German Studies (Peer-reviewed publications): Recent submissions
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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) -
“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 ... -
Über die Eisenbahnfahrt ins politische Schreiben: Malwida von Meysenbugs, Eine Reise Nach Ostende.
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Polyphone Dramatik als Schauspiel wider die Einförmigkeit der Gewalt?
(Innsbruck University Press, 2011) -
The urbanization of the body: prostitutes, dialectics, and utopia in German expressionism
(The John Hopkins University Press, 1997) -
Pandora and the Construction of Memory in Film.
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Confessional narrative / fragmented identity: Emily Henning's das brandmal. Ein tagebuch.
(Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2000)