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Witness
Witness is an anthology comprising 40 critical essays from an international cast of researchers who engage with a complex set of questions concerning notions of witnessing and attestation in 20th- and 21st-century Western culture. The contributors provide insightful perspectives on the subject of witnessing and suggest how this vital yet relatively unexplored concept lends itself to a wide range of media and subject areas. The essays critically reconsider existing scholarly tendencies which focus on historical evidence and the witness' vocalization of true remembrance. They do this by establishing important links with canonical texts, images, and voices within a theoretical and interpretive framework where questions of mediation, memorization, and representation are addressed.
Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews
In the years leading up to the World Wars, Germany and Austria saw an unprecedented increase in the study and depiction of the criminal. Science, journalism and crime fiction were obsessed with delinquents while ignoring the social causes of crime. As criminologists measured criminals' heads and debated biological predestination, court reporters and crime writers wrote side-splitting or heart-rending stories featuring one of the most popular characters ever created--the hilarious or piteous crook. The author examines the figure of the crook and notions of "Jewish" criminality in a range of antisemitic writing, from Nazi propaganda to court reporting to forgotten classics of crime fiction.
The Nazi Worker
The Nazi Worker is the second in a three-volume project on the figure of the worker and, by extension, questions of class in twentieth-century German culture. It is based on extensive research in the archives and informed by recent debates on the politics of emotion, the end of class, and the future of work. In seven chapters, the book reconstructs the processes by which National Socialism appropriated aspects of working-class culture and socialist politics and translated class-based identifications into the racialized communitarianism of Volksgemeinschaft (folk community). Arbeitertum (workerdom), the operative term within these processes of appropriation, not only established a discursive ...
The Short Story in German in the Twenty-first Century
Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary genre. This volume aims to establish a framework for further research into this rich field. The introduction and six thematic chapters discuss theories of the short-story form, literary-aesthetic questions, and key trends in the twenty-first century. Seven chapters on significant literary figures from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland then offer a range of theoretical and thematic approaches to individual stories and collections. Finally, two original translations showcase contemporary short-story writing in German.
Harmful and Undesirable
The first English language study of book censorship in Nazi Germany, this book describes the way in which various state and party organizations in Germany exerted control over the creation, publication, and distribution of books. By presenting the fate of authors and publishers, who came into conflict with the organs of censorship, it sheds light on intellectual life under the Nazi dictatorship.
Quote, Double Quote
The boundary between ‘high’ culture and ‘popular’ culture is neither hermetic nor stable. A wide-spread mechanism of a reception strongly influenced by structuralism and post-modernism has led to the amplification and acceleration of cultural production between these two poles. Relying on a decidedly theoretical approach, this volume offers a broad perspective transgressing linguistic, cultural, temporal, and media borders. Reflections and perspectives on the relationship between ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture are the subject of the thirteen articles collected here. Side by side with theoretical approaches, case studies covering classical and Heavy Metal music, TV series and pornographic films, zombies and ‘Creature Features’, philosophically infused comics and popular lexicography, professional wrestling and hypertext literature pave the way to a contemporary aesthetics.
Bestsellers of the Third Reich
Despite the displacement of countless authors, frequent bans of specific titles, and high-profile book burnings, the German book industry boomed during the Nazi period. Notwithstanding the millions of copies of Mein Kampf that were sold, the era’s most popular books were diverse and often surprising in retrospect, despite an oppressive ideological and cultural climate: Huxley’s Brave New World was widely read in the 1930s, while Saint-Exupéry’s Wind, Sand and Stars was a great success during the war years. Bestsellers of the Third Reich surveys this motley collection of books, along with the circumstances of their publication, to provide an innovative new window into the history of Nazi Germany.
China in der Literatur der Zwischenkriegszeit
Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg lässt sich in der deutschsprachigen Literatur ein regelrechter China-Trend beobachten. Zahlreiche Autor:innen widmeten sich aus unterschiedlichen, zunehmend auch politischen Motiven der asiatischen Kultur. Viele dieser Texte sind heute vergessen. Auf der Grundlage einer umfassenden Recherche untersucht die Studie aus verflechtungsgeschichtlicher Perspektive die Darstellungen Chinas in der Literatur der Zwischenkriegsjahre und zeigt, dass China zwischen 1919 und 1937/39 von einem fremden und exotischen Land den einen zum politischen Vorbild, den anderen zum politischen Drohbild wird. In Fallstudien zu kanonischen und nicht-kanonischen Autor:innen, darunter Alfred DÃ...
Kunst der Propaganda
Kunst und Propaganda wurden unter der gleichen Perspektive gesehen: Menschen zu formen. Es blieb jedoch eine entscheidende Differenz: Das Politische nutzte die Propaganda als Funktion bzw. Mittel, die Kunst aber war u. a. ihr Ziel. Propaganda und Kunst gerieten in Wechselverhältnisse: Kunst konnte Mittel der Propaganda werden, die selbst eine Kunst sein sollte. Die hohe Kunst blieb jedoch Leitbild, selbst wenn dadurch eine Modernisierung des Films nach internationalen Maßstäben verhindert wurde. Was dabei jedoch entstand, war ein sehr eigener, eben als spezifisch kunsthaft deutsch verstandener Stil der Dramatisierung von Historie und Zeitgenössischem. Die Kunst der Propaganda erschien so...
