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Żałoba i rewolucja. Refleksje heglowskie

Author(s): Bartosz Wójcik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (7)/2015

The article takes up a problem of a complex relationship between Hegel and the French Revolution, of which the philosopher was both a great enthusiast and a brilliant critic. The point of departure for the analysis is a critical reading of the traditional interpretations of Hegel’s relation to the Revolution (J. Ritter and J. Habermas), which enables the author to develop a “speculative interpretation of the Revolution” on the basis of “Phenomenology of Spirit”. The key to the understanding of the dynamics of the Enlightenment, which found its culmination in the Revolution, is the inner dialectic of knowledge and faith which constitutes this epoch. The ideas of the Enlightenment become undermined by the opposition between the German (reformation) process of working through the relation between faith and knowledge and the French (revolutionary) repression of its mutual relationship. This paradox recognized by Hegel (in R. Comay’s interpretation) leads the philosopher to formulate a dialectic position: revolution with reformation would be the work of mourning (the process of working through) on this lost object (the world of faith), whereas revolution without reformation would remain only futile melancholy of terror, compensating for the lack of reformation. The paradoxical lesson for the present times (inspired by S. Žižek’s reading) which arises from Hegel’s interpretation is the following: cultural revolution (revolution in thinking itself, in utopian dreams) is the condition of possibility of the success of social revolution.

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The reception of Heinrich Heine in Romanian literature

Author(s): Mihaela Hristea / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

The reception of Heinrich Heine’s literary work in Romanian literature began with the second half of the 19th century and continues until today, taking into account the translation of his creations into Romanian, the critical studies appearing in Romania dedicated to the German author and his influence on the local poets. From the plentiful studies of the bibliography dedicated to Heine, three huge periods of the Romanian literature resulted for the author’s model, respectively: the period starting with the mid half of the 19th century up until the WWI, the interwar period and the post WWII period. Heinrich Heine was taken as a model and his lyrics has been copied and assimilated with enthusiasm in Romanian literature and contributed to the renewal of our poetry in the second half of the nineteenth century. Writers from the society “Junimea” such as Nicolae Schelitti, Dimitrie Petrino, Theodor Şerbănescu, Matilda Cugler-Poni, Samson Bodnărescu and, last but not least, Mihai Eminescu were influenced by the German romantic, creating a cult for him, translating much of his verses and using them as a source of inspiration. The model had later created echoes among the collaborators of the magazine “The Coeval”, like George Kernbach and Avram Steuerman Rodion but also among those at the end of the century, the sower poets like Stefan Octavian Iosif and Maria Cunțan and among the symbolist poets, especially Cincinat Pavelescu and Barbu Nemţeanu. Heine became very popular in our lyrics triggering a movement, a trend in Romanian literature, which would later be called heinism.

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Kafkova „Proměna“ v televizní adaptaci Jana Němce

Author(s): Alexej Mikulášek / Language(s): Czech Issue: 3/2019

This article deals with the film adaptation of Franz Kafka’ s ambiguous and multivocal storyThe Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung, 1915), created by the Czech director Jan Němec forGerman and Austrian television (ZDF/ORF) in 1975. Nemec’s adaptation is remarkable formany innovations: the film version is “narrated” from Gregor Samsa’s perspective, with Gregorplayed by a first-person camera and off-screen voice. The spectator sees everything fromthe main protagonist’s viewpoint. This TV movie brings an interesting comparison of literaryand film narrative structures. We can discuss values that have been added to Kafka’s piece, forexample some kinds of absurdity, excellent stage design, and dramatic symbols.

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Three undiscovered utopias in German-language literature from the Czech periphery: Moravian Wallachia and Zlín

Author(s): Libor Marek / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

This study examines three literary utopias from the margins of German literature, namely German-language literature from Eastern Moravia. The works chosen for analysis are the dramatic cycle The City of People (Die Stadt der Menschen) by Moravian-born Austrian writerand visionary Susanne Schmida (1894–1981), the novel The Imperial City (Die Kaiserstadt) by the Austrian writer and diplomat Paul Zifferer (1879–1929), and the text “The City ofthe Future” (“Die Stadt des Kommenden”) by the German-speaking Czechoslovak author Walter Seidl. In all the texts examined, the model of urban landscape is used as the locationof utopia: the prototype of an abstract futuristic city (Schmida), Vienna as an exemplar of political utopia (Zifferer), and Zlín as a fully realized social utopia (Seidl). These three sites show a complementary gradation in the sense of the (potential) realization of utopian ideas, i.e. the belief that, put simply, “it was once good” (Zifferer), “it is good” (Seidl), and “it willbe good” (Schmida).

