"Auschwitz hin, Supermarkt her". Das musikalische Erschreiben der Gesellschaft der 1970er Jahre in Eckhard Henscheids "Die Mätresse des Bischofs"

Author(s): Martin Schneider / Language(s): German / Issue: 26/2017

The article interprets Eckhard Henscheids novel "Die Mätresse des Bischofs", first published in 1978, as an attempt to use musical writing in order to transform the German society of the late Seventies. The novel creates a textual score, in which different manners of contemporary social speech are interlaced with the memory of National Socialism, war and the Holocaust. In this context, the article relates Henscheid’s so far undervalued novel to the writings of Thomas Bernhard and the musical philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno.

(Ne)odmjereno pisanje

Author(s): Ilija Trojanow / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 3-4/2019

Poetološko predavanje održano u okviru projekta Sarajevska poetička docentura na Filozofskom fakultetu u Sarajevu 22. 05. 2019. godine.

25 години Немска библиотека във ВТУ

Author(s): Sashka Pencheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2019

A németszakosság társadalmi természete (1873–1945)

Author(s): Zsuzsanna Hanna Biró / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2012

The goal of the paper is to explore the social history of the teaching of German language and literature in secondary schools in a period in which the German language was necessary for intellect-based careers and in elite education (1895–1945). The researcher’s interest is in comprehending what was specific to humanities education and to the profession of teaching in a secondary school. The most relevant social factor motivating someone in a choice of German studies was ethnic provenience. The marker of being “German” identified in one’s personal name was less decisive in this respect than the ethnic character of the socializing environment of graduates of humanities. A further factor refers to the religious denomination of graduates – Jews, Lutherans and Unitarians can be said to have had more of an affinity for German studies; while the attitudes of Calvinists to German studies were negative. With an obvious over-representation of women, German studies graduates had usually descended from affluent families – and this was also reflected in study results. The most typical occupational areas where the parents of students pursuing German studies usually occur are those of the armed forces (soldiers, security and police), and professions associated with the intelligentsia where the German and Jewish middle-class were over-represented (doctors, physicians, lawyers, bankers, businessmen etc.). Surveys taking on board regions show that the most important environmental factor here was everyday utilization of the German language; thus, members of the German-speaking minority, Hungarians living in German-speaking areas of the Dualist Monarchy and also foreigners who utilised the German language in Hungarian-speaking areas as a “lingua franca” were all keen to choose German studies.

Abendliche Häuser. Eduard von Keyserlings Darstellung der adligen Welt und die von Marie von Ebner- Eschenbach. Vortrag in Brno /Brünn bei der Konferenz zum 100. Todestag der Dichterin am 22. April 2016

Author(s): Hans Dieter Zimmermann / Language(s): German / Issue: 01+02/2016

Eduard Graf Keyserling wurde am 2. Mai 1855 nach dem julianischen Kalender, am 14. Mai 1855 nach dem gregorianischen Kalender in Schloss Paddern bei Hasenpoth in Kurland geboren. Kurland klingt wie der Name aus einem Märchen, Kurland aber gab es und gibt es immer noch. Es ist heute ein Teil der Republik Lettland. Es hat eine bewegte Geschichte. Lange stand es unter der Herrschaft der polnischen Könige, ab 1795 dann unter der des russischen Zaren, doch änderte dies wenig an seiner Verfassung und Lebensweise. Es war weitgehend autonom, ein fruchtbares Land, in dem der deutsch- baltische Adel den Ton angab. Und zu diesem Adel gehörte die Familie Keyserling.

