing the entire basement area for use he donated funds for the annual Max with the Max Kade Center and an by the Center. We anticipate that this Kade Lectures; and through his foun- apartment for our visiting Max Kade project will be completed by the end dation helped establish the Max Kade professors. The visiting professor’s of the summer. German-American Document and apartment fulfills one of the specific Support from the Max Kade Manuscript Center [in 1968].” desires of Dr. Sudler that his home Foundation for German Studies at KU In December 1968, the Max be used to house visiting professors has a history of over fifty years. Pro- Kade Foundation provided the initial

Newsletter of the Max Kade Center Editor: Frank Baron; e-mail: [email protected] Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 Telephone: (785) 864-4803; Fax: (785) 864-4298 At long last, the University admin- sertation on the poetics of Hölderlin. grant to establish the Center, which, as Toni Burzle described it, was in- istration found a happy solution: If we His habilitation project in 1966 dealt tended to preserve invaluable research could persuade the Max Kade Foun- with Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff. materials regarding the large commu- dation to provide the money needed Professor Gaier has held teaching nities of German-Americans in the to renovate the Sudler House and in- appointments at the University Col- Midwest and their cultural influence clude an apartment for the Max Kade lege of Swansea, Wales; the Univer- in the U.S. The Center was to be Professor, we would be able to use sity of California at Davis, where he codirected by Professor Erich the building for an expanded Center. taught from 1963 to 1967 and ad- Albrecht. Its purpose was to collect Under the direction of Helmut vanced from assistant to associate and catalogue those materials, foster Huelsbergen, plans were made for the professor, and at the University of new construction and the funds ob- Konstanz, where he served as full research by graduate students and tained from the Foundation. On April professor until his retirement in 2000. faculty, publish scholarly works based on the collection, and organize sym- 30, 1992, the new facilities of the Prof. Gaier has held guest pro- posia in German-American studies. Center in the Sudler House were dedi- fessorships in Texas, Italy, Switzer- Nearly 35 years later, we can re- cated, in conjunction with the annual land and Romania. His list of publica- port that Toni Burzle’s dream has been symposium of the Society for Ger- tions includes eighteen books on Ger- realized—although the task is not by man-American Studies held at KU man authors ranging from Sebastian any means finished. After first being that spring. We now look forward to Brant to Goethe to Droste-Hülshoff; housed in Spencer Research Library, utilizing the added space of the entire on satire, and on literary theory. His the Max Kade collection was moved basement for the Center’s activities. nearly 100 published articles span the to Watson Library, where two rooms The apartment was first occupied entirety of German literary history by our Max Kade Professor, August from the Middle Ages to the twenti- were provided. When Watson Library Stahl of the University of the Saarland, eth century. Finally, his ten edited vol- was renovated some twenty years ago, the collection was placed in stor- in spring 1992. We are very pleased umes include a Festschrift for age in various locations. Throughout to welcome to our campus, the cur- Freidrich Beissner, his predecessor in the 1980s we implored the adminis- rent head of the Sudler “household,” the Max Kade Professorship in 1970. tration to find a suitable facility for the Prof. Ulrich Gaier of the University In accordance with the long-standing collection and the work of the Cen- of Konstanz. tradition, Professor Gaier presented ter, which by that time included the Prof. Gaier, a native of Stuttgart, a public lecture. He spoke on “Goethe, publication of the Yearbook of Ger- studied German, English, and French Renaissance Art, and the Vision of a man-American Studies edited by languages and literature at the univer- Faust Film.” Toni, Helmut Huelsbergen, and Bill sities of Tübingen and Paris. He was — William Keel Keel. awarded the Ph.D. in 1962 with a dis-

Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Featured in Anniversary Celebration

