Der Journalist als Detektiv

Kischs "Der Fall des Generalstabschefs Redl" und die Reportage der Neuen Sachlichkeit

Author(s): Christian Kirchmeier / Language(s): German / Issue: 25/2016

Der Spionagefall des Oberst Redl war einer der großen Skandale am Vorabend des Ersten Weltkrieges. Der Beitrag untersucht die literarische Bearbeitung der historischen Ereignisse in Egon Erwin Kischs "Der Fall des Generalstabschefs Redl" (1924) und entwickelt zwei Thesen: Erstens soll gezeigt werden, dass Kischs Fiktionalisierung dieser Reportage einer neusachlichen Poetik nicht etwa entgegensteht, sondern im Gegenteil für die Neue Sachlichkeit programmatisch ist. Zweitens soll der Nachweis erbracht werden, dass der Text ein Dokument für die Genese einer Überwachungsgesellschaft ist, in der die Kontrolle über die Kommunikationsmedien zum kriegsentscheidenden Faktor wird.

Die Konstruktion Österreichs in der polnischen Germanistik

Author(s): Gabriela Ociepa / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2008

The article makes an attempt at reconstruction of a distinct research course in the German studies in Poland, focusing on Austrian literature. Apart from the significance of the image of Austria and the contemporary Austrian literature created in this way, the article discusses primarily the historical development of this research direction.

Die Poetik der Stadt in der Lyrik von Rainer Maria Rilke und Aleksandr Blok

Author(s): Mária Gyöngyösi / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2012

The aim of this paper is to open up the typological parallelisms (motives, colors, and the position of the lyrical “me”) between the city imageries of Rilke and Blok. The analysis covers Rilke’s lyrics and Blok’s three cycles (The City, Terrible World and Italian Verses). The comparative analysis focuses on the poetry of their hometowns (Prague and St. Petersburg), that of modern cities, and of Italian towns visited by the authors. The question of the modern city and the criticism of civilization represent several similarities in the two p o e ts’ works, but the secessionist garden, park, and castle motives occur only in Rilke’s poetry. The topics of Venice and St. Petersburg, which are related to each other in many ways, are formulated in the objective lyrics of Rilke’s volume New Poems.

DIE POETISCHE DARSTELLUNG DER MACHT IM WERK DAS LAND ZWISCHEN DEN KATARAKTEN DES NIL VON ANTON PROKESCH VON OSTEN

Author(s): Martina Lučić / Language(s): German / Issue: 18/1/2017

The main subject of this article is the poetic portrayal of „Power” in the travelogue Das Land zwischen den Katarakten des Nil (in English: The Land Between the Cataracts of the Nile) by Anton Prokesch von Osten. Prokesch von Osten was an Austrian diplomat and travel writer in the 19th century. There are many reasons why this travelogue today should be considered an important and interesting literary work. Firstly, the travelogue Das Land zwischen den Katarakten des Nil is rich in detailed descriptions and historical, imagological, ethnographical and geographical information about the land to which Prokesch von Osten traveled in 1827 and that he described in his travelogue. Secondly, Anton Prokesch von Osten was a diplomat and a general, who had a very successful military and diplomatic career in Europe and in the Levant.

Die Reaktionen österreichischer Schriftsteller auf den Kriegseintritt Italiens am Beispiel der D’Annunzio-Rezeption

Author(s): Arturo Larcati / Language(s): German / Issue: 25/2016

Die vorliegende Studie analysiert die Reaktionen österreichischer Schriftsteller auf Italiens Kriegseintritt an der Seite der Entente im Mai 1915. Der Fokus liegt auf der D’Annunzio-Rezeption, weil der Autor der Laudi für diesen Schritt Italiens verantwortlich gemacht wird. Alles, was im österreichischen Literaturbetrieb Rang und Namen hat, beteiligt sich an der heftigen Polemik gegen den italienischen Dichter; dabei profiliert sich speziell Stefan Zweig – ein Umstand, der bisher in der Forschung unbeachtet geblieben ist. Die heftige Auseinandersetzung bietet den Autoren der Wiener Moderne die Möglichkeit, mit ihrer bisherigen D’Annunzio-Faszination abzurechnen.

