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Branding Berlin
This book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin. Branding Berlin: From Division to the Cultural Capital of Europe presents a cultural analysis of Berlin’s cultural production, including literature, film, memoirs and non-fiction works, art, media, urban branding campaigns, and cultural diversity initiatives put forth by the Berlin Senate, and allows readers to understand the various changes that transformed the formerly divided city of voids into a hip cultural capital. The book examines Berlin’s branding, urban-economic development, and its search for a post-Wall identity by focusing on manifestations of nostalgic longing in d...
WTF Berlin
It's been a squillion years since Jacinta Nandi arrived in the German capital – and like Jesus, she has suffered, so you don't have to. In this collection of short texts, she'll tell you everything you need to know about stingy male "feminists", oppressive church taxes, unnecessary Anmeldungen – and how to make the perfect German Abendbrot (exhausted cucumbers are key). Why are Berlin house numbers so confusing? Why does everyone love dogs and hate babies? And do you really need to learn German to survive in this city? Join Jacinta on her expatsplaining journey through the German Hauptstadt filled with ketamine and glitter, judgy grannies and scary Beamte, and, of course, Currywurst and pain. A travel guide is nice to have – but this book is essential if you want to survive in Berlin! German Version: Survivaltipps für Berlin: Jacinta Nandi lebt seit 20 Jahren in Berlin. Satyrs erstes englischsprachiges Buch versammelt ihre Erkenntnisse über Kirchensteuer, deutsches Abendbrot, rassistische Beamte und den Geiz männlicher Feministen. – Dieses Buch ist der unverzichtbare humoristische Überlebensratgeber für alle Expats und Berlin-Besucher*innen.
Prosody in Interaction
Prosody is constitutive for spoken interaction. In more than 25 years, its study has grown into a full-fledged and very productive field with a sound catalogue of research methods and principles. This volume presents the state of the art, illustrates current research trends and uncovers potential directions for future research. It will therefore be of major interest to everyone studying spoken interaction. The collection brings together an impressive range of internationally renowned scholars from different, yet closely related and compatible research traditions which have made a significant contribution to the field. They cover issues such as the units of language, the contextualization of actions and activities, conversational modalities and genres, the display of affect and emotion, the multimodality of interaction, language acquisition and aphasia. All contributions are based on empirical, audio- and/or video-recorded data of natural talk-in-interaction, including languages such as English, German and Japanese. The methodologies employed come from Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics.
Handbook of Interpersonal Communication
Interpersonal communication (IC) is a continuous game between the interacting interactants. It is a give and take - a continuous, dynamic flow that is linguistically realized as discourse as an on-going sequence of interactants' moves. Interpersonal communication is produced and interpreted by acting linguistically, and this makes it a fascinating research area. The handbook, Interpersonal Communication , examines how interactants manage to exchange facts, ideas, views, opinions, beliefs, emotion, etc. by using the linguistic systems and the resources they offer. In interpersonal communication, the fine-tuning of individuals' use of the linguistic resources is continuously probed. The langua...
The Short Story in German in the Twenty-first Century
Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary genre. This volume aims to establish a framework for further research into this rich field. The introduction and six thematic chapters discuss theories of the short-story form, literary-aesthetic questions, and key trends in the twenty-first century. Seven chapters on significant literary figures from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland then offer a range of theoretical and thematic approaches to individual stories and collections. Finally, two original translations showcase contemporary short-story writing in German.
Open Wounds
This volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914–2007) and his remarkable contributions to the stage. Tabori, a Jewish refugee and a truly transnational author, was best known for his work in New York theater that irreverently explored the Jewish experience, particularly the Holocaust. Although his illustrious career spanned a century, two continents, several languages, and a variety of literary genres, Tabori’s work has received scant attention in American letters, in spite of its significance for U.S. theater and Holocaust studies. Until Tabori, most dramas about the Holocaust were either rooted in American domestic realism, striv...
Hell
Was als tragikomische Liebesgeschichte beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einem unberechenbaren Thriller, der existenzielle Fragen aufwirft. Ein unkonventioneller Roman - unterhaltsam, tiefgründig, skurril und jenseits aller literarischen Schubladen. Thomas Hell scheint keine Ziele im Leben zu haben. Er ist Mitte zwanzig, intelligent und schlagfertig, aber er braucht Großteile seiner Energie, um sich psychisch im Gleichgewicht zu halten. Dabei kann Thomas nicht sagen, ob mit ihm etwas nicht stimmt oder mit der Welt um ihn herum. Als er die sarkastische Informatikerin Sophie kennenlernt, glaubt er, in ihr die große Liebe und die Lösung seiner Probleme gefunden zu haben. Doch die junge Frau verschwindet mit einem Mal spurlos. Thomas macht sich auf eine immer verzweifeltere Suche, die ihn zu Sophies undurchsichtigem Bruder, dem vermüllten Haus ihrer Mutter und schließlich tief hinein in ein monströses Kaufhaus führt, von dem Thomas hoffte, es nie wieder betreten zu müssen.
Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin
Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the “New Berlin” is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany’s largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.
Hauptsache nichts mit Menschen
Seinen Humor entfaltet Paul Bokowski mit einer schleichenden Gewalt. Unbarmherzig schält er mit der Klinge seiner eigenen Neurosen so lange an allem Zwischenmenschlichen herum, bis das Absurde darin zum Vorschein kommt. Was bleibt, ist die schwerwiegende Befürchtung, dass das alles wirklich so passiert ist. Die Geschichten Paul Bokowskis beginnen stets mit einer hochgezogenen Augenbraue. Sie erzählen von der Bürde eines unkündbaren Newsletters, den zwischenmenschlichen Grenzerfahrungen einer Schlager-Nackt-Party oder den einzigen NPD-Wählern mit Migrationshintergrund. Sie berichten von den sexuellen Vorzügen einer Hausratsversicherung, den Nachteilen essbarer Unterwäsche und Gefrierbeuteln mit der Aufschrift "Stefanie und Jürgen". Geschichten wie ein skeptischer Blick, nicht auf andere herab, sondern auf den stillen Nebenmann, der nicht weniger verstohlen zu uns hinüberblinzelt.
Die Entmieteten
Ein vom Abriss bedrohtes Mietshaus im Osten Berlins. Der Immobilienmarkt trifft auf eine eigenwillige und wehrhafte Haus- und Schicksalsgemeinschaft. In ihrem klugen, spannenden sowie hochaktuellen Debütroman schlägt Synke Köhler eine thematische Brücke von der Vorwendezeit ins moderne, durchgentrifizierte Berlin. Dinge laufen aus dem Ruder. Bäume werden gefällt. Der Müll wird nicht mehr abgeholt. Die Keller werden gegen den Willen der Mieter geräumt. Die Marner Straße war immer eine Insel der Alteingesessenen im längst gentrifizierten Prenzlauer Berg. Aber jetzt sind auch sie an der Reihe. Dieter Sonntag organisiert den Widerstand, seine Frau träumt dagegen von einer Wohnung mit ...
