Suchergebnisse

A series of five interlaced, in-depth biographical studies from across the spectrum of writers-turned-spies recruited by the Stasi.

I want to focus on two recent debates in Germany from the same inaugural period of Germany's SPD–Green government, which both have as their focus the contestation of memory in relation to the Holocaust. In both debates the Holocaust serves as a negative myth of origin and a primal phantasmatic scene of guilt and shame around which German national identifications are organised. The first is the Walser–Bubis debate and the second the much more protracted but no less fierce debate about the building of a Holocaust memorial in Berlin, which peaked around the same time. Both debates are important in the German context because they come at the end of a long period of Christian Democratic (CDU) rule and at the beginning of a new SPD era in German politics. They are significant, moreover, because they appear to send contradictory messages about German self- understanding to the international community.

This essay focuses on the questions of whether German unification resulted in a wholesale retreat of intellectuals from politics and engagement with social issues, as the rhetoric of failure would indicate, or whether the key debates of the period can be read instead as a sign that Germany is on the road to becoming a more 'normal' European nation. Before returning to these issuesat the end of this paper I first provide a broad historical and theoretical context for my discussion of the role of the concerned intellectual in Germany, before offering an overview of the respective functions of literary intellectuals in both German states in the post-war period. I then address a series of key debates and discussions in 1989 and the early nineteen-nineties that were responsible for changing the forms of engagement in intellectual debates in post-unification German society. I argue that the 1990s and early years of the new millennium hastened the disappearance of the writer as a universal intellectual and focused attention on the writer as an individualist and a professional. Today's youngest generation of writer in Germany is a specialist intellectual who intervenes in political and social matters from time to time but who is not expected to take a moral-ethical stance on most issues of national and international concern. S/he is one who frequently writes about personal subjects, but may also occasionally, as witnessed after September 11, turn his or her pen to topics of global concern as in terrorism and Islam. More often than not, however, writers now leave the work of commenting on political affairs to writers of the older guard and to other 'senior' specialist intellectuals.

This essay focuses on the questions of whether German unification resulted in a wholesale retreat of intellectuals from politics and engagement with social issues, as the rhetoric of failure would indicate, or whether the key debates of the period can be read instead as a sign that Germany is on the road to becoming a more 'normal' European nation. Before returning to these issuesat the end of this paper I first provide a broad historical and theoretical context for my discussion of the role of the concerned intellectual in Germany, before offering an overview of the respective functions of literary intellectuals in both German states in the post-war period. I then address a series of key debates and discussions in 1989 and the early nineteen-nineties that were responsible for changing the forms of engagement in intellectual debates in post-unification German society. I argue that the 1990s and early years of the new millennium hastened the disappearance of the writer as a universal intellectual and focused attention on the writer as an individualist and a professional. Today's youngest generation of writer in Germany is a specialist intellectual who intervenes in political and social matters from time to time but who is not expected to take a moral-ethical stance on most issues of national and international concern. S/he is one who frequently writes about personal subjects, but may also occasionally, as witnessed after September 11, turn his or her pen to topics of global concern as in terrorism and Islam. More often than not, however, writers now leave the work of commenting on political affairs to writers of the older guard and to other 'senior' specialist intellectuals.

This volume tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and the life sciences. A History of the Case Study takes the reader on a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siécle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of Weimar Germany, and to the United States of America in the post-war years. Foregrounding the figures of case study pioneers, and highlighting their radical engagements with the genre, the work scrutinises the case writing practices of Sigmund Freud and his predecessor sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing; writers such as Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Weimar intellectuals such as Erich Wulffen. There result new insights into the continuing legacy of such writers, and into the agency increasingly claimed by the readerships that emerged with the development of modernity— from readers who self-identified as masochists, to conmen and female criminals.

This volume tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and the life sciences. A History of the Case Study takes the reader on a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siècle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of Weimar Germany, and to the United States of America in the post-war years.

Foregrounding the figures of case study pioneers, and highlighting their radical engagements with the genre, the work scrutinises the case writing practices of Sigmund Freud and his predecessor sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing; writers such as Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Weimar intellectuals such as Erich Wulffen. There result new insights into the continuing legacy of such writers, and into the agency increasingly claimed by the readerships that emerged with the development of modernity—from readers who self-identified as masochists, to conmen and female criminals.

