Die Natur in den „Psalmen“ von SAID im religiösen Kontext

Author(s): Anna Dąbrowska / Language(s): German Issue: 05/2015

The “Psalms” of SAID refer to the Islamic and Judeo-Christian traditions, and at the same time they exceed far beyond the scope of three great monotheistic religions. The thesis of this article is as follows: the vision of nature presented by SAID is contrary to anthropocentric perspective that is dominant in three great monotheistic religions (in the framework of the relation between man and another elements of creation). The relation between God, man and other elements of creation cannot always be reconciled with the principles of these religions. The lyrical subject hopes, that the man becomes more integral part of the world and doesn’t have the privileged status among the other elements of creation. Not only does the lyrical subject distance itself from the anthropocentric and theocentric perspective, but also it creates its own, poetically supra-denominational image of God created from the spirit of nature.

W obronie sprawiedliwości: Eleonora Kalkowska (1883-1937) – między Warszawą a Berlinem

Author(s): Joanna Ławnikowska-Koper / Language(s): Polish Issue: 05/2015

The study devoted to the forgotten Polish-German actress and writer, Eleonora Kalkowska, is a contribution to the reception of her works. The author makes an attempt to order the current state of the research in both Germany and Poland. Consequently, she depicts Kalkowska’s artistic development: from love poetry (Die Oktave, 1912), through anti-war lyrics (Der Rauch des Opfers, 1916), up to social drama of the in-between-the-wars period (Josef, Zeitungsnotitzen, 1932), of which Kalkowska is an eminent representative. Transnational quality of her works has been noticed here, whose most important idea is social justice and defense of humanity. The uniqueness of her writing is characterized by the form and manner of realizing her artistic mission, both from a humanistic, Christian and woman’s perspective.

Elementy sacrum w powieści Corpus Christi Patricka Rotha

Author(s): Ewa Anna Piasta / Language(s): Polish Issue: 05/2015

The article discusses the novel Corpus Christi, the third part of a literary trilogy by Patrick Roth, a contemporary German writer currently living in Los Angeles. All Roth’s plots focus on human attitudes towards the received message concerning the Messianic Jesus. The author concentrates on the image of Jesus present in the psyche of contemporary people in order to show the process of cognition of spiritual matters. The analysis aims to trace in the novel both biblical references and elements which depict the mystical experience leading to an individual’s spiritual transformation. The novel Corpus Christi, whose very title has theological connotations, features scenes, characters and plot patterns derived from the Bible. they are, however, subject to the author’s innovative modifications. The text contains more references to the transcendental than depictions of the temporal. Both realities are inseparable and intersect. The sacred, which imposes the need for worship and transcends the horizon of the temporal, is shown by means of images deeply rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Moderne politics of fear

Zur privaten und öffentlichen Verunsicherung der Weltrisikogesellschaft in Marlene Streeruwitz’ Die Schmerzmacherin (2011) und Thomas von Steinaeckers Das Jahr, in dem ich aufhörte mir Sorgen zu machen und anfing zu träumen (2013)

Author(s): Anna Rutka / Language(s): German Issue: 05/2015

The article discusses contemporary strategies of presenting the global threat in so called global risk society (Ulrich Beck), basing on the novels of Marlene Streeruwitz and Thomas von Steinaecker. Both works may well be interpreted as a thorough diagnosis of both private and social alarmism. Continuous anticipation of threats and a permanent wish to insure against all possible risks limit individual and public freedom, trigger a notion of instability and make citizens become the hostages of insuarance agencies and security companies.

Peter Bichsels Poetik des Erzählens im Lichte der Erkenntnisse der Geschichtenphilosophie, der Theorie der narrativen Identität und der narrativen Psychologie

Author(s): Amelia Szuba-Wenk / Language(s): German Issue: 05/2015

Urs Faes, Sommer in Brandenburg: Roman

Author(s): Małgorzata Dubrowska / Language(s): German Issue: 05/2015

Halina Ludorowska, Bliżej pełni. Późna twórczość Christy Wolf (1990–2010)

Author(s): Małgorzata Dubrowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 05/2015

Christa Wolf, Ein Tag im neuen Jahrhundert 2001-2011

Author(s): Małgorzata Dubrowska / Language(s): German Issue: 05/2015

Lech Kolago, Die Dichterin Annette von Droste-Hülshoff als Komponistin. Zum Wort-Ton-Verhältnis in ihrem lyrisch-musikalischen Werk

Author(s): Marek Jakubów / Language(s): Polish Issue: 05/2015

Umjetnost i bolest u romanu "Dr.Faustus" Thomasa Manna

Author(s): Nadira Puškar Mustafić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 9/2012

El nem sírt könnyei(n)k

Alexander és Margarete Mitscherlich: A gyászolásra képtelenül: A közösségi viselkedés alapjai

Author(s): Zsuzsanna Agora (Kiss) / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1-2/2015

Alexander és Margarete Mitscherlich: A gyászolásra képtelenül. A közösségi viselkedés alapjai Piper Verlag, München – Múlt és Jövő Kiadó, Bp., 2014. 254 oldal, 3600 Ft

Pierwszy cieszyński Heimatroman

Author(s): Grażyna Kubica / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

Edith was born on June 10, 1890 and lived with her parents in the very center of Cieszyn, in the palace bought from Count Larisch by her great-grandfather, the lawyer Anton Demel.

„Új-zsidó” tudat és bibliai motívumok Kafka Amerika-regényében

Author(s): Sándor Komáromi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2017

Krings, Marcel: „Man konnte gar nicht bemessen, wie weit das Haus in die Höhe reichte” – ‚Neues Judentum’ und Architektur in Kafkas „Verschollenem”. = Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte. 90. Jg. 2016. No. 2. 271-299. p.

