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{"title":"„Der Lettern Heer, durch deren Erzt man lauter spricht“: Stimmenamplifikation und die Dialektik der Aufklärung in Gottscheds „Jubelode auf das dritte Jahrhundert der edlen Buchdruckerkunst“","authors":"Sebastian Brass","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12387","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12387","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Der Aufsatz untersucht, wie Gottscheds „Jubelode auf das dritte Jahrhundert der edlen Buchdruckerkunst“, 1740 zum 300. Jubiläum gedruckt, den Buchdruck mit beweglichen Lettern als Distributionsmedium für Wissen und Tugend feiert – und dabei daran mitarbeitet, dass Aufklärung in Mythos zurückschlägt. Zum einen inszeniert der Text den Buchdruck als Wunderwaffe im Kulturkrieg mit Frankreich und fordert die Deutschen dazu auf, ihn als Propagandamaschine sowie als deutschen Mythos zu instrumentalisieren, um einen kollektiven Minderwertigkeitskomplex zu heilen. Zum anderen macht die Ode selbst von einer kommunikativen Asymmetrie und einer Amplifikation der gedruckten Stimme Gebrauch, wie hier im Dialog mit medientheoretischen Auseinandersetzungen mit der Gattung, der Aufklärung und der akustischen Propaganda des Nationalsozialismus argumentiert wird. Anhand eines <i>close reading</i> einer wenig bekannten Ode sowie einer Rede Gottscheds zum selben Anlass beleuchtet der Beitrag eine Verbindung, die zwei Jahrhunderte nach der „Jubelode“ Horkheimer und Adorno andeuten, wenn sie das Radio als die „sublimierte Druckerpresse“ bezeichnen.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"463-481"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136068821","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":"A secret thing: Forgetting the author in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's “Das erste Gedicht”","authors":"Julia Gutterman","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12399","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12399","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the notion of secrecy in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's poem “Das erste Gedicht” (1846), pursuing its inquiry through a critical analysis of the gendering of space and authorship in Walter Benjamin's commentary on her poetics in <i>Deutsche Menschen. Eine Folge von Briefen (1936)</i>. Critics have understood “Das erste Gedicht” as an autobiographical and exemplary expression of Droste-Hülshoff's authorial origins in secrecy and shame. By contrast, my article shows how the poem foregrounds forgetting rather than remembering as a poetological figure, thus challenging the notion that authorship originates in a singular past. In dismantling conventional ideas about the relation among time, memory, and writing, Droste-Hülshoff seems to anticipate literary modernism. Drawing on her manuscripts and letters, this article further shows how the poem's literary genesis reveals a critical engagement with shame and secrecy as gendered affects conventionally attributed to women writers in mid-19th-century Germany.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"498-515"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12399","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136233455","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":"Corpus Delicti 2.0: Juli Zeh und die Covid-19 Pandemie","authors":"Sonja Klocke","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12403","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12403","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Seit Beginn der Covid-19 Pandemie hat Juli Zeh, auf das Regierungshandeln reagierend, vor einem angeblich ausufernden Gesundheitsschutz gewarnt, der zu Einschränkungen individueller Freiheitsrechte führe. Ihre Äußerungen zum Rechtsstaat in der Pandemie, oft unter Verweis auf &lt;i&gt;Corpus Delicti&lt;/i&gt; (2009), bewegen mich, Aspekte dieses von der Autorin in &lt;i&gt;Fragen zu Corpus Delicti&lt;/i&gt; (2020) dezidiert als politisch bezeichneten Romans (61) im Kontext ihrer Äußerungen von 2020 zu hinterfragen. Beleuchtet wird daher zunächst, wie Zeh eine pandemische Re-Lektüre von &lt;i&gt;Corpus Delicti&lt;/i&gt; zu lenken sucht, um dann auf die von der Schriftstellerin und Juristin befürchtete Bedrohung des Rechtsstaats einzugehen. Zehs alarmistische Statements werden mit den Ausführungen zweier führender Verfassungsrechtler, Jens Kersten (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) und Stephan Rixen (Universität zu Köln), kontrastiert.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Auf diese einleitenden Worte folgt im nächsten Absatz—das erste Wort ist „Heute“—der direkte Bezug zum Frühjahr 2020. Fakt und Fiktion werden somit bewusst vermischt. Diese Konstruktion insinuiert, dass wir in der von Zeh 2009 vorausgesehenen Gesundheitsdiktatur angelangt sind—ungeachtet der Tatsache, dass die beklagten Einschränkungen von Freiheitsrechten nicht diktatorisch bestimmt wurden, sondern auf Grundlage einer vom Parlament verabschiedeten Novelle des Infektionsschutzgesetzes erfolgten. Auch wenn von den dort legitimierten Pandemiemaßnahmen „praktisch der gesamte Grundrechtskatalog des Grundgesetzes betroffen“ war, wie auch Jens Kersten und Stephan Rixen in &lt;i&gt;Der Verfassungsstaat in der Corona-Krise&lt;/i&gt; (22) festhalten, eröffnet das Infektionsschutzgesetz schon aufgrund des im Grundgesetz garantierten Vorrangs der Verfassung „den Gesundheitsbehörden keinerlei Befugnis und Möglichkeit, die Kompetenzen und Funktionsfähigkeit von Verfassungsorganen des Bundes und der Länder zu beeinträchtigen“ (40). Zehs bereits am 5. April 2020 im Interview mit Jan Heidtmann unter dem Titel „Die Bestrafungstaktik ist bedenklich“ in der &lt;i&gt;Süddeutschen Zeitung&lt;/i&gt; geäußerte Behauptung, „unsere Demokratie befindet sich bis auf Weiteres in der Hand der Kurve, welche die Ausbreitungsgeschwindigkeit anzeigt“, ist somit mindestens fragwürdig. Die Demokratie befand sich vielmehr zweifelsfrei in der Hand der ans Grundgesetz gebundenen Verfassungsorgane. Die Vorstellung, dass es zu einer Art Staatsstreich der Gesundheitsämter unter Anführung des Robert Koch-Instituts hätte kommen können, ist absurd.