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Les « taches blanches » dans la cartographie de la traduction : oe uvres jamais ou peu traduites, traductions sans succe ̀s d’oe uvres prestigieuses

Author(s): Jörn Albrecht / Language(s): French Issue: 3/2021

Historiographers of translation have made great efforts to identify translations of more or less famous works, to sift through them and to give precise descriptions, which quite often involve value judgements. The history of translation is – with a few exceptions – a history of success. What interests us here, on the other hand, are the failures and shortcomings that can be observed in this field, a dangerous subject of investigation insofar as it leads to risky speculations. Why have certain works, considered to be an integral part of the original literature, found little or no response from readers of other languages? Is this due to intrinsic characteristics of the works in question or, at least partly, to unpredictable reactions of the translation market? Is there a literary production that is less suitable for translation than another, or do translators, with their specific predilections and skills, influence the balance of exchange between different literatures, often unintentionally? The focus of this article is on classical French tragedy and a few German authors who are appreciated by German speakers but little known elsewhere.

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Zur Rolle der Geologie im interdiskursiven „crossing“ der Kulturen der deutschsprachigen Literatur zwischen 1960 und 1980: Botho Strauß und Hans Lebert

Author(s): Aleš Urválek / Language(s): German Issue: 4/2021

Taking its starting point as the fact that in modern cultures, the trend towards scientific specialization is an interdisciplinary tendency, which is being examined in the literature, the study reconstructs the scope of knowledge of Botho Strauß and Hans Lebert in the period from 1960 to 1980. Knowledge in literature and the production of knowledge in works of fiction by these authors is temporarily and thematically associated with the breakup with “Geschichtsphilosophie” at the intersection of natural sciences and cultural history. This processis located in the late 1970s, which is the time of the main interest of Strauß in naturalsciences. It is followed by the interpretation of the Strauß’s novel Rumor (1980), in which geology plays a major role, and Lebert’s novel Die Wolfshaut (1960). The article also presents the impact that interdisciplinarity had on the genres of “Anti-Deutschlandroman” (Strauß) or Antiheimatroman (Lebert).

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Interdiskurzivita spomínania v literárnom diele Christy Wolf

Author(s): Nadežda Zemaníková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 4/2021

This article draws attention to the specific way in which the important German author Christa Wolf turns scientific findings on memory into literary material in her work. Remembrance and the associated self exploration and self-knowledge form the core of what Christa Wolf calls subjective authenticity. Her key self reflexive texts stage the process of writing, in whichself questioning intermingles with reflections on the process of remembrance and the literalization of the phenomenon of memory. In the 1990s, the author became the target of traumatic discourse practices in the non-literary space. The article also addresses the question of how interdiscursive remembrance contrasts with stereotypical interpretations of the past and what its potential to stimulate a critical distance from hegemonic discourse and the communication of differentiated knowledge may be.

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Zur poietischen Funktion von Analogien und Metaphern im interdiskursiven Blickpunkt der Transplantationsmedizin

Author(s): Roman Mikuláš / Language(s): German Issue: 4/2021

The subject of the analysis is the novel Leben (Life, 2013) by the German author David Wagner. In fact, although designed as a novel, the book is more precisely an autopathography, which presents a personal and authentically reflective look at the experience of one’ s ownillness and describes the medical intervention, the surgical transplantation of a new liver. The medical specialist discourse plays an essential role in this context. Medical knowledge and personal reflections overlap like those areas of meaning from which analogies often emergeand in which metaphors have their origin. In the following, it is a matter of uncovering those areas that are combined to create analogies in order to describe their communicative functionon the basis of their possible implementation in the form of metaphors (also known as between-domain analogies). Particular consideration is given to the role of the medical specialist discourse and the question of how it shapes the analogization and metaphorization of one’ sown experience of illness and the experience of organ transplantation. In doing so, we rely largely on the analytical model based on the theory of figurative language by Hans Georg Coenen.

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ZUR KULTURSPEZIFIK DES HUMORISTISCHEN IN DER SCHÖNEN LITERATUR

Author(s): Rostyslav Pylypenko / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2021

The article investigates the humorous potential of cultural words, names, and linguistic innovations in German-language literary text. These three varieties of linguistic means are presented as important tools for humour creation in the German literature and indicators of linguistic changes. The article analyses the key trends of humorous innovations in literary texts. The study of the cultural and social marked language features of the humour world gives the opportunity to expand the linguistic and interdisciplinary understanding of humorous specificity of their literature presentation.

