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{"title":"Goethes Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil als Bruch: Zur Semantik des Zauberbegriffs im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert","authors":"Hans Lind","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Der Beitrag wendet sich gegen einen Teil der Forschung zu Goethes Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil (entstanden 1795–1802), der eine ungebrochene Kontinuität zwischen der Zauberflöte von Mozart und Schikaneder und Goethes Fortsetzung annimmt. Es ist These dieses Beitrags, dass sich Goethes Fortsetzung von der Vorlage in einem äußerst maßgeblichen Detail unterscheidet: Während Schikaneders Libretto in einem Kontinuum verankert ist, welches den Zauberbegriff seit dem Barock rationalisiert und empfindsam umgeprägt hat, hat Goethe sich mit seiner Fortsetzung nicht nur graduell von der Tradition eines rationalisierten Verständnisses des Zaubers gelöst, sondern vielmehr kategorisch. Goethes Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil erweist sich als Absage an eine semantische Tradition, die sich noch in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts in einem inflationären Schrifttum in verschiedensten Dimensionen entfaltet hatte. Um diesen Bruch nachzuweisen, wird der Beitrag eine Einführung in die etablierte semantische Praxis eines ausschließlich wirkungsästhetisch verstandenen Begriffs des \"Zaubers\" bieten (von Musik/Dichtkunst über Psychologie bis hin zur Anthropologie), die sich teils geographisch, teils gattungsspezifisch ausdifferenziert hat, und von der sich Goethes Verwendung des Begriffs in seiner Zauberflöte dezidiert absetzt.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126335302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Genius and Bloodsucker: Napoleon, Goethe, and Caroline de la Motte Fouqué","authors":"E. Krimmer","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article provides an overview of the starkly divided responses of German intellectuals to Napoleon and contrasts Goethe's and Caroline de la Motte Fouqué's representations of the French emperor, arguing that Goethe's perception of the foreign ruler is linked to his notion of genius. Goethe saw in Napoleon the embodiment of strong leadership and considered him capable of containing violence and anarchy. While Goethe's response is marked by his cosmopolitan attitude, de la Motte Fouqué's attitude toward Napoleon is characterized by pronounced nationalism and violent hatred of the French. Her novel Edmund's Wege und Irrwege champions warfare as a means of personal catharsis and national rejuvenation.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":"100 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132591822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Heidegger liest Goethe. Ein vielstimmiges \"Zwiegespräch\" (ca. 1910–1976) by Sebastian Kaufmann (review)","authors":"M. Saman","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128824422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Der faustische Pakt. Goethe und die Goethe-Gesellschaft im Dritten Reich by W. Daniel Wilson (review)","authors":"Katherine Arens","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2021.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2021.0039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121260035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Ächt antike Denkmale\"?: Goethe and the Hemsterhuis Gem Collection","authors":"Lesley Fulton","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The small collection of engraved gems selected by Dutch philosopher and connoisseur Frans Hemsterhuis was, for more than thirty years, a source of fascination for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This article examines the aesthetic principles on which Hemsterhuis based the formation of his collection and traces the collection's reception and influence on Goethe. Motifs illustrating the classical ideal, be they of Greek or modern origin, were the primary justification for inclusion, with authenticity playing a subsidiary role in the collection. Hemsterhuis's appreciation of the Greek ideal was based purely on stylistic characteristics, formal components dependent entirely on observation. Analysis of the dating attributions for this collection since its formation demonstrate claims of authenticity based on connoisseur-ship to be permanently in a state of flux. The collection also informs aspects of Goethe's own principles of classification.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127763499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Projection and Concealment: Goethe's Introduction of the Mask to the Weimar Stage","authors":"Matthew Feminella","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Around 1800, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe conducted a series of theatrical experiments involving masks on the Weimar Stage. Such experiments were considered highly innovative at the time and were met with both praise and skepticism. This article examines the eighteenth-century European discourse on theatrical masks to contextualize the largely unprecedented nature of Goethe's use of masks. Thinkers ranging from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Jean-Baptiste Dubos to August Wilhelm Schlegel and Karl August Böttiger considered the unique advantages and disadvantages that masks contribute to staged performances. Each of these thinkers is forced to contend with the fact that masks necessarily conceal an actor's facial affective expressions, thereby appearing to deprive actors of a fundamental means of expressing their art. Such observations are situated in conjunction with Goethe's staging of masked performances at Weimar. Goethe's use of the mask is viewed as a means for him as a director to exert control over the bodies of actors to diminish their artistic agency. The theatrical mask is thus conceptualized as an extension of his Rules for Actors, a series of prescriptions for subjugating an actor's body to the aesthetic of the directorial vision.