{"title":"Geschlecht und Geschlechterverhältnisse bewegen: Queer/Feminismen zwischen Widerstand, Subversion, und Solidarität ed. by Verena Sperk et al. (review)","authors":"Simone Pfleger","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"127 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90165842","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":"The Right to Difference: Interculturality and Human Rights in Contemporary German Literature by Nicole Coleman (review)","authors":"M. Schwarz","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"112 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80304178","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":"Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements ed. by Karen Hagemann, Donna Harsch, and Friederike Brühöfener (review)","authors":"Tiarra Cooper","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"116 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83332404","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":"After the Imperialist Imagination: Two Decades of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies ed. by Sara Pugach, David Pizzo, and Adam A. Blackler (review)","authors":"Maureen O. Gallagher","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"122 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82181038","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":"Feeling at Home in Munich and Mongolia: (Dis)orientation and Queer Diaspora in Uisenma Borchu's Schau mich nicht so an (2015)","authors":"Zachary Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Drawing on Sara Ahmed's theories of orientation and Gayatri Gopinath's writings on queer Asian diaspora and impossible desires, this paper dissects how the critically acclaimed drama Schau mich nicht so an (2015; Don't Look at Me That Way, 2016) utilizes the queer diasporic Asian woman at the center of the film to reflect on a representational conundrum. The Mongolian-born, Munich-based filmmaker Uisenma Borchu takes up the challenge of embodying the seemingly impossible queer diasporic Asian woman in the film. Both the inability to pigeonhole her character Hedi to a single orientation and Borchu's own disorienting diasporic experiences queer the film's themes of sexuality, nation, and kinship, offering new and sometimes imagined alternatives. In the end, the film envisions a future that weaves together new approaches to familial bonds, culture, spatiality, and home without obscuring the differences and challenges that shape these relationships.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"107 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89848972","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":"Activating the Archive: Feminism and German Women’s Film Heritage, 2010–2020","authors":"Erica Carter","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article uses a case study approach to analyze current German practice with respect to women’s film heritage. A sketch of the contemporary German film-archival landscape is followed by a brief survey of women’s film in the curatorial program of the Deutsche Kinemathek, focusing specifically on the 2019 Berlinale Retrospective Selbstbestimmt: Perspektiven von Filmemacherinnen (Self-determined: Perspectives from women filmmakers). National film heritage practice is compared with approaches across feminist institutions and projects, including festivals, feminist and queer archives, and one-off events; approaches from both contexts are then situated in relation to the place of films by women in federal digitization policy and practice. Analysis of two short films returns the focus to the notion of a self-determined film history underpinning the 2019 retrospective; tensions are explored between the feminist teleology that term implies and a curatorial practice of intersectional gender performance that is evident in many of the feminist initiatives discussed.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"27 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79674411","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":"Home, History, and Memory: Spatial Explorations in Recha Jungmann’s Etwas tut weh (1979/1980) and Sandra Wollner’s Das unmögliche Bild (2016)","authors":"Annette Brauerhoch","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article compares spatial explorations of family history in two films and analyzes the impact of the filmmakers’ generational differences on their approaches to film as an aesthetic medium for pursuing memory work. In Etwas tut weh (1979/1980; Something hurts), Recha Jungmann, one of the few women graduates of the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, revisits her family’s decayed former estate, curiously reconnecting the ruin with the elusiveness of family history. Sandra Wollner’s Das unmögliche Bild (2016; The Impossible Picture, 2016) explores her family history by imitating Super 8 home movie making. In both cases the house becomes an archival place that is interwoven with German and Austrian national history. The camera practices a form of approach that deliberately creates (disorienting) spaces that refute the hierarchies of conventional narration. Forty years apart, the respective handling of space is different in each film, the intent of uncovering family secrets similar.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"117 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73215493","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 Gendered Suspension of Time: Waiting in the Cinema of Angela Schanelec","authors":"Olivia Landry","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:From within the frame of feminist phenomenology and its crux of lived experience, this essay explores the element of time through embodied acts of waiting in four of Angela Schanelec’s later films: Nachmittag (2007; Afternoon, 2020), Orly (2010; Orly, 2010), Der traumhafte Weg (2016; The Dreamed Path, 2017), and Ich war zuhause, aber . . . (2019; I Was at Home, But. . ., 2019). Each of these films portrays waiting as suspension, in which characters are stuck in a state of fatigued arrest, unable to act and uncertain of what is to come. Essentially a state of vulnerability, waiting can even invite violence. I ask how this portrayal might connect to feminist politics, which permits us to read Schanelec’s films at least indirectly as feminist. The topic of waiting has a long history in film and film criticism, not least in discussions of gender. I trace this history from slow cinema’s ambivalent embrace of unhurried time back to melodrama’s temporality of too-late-ness and art cinema’s wearied figure of the housewife marked by time’s passing.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"162 1","pages":"160 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73717407","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":"Feminist Filmmaking before Feminism: An Interview with Ula Stöckl","authors":"Angelica Fenner, Hester Baer","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Director Ula Stöckl occupies a unique place in film history. Her debut feature, Neun Leben hat die Katze (1968; The Cat Has Nine Lives, 1977), is considered the first West German feminist film. As the first woman to enroll in the film program at the Ulm School of Design, in 1962, and also its first graduate, she lacked female role models and peers, turning instead to the women protagonists of classical Greek drama as a means to conceive of gendered resistance to patriarchy. While Stöckl’s interest in form contrasts with the social realism prevalent in the women’s filmmaking movement of the 1970s, there is an undeniable politics to her aesthetics. In this edited conversation, which took place at the Berlin Film Festival in 2020, Stöckl reminisces about her early training in 35 mm film, the forms of creativity that emerged among peers of her generation in response to the limited resources available to them, and her own teaching methods as a professor of film production at the University of Central Florida.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"54 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91347242","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}