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{"title":"The Lever as Instrument of Reason: Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800 By Jocelyn Holland, Bloomsbury. 2019. pp. vi + 208. $40.95 (paperback), $144.00 (hardcover), $32.36 (ebook and PDF)","authors":"Matthew Handelman","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12423","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12423","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"285-287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141014888","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":"Robert Tobin and the longue durée of German LGBTQ+ history","authors":"Alice Kuzniar","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12435","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12435","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Back in the late 1990s when I first read these words, they opened my eyes as to why, considering my family background, I went into the field of foreign languages. Unlike many in our profession, I was not of German heritage, my parents weren't academics, and I was and still am the first in my extended family to earn a graduate degree. Studying French and German literature allowed me to escape the culturally stultifying and sexually normative confines of late 1970s Canadian suburbia. In the essay “The Theory of Seduction and the Problem of the Other” (1999), Jean Laplanche wrote about sexuality and foreignness in a way that attractively resonates with the term queer. Destabilizing claims to an abiding, undisturbed notion of the self and sexuality, Laplanche spoke of <i>das Andere</i>—the other-thing in us, the otherness of our unconscious, the enigma of sexuality. <i>Das Andere</i> is the internal otherness that we perpetually carry within us and that de-centers us and our sexuality, but that is founded by contact with an external otherness and that we seek out.</p><p>Bob Tobin's academic adventuresomeness, his search for <i>das Andere</i>, endowed his entire scholarly project—in fact, his very presence—with lightness and brightness. His intellectual curiosity and capaciousness led to enormous insights and taught us to pursue our scholarly passions and to seek out novelty; <i>Wissenschaft</i> is <i>fröhlich</i>. Bob and I were both students of Stanley Corngold at Princeton and inherited from him, back in the 1980s, a pleasure in reading against the grain, but with utmost admiration for the texts we were deconstructing. This respect, yet also subversion, are there in Bob's extraordinary contribution to the study not just of Goethe, but also of Christoph Martin Wieland, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Karl Phillip Moritz, Jean Paul Richter, and Thomas Mann, among many other authors. Bob was always a dedicated Corngold protégé—both theory junkie <i>and</i> textual reader. His thinking was brilliantly counterintuitive or <i>verquert</i>; his productive attention to ambiguity made him a fabulous reader. For example, Bob strongly argued that queer desires, which Goethe called both in and against nature, repeatedly come to represent nature itself throughout Goethe's writings, so that the seemingly diametrically opposed notions of homo- and heterosexuality, natural and unnatural, poisonous and curative, inside and outside, collapse into each other.</p><p>Starting with the observation in <i>Warm Brothers</i> that Goethe connects homosexuality to the trope of writing, Bob continued with remarkable consistency in his scholarship to link aesthetics and LGBTQ+ history, as if he were determined to archeologically reconstruct the textual nature of sexuality throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Taking inspiration from Jacques Derrida's “Plato's Pharmacy,” Bob repeatedly returned to the notion of writing as a <i>pharmakon</i>, as having a","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"202-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12435","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141017204","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":"Queer print culture and German studies","authors":"Vance Byrd, Javier Samper Vendrell","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12437","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12437","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Queer people have written and read novels and scientific treatises, circulated pamphlets, found each other in classified advertisements, made albums and zines with their friends and lovers, handed out political flyers and buttons, pasted posters on walls, and created private and public archives for these often ephemeral materials. It is through print culture that queer people realized they were part of something larger than themselves. Indeed, print culture has been pivotal for creating a new vocabulary for queer sexuality and desire and has been crucial for raising key questions about identity, kinship, and citizenship. Within the German context, ephemeral handcrafted and popular printed publications have circulated throughout the twentieth century and until today, including <i>Die Freundschaft</i>, <i>Die Freundin</i>, <i>Der Kreis</i>, <i>du&ich</i>, <i>L-Mag</i>, and <i>Siegessäule</i>. These publications and many others are a testament to the diversity of voices, experiences, and positions within queer culture.</p><p>Our contribution to this forum builds upon our collaborative work on print and visual culture. We just finished editing <i>Queer Print Cultures: Resistance, Subversion, and Community</i> (University of Toronto Press). In this forthcoming volume, we wanted to expand traditional histories of printed objects, material and visual culture, publishing, and reading to show how queer people have told others about their desires, built coalitions and community, fought against oppression, and imagined different ways of being in the world since the late eighteenth century. Queerness can be found <i>everywhere</i>, but the volume is by no means comprehensive. It provides a sample of different sources, topics, and methodologies we can use to study and teach about queer material and print culture. It was very important for us that we include the voices of professors, librarians, archivists, and activists writing about print culture and queer communities, and that we acknowledge that some printed materials are collected and archived by institutions while others are not. Finally, we wanted to highlight how necessary this work is for teaching. The study of queer print culture offers students the opportunity to go into special collections and the archive, to find themselves reflected in historical materials, and to gather and share these histories with other queer community members.