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{"title":"Geburt Einer Zeitschrift Aus Dem Geiste Des Archivs","authors":"T. J. Reed","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2021.2021021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.2021021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"380 - 388"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47534485","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":"Kafka in Oxford","authors":"Carolin Duttlinger","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2021.2021025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.2021025","url":null,"abstract":"Franz Kafka’s manuscripts are among the greatest treasures of Oxford’s Bodleian Library. The vast majority of hisNachlass is housed in the Bodleian’s special collections, and its presence has resulted in world-leading research and critical editions, in conferences and public exhibitions, outreach work and international collaborations. In this article I trace the journey of Kafka’s manuscripts, before reflecting on their legacy — on the opportunities and challenges of this collection and its role in a forward-looking and inclusive vision of Kafka studies in the twenty-first century. So how did the autographs of an early-twentieth-century Prague writer end up in Oxford? Interestingly, this situation is not (or only to a small extent) the result of targeted institutional collaboration and primarily the product of a mixture of chance and luck and, most importantly, of personal networks and connections. To unravel this story, it is necessary to go back to Kafka’s lifetime. One of the bestknown facts (or indeed myths) about Kafka is that he did not actually want the world to read his texts. Max Brod, his friend and posthumous editor, recounts a conversation in which Kafka told him to burn all his unpublished manuscripts after his death. Brod apparently replied that he would do no such thing, but after Kafka’s death in June 1924, he found two written notes which reiterated the instruction, probably written in late 1921 and November 1922 respectively.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"416 - 427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41486470","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":"Modern German Studies Graduate Seminar 2020/21: German Studies at Oxford — Archives and Utopias of a Community of Practice","authors":"Aoife Ní Chroidheáin, Sophia Buck","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2021.2021018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.2021018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"377 - 379"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45819208","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 OGS Editors","authors":"J. Reed, H. Lähnemann","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2021.2021022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.2021022","url":null,"abstract":"Ernest Stahl graduated fromWadham College in 1927, then went on to Heidelberg and Bern, where he wrote a thesis on the intellectual sources of the Bildungsroman. He taught from 1932 to 1935 at Birmingham before returning to Oxford in 1935 as a lecturer in German. In 1945 he was elected a fellow and tutor of Christ Church. Post-war there was more to restore than the life of a college, and Stahl was one of a group who founded the Michael Foster scholarships to bring young Germans to Oxford at a time when the Rhodes Trust had not yet accepted Germany back into the fold.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"389 - 397"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47679390","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":"H.G. Fiedler and German Studies at Oxford","authors":"Emma Huber","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2021.2021024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.2021024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"406 - 415"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42200525","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":"German Studies at Oxford: Past and Future","authors":"Ritchie Robertson","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2021.2021023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.2021023","url":null,"abstract":"When I gave a version of this paper as an online talk, I added to the title ‘by the last Taylor Professor’. Since the Taylor Chair was not endowed, there was a real danger that I would be its last holder, and thus the final specimen of a race doomed to extinction, like Fenimore Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans. Fortunately, however, the Chair has now been endowed by the Dieter Schwarz Foundation. For this outcome we have to thank not only the generosity of the Foundation, and the good offices of Lidl UK in facilitating the negotiations, but the three years of hard diplomatic work put in by Karen O’Brien, Chair of the Humanities Division, and Almut Suerbaum, Chair of the Modern Languages Faculty Board. Thanks to them, although I was indeed the last Taylor Professor, I ended my career as the first holder of the Schwarz-Taylor Chair, and my successor’s tenure starts with a fair wind. The history of the Taylor Chair and of German studies at Oxford, which I will survey in this paper, thus illustrates the importance of private philanthropy for university funding. In Oxford, the benefits of private funding are obvious not only in the history of the colleges but also in the names of many University buildings, starting with the Bodleian Library and the Radcliffe Camera. If one strolls through the Science Area, one passes the Dyson Perrins Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, built with a donation from the sauce manufacturer Dyson Perrins (well known for Lea & Perrins sauce) and opened in 1916. The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology was purpose-built with a donation of £100,000 from the London banker Sir William Dunn in 1922. In the German university landscape, by contrast, private funding is virtually unknown and universities are dependent on funding by the state. The original purpose of German universities was to train professional men and administrators in Germany’s numerous kingdoms and principalities. Other purposes might also play a part: the University of Göttingen was established in 1737 by an administrator in the hope of reviving a declining town and (since the Kingdom of Hanover was in personal union with the British Crown) attracting large numbers of wealthy young Englishmen who would throw their money about. There can be a range of views about whether private or state funding is more desirable; but it is arguable that to retain some intellectual independence, universities need to be able to juggle both sources of income. Oxford German Studies, 50. 