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States of Disturbance: Representation of Adolescence and Politics in Rūta Mežavilka’s Dzimuši Latvijai and Kathrin Aehnlich’s Wenn ich groß bin, flieg ich zu den Sternen

Author(s): Olga Bazileviča / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

In the following article, the correlation between the representation of adolescence and political reality in memory fiction will be analysed using the example of two novels: Rūta Mežavilka’s Latvian novel Dzimuši Latvijai (Born for Latvia) and Wenn ich groß bin, flieg ich zu den Sternen (When I Grow Up I Will Fly To The Stars) by the German author Kathrin Aehnlich. The link between politics and adolescence that is created in these novels becomes a means to normalize the representation of the socialist past in the official memory culture of Latvia and of Germany. Key to such an interpretation is a differentiated understanding of adolescence as a productive crisis: a period of transformation and disruption as well as creation of new versions of reality. Through the introduction of adolescence as a time of transgression against the ruling system, the novels put the simple distinction where East is associated with socialism and negatively equated to totalitarianism whereas the West and capitalism are positively linked to democracy. The images created in the novels run against the official memory cultures into which they are inscribed and are part of a new counter-memory, despite their geographic and temporal differences.

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FREMDHEITSERFAHRUNGEN AM BEISPIEL DER ROMANE DAS PROVISORIUM (2000) VON WOLFGANG HILBIG UND VIENOS VASAROS EMIGRANTAI (2003) VON VALDAS PAPIEVIS

Author(s): Violeta Katinienė / Language(s): German Issue: 4/2017

The paper focuses on two novels – „Das Provisorium“ (2000) by the German writer Wolfgang Hilbig and „Vienos vasaros emigrantai“ (2003) by the Lithuanian writer Valdas Papievis – that were written after the political events which took place at the end of the 20th century (the Fall of the Iron Curtain, the Fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany and the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania) and, in a certain way, are a response to those events. One of the main objects that the comparative literary research, as an intercultural activity, analyses is the question of the self and the alien. In the novels discussed the alien shows its whole range from the everyday alien to the radical experience of the alien. Thus, in order to research these novels, it is not sufficient to regard the alien merely as the category of cultural alien. The paper is based on the literary hermeneutics concept developed by Andrea Leskoves by expanding the concept of the alien established by one of the greatest modern German philosophers, the phenomenologist Bernhard Waldenfels.

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Frau Avos Paskutinis teismas. Pirmosios vardu žinomos vokiečių poetės poemos vertimas į lietuvių kalbą

Author(s): Aleksej Burov,Ignė Vrubliauskaitė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 4/2019

The present article offers an overview of several poems written by Frau Ava (1060–1127), a German poetess whose literary works are virtually unknown in Lithuania. Ava, an anchoress in Melk Abbey, is the first named German female writer, who broke ‘the deep silence of German literature’ lasting over a century (Stein 1976, 5). All poems attributed to Frau Ava are of religious character: Johannes ‘John the Baptist’ (446 lines), Leben Jesu ‘Life of Jesus’ (2418 lines), Antichrist (118 lines) and Jüngstes Gericht ‘The Last Judgement’ (406 lines), which make up an impressive biblical epic of 3388 lines. Leben Jesu, Antichrist and Jüngstes Gericht are found in the Vorau Manuscript dating the first half of the 12th century (Codex 276, 115va-125ra), whereas the Görlitz Manuscript (Codex A III. 1. 10), compiled in the 14th century but lost during World War II, contains the poem Johannes as well as the other poems mentioned above, excluding the epilogue of Jüngstes Gericht (lines 393-406). The article presents an overview of Frau Ava’s life and works as well as a Lithuanian translation of her poem Jüngstes Gericht, written in Early Middle High German (Ger. Frümittelhochdeutsch). The translation is based on Maike Glaußnitzer and Kassnadra Sperl’s text, published in 2014.

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“Our Ears Lived Their Own Lives” The Auditory Experience in Breslau Autobiographical Literature during the ‘Third Reich’

Author(s): Annelies Augustyns / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2020

With Adolf Hitler coming to power in January 1933, the National Socialists staged their dominance in the city center of Breslau by using various visual and auditory elements – including swastikas, singing, marching, dispersing rumors – to spread their influence and keep the people under control. How were these changes in the city soundscape used for social exclusion and territory-marking? How were they experienced by the Jewish population and how can they be related to questions of identity and (non-)belonging? Addressing these questions with the corpus of autobiographical writings – both diaries and autobiographies – from Jewish victims from the city of Breslau will be the main aim of this article. This study of literary testimonies will focus on the constant and changing sounds of propaganda in Breslau, sound technologies such as radio and loudspeakers used for propaganda, and the relation between sound, identity, and trauma.