Die Rezeption von Karl-Markus Gauß in Slowenien

Author(s): Tanja Žigon,Petra Kramberger / Language(s): German / Issue: 1-2/2020

This article deals with the reception of the Austrian writer, essayist, columnist, journalist, chronicler, editor, and critic Karl-Markus Gauß in Slovenia. Gauß has received several recognitions of his work, including the European Charles Veillon Essay Prize (Prix Européen de l’Essai Charles Veillon) in 1997, the Austrian Book Trade Honorary Award for Tolerance in Thought and Action (Ehrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln) in 2001, and the Austrian Art Prize for Literature (Österreichischer Kunstpreis für Literatur) in 2013, as well as two Slovenian awards: the Portorož International Award Writers Meeting at the Border (Srečanje pisateljev na meji) in 1989, and in 2005 the Vilenica award for outstanding achievement in literature at the twentieth Vilenica International Literary Festival, which brings together authors from Central Europe. This article presents Slovenian translations of Gauß’s works, their reception among critics and readers, and Gauß’s profile in Slovenian culture and literature.

Die Zerrissenheit des inneren Ichs im Roman Malina von Ingeborg Bachmann

Author(s): Sandina Herić,Anela Alijašević / Language(s): German / Issue: 13/2018

In der Arbeit wird die vielfältige innerliche Zerrissenheit des inneren Ichs der Hauptprotagonistin, deren Namen wir nicht kennen, analysiert. Besonders betont wird die emotionale Zerrissenheit, die Seelenlage und der innere Konflikt der Ich – Erzählerin. Thematisiert wird auch das Alter Ego in Bezug auf die Titelfigur Malina, der für den Verstand steht und das zerrissene Ich, das die Leidenschaft, Emotionalität, Hysterie und den Wahn symbolisiert.

Dođi, slatka smrti

Author(s): Wolf Haas / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 5-6/2016

Sada se ponovo nešto desilo. Ali dan, koji ovako počinje, može biti samo još gori. Ovo ne treba zvučati nekako praznovjerno. Sigurno ne pripadam ljudima koji se plaše kada im preko puta pređe crna mačka. Ili kada hitna pomoć prođe a ti se moraš odmah prekrstiti da ne bi bio sljedeći kojeg će kompjuterski tomograf isjeći na hiljade režnjeva.

Edgar Alan Po i teorija kratke priče

Author(s): Saša Simović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 9/2014

The concept of effect elaborated in his poetry, Edgar Allan Poe applied to the short story. In his well-known review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales (1842), Poe claims that apart from a poem the demands of a genius are best fulfi lled in the short story requiring from a half hour to one or two hours to be read in order to obtain the unity of effect and make it functional. According to Poe, in a well written story, each element has to fit into a previously conceived plan to contribute to the overall effect of the whole. This paper deals with fundamental postulates of Poe’s short story theory.

EIGENKULTUR – FREMDKULTUR

Author(s): Pál Deréky / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2003

Im Jahre 1909 brachen der Wiener Aktivist Rober Müller (1887–1924) und der Budapester Aktivist Lajos Kassák (1887–1967) zu einer jeweils exotischen Reise auf: Müller bereiste die Vereinigten Staaten, Mexiko, sowie einige Länder Mittelund Südamerikas, Kassák pilgerte nach Paris; er brauchte für seinen Fußmarsch etwa drei Monate. Es war nicht der Geist der Moderne oder der Avantgarde, die er dort suchte – „ich sah Paris und ich sah nichts“, schrieb er später –, es ging ihm, wie auch Müller im Urwald, um die eigene Wiedergeburt als „neuer Mensch“, als Literat mit großer Öffentlichkeitswirkung. Die Berichte beider Ich-Reisen wurden in Wien verlegt, Müllers erschien 1915, Kassáks 1922 (dt. 1923). Müller und Kassák lebten 1920–1924 in derselben Stadt und hatten sicher Kenntis über die Arbeit des jeweils anderen. Dass sie einander nie auch nur mit einem Wort erwähnt haben, liegt daran, dass (vereinfacht gesagt) Kassáks Konzeption der Massenwirksamkeit eine linke war, während die von Müller eher aus Begriffen der rechten Ideologien bestand.

ERZÄHLWENDE IN HANDKES DER KURZE BRIEF ZUM LANGEN ABSCHIED

Author(s): Anđelka Ž. Krstanović / Language(s): German / Issue: 33/2020

Peter Handkes Erzählung Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied stellt neben Wunschloses Unglück, ebenso 1971 entstanden, eine entscheidende Wende in Bezug auf narrative Strategien dar. Während Handke in den 1960erJahren mit traditionellen Erzählverfahren experimentiert, sublimiert er Anfang 1970er-Jahren diese Erfahrungen und vermittelt authentische Geschichten mit neugewonnen Erzählstrategien. Die angewandten Verfahren in den oben genannten Werken stellen somit eine Wende im Opus des Autors dar, die Handke als Grundkonstituenten seiner Poetik auch in späteren Werken beibehalten hat. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag werden Erzählverfahren in Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied analysiert, um die genannte Wende näher zu verdeutlichen. Zudem wird die Position dieser Erzählung im Gesamtwerk des Autors interpretiert.