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A DRAMA THAT WAS NOT PLAYED IN HUNGARY. DRAMATIC WORKS OF PRESSBURG SCHOLAR AND WRITER TOBIAS GOTTFRIED SCHRÖER (1791 – 1850)

Author(s): Slávka Kopčáková,Pavol Zubal / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2021

The study deals with the dramatic works of a writer, professor of the Evangelical Lyceum of the Augsburg Confession in Pressburg, Tobias Gottfried Schröer. As a citizen of German descent striving to avoid the harsh censorship of the time, between 1820 and 1849, he published his works under various pseudonyms. Under his real name, he published only textbooks and three compendia intended for the Lyceum students. In Germany (Leipzig, Hamburg, etc.), he was quite a well-known writer; his short stories, poems and plays were published in various almanacs and collections. His drama work is almost unknown, and the number of his plays (existing as primary sources, including those that are only referred to), we estimate at fifteen so far. They were written approximately between the years 1806 and 1846, which testifies to their author’s lifelong interest in theatre and story dramatizations. A historical drama Leben und Thaten Emerich Tokoly’s und seiner Streitgenossen [The Life and Deeds of Emerich Tököly and His Comrades-in-arms by A. Z.] (1839), published in Leipzig under the pseudonym of A. Z., and a comedy Der Bär [The Bear] (1830) can be considered the most important.

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„dienen als ich beste kan“ Selbstbild und Selbstreflexion im Lichte des Liebesdienstes in der Jugendgeschichte in ,,Frauendienst'' des Ulrich von Liechtenstein

Author(s): Imre Gábor Majorossy / Language(s): German Issue: 3/2021

The study deals with the first sections of Ulrich von Liechtenstein’s ''Frauendienst''. These parts (introduction and youth history) belong essentially to the whole work in the sense that they not only prepare later events in a narrative manner, but also determine some basic rules for the whole work. Numerous details (expressions, scenes, situations) indicate that the prologue and youth history announce consequently the most important characteristics of the Frauendienst (e.g. appreciation of women, service for them, sincerity and last but not least role of the poetic activity). Together they create an extensive metonymy that acts as motto and initiates audience into the universe of the work.

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THE TEMPTATION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND GERMAN LITERARY MODERNISM-ARTHUR SCHNITZLER

Author(s): Mirela Radu / Language(s): English Issue: 39/2024

German literary modernism has its origins in the 17th century. Arthur Schnitzler is one of the leading representatives of this literary movement in Austria through the psychological implications, the fine analyzes of conscience and the exposition of the morals that the wealthy classes cultivated. Arthur Schnitzler is one of those voices in literature who wanted to bring about a change. And Austria, at the beginning of the 20th century, like the whole of Europe, was going through deep social transformations. The goal of the new literary movement was to get out of the rigid, idealistic forms of man, promoting a more realistic vision of human consciousness, freed from the constraints of social conventions and taboos. As science was beginning to become a new dogma, it is not surprising that a representative of medicine brings a new, scientific and analytical breath to the literary landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Голоси пам’яті жінок-авторок: наратив травматичного минулого в українській літературі на зламі ХХ–ХХІ століть

Author(s): Sofia Varetska,Olya Hrecheshnyuk / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 110/2024

The article deals with the study of the representation of the traumatic past in German and Ukrainian literature. The research demonstrates the role of the “culture of memories” and its impact on the process of “overcoming the past” in the political and cultural life of the Ukrainian people. Besides, the research results show the characteristic of understanding the traumas of the past in German-speaking society. There are a lot of works of modern German literature, which are devoted to the crimes of the Nazi regime and their impact on German culture and identity. Many modern literary-critical articles explore individual and collective memory, the problem of guilt, and the difficulties of literary interpretation of the unspeakable. The work is based on research of the important works of famous scientists (T. Hundorova, Y. Polishchuk, M. Riabchuk, O. Pukhonska, M. Barabash, L. Lavrynovych, O. Yavorska, R. Holyk, K. Rutar). Ukrainian literature is analyzed as a space where post-colonial discourse manifests itself, and literary texts are an important tool for reflecting and transmitting historical events and personal and collective memories. Based on the analysis of the novels of V. Amelina “Home for Dom”, O. Zabuzhko “Museum of Abandoned Secrets” and S. Andrukhovych “Amadoka”, the authors demonstrate the traumatic past of Ukrainian individual and collective destinies. Studying such tragedies as the Holodomor, Stalinist repressions, deportations, and wars is important for the formation of national identity. These are not simple stories of Ukrainian families, but serious studies by the authors of the problem of memory. These works are an important contribution to modern Ukrainian literature, and therefore this topic is a relevant research material. In this article, the culture-historical and comparative methods are used.