</p><p>Queer print culture thus expands the horizon of what we can achieve in queer German studies. Teaching and researching queer print culture forces all of us to grapple with diverse identities, histories, experiences, and politics. If we do not include queer voices and study queer texts we run the risk of misrepresenting how printed materials and cultural objects have been created, shared, and appreciated. When we turn to these otherwise understudied materials it helps us fill in gaps and silences that have been excluded from the historical record, such as th","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"228-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12437","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141016800","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":"Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and the queer ecology of sericulture","authors":"Kyle Frackman","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12433","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12433","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 2000 and early 2001, Robert Tobin's book <i>Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe</i> appeared and began to reach university libraries and bookstores. At the time, I was about to complete an undergraduate degree in German studies at a small liberal arts college in Minnesota after having fled Alaska for the intellectual, social, and sexual freedom that only somewhere else could provide. Thanks to sympathetic and open-minded professors, my exploration of German literature, history, and culture included examinations of queer sensibilities to be found in works including those of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, August von Platen, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Mann, Christa Winsloe, G.W. Pabst—and Goethe. Tobin's <i>Warm Brothers</i>, which joined a couple of other innovative titles that had recently been published, including <i>Queering the Canon</i> and <i>Outing Goethe & His Age</i> (Lorey and Plews; Kuzniar), updated the study of German literature while pushing the field of gay and lesbian studies into queer studies in ways I found exhilarating. These titles put me on the road to the kind of queer media studies I discuss below, using queer sexuality and gender as a way into the medial worlds of historical figures and the eras in which they lived. One of the figures to whom <i>Warm Brothers</i> introduced me was Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–1895), who was the classicist founder of a periodical in Latin, nationalistic enthusiast of <i>Großdeutschland</i>, but also an activist for queer rights and liberation. Ulrichs's appearances in <i>Warm Brothers</i> are not extensive, but the context the book provided gave me an intriguing presentation of the roles Ulrichs played in the early articulation of non-normative gender and sexual identities. For years since then, I have wanted to know more about this person who had inspired such fearful homophobic loathing in numerous readers including none other than Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Tobin 197; Marx and Engels 325).</p><p>Although Ulrichs's influence came primarily through the spread of his publications and eventually their citation by others, there remains much to be discovered about the ways in which Ulrichs's and his contemporaries’ extratextual activities contributed to the development of gender and sexual theories (Frackman). Public awareness of Ulrichs and his legacy has ebbed and flowed over the years (Sigusch; Stack). Various scholars have explored the role he played in the nineteenth-century articulation of non-normative gender and sexuality, which included influencing—and inspiring—other well-known figures like Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Carl Westphal as well as the British writer Edward Carpenter (Pretsell; Oosterhuis 139; Lehmstedt 60). Ulrichs's writings, most prominent of which was his twelve-volume series of short books or pamphlets, <i>Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe</i> (1864–79), developed a congenitally determined system of gender and sexuality orga","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"214-217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12433","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141015521","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":"Queer occultism","authors":"Ervin Malakaj","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12436","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12436","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The rise of German sexology in the nineteenth century coincides with the rise of occult discourse and practice. The former has always maintained an important status in queer German studies. Scholars have historically turned with great interest to the works of, among others, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Albert Moll, and Magnus Hirschfeld, in order to advance the famous Foucauldian notion that the homosexual was born in the clinic. And with good reason: early sexologists produced frameworks through which to study queer life, generated discursive strategies to define and analyze it, and turned to various forms of media engagement including scientific writing and popular pamphleteering to disseminate their work to the public. No wonder, then, that their epistemic practices and broader advocacy work take center stage in scholarship on late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century queer German studies. But when it comes to occult discourse, which has likewise presented epistemic frameworks by which to define and engage queer life, queer German studies has often been somewhat hesitant to engage it seriously.