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{"title":"‘HERKUNFT IST ZUFALL’: ZU OFFENEN HERKUNFTS- UND HEIMATKONZEPTEN IN DER LITERATUR DER DEUTSCHEN POSTMIGRANTISCHEN GENERATION","authors":"Anna Rutka","doi":"10.1111/glal.12358","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12358","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the context of present mass migrations, escapes and ethnic wars, the traditional approach to origin and homeland in terms of belonging to an ethnically homogeneous nation, monocultures with one mother tongue and a strictly defined territory are subject to criticism and (re)-defining. This article presents and analyses examples of four literary works whose authors are representatives of the young post-immigrant generation in Germany: the prose texts by Saša Stanišić (<i>Herkunft</i>, 2020), Senthuran Varatharajah (<i>Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen</i>, 2017) and Katja Petrowskaja (<i>Vielleicht Esther</i>, 2014), and a radio play by Marina Frenk (<i>Jenseits der Kastanien</i>, 2017). In the selected prose works and radio play, the authors raise the issue of origin and homeland in the context of migration, globalisation, and transcultural movements. The article presents the complex processes of searching for adequate artistic expression for experiences related to disrupting family lineage continuity, loss of homeland as a country of birth, and multilingualism. The traditional patterns of stories about origin and homeland are broken and their semantics are redefined. Hybrid, open and ambiguous narrative forms replace the linearity of cause-and-effect chains. Belonging to a multitude of locations and systems, multilingualism, multi-media, and transcultural strategies are a literary alternative to nationally coded models of origin and homeland.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42482069","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":"OBITUARY: JOHN LEWIS FLOOD (1938–2021)","authors":"David Yeandle","doi":"10.1111/glal.12361","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12361","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41268277","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 GOTTSCHEERS: FROM A CENTRAL EUROPEAN ENCLAVE TO ASSIMILATION IN NORTH AMERICA","authors":"Derek Stadler","doi":"10.1111/glal.12360","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12360","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the fourteenth century, a group of German-speaking settlers established a colony named Gottschee in what is now Slovenia. The results of World War II banished Gottscheers from Slovenia and they relocated to Austrian refugee camps. While some Gottscheers later moved to other European countries, a large number migrated to existing Gottscheer or German communities in North America as refugees, practising cultural traditions in large cities such as New York and Cleveland. Like other German immigrants who initially settled in large American cities, many Gottscheers moved from urban areas and assimilated, soon after arrival or a few generations later. In fact, Gottscheers are one embodiment of the collective assimilation experience of Germans who migrated to North America. Formerly, once large communities of German immigrants who contributed to both United States and Canadian society have all but disappeared. This study investigates how and why Gottscheers created discrete ethnic communities in the United States and Canada that flourished in the pre- and postwar years. It also analyses the present state of Gottscheer communities to determine why Gottscheers and their descendants may assimilate into American society.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43337298","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":"WHO DO WE SEE IN THE PROTAGONIST OF THE CAPTAIN (2017)?","authors":"Jakub Gortat","doi":"10.1111/glal.12359","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12359","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p><i>The Captain</i> (<i>Der Hauptmann</i>), directed by Robert Schwentke, was the German director's first film with a German crew and in his native language since 2003. It was screened in German cinemas in March 2018 and met with a mixed response from the press. In this article I analyse the film, with the main emphasis being on the question of identification with the film and its protagonist. I employ a number of concepts from psychoanalytic film theory to argue that <i>The Captain</i> has the potential to compel its audience to ask questions about human nature, for example, whether war is the only prerequisite for an individual to transform from an ‘ordinary’ person into a villain. Another question is how the audience might react to the presence of motifs which are symbolic representations of Holocaust victims. The use of such images underlines the ruthlessness of the main character of the film and strengthens the contrast between his physical appearance and his hideous crimes.