abstract:Between 1975 and 1981, the documentary film group defa-futurum within the state-owned East German film studio DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft) made forty-one Discofilme (disco films). Twenty-seven of these were music videos of socialist “Beat” bands and were initially theorized as documentary films of the future. Ewa Mazierska’s analytical framework considers global pop rock as articulated through local culture and provides the basis of the present exploration into the complexities of transnational musical meaning making at the local level in the disco films. This intermedial analysis reveals the films’ full array of metaphor and allusion in portraying imagined (socialist) futures.
1975年至1981年间，东德国有电影制片厂defa（Deutsche film Aktiengesellschaft）旗下的纪录片集团defa futurum制作了41部迪斯科电影。其中27部是社会主义“垮掉派”乐队的音乐视频，最初被认为是未来的纪录片。Ewa Mazierska的分析框架将全球流行摇滚视为通过当地文化表达的，并为目前探索迪斯科电影中跨国音乐意义在当地层面产生的复杂性提供了基础。这一中间分析揭示了电影在描绘想象中的（社会主义）未来方面的全方位隐喻和典故。
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{"title":"Stellvertretung. Zur Szene der Person by Katrin Trüstedt (review)","authors":"Arne Höcker","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"335 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41430782","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":"Questioning the Canon: Counter-Discourse and the Minority Perspective in Contemporary German Literature by Christine Meyer (review)","authors":"Bethany Morgan","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"342 - 344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44707513","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}
As a scholar of the Holocaust and contemporary antisemitism, I personally see a counter-narrative within Thurman’s work, one that highlights a “trade” of sorts between America and Germany, with German Jews coming to America and becoming leading composers and scholars in Hollywood, Broadway, and the academy, and African Americans engaging in the inverse and finding their success in Europe. At the core of all of this is the systemic discrimination that drives our colonial heritages. Thurman’s work is especially timely when music academics such as Philip Ewell and Justin London consider the current state of our field fraught with questions of music theory’s “white racial frame,” gender, and race. In Justin London’s recent article in MTO: A Journal of the Society for Music Theory, “A Bevy of Biases: How Music Theory’s Methodological Problems Hinder Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (March 2022), he asks how we can expand the canon while simultaneously avoiding tokenism and a rhetoric of “exception” or “uniqueness.” Thurman’s historiography is one answer to this question: demonstrating that history has a bountiful number of examples that, on their own, exhibit the “qualifications” deemed necessary for access into the canon. A “great” composer’s work is only as good as its performance (yes, contrary to long belief). The Black classical musicians that Thurman showcases are just a few of the strong individuals who conveyed musical greatness, a greatness that defied the systemic challenges with which their own country continues to affront them. To quote Thurman, “[Singing Like Germans] encourages us to consider what happened when Black classical musicians defied [white] expectations, to linger in those moments when [Black classical musicians] sang music that did not supposedly ‘look like them,’ when they performed brilliantly and under considerable scrutiny” (18). Kathryn Agnes Huether, Bowdoin College
{"title":"Affective Spaces: Migration in Scandinavian and German Transnational Narratives by Anja Tröger (review)","authors":"Thomas M. Herold","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0034","url":null,"abstract":"As a scholar of the Holocaust and contemporary antisemitism, I personally see a counter-narrative within Thurman’s work, one that highlights a “trade” of sorts between America and Germany, with German Jews coming to America and becoming leading composers and scholars in Hollywood, Broadway, and the academy, and African Americans engaging in the inverse and finding their success in Europe. At the core of all of this is the systemic discrimination that drives our colonial heritages. Thurman’s work is especially timely when music academics such as Philip Ewell and Justin London consider the current state of our field fraught with questions of music theory’s “white racial frame,” gender, and race. In Justin London’s