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 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"--

Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar, and Corina L. Petrescu -- File stories -- The secret lives and files of stasi collaborators : reading the files for identity and habitus / Alison Lewis -- "You'll never make a spy out of me" : the file story of "Fink Susanne" / Valentina Glajar -- Witness for the prosecution : Eginald Schlattner in the files of the securitate / Corina L. Petrescu -- Files, memory, and biography -- Collaboration as collapse in the life writing and Stasi shadow-documents of Monika Maron and Christa Wolf / Annie Ring -- Perpetrator as victim in Jana Dohring's stasiratte / Carol Anne Costabile-Heming -- Performing files and surveillance -- Before "It gets all wiped out" : document-affect and history-effect in the Hungarian performance apaches on the Danube / Aniko Szucs -- The stasi files on center stage : life writing, witnessing, and memory in recent performance / Ulrike Garde -- Surveillance and the senses in a documentary portrait of Radio Free Europe / Yuliya Komska -- Notes on the contributors -- Index

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.