is not a roman à clef, nor is it autobiographical, despite its references to people and events in Salomé’s life. It explores questions about maintaining relationships and exercising self-sufficiency that Salomé addresses in other texts. Spreitzer’s edition of the novel includes highly informative endnotes that clarify the characters, settings, and plot in relation to Salomé’s statements in her letters and essays, the people she knew, her other literary works, and the intellectual discourses that shaped her thought. The afterword expertly links the narrative to the rest of Salomé’s oeuvre by analyzing relevant passages from Salomé’s letters and essays. As Frank Beck and Raleigh Whitinger argue in their foreword, the narrative traces the ways that Annaliese undermines her conventional marriage by carving out a space of her own within it. Her prominence and “imaginative sensitivity” explain the choice of title (lvii). Beck and Whitinger’s translation offers a wealth of analysis and information about Salomé and the novel. This first translation into English should reach a wide, international readership. The translation is readable, thoroughly considered and researched, and could serve as a model for those interested in translation studies. Beck and Whitinger’s erudite introduction presents their translation philosophy, which includes bringing their readers to the foreign text by preserving elements of German language and culture (lviii–lix). Their extensive endnotes contribute an impressive amount of context and clarification to Salomé’s narrative. The serendipity of a new edition and a new translation of Das Haus, both beautifully edited and with complementary critical apparatuses, presents a welcome opportunity for delving into debates in the early twentieth century on such issues as marriage, gender, career, poetics, rationality, psychology, and religion, issues that Salomé explored in both fiction and essays. Her multi-perspectival consideration of conflicting desires for self-sufficiency and self-surrender in intimate relationships emerges through her representation of the two houses and the changing views of her characters. Spreitzer’s edition and Beck and Whitinger’s translation, read in tandem, offer fascinating insights into Salomé’s last novel and its social, psychological, and aesthetic context. Susan C. Anderson, University of Oregon
{"title":"Special Effects and German Silent Film: Techno-Romantic Cinema by Katharina Loew (review)","authors":"S. Lambert","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2022.0066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2022.0066","url":null,"abstract":"is not a roman à clef, nor is it autobiographical, despite its references to people and events in Salomé’s life. It explores questions about maintaining relationships and exercising self-sufficiency that Salomé addresses in other texts. Spreitzer’s edition of the novel includes highly informative endnotes that clarify the characters, settings, and plot in relation to Salomé’s statements in her letters and essays, the people she knew, her other literary works, and the intellectual discourses that shaped her thought. The afterword expertly links the narrative to the rest of Salomé’s oeuvre by analyzing relevant passages from Salomé’s letters and essays. As Frank Beck and Raleigh Whitinger argue in their foreword, the narrative traces the ways that Annaliese undermines her conventional marriage by carving out a space of her own within it. Her prominence and “imaginative sensitivity” explain the choice of title (lvii). Beck and Whitinger’s translation offers a wealth of analysis and information about Salomé and the novel. This first translation into English should reach a wide, international readership. The translation is readable, thoroughly considered and researched, and could serve as a model for those interested in translation studies. Beck and Whitinger’s erudite introduction presents their translation philosophy, which includes bringing their readers to the foreign text by preserving elements of German language and culture (lviii–lix). Their extensive endnotes contribute an impressive amount of context and clarification to Salomé’s narrative. The serendipity of a new edition and a new translation of Das Haus, both beautifully edited and with complementary critical apparatuses, presents a welcome opportunity for delving into debates in the early twentieth century on such issues as marriage, gender, career, poetics, rationality, psychology, and religion, issues that Salomé explored in both fiction and essays. Her multi-perspectival consideration of conflicting desires for self-sufficiency and self-surrender in intimate relationships emerges through her representation of the two houses and the changing views of her characters. Spreitzer’s edition and Beck and Whitinger’s translation, read in tandem, offer fascinating insights into Salomé’s last novel and its social, psychological, and aesthetic context. Susan C. Anderson, University of Oregon","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"587 - 589"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42604315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Right to Difference: Interculturality and Human Rights in Contemporary German Literature by Nicole Coleman (review)","authors":"Charlton Payne","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2022.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2022.0058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"604 - 606"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42892624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:Ulf Miehe was a singular figure in West German crime fiction. The dominant mode of the genre during this period was the so-called "Soziokrimi," i.e., crime fictions that aimed to analyze the fault lines and dislocations in society. Miehe produced narratives that pursued these questions, but he embedded this agenda in poetically sophisticated texts that engage with the conventions of the genre and reflect on the composition of the texts themselves. This article focuses on Miehe's three crime novels to chart his development as a writer and his attempt to sketch out a resolution to Germany's historical trauma.