In the context of its ten-year nia, the Manistee (Michigan) Sym- young pianist will have a successful anniversary and the occasion of the phony, and the North Arkansas Sym- performance career: “There are many Max Kade Center’s annual advisory phony. talented people, but talent by itself is board meeting, the Max Kade Cen- Ms. Hadley has also performed really meaningless without hard work. ter will sponsor a concert of piano in the Kennedy Center in Washing- And Melanie Hadley has a combina- music performed by Melanie Hadley, ton, D.C., where she received the tion of talent and hard work.” a student at the University of Kan- Presidential Scholars Medallion. Most sas. recently, she was named Young Art- The program on Saturday, May As a soloist, Ms. Hadley has ist of the Year by the St. Louis Arts 11, at 8:00 p.m. at the Spencer toured Russia, performing with the and Education Council. She has won Museum of Art will include Kapella Orchestra in St. Petersburg, prizes in numerous competitions. Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in C- and with the Samara Philharmonic She won first prize in the St. Louis Sharp Minor, Well-Tempered in Samara. She also gave recitals at Regional Competition of the National Clavier, vol. I, Beethoven’s So- the Glinka Museum and the Society of Arts and Letters and will nata in F Minor, Op. 57, and the Tchaikovsky College Conservatory Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5 advance to the national competition in Moscow. She has also appeared by Johannes Brahms. The in Florida on May 15. Professor Jack with the Saint Louis Symphony Or- concert is free and open to the Winerock, who has been Ms. chestra, the Kansas City Philharmo- Hadley’s mentor, is confident that the public. 2 Art and Literature at the Max Kade Center

With a selection of paintings and drawings made avail- Nightmare [Walpurgisnacht], 1937; 6. Burial of Faust, able by Anna Bloch, Robert Sudlow, and Frank Baron, it 1939; 7. Faust I (Brocken), 1942; 8. Faust bei den was possible to combine the anni- Müttern, 1942; 9. Holy Moun- versary celebration with an exhibi- tain, 1942; 10. Faust: The End, tion of Albert Bloch’s Faust Vi- 1942; 11. Chorus Mysticus. Faust

sions. The works by an artist who II, Final Vision, 1944; 12. Dawn lived on Alabama Street, only a few (Faust II, Act 1), 1945; 13. Pro- steps away from the Max Kade logue in Heaven, 1947; 14. For building, reconstruct Bloch’s lifelong a Chorus Mysticus. Faust II, Fi- fascination with Goethe’s Faust. nal Vision, 1949; 15. Descent to

The earliest evidence of this inter- the Mother Phantoms, 1952. est is Bloch’s cover of 1908 for the The Max Kade Center has sup- St. Louis Mirror. As early as 1910 ported research on Bloch’s life and Bloch worked in Munich and be- works. The most recent results of came involved with the Blue Rider these efforts have been the artists, especially Kandinsky and completion of monographs. Elke Marc. His caricatures included por- Lorenz’s study of Bloch’s corre-

trayals of Mephisto and the theme spondence with Sidonie Nádherný of the devil’s attempts to derail Faust von Borutin will appear with

in his quest for salvation. The exhi- Iudicium Verlag in Germany. bition included the following works: Werner Mohr’s book on Bloch’s Masked Figure, Mephisto, 1910 1. Mephisto, 1908 (copy); 2. relationship to Karl Kraus is sched- Masked Figure, Mephisto, 1910; 3. The Death of uled to be published by the end of the summer by Ariadne

Faust, 1920; 4. Philemon and Baucis, 1930; 5. The Press in California.

Henry D. Remple, From Bolshevik Russia to America:

A Mennonite Family Story

In his recent book, Lawrence psy- on the coast of the Black Sea. Within founder and first president of the col-

chologist Dr. Henry D. Remple three months, while he lay in a coma, lege. In 1936 they married and even- Remple lost his mother and six sib- tually had a daughter and a son. A chronicled events that affected sev- eral hundred German-speaking Men- lings. Shortly after he emerged from warm, engaging person who recog- nonites in Russia and Ukraine. World the hospital, he lost his father, too. He nized the importance of life history, War I had brought about anti-German was not quite 14 years old. Mariana inspired Remple to write his sentiment and concomitant persecu- In spite of further hardships and story. tion. Then came the Revolution and with an uncertain future, the author, In World War II, Remple served civil war, anarchy and terror, drought along with his sisters Agatha and his new country as a captain in the and famine, loss of freedom, loss of Agnes, then 19 and 16, respectively, army. Afterwards he earned a Ph.D. eventually arrived, thanks to the Men- from KU and worked as chief psy- possessions, forced migration, lice, fleas, rats, worms, typhus, malaria, nonite Central Committee, in Ne- chologist at the Veterans Administra-

and starvation. At the same time, love, braska, where they were sent to live tion in Topeka. He also maintained a

hope, help, determination, strength, and with three different families. Despite private practice and continued to vol-

triumph over pain and adversity were distance and difficulties, the three re- unteer on professional boards and in

evident. mained close and persevered. They community activities, such as scout- Born in 1908 into a prosperous, learned a new language, adapted to a ing. Remple’s book, published by Pine

close family with nine siblings, new culture, pursued educational Hill Press in Sioux Falls, South Da- Remple described his childhood as goals, launched careers, married, and kota, is available at the Raven Book- happy but short. In 1922 his family raised families. store and by e-mail (loringmcallister decided to emigrate to the United Remple attended Tabor College @earthlink.net). States. Having lost one child earlier, in Hillsboro, Kansas, where he met — Betty Baron the eleven Rempels arrived in Batum Mariana Lohrenz, daughter of the

