Abstract:This article analyzes the East German figure skater Gaby Seyfert's costuming, music selection, and choreography from television broadcasts of her competitive and show performances between 1963 and 1970. My analysis shows that she aesthetically adhered to prescriptions of SED ideology by following GDR dance styles, incorporating ballet and folk-dance steps and exuding an embodied "Sovietness," thus cultivating a large fan base in the GDR and the Soviet Union. This success brought more interest to figure skating and strengthened the image of East German skating against the capitalist West. After 1969 her performances began expressing Western features due to the influences of her continued exposure to international travel, her Eislauf-Familie (ice-skating family), and access to Western media, all of which allowed her to explore her own Eigensinn (personal agency). I argue that her career carved out an alternative form of East German resistance while working within the confines of the GDR.
{"title":"Beginning the Legacy of GDR Figure Skating but Stopping Short: Gaby Seyfert's Performance of Her Eigensinn","authors":"Wesley Lim","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article analyzes the East German figure skater Gaby Seyfert's costuming, music selection, and choreography from television broadcasts of her competitive and show performances between 1963 and 1970. My analysis shows that she aesthetically adhered to prescriptions of SED ideology by following GDR dance styles, incorporating ballet and folk-dance steps and exuding an embodied \"Sovietness,\" thus cultivating a large fan base in the GDR and the Soviet Union. This success brought more interest to figure skating and strengthened the image of East German skating against the capitalist West. After 1969 her performances began expressing Western features due to the influences of her continued exposure to international travel, her Eislauf-Familie (ice-skating family), and access to Western media, all of which allowed her to explore her own Eigensinn (personal agency). I argue that her career carved out an alternative form of East German resistance while working within the confines of the GDR.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"85 1","pages":"111 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88158743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The role of women in the 1918 German revolution has largely been neglected in the historiography, recent commemorative events, and popular understanding of the end of World War I. One hundred years on, the revolution is seen as the cornerstone of German democracy. Leaving women out therefore excludes them from their own democratic history and distorts the historical narrative. In 2018 a new play, Women of Aktion, toured the UK and Germany, placing the forgotten female revolutionaries at center stage. It was the result of a close collaboration between academics and the theater group Bent Architect. The creation and staging of the play uncovered and performed the history of German women's resistance, and the performance itself intervened in the historiography and public narratives to resist the erasure of revolutionary women.
{"title":"Women of Aktion: Performance, Gender, and the German Revolution of 1918","authors":"Corinne Painter, Ingrid Sharp","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The role of women in the 1918 German revolution has largely been neglected in the historiography, recent commemorative events, and popular understanding of the end of World War I. One hundred years on, the revolution is seen as the cornerstone of German democracy. Leaving women out therefore excludes them from their own democratic history and distorts the historical narrative. In 2018 a new play, Women of Aktion, toured the UK and Germany, placing the forgotten female revolutionaries at center stage. It was the result of a close collaboration between academics and the theater group Bent Architect. The creation and staging of the play uncovered and performed the history of German women's resistance, and the performance itself intervened in the historiography and public narratives to resist the erasure of revolutionary women.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"38 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88701411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay chronicles the postwar survival tactics in the autobiographical writings of Hans Massaquoi, an Afro-German who lived during the British occupation of Hamburg; Ruth Klüger, an Austrian-born Jew who fled the death marches out of the concentration camps directly prior to the war's end; and Anonymous/Marta Hillers, a white German, non-Jewish woman who maneuvered Soviet-occupied Berlin. In this article I probe the comparative vulnerabilities of these three subjects vis-à-vis their lived experiences of performing resistance to racialized, sexualized, nationalized, and/or gendered violence, as each recounts them. These subjects narrate how they pass as, pass through, and pass among different postwar actors who inhabit the space of Germany. By attending to the intersections of embodied experience and relational performativity through the act of passing, my analysis renders a complex understanding of how power produces comparative vulnerabilities in violent wars waged on bodies.
