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{"title":"LITERARISCHE VISIONEN EMANZIPIERTEN HANDELNS: EMANZIPATIONSPOLITISCHE ZUSAMMENHÄNGE IM WERK LOUISE ASTONS","authors":"Andree Michaelis-König","doi":"10.1111/glal.12421","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12421","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Louise Aston's work during the 1840s is usually read within the context of the author's life and biography. This paper differs from this reading. Instead, I explore the extent to which a reading fixated on the author's life runs the risk of overlooking the perspective of behaviours and gender roles that Aston portrayed in her fictional worlds. Using Aston's poem cycle <i>Wilde Rosen</i> (1846), her 1846 pamphlet <i>Meine Emancipation, Verweisung und Rechtfertigung</i> and the three novels <i>Aus dem Leben einer Frau</i> (1847), <i>Lydia</i> (1848) and <i>Revolution und Contrerevolution</i> (1850), I analyse some of the central motifs of her work. Furthermore, I examine Aston's analysis of socio-economic violence against women and the intersectional perspective in the context of the situation of the proletarian workers of her time. Finally, my focus lies on Aston's gender practices, as can be seen particularly in her character Alice von Rosen. It is precisely Aston's intersectional connection between gender, and sexual and socio-economic violence that make her literary works so intriguing up to this day.</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"77 3","pages":"402-422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glal.12421","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141377551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"(UN)EINIG? GENERATIONEN VON SCHRIFTSTELLERINNEN IM DIALOG ÜBER DIE EMANZIPATION VON FRAUEN: HELMINA VON CHÉZY, AMALIA SCHOPPE UND AMALIE STRUVE*","authors":"Jadwiga Kita-Huber","doi":"10.1111/glal.12413","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12413","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In addition to her literary activities, the writer Helmina von Chézy (1783–1856) was committed to the emancipation of women throughout her life. She took a public stand on women's literary activity, participated in anthology and journal projects and wrote portraits of women in various genres. Among her correspondents was Amalie Struve (1824–62), a writer of the 1848/49 revolution who was two generations younger and who came into contact with the women's rights movement in America during her exile. The article explores the extent to which Chézy's <i>Nachlass</i> in the Varnhagen Collection provides new insights into the emancipation of women before and immediately after the revolution. Chézy's previously unpublished portrait of Amalia Schoppe (1783–1858), who also belonged to her network, is examined more closely. To what extent can conclusions be drawn from these texts about the state of the public debate on women writers in Germany? What is innovative about their contribution? The second part deals with Amalie Struve's letters to Chézy from the time of her move to the USA. To what extent do they shed new light on Chézy as a writer of radical change as well as on Struve's emancipatory commitment? To what extent does a generational transition become clear here?</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"77 3","pages":"297-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glal.12413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141270339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"AMBIVALENTE LYRISCHE PERSPEKTIVEN AUF DIE INDUSTRIELLE REVOLUTION BY LOUISE OTTO-PETERS","authors":"Alexandra Huth","doi":"10.1111/glal.12420","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12420","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Louise Otto-Peters (1819–95) worked as a political activist, women's rights activist, publicist and writer in the turbulent decades before and after the March Revolution of 1848. These pursuits were closely linked, since Louise Otto, who came from middle-class liberal circles, commented on social grievances and developments in her newspaper articles, novels and poems. This also applies to the poem ‘Einst und Jetzt’, written between 1840 and 1850, which is hermeneutically examined in this article. As the title suggests, the text outlines the dichotomy of past and present or future. The poem, in which the arrival of the railway is a symbol of industrial change, focuses on the contrast between the old, peaceful world and the new world with its noise, faster speed and growth. A young man is drawn into the new world, while his beloved stays at home and is excluded from the innovation resulting from social and industrial upheaval. I examine the poem according to the following questions: What perspectives on the Industrial Revolution and its consequences are expressed and how? In what ways is the poem a feminist text? And where does the poem sit in terms of Louise Otto-Peters’ literary-political background?