3 Wolfgang Born and Thomas Mann It is well known that when he described the physical visual terms. They also provide clear evidence how much features of Gustav Aschenbach in Death in Venice Tho- Thomas Mann appreciated the effort. Ms. Koenigsberger mas Mann had in mind the composer Gustav Mahler. Less has generously decided to donate this unique artifact of well known is how he understood this relationship and literary history to the Max Kade Center. how he revealed it. Mann lifted his veil of secrecy for the Born and Mann shared the exile experience in the first time in a letter that accompanied the publication of a United States, and they kept in touch through occasional series of colored lithographs for the novella. In that letter correspondence. When Mann lectured in New York in Mann wrote to Wolfgang Born (1893–1949), creator of 1947, Born, who was in the audience, prepared an infor- the lithographs: mal sketch of him. A forthcoming publication about Mann’s

I gave my hero . . . not only the first name of the great musician, but also in his physical descrip- tion, Mahler’s visage. Still, I wanted to be certain that in the case of such a casual and hidden cor- relation one would not be able to talk at all about recognition on the part of the readership. Even in your case, as the illustrator, no one spoke about it. For you neither knew Mahler personally, nor had I confided anything about that secret personal correlation to you. Nevertheless—and this is what startled me at first sight—Aschenbach’s head portrayed in your picture unmistakably manifests the Mahler type. (Quoted from Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, trans. and ed. by Clayton Koelb [New York: Norton, 1994], p. 99)

Renate Koenigsberger, daughter of the artist, resides in Der Tod, Lithograph by Wolfgang Born London and has kept a record of her father’s relationship to Thomas Mann, whom Born greatly admired. Ms. Koenigsberger has preserved a valuable set of the trial Death in Venice will include a number of contributions prints of the lithographs. They are valuable because they by University of Kansas scholars, as well as the com- represent an artist’s attempt to interpret the novella in plete set of Born’s nine lithographs.

The Franz Werfel Collection

For the last several years the Max Kade Center has Werfel, and his wife, Alma Mahler Werfel. As a young been the beneficiary of Professor John Spalek’s exile man, Werfel belonged to a circle of writers in Prague, collection. The recent focus of these acquisitions has been where he became acquainted with Kafka and Rilke. He on three authors: Lion Feuchtwanger, Ernst Toller, and first made a name for himself through his poetry. The Franz Werfel. By far, the most extensive collection is that Forty Days of Musa Dagh, his epic about the massive of Werfel, and because of its comprehensiveness and killing of Armenians in 1914, became popular throughout completeness in editions and translations, it may be con- the world. After his exile from Nazi Germany, he became sidered the best of its kind. A number of volumes are famous in the United States through the Song of personally signed by the author. The Center was able to Bernadette and Jacobowsky and the Colonel, both of supplement the collection with original letters by Franz which were made into successful films.

4 Life and Works

1890 Born in Prague on September 10. 1894–1908 Attends private schools. 1909 Friendship with Max Brod and Franz Kafka. 1913 Meeting with Rilke. Dispute with Karl Kraus. 1916 Military service. Werfel’s first play is performed. 1919 Moves to Vienna. 1924 Novel about the composer Giuseppe Verdi. 1933 The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (in German). 1935–1936 New York. Work with Max Reinhardt and Kurt Weill. 1938 Germany occupies Austria. Werfel flees to the Southern coast of France. 1940 Flight over the Pyrrenees. Travel to the United States. 1941 The Song of Bernadette. 1942 Moves to Califorinia. 1944 Exile comedy, Jacobowsky and the Colonel. 1945 Death in Beverly Hills.