AUFLÖSUNG DES MEDIALEN: THOMAS MANNS JOSEPH UND SEINE BRÜDER UND RICHARD WAGNERS RING DES NIBELUNGEN

Author(s): Onur Kemal Bazarkaya,Burcu Öztürk / Language(s): German Issue: 10/2017

Der Einfluss von Richard Wagners Operntetralogie Der Ring des Nibelungen auf Thomas Manns Romanzyklus Joseph und seine Brüder ist in der Forschung unbestritten. Zwischen beiden bestehen offenkundige Parallelen, von denen die wichtigste wohl die Inszenierung germanischer bzw. biblischer Mythen ist. Gleichwohl lässt sich der Joseph-Roman gerade in diesem Punkt als künstlerischer Gegenentwurf zu seiner Opernvorlage lesen; denn während ihr das Ziel zugrunde liegt, das Publikum in einen tranceähnlichen Zustand zu versetzen, in dem es den dargebotenen Mythos als den eigentlichen miterlebt, kann der Leser nur durch den kritischen Intellekt an der Mythos-Inszenierung des Textes teilhaben. In diesem Zusammenhang erscheint die Frage nach dem medialen Verhältnis, das der Roman zu seiner Vorlage aufweist, von zentraler Bedeutung. Im Nachfolgenden soll die Mythos-Inszenierung von Joseph und seine Brüder vor dem Hintergrund des Wagner’schen, Gesamtkunstwerks‘ in ihren spezifischen Funktionsweisen herausgearbeitet werden. Als Textgrundlage wird dabei der erste Teil des Romans dienen, wo seine erzähltechnischen Voraussetzungen explizit zur Sprache kommen. Die These lautet, dass Joseph und seine Brüder medial gesehen stark von seiner Relation zum Ring des Nibelungen bedingt ist und im Text daher ein Phänomen entsteht, das in ähnlicher Form auch in der Kunst Wagners auftritt: die Tendenz zur Auflösung des Medialen

Metafora e miut

Author(s): Orjela Stafasani / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 4/2015

Gunter Grass's novel "Cat and Mouse" is conceived by the author as part of the Danzig trilogy, which has the country (Danzig) and the time (World War II) as two constant elements. The novel is especially appreciated for figurative semantics and narrative play. While the story-line or the linearity of the story is simple, the novel complicates the analeptic and the proleptic passages, telling the story from different angles and attitudes, making multiple digressions and creating a discrete polyphony.

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.

Hermanna Brocha analiza faszyzmu

Author(s): Jakub Z. Lichański / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

Like many other German-speaking writers, Hermann Broch was forced to emigrate from Nazi Germany at the end of the 1930s. It was partly due to the criticism of the fascist movement that he had presented in the then-titled Bergroman [Mountain Novel], which took its final shape as Der Versucher [The Seducer] and was published posthumously under the title The Spell [Die Verzauberung]. Another novel depicting the development of fascism is Broch’s Die Schuldlosen: Ein Roman in elf Erzählungen [The Guiltless Ones. A Novel in Eleven Stories]. Broch also wrote Adolf Hitler’s Farewell Address, an essay that can be read as a sort of completion to the abovementioned books since it providesan even more directinsight into the Nazi mind, portraying it from within. In his works, Hermann Broch describes spiritual as well as specifically social roots of fascism: any autocratic movement characterized by the rejection of Platonic idealism and thus, inevitably, of the Christian tradition itself.

Na drodze do dyktatury. Polityka i propaganda Republiki Weimarskiej w prasie niemieckiej i polskiej w Niemczech do roku 1933

Author(s): Marek Ostrowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

The article discusses the Polish-German relations in the press during the Weimar Republic.

Czy w NRD istniała cenzura literacka? Przekształcenia i biurokratyczno-organizacyjne umocowanie urzędu kontroli literatury w NRD

Author(s): Marek Rajch / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

In communist countries censorship offices were the final link in the entire process of control of a given literary text before its publication. The Polish Central Office for the Control of Press, Publications and Performances of the ideological and political control of the manuscripts submitted. The [formulation of the] publication schedule and monitoring its implementation was done by institutions answerable to the Ministry of Culture and Art. In the GDR right from the start attempts were made to concentrate the two forms of control in one institution, which ultimately took place in 1963 after the establishment of the Central Board of Publishing Houses and Book Trade (Hauptverwaltung Verlage und Buchhandel). This institution held logistical and economic control of publishing houses, supervising from day one the publication schedules and monitoring the books prepared for issue as to their ideological and political content. It also made the final decision as to whether given books can come out and on what conditions, or whether their publication should be prevented.

Propaganda i rzeczywistość nazistowska widziana oczami dziecka w powieści Johna Boyne’a Chłopiec w pasiastej piżamie

Author(s): Paweł Moskała / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

The aim of the article is to present the Nazi reality and its propaganda as seen through the eyes of Bruno – the hero of the novel John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The narrative shown from the perspective of a child reveals, in a unique way, the mechanics of demagogy and manipulation used by the Nazi propaganda. The symbolic fence between Bruno, the son of the concentration camp commandant, and a Jewish boy of the same age named Schmul, becomes the main theme of the novel. The story of the novel reveals the entanglement of the children in the workings of the history. Such a story construction is a starting point for the author of the article for the analysis of the complexity of propaganda measures and their influence on a young person, mainly in the affective, intellectual and social dimensions. The analysis involves not only the linguistic layer of the novel, but also the topography of the place and the characteristic use of Nazi symbols.