</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"77 3","pages":"368-383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glal.12420","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141189475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ENGAGEMENT IN BRIEFEN: FANNY TARNOWS TEILHABE AN DEN EREIGNISSEN VON 1848/49 ANHAND IHRER KORRESPONDENZ AUS DEN 1830ER UND 1840ER JAHREN","authors":"Renata Dampc-Jarosz","doi":"10.1111/glal.12418","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12418","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the time preceding, during, and following the revolution in France, Germany, and other European nations in 1848/49, numerous women writers actively participated in the fight for freedom and democracy. However, their involvement manifested in diverse forms. Besides the women categorised as ‘activist’ writers, there were others whose ‘engagement’ was less overt and public. Nevertheless, they too contributed through their writing and ideological alignment with the progressive political movements of their era. This article describes such subversive forms of engagement, using Fanny Tarnow and her correspondence with Karl August Varnhagen von Ense from 1833 to 1849 as a focal point for analysis. Central to this analytical framework is the notion of a dialogical exchange through letters, which served as a cornerstone for both Tarnow and Varnhagen in comprehending their socio-political roles as mature writers navigating a new era's political landscape and community.</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"77 3","pages":"315-331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glal.12418","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141189608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘DAS JUNGE DEUTSCHLAND INTERESSIRT MICH SEHRʼ: ROSA MARIA ASSING UND DER GENERATIONELLE UMBRUCH UM 1830 IM SPIEGEL IHRER BRIEFE UND DIARISTIK AUS DER SAMMLUNG VARNHAGEN","authors":"Paweł Zarychta","doi":"10.1111/glal.12411","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12411","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Rosa Maria Assing, born in 1783, belonged to a generation of female authors whose prominence and influence began to wane around 1830. As hostess of an important literary salon in Hamburg, she had had contact with numerous authors of the younger generation since the 1820s, including Heinrich Heine, Karl Gutzkow, Theodor Mundt and Ludwig Wihl. At the same time, she remained faithful to her old literary friends, including the representatives of the so-called Swabian School of Poets, primarily Ludwig Uhland and Justinus Kerner. This article traces Assing's contact with authors associated with the ‘Vormärz’ and ‘Young Germany’, focusing on her friendship with Heinrich Heine. This leads to conclusions concerning not only the relationship between older and younger contributors to the literary scene of the time but also the generational shift towards the ‘Vormärz’ in general.</p><p>Die 1783 geborene Rosa Maria Assing gehörte zu einer Generation von literarisch aktiven Akteur*innen, deren Bedeutung und Wirkung um 1830 zu schwinden begannen. Als Gastgeberin eines bedeutenden literarischen Salons in Hamburg stand sie jedoch seit den 1820er Jahren mit zahlreichen Autoren jüngerer Generation in Verbindung, darunter mit Heinrich Heine, Karl Gutzkow, Theodor Mundt, und Ludwig Wihl. Zugleich blieb sie ihren alten literarischen Freundschaften treu, darunter zu den Vertretern der sogenannten Schwäbischen Dichterschule, mit Ludwig Uhland und Justinus Kerner an der Spitze. Der vorliegende Beitrag geht diesen Kontakten Assings zu den mit dem Vormärz und Jungen Deutschland assoziierten Autor*innen auf die Spur. Im Vordergrund stehen exemplarisch ihre Kontakte zu Heinrich Heine. An diesem Beispiel lassen sich nämlich nicht nur Aussagen über das Verhältnis zwischen älteren und jüngeren Akteuren und Akteurinnen der literarischen Szene von damals treffen, sondern auch der allgemeine Umbruch der Generationen hin zum Vormärz ablesen.