Franz Werfel, drawing by Wolfgang Born, 1928

The Sixth Annual Graduate Students’

Conference in German Studies

Organized by Thorsten Farbenlehre,” Catrin Huth and fellow graduate Schulz: “’Du hast kein students, this year’s confer- Recht, über meine Liebe ence took place on April 12 und meine Ehre zu and 13. Featured speakers bestimmen,’ Louise were two distinguished vis- Aston,” Helmut Tweer: iting professors: Professor “Block County: Eine kleine Ulrich Gaier of the Univer- Ortsgrammatik,” Doris sity of Konstanz, who Dippold: “Language Main- spoke on “Literarische tenance and Language Hieroglyphen und Collage. Shift in German Church Wanderpicturae in mittel- Congregations in Cole alterlicher Literatur” and County, Missouri,” Mi- Professor Jeong-Jun Lee of chael Putnam: “The Mono-

Sung Kyun Kwan Univer- Catrin Schultz responding to questions phthongization in Pennsyl- sity in Seoul, Korea, who vanian German,” and Mat- discussed “Interessen und thew Lindaman: “Heimat

Ziele eines ausländischen Frau’ in Weimar College,” John in the Heartland: Meaning and Iden-

Germanisten.” University of Kansas Littlejohn: “God is an Old Woman: Die tity of a German Language Newspa-

graduate student presentations were Alte in Tieck’s Der Blonde Eckbert,” per, 1882–1972.” The conference

by Rachel Buller: “New Women, Nina Sakun: “Metaphors of Genera- concluded with dinner at the Free

New Media: Critiques of the ‘neue tion and Reproduction in Goethe’s State Brewery. 5

Forthcoming Call for Papers Conference to Feature Peter Gay International Conference on Exile Studies

jointly organized by Peter Gay, Emeritus Sterling Pro- fessor of History at Yale University The Max Kade Center of the University of Kansas and director of the Center for Schol- ars and Writers at the New York Pub- and lic Library, is well-known for wide range of books that address a variety The North American Society for Exile Studies of issues from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics of his books include the Enlightenment, Mozart, September 4–7, 2003 Puritan Historians in Colonial America, Voltaire, Marx, Arthur Conference topic: Schnitzler’s Vienna, and Weimar Cul- ture. Gay has written several books The Alchemy of Exile: Creative Responses to on Sigmund Freud. In his recent book, Expulsion from Nazi-Dominated Europe My German Question, Gay de- scribes his youth in Berlin. The trans- The focus of the conference presentations should be on the lation (Meine deutsche Frage) re- ceived acclaim in Germany: “This points at which significant reorientations occur in the lives and works of the exiles. The organizers of the conference, Helga memoir is worthy of attention because Schreckenberger, Guy Stern, and Frank Baron, believe that many it broadens our view of what Jewish citizens experienced in the early pe- exiles were able to emerge from the tragic circumstances of their riod of the Third Reich. It does so dislocation by reinventing their personae and subsequently making without being pretentious, and for that major contributions in diverse disciplines, such as literature, art, reason all the more effectively. It music, and the sciences. The featured speaker for the Thursday shows us again what harm the Nazi evening program will be Peter Gay. Because the Max Kade Center dictatorship caused for all of us. The has acquired the outstanding Franz Werfel collection of John Spalek, author deserves high praise for avoid- we will devote a special session to Werfel’s life and work. ing any kind of euphemistic or deroga- tory cliché and for refusing to engage Proposals: Please send abstracts (100–200 words) before January in accusations or self-pity.” (Hartmut 31, 2003, to Frank Baron, Department of Germanic Languages Jäckel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). Peter Gay will appear in and Literatures, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045. Tel. the Hall Center’s Humanities Lecture (785) 864-4803; fax (785) 864-4298. E-mail: [email protected]. Series in September 2003. His visit to the KU campus has been timed to make it possible for the Exile Confer- ence to take advantage of his lecture.

The Max Kade Center, the College News in Brief of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and a number of departments (History, Eu- Despite storm and cold weather, the The Max Kade Center has received ropean Studies, Western Civilization), Schülerkongress in March brought donations of books from two librar- as well as the Midwest Center for together over fifteen high schools from ies: one collection from the family of Holocaust Studies are also contribut- diverse parts of Kansas. Students Fred Julius Ehlers (1893–1973) of ing to make Gay’s visit possible. recited poetry and prose, while faculty Concordia, Missouri, containing books and graduate teaching assistants of of Lutheran theology and history, and the University of Kansas served as the other, from Peter Merrill, presently judges. The top competitors received retired in Florida, who collected books awards. about Pennsylvania German.

