{"title":"‘Emigrantendeutsch’ oder ‘urwüchsige Sprachbegabung’? Pikarische Erzählverfahren bei Albert Vigoleis Thelen und Günter Grass und die Abwertung der Exilliteratur durch die Gruppe 47","authors":"Christoph Schmitt-Maaß","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2023.2227500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2023.2227500","url":null,"abstract":"Bei der Lesung seines ‘Schelmenromans’ Die Insel des zweiten Gesichts vor der Gruppe 47 wurde der Exilant Albert Vigoleis Thelen 1953 massiv ob seines ‘Emigrantendeutsch’ kritisiert. Nur sechs Jahr...","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Contribution of Andreas Mytze — Bookseller, Publisher and Publicist — To Exile Literature and Exile Studies in Great Britain","authors":"Jennifer Taylor","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2023.2227492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2023.2227492","url":null,"abstract":"In July 2021 Andreas Mytze died in London, where he had lived since the mid nineteen-eighties. Based on his extensive archive as well as his published material this paper offers an assessment of hi...","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ian Wallace (1942–2021)","authors":"Pól Ó Dochartaigh","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2023.2243092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2023.2243092","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Oxford German Studies (Vol. 52, No. 3, 2023)","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kulturelles Erbe und Arbeit im Exil: Die deutschsprachige Literatur und der internationale Film (1933–1945)","authors":"C. Schönfeld","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2023.2227497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2023.2227497","url":null,"abstract":"Considering the devastating impact of Fascism and National Socialism on exiles and their literary heritage through the lens of adaptation history, this essay focuses on German-language literature in international cinema from 1933–45 and, by implication, on the role of refugees in major film industries abroad. When Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor, most notable authors and filmmakers were forced to leave their homes in Germany and soon Austria. Many of them went to Paris and quite a few eventually made it to Hollywood. Several exile filmmakers sought to claim German-language literature for that ‘other Germany’ in foreign language films, but — especially after Hitler’s troops had invaded Poland — the literary canon of Germany and Austria was considered a liability by most international film producers. In desperate need of income, many exile authors actively pursued adaptations of their own works, but only rarely did their plans materialize, even for bestselling writers; Remarque, Seghers, and Werfel were among the lucky few. Max Ophuls’ effort to preserve at least a fragment of the German literary canon and ensure the survival of German culture abroad, by filming Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774), was an exception. For the most part neither international film studios nor audiences were interested in German literary culture during the Hitler era unless an exile writers’ works provided useful and entertaining insights into current challenges and/or had established a wide-ranging readership.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"48 1","pages":"350 - 365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shades of Red in the GDR: On the Identities of Jewish Communist Exiles after 1945","authors":"Pól Ó Dochartaigh","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2023.2243096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2023.2243096","url":null,"abstract":"Discourse on Jewish life in the German Democratic Republic has often offered a clichéd portrayal of a society in which Jewishness was subsumed into the antifascist founding myth of the GDR, leaving Jews as either self-hating (Stalinist) Jews or as citizens forced to deny their Jewish origins. In particular, Cold War narratives have often differentiated between Jewish communists who were in exile in the Soviet Union, and thus seen afterwards as more loyal, and those who were in exile in the West, and thus more likely to be suspected of disloyalty. This paper focuses on non-Soviet exiles and their descendants to explore the diversity of Jewish identity, politics and culture in the GDR, ranging from assimilationist communist identity to explicit engagement with Jewish traditions and even the Jewish religion. Surveying through the generations from pre-Nazi communist activism to the GDR-born children of such activists, it finds a diversity that belies monochrome portrayals of GDR life, while also establishing that, far from being mere passive instruments in the service of an SED-led (neo-)Stalinist society, Jews in the GDR were agents in the establishing of their own multi-faceted identities.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"58 1","pages":"307 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ‘Homecoming’ of the Activists: How the Communist Refugees Returned from British Exile","authors":"Charmian Brinson","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2023.2225286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2023.2225286","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers how many of the Communist refugees — German, Austrian and German-speaking Czechs — who were in exile in Britain during the Second World War, followed the dictates of the Party and returned home after the war to help rebuild their war-torn countries physically, politically, economically and socially. While the British authorities permitted the Czechs, as ‘friendly aliens’, to leave without too much delay, obstacles were put in the way of the German and Austrian refugees who frequently could not leave Britain until late 1946 or thereafter. The paper examines the relations between frustrated refugees and British officialdom as well as the reception the refugees received from their compatriots on their eventual ‘homecoming’. Generally speaking, the returning Communists did not fare well. In Austria, the returnees, many of whom were of course Jewish, were met with continuing antisemitism as well as anti-communism; in Czechoslovakia, as the Cold War set in, some were arrested while others fled once again; and in the GDR, the preferred destination of the returning German Communists, the label of ‘Westemigrant’ could prove a considerable handicap. All in all, despite the initial idealism, the common experience was one of disillusion and disappointment.