der damit tief verbundenen Erzählung Kassandra von Christa Wolf. Dieser Verweis ist gut und wichtig, denn sowohl bei Suttner als auch bei Wolf geht es um die Entlarvung von patriarchalischen Machtstrukturen. Der Beitrag ist in vieler Hinsicht hochaktuell. Die Kriege, die als Grundlage für Die Waffen nieder! dienen, sind retrospektiv gesehen ganz anderer Natur als die zwei Weltkriege des 20. Jahrhunderts und die daraus resultierende Zeit des Kalten Krieges. Dennoch drängen sich hier wichtige Fragen im Anschluss auf: Was würde Suttner wohl zur (durchaus rationalen) westlichen Logik im Ukrainekrieg sagen, dass mehr Waffenlieferungen zu einem schnelleren Frieden führen können? Würde Suttner im Angesicht moderner Kriegsführung und Kriegslogik ihr pazifistisches Denken hinterfragen? Würde das Recht auf Selbstverteidigung Suttners allgemeine Argumente gegen den Krieg schwächen? Ist der Pazifismus gar passé? Wie hat sich die Rolle der Frauen im Krieg verändert? Ganz gleich, wie man diese Fragen beantwortet, Nagelschmidts Beitrag regt zum Nachdenken an, passt zudem ausgezeichnet in die Krisenhaftigkeit unserer Zeit und bietet eine Gelegenheit, einen fast 140 Jahre alten Text vor dem Hintergrund bedeutender weltgeschichtlicher Ereignisse zu reexaminieren. Während Utopische und dystopische Weltenentwürfe sich eher an klassische Germanist_innen wendet, ist Utopien und Dystopien methodologisch viel weiter gefasst und damit von Interesse für eine breitere kulturgeschichtlich interessierte Leserschaft. Utopien und Dystopien ist insofern auch schwerer im Bereich der Germanistik zu verorten, da hier viele Quellen (wie literarische Texte und Filme) aus dem angelsächsischen/amerikanischen Kulturraum stammen. Die traditionellere Herangehensweise von Utopische und dystopische Weltenentwürfe belohnt jedoch mit einer sorgfältigeren Organisation und Planung, die durchdachter wirkt, während den Beiträgen in Utopien und Dystopien das Vortraghafte anzumerken ist. In beiden Bänden erfolgt zudem eine wertvolle methodologische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Genrebegriff des Utopischen und Dystopischen. Hier wird, ganz zu Recht, auch der Begriff der AntiUtopie als Gegenentwurf zur Utopie präsentiert, der dennoch nicht mit Dystopie gleichzusetzen ist: ,,Im Kern ist die Anti-Utopie aber zutiefst pessimistisch und fortschrittsfeindlich, während Utopie und Dystopie die Hoffnung auf bessere soziale Verhältnisse eingeschrieben ist.“ (Franz Kröber, Utopien und Dystopien 76–77) Trotz der erwähnten kleinen konzeptionellen Schwächen und Ungereimtheiten in der Beitragsauswahl haben beide Bände den Finger am Puls unserer bewegten Zeit und bieten wertvolle Anknüpfungspunkte innerhalb und jenseits der Germanistik.
{"title":"Animals, Machines, and AI: On Human and Non-Human Emotions in Modern German Cultural History. Edited by Erika Quinn and Holly Yanacek. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. ix + 249 pages + 4 b/w and 5 color images. $102.99 hardcover or eBook.","authors":"J. M. William","doi":"10.3368/m.115.2.281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.115.2.281","url":null,"abstract":"der damit tief verbundenen Erzählung Kassandra von Christa Wolf. Dieser Verweis ist gut und wichtig, denn sowohl bei Suttner als auch bei Wolf geht es um die Entlarvung von patriarchalischen Machtstrukturen. Der Beitrag ist in vieler Hinsicht hochaktuell. Die Kriege, die als Grundlage für Die Waffen nieder! dienen, sind retrospektiv gesehen ganz anderer Natur als die zwei Weltkriege des 20. Jahrhunderts und die daraus resultierende Zeit des Kalten Krieges. Dennoch drängen sich hier wichtige Fragen im Anschluss auf: Was würde Suttner wohl zur (durchaus rationalen) westlichen Logik im Ukrainekrieg sagen, dass mehr Waffenlieferungen zu einem schnelleren Frieden führen können? Würde Suttner im Angesicht moderner Kriegsführung und Kriegslogik ihr pazifistisches Denken hinterfragen? Würde das Recht auf Selbstverteidigung Suttners allgemeine Argumente gegen den Krieg schwächen? Ist der Pazifismus gar passé? Wie hat sich die Rolle der Frauen im Krieg verändert? Ganz gleich, wie man diese Fragen beantwortet, Nagelschmidts Beitrag regt zum Nachdenken an, passt zudem ausgezeichnet in die Krisenhaftigkeit unserer Zeit und bietet eine Gelegenheit, einen fast 140 Jahre alten Text vor dem Hintergrund bedeutender weltgeschichtlicher Ereignisse zu reexaminieren. Während Utopische und dystopische Weltenentwürfe sich eher an klassische Germanist_innen wendet, ist Utopien und Dystopien methodologisch viel weiter gefasst und damit von Interesse für eine breitere kulturgeschichtlich interessierte Leserschaft. Utopien und Dystopien ist insofern auch schwerer im Bereich der Germanistik zu verorten, da hier viele Quellen (wie literarische Texte und Filme) aus dem angelsächsischen/amerikanischen Kulturraum stammen. Die traditionellere Herangehensweise von Utopische und dystopische Weltenentwürfe belohnt jedoch mit einer sorgfältigeren Organisation und Planung, die durchdachter wirkt, während den Beiträgen in Utopien und Dystopien das Vortraghafte anzumerken ist. In beiden Bänden erfolgt zudem eine wertvolle methodologische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Genrebegriff des Utopischen und Dystopischen. Hier wird, ganz zu Recht, auch der Begriff der AntiUtopie als Gegenentwurf zur Utopie präsentiert, der dennoch nicht mit Dystopie gleichzusetzen ist: ,,Im Kern ist die Anti-Utopie aber zutiefst pessimistisch und fortschrittsfeindlich, während Utopie und Dystopie die Hoffnung auf bessere soziale Verhältnisse eingeschrieben ist.