recent article in MTO: A Journal of the Society for Music Theory, “A Bevy of Biases: How Music Theory’s Methodological Problems Hinder Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (March 2022), he asks how we can expand the canon while simultaneously avoiding tokenism and a rhetoric of “exception” or “uniqueness.” Thurman’s historiography is one answer to this question: demonstrating that history has a bountiful number of examples that, on their own, exhibit the “qualifications” deemed necessary for access into the canon. A “great” composer’s work is only as good as its performance (yes, contrary to long belief). The Black classical musicians that Thurman showcases are just a few of the strong individuals who conveyed musical greatness, a greatness that defied the systemic challenges with which their own country continues to affront them. To quote Thurman, “[Singing Like Germans] encourages us to consider what happened when Black classical musicians defied [white] expectations, to linger in those moments when [Black classical musicians] sang music that did not supposedly ‘look like them,’ when they performed brilliantly and under considerable scrutiny” (18). Kathryn Agnes Huether, Bowdoin College","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"328 - 330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45856233","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":"Contested Selves: Life Writing and German Culture ed. by Katja Herges and Elisabeth Krimmer (review)","authors":"Karin Baumgartner","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"333 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41842423","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}
was Catholic nuns who successfully appealed to the gallantry of Protestant officers and secured their protection. Coping with Life during the Thirty Years’ War focuses on individuals. In many ways, Sigrun Haude has composed a psychohistory of the wartime experience, with an emphasis on how people felt during this conflict. The Cincinnati historian does not attempt a comprehensive reinterpretation of the Thirty Years’ War and becomes somewhat less sure-footed when she moves beyond her core topic. Her terse summary of the war on pages eight to sixteen leaves no room for discussing alternative understandings. Some of the self-made maps, such as the map of the Holy Roman Empire around 1618 on page eleven that, inter alia, seems to include southern Schleswig in that polity and divide Pomerania in an anachronistic manner, can be slightly misleading. A number of lesser oversights or imprecisions—such as making 1527 the norm year of the Peace of Prague (15) or describing the Habsburgs as a royal dynasty that ruled the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to the late eighteenth century (237)—could have been caught by more careful external proofreading. Yet, drawing on an abundance of sources, Haude has provided a well-researched study of the human experience of the Thirty Years’ War. She describes this experience in great detail, which at times gives the narration the flavor of a chronicle. In this way, her study reminds of Hans Medick’s 2018 volume Der Dreißigjährige Krieg: Zeugnisse vom Leben mit Gewalt, which also focuses on individual experiences and utilizes some of the same sources. Haude does not go quite as far as Medick, who integrates these materials directly into his narrative, but Coping with Life during the Thirty Years’ War impresses above all with meticulous source presentation. Thus, the study might inspire and provide material for additional interpretive studies. Peter Thaler, University of Southern Denmark
是天主教修女，她们成功地吸引了新教军官的殷勤，并获得了他们的保护。《三十年战争中的生活应对》关注的是个人问题。在许多方面，西格伦·豪德创作了一部关于战争经历的心理史，重点是人们在这场冲突中的感受。这位辛辛那提的历史学家并没有试图对三十年战争进行全面的重新解释，当她离开她的核心话题时，她就变得有些不那么稳健了。她在第8页到第16页对战争进行了简短的总结，没有留下讨论其他理解的余地。一些自制的地图，比如第11页的神圣罗马帝国1618年左右的地图，除其他外，似乎将石勒苏益格南部包括在该政体中，并以一种不合时宜的方式划分了波美拉尼亚，这可能会有点误导人。一些较小的疏忽或不精确——比如把1527年作为布拉格和平的标准年份(15年)，或者把哈布斯堡王朝描述为从1440年到18世纪末统治神圣罗马帝国的一个王室(237年)——本可以通过更仔细的外部校对来发现。然而，借助丰富的资料，豪德对人类在三十年战争中的经历进行了深入研究。她非常详细地描述了这段经历，有时使叙述具有编年史的味道。这样，她的研究让人想起汉斯·梅迪克(Hans Medick) 2018年出版的《Der Dreißigjährige Krieg: Zeugnisse vom Leben mit Gewalt》，该书也关注个人经历，并利用了一些相同的资源。豪德没有梅迪克走得那么远，梅迪克将这些材料直接整合到他的叙述中，但《三十年战争中的生活》最令人印象深刻的是，它对资料的呈现一丝不苟。因此，该研究可能为进一步的解释性研究提供启发和材料。Peter Thaler，南丹麦大学