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133585834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Migrant? Or Debunking the Myth of 1955","authors":"Brent O. Peterson","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116939265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thinking with Kant's Critique of Judgment by Michel Chaouli (review)","authors":"Peter Gilgen","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2021.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2021.0031","url":null,"abstract":"examination of these minor yet widely circulated local publications that displayed knowledge of China just as effectively as Goethe’s better-known late adaptations of Chinese poems. Tautz also addresses the crucial role of Chinese language texts in Goethe’s concept of Weltliteratur, something that is surprisingly overlooked in scholarship on the topic. In contrast, John K. Noyes focuses entirely on a canonical authorial figure as he conducts an original close reading of Goethe’s cycle of poems in the 1829 Chinesisch­deutsche Jahres­ und Tageszeiten. He argues that Goethe uses China as a cipher to critique Kantian aesthetics, thus innovatively showing Goethe’s complex philosophical investments at play in the lyric cycle. By exploring the influence of Herder’s thought on foreign literatures in the context of Goethe’s poems, Noyes concludes that Goethe performs an encounter with foreignness in his poetry, while, in contrast to the Orientalists, presenting universal limits of understanding. Robert Bernasconi then returns our focus back to Hegel, presenting research that shows how he manipulated sources for his later lectures on world history in order to develop a racist bias against Africans and Asians, including the Chinese. Based on the results of his investigation, Bernasconi argues that Hegel had no philosophical grounds for presenting them as lacking spirit, as static and outside history, and even as less than human. The volume concludes with Jeffrey S. Librett’s study of Martin Buber’s employment of Daoism to critique the hermeneutic logic of the Pauline Christian tradition, notably the division between faith and law, letter and spirit, and supercession. Librett places Buber in conversation with the Enlightenment figure Moses Mendelssohn and makes intriguing connections between Jewish theology and Daoism, arguing that Buber undermines the “Pauline split between matter (or letter) and Orientalism at once.” Brandt and Purdy’s well-researched volume is impressive in terms of the methodological diversity of its contributors, all of whom are engaged with Enlightenment intellectuals’ fascination with and, for some (notably Hegel), repulsion toward China. While ordered chronologically, the contributions speak to each other in a variety of ways, depending on the reader’s own agenda and interests. However, I would have liked to see contributions in the collection that made use of Chinese-language sources as well. This could have opened up new questions about their translations, reception, and transmission in Germany—for example, regarding Goethe’s late lyric cycle addressed by Noyes. Brandt and Purdy have produced an impressive volume with consistently high-quality contributions, resulting in an enjoyable read even for nonspecialists. The book will undoubtedly have an impact on a number of fields of inquiry beyond China and the German Enlightenment. It exposes intellectual historians, philosophers, and literary scholars to methodologies they may otherwi","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115561975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Three Observations and Three Possible Directions: Musical and Eighteenth-Century Studies","authors":"Peter Höyng","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2021.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2021.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127333132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Most Mysterious Union: The Role of Alchemy in Goethe's Faust by Steven Y. Wilkerson (review)","authors":"Frederick Amrine","doi":"10.1353/gyr.2021.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2021.0038","url":null,"abstract":"In a footnote to his introduction, Rittersma conjectures that “it is probably only a matter of time before Disney (similar to its Pochahontas film) brings this historical subject [Egmont] to the screen.” I think we can safely regard that as highly unlikely. In decades past, Egmont might have had a shot at the Classics Illustrated comic book series—after all, Faust made it. For my money, the most compelling instantiation—and repudiation—of the Egmont myth is to be found in Nico Rost’s Goethe in Dachau (2001). As allied troops and SS exchange fire in the night before liberation, Rost rereads Goethe’s Egmont. “[Egmont ist] im Grunde stets der Edelmann geblieben und [hat] die Freiheit, für die das Bürgertum kämpfte, niemals zu seiner Freiheit gemacht, sondern den ‘aufrührerischen’ Bürgern [zugerufen]: ‘Was an euch ist, Ruhe zu halten, Leute, das tut; ihr seid übel genug angeschrieben. . . .’ Ähnliche Ratschläge haben wir in den letzten Jahren ja oft genug gehört! So viele Egmonts haben so zu denen gesprochen, die für die Freiheit kämpften.” The timely untimeliness of Egmont in 1787 turned out to be fleeting. As a framework for unfolding the layers of semantic and narrative reorganization in the time between the beheading of Egmont and Goethe’s play, Rittersma’s mythogenesis has heuristic value. As for the mythical status of Egmont: I am not convinced.","PeriodicalId":385309,"journal":{"name":"Goethe Yearbook","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131886109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}