FRANZ KAFKA, ”THE METAMORPHOSIS” – EXPRESSION OF THE RELATION BETWEEN ANTROPOLOGY AND HEALTH

Author(s): Clementina Mihăilescu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 11/2017

The paper expands upon Kafka's “Metamorphosis” as the extreme representation of alienation neurosis caused by “the arbitrary character of the infinite and by existential absurdity” (Chira, 183). From a methodological point of view, we will turn to good account the concept of “time's thermodynamical arrowˮ which reveals “the sense of time where disorder or entropy increases” (Hawking, 113). In order to properly approach the individual disorder and the mental and spiritual dislocation of Kafka's character, Jung's psycho-analytical theory, Bachelard's aesthetics and Chira's interdisciplinary studies will be also taken into account and closely observed in our analysis of the dramatic effects of the extreme form of alienation described in “Metamorphosis”.

Franz Werfel – držeći povijest za riječ

Author(s): Rüdiger Görner / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 1+2/2014

Pripovijedanje smatra da povijest neutralizira pripovijesti1. Povijest može epizodno nadahnjivati pripovijesti, ali pripovijesti ne mogu tražiti da budu povijesna istina. Ipak, pripovijest koja zorno prikazuje povijesne događaje ima svoju vrijednost zbog sposobnosti predaje. U takvim narativnim konstelacijama, da upotrijebimo pojam znanstvenice Kate Hamburger, “estetska istina” stoji uz bok povijesne istine. Iz određenja relacije između ove dvije istine rezultira specifi čna vrijednost književnog djela, romana, “Četrdeset dana Muse Dagha”.

Granice jezika, granice svijeta

Author(s): Vahidin Preljević / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 5-6/2016

Pisanje povijesti književnosti također ima svoju povijest i ona nije uvijek bila slavna, a ni književna. Već sami njeni počeci, naime, manje su obilježeni voljom za proučavanjem književno-estetskih fenomena a više političkim motivima. Književno-povijesna epistema formira se u postromantičarskom periodu nakon napoleonskih ratova u Evropi, i ona je, primjerice, u njemačkom govornom području, predstavljala izraz legitimiranja »duhovnog jedinstva njemačkog naroda«, koji je tada još bio daleko od postizanja državnog jedinstva. Konstruiranje nacionalne historije književnosti trebalo je, kao, recimo, u G.G. Gervinusovoj Povijesti njemačkog pjesništva (1835), poslužiti kao nadomjestak za nedostajući stabilan kulturni i politički identitet. Estetička razmatranja gurnuta su u drugi plan, a funkcionalno stavljanje pisaca i djela u, po mogućnosti što duži, niz velike nacionalno-kulturološke priče »od početaka do sadašnjosti« postalo je glavnim obilježjem proučavanja književnosti.

HA ОСТРВУ AПСТРAКЦИЈE - МИЛОШ ЦРЊAНСКИ И ГEОРГ ТРAКЛ

Author(s): Sonja V. Veselinović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 3/2006

Since some of the crucial Expressionist features have been diagnosed in the poetry of Miloš Crnjanski, but his actual relation with the main Expressionist poets has not been researched, the author of this paper seeks to determine the structural and topical affinities of Miloš Crnjanski’s and Georg Trakl’s poetries. The poetics of Expressionism establishes the abstract as the dominant category of the poetic universe that rearranges the reality. The permanent tendency of the lyrical subject in Trakl’s poems, and of the poet himself, is to find the correlations between disparate subject matters and to found a „higher reality” on such grounds. The ambition of this paper’s author is to reveal this principle, or at least its rudimentary form, manifesting in various aspects of Miloš Crnjanski’s work.

Hermann Bahr, južni Slaveni, austrijska politika i književnost kao pitanje

Author(s): Ivan Pederin / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 44/2016

The Austrian author Hermann Bahr, who is considered the head of the Austrian Moderne a leading personality of this group he tried to create some points of orientation in the new mouvement in literature. First he created an idea of that what he defi ned Naturalismus. For Naturalismus he understood most of the literature up to his time. He did not write a systematic analysis of Naturalismus, he condemned it making exception to a handful of great authors of past times. Moderne was a literature free of any anegdotes or commenting style, which is a landmark of Naturalismus. Literature is not a narration but a Form . Bahr wrote a book on Goethe. That is not his biography (the Germanistik has abundant notice of his life) but a view on Goethe in the eyes of his acquiantances and friends. Goethe wasnot a voluble man sometime talkative and sometime not. And fi nally Goethe was not a happy person. This Goethe-picture could be ranged to Baudelaires poetemaudit. It is a perfect non-academic pamphlet. And fi nally Bahr wrote on the political situation of the Empire and its Kingdoms of his time. He wrote that being the small man of the street who had not insigt in the activities of the goverment because Austria-Hungary still was an absolutist Monarchy.