</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"77 3","pages":"332-347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141105244","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":"ZWEI ‘ACHTUNDVIERZIGER VON ALTEM SCHROT UND KORNʼ SCHREIBEN ÜBER DEN VÖLKERFRÜHLING: LOUISE ASTON, MAX RING UND IHRE DARSTELLUNG DER MÄRZREVOLUTION","authors":"Marek Krisch","doi":"10.1111/glal.12412","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12412","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The following article compares two novels whose plots are set during the March Revolution of 1848. <i>Berlin und Breslau, 1847–49</i> is the novel debut of Max Ring, a now largely forgotten writer and doctor of Jewish origin who came from Upper Silesia and became the author of numerous stories, novels and non-fiction books in the second half of the nineteenth century. He often uses the location of Berlin. In the novel <i>Revolution und Contrerevolution</i>, Louise Aston – poet, author and women's rights activist from Gröningen – deals with revolutionary issues. Both books were published in 1849, at a time when the consequences of these events for the future were not yet entirely foreseeable. Both Aston and Ring were supporters of the revolution. In this paper, the perspectives and views of their characters or narrators as well as the issues of narrative strategies and focalisation are analysed and discussed. Of importance here are not only the gender-specific differences between Louise Aston and Max Ring, but primarily, in addition to similarities such as generational affiliation, the differences in their literary expression and the articulation of their political views.</p><p>Im folgenden Beitrag werden zwei Romane einem Vergleich unterzogen, deren Handlung während der Märzrevolution von 1848 spielt. <i>Berlin und Breslau, 1847–49</i> ist das Romandebüt von Max Ring, einem heute weitgehend vergessenen Schriftsteller und Arzt jüdischer Herkunft, der aus Oberschlesien stammte und in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts zum Autor zahlreicher Erzählungen, Romane und Sachbücher wurde, welche oftmals Berlin als Schauplatz haben. Im Roman <i>Revolution und Contrerevolution</i> behandelte wiederum Louise Aston, Dichterin, Autorin und Frauenrechtlerin aus Gröningen, die revolutionäre Problematik. Beide Bücher sind 1849 erschienen, zu einem Zeitpunkt also, zu dem die Folgen dieser Ereignisse für die Zukunft noch nicht ganz abzusehen waren. Sowohl Aston als auch Ring waren Anhänger*innen der Revolution. Die Sichtweisen und Ansichten ihrer Figuren bzw. Erzähler*innen werden in diesem Beitrag ebenso einer Analyse unterzogen, wie Fragen der narrativen Strategien und der Fokalisierung erörtert werden. Von Bedeutung sind hierbei nicht ausschließlich geschlechterspezifische Unterschiede zwischen Louise Aston und Max Ring, sondern in erster Linie, neben Ähnlichkeiten wie der generationellen Zugehörigkeit, die verschiedene literarische Umsetzung und Akzentuierung ihrer politischen Ansichten.</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"77 3","pages":"384-401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141124401","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":"HERESY AND ORTHODOXY: A TEXTUAL VARIANT IN THOMAS MANN'S DOKTOR FAUSTUS","authors":"Peter Eagles","doi":"10.1111/glal.12408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12408","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Dieser Aufsatz bezieht sich auf eine textliche Besonderheit in Thomas Manns Roman <i>Doktor Faustus</i> und möchte das folgende Thema behandeln: die Rolle der Ketzerei im Roman, und die Frage, ob das Ketzerische durch die Kunst zugänglicher oder unzugänglicher wird als die Rechtgläubigkeit. Die Ketzerei und deren Gegenteil, die Rechtgläubigkeit oder ‘das Fromme’, wie Mann es meistens nennt, sind Formen des religiösen Denkens, die hier im übertragenen Sinne verwendet werden, um das geistige und intellektuelle Dilemma des modernen Künstlers darzustellen. Da Adrian Leverkühn Komponist ist, und der Leser Manns Beschreibung seiner Musik (durch den Erzähler Zeitblom) vertrauen muss, ist hier die These, dass ein Verständnis der Quellen der christlichen Ketzerei, auf die Leverkühn seine Kompositionen aufbaut, zum Verständnis der Natur seiner Musik und deren Beziehung zur künstlerischen Tradition, die sie gleichzeitig annimmt und ablehnt, notwendig ist. Der Aufsatz zeigt durch die Behandlung der Ketzerei in Dostojewskis bedeutendsten Romanen auch deren entscheidenden Einfluss auf <i>Doktor Faustus</i> auf. Schließlich wird noch eine weitere textliche Besonderheit betrachtet, die sich auf die Frage von Erlösung bezieht.