"With the opening of the secret police archives in many countries in Eastern Europe comes the unique chance to excavate many forgotten spy stories and narrate them for the first time. 'Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe' brings together a wide range of Cold War spy stories from the Eastern Bloc and explores stories compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files"--

The communist secret police services of Central and Eastern Europe kept detailed records not only of their victims but also of the vast networks of informants and collaborators upon whom their totalitarian systems depended. These records, now open to the public in many former Eastern Bloc countries, reflect a textually mediated reality that has defined and shaped the lives of former victims and informers, creating a tension between official records and personal memories. Exploring this tension between a textually and technically mediated past and the subject/victim's reclaiming and retrospective interpretation of that past in biography is the goal of this volume. While victims' secret police files have often been examined as a type of unauthorized archival life writing, the contributors tothis volume are among the first to analyze the fragmentary and sometimes remedial nature of these biographies and to examine the subject/victims' rewriting and remediation of them in various creativeforms. Essays focus, variously, on the files of the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate (in relation to Transylvanian Germans in Romania), and the Hungarian State Security Agency. Contributors: Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Ulrike Garde, Valentina Glajar, Yuliya Komska, Alison Lewis, Corina L. Petrescu, Annie Ring, Aniko Szucs. Valentina Glajar is Professor of German at Texas State University, San Marcos. Alison Lewis is Professor of German in the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Corina L. Petrescu is Associate Professorof German at the University of Mississippi.

Der diesjährige Limbus-Band versammelt Aufsätze, die sich auf unterschiedlichste Weise mit dem Topos »Mord« auseinandersetzen. Die Beiträge schlieẞen u.a. die Perspektiven der Rechtsphilosophie des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, der modernen Kriminalistik, der Literaturgeschichte als auch der marxistischen Philosophie ein. In der Literaturgeschichte ist Mord nicht nur ein Handlungsstimulans, sondern eine »Gemütserregungskunst«, ein anthropologisches Rätsel, das für das Projekt einer literarischen Anthropologie von besonderem Interesse ist. Einige Beiträge nehmen die Figur des Mörders bzw. der Mörderinnen ins Visier, während andere sich der Frau als Opfer eines Mords zuwenden. Außerdem finden die ›Mord-Literatur‹ der Nachkriegszeit und die zeitgenössische Kriminalliteratur Beachtung. Abgerundet wird der Band durch einen Aufsatz, der anhand von Science-Fiction-Texten mit dem Fokus Atomkrieg, das Thema des ›planetarischen Mordes‹ untersucht.

Cover -- Vorwort / Preface -- Übersetzungen / Translations -- Bertolt Brecht: Vom armen B. B. - Of Poor B. B -- An die Nachgeborenen - To Those Who Come After Us -- Der Radwechsel - The Wheel Change -- Aufsätze / Essays -- The Paradox of Origin in German Romanticism -- Geographische und ständische, sprachliche und religiöse Herkunft. Intertextualität und Autobiographie in Chamissos »Das Schloß Boncourt« (1827) -- Provinz als Welt. Fontanes Mark Brandenburg als exemplarische Herkunfts-Heterotopie -- Imperiale Herkunft. Zur Ordnungsfunktion des Herkunfts-Begriffs in der modernen österreichischen Literatur -- »Ich wusste genau, dass ich Hitler war bis zum Gürtel…« - Herkunftsfindung in Bernward Vespers Die Reise -- Darf man Elfriede Jelinek ›indigenisieren‹? - Von künstlerischer Herkunft und einer riskanten Übertragung der Prinzessinnendramen auf eine australische Bühne -- Was bleibt. Zur Narration des Herkommens in der Post-DDR-Literatur und im heritage-Film -- From »Nachruf« to »Eigentum«: Defining Origin in Volker Braun's Post-Unification Works -- »Was ich nicht sehen kann, muss ich erfinden«: Third generation narratives of Nazi Herkunft in Tanja Dückers' Himmelskörper and Marcel Beyer's Spione -- Die Suche nach Herkunft und Identität zwischen Einstweh, literarischer Heimat und fliehendem Erinnern in Botho Strauß' Paare, Passanten, Die Fehler des Kopisten und Herkunft -- »Babbelst en gudes Deutsch. Bisde net vom Balgan?« Zur Stigmatisierung durch Herkunft und deren Bedeutung in der Konzeptualisierung von Heimat -- Rezensionen / Reviews -- Johannes Görbert/Mario Kumekawa/Thomas Schwarz (Hg.) Pazifikismus: Poetiken des Stillen Ozeans -- Roland Borgards (ed.). Tiere. Kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch -- Bernd Neumann/Gernot Wimmer (Hg.). Der Erste Weltkrieg auf dem deutsch-europäischen Literaturfeld.

