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Europa in Weimar
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Weimar
Historian Michael H. Kater chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany’s most iconic cities in this fascinating and surprisingly provocative history of Weimar. Weimar was a center of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German culture in modern times. Goethe and Schiller made their reputations here, as did Franz Liszt and the young Richard Strauss. In the early twentieth century, the Bauhaus school was founded in Weimar. But from the 1880s on, the city also nurtured a powerful right-wing reactionary movement, and fifty years later, a repressive National Socialist regime dimmed Weimar’s creative lights, transforming the onetime artists’ utopia into the capital of its first Nazified province and constructing the Buchenwald death camp on its doorstep. Kater’s richly detailed volume offers the first complete history of Weimar in any language, from its meteoric eighteenth-century rise up from obscurity through its glory days of unbridled creative expression to its dark descent back into artistic insignificance under Nazi rule and, later, Soviet occupation and beyond.
Who is this Schiller Now?
New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects. The works of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) -- an innovative and resonant tragedian and an important poet, essayist, historian, and aesthetic theorist -- are among the best known of German and world literature. Schiller's explosive original artistry and feel for timely and enduring personal tragedy embedded in timeless sociohistorical conflicts remain the topic of lively academic debate. The essays in this volume address the many flashpoints and canonicalshifts in the cyclically polarized reception of Schiller and his works, in pursuit of historical an...
Der Literaturskandal
Warum und wie lösen literarische Texte Skandale aus? Was ist eigentlich ein Literaturskandal? Und auf welche Erkenntnisse und Theorien der Skandalforschung anderer Disziplinen kann die Literaturwissenschaft aufbauen? Regina Roßbach beantwortet diese Fragen mit einem Modell des Literaturskandals als Kommunikationsphänomen. Wie seine Analyse mit der Interpretation literarischer Texte kombiniert werden kann und wie ein Vergleich verschiedener Literaturskandale gelingt, zeigt sie anhand historischer Literaturskandale um Charles Baudelaires Les Fleurs du Mal, Émile Zolas L’Assommoir, Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray, Klaus Manns Mephisto, Salman Rushdies The Satanic Verses und Martin Walsers Friedenspreisrede beziehungsweise seinen Roman Ein springender Brunnen.
Europa! Europa?
Biographical note: Sascha Bru, Genth University, Belgium; Peter Nicholls, University of Sussex, UK.
The Void of Ethics
In a pluralistic society without absolute standards of judgment, how can an individual live a moral life? This is the question Robert Musil (1880-1942), an Austrian-born engineer and mathematician turned writer, asked in essays, plays, and fiction that grapple with the moral ambivalence of modern life. Though unfinished, his monumental novel of Vienna in the febrile days before World War I, The Man without Qualities, is identified by German scholars as the most important literary work of the twentieth century. In a fresh examination of his essays, notebooks, and fiction, Patrizia McBride reconstructs Musil's understanding of ethics as a realm of experience that eludes language and thought. A...
Representing Duchess Anna Amalia's Bildung
Portraits of Anna Amalia, Duchess of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach chart a shift in perceptions of her public identity and of the gender dynamics that shaped that identity. This manuscript is more than just a patronage study or a biography; it is concerned with how a powerful woman used art to shape her identity, how that identity changed over time, and how people around her shaped it, too. This study sheds real light on the power of portraiture in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.
A Literary Occupation
Pax in Bello, peace in the midst of war, was the motto one writer chose to signify the private dilemma: how could the humanist, clad in the uniform of the occupier, write of liberal values, see with a liberal eye – and publish, or hope to? From the armistice peace of occupied France, from the partisan war and incipient civil war of Greece, from the all-out warfare in southern Russia, came writing that revealed not just the everyday split consciousness resulting from the overlay of Nazi ideology, but writing also that circumvented and in places subverted the propaganda imperative which then governed everything in print. For a European community that now sees itself as exemplar and upholder of liberal democratic values, the study of that first great test of modern liberal conscience is instructive. Some essayed the test in the craft of writing, and came away with some honour. Their works are examined in this book.
Weimar
In dieser ersten großen Kulturgeschichte Weimars seit Jahrzehnten zeigt Annette Seemann anschaulich, wie schon früh ein {607}Mythos Weimar" entstand, und geht den verborgenen Verbindungslinien nach, die von Luther über Bach zu Goethe und weiter bis zum Bauhaus und zur Weimarer Verfassung führen. Weimar erscheint wie ein Kondensat deutscher Kultur und Geschichte: Luther wurde von hier aus politisch protegiert, und Johann Sebastian Bach wirkte am Weimarer Hof. Als Wahlheimat von Goethe und Schiller wurde die Stadt zum Zentrum der deutschen Klassik. Franz Liszt fühlte sich von der Aura Weimars magisch angezogen. Der geistig umnachtete Friedrich Nietzsche wurde nach Weimar geholt, damit er ...
The New Shudder
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