Acculturation Process and Ethnic Identity of Immigrants in Germany

Author(s): Liudmyla Smokova / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

In the present study, we discuss psychological acculturation, by which we mean the internal processes of change that immigrants experience when they come into direct contact with members of the host culture. The model we present builds on research in the areas of social and ethnic identity. Each of these perspectives is discussed in accordance with its relevance to the acculturative processes operating in immigrants. We understand ethnic identity as a dynamic state, that is determined by three components: (1) by the degree of inclusion in the group of one’s cultural origin; (2) the tendency to assimilate to the ethnic group of origin; and (3) the complementary tendency to differentiate from one’s own ethnic group. Social identity conveys belonging of the individual to different social categories and the value as well as emotional significance of this membership. We have sought to explain how the processes of social categorization, inand out-group identification and social comparison predetermine the direction of the acculturation process and hence the intercultural interaction and wellbeing of the youth from immigrant backgrounds in Germany. Results indicated that immigrants who have more identified themselves with dominant society have expressed the strong preference to integration strategies. The immigrants that had a high degree of ethnic identification have expressed the low preference to the integration as well to marginalization and assimilation. In its turn, the powerful feeling of belonging to an ethnic group and attitude towards the group promotes immigrants segregation choice.

Addiction to Boredom in Arthur Schopenhauer, Martin Heidegger and William Lovell, an Epistolary Novel by Ludwig Tieck

Author(s): Anthony Lack / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

With the work of philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Martin Heidegger forming the theoretical basis, and Ludwig Tieck’s Romantic novel, William Lovell, as the literary source, this paper addresses the following questions: What is boredom and what functions does it perform for those who experience it? Is time spent in boredom always a waste of time or can it be existentially significant? Can the mood of boredom become habit forming or addictive? The argument presented here suggests that the answer is yes, boredom can become an addiction, for a number of reasons. Boredom is a distraction from deeper sources of suffering. Boredom can function ideologically, providing a rationalization for human behaviors that seem to have no meaning. Boredom is similar to nostalgia, since it often functions as a means to escape from the present. Remaining in states of shallow boredom can prevent slipping into the more existentially significant form of profound boredom. Profound boredom is the type of boredom that can awaken us to our lives and force us to reckon with ourselves. This is a challenge, and to avoid that challenge we can become subconsciously addicted to the shallower form of boredom.

ADRESA SVEMIR - NEKOLIKO PORUKA

Author(s): Wolfram Lotz / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 158-159/2012

Drama play by Wolfram Lotz

AGLAJA VETERANYI AND THE MYTH OF ALL POSSIBILITIES

Author(s): Marius Mihet / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

Aglaja Veteranyi's short novel, Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta, shows the boundaries of a solitude assaulted from all directions. Only within the mirror-games of an improvised stage reality did she find the outlet to transfer her anguishes. An infantile narrator gets different distancing from the limits of the language and the limits of freedom. Aglaja Veteranyi lends the narrator her own mirrors. Unable to export feelings, she is aware that they return as fears and sufferings: ”I don’t scream. I’ve thrown my mouth away”. Her destiny is, from this regard, under the sign of simulacrum. The circus is in itself a simulacrum of the world. It cannot change anything consistently in the people belonging to it. The mask of happiness becomes compulsory for the narrating self. Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta is a collection of impossibilities. Reading the story of Veteranyi one has the feeling of being captive into an orphanage that has replaced the world. The result is a tension that excludes any idea of a paradise.

Akcja „Reinhardt” w świetle najnowszej niemieckiej literatury przedmiotu

Author(s): Stephan Lehnstaedt / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 13/2017

Akcja „Reinhardt” to niemieckim określenie maskujące, za którym kryje się wymordowanie w latach 1942–1943 co najmniej 1,8 mln Żydów w obozach zagłady w Bełżcu, Sobiborze i Treblince. Spośród Żydów skierowanych do tych obozów przeżyło mniej niż 150 osób. Dwie z nich to ocaleni z Bełżca, pozostali zaś mniej więcej po połowie przeszli przez obozy zagłady w Sobiborze i Treblince. Prawie wszyscy wyjechali po wojnie z Polski – do Izraela albo do Stanów Zjednoczonych.

