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Monströse Romanzen und romantische Monster
(2022-03-16)This thesis examines German monster mash-up novels as a contemporary form of popular fantastic literature, which has developed as an intricate part of today’s globalised, multimedia world and has to be analysed within this ... -
Elizabeth Shaw (1920-1992): the Irish caricaturist who left her mark on East-German children’s literature (Pre-published)
(Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015)One of my favourite picture books as a child was Der kleine Angsthase, a present from an aunt who lived in the former German Democratic Republic. It was somewhat exotic, like everything else which arrived in the Christmas ... -
(Trans-)nationale zeitgenössische goethe-adaptionen in der online-kultur (Pre-published version)
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Representing pain in literature and film: reflections on 'Die Brucke' (The Bridge) by Manfred Gregor and Bernhard Wicki
(Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura (CECC), 2008) -
Martin Buber und Johannes Bobrowski: Ethik und erinnerung in der sarmatischen lyrik
(literaturkritik.de, 2017)Bernd Leistner weist bereits 1981 auf Johannes Bobrowskis Rezeption der Schriften Martin Bubers in den fünfziger Jahren hin. Deren Bedeutung für die sarmatische Lyrik, D.H. die meisten der in Sarmatische Zeit (1961) und ... -
“The wild east” in contemporary German poetry: Gerald Zschorsch, Kurt Drawert, Brigitte Oleschinski
(DIT [Dublin Institute of Technology], 2016)This article discusses images of a “European” or “Wild” East in German poetry after 1989, specifically the work of Gerald Zschorsch, Kurt Drawert and Brigitte Oleschinski. Do their texts confirm or challenge a dichotomy ... -
Magical realism and Polish-German postmemory: Reimagining flight and expulsion in Sabrina Janesch’s "Katzenberge" (2010)
(Interférences littéraires, 2014)In the course of the last decade, flight and expulsion in the eastern part of Central Europe have increasingly become a topic in contemporary German literature by young authors. Part of this trend is the search for narrative ... -
Adeliges und bürgerliches subjekt in Kleists "Penthesilea" beobachtungen zur metainterpretation der protagonistin (pre-print version)
(J.B. Metzler, 2012)Auf einen einzelnen Vers des antiken Lyrikers Archilochos baut Isaiah Berlin seinen Tolstoj-Essay ‚The hedgehog and the fox‘ auf: „Der Fuchs kennt Vielerlei, der Igel hingegen ein Großes“. Nach Berlins Einteilung, welche ... -
"The East" as a Transit Space in the New Europe? Transnational Train Journeys in Prose Poems by Kurt Drawert, Lutz Seiler and Ilma Rakusa (Pre-published version)
(Wiley, 2015)The past three decades, following the collapse of the Iron Curtain, have seen the development of a ‘European literature’ characterised by the emergence of transnational subjects and spaces. This also applies to a Europe ... -
Nie wieder Friede!
(Wallstein Verlag, 2015)Ernst Toller arbeitete an der deutschen Fassung von Nie wieder Friede! zwischen 1933 und 1936. Ein Typoskript das als Grundlage für die englische Übersetzung diente, ist in der Tollersammlung der Yale-University-Library ... -
Die blinde Göttin - Nachwort
(Wallstein Verlag, 2015)Ernst Toller schrieb 1931/32 das Hörspiel Indizien, das als Vorläufer des Justizdramas Die blinde Göttin gelten muss. Ein erstes Bühnenmanuskript für das Theaterstück Die blinde Göttin erschien 1932 bei Kiepenheuer in ... -
„Alle Qual vom Herzen schreiben“: Performative Ästhetik von Lust und Schmerz in Margarete Böhmes Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1905) und Dida Ibsens Geschichte (1907) in Text und Film
(Aisthesis, 2015)Lust und Schmerz spielen in Margarete Böhmes Erfolgsroman Tagebuch einer Verlorenen sowie in seiner ‚Fortsetzung‘ Dida Ibsens Geschichte. Ein Finale zum „Tagebuch einer Verlorenen” als Lebenserfahrungen der Protagonistinnen ... -
Fritz Kortner’s Return to Germany and the Figure of the Returning Exile in Kortner’s The Mission and Josef v. Báky’s Der Ruf
(Mary Immaculate College, 2013)Fritz Kortner, the celebrated actor both on stage and screen, left increasingly anti-Semitic and right-wing Germany in 1932 and moved with his young family from Berlin to Ascona in Switzerland. In his autobiography Aller ... -
Memories of World War II in German Film after 1945
(Berghahn Books, 2015)Much has been written about the German people’s struggle to come to terms with their past or ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’, from Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich’s book on the Germans’ collective inability to mourn – Die ... -
„Und wer den Schmerz einmal gesehen hat…”: Neue deutsche Jugendliteratur zum Nationalsozialismus, Zweiten Weltkrieg und Holocaust im Kontext des postmemorialen Wandels
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick and the University of Groningen, 2015)Personal and collective memories of violence and warfare are part of broader discursive processes that are subject to constant reinterpretations and remediations from the perspective of the present. Engaging with the ... -
,,dass gestern besser werden würde als morgen je gewesen war": Zur Kodierung von Trauma in Jan Costin Wagner's Kimmo-Joentaa-Romanen
(2017)This thesis investigates a series of crime novels by German author Jan Costin Wagner. The series revolves around Finnish detective Kimmo Joentaa who in the course of the series tries to deal with the loss of his wife. The ... -
A case study approach to the language status, motivation and attitude in both an immersion and non-immersion setting at Primary Level in Ireland.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)This project is titled; A Case Study Approach to the Language Status, Motivation and Attitude in both an Immersion and Non-immersion Setting at Primary Level Ireland, and it sets out to explore and examine the status of ... -
"Prison-paradise"?: das internat als entwick-lungsraum in deutschsprachigen romanen nach 1968
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)The PhD thesis at hand is entitled “Prison-Paradise? The boarding school as space for individuation in German-language novels after 1968”. It is about the literary depiction of disciplinary institutions and their speci-fic ...