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Bewegte Körper, starre Körper. Ver-körperungen auf dem Theater am Beispiel einiger Inszenierungen

Author(s): Carmen Elisabeth Puchianu / Language(s): German Issue: 21/2021

Theater ist undenkbar ohne Körper, ganz gleich, ob es sich um die lebendigen Körper der agierenden Schauspieler, um jene der Zuschauer im Theatersaal oder um leblose Dinge auf und außerhalb der Bühne handelt. Körper müssen im Theater immer miteinander interagieren, sie müssen in Bewegung und in Stillstand versetzt werden, sie müssen sich bewegen, sie müssen bewegt werden und sie müssen am Ende bewegen. Die folgenden Aufführungsanalysen veranschaulichen diesen theaterspezifischen Vorgang aus theaterwissenschaftlicher und -praktischer Perspektive anhand einiger Beispiele und sie fokussieren auf Körper in Behältnissen, auf Körper als regungslose Blöcke und als Marionetten, auf Text-Körper.

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„Wypędzenie ze Wschodu” w postpamięciowych tekstach literatury niemieckiej

Author(s): Katarzyna Śliwińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 65/2020

This paper analyses post-memory narratives concerning the loss of the eastern provinces of the Reich as well as the flight and expulsion of their German inhabitants as found in the novels of German writers born in the 1950s and 1960s: Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s ‘Der Verlorene’ (1998) and ‘Anatolin’ (2008), Reinhard Jirgl’s ‘Die Unvollendeten’ (2003) and Ulrike Draesner’s ‘Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt’ (2014). These stories showing far-reaching consequences of the ‘expulsion from the East’ examine complex mechanisms through which traumatic knowledge about the past is handed down from generation to generation. Consequently, the paper focuses on how the German authors make use of motifs characterizing post-memory or post-traumatic discourse about mourning and loss, and the way the key figures of that discourse structure their texts.

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THE THEOLOGY OF CARL SCHMITT

Author(s): György Geréby / Language(s): English Issue: 72/2021

The paper addresses the theology of Carl Schmitt. Schmitt often stresses his ‘natural born Catholicism.’ At the same time he also claims repeatedly not to be a theologian in the professional sense. On the other hand, his main ideas like the concept of the political (Der Begriff des Politischen), the public character of the church (Römischer Katholizimus und politische Form), and finally, his Politische Theologie II in reaction to Erik Peterson’s refutation of Politische Theologie I show that Schmitt’s ideas imply deep and problematic theological positions. The role of the katechon, or the Grand Inquisitor and his criticism of Peterson’s patristic arguments, especially the rejection of the anti-Arian reasoning of Gregory Nazianzen show a markedly unorthodox theological stance reminiscent of Charles Maurras’ political Catholicism. Schmitt’s transcends patristic orthodoxy in order to apply his historically conditioned 19th-century theology to sacralizing his idea of the political.

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Obywatelskość w edukacji humanistycznej (w duchu Hannah Arendt)

Author(s): Krzysztof Koc / Language(s): Polish Issue: 37/2020

The author analyses Hannah Arendt’s writings in search of inspirations for reflecting on the contemporary world’s problems in humanistic (school) education, finding such inspirations in the topics that interested the author of The Human Condition and in her perception of politics, citizenship and thinking as such. Koc’s thesis is that educational documents show a clear deficit of reflection on current challenges, often transnational, that need to be analysed from multiple angles. The article emphasises Arendt’s warnings about non-thinking as an attitude conducive to totalitarianism, which should unsettle anyone interested in the concept of educating young people. Reconstructing Arendt’s axiology of citizenship and emphasising the value of journalistic texts as stories that uncover ambiguity and ask key questions, the author calls for a reconsideration of the nature of Polish language education in contemporary school.