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A number of University of Kansas furt, where he worked closely with a talk at the Max Kade Center on

students and professors participated Jürgen Habermas. He also worked in “Learning from the Texts: American

in the annual symposium of the Soci- Tübingen, and Berlin. Professor Weiss German Textbooks to 1970.” She de- ety for German-American Studies, will be conducting research at the scribed the extensive text book col- which took place on April 18–21, 2002 Max Kade Center from May 30 until lection at the University of Wisconsin in Amana, Iowa. Doris Dippold, July 21. that allowed her to identify certain Thorsten Huth, Michael Putnam, trends in German instruction in a pe- Catrin Schultz, Scott Seeger, and Heide Crawford, presently at Ball riod that covered more than a hun- Helmut Tweer presented papers. State University in Muncie, Indiana, dred years.

Professors Ulrich Gaier, William will be joining the German Depart-

Keel, and Frank Baron also partici- ment faculty in the fall of 2003. Her The Max Kade dissertation fellowship

pated as speakers and moderators. areas of teaching and research are awards for 2002–2003 went to Jan

primarily eighteenth- and nineteenth- Ancker, (“The Treatment of Vio- Our visiting scholar at the Max Kade century German literature and culture. lence in Three Post-1970 Novels”), Center this summer will be Professor Crawford has published and given lec- Glenn Hudspeth (“Computer-As- Janos Weiss of the University of tures on Goethe, Brentano, and Tho- sisted Instruction in Second Language Pécs in Hungary. Professor Weiss mas Mann. Her dissertation is on “The Acquisition”), Lisa Mays (“Menno- has a strong background in nineteenth- Vampire Theme in German Horror nite Plautdietsch Language and So- and twentieth-century German phi- Ballads since the Eighteenth Cen- ciety in Southwestern Kansas and

losophy and has published several tury.” Mexico,” and Jens Rathjen, (“Der

books about German Romanticism einsame Kampf gegen den Sieg der

and the Frankfurt School. He has Dummheit: Thomas Bernhards

spent a number of years conducting On March 6, Professor Cora Lee Geistesmenschen”). research at the University of Frank- Kluge, University of Wisconsin, gave

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7 Two M.A. theses were completed on this and other similar periodicals. a number of talks on German-Ameri- during the Spring Semester: Doris In July he will be presenting one of can topics during the past year: He Dippold (“Spracherhalt und these papers at the University of reported on current research on Low Sprachwechsel bei deutschen Hamburg and in December another German speech islands in the Midwest Kirchengemeinden in Cole County, at the Modern Language Association at four locations in Schleswig-Hol- Missouri”) and Michael Putnam meeting in New York. stein in summer 2002 and at the 4th (“Case Syncretism in Ohio Pennsyl- Low German Conference held at vania German: Internal Development Last November KU Professor Grand Island, Nebraska, last October. or External Influence”). Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm pre- He also made presentations on the sented a paper on “The Preference impact of World War I on the Ger- KU Professor Arne Koch gave a Format of Offers and Pragmatic In- man-American community in Hays presentation in April 2002 in Fairfax, terference in Native-Nonnative and Kansas City. The participation of Virginia, at the Interdisciplinary Nine- Speaker Interaction” at the National German-Americans in the American teenth-Century Studies Conference. Communication Association in At- Civil War was the focus of talks in Entitled “Ethnographic Vistas of Nine- lanta. Later in May she will be pre- Humboldt and Topeka. Under the teenth-Century Popular Magazines: senting another paper at the Interna- auspices of the Kansas Humanities Imagining Germany beyond Its Bor- tional Conference on Conversation Council, Keel gave talks on German ders,” the paper focused on a num- Analysis in Copenhagen. dialects in Kansas and the German ber of examples of the “Land und heritage of Kansas in Independence, Leute” sections from the Garten- In addition to presenting a paper on Madison, Hutchinson, Larned, laube between 1864 and 1876. Pro- the origins of the popular German- Garnett, Moundridge and Dodge City. fessor Koch has found it useful to American folksong O du schöne And with Werner Mohr, he spoke on have such rare journals as Schnitzelbank at the symposium of Albert Bloch, the American Blauer Gartenlaube available at the Max the Society for German-American Reiter, in Holzkirchen last summer. Kade Center, and he is now prepar- Studies in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in ing two additional papers that draw May 2001, William Keel has given

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