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Transnationalism in Contemporary German-language Literature
Investigates the concept of transnationalism and its significance in and for German-language literature and culture.
German Jewish Literature After 1990
Edited volume tracing the development of a new generation of German Jewish writers, offering fresh interpretations of individual works, and probing the very concept of "German Jewish literature."
Lämmels Syndrom
Lämmel, Haushaltswarenvertreter mit Doktortitel, entdeckt an sich die Fähigkeit, durch Dinge hindurchzusehen. Als wäre das Leben mit geschärftem Blick nicht schon kompliziert genug, stellt ein seltsamer Anruf sein Leben endgültig auf den Kopf. Denn am anderen Ende ist Dom Alfonso. Der lebt hinter der Fußleiste in Lämmels Küche und ernährt sich von den herabfallenden Krümeln. Und er droht mit Krieg, sollte die reibungslose Krümelversorgung eingestellt werden. Lämmel will den ungebetenen Gast loswerden und schließt einen Pakt mit ihm. Fortan erzählt er ihm Geschichten, deren Wahrheitsgehalt der temperamentvolle Untermieter erraten muss. Sollte Dom Alfonso falsch liegen, so die Abmachung, muss er Lämmels Haus verlassen. Schon bald muss Lämmel jedoch feststellen, dass Wahrheit und Lüge gar nicht so leicht zu unterscheiden sind, besonders, wenn es um die eigene Vergangenheit geht. „Lämmels Syndrom oder Die fünf Dimensionen der Wahrheit“ ist ein surrealer Wahnsinnsroman über Realitäten und Ideale, über deren Vergänglichkeit und ein bisschen auch über den Samsa in uns allen.
If You Only Knew
The only autobiography of „the greatest violinist of his generation“ (Yehudi Menuhin) The road to the pinnacle of violin-playing has not been an easy one for David Garrett. His childhood revolved around discipline and working daily with his father, who fostered his talent and supported him, while also being an ambitious driving force. From the tender age of ten, he was already performing on stage with the world’s greatest orchestras, later playing all the classical works as a teenager, before freeing himself from the shackles of his wunderkind existence in his early twenties and moving to New York to study. It was in that city that he laid the foundations for a new genre of classical m...
The History and Life Stories of European Women in the Arts
Offering historical identity fortified by the presence of women belonging to the various areas of creative and intellectual life, this book allows readers to understand greater contexts of their identity. The history of female artists is an indicator of how social identity was erased from the historiography which asserted itself in nineteenth-century Europe. Analysis of the biographical pathways traced here reveals how women in the Middle Ages and beyond have been active protagonists of the arts, received reviews, as well as had an authoritative role as the esteemed and attentive witnesses of the society around them. Reconstruction of social relationships, intellectual and creative productio...
Mascha
Dual language - German original with English translations on facing pages. For much of her lifetime, and for decades after her death, Mascha Kaleko was a forgotten poet. With his publications, Andreas Nolte has played a role in changing this. To him, she personifies an all-too-typical example of a German-Jewish artist who was marginalized, intimidated, expelled into exile, and then forgotten. What adds to her obscurity is that her life's intriguing story is not well known, unless one speaks German and can read her poems, or what little has been written about her. This book provides a significant number of translated poems and biographical information from every stage of Kaleko's remarkable life in Berlin, New York, and Jerusalem to an English-speaking audience. Her story and her powerful poetry need to be heard: they shine a light on the darkest of times in the last century and remind us of the lessons that history teaches us.
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Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature
Examines how German-Jewish writers from Eastern Europe who migrated to Germany during or after the Cold War have widened European cultural memory to include the traumas of the Gulag. Preserving the memory of the Holocaust as a moral and ethical limit case is key to the European Union's attempt to construct a pan-European identity. But with the Eastern expansion of the EU, new member states have challenged the Holocaust's singularity, calling for the traumas of the Stalinist Gulag to be acknowledged much more explicitly. Thus even though Europe has been unified politically, it is divided by its diverging perceptions of the past. Jessica Ortner argues that German-Jewish writers from Eastern Eu...
Intimate Memories: European experiences
Mabel Dodge Luhan’s Intimate Memories offers the brilliantly edited memoirs of one woman’s rebellion against “the whole ghastly social structure” under which the United States had been buried since the Victorian era. Luhan fled the Gilded Age prison of the upper classes to lead a life of notoriety among Europe and America’s leading artists, writers, and social visionaries—among them D. H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, and John Reed. Intimate Memories details Luhan’s assemblage of a series of utopian domains aimed at curing the malaise of the modern age and shows Luhan not just as a visionary hostess but as a talented and important writer.