</p><p>My sense is that the occult's epistemological foundations, which directly compete with and reach beyond the purview of Enlightenment epistemologies, rendered occultism as a cultural practice too fringe, even ridiculous, to warrant serious scholarly engagement. But such a view keeps scholars from a rather sizable cultural archive replete with information about how queer people navigated their lives, defined their relation to others, and conceived of how to engage with the world on terms often radically different than those that come into view when studying the history of sexuality through sexology. Occult practitioners did not favor empiricism. They instead pursued “unreasonable” methods that drew on divination, sensing, and speculation to glean information about the world. And, in so doing, they most certainly engaged queer methods and drew participation from queer people. That occult practice and queerness have a strong connection in our times today is no secret—see, for instance, Nathan Snaza's exciting new scholarship on queer feminist esotericism and contemporary liberation movements. But the connection between queer people and occult practice has a longer history, one that is particularly rich in the German-language context around 1900.</p><p>One site for scholarly engagement on matters of queer occultism in German studies is Hans Freimark's remarkable study <i>Okkultismus und Sexualität</i> (1909). For Freimark, the rise of the occult during his time is a phenomenon directly tied to a depreciation of empiricism as a guiding mechanism by which to know the world. In his assessment, occultists provided the public what science could not: access to deeper understandings of phenomena that reach beyond the capacities of scientific tools. These phenomena pertain to various discourses on human spirituality, psychic depth, and mystical forces said t","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"222-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12436","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141015063","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":"Fattening queer: Interventions in fat embodiment","authors":"Erin Ritchie","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12438","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12438","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fat bodies are deviant bodies. Just like queer bodies, fat bodies and our judgment of them are tightly interwoven with prescriptive, compulsory norms that impose standards of health, body shape and function, gender, and sexuality. Fatness is judged according to unspoken norms against which certain bodies are deemed to possess too much flesh. Regardless of how these norms have been determined over time, fat bodies are always legible as different in that they do not fit into environments oriented around ostensibly normal bodies. Fatness itself is a slippery term. Just like the word queer, fat carries with it social, cultural, institutional, structural, and personal meanings, both derogatory and affirmative, that influence the ways that fat bodies interact with and in the world.</p><p>In considering these similarities, the question arises: is fat queer? In a volume of essays by queer and fat studies scholars entitled <i>Queering Fat Embodiment</i> (2015), Cat Pausé, Jackie White, and Samantha Murray examine how compulsory heterosexuality, a term popularized by Adrienne Rich, works to create and uphold compulsory thinness and to regulate fat bodies and subjects. Essays in <i>Queering Fat Embodiment</i> rely on queer theories and methodologies like Judith Butler's notion of gender performance and Sara Ahmed's queer phenomenology to demonstrate how fat bodies are othered via heterosexual, hegemonic physical spaces and their respective orientations. Queerness, as Zoe Meleo-Erwin argues, can help us to examine and dismantle dominant conceptions of health, illness, normalcy, and pathology (108-09). Queering fat makes room for difference, interdependence, and vulnerability.</p><p>Standard medical discourse assesses fat according to hierarchical binary notions of success and failure. The obsession with fat has become a phenomenon in the medical world, with the World Health Organization naming “Globesity” the most threatening growing pandemic, even in the era of Covid-19 (Branca et al. xiii; Schorb 40). In 2020, the Robert Koch Institut identified 46% of German women and 60% of German men as “übergewichtig” and 14% of Germans in total as “adipostas” (“Übergewicht und Adipostas”). Yet the dominant socio-cultural urge to pathologize fat reinforces normative able-bodiedness, scorns bodily difference, and even directly undercuts fat sexuality, as study after study attempts to correlate genital dysfunction with excess adipose tissue (White). Not only are fat individuals unable to have “successful” heteronormative sex within a medical model, but medical studies utilize normative bodily expectations in attempts to prove the failure of fat individuals’ lives, evoking false correlations between their life span and overall health (White). A shortened lifespan is that of a less than ideal citizen, one who cannot continue to be a productive member of society in ways that align with neoliberal ideologies (Pausé et al. 6). In the medical paradigm, a fat life is a miser","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"233-236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12438","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141015325","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":"On the curiously queer realism of Adalbert Stifter's Bunte Steine","authors":"Imke Meyer","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12440","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12440","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Is it curious to argue that Adalbert Stifter's story collection <i>Bunte Steine</i> is queer? Published in December 1852 (and dated to 1853) in the wake of Stifter's ultimately critical stance toward the 1848 revolution, and introduced by a <i>Vorrede</i> that famously speaks of the story collection's search for a “sanfte[s] Gesez” (Stifter 12), it would at first glance seem to resist such a reading. Of course, for decades now, Stifter scholarship has highlighted different facets of his <i>œuvre</i>’s radicality (see, for instance, Geulen; Schößler; Downing, esp. 24–90; Begemann; Bischoff, esp. 232–76 and 328–51; MacLeod, <i>Fugitive Subjects</i>, esp. 107–42; Vogel; Nagel, esp. 80–88; Strowick, esp. 59–157; Jürjens, esp. 160–295; and Weitzman, esp. 25–48). But what about queer readings? In 2015, Erik Grell published an extensive piece on homoeroticism in Stifter's <i>Brigitta</i> (1844-1847). But it was Robert Tobin who, building on earlier readings (Owen; MacLeod, <i>Embodying Ambiguity</i>), first understood <i>Brigitta</i> as expressly queer in his seminal 2015 study <i>Peripheral Desires</i> (Tobin 127–33). A few years prior, two readings argued that one of the stories in <i>Bunte Steine</i>, namely <i>Kalkstein</i>, can be understood as a queer text, featuring as it does a poor minister with a fetishistic liking for exquisite linen undergarments gifted at the time of his death to his only male friend (Riley; Warmuth and Bugelnig). Is <i>Kalkstein</i> an outlier in <i>Bunte Steine</i>? And what of the story collection as a whole? Is it, too, curiously queer?