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Die von Zeh aus &lt;i&gt;Corpus Delicti&lt;/i&gt; abgeleiteten und im &lt;i&gt;Focus&lt;/i&gt; mit dem Regierungshandeln verglichenen Kritikpunkte bedürfen somit einer Analyse. Als Beispiele für das Opfern bürgerlicher Freiheiten zugunsten des Erhalts der Volksgesundheit führt Zeh am 9. April 2020 im &lt;i&gt;Focus&lt;/i&gt; an, dass zum Schutz der Gesundheit „Schulen und Kitas geschlossen, […] Gottesdienste unterbunden, Reise- und Versammlungsfreiheit abgeschafft [wurden]“. Vier Tage zuvor","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"546-552"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12403","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134906753","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 Recht ist kein Kreißsaal für die Gerechtigkeit”: Law, justice, and legal violence in the literature and politics of Juli Zeh","authors":"Kylie Giblett","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12400","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12400","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Juli Zeh has been described as “eine Schriftstellerin, Juristin und Gegenwartsseziererin,” and it is rare that a discussion of her literary oeuvre does not also reference her legal work (Zeh, “Warum”). Literature, law, and a critical stance toward many developments in German contemporary politics are three strands that have wound their way through Zeh's fiction and non-fiction work. Her political activism was recently on display in her response to the regulation and management of the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany, which she criticized both in the public sphere (Soboczynski) and in her novel &lt;i&gt;Über Menschen&lt;/i&gt; (2021). This critique of political responses to an urgent and unexpected situation is characteristic of Zeh, who had earlier criticized state responses to the threat of terrorism in both her non-fiction work, such as &lt;i&gt;Angriff auf die Freiheit&lt;/i&gt; (2009), and in her literary publications, including &lt;i&gt;Corpus Delicti&lt;/i&gt; (2009). In her criticism of state responses to these challenges, Zeh has been particularly concerned to highlight two factors: the privileging of security over freedom and the use of appeals to an &lt;i&gt;Ausnahmezustand&lt;/i&gt; to justify the imposition of restrictions on individual freedom. However, despite the almost ubiquitous references to her legal training and current work as an honorary judge of the constitutional court in Brandenburg in scholarly discussions of both her literary writing and her political stance, the influence of jurisprudence on her literature, and the connection between this and her political interventions, is something of an underexplored field. Academic contributions in this area to date have tended to concentrate on Zeh's reflection on and critique of legal procedure, but there is more work to be done on the impact of legal philosophy on her literary work and the direct line that may be drawn between this and her public advocacy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Zeh's critique of political responses to urgent issues such as the pandemic or terrorism often involves at least an implicit critique of the law, in that what is being criticized is the state's use of legal regulation to respond to contemporary challenges. In the following discussion, I explore the development of two major legal themes in two of Zeh's most overtly legal novels, &lt;i&gt;Corpus Delicti&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Spieltrieb&lt;/i&gt; (2004), with a view to illuminating the way in which Zeh's fictional treatment of matters of legal philosophy sheds light on the jurisprudential factors underlying her political position on Germany's response to real-world crises such as terrorism and the pandemic. The first of these legal themes is the incongruity between law and justice. As the narrator-judge in &lt;i&gt;Spieltrieb&lt;/i&gt; points out: “Das Recht ist kein Kreißsaal für die Gerechtigkeit und hat niemals behauptet, einer zu sein” (518). The second legal theme is the exposure of what both Walter Benjamin in his essay “Zur Kritik der Gewalt” (1921) and Jacques Derrida in his work of legal philosoph","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"540-545"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12400","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135462020","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":"The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism By Jakob Norberg, Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 228. Open access (PDF). £75.00/$99.99 (hardback)","authors":"Paul Michael Kurtz","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12389","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12389","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"592-595"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135730573","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":"Arendt und kein Ende? Representing the political in recent work on Hannah Arendt","authors":"Joseph D. O'Neil","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12385","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12385","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Arendt on the Political&lt;/span&gt; by &lt;span&gt;David Arndt&lt;/span&gt;, Cambridge University Press. &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;. pp. x + 282.  $108 (hardcover). $32.99 (paperback or ebook)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Hannah Arendt&lt;/span&gt; by &lt;span&gt;Samantha Rose Hill&lt;/span&gt;, Reaktion Books. &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;. pp. 232. $19 (paperback or ebook)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;An Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the Humanities&lt;/span&gt; by &lt;span&gt;D.N. Rodowick&lt;/span&gt;, University of Chicago Press. &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;. pp. 224. $35 (hardcover). $28 (paperback). $34.99 (ebook)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Hannah Arendt: Die Kunst, politisch zu denken&lt;/span&gt; by &lt;span&gt;Maike Weißpflug&lt;/span&gt;, Matthes &amp; Seitz. &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;. pp. 318. €25 (hardcover)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To parody Goethe on Shakespeare: So much has already been said about Hannah Arendt that it might appear as though nothing more were left to say. But just as the authors of the &lt;i&gt;Sturm und Drang&lt;/i&gt; recreated Shakespeare in their own image, Arendt's status as a talisman for different varieties of left-liberal politics, attempts to reframe her work as feminist, and varying assessments of her views on race might lead one to ask: If Arendt is the answer, what was the question again? Nonetheless, since the global resurgence of authoritarian populism as a challenge to self-assured post-Cold War liberal democracy and its own accompanying -isms, Arendt's focus on institutional structures and controls and her critique of an implicitly populist social revolution have found new relevance. Donald Trump's sudden appearance on the political scene and his unexpected election to the presidency have only enhanced her appeal; her classic political-historical study, &lt;i&gt;The Origins of Totalitarianism&lt;/i&gt;, entered the &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestseller list on January 18, 2017, just a few days before Trump's inauguration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the wake of that watershed moment in American politics came numerous new studies of Arendt with unambiguous connections to recent events. Perhaps the sharpest take on how those phenomena relate to more emancipatory democratic ideals is Adriana Cavarero's &lt;i&gt;Surging Democracy&lt;/i&gt; (Stanford UP, 2021; Italian original, 2019), while the most cogent brief account of Arendt's relevance for US-American concerns today is Richard J. Bernstein's &lt;i&gt;Why Read Hannah Arendt Now?&lt;/i&gt; (Polity, 2018). Dana Villa's comprehensive &lt;i&gt;Arendt&lt;/i&gt; (published in 2021 in a series of Routledge volumes on philosophers and other thinkers) provides a thorough analytical review and comparison with recent strains of political thinking. More popularizing works include Ken Krimstein's graphic novel &lt;i&gt;The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth&lt;/i&gt; (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Anne Heberlein's &lt;i&gt;On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt&lt;/i&gt; (Anansi, 2021; Swedish original, Mondial, 2020). As if to underscore the political resonance, the word “tyranny” in the English translation of Heberlein's title is substituted for “evil” (&lt;i&gt;ondska&lt;/i&gt;) in the Swedis","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"571-585"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12385","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135730361","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":"The Myth of Abstraction: The Hidden Origins of Abstract Art in German Literature By Andrea Meyertholen, Camden House. 2021. pp. xiv + 310. $110 (handbook)","authors":"Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12398","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12398","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"611-613"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142793","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":"Populärer Realismus. Vom International Style gegenwärtigen Erzählens By Moritz Baßler, C. H. Beck. 2022. pp. 408. €24.00 (paperback). €17.99 (ebook)","authors":"Malika Maskarinec","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12395","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12395","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"608-610"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142539","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 Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder By Paul Dobryden, Northwestern University Press. 2022. pp. viii + 208. $120 (hardcover). $39.95 (paperback or ebook)","authors":"Seth Peabody","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12396","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12396","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"617-620"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142789","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":"Paul Celan Today: A Companion By Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder, and Marko Pajević (Eds.), De Gruyter. 2021. pp. 373. $24.99 (paperpack)","authors":"Derek Hillard","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12397","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12397","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"599-601"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142934","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}