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The Last Days of Mankind
One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, The Last Days of Mankind remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was first published. Kraus’s play enacts the tragic trajectory of the First World War, when mankind raced toward self-destruction by methods of modern warfare while extolling the glory and ignoring the horror of an allegedly “defensive” war. This volume is the first to present a complete English translation of Kraus’s towering work, filling a major gap in the availability of Viennese literature from the era of the War to End All Wars. Bertolt Brecht hailed The Last Days as the masterpiece of Viennese modernism. In the apoca...
Bulletin
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The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization
Reproduction of the original.
Politics in German Literature
New readings of a variety of works in German literature, taking as a theme the conflict between the aims of politics and literature. The essays presented here invite reflection on a considerable sweep of German literature, with representation from the medieval period to the present day. A common focus on politics (appropriately a subject of deep concern to Professor Ryder) unites the articles, written from the perspective of American Germanists. European wars and revolutions, political divisions and attempts at unification, and periods of emancipation or persecution are viewed through the illuminating lens of literature; the tension between aesthetic and ideological goals, between the aims o...
Berlin Cabaret
Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down. Fads and fashions, sexual mores and political ideologies--all were subject to satire and parody on the cabaret stage. This book follows the changing treatment of these themes, and the fate of cabaret itself, through the most turbulent decades of modern German history: the prosperous ...
Projecting Imperial Power
The nineteenth century is notable for its newly proclaimed emperors, from Franz I of Austria and Napoleon I in 1804 through Agustin and Pedro, the emperors of Mexico and Brazil in 1822 to Victoria, empress of India in 1876. Monarchs such as Napoleon III, Maximilian of Mexico, and Wilhelm Iprojected an imperial aura with coronations, courts, medals, costumes, portraits, monuments, international exhibitions, festivals, architecture, and town planning. They relied on ancient history for legitimacy whilst partially espousing modernity. Projecting Imperial Power is the first book toconsider newly proclaimed emperors in six territories across three continents across the whole range of the nineteen...
Arnošt Vilém Kraus (1859–1943)
Der Literaturwissenschaftler, Kulturvermittler und Publizist Arnošt Vilém (Ernst Wilhelm) Kraus beschäftigte sich auf vielfältige Weise mit den sozialen und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhängen in den Böhmischen Ländern, die durch die interkulturelle Zusammensetzung ihrer Bevölkerung geprägt waren. Dabei griff Kraus als Skandinavist und Germanist nicht nur auf den deutsch-tschechischen Vergleich zurück, sondern erweiterte seine Perspektive auch um die skandinavische, die ihm aufgrund seiner wissenschaftlichen Ausbildung zugänglich war. Der engagierte Intellektuelle begriff seine Arbeit über die Wissenschaft hinaus immer auch als eine kulturpolitische Aufgabe. Im von Helena Březinová, Steffen Höhne und Václav Petrbok herausgegebenen Sammelband werden erstmals umfassend die fachlichen Interessen und die publizistische Tätigkeit von Kraus in einem breiteren historischen Kontext vorgestellt und mit Beiträgen zu seiner Biographie und seiner kulturvermittelnden Tätigkeit ergänzt.