4, 398–405, December 2021","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"398 - 405"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48697633","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":"Freedom, Obedience and the Problem of Class in J.M.R. Lenz’s Die Soldaten","authors":"Veronica Rose Curran","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2021.1958570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.1958570","url":null,"abstract":"J.M.R. Lenz’s comedy Die Soldaten (1776) depicts characters who are unfree and, to varying degrees, obedient to eighteenth-century authorities such as the family, religion, the government, and the class system. Despite this, Lenz prized the concept of freedom and his theoretical works suggest that the greatest force over individuals is their natural drives to perfection and happiness. This paper looks at these two sides of his writings and their implications for Die Soldaten. The analysis centres on the protagonist, Marie, as the figure of freedom stifled, demonstrating her story as an example of the moral fallout that results from obedience to opposing external authorities. It juxtaposes this depiction with the soldiers in the play, who are shown as having far less personal autonomy. This paper argues that Lenz’s depiction of freedom and obedience in Die Soldaten exposes gaps in his own thinking about the relationship between morality and class.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"305 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47122414","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":"Inward obedience, St Philip Neri, and Goethe's Faust. Eine Tragödie","authors":"Helena M. Tomko","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2021.1958572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.1958572","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers how the post-Reformation idea of Innerlichkeit operates in Goethe's Faust. Eine Tragödie. Goethe's Faust is less an early-modern, pleasure-seeking necromancer and more an anachronistic skeptic who wagers his soul on total disobedience to all outward things, material, spiritual, civic, and intellectual. Wary of the suffocating inwardness of Pietism and Empfindsamkeit that inflects the earliest versions of Faust, Goethe revisited his drama in search of a vision of the self as capable of fruitful inward obedience. Goethe's interest in the unlikely figure of St Philip Neri (his ‘favourite’ Catholic saint) offers helpful insight into how, over a lifetime, he reimagines inwardness as a dynamic, organic principle of human development. Reason and humour inform Neri's rich inwardnesses, allowing him to thrive. Neri's coreligionist, the tragic Gretchen, also exemplifies this vital, organic principle of inward obedience, which Goethe celebrates as redemptive in the enigmatic final scene of Faust II.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"333 - 349"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46604072","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 Paradox of the Obedient Actor","authors":"S. E. Jackson","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2021.1958571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.1958571","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reconsiders the apparent paradox in Goethe’s reverence for the actor’s freedom in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and his demand for actors’ obedience in his ‘Regeln für Schauspieler’. Looking beyond the practical application of the individual ‘Regeln’ and instead reading them collectively as an extension of the Bildungsroman form, it identifies an analogous understanding of the actor as a subject in these works. If Goethe intended the Bildungsroman to educate bourgeois social subjects, in the ‘Regeln’ he sought to educate actors as aesthetic subjects. As much or more than working toward the ‘Verbürgerlichung’ of German theatre and actors, the ‘Regeln’ thus work toward the ‘Ästhetisierung’ of acting and of the actors themselves. Examining the paradox of the obedient actor, the essay shifts perspectives on Goethe’s ‘Regeln für Schauspieler’, and raises questions about how the Bildungsroman and ‘Theaterreform’ related to and impacted modern philosophies of subjecthood and freedom.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"318 - 332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45324812","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 Drama of Obedience: Introduction","authors":"M. Wagner, Elystan Griffiths","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2021.1958567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.1958567","url":null,"abstract":"In Germany, where, compared to other large European countries, the theatre had long been marginalized to local courts, Latin schools, and wandering troupes, the mid to late eighteenth century brought about tremendous change, effected by the productive collaboration of theatre directors, actors, critics, and writers. In the generations of Friederike Caroline Neuber and Johann Christoph Gottsched, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Conrad Ekhof, German drama and theatre were progressing at a higher pace than ever before, and German playwrights were at the forefront of innovation in Europe. In this period, as still through much of the nineteenth century, drama was the most prestigious of literary genres, and German playwrights had now caught up to recent developments. They were eagerly adopting the new bourgeois tragedy from England as well as the serious comedy from France, while also developing, in the Sturm und Drang, a distinctly new form of playwriting. Moreover, attempts were being made to establish stages on which at least some of the new German production of drama could find its home — from the short-lived Hamburger Nationaltheater (1767–69) to the reinvention of Vienna’s court theatre under Joseph II as Nationaltheater in 1776. For once, drama and theatre appeared to be crucial concerns of directors, writers, and (enlightened) statesmen alike.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"269 - 284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43034575","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}