Cover -- Vorwort / Preface -- Übersetzungen / Translations -- Gottfried Benn: Nachtcafé - Bar -- D-Zug - Express Train -- Aufsätze / Essays -- »Zwei Männer / Intim«. Darstellungsformen männlicher Homoerotik in der deutschsprachigen Lyrik des 21. Jahrhunderts -- Leibliches Erleben und Körper(wahrnehmungen) in Irmgard Keuns Das kunstseidene Mädchen (1932) -- Sexualität als Experiment und die De/Re/Materialisierung von Geschlecht im Biowissenschaftsdrama der Gegenwart: Rolf Hochhuths Unbefleckte Empfängnis (1989) und Felicia Zellers Wunsch und Wunder (2015) -- Weibliche Sexualität und Wahrheit. Zur poetischen Imagination und Sprache in Robert Musils Die Vollendung der Liebe -- Infizierte Narrative. Geschlecht, Sexualpathologie und Autofiktion bei Ingeborg Bachmann -- Gesellschaft oder Bordell? Die Funktion von Raumsemantik und Grenzüberschreitungen für die Erotikkonzeption in Wedekinds Dramen Hans und Hanne, Tod und Teufel (Totentanz) und Franziska -- »Alles ist Märchen und Wunder an Ihnen -- ja Mirabelle, ja Wunderhold!« Formen jenseitiger Zugehörigkeiten in Theodor Fontanes Schach von Wuthenow -- Homosexuelle Affären als Bereicherung heterosexueller Partnerschaft in Hubert Fichtes Roman Explosion -- Der abendländische Sexualdiskurs und seine Spiegelung in Gerhart Hauptmanns Der Ketzer von Soana -- Cruising auf der Jakobsleiter. Homosexualität und Poetik in Felix Rexhausens unveröffentlichtem Roman Zaunwerk (1964) -- Antierotik - Hypererotik - Kosmoerotik: Paul Scheerbarts alternative Sexualität(en). Mit einem Exkurs zur Asexualität -- Rezensionen / Reviews -- André Bastian (Hg.). Elfriede Jelinek goes Australia. Indigenising an Austrian Nobel Prize Winner -- Armin Burkhardt/Thorsten Unger (Hg.). Der Erste Weltkrieg. Interdisziplinäre Annährungen.

Abstract In a series of three experiments, we investigated the development of children's understanding of the similarities between photographs and their referents. Based on prior work on the development of analogical understanding (e.g. Gentner & Rattermann, 1991), we suggest that the appreciation of this relation involves multiple levels. Photographs are similar to their referents both in terms of the constituent objects and in terms of the relations among these objects. We predicted that children would appreciate object similarity (whether photographs depict the same objects as in the referent scene) before they would appreciate relational similarity (whether photographs depict the objects in the same spatial positions as in the referent scene). To test this hypothesis, we presented 3‐, 4‐, 5‐, 6‐, and 7‐year‐old children and adults with several candidate photographs of an arrangement of objects. Participants were asked to choose which of the photographs was 'the same' as the arrangement. We manipulated the types of information the photographs preserved about the referent objects. One set of photographs did not preserve the object properties of the scene. Another set of photographs preserved the object properties of the scene, but not the relational similarity, such that the original objects were depicted but occupied different spatial positions in the arrangement. As predicted, younger children based their choices of the photographs largely on object similarity, whereas older children and adults also took relational similarity into account. Results are discussed in terms of the development of children's appreciation of different levels of similarity.