Hermann Broch († 30. Mai 1951)

Author(s): Egon Vietta,Heinz Politzer / Language(s): German / Issue: 036/1951

* Essay about Hermann Broch by Egon Vietta * Remembrance of Heinz Politzer * extract from "Pasenow oder die Romantik" * extract from "Esch oder die Anarchie" * extract from "Huguenau oder die Sachlichkeit" * extract from "Der Tod des Vergil"

HORROR VACUI ИЛИ УЖАСИ ПРАЗНИНЕ У РОМАНУ НЕСРЕЋА БЕЗ ЖЕЉА ПЕТРА ХАНДКЕА

Author(s): Marija Jeftimijević Mihajlović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 3/2020

The novel by Peter Handke Wunschloses unglück Erzählung that has been translated in Serbian as A Misery Without Desires, in 1972, represents a true small literary masterpiece where is, in an intimate confession about the life of a mother who ended her life by taking an overdose of sleeping pills, revealed a whole philosophy of the horror of the emptiness of life on one hand, and the autoreferential aspect of the author himself who gives his poetic insights about the meaning of literature/writing in resisting such a horror, or in overcoming it. The use of expression “horror” is double motivated, that is, it has two meanings: first, it signifies a horror of emptiness that comes up with his mother’s death, and the second, it designates a horror of the mother’s life that the writer tries to depict and narrate. Therefore, the spaces of horror are in the one who narrates and in the one who was the subject of narration. Still, the real question is: do the spaces accumulate or multiply by writing, that is, do they enlarge, or does the writing help in overcoming the fear of them? Although Handke clearly states that “writing didn’t help,” he doesn’t deny that merely describing, as an attempt to find a precise and an adequate depiction of a mental state, brings “some joy” or “it turns the bliss of emptiness into a bliss of memories,” which implies that writing annuls the fear. Horror vacui, or “fear of emptiness,” a term that originates from Aristotle, and the term that the author uses at the end of his novel, implies that a more precise usage/translation would be not fear but horror because the horror is the subject of this lyrical novel A Misery Without Desires. This novel arises in a boiling fusion of a tragic personal event, as a „horror vacui in the consciousness“ and represents an existential drama with “the elements of the horror” that are less of Sartre’s nausea and more of Berdyaev’s sorrow for a high form of life, for the spaces of existence that are beyond dreams and that can be reached by one way only – by desire. Described and defined by a circle (of one life) as a determinant, the novel A Misery Without Desires represents a significant and symbolic full stop that is put in defense of a tragically ended life and on a person’s right to stay alone in the personal misery, without desires to fill the horrors of emptiness with the presence or words of others. That space of stupor that emerged by the mother’s death, as a state of quivered and disturbed consciousness, has been to an extent or temporarily filled with writing as a possible way of overcoming the fear of emptiness that comes with death.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Das Prosawerk des Dichters

Author(s): Max Rychner / Language(s): German / Issue: 051/1952

Hugo von Hofmannsthals Kriegsziel-Notizen im Kontext deutscher und österreichischer Südosteuropa-Konzepte im Ersten Weltkrieg

Author(s): Primus-Heinz Kucher / Language(s): German / Issue: 25/2016

Ausgehend von den im Zuge der kritischen Werkausgabe erstmals vollständig edierten Notizen und Aufzeichnungen Hofmannsthals zum Ersten Weltkrieg befasst sich der Beitrag mit dem Stellenwert und der Art dieser Notizen und Reflexionen. In weiterer Folge werden diese mit den für die »Neue Freie Presse« verfassten Kriegsfeuilletons sowie mit den relevanten Briefwechseln (v.a. mit E. Bodenhausen, Harry Graf Kessler, J. Redlich) abgeglichen. Schließlich rekonstruiert der Beitrag die bei Hofmannstahl nachweisbaren Lektüren zeitgenössischer Kriegszielpublikationen und kontrastiert sie mit den eigenen, stärker kulturpolitisch ausgerichteten Vorträgen und Publikationsvorhaben zwischen 1915 und 1917.