Alman Yazar Heinrich Böll’ün Kisa Hikayelerinde Ii. Dünya Savaşi’nin İzleri

Author(s): Fesun Kosmak / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 66/2011

German author Heinrich Böll narrates the Second World War in his short stories and expresses the problems which people have to face after the war. As he experienced the war, Böll deeply understands how lives changed after the war. Böll, writes about people in desperate situation. The war changed lives of people from each social class negatively. However, Böll underlines the fact that it were children and elderly who were affected severely by the war. The aim of this paper is to display how the traces of war are reflected in Heinrich Böll’s “Die Botschaft” and “Mein teures Bein”.

An Ethnography of the Production of Translation: Literatures from the (Semi) Periphery on the German Publishing Market

Author(s): Pawel Zajas / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

This article discusses the processes of bringing translations of literatures from nations on the (semi)periphery to the German publishing market. Using Dutch and Polish literatures as case studies, and drawing empirical data from the archives of the publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag, covering the period from the early 1960s until 1993. Zajas examines what aspects of the German publishing landscape have propelled Dutch literature to a relatively prominent position in the second half of the twentieth century, while literary translations from Polish came to only about half the number and were thus relegated to the periphery. Latour’s actor-network theory (ANT) allows Zajas to broaden the theoretical scope of the scholarship on the social and organizational conditions of translation.

Analizë krahasuese e dy versioneve të përkthimit të poezisë së Hajnrih Hajnes "Lorelaja" në gjuhën shqipe

Author(s): Naim Kryeziu / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 23/2018

This comparative analysis of two Albanian translated versions of the famous poem "Loreley" by the prominent German lyrical poet Heinrich Heine has been carried out considering the basic principles of the translation of a poetic work. It is self-evident that the translator of poetry faces more difficulties than the translator of prose, due to his work with the poetic form, style, the number of lines, versification, euphony, rhythm and rhyme, figures and symbols, wordplay and the play with sound, etc. Nevertheless, the translator of poetry must aim at a translated version that gives the impression of sounding as the original, first and foremost, and then that his translation be appropriate to the aesthetic values of the original form. The tale of Loreley, an oral folk figure of the Rhine River, a nymph that is as charming as she is fatal, remains Heine's most famous poem. Its distant origin, and the musical composition of the well-known German composer Friedrich Silcher since 1837, made possible that "Lorelei" be sung in the nineteenth century generally as a folksong, that continues to be referred to, outside Germany, as "a German folk song". Thus, this poem is related, first and foremost, with two events: with Silcher's composition, and with the fate it had during Nazism when a ridiculous decision was made to publish it under the note "unknown author". These events are a very intricate relationship due to the fact that this poem, when it was turned into music, pierced so deeply into the national consciousness that its author could not be erased from the minds of the people although in such a time he was declared a persona non grata and the publication of his works strictly forbidden. As a consequence, the Nazi failed to vaproize Heine's "Loreley", succeeding only in erasing hte name of the author. This poem, which must have been written aroung the end of 1823 and which was published without a title when the author was alive, is the second poem in the poetic collection titles "The Homecoming", a cycle of poems that was included in the renowned work "Book of Songs", published in 1827.

Anna Seghers’in Ölüler Genç Kalır Adlı Romanında Narsisizm Ve Ötekilik İzlekleri

Author(s): Cihan Tuncer / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 28/2015

This study explores one of the most important writer Anna Seghers’ work called The Dead Stay Young. It is considered important as it reflects Hitler’s impact on German society socially and psychologically. The novel was analysed in the context of narcissism and otherness and these themes were scrutinized through the novel characters.

ANNAMARIE SCHIMMEL (1922-2003)

Author(s): Enes Karic / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 15/2003

This text gives a review of the most important facts relating to the life of Annemarie Schimmell and includes her most significant works. The author placed an emphasis on her role in promoting Islamic studies in Europe and in the West and particularly on the role she had in the translations of the great works of Islam into the Western languages. The author calls her a diva of Islamic - oriental studies in Europe and believes her to be perhaps the greatest woman authority on Islam in the West. Her death in 2003 meant a great loss for Islamic studies in Europe and particularly in Germany.