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46559907","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":"WINNETOU, WHITE INNOCENCE, AND SETTLER TIME","authors":"Maureen O. Gallagher","doi":"10.1111/glal.12356","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12356","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Proclaiming ‘every generation has its Winnetou’, German network RTL ushered in the return of Winnetou to German television in 2016 with a big-budget film trilogy, <i>Winnetou – Der Mythos Lebt</i>. This article analyses the <i>Winnetou</i> film trilogy in dialogue with Karl May's original 1893 novels and the 1960s West German westerns using the concepts of settler time and white innocence. It brings a critical focus on race that is lacking in much existing scholarship on May, showing how whiteness functions in the <i>Winnetou</i> franchise as a structuring principle. In the new <i>Winnetou</i>, the blood brotherhood between the white German Old Shatterhand and the Mescalero Apache Winnetou becomes a way of forging connections not only across cultures but across temporal lines, allowing for the imposition of settler time onto Indigenous persons and the erasure of Indigenous sovereignty and survival in order to centre a narrative of German innocence and reinscribe fantasies of white conquest in the American West.</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glal.12356","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49237583","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":"‘RECLUSION IS NO MORE POSSIBLE WHILE OUR WORLD STANDS IN FLAMES’: EMERGING POLITICAL SUBTEXTS IN THE GENESIS OF STEFAN ZWEIG'S UNGEDULD DES HERZENS","authors":"Stephan Resch","doi":"10.1111/glal.12354","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12354","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Ungeduld des Herzens</i> (1939) is the only novel published during Stefan Zweig's lifetime. Written between 1936 and 1938, the book's genesis coincided with key events in Austrian and European history, including the mass displacement of Jews from Germany and the ‘Anschluss’ of Austria with Nazi-Germany. A closer inspection of the changes from the first to the tenth and final manuscript version of the novel indicates that Zweig started out with the intention to write a psychological novella about a tragic love story. As work on the text progressed, however, Zweig added characters and plot elements which appear to comment on the political developments of the time. In this article, I will argue that the revisions Zweig made while he was re-writing the novel add an important political subtext that aligns with the ethical objectives of his later exile works.</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glal.12354","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41880472","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":"‘ICH HATTE BEFEHLE’: MULTIDIRECTIONAL MEMORY AND THE VIETNAM WAR IN HEYNOWSKI AND SCHEUMANN'S PILOTEN IM PYJAMA (1968)*","authors":"Lauren Cuthbert","doi":"10.1111/glal.12357","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12357","url":null,"abstract":"<p>East German documentarians Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann's four-part documentary <i>Piloten im Pyjama</i> (1968) focuses on interviews with downed US bomber pilots who had been captured by the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War. The documentary draws explicit connections between the American presence in Vietnam and Germany's recent Nazi past, thus creating a memorial link between East German and Vietnamese citizens. This article analyses the connections drawn between Nazism and the Vietnam War throughout the course of the documentary, ultimately arguing that the film is not simply an anti-Western condemnation of imperialism, but also a work of ‘multidirectional memory’ (Rothberg) which creates a space in which questions of responsibility, duty, and guilt can be confronted from the standpoint of a perpetrator collective.</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glal.12357","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44167930","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":"‘KEINE ZEIT ZU VERLIEREN’: TIME AND CARE IN INGEBORG BACHMANN'S ‘DAS GEBELL’ AND DAS BUCH FRANZA","authors":"Emily Jeremiah","doi":"10.1111/glal.12355","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12355","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the handling of time and care in two works by Ingeborg Bachmann: the short story ‘Das Gebell’ and the uncompleted novel <i>Das Buch Franza</i>. It argues that care and time are linked in the works, in a manner that echoes the thinking of Lisa Baraitser (<i>Enduring Time</i>). ‘Das Gebell’ offers a critique of masculinist models of time and puts forward a feminist ethics of care. <i>Das Buch