“ (Franz Kröber, Utopien und Dystopien 76–77) Trotz der erwähnten kleinen konzeptionellen Schwächen und Ungereimtheiten in der Beitragsauswahl haben beide Bände den Finger am Puls unserer bewegten Zeit und bieten wertvolle Anknüpfungspunkte innerhalb und jenseits der Germanistik.","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"115 1","pages":"281 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69653759","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}
their concept of a Grazer Moderne and Post-Moderne, the Hanischs focus squarely on the center of the empire. While differing in scope and scholarly approaches, the chapters of Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918 are uniform in quality and rigor, eschewing vague, grand claims and favoring deep dives into individual texts, artifacts, and studies. The focus on archivalia is supplemented in the architecture, art, and music chapters with excellent color and black-and-white figures, and several other chapters also include charts, lists, and graphs. The sheer amount of archivalia consulted for this project is astounding, and the volume will serve as a useful guide for cultural historians who are interested in the period. Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918: Das kulturelle Leben represents a remarkable effort on the part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and congratulations are due on Ignaz Seipel-Platz and on Hollandstraße.
{"title":"Dem Anfang auf der Spur. Detektivisches Erzählen zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft (1850–1926). Von Stefanie Seidel. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020. 470 Seiten + 7 Abbildungen. €60,00 gebunden oder eBook.","authors":"Julia Karolle-Berg","doi":"10.3368/m.115.2.298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/m.115.2.298","url":null,"abstract":"their concept of a Grazer Moderne and Post-Moderne, the Hanischs focus squarely on the center of the empire. While differing in scope and scholarly approaches, the chapters of Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918 are uniform in quality and rigor, eschewing vague, grand claims and favoring deep dives into individual texts, artifacts, and studies. The focus on archivalia is supplemented in the architecture, art, and music chapters with excellent color and black-and-white figures, and several other chapters also include charts, lists, and graphs. The sheer amount of archivalia consulted for this project is astounding, and the volume will serve as a useful guide for cultural historians who are interested in the period. Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918: Das kulturelle Leben represents a remarkable effort on the part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and congratulations are due on Ignaz Seipel-Platz and on Hollandstraße.","PeriodicalId":54028,"journal":{"name":"Monatshefte","volume":"115 1","pages":"298 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69653942","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}
This article examines the political implications of the song “Seeräuber-Jenny” from Die Dreigroschenoper by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill (1928), the cultural transfer through its translation by Marc Blitzstein (1954), and its adaptation by Nina Simone into a protest song of the Civil Rights movement (1964). It thereby reconstructs the song’s transatlantic history. “Pirate Jenny’s” central motif “the Black Freighter,” in combination with the fact that many of the song’s mediators were Jewish, suggests an immediate connection to Black internationalist politics and Jewish and Black solidarities in the USA at the time. However, this transatlantic cultural transfer proceeded discontinuously and has to be considered in its nuances to appreciate Nina Simone’s genuine contribution, which realizes the song’s political potential. This case study presents an example of the German-American literary constellations of the Black Atlantic and aims to illustrate their significance to the subfield of transatlantic literary history in Germanistik . (ETK)
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Abstract:(Cusack, Andrew und Michael White, Hrsg., Der Fontane-Ton. Stil im Werk Theodor Fontanes, 2021—Gru¨ne, Matthias und Jana Kittelmann, Hrsg., Theodor Fontane und das Erbe der Aufkla¨rung, 2021—Parr, Rolf, Gabriele Radecke, Peer Trilcke und Julia Bertschik, Hrsg., Theodor Fontane Handbuch, 2023—Sill, Oliver, Apropos Fontane. Einblicke in ein facettenreiches Werk. 2021—Sill, Oliver, Theodor Fontane – neu gelesen. Aktualita¨t und Geschichtlichkeit eines Klassikers, 2019—Trilcke, Peer, Hrsg., Fontanes Medien, 2022—Tucker, Brian, Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age, 2021.)