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Das Dazwischen als Ort der Veränderung Zu Lutz Seilers Roman Stern 111

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Das Dazwischen als Ort der Veränderung Zu Lutz Seilers Roman Stern 111

Author(s): Andrea Leskovec / Language(s): German Issue: 33/2024

The novel "Stern 111" depicts a historical transition period, along with the accompanying social and personal utopias. This paper examines transitional processes through which these utopias take shape. In so doing, it tackles the question of the quality of these processes: Do they really inspire a paradigm shift, or do they merely represent a reconfiguration of pre-existing structures? Drawing on Bernhard Waldenfels’ notion of the threshold and his responsive ethics, the paper argues that social utopias can only bring forth something genuinely new if they dissociate themselves from normative modes of thought and arise from encounters with the Other.

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Mehrdeutigkeit und moralische Mündigkeit: Mehr als Grillen (und Ameisen) im Deutschunterricht

Author(s): Sabine Anselm / Language(s): German Issue: 20/2023

Based on instances of the reception of the Aesopian fable „Of the Cricket and the Ant“ by La Fontaine, Walt Disney and Rafik Schami, this article contemplates the extent to which fables, as concise literary works, can be employed in German language instruction to facilitate discourse on value-oriented literary didactics. The article examines the manner in which aesthetic interpretations are formulated and identifies the ethical motivations that underlie the exploration of the concept of a virtuous life. It elucidates how the comprehension of fables and the interpretation of their meanings within the classroom setting can contribute constructively to value-based education and critical-reflective thinking, thereby fostering the elucidation of one's personal perspective as an essential prerequisite for cultivating democratic capabilities and, thus, comprehensive political education.

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Goethe, die Romantik und die islamische Mystik im West-Ӧstlichen Divan

Author(s): Rosy Singh / Language(s): German Issue: 20/2023

This article examines the relationship of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to the Romantic ideals. Was he actually hostile to the Romantics as suggested by so many literary critics? His comment that Romanticism is "sick" vis-a-vis the "healthy" Classical period, is often quoted to prove his distance from the Romantics. However his late work West-Eastern Divan (1816) shows that the opposite was true. Some esoteric motifs in one of his well-known poems Selige Sehnsucht (Blessed Longing) from the Divan are presented here to establish Goethe's spiritual connection with Romanticism. The article also attempts to establish a connection between the mystical Islamic tradition i.e. Sufism and Romanticism.

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Blaga, Lucian (2023): Die rumänische Seele. Aus dem Rumänischen übersetzt von von Rainer Schubert

Author(s): Hans Dama / Language(s): German Issue: 20/2023

Review of: Blaga, Lucian (2023): Die rumänische Seele. Aus dem Rumänischen übersetzt von von Rainer Schubert, Wien: LIT Verlag, ISBN 978-3-643- 51129-4, 184 Seiten.

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„Der Prozess“ in Augsburg, „Die Maßnahme“ in der Kalkgrube: Zur Kafka-Rezeption Bertolt Brechts

Author(s): Jürgen Hillesheim / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2024

Franz Kafka and Bertolt Brecht were always considered to be notably opposite authors within classical modernism. Research has not yet gone beyond describing more general analogies. Brecht, however, was deeply impressed by Kafka’s work. In two of his works, an “Augsburg Sonnet” and the Measure, Brecht’s most controversial drama of all, concrete references to Kafka’s novel The Trial can be proven. They give the works further complexity, even a new level of interpretation. This means that Brecht’s intensive reception of Kafka is beyond all doubt for the first time.

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Zwei Sonette Josef Svatopluk Machars in Übersetzung von Felix Grafe

Author(s): Stefan Simonek / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2024

At the beginning of the 20th century, the almost forgotten German-Bohemian poet Felix Grafe translated two sonnets written by the leading Czech modernist Josef Svatopluk Machar into German and included both translations into his own collections of poetry. In addition to that, the first translation entitled “Juli im Walde” in June 1909 was also published in the well-known journal Die Fackel edited by Karl Kraus. Comparing the key motives in Machar’s sonnets with Grafe’s own poems, this essay analyses the specific way Grafe translated Machar’s poems into German and made them a part of his own poetical work.

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„Dürer nie spadł z nieba”. R. Suckale, Die Erneuerung der Malkunst vor Dürer, Petersberg 2009

Author(s): Agnieszka Patała / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2011

Two volumes of Die Erneuerung der Malkunst vor Dürer by Robert Suckale comes as a wide state of research over painting of the second half of 15th c. in Nuremberg and Bamberg, a publication in which the author proves that attributing Albrecht Dürer many innovative solutions is incorrect, as the artist, in quite many cases, made use of older than him masters’ achievements. The above mentioned title comes as a very helpful one in studies in Late Gothic art of not only Franconia but also of artistic centres related to this area, e.g. Wrocław and, not directly, other Lower Silesian towns. Moreover, next to numerous plots of high interest, Suckale deals with a problem of influence of Early Netherlandish painting on German art, with special attention paid to Franconia, stating many conclusions which may become helpful in researching this issue within the area of Silesia.

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