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{"title":"Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders by Andrew Demshuk (review)","authors":"Karrin Hanshew","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2022.0068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2022.0068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"592 - 594"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49357750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
factor was travel. While women living in East Germany were constrained in their ability to travel, especially after 1961, those living in West Germany were able to indulge in international travel. To a large degree, Leask allows the women who contributed to the Rundbrief to drive the book’s content. Given that these women engaged in self-censorship, worried about the prying eyes of the Stasi, and were not all intimate friends, this reality means that, as readers, we can only discover what these women were comfortable sharing with the larger group. We are not privy to their most intimate thoughts and opinions. Moreover, it is not until the 1980s, when one member of the group reconnected with a Jewish classmate, that Leask introduces the topic of Schönbeck’s Jewish population during the Third Reich. He notes that, for the most part, “the Schönebeck women created a narrative where certain things could not be talked or written about,” including the Nazi past (297). These women’s silences about their Nazi past highlights one aspect of Leask’s methodology that could be clearer: the content of the interviews he conducted with some of these women and how and when they inform his analysis. He states that these interviews were “semi-structured, based on a set of questions I sought to ask all of them” (15). It would be helpful to know what these questions were, if he asked specifically about the Nazi era, and how these conversations influenced his reading of the Rundbrief. Friendship Without Borders is an engaging, highly readable, and deeply interesting book that will be of interest to historians of Modern Germany, women and gender history, and everyday life. Kara Ritzheimer, Oregon State University
{"title":"Vom Gast zum Gastwirt? Türkische Arbeitswelten in West-Berlin by Stefan Zeppenfeld (review)","authors":"Michelle Lynn Kahn","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2022.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2022.0057","url":null,"abstract":"factor was travel. While women living in East Germany were constrained in their ability to travel, especially after 1961, those living in West Germany were able to indulge in international travel. To a large degree, Leask allows the women who contributed to the Rundbrief to drive the book’s content. Given that these women engaged in self-censorship, worried about the prying eyes of the Stasi, and were not all intimate friends, this reality means that, as readers, we can only discover what these women were comfortable sharing with the larger group. We are not privy to their most intimate thoughts and opinions. Moreover, it is not until the 1980s, when one member of the group reconnected with a Jewish classmate, that Leask introduces the topic of Schönbeck’s Jewish population during the Third Reich. He notes that, for the most part, “the Schönebeck women created a narrative where certain things could not be talked or written about,” including the Nazi past (297). These women’s silences about their Nazi past highlights one aspect of Leask’s methodology that could be clearer: the content of the interviews he conducted with some of these women and how and when they inform his analysis. He states that these interviews were “semi-structured, based on a set of questions I sought to ask all of them” (15). It would be helpful to know what these questions were, if he asked specifically about the Nazi era, and how these conversations influenced his reading of the Rundbrief. Friendship Without Borders is an engaging, highly readable, and deeply interesting book that will be of interest to historians of Modern Germany, women and gender history, and everyday life. Kara Ritzheimer, Oregon State University","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"602 - 604"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47483849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"After the Imperialist Imagination: Two Decades of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies ed. by Sara Pugach, David Pizzo, and Adam A. Blackler (review)","authors":"K. Sieg","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2022.0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2022.0061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"611 - 613"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46818158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:Fritz Lang's 1931 film M intervenes in a historical moment rife with anxiety over able-bodiedness and eugenic fitness. By staging a confrontation with a killer whose madness is not outwardly apparent, the film exposes the system of visual distinctions through which the able-bodied assure themselves of their own normality. M's depiction of sensory disabilities, moreover, links the question of ability to the film's media-technological context. Lang's film explores how modernity's shifting economic, environmental, and technological conditions destabilize the regime of able-bodiedness, as well as how a society attempts to shore up that regime by forcing difference to become visible.