Franza</i> points up the difficulty and ambivalence involved in care, as it traces the complex dynamic between a brother and a sister. Both texts explore the fascism that lurks beneath heterosexual relationships, in line with Karen R. Achberger's view that one theme runs throughout Bachmann's works: ‘the constant state of war’. This war is gendered in complex ways. Through her works, Bachmann complicates and enhances theories of submission and domination such as that developed by Jessica Benjamin (<i>The Bonds of Love</i>), the texts themselves forming sites of protest and transformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glal.12355","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42016942","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":"ERMÄCHTIGUNG DES PUBLIKUMS UND ENTMÄCHTIGUNG DES KÜNSTLERS: GENIEDISKURSE DER NACHROMANTIK MIT BLICK AUF DEN FRÜHEN MOZARTKULT UND GRILLPARZER","authors":"Werner Michler","doi":"10.1111/glal.12345","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12345","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article discusses aspects of the dialectics of genius cults in the nineteenth century, using examples of Mozart's reception: the unveiling of the Salzburg memorial statue in 1842, Franz Grillparzer's texts on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his son Franz Xaver, as well as the artist's novella <i>Der arme Spielmann</i>. The consolidation and popularisation of genius discourse in the genius cults of post-Romanticism exerted unprecedented if latent pressure on producers of art in the period: the cults around prominent figures make great art into an unattainable exception. The article investigates how Franz Xaver Mozart and Grillparzer reacted to this dilemma.</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glal.12345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47252722","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":"GENIE UND KLASSE: ROBERT BURNS UND DIE WIENER SOZIALDEMOKRATIE UM 1900","authors":"Paul Keckeis","doi":"10.1111/glal.12348","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glal.12348","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Retrospective accounts of the life and works of Robert Burns offer us examples of how ‘genius’ functioned in the nineteenth century, not only as a concept of inspired, natural authorship but also as a way of establishing and stabilising class identity and belonging. This is particularly illuminating in Burns’ case as he was writing at a time when the working class (E. P. Thompson) was constituting itself – he and his poetry played an active part in this process of becoming self-aware. The article analyses Burns and Burns’ reception against a background of the conflicting views on literature held within the social democrat movement in the late nineteenth century, as exemplified by the Viennese <i>Arbeiter-Zeitung</i>, which became a daily paper in 1895. Josef Strasser, an important contributor at this time, defined ‘genius’ in terms of its mass valency, as a class phenomenon, inverting Schopenhauer's opposition between ‘Genie’ and ‘Herdentier’. In the course of the institutionalisation of the workers’ movement and contrary to the dominant variant of the term, genius thus proves to be a deliberate effort against the threatening assimilation of proletarian culture and the bourgeoisie.</p><p>Die Rezeption des Lebens und der Werke von Robert Burns gibt ein Beispiel davon, dass ‘Genie’ im 19. Jahrhundert nicht nur ein Konzept inspirierter, natürlicher Autorschaft repräsentiert, sondern auch eine Möglichkeit darstellt, Klassenidentität und Zugehörigkeit zu etablieren und zu stabilisieren. Burns ist im Zusammenhang dieser konkurrierenden Geniebegriffe ein besonders aufschlussreicher Fall; er schrieb zu einer Zeit, in der sich die Arbeiterklasse (E. P. Thompson) erst konstituierte und hatte mit seiner Dichtung aktiv an diesem Prozess der Selbstbewusstwerdung teil. Der Artikel analysiert Burns und die Burns-Rezeption vor dem Hintergrund der kontroversen Auffassungen über Literatur innerhalb der sozialdemokratischen Bewegung im späten 19. Jahrhundert, wie sie am Beispiel der Wiener <i>Arbeiter-Zeitung</i>, die 1895 zur Tageszeitung wurde, deutlich wird. Josef Strasser, ein Vertreter des radikalen Flügels innerhalb der Sozialdemokratie und ein wichtiger Mitarbeiter der Zeitung, definiert ‘Genie’ im Sinne seiner Massenvalenz als ein Klassenphänomen und kehrt damit Schopenhauers Gegensatz zwischen ‘Genie’ und ‘Herdentier’ um. Anders als in der zeitgenössisch dominanten individualistischen Variante des Begriffs erweist sich Genie so als Einsatz gegen die im Zuge der Institutionalisierung der Arbeiterbewegung drohende Assimilation proletarischer Kultur an die Bourgeoisie.</p>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glal.12348","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47379602","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}