</p><p>For all of Stifter's repeated mentions of “Gesez,” “Ordnung” (13), or “Gestalt” (13) in the <i>Vorrede</i>, and for all the efforts of the stories’ various narrators and characters to create order, to sort, to arrange, and to catalogue things, we soon get an inkling that in <i>Bunte Steine</i> “Ordnung,” such as it is, is a provisional state at turns threatened by forces of entropy and transgressed joyously. To wit, already in the <i>Einleitung</i> that follows the <i>Vorrede</i>, Stifter states that his story collection is “eine Sammlung von allerlei Spielereien und Kram für die Jugend” (18), whose eventual size is as yet undetermined (19). Thus, “das Kleine” (9), which can open a view toward the “sanfte Gesez,” may undermine this “Gesez” at least as much as it presumably testifies to its validity. We could therefore try to re-read what J. Halberstam enumerates as “the small, the inconsequential, the antimonumental, the micro, the irrelevant” as something that is best understood through the lens of the “low theory” Halberstam employs to grapple with queer failures and queer potentialities alike (<i>Queer Art</i>, 21).</p><p>And indeed, in <i>Bunte Steine</i>, a playful randomness, <i>ein Allerlei</i>, emerges repeatedly as the queer Other of <i>Ordnung</i>, instantiating cheeky infringements upon regimes of order. Already in the first narrative, <i>Granit</i>, we encounter a yo","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"210-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12440","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141017474","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":"Democracy, mass hysteria, and human rights: Rereading Hermann Broch in the age of reemerging authoritarianism","authors":"Thomas Herold","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12425","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12425","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"249-262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141017429","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 appeal of the queer right","authors":"Jennifer V. Evans","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12442","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12442","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Robert Tobin was an astute reader of texts. In <i>Peripheral Desires: The German Discovery of Sex</i>, he summarized the long struggle within the German-speaking world to surface male-male longing, noting that some of the same tensions within the masculinist and emancipation movements continue to shape the “architecture of our most intimate desires” (Tobin 249). More recently, together with Peter Rehberg and Ivan Raykoff, he immersed himself in the playfulness of the Eurovision song contest, arguing that its strong association with LGBTQ+ communities served as a barometer of a nation's liberal values (Tobin, “Eurovision”). And yet, whereas in 2013 and then in 2020 Turkey and Hungary respectively objected to what one official called “the homosexual flotilla” dominating the song contest, the backlash against drag performers and trans masculinities and femininities today suggests the goal post has moved closer to the mainstream (Walker and Garamvolgyi). The tensions around queer and trans identities within the European Union vexed Bob in what turned out to be his final writing, on the impact of the self-made Italian philosopher Julius Evola, a central figure in conservative and far-right circles during and after World War II who networked with the homosexual rights movements of the 1920s. Bob left us with a warning: not to make facile assumptions linking same-sex sexuality to progressive values.</p><p>Evola was a staunch critic of the Enlightenment. He advanced an alternative to the race science of the Nazis and yet was also embraced by them and by Mussolini. He believed in a lost Northern culture whose descendants first built Atlantis and then Rome. He gave lecture tours and was friendly with leaders of core gentlemen's clubs in Berlin and Vienna, which included members of the conservative circles that supported Hitler.</p><p>In the postwar period, Evola's illiberal and antidemocratic thinking made him the perfect person to serve as intellectual guide for a post-Nazi far-right conservativism. He became part of a group calling themselves Traditionalists, who rejected modernity, egalitarianism, democracy, liberalism, socialism, capitalism, communism, materialism, and bourgeois values. Alain de Benoist, the founder of the French neo-fascist <i>nouvelle droite</i>, lauded Evola in an interview in 2003. Even Trump's erstwhile standard bearer Steve Bannon cited Evola in a 2014 visit to the Vatican.</p><p>Evola's mysticism and interest in medieval asceticism struck a chord not only with this small band of right-leaning illiberals; they were also attractive to the New Age and fantasy set, a group that fuels a particular contingent of those on the far right today. We might think of the self-proclaimed QAnon Shaman Jake Anjeli from the Capitol Riot and his infamous Norse tattoo, which also graces the cover of Evola's own book for Italian youth. Or Giorgia Meloni, who cut her teeth in the Italian Social Movement neo-fascist Hobbit camps which drew explicit","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"218-221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12442","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141018106","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":"Mädchen in Uniform’s queer proliferations","authors":"Barbara Mennel","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12443","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12443","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"225-227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141017869","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}