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Breakout at Stalingrad
The original version of the classic novel of the epic World War II battle, confiscated by the Russian secret services in 1949, and now rediscovered in the Russian archives.
Spaces of Adolescence
Adolescence is a phase of transition, change and upheaval. These processes are often translated into movements through space in literary representations. The narrated space is to be read in its construction and semantics as a complex symbol carrier that is able to connect different dimensions with one another. The study develops, with reference to cultural-scientific spatial theories, a methodical model to analyze current youth novels from a topographical perspective and thus to discuss the interweaving of space, movement and growing up. In the cultural studies and narratological view of (narrative) spaces of adolescence, new trends and developments in youth literature after 2000 manifest th...
Literatur im Dialog
Herausgegeben von Norman Ächtler. Der Band versammelt Interviews von Carsten Gansel mit maßgebenden Vertretern der beiden Literatursysteme Ost- und Westdeutschland sowie der nachfolgenden Autorengeneration zu einem repräsentativen Dialog über die Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte der jüngsten deutschen Vergangenheit. Vor dem Hintergrund der gemeinsamen Erfahrung des Epochenumbruchs von 1989 verhandeln die Gesprächspartner insbesondere die vielfältigen Zusammenhänge zwischen Autorenpoetik, individuellem und kulturellem Gedächtnis. Diese Edition bietet ein vielstimmiges Panorama der (Literatur-)Geschichte des letzten Vierteljahrhunderts. Gespräche unter anderem mit: Jürgen Becker, Thomas Brussig, Günter Grass, Norbert Gstrein, Christoph Hein, Peter Härtling, Stephan Heym, Reinhard Jirgl, Hermann Kant, Uwe Kolbe, Peter Kurzeck, Erich Loest, Giwi Margwelaschwili, Ulrich Plenzdorf, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Wolfgang Schreyer und Christa Wolf.
Kind einer schwierigen Zeit
Wie das Schreiben beim Überleben hilft – die bewegende Lebensgeschichte eines der berühmtesten Kinder- und Jugendbuchautoren. Otfried Preußler war ein deutscher Junge wie viele. Außer, dass er mit 17 anfing zu schreiben. Er kam mit 19 Jahren an die Ostfront und geriet in sowjetische Kriegsgefangenschaft. Dort rettete er sich – nicht zuletzt – durch das Schreiben. Was er dort erlebte, wie ihn diese Zeit prägte und welche Kämpfe Otfried Preußler mit sich selbst ausfocht, erzählt Carsten Gansel anhand aufsehenerregender Archivfunde und autobiographischer Texte. Carsten Gansel zeigt, auf welche Weise seine Eltern und die böhmische Landschaft mit ihren Mythen, Sagen und Legenden, u...
Cultural Responses to the Far Right in Contemporary Germany
Against the backdrop of an insurgent far right and numerous deadly neo-Nazi attacks, various cultural practitioners have written far-right violence into Germany’s collective memory and imagined more inclusive futures in its wake. This volume explores contemporary examples from literature, music, theatre, film, television and art that respond to this situation. They demonstrate that, alongside the ways in which art expands the public sphere in terms of what is said and who is heard, aesthetic questions of how artistic works are presented are a crucial part of how they open up new perspectives.
Perturbatory Narration in Film
Perturbatory narration is a heuristic concept, applicable both quantitatively and qualitatively to a specific type of complex narratives for which narratology has not yet found an appropriate classification. This new term refers to complex narrative strategies that produce intentionally disturbing effects such as surprise, confusion, doubt or disappointment ‒ effects that interrupt or suspend immersion in the aesthetic reception process. The initial task, however, is to indicate what narrative conventions are, in fact, questioned, transgressed, or given new life by perturbatory narration. The key to our modeling lies in its combination of individual procedures of narrative strategies hitherto regarded as unrelated. Their interplay has not yet attracted scholarly attention. The essays in this volume present a wide range of contemporary films from Canada, the USA, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France and Germany. The perturbatory narration concept enables to typify and systematize moments of disruption in fictional texts, combining narrative processes of deception, paradox and/or empuzzlement and to analyse these perturbing narrative strategies in very different filmic texts.
Odyssee in Rot
"Hitler muss fallen, damit Deutschland lebe!" Von den über drei Millionen Wehrmachtssoldaten, die zwischen 1941 und 1945 in sowjetische Kriegsgefangenschaft gerieten, starben mehr als eine Million. Heinrich Gerlach überlebte. Das Grauen von Stalingrad hatte er in einem Roman verarbeitet, seinen schier endlosen Weg durch sowjetische Arbeits- und Gefangenenlager beschreibt er in seinem autobiographischen Bericht Odyssee in Rot. Im Lager Lunjowo war Gerlach aber auch Gründungsmitglied des Bundes Deutscher Offiziere (BDO), eines Verbands kriegsgefangener Wehrmachtsoffiziere, die ab 1943 aus der Gefangenschaft deutsche Soldaten zur Desertion und zum Kampf gegen Hitler aufriefen – in aufgezwu...
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Transnationalism in Contemporary German-language Literature
"Transnationalism" has become a key term in debates in the social sciences and humanities, reflecting concern with today's unprecedented flows of commodities, fashions, ideas, and people across national borders. Forced and unforced mobility, intensified cross-border economic activity due to globalization, and the rise of trans- and supranational organizations are just some of the ways in which we now live both within, across, and beyond national borders. Literature has always been a means of border crossing and transgression-whether by tracing physical movement, reflecting processes of cultural transfer, traveling through space and time, or mapping imaginary realms. It is also becoming more ...
Tatort Germany
New essays by leading scholars examining today's vibrant and innovative German crime fiction, along with its historical background. Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920s, German-language writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until after 1945, by which time Germany had gone on to produce antidetective novels that were similarly ahead of their time. German crime fiction has thus always been a curious case; rather t...
