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{"title":"The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought By S. E. Jackson, Camden House. 2021. 246 pp. $105 (hardcover) $29.95 (ebook or pdf)","authors":"Alwin Franke","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12415","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"117-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139608052","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":"Dante in Deutschland: An Itinerary of Romantic Myth By Daniel DiMassa, Bucknell UP. 2022. pp. 242. $150 (hardback), $35.95 (paperback and e-book)","authors":"Katherine Arens","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12412","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12412","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"110-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139614743","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":"Precarity in Burhan Qurbani's Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)","authors":"Franziska Wolf","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12417","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12417","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When Burhan Qurbani's adaptation of Döblin's modernist classic <i>Berlin Alexanderplatz</i> premiered in 2020, criticism included the allegation that Qurbani's protagonist Francis—a Black refugee from Guinea-Bissau stranded at the outskirts of present-day Berlin—does not resemble the novel's released prisoner and street vendor Franz Biberkopf. This article presents a comparative investigation of Qurbani's Francis and Döblin's Biberkopf. Drawing on Judith Butler's writing on precarity, grievability, and the quest for a “good life,” I consider how both Francis and Biberkopf face increased risk of injury, occupy a liminal space in society, and cannot fulfill their intention to be morally good while also achieving upward social mobility. Their failure is a direct consequence of their politically and socioeconomically precarious condition: Biberkopf belongs to the underclass of the <i>lumpenproletariat</i>, whereas Francis, as an undocumented immigrant, is exposed to neoliberal hyper-precarity.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"59-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12417","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139614142","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":"Imaginaries of Domesticity and Women's Work in Germany around 1800 By Karin A. Wurst, Camden House. 2023. pp. 236. $99.00 (hardcover), $29.95 (ebook)","authors":"Julie Koser","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12416","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12416","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"104-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139617106","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":"“Über dies eigene Ich wieder hinaus”: Stefan Zweig and Adlerian Psychology","authors":"Stephan Resch","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12406","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12406","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the biographical and literary connections between Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and psychologist Alfred Adler. While Zweig's reception of Freudian psychoanalysis has been widely documented by scholarship, the impact of Adler's Individual Psychology on Zweig's works has so far received little attention. The article will first establish the nature and extent of their personal relationship and Zweig's engagement with and reception of Individual Psychology. It will then draw on Zweig's posthumously published novella <i>War er es?</i> (1942) and provide an Adlerian reading of the text. It will be argued that Zweig's focus on Adler in his exile works owes much to his concept of <i>Finalität</i>, which Zweig adopts as a fundamental future-oriented outlook in much of his later fiction and nonfiction.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"24-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12406","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139532570","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":"Historical rhapsody: Citation and pseudo-citation in Herder's Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit","authors":"Tim Ellison","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12386","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Studies of Johann Gottfried Herder's style have neglected to discuss his often baffling use of citations. This article seeks to remedy that absence with close attention to particularly rich examples of his citational practice in <i>Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit</i>. The article suggests that Herder's use of citations creates a polyphonic text that reflects a polyphonic vision of history. Through close attention to select examples of Herder's citations and his manipulations of source material, the article demonstrates that Herder's citational practice may have more design than at first appears. Herder's text proves to be, at least in part, a rhapsodic stitching-together of dispersed voices, gathered under a thematic of intra-textual conversation.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"482-497"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138454681","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":"Meinungsdiktatur and dehumanization: Tendentious drifts in Juli Zeh's Über Menschen","authors":"Thomas Fuhr","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12402","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12402","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"560-565"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135635485","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":"Staging Juli Zeh's Corpus Delicti in the aftermath of a pandemic","authors":"Sarah Koellner","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12405","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"553-559"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135679182","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":"Introduction: What do we do with Juli Zeh?","authors":"Necia Chronister","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12404","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12404","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"533-539"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135725196","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":"“Vielen Dank für den offenen Austausch”: Juli Zeh as public intellectual","authors":"Lars Richter","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12401","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12401","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;“Vielleicht könnte man sagen,” Juli Zeh writes in her 2020 &lt;i&gt;Fragen zu Corpus Delicti&lt;/i&gt;, “dass Erzählen die Kunst ist, menschliche Gemeinschaft herzustellen, und die Politik die Kunst, diese Gemeinschaft zu gestalten“ (141). These two art forms, narration and political action, collapse into one when Zeh oscillates between being an author and being a public intellectual—one of the most prominent of her generation. In her 2015 study &lt;i&gt;Aufklärer der Gegenwart&lt;/i&gt;, Sabrina Wagner states that Zeh “am ehesten dem Bild des engagierten Schriftstellers [entspricht], wie man ihn insbesondere nach Sartres Konzept aus dem 20. Jahrhundert kennt und wie er als Typus noch heute eine Projektionsfläche definiert” (64). The fact that Zeh's literary texts are at least &lt;i&gt;received&lt;/i&gt; as explicitly political, and that her public interventions in the form of opinion pieces published in major German newspapers like &lt;i&gt;Die Zeit&lt;/i&gt; and the &lt;i&gt;Süddeutsche Zeitung&lt;/i&gt; have been part and parcel of Zeh's work, confirms this assessment. The start of Zeh's career now lies more than 20 years in the past, so taking stock of her work as a public intellectual is perhaps fruitful, not least because this facet of Zeh's work has come under criticism recently, as the essays in this forum elaborate. The purpose of my contribution is twofold: I begin by sketching Zeh's role as a socially engaged author in general terms before turning to a recent interview with &lt;i&gt;Der Spiegel&lt;/i&gt; that clearly illustrates the kinds of pronouncements that have recently come under fire. Ultimately, I argue that Zeh has not fundamentally changed her positions and positionality; what very much has changed, though, is public discourse itself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to Edward Said, a public intellectual is “an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion to, as well as for, a public” (11). This definition, which still holds traction today even though the public itself has changed substantially since Said first wrote these words in the early 1990s, is strikingly similar to Zeh's definition of the intersection between an artist and the public sphere. “Der Künstler,“ Zeh stated in an interview with &lt;i&gt;Deutschlandradio&lt;/i&gt; in 2013, “ist dem normalen Bürger am allernächsten, er ist quasi der normale Bürger plus der Möglichkeit, öffentlich zu sprechen” (“Ich habe”). What her statement ignores is the privileged position that the possibility not just of speaking out but of being heard entails. While everyone with access to the Internet can contribute to public debates by stating and sharing their opinions, a bestselling author with a large, well-established audience is arguably further removed from a “normal citizen” than Zeh cares to admit. In other words, if a regular person publishes a blog post on perceived state overreach as a response to a global pandemic, they may or may not make a ripple in public discourse. If Juli Zeh does ","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"96 4","pages":"566-570"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12401","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135725197","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}