{"title":"Passing Acts of Resistance on Postwar Bodily Battlegrounds: Comparative Vulnerabilities in the Autobiographical Works of Hans Massaquoi, Ruth Klüger, and Anonymous/Marta Hillers","authors":"Vanessa D. Plumly","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay chronicles the postwar survival tactics in the autobiographical writings of Hans Massaquoi, an Afro-German who lived during the British occupation of Hamburg; Ruth Klüger, an Austrian-born Jew who fled the death marches out of the concentration camps directly prior to the war's end; and Anonymous/Marta Hillers, a white German, non-Jewish woman who maneuvered Soviet-occupied Berlin. In this article I probe the comparative vulnerabilities of these three subjects vis-à-vis their lived experiences of performing resistance to racialized, sexualized, nationalized, and/or gendered violence, as each recounts them. These subjects narrate how they pass as, pass through, and pass among different postwar actors who inhabit the space of Germany. By attending to the intersections of embodied experience and relational performativity through the act of passing, my analysis renders a complex understanding of how power produces comparative vulnerabilities in violent wars waged on bodies.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"61 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74404123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women’s History in the Age of Reformation: Johannes Meyer’s Chronicle of the Dominican Observance by Johannes Meyer (review)","authors":"Sharon M. Wailes","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2020.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2020.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"123 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78878889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Women Have Better Sex under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen R. Ghodsee (review)","authors":"Evelyn Preuss","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2020.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2020.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"113 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80700470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership: From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel ed. by Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson (review)","authors":"Karin Baumgartner","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2020.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2020.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"119 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87387807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-28DOI: 10.5250/femigermstud.36.2.0051
J. Smith
Abstract:This article takes Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the novel as dialogic text as its methodological foundation for close readings of key intertexts in Julia Franck’s Die Mittagsfrau. The two most prominent intertexts are a poem by Else Lasker-Schüler and the premiere of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s Dreigroschenoper. These intertexts exemplify the tension between the dialogic (Lasker-Schüler’s poem and the protagonists’ conversation about it) and the monologic (the audience’s ecstatic response to Brecht/Weill’s opera). Through close analysis of the language, sexual politics, and historical context of each of these scenes, I propose that Franck’s novel privileges Lasker-Schüler’s vision of erotic love and shared suffering as a trope for the democratization of gender roles in Weimar Berlin. At the same time, Die Mittagsfrau points to the potential of violence unleashed by the spectacle of politicized popular entertainment and hence exposes the limits to women’s emancipation during the Weimar era.
{"title":"Seduced by Poetry, Sickened by Mass Spectacle: Julia Franck’s Gendered Portrait of Weimar Berlin in Die Mittagsfrau (2007)","authors":"J. Smith","doi":"10.5250/femigermstud.36.2.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5250/femigermstud.36.2.0051","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article takes Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the novel as dialogic text as its methodological foundation for close readings of key intertexts in Julia Franck’s Die Mittagsfrau. The two most prominent intertexts are a poem by Else Lasker-Schüler and the premiere of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s Dreigroschenoper. These intertexts exemplify the tension between the dialogic (Lasker-Schüler’s poem and the protagonists’ conversation about it) and the monologic (the audience’s ecstatic response to Brecht/Weill’s opera). Through close analysis of the language, sexual politics, and historical context of each of these scenes, I propose that Franck’s novel privileges Lasker-Schüler’s vision of erotic love and shared suffering as a trope for the democratization of gender roles in Weimar Berlin. At the same time, Die Mittagsfrau points to the potential of violence unleashed by the spectacle of politicized popular entertainment and hence exposes the limits to women’s emancipation during the Weimar era.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"70 1","pages":"51 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91372432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics by Elizabeth Otto (review)","authors":"J. Smith","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2020.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2020.0032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":"127 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91203427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing Lives: A Female German Jewish Perspective on the Early Twentieth Century by Corinne Painter (review)","authors":"Carola Daffner","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2020.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2020.0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"128 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91347240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions, and Histories ed. by Tiffany N. Florvil and Vanessa D. Plumly (review)","authors":"A. Bryant","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2020.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2020.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"105 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79977055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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