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"13 1","pages":"297 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zur ästhetischen und geschichtlichen Ambivalenz des deutschen Expressionismus","authors":"D. Pietzcker","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2023.2194171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2023.2194171","url":null,"abstract":"Der deutschsprachige literarische Expressionismus gilt als das typische Beispiel der modernistischen Avantgarde im ersten Jahrzehnt des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Tradierte ästhetische Formen und ihr ideologischer Überbau wurden konsequent abgelehnt. Der Expressionismus war, emphatisch gesprochen, der Versuch, über die Kunst das individuelle und gesellschaftliche Leben zu revolutionieren. Ist dieser Versuch gelungen? Oder anders gefragt: Was ist, einhundert Jahre nach dem Jahrzehnt der Avantgarde (1912–1922), vom Expressionismus als ästhetischem Phänomen geblieben; welche seiner Impulse reichen bis in die Gegenwart? Der folgende Beitrag versucht, auf diese Frage eine konzise Antwort zu geben, bei der neben ästhetisch-literarischen Aspekten auch gesellschaftliche und ideengeschichtliche Figurationen erörtert werden. Konkret geht es darum, das geistige Erbe des Expressionismus und seine Relevanz für die Gegenwart zu benennen. Denn in dem Maße, wie die Gegenwart im Europa des 21. Jahrhunderts als krisenhaft erlebt und beschrieben wird, gewinnen auch Literaturen der Avantgarde an Aktualität: Auch sie sind Ausdruck von Legitimationskrisen und der Versuch, ihnen konstruktiv zu begegnen. Das Werk Gottfried Benns spielt für die expressionistische Generation eine Schlüsselrolle und ist daher auch für diesen Aufsatz eine wichtige Bezugsquelle.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"166 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49222268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kritik und Autonomie: Die Programmatik in Elfriede Jelineks Romanen und Essays (1968–1975)","authors":"Kristian Larsson","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2023.2194173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2023.2194173","url":null,"abstract":"While Elfriede Jelinek scholars agree that the increasing social relevance of the early novels bukolit, wir sind lockvögel baby!, Michael and Die Liebhaberinnen is vaguely linked to a social, political, cultural or aesthetic critique, the ‘programmatic’ platform, if there is one, as well as its specific textual manifestations remain largely unexamined. Likewise, the ‘programmatic’ essays Statement and wir stecken einander unter der haut as well as Die endlose Unschuldigkeit together with udo zeigt wie schön diese welt ist wenn wir sie mit kinderaugen sehen arguably demonstrate the theoretical, ideological, and aesthetic perspective of the author, but their relation to the novels have only been marginally und unsystematically considered. The article discusses the programmatic potential in the novels and the essays with respect to aesthetic methods, authorial voices, and a motivic framing of characters. It is argued that the tension between critique and autonomy forms the core of a programme committed to challenging both text and reader.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"183 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49508486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reframing ‘Gastarbeiter’ Migration: Family, Photography and Cultural Memory in Almanya — Willkommen in Deutschland","authors":"Paul Leworthy","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2023.2194181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2023.2194181","url":null,"abstract":"Interpreting it as constitutive and representative of the film’s exploration of cultural memory processes, this article identifies an abundance of frames in Almanya — Willkommen in Deutschland. Visual frames — frequently in the form of photographs — abound in the film. At the same time, the film’s narrative structure entwines present and past temporal frames, with the latter embedded into the former through acts of intradiegetic narration. As well as accentuating the essential role played by narrative in present constructions of the past and pointing to the family as a key ‘social frame of memory’, both the visual and structural frames in the film accentuate the limited perspective of any retrospective account, which invariably frames the past in a specific — and selective — way. I also expose that Almanya — Willkommen in Deutschland is memory-productive as well as memory-reflective: the film does not only illustrate cultural memory processes in action within the narrative, it also contributes a new narrative about ‘Gastarbeiter’ migration from Turkey to Germany. Considering the film’s popularity with audiences in Germany as evidence of the broad reach of its memory narrative, I conclude that the film constitutes a self-conscious and situated, constructive and successful contribution to twenty-first-century German cultural memory.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"276 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44452799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Auf der Suche nach einem anderen Mozart. Eduard Breiers Kritik an der Biographieschreibung des 19. Jahrhunderts","authors":"Katarzyna Szczerbowska-Prusevicius","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2023.2194168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2023.2194168","url":null,"abstract":"Im 19. Jahrhundert gewinnt das heroische Narrativ eine zuvor unbekannte Gewichtung. Der Begriff des Helden wird in dieser Zeit erweitert und bezeichnet nunmehr nicht nur physisch starke, tapfere Männer, die dem Urtypus Herakles ähneln, sondern auch Intellektuelle und Künstler. In den Konzeptionen des Heroischen wird die exzeptionelle Leistung eines Einzelnen mit einem tragischen Schicksal verknüpft. Das Leiden ist sogar nicht mehr Konsequenz, sondern Voraussetzung schöpferischer Aktivität. Der heroische Diskurs hält auch in die Musikgeschichte und Musikerbiographie Einzug. Zum ‘Heros der Tonkunst’ wird z.B. Wolfgang Amadé Mozart stilisiert. Diese Tendenz, insbesondere die Darstellung des Komponisten als Märtyrer, wird von Eduard Breier in seinem komischen Roman Die Zauberflöte (1859) kritisiert. Obwohl das Werk des vergessenen österreichischen Schriftstellers in ästhetischer Hinsicht viel zu wünschen übrig lässt, bildet es aufgrund dieser Heroismusskepsis einen interessanten Beitrag zur Mentalitätsgeschichte. Der Autor fasst nämlich den Vorsatz, einen anderen, fröhlichen Mozart zu zeigen. Es erweist sich aber, dass die Befreiung aus den mythischen Fesseln kein leichtes Unterfangen darstellt, denn in Breiers Roman findet man entgegen seiner Absicht versteckte und offene Rückgriffe auf den Mythos des leidenden Kulturheros.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"149 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47748483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}