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Presented against the backdrop of the New Right movement in Germany, this analysis of Monika Maron’s novel Munin oder Chaos im Kopf (2018) is aimed at uncovering the problematic Islamophobic aspects of the novel. By comparing Maron’s recent work with the platform of the extremist AfD party and the Pegida movement, I argue that her protagonist’s fear of a hostile Islamic takeover ultimately becomes irresponsible fearmongering. The novel participates, I claim, in cultivating Islamophobia as a form of cultural racism, what Etienne Balibar refers to as neo-racism or “differentialist racism.” I conclude with a comparison between anti-Muslim racism and antisemitism, whereby in both cases a racialized Other represents a threat to the putative German Leitkultur. (EBR)
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(Buck, Theo, Paul Celan (1920-1970). Ein judischer Dichter deutscher Spra-che aus der Bukowina. Die Biographie, 2020. - Redfield, Marc, Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan, 2021. - Levine, Michael G., Atomzertrummerung. Zu einem Gedicht von Paul Celan, 2018. - Bogumil-Notz, Sieghild, Paul Celan. Die fortschreitende Erschliefiung der Wirklichkeit beim Schreiben, 2020. - Eskin, Michael, Karen Leeder and Marko PajeviC, eds., Paul Celan Today: A Companion, 2021.)
巴克西奥保罗·塞尔兰是布卡尤纳族的德语诗人传记2020年"雷德，马克，希柏雷斯判官，Derrida, Celan "拉文，麦可G，核弹发射2018年保罗·塞尔兰的诗。包古密尔诺兹现实逐步实现，在2020年埃斯金、迈克尔、凯伦、玛可帕杰维，立兹"今日保罗·Celan: A companon, 2021年)
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We herewith present Monatshefte’s annual issue of Personalia. Personalia contains information concerning staff members and departmental structures for the academic year 2022–2023 and information concerning student enrollments and degrees granted for the academic year 2021–2022. Personalia listings are prepared solely from material submitted by departments; Monatshefte cannot be responsible for factual errors in the submitted materials. The deadline for returning this year’s Personalia form was July 22nd, with scheduled reminders sent out routinely over a three-month period to make every effort to include all departments. Departments that did not submit new information before we went to press are still listed using...
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This essay focuses on the question of how relationships between humans and nature, Heimat and the provinces are negotiated narratively and aesthetically in Mittagsstunde (2018) by Dorte Hansen and Unterleuten (2016) by Juli Zeh. I read both novels as part of a new Rural Criticism that seeks to problematize human life in the Anthropocene and is committed to the critical interpretation of contemporary histories and realities. Both texts illustrate the urgent ecocrit-ical problems that the process of our civilizing nature, its economic utilization, and the climate crisis have engendered. I show that in the novels, weather, natural spaces, the protection of the environment, and alternative energies serve as catalysts for moving the plot forward. At the same time, these phenomena illustrate the close enmeshment of the characters with the surrounding natural world and the way it shapes their identity. Ultimately, I argue that while both texts can be read as manifestations of solastalgia, they also represent aesthetic approaches to climate change and environmental destruction that could aid in the establishment of a New Climatic Regime (Bruno Latour). (ASB, in German)
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Laughter has a prominent position in "Der kleine Herr Friedemann" (1897). While quantitatively scarce, laughter appears in the narrative climax and conclusion, signalling the end of the titular character and the novella. Despite being a distinctive feature of crucial scenes in the novella and an important topic in the period, laughter has not yet been analyzed in the novella nor, in turn, this novella in modernist studies on laughter. Addressing this gap in Thomas Mann scholarship and expanding our understanding of the similarities and differences between laughter in German modernism and contemporary theories of laughter, I analyze laughter in "Der kleine Herr Friedemann" in the light of Henri Berg-son's Le Rire (1900). The novella parallels Henri Bergson's contemporary theory of laughter. Specifically, the novella characterizes laughter in relation to vitalism and superiority and in opposition to rigidity, relations and concepts that occupy a central place in Bergson's book. (DSP)
笑在《弗里德曼先生》（1897）中占有重要地位。虽然数量很少，但笑声出现在叙事高潮和结尾，标志着这个有名无实的角色和中篇小说的结束。尽管笑是中篇小说中关键场景的一个独特特征，也是这一时期的一个重要话题，但在现代主义的笑研究中，这部中篇小说还没有得到分析。为了解决托马斯·曼学术中的这一空白，并扩大我们对德国现代主义中的笑与当代笑理论之间异同的理解，我结合亨利·伯格森的《Rire》（1900）分析了《Der kleine Herr Friedemann》中的笑。这部中篇小说与亨利·柏格森的当代笑理论相类似。具体而言，这部中篇小说将笑与活力和优越感联系起来，与在柏格森的书中占据中心位置的僵化、关系和概念对立起来。（DSP）
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