{"title":"Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing By Ina, Linge, University of Michigan Press. 2023. pp. 268. $24.95 (paperback), $70 (hardback)","authors":"Zavier Nunn","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"77-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726869","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":"Witnessing after the Human: Post-Holocaust Landscapes of Ruination and Regeneration in Claude Lanzmann's Shoah","authors":"Angelica Fenner","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12500","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay explores potential implications of the nonhuman turn in memory studies via Claude Lanzmann's documentary, <i>Shoah</i> (1985), an enduring monument to the capacity for audiovisual affordances to facilitate oral history as it relates to collectivized trauma and atrocity originating during the Holocaust. I apply a new materialist approach to the film's editing, which excerpts interviews gathered in fourteen countries and interweaves these with location footage from former extermination sites whose landscapes bear witness both to past ruination and to ecological regeneration. The resulting montage, I argue, illustrates how witnessing “after the human” remains inherently relational, situated not only between filmmaker and human subjects but also between camera and environment in a broader actor network, testifying to the capacity for nonhuman modes of perception to bring these landscapes into focus in excess of what the naked human eye can see, effectively as <i>lieux de mémoire plus-qu'humain</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"7-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726838","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":"Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film By Sophie Duvernoy, Karsten Olson, and Ulrich Plass (Eds.), Bloomsbury. 2023. 332 pp. $108 (hardback), $35.95 (paperback), $86.40 (ebook)","authors":"Sophie J. Schweiger","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"84-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726904","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":"Modeling Motherhood in Weimar Germany: Political and Psychological Discourses in Women's Writing By Calvert, Katherine E, Camden House. 2023. pp. ix + 178. $99.00 (hardcover), $29.95 (ebook)","authors":"Claire E. Scott","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"74-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726842","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":"Nation Building Through Translation: Kleist's “Earthquake” in Meiji Japan","authors":"Jonas Teupert","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12475","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this essay, I consider Mori Ogai's translation of Heinrich von Kleist's “Das Erdbeben in Chili” as a contribution to the linguistic reform debates in Meiji Japan, which centered on the unification of the spoken and written language. I analyze the syntax of Ogai's translation and argue that his stylistic reduction of the original transforms Kleist's text into reading material for popular education in the new Japanese nation state. Drawing on Yoko Tawada, I then illuminate the constitutive foreignness of Kleist's language, which resists national appropriations. Nuancing Tawada's claims, I show that Ogai's Kleist translation negotiates the tensions between various languages, an instance of what Lydia Liu calls “translingual practice,” and thus participates in the ongoing transformation of Japanese during the Meiji era. Ultimately, I contribute a new understanding of nation building through translation, emphasizing that this process embeds the nation in a transnational and translingual network.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"24-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12475","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726792","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":"A Decolonizing Ear: Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive By Landry Olivia, University of Toronto Press. 2022. pp. 232. $75 (hardback), $75 (ebook)","authors":"Faye Stewart","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"71-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726791","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":"anders lesen: Juden und Frauen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des 19. und 20 Jahrhunderts. By Ruth Klüger, and Gesa Dane (Ed.), Wallstein Verlag. 2023. pp. 260. €26.00 (hardback)","authors":"Corey L. Twitchell","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"80-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726841","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":"Therapists, Vending Machines, and Winding Roads: Race and Mental Health in Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Serpentinen Angst","authors":"Lorna McCarron","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12498","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay explores the damaging effects of racism on the mental health of the Black German protagonist of Olivia Wenzel's autofictional novel <i>1000 Serpentinen Angst</i> (2020). Informed by close readings and decolonial trauma theory, this article shows how Wenzel forges connections on the semantic and formal levels of the text between the social conditions affecting people of color living in Germany and her protagonist's experience of anxiety and trauma. <i>1000 Serpentinen Angst</i> serves as a literary contribution to discourse surrounding the relationship between racism and mental health in the German-speaking world, while also considering the personal toll of disclosure through life writing.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"41-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726816","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":"Singing Community in Martin Luther's Kirchenlieder","authors":"Evan Strouss","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12499","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this essay, I claim that Martin Luther's <i>Kirchenlieder</i> can be read as <i>Volkslieder</i>, a reading which allows us to account for their function of consolidating identity through communal singing. Luther's songs, I argue, are activated in their being <i>voiced</i>—voice, here, understood in a non-metaphorical mode, as the material utterance of a singing community. These texts have often been understood as efficient vehicles of doctrine, but their role in calling a <i>Volk</i> into being remains underexamined. I begin by outlining Luther's theory of music and the voice's important role therein before closely reading key hymns in order to attend to their communal function. The <i>Volk</i> they implicate is, in Luther's time, not yet embroiled in nationalist ideology. It can, I argue, nevertheless be productively examined on the horizon of later nationalist identity, which I demonstrate in dialogue with early twentieth-century critics who take up these songs.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 1","pages":"54-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12499","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726815","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}