Antike und Christentum - Zur Überlagerung intertextueller Bezugnahmen in Heinrich Bölls Kurzgeschichte „Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa...“

Author(s): Magdolna Orosz / Language(s): German / Issue: 1(2)/2007

The analysis of the narrative structure in a short story of Heinrich Böll reveals some deeper motivic relations which are interrelated with intertextual elements suggesting the opposition of cultural and moral values to be interpreted in an oscillating reception process.

Antinarrative Verfahren in Peter Handkes Roman Die Hornissen

Author(s): Andelka Ž. Krstanovic / Language(s): German / Issue: 15/2017

This paper explores narrative procedures in Peter Handke’s first novel, The Hornet, published in 1966. Genet’s model of two planes – discourse and story – serves as a theoretical basis for the analysis. During the 1960s, Handke uses experimental narrative procedures in his texts, critically pointing to linguistic stereotypes and models of narration, by which the adoption of subjective illusion as a genuine reality is imposed on the recipient. The narrative strategy applied in this novel shows that it is the nature of a narrative act rather than the story that is in Handke’s focus. Thus, all the procedures are aimed at breaking the illusion, and not constituting it. As a result, these procedures are defined as anti-narrative in the paper. At the level of discourse, the author deploys concrete examples to present the procedures of deconstructing by change of voice and by playing with narrative levels, vague focalisation, and the inability of reconstructing time. In addition, the ways in which the narrator is revealed as unreliable are identified. Similarly, at the communicative level, it is explained how the narrator goes beyond the function of a message sender. Finally, the analysis comprises metanarrative comments and their function of preventing one from indulging into the diegetic world.

Antyk jako źródło inspiracji w hitlerowskich Niemczech

Author(s): Agnieszka Wypiorczyk / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

APPROACHING FROM BOTH SIDES – CONTEMPORARY HUNGARIAN-GERMAN MINORITY LITERATURE AS A CHALLENGE FOR THE HUNGARIAN STUDIES

Author(s): Erika Regner / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2013

The aim of this paper is to propose a cross-cultural approach to contemporary Hungarian-German minority literature comprising texts written both in German and in Hungarian in order to give an adequate description of the Hungarian-German minority’s literary scene. Also, the significance of this specific minority literature within the context of culture and heritage conservation and its true identity-forming potential can be analysed that way. First results indicate that Hungarian-German literature can help to (re)gain an authentic minority consciousness, but this requires not only a revaluation of the Hungarian-German literary institutions but also the capability to reinvent Hungarian-German literature on the part of the youngest generation of minority writers.

Aroma e rrëfimit

Author(s): Albulena Blakaj-Gashi / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 2/2014

Perfume, the postmodern novel by Patrick Süskind, which became a world bestseller, was accompanied by much of a fuss. The novel of the author, which iswell known for his unusual behavior, has had tremendous success all over the world, both as a novel and as a film. But what gave the book the incredible success, what gave it that universal 'exitement'? Was it the always prefered mixture of the historical novel and criminological story embodied in a piece of history of customs and culture, that shaked the world? Can it be a direct narrative style, with an exquisit and rich, but not difficult description language? Or was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille's figure, in which Süskind succeeds in creating a figure with a character that no reader can ever forget? Who in his instinctive hunt for the scent of the scents kills the most beautiful girls? A figure, though monster, again makes the reader collaborator, makes him hope that this unscrupulous slave of his nose, against all his atrocities again will be saved? Was it the end of the novel, in which Süskind succeeds in creating an apotheosis of the mythological rank, a magnificent display of orgy of the mass, a show of seduction, the temptation of menkind, or rather an incomprehensible effect of a disgusting and hated criminal over civilized people? Or was it the brilliant idea of breaking the narrative boundaries, putting the most elusive sense at the center of its history, to show us that people, without being aware of it, ultimately surrender to the sublime aromas, sounds, proportion? Or when, as with the novel, where Süskind makes smelling the element for the space and objects identification, the movie Perfume, breaks the cliché that the movie can not visualize the scent? This paper deals with these and other releated issues.