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Między spotkaniem a mijaniem. Rahel Varnhagen, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler

Author(s): Beata Koper / Language(s): Polish Issue: 37/2020

The article is an attempt at capturing the relationship between the lives and creative attitudes of Rahel Varnhagen, Hannah Arendt and Judith Butler. Starting with Varnhagen’s biography written by Arendt, the essay’s author wonders about the philosopher’s writing strategy. Instead of a classic reconstruction of life, the biographer offers a collage of excerpts from Rahel’s letters with extensive commentary. This form encourages one to read Rahel Varnhagen as a narration about the author and her own struggle with Jewish and female identity. The second relationship analysed in the essay is the impact of Hannah Arendt’s texts on Judith Butler’s writings. Despite the criticism of the philosopher’s writings, Arendt remains an unquestionable inspiration to Butler. The article also emphasises the difference between the theoreticians: Arendt uses the strategy of mimicry (writing about identity in the form of a German Jew’s biography), while Butler writes a politically-engaged text, exposing herself and her identity.

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Чари і пекло Мароко. Українсько-мароканський діалог поколінь у польській рецепції

Author(s): Walentyna Sobol / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 6/2019

The author of the article, Walentyna Sobol, analyzes documentary and literary books from Morocco and two émigré writers about Morocco. These are “Spells of Morocco” – the Ukrainian forgotten author Sofia Jabłońska (1907–1971) and “Moon in Tears” – contemporary writer Morocco Ouard Saillo, born in Morocco in 1974. Ouardy Saillo’s book, decorated with photos of the Saillo family, was written in German. For the first time is published in Polish translated by Barbara Otwinowska (published in 2005 in Warsaw). In 2018, in Kiev were published 107 photographs of Sofia Jabłońska from her times of work and travel around the world, including Morocco. The goal of the article is to reveal the phenomenon of persistence and bravery of both writers, different, but sometimes very similar intertextuality . The narrative of the documents is examined using a methodological approach, especially in terms of: “intertextuality is a study of the memory of literature” (Tadeusz Sławek). Using modern research in anthropology, including the lexicon of the culture of memory “Modi memorandi”, the author of the article investigates the phenomenon of intertextuality in the narratives of Jabłońska and Saillo. This comparative study of the autobiographical works of Ukrainian and Moroccan writers in Poland not only reveals the conclusions, but also opens wide research perspectives.

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VON DER (UN)MÖGLICHKEIT DER VERSÖHNUNG MIT DEM WELTGEIST IM WERK FRIEDRICH HEBBELS UND FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHES

Author(s): Marina M. Petrović Jülich / Language(s): German Issue: 72/2020

Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, mittels der Untersuchung der tragischen Auffassung Friedrich Hebbels und Friedrich Nietzsches die Gemeinsamkeiten in ihrem Gedankengut fest- zustellen und zu beweisen. Dazu habe ich mich der Methode des Vergleichs bedient, das heßt ich habe versucht, die Wechselbezihungen im Werk und Denken der beiden Autoren zu untersuchen. Hebbel, aber auch Nietzsche, haben sich oft in ihren Werken, aber auch in ihren Briefen und Tagebuchnotizen über das tragische Drama geäußert. Hebbel tat das desöfteren in Vorworten zu seinen Dramen und in unabhängigen Abhandlungen. Die Konzeption der beiden Dichter ist am engsten mit ihrer Weltanschauung verbunden.Im zweiten Teil dieses Beitrags hat die Autorin versucht, durch die Analyse einiger, in unter- schiedlichen Schaffensphasen Hebbels entstandenen Dramen seine Auffassung vom Tragischen zu verdeutlichen. Mit Hilfe der Einzelanalysen und durch die werkimanente Annäherungsver- suche unter Hervorhebung des tragischen Aspektes sollte klar gemacht werden, dass in den späteren Dramen des Autors das Versöhnungselement eine größere Rolle spielt, obwohl es oft unnatürlich wirkt. Beispiele dafür sind die Heiligen drei Könige in Herodes und Mariamne oder der Versöhnungsakt zwischen Vater und Sohn in Agnes Bernauer. Man kann annehmen, dass Hebbel bis heute in der internationalen germanistischen Forschung einen untergeordneten Forschungsgegenstand darstellt, dass darauf zurückzuführen ist, dass gerade die Unmöglichkeit der Versöhnung des Individuellen mit dem Weltgeist und die übertriebene Unnatürlichkeit dessen nicht nur den jugendlichen Lesenden zu fern von der Aktualität und den allgemein- menschlichen Bestrebungen erscheint.