Fritz Lang 1931年的电影《M》介入了一个充满对身体健康和优生学的焦虑的历史时刻。通过与一个表面上看不出疯狂的杀手进行对抗，这部电影暴露了一种视觉区别系统，通过这种系统，健全的人可以确保自己的正常。此外，M对感官残疾的描述将能力问题与电影的媒体技术背景联系起来。郎的电影探讨了现代性不断变化的经济、环境和技术条件如何破坏有能力的政体，以及一个社会如何试图通过迫使差异变得明显来支撑这个政体。
{"title":"Marked Man: Fantasies of the Able Body in Fritz Lang's M","authors":"Paul Dobryden","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2022.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2022.0045","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Fritz Lang's 1931 film M intervenes in a historical moment rife with anxiety over able-bodiedness and eugenic fitness. By staging a confrontation with a killer whose madness is not outwardly apparent, the film exposes the system of visual distinctions through which the able-bodied assure themselves of their own normality. M's depiction of sensory disabilities, moreover, links the question of ability to the film's media-technological context. Lang's film explores how modernity's shifting economic, environmental, and technological conditions destabilize the regime of able-bodiedness, as well as how a society attempts to shore up that regime by forcing difference to become visible.","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"407 - 428"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41468499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
world historical trends than of individual decision making or ideological difference. Sebastian Ullrich’s contribution offers an overview of the historiographical interpretation of Weimar’s meaning in Bonn and to a lesser extent the Berlin Republic. As Ulrich shows, Weimar was a consistent specter of West German democracy, ultimately serving primarily as a negative foil, as seen in the oft-repeated “Bonn ist nicht Weimar.” Similarly, Frank Bösch considers the role of Weimar in the major parties of West Germany (FDP, SPD, CDU). He demonstrates how, during the 1950s, each invoked the fragmentation of Weimar politics and society as a means of distinguishing themselves from the Weimar era. Andreas Wirsching’s concluding essay on Weimar as political argument elaborates directly on themes of the previous two contributions and also covers new ground via a contrast of the role of Weimar for German chancellors Willy Brandt and Helmut Kohl. The volume reflects a broad spectrum of the political influence and impact of the Weimar Republic. The essays show how “Weimar”—as idea, past, and practice—influenced multiple generations of German politicians and politics. That said, and leaving aside the matter of whether further discussion of Weimar’s cultural, theoretical, sociological, or aesthetic legacies is warranted, this reviewer felt the lack of consideration of certain topics within this framework, e.g., German colonialism, gender or LGBTQ+ political history, to be noteworthy. In addition, the inclusion of a dedicated essay on Weimar in the post-68 or post-Wende era would have been useful as a means of adding greater balance to the volume. Jonathan Wipplinger, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
{"title":"Das Haus: Familiengeschichte vom Ende des vorigen Jahrhunderts by Lou Andreas-Salomé, and: Annaliese's House: A Translation of Lou Andreas Salomé's 1921 Novel Das Haus: Familiengeschichte vom Ende des vorigen Jahrhunderts by Lou Andreas-Salomé (review)","authors":"Susan C. Anderson","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2022.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2022.0065","url":null,"abstract":"world historical trends than of individual decision making or ideological difference. Sebastian Ullrich’s contribution offers an overview of the historiographical interpretation of Weimar’s meaning in Bonn and to a lesser extent the Berlin Republic. As Ulrich shows, Weimar was a consistent specter of West German democracy, ultimately serving primarily as a negative foil, as seen in the oft-repeated “Bonn ist nicht Weimar.” Similarly, Frank Bösch considers the role of Weimar in the major parties of West Germany (FDP, SPD, CDU). He demonstrates how, during the 1950s, each invoked the fragmentation of Weimar politics and society as a means of distinguishing themselves from the Weimar era. Andreas Wirsching’s concluding essay on Weimar as political argument elaborates directly on themes of the previous two contributions and also covers new ground via a contrast of the role of Weimar for German chancellors Willy Brandt and Helmut Kohl. The volume reflects a broad spectrum of the political influence and impact of the Weimar Republic. The essays show how “Weimar”—as idea, past, and practice—influenced multiple generations of German politicians and politics. That said, and leaving aside the matter of whether further discussion of Weimar’s cultural, theoretical, sociological, or aesthetic legacies is warranted, this reviewer felt the lack of consideration of certain topics within this framework, e.g., German colonialism, gender or LGBTQ+ political history, to be noteworthy. In addition, the inclusion of a dedicated essay on Weimar in the post-68 or post-Wende era would have been useful as a means of adding greater balance to the volume. Jonathan Wipplinger, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"585 - 587"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45354821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ways that modernist concepts persist beyond the 1920s (to which Jackson does nod in her Coda) and what transformations they have undergone up to today. Finally, the book is visually quite captivating. From the beautifully designed cover with Franz von Stuck’s painting of Tilla Durieux as Circe to the haunting photos of Gertrud Eysoldt as Elektra, Jackson pairs her narrative with evocative illustrations. A visual culture scholar might have looked for more ekphrastic interplay in the book’s analyses with the well-chosen images, but in many ways the pictures speak for themselves and encourage readers to stage their own dialogues with the author’s claims. That we desire to do so is another sign of this book’s success. Ellwood Wiggins, University of Washington, Seattle
{"title":"Objects in Air: Artworks and Their Outside around 1900 by Margareta Ingrid Christian (review)","authors":"S. Funkenstein","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2022.0063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2022.0063","url":null,"abstract":"ways that modernist concepts persist beyond the 1920s (to which Jackson does nod in her Coda) and what transformations they have undergone up to today. Finally, the book is visually quite captivating. From the beautifully designed cover with Franz von Stuck’s painting of Tilla Durieux as Circe to the haunting photos of Gertrud Eysoldt as Elektra, Jackson pairs her narrative with evocative illustrations. A visual culture scholar might have looked for more ekphrastic interplay in the book’s analyses with the well-chosen images, but in many ways the pictures speak for themselves and encourage readers to stage their own dialogues with the author’s claims. That we desire to do so is another sign of this book’s success. Ellwood Wiggins, University of Washington, Seattle","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"581 - 583"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47818637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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