</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"77 2","pages":"177-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140546764","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":"EVERYDAY UTOPIAS: RE-NEGOTIATIONS OF BELONGING AND IDENTITY IN TOMER GARDI'S BROKEN GERMAN AND SASHA MARIANNA SALZMANN'S AUßER SICH","authors":"Vivian Jochens","doi":"10.1111/glal.12406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12406","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich vor dem Hintergrund gegenwärtiger Debatten über Zugehörigkeit und Identität in der deutschen Gesellschaft mit dem Konzept der Utopie auseinander. Indem ich Tomer Gardis Roman <i>broken german</i> (2016) und Sasha Marianna Salzmanns Roman <i>Außer sich</i> (2017) vor dem Hintergrund dieser Debatten lese, erforsche ich die Möglichkeiten literarischer Texte neue Formen der Auseinandersetzung mit Diversität zu entwerfen. Ich werde aufzeigen, dass die Texte sowohl Konzepte sprachlicher und geschlechtlicher Zugehörigkeit als auch monolithischer Identität verkomplizieren und mittels der Etablierung von Utopien alternative Formen der Gemeinschaft und Subjektivität entwerfen.</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"77 2","pages":"263-275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140546772","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":"DOPPELTE BRECHUNGEN: DAS ‘DURCHS-FERNGLAS-SCHAUEN’ IN STIFTERS FRÜHEN ERZÄHLUNGEN","authors":"Holger Schwenke","doi":"10.1111/glal.12405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12405","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Der Aufsatz geht der Frage nach, inwieweit sich in der Verwendung des optischen Mediums Fernrohr im <i>Condor</i> und im <i>Hochwald</i> die Erfahrung eines paradigmatisch neuen Sehens widerspiegelt. Mit Rekurs auf eine Bemerkung Rilkes (‘Das-Durchs-Fernglas-Schauen’), in der dieser seine eigene Wendung zur poetologischen Neubestimmung des ‘Sachlichen Sagens’ erkennt, wird untersucht, welche Auswirkungen die Abkehr vom Modell des referentiell verengten denotativen Sehens zu einer Wahrnehmungsform der De-Differentiation auf die Neuordnung der narrativen Logik in den beiden Erzählungen hat. Die refraktorische Kraft des ‘Durchs-Fernglas-Schauens’ macht sich im <i>Condor</i> erzählerisch bemerkbar in einer kaleidoskopartigen Aufspaltung der Erzählperspektive. Die Darstellung der Ballonfahrt am Beginn der Erzählung erwirkt die tragische Evidenz des Verlustes der Geliebten durch eine wechselseitige Überkreuzung von technisch vermittelten Blicken. Ein emanzipatorischer Aspekt kommt darin zum Ausdruck, dass es die Frauenfigur ist, die als einzige der ‘transzendentalen Obdachlosigkeit’ des modernen Menschen gewahr wird. Die aus der technischen Distanz wahrgenommene Katastrophe im <i>Hochwald</i> eröffnet die Frage nach den grundsätzlichen Möglichkeiten erzählerischer Repräsentation. Stifters hier gestaltete Seherfahrung macht sich narratologisch als ein dynamischer Prozess der Restrukturierung des Erzählens selbst bemerkbar und nimmt damit Momente nicht-repräsentativer Strategien der literarischen Moderne des 20. Jahrhunderts vorweg.</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"77 2","pages":"163-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140546763","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":"‘KULTURKRIEG’ BEHIND BARBED WIRE: GERMAN THEATRE IN AN AUSTRALIAN FIRST-WORLD-WAR INTERNMENT CAMP","authors":"Heather Benbow,&nbsp;Andreas Dorrer","doi":"10.1111/glal.12407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12407","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article is the first in-depth study of the ‘Deutsches Theater Liverpool’, probably the most successful non-English theatre ever on Australian soil, selling out daily performances and mounting a new production each week. The theatre's success was due in large part to its location inside the ‘German Concentration Camp’, the largest First World War (WWI) internment camp in Australia. In contrast to most WWI internment camps around the world, its almost six thousand ‘enemy alien’ internees were a mixture of civilians – most of whom called Australia home before the war – merchant sailors and naval personnel. For this diverse group of men, the theatre was more than entertainment; it was an important way to spend their time meaningfully. We argue that this meaning was strongly connected to the (re)negotiation of identity through theatre, allowing the internees to contribute to the war effort understood at the time in German public discourse as a ‘Kulturkrieg’, a battle for the survival of German culture. Theatre-makers and audiences (re)engaged with their Germanness through ideas of ‘Kameradschaft’, German diligence and the joint duty of ‘durchhalten’ – ‘making do’. The critical importance of female impersonation in the achievement of the theatre's cultural aims rounds out our analysis of the D.T.L.</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"77 2","pages":"195-217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glal.12407","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140546769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}