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Recht in Literatur und Literaturkontrolle – Doppeltes Verständnis von Recht und Literatur im Theater des dritten Reiches am Beispiel von E.W. Möllers Thingspiel Das Frankenburger Würfelspiel

Author(s): Joanna Szczukiewicz / Language(s): German Issue: 4/2019

The recognition that literature and law were closely linked in the Third Reich explains, firstly – the legal provisions introduced after Hitler’s seizure of power, including the establishment of the Reich Chamber of Culture, and secondly – the literary approaches which were developed on the basis of these provisions. A prime example of the intrusion of laws enacted in Nazi Germany into the literary life of those times is the theatrical form of Thingspiel, developed around the mid-thirties. This theatrical concept presents a dual approach to law and literature. Not only was the Thingspiel subordinate to the legal provisions of the Reich Chamber of Culture, but criminal law itself also became a theme of these plays. The Thingspiel originated in the Old Germanic concept of people’s and court assemblies called a “Thing”. The model of putting criminal law on stage also found its way into “Frankenburger Würfelspiel” by E.W. Möller, Head of the Theater Unit at the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Examining the connection between literature and law in this piece and also its function for the NS-Politics is the main aim of this study.

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"Auf unserem Papier findet das meiste gleichzeitig statt": Zum Projekt der Gegenweltgeschichte in Günter Grass' "Der Butt" in kulturökologischer Perspektive

Author(s): Nathalie Kónya-Jobs / Language(s): German Issue: 18/2021

In this article, the novel The Flounder is re-read from the perspective of environmental literary criticism and with a view to the highly topical issues of education for sustainable development. The line of argument moves along the central questions for Grass’s work about the importance of fairy tales and myths for literary-anthropological processes of the formation of meaning, his Enlightenment criticism, his critical understanding of history, his poetics of ‚Vergegenkunft‘ and his examination of feminism, ecology and dystopian visions of the post-human age. The article closes with an outlook on relevant research desiderata. An overview table for a selection of thematic, relevant works should serve as an inspiration to rediscover Grass as a representative of ecocriticism in schools and universities.

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Zwischen Liebe und Leid: Über den Briefwechsel Anna Teichmüller mit Martha Hauptmann aus den Jahren 1900–1904

Author(s): Marta Filipowska / Language(s): German Issue: 14/2021

This article provides the most important information about the edition of the letters of the German composer Anna Teichmüller (1862-1940) and Martha Hauptmann (1862–1939), first wife of Carl Hauptmann, German writer in Lower Silesia at the turn of the 20th century, who changed his scientific career into the artistic life in the colony of artists in Szklarska Poręba (Schreiberhau). The correspondence between both women is a proof of their mutual relationship full of love and friendship, gradually transformed into jealousy and pain. The analyse of the letters compared with Martha Hauptmann’s memories shows a new until now not described image of Anna Teichmüller in the specialist literature

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USPOREDBA INAČICA NEKIH PERRAULTOVIH I GRIMMOVIH BAJKI

Author(s): Valentina Majdenić,Andrea Vučetić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2018

As a special genre in which there is no boundary between reality and imagination, and good always wins, the fairy tale has always attracted a wide circle of readers, regardless of their age. This is especially the case of the so-called creators of classical or artistic fairy tales such as Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers. According to the Primary School Curriculum and the Elementary School Program (2006) in Croatia, the list of obligatory fairy tales for the first grade of primary school contains the selection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers. The list for the second grade offers fairy tales by Charles Perrault. The aim of this paper is to compare the variants of five Perrault and Grimm fairy tales, namely Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Thumbling and Puss in Boots. After a detailed comparison of the available editions of these fairy tales, their comparison will be based on the thematic-motive stratification, the characterization of the main characters and character-assistants, the presence of violence, the ending and other structural forms of the fairytale. In addition to the comparison of the fairytales by Perrault and Grimm brothers, there will be the diachronic changes in the different editions compared and analyzed accordingly.

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Traducerea infidelă și scopurile traductive: Descoperirea Americii de Joachim Heinrich Campe, în versiune românească†

Author(s): Iulia-Elena Zup / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 13/2021

This paper investigates the purpose of using certain translation strategies in the Romanian version of the novel Die Entdekkung von Amerika (1781) by Joachim Heinrich Campe, translated from German by the merchant and teacher Nicola Nicolau from Brașov and published at the Printing House of the University of Buda in 1816 with the title Descoperirea Americii. Starting from the skopus theory developed by Hans Vermeer, the purposes of producing the Romanian version are analysed, in comparison with those of writing the original text and of the translations in other languages. At the textual level, through the comparative analysis, strategies are highlighted, especially omissions and interpolations, which help to achieve the goals of the translator or the text. Thus, through the transfer between the source and the target culture, one can observe the maintenance of the pedagogical Enlightenment goals, of instructing the masses regarding moral virtues and historical and geographical knowledge, and the addition of the one of cultivating the Romanian language.