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{"title":"Street Life and Morals: German Philosophy in Hitler’s Lifetime by Lesley Chamberlain (review)","authors":"J. Best","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"322 - 324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47202041","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:This article examines representations of migrants in Jenny Erpenbeck’s 2015 novel Gehen, Ging, Gegangen and Bodo Kirchhoff’s 2016 novella Widerfahrnis. I locate these texts in historical and literary contexts, the roots of which can be traced to the first generation of postwar German literature, particularly the works of Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass. In both Grass’s and Böll’s postwar fiction, German experiences of the war and its aftermath are foregrounded, and focus is placed on German postwar trauma, while the Jewish victims of the Holocaust remain in the background. This article proposes a thematic continuum between the postwar texts of Böll and Grass and the more recent novels Gehen, Ging, Gegangen and Widerfahrnis: in each literary era, the experience of the white German male is foregrounded, effectively erasing the experience of marginalized figures.
{"title":"Traumatic (Self) Exile: Narrative Marginalization in Recent and Postwar German Fiction","authors":"Catherine McNally","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0040","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article examines representations of migrants in Jenny Erpenbeck’s 2015 novel Gehen, Ging, Gegangen and Bodo Kirchhoff’s 2016 novella Widerfahrnis. I locate these texts in historical and literary contexts, the roots of which can be traced to the first generation of postwar German literature, particularly the works of Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass. In both Grass’s and Böll’s postwar fiction, German experiences of the war and its aftermath are foregrounded, and focus is placed on German postwar trauma, while the Jewish victims of the Holocaust remain in the background. This article proposes a thematic continuum between the postwar texts of Böll and Grass and the more recent novels Gehen, Ging, Gegangen and Widerfahrnis: in each literary era, the experience of the white German male is foregrounded, effectively erasing the experience of marginalized figures.","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"247 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42865917","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}
academics and cultural figures during the Weimar era. These weaknesses limit the book’s utility for historians and cultural scholars of the period who are not expressly interested in one, some, or all of the philosophers that Chamberlain examines. The approach and tone of the book are uneven when read from an academic perspective. Frequently, Chamberlain inserts herself into the narrative with critiques of the quality of a philosopher’s prose or similar asides. In fact, this approach reinforces the general sense that Street Life and Morals is a piece of commentary rather than analysis. Even more jarring are the places in which Chamberlain admits to not understanding concepts or ideas presented by her sources. For example, in reference to Arendt’s widely contemplated post-war relationships with card-carrying Nazis Heidegger and Benno von Wiese, Chamberlain writes, “If I understand her rightly, this is why she could talk of forgiving the person but not the deed” (167). Of course, the minds of philosophers can be challenging, but here the intrusion of the author is disruptive to the overall effectiveness of the text. Similarly, at times the prose strays into concatenated, discursive, and/or derivative language that abounds with jargon and obstructs understanding for the non-specialist reader. Street Life and Morals: German Philosophy in Hitler’s Lifetime adds to scholarship that discusses the crisis of modernity and one of its catastrophic outcomes in World War II. As such, it offers valuable content and material for an advanced, general audience interested in or seeking a general overview of German philosophy during the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, it does not live up to the promise of its title and leaves its subject matter analytically isolated and disconnected from the wider scholarship on the intellectual and cultural history of the period. This means that the book ultimately fails to go beyond its own boundaries and make a case for its relevance to scholars outside the history of ideas. Jeremy Best, Iowa State University
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