"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.

"Procesi" i Franc Kafkës mes realitetit dhe literalitetit

Author(s): Muhamet Peci / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 25/2020

Franc Kafka is one of those authors that have endowed an incomparable inheritance in the context of world literature. His novel “The Process” is one of the most debatable and this discussion on the novel has continued to this day amongst art and literature personalities, but has also expanded onto other fields. The connection between the fictional time to the historical one, but also the expansion beyond the historic perspective is one of the aspects of interest to this article. The problem of space can also be discussed from the same perspective. Although a specific time and space pertaining to reality is alluded to in the text, nevertheless this fact is hidden in the novel which provides an impression that this historic time and space might not exist and might be ahistoric. Elements and situations of the absurd in the novel form a very important element in this article. Duly noted in “The Process”, such situations are then reflected upon while considering Kafka’s oeuvre. Starting from elements of the absurd, certain conclusions will arise about the interpretation of the work and its reception in different times and spaces.

(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.

(Nie)Pamięć o wiekach średnich w powieści Mai Jurkowskiej Katedra

Author(s): Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec / Language(s): Polish,German / Publication Year: 0

Literature is one of those areas of human activity which functions within the culture of memory. It is indeed one of the means of creating memory – many narratives are concerned with the way in which individuals and communities remember and forget, as well as the way in which they forge their own identity. Modern literature has made the exploration of memory patterns one of is most important themes. The paper constitutes an attempt to analyse the literary images of the cathedral in connection with the patterns of individual and communal memory in Maja Jurkowska’s novel Katedra in the context of Polish and German memory discourse.

(Re)Negocjacje kultur pamięci – słowo wstępne

Author(s): Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec,Dominika Wyrzykiewicz / Language(s): Polish,German / Publication Year: 0

Memory – Discourse – Identity. Interdisciplinary Reflections is a bilingual book aligning with the memorial discourse trend. It contains reflections on the condition of man and the world in the context of Polish and German memory discourse in the post-war culture. The authors refer to the category of memory in public and private dimensions and present various approaches to the issues of memory turn and transformations concerning mutual relations and interpenetration of literature, music, art. And contemporary media. The book includes the papers written by German and Polish studies scholars, historians, and art. Historians from Poland, Germany and Spain.

,Ent-Spatialisierung‘? oder: Das Scheitern der insularen Existenz in THEODOR STORMS Novelle Waldwinkel, mit Seitenblicken auf RAABE und STIFTER

Author(s): Torsten Voß / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2019

The article deals with successful and unsuccessful constructions of the island utopia (which, however, are not bound to any real island, as in so many designs of the century, which are, however, briefly referred to), in terms of narrative issues and approaches from the Spatial Turn, and connects them with resolution tendencies of the so-called romantic “loneliness of the forest.” Das Odfeld (1889) by RAABES and Die Narrenburg (1844) by ADALBERT STIFTER’S are discussed, and in particular THEODOR STORM’S greatly underrated and little-interpreted novel Waldwinkel (1874), as an unattractive and there-fore innovative counter-model, which shows openly how time, and history itself, break into the spatial utopia, and thereby transfer it to a realistic level.

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.

Abejoti dėl laiko. Belaikiškumas vėlyvojoje Paulio Celano kūryboje

Author(s): Inga Bartkuvienė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 4/2019

The poetry of Paul Celan has a reflected intention to ask about the temporal determination of human being and simultaneously questions the term and definition of time. In may of his works he reflects he the catastrophic transformation, the reflection also includes the revision of the conventional conception of time. He tries to show, that beside the usual forms of historical, causal und linear time, individuals also perceive timelessness. Paradoxically, the accomplishment of a historical event (Holocaust) evokes a consciousness of the historical caesura, and thus of the untold and the inhospitable. In his perception, for the poet, writing (after holocaust) means writing after apocalyptic break, where history does not exist, in other words surrounded by the timelessness. The task of preserving the memory of what happened in poetry goes hand in hand with the awareness of a disorder and often borders on the impossibility of verbalizing what has happened or even being able to express itself verbally. The experience of disconnection from the temporal sequence of events (through trauma) coincides with the moments of speechlessness, emptiness in consciousness, verbal utterance, and time experience overlap. This tendency is radicalized especially in his late work. In this article late works of Paul Celan, that deal with the questions of timelessness and manifestations of it are analysed (“Zeitlücke”, “Die Trombonestelle” “Largo” and others).

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 Miheţ / 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.

Aleida Assmanns Gedächtnistheorie im europäischen Kontext

Author(s): Leopoldo Domínguez / Language(s): Polish,German / Publication Year: 0

Aleida Assmann is regarded as one of the precursor in the field of cultural memory, remembering and forgetting. The aim of this article is to outline main concepts of Assmann‘s theory and put them into contrast with the research done in the same field by other scholars. It also analyses her theory in the European context in order to take into consideration some aspects of the German, Spanish and Polish culture of remembrance.

ALLE BÄUME, ALLE KINDER UND ALLE FAHRRÄDER IN MIR

Author(s): Vitomirka Trebovac / Language(s): German / Issue: 521/2020

Poetry written by Vitomirka Trebovac ‒ ALLE BÄUME, ALLE KINDER UND ALLE FAHRRÄDER IN MIR (GEGENSÄTZE; NIE WERDE ICH VERGESSEN; DIE NARBE; DAS LAUFEN; ÜBER DAS HOHE ALTER; DIE LINDE; DIE STILLE; DURCH DEN REGNERISCHEN TAG; HEUTE UND IMMER LEBEN; DIEMIT FAMILIEN UND DIEOHNE SIE).

ALLEGRO

Author(s): Vladimir Tasić / Language(s): German / Issue: 521/2020

Prose written by Vladimir Tasić ‒ ALLEGRO.

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

Author(s): Fesun Koşmak / 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): Paweł 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.