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Unfaithful translation and translation purposes: The Discovery of America by Joachim Heinrich Campe, in Romanian version†

Author(s): Iulia-Elena Zup / Language(s): English Issue: 13/2021

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Tõlkekirjanduse vahendamisest ja vastuvõtust Eestis aastatel 1990–2000 saksakeelse kirjanduse näitel

Author(s): Triin van Doorslaer / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 1/2021

In 1991, when Estonia regained its independence, the situation in the translation market changed dramatically. The number of translations rose rapidly, the conventional translation methods were changed, and the translated books of fiction acquired a central position in the system of Estonian culture as well as in the landscape of Estonian literature. Translations became a part of the Estonian literature, and they were often seen as original texts. At the same time translations tended to lose their own identity as translated texts. The aim of this article is to find out whether the social and cultural systems of the target culture (translators, publishers, critics) were supporting literary translations as such, since they involved specific type of texts, representing rather the source culture than the target culture, yet becoming a part of the literature of the target culture. The situation of the publishing houses in Estonia between 1990–2000 and the importance of translations, particularly German translations over the mentioned period is analysed and translation criticism of the translated works from German into Estonian between 1990–2000 in the Estonian press is discussed. Finally, it could be said that changes in the Estonian social and cultural system 1990–2000 gave a boost to new topics in literature. The position of translated literature was significant, taking the central position in the Estonian literary polysystem and acquired partly the role of the original Estonian literature. It is also important to mention that during the discussed period translation criticism in the Estonian press and literary journals was mainly replaced by general literary criticism.

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Thomas Bernhard, Kant und der Papagei

Author(s): Cornelia Eșianu / Language(s): German Issue: 22/2022

In Thomas Bernhards Komödie Immanuel Kant will Kant, der Protagonist, eine Vorlesung halten, die allerdings nicht zustande kommen kann. Der bernhardsche Kant leidet wegen seines vorangeschrittenen Alters an Glaukom, dem grünen Star, und befindet sich mit seiner – man höre und staune – Frau und anderen Charakteren wie Ernst Ludwig und seinem im Käfig und meist unter einer Decke sich befindenden Papageien Friedrich, dem „Meistgehaßte[n]“ – denn der „psittacus erithacus“ war der „Philosoph an sich“, in „sich selbst“ –, aber auch der Millionärin, einem „Kind des Kapitalismus“, wie sie sich selbst beschreibt, oder der „Millionärrin“, wie diese von Kant genannt wird, dem Kardinal, dem Admiral, usw. an Bord eines Luxusschiffes auf dem Weg nach Amerika. Hierhin will Kant die Vernunft bringen und sein eigenes Augenlicht wiedererlangen. Vorliegender Text widmet sich einer näheren Untersuchung des Papageien Friedrich in Bernhards Theaterstück. In einem ersten Schritt werden die sogenannten Sprachspiele des Papageien beleuchtet, während in einem zweiten Schritt hermeneutisch vorgegangen und konkreter nach Rolle und Bedeutung von Friedrich gefragt wird.

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Tier-Mensch-Verhältnisse in den Kinderbüchern von Else Günther

Author(s): Halime Yeşilyurt,Ali Osman Öztürk / Language(s): German Issue: 22/2022

Im Laufe der Zeit änderte sich die Bedeutung der Tiere für die Menschen, d.h. sie wurden mal als Freund oder niedliches, treues Lebewesen, mal als gemein oder wertlos angesehen. Mal wurden sie als Handelsware unterschätzt, mal als Besitzobjekt oder Erziehungsmittel überschätzt. Bei Else Günther, einer der bekanntesten und viel gelesenen Kinderbuchautorinnen der Nachkriegszeit, sind die Tiere beliebte Figuren der Handlung, in der es meistens um wirklichkeitsnahe Situationen aus dem ganz normalen Alltag des menschlichen Lebens geht. In ihren Kinderromanen spielen die Tiere eine besondere Rolle für die Sozialisierung der Kinder und Jugendlichen. Im vorliegenden Artikel werden die Facetten der Mensch-Tier-Beziehung untersucht bzw. welche Rolle die Tiere bei der Wahrnehmung des Anderen spielen.

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