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Space in Holocaust Research
In recent years, the issue of space has sparked debates in the field of Holocaust Studies. The book demonstrates the transdisciplinary potential of space-related approaches. The editors suggest that “spatial thinking” can foster a dialogue on the history, aftermath, and memory of the Holocaust that transcends disciplinary boundaries. Artworks by Yael Atzmony serve as a prologue to the volume, inviting us to reflect on the complicated relation of the actual crime site of the Sobibor extermination camp to (family) memory, archival sources, and material traces. In the first part of the book, renowned scholars introduce readers to the relevance of space for key aspects of Holocaust Studies. ...
Anglo-German Linguistic Relations
This is a collection of papers presented at the conference «Anglo-German Linguistic Relations», held at Queen Mary, University of London in November 2007. The papers cover a wide variety of topics about the relationship between the English and German languages or relate to cultural and literary contacts between English-speaking and German-speaking regions. Individual papers discuss Anglo-German linguistic interplay and affinities both as contemporary phenomena and from a historical perspective. Themes include codification, translation and discourse production from the 17th century to the Second World War; shared metaphors in English and German; political propaganda in English and German; and authorial positioning and perspective in a selection of autobiographical and literary works.
Walking in Berlin
The first English translation of a lost classic that reinvents the flaneur in Berlin. Franz Hessel (1880–1941), a German-born writer, grew up in Berlin, studied in Munich, and then lived in Paris, where he moved in artistic and literary circles. His relationship with the fashion journalist Helen Grund was the inspiration for Henri-Pierre Roche's novel Jules et Jim (made into a celebrated 1962 film by Francois Truffaut). In collaboration with Walter Benjamin, Hessel reinvented the Parisian figure of the flaneur. This 1929 book—here in its first English translation—offers Hessel's version of a flaneur in Berlin. In Walking in Berlin, Hessel captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recor...
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. In a major new biography, Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings present a comprehensive portrait of the man and his times, as well as extensive commentary on his work.
Deutsch Als Fremdsprache
To initiate its new Ph.D. Program in Transcultural German Studies, jointly offered by the University of Arizona and the University of Leipzig, the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona organized an international conference on Transcultural German Studies in Tucson from March 29-31, 2007. Conference participants sought to define the nature of Transcultural German Studies. This new, interdisciplinary field of inquiry investigates the cultural landscapes of the German-speaking world in the light of globalization and inter- and transcultural contact. The contributions that comprise the volume are by scholars who work in a number of related fields, exploring transcultural phen...
Tournants
Politisch links, Halb-Jude und homosexuell - Klaus Mann (1906-1949) war das Feindbild der Nazis par excellence. Der Sohn von Thomas Mann gehörte deshalb zu den ersten Intellektuellen, die bereits kurz nach der Machtergreifung Deutschland verließen. Mehrmals kam er in den dreißiger Jahren nach Sanary-sur-Mer, in die «Hauptstadt der deutschen Literatur» (Ludwig Marcuse). Aus diesem Grund veranstaltete die südfranzösische Gemeinde anlässlich seines 100. Geburtstages im November 2006 ein internationales und pluridisziplinäres Kolloquium. Zehn Referenten aus vier Ländern (Deutschland, England, Frankreich, Schweiz) diskutierten über Leben und Werk des in Cannes verstorbenen Schriftstellers. Im Vordergrund standen drei Themenbereiche: Klaus Manns Beziehung zu seinen Schriftstellerkollegen, sein literarisches und journalistisches Schaffen und schließlich seine politische Bedeutung.
Der Meister der leisen Töne
Mit diesem Buch wird die erste umfassende, wissenschaftlich fundierte und ausgearbeitete Biographie von Franz Hessel (1880-1941) in deutscher Sprache vorgelegt. Grundlage dieser fesselnd zu lesenden Lebensbeschreibung sind breit recherchierte umfängliche und teils neuentdeckte Materialien sowie sämtliche Werke und zugänglichen Briefe des Dichters. Nutzbar gemacht werden konnten fast vierzig bisher unbekannte Quellen und literarische Typoskripte. Die lebendige Darstellung folgt den einzelnen Lebensstationen von Franz Hessel und arbeitet intensiv seine Beziehungen zu Franziska zu Reventlow und anderen Frauen der Pariser und Berliner Zeit mit ein.
Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror
The book investigates and compares the role of artistic and academic refugees from National Socialism acting as "cultural mediators" or "agents of knowledge" between their origin and host societies. By doing so, it locates itself at the intersection of the recently emerging field of the history of knowledge, transnational history, migration, exile, as well as cultural transfer studies. The case studies provided in this volume are of global scope, focusing on routes of escape and migration to Iceland, Italy, the Near East, Portugal and Shanghai, and South-, Central-, and North America. The chapters examine the hybrid ways refugees envisaged, managed, organized, and subsequently mediated their...
L' homme personnage
Der franz sische Kunstsammler und Schriftsteller Henri-Pierre Roch (1879-1959) verdankt seine Bekanntheit in erster Linie den Filmen, die Fran ois Truffaut auf der Grundlage der sp t entstandenen Romane drehte, darunter Jules et Jim (1962). Vor allem das Attribut des gro en Verf hrers und Liebhabers - eines der most active lovers in recorded history" - wird Roch seitdem zugeschrieben, und nicht zuletzt aus diesem Grund erlangte auch sein umfangreiches Tagebuch einigen Bekanntheitsgrad. Dieses Tagebuch wiederum ist Teil von Roch?'s philosophischem Lebens- und Selbstentwurf. Es ist nicht nur ein Ort der Selbstreflexion, sondern es bildet auch das Rohmaterial seiner schriftstellerischen Arbeit....
