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Der Berg Des Schicksals, Lily Klaudy
Review Of Mr. Squirrel And The Moon By Sebastian Meschenmoser, Jessica A. Elder
Review Of Mr. Squirrel And The Moon By Sebastian Meschenmoser, Jessica A. Elder
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"If We Had The Word": Ingeborg Bachmann, Views And Reviews (Book Review), Kathrin Bower
"If We Had The Word": Ingeborg Bachmann, Views And Reviews (Book Review), Kathrin Bower
Kathrin M. Bower
This collection of essays grew from a 1996 symposium held at SUNY-Binghamton to commemorate what would have been Ingeborg Bachmann's seventieth birthday. Gisela Brinker-Gabler, the symposium organizer, provides a brief foreword to the volume. Brinker-Gabler begins by articulating parallels between Ingeborg Bachmann and the poet Sylvia Plath, both in terms of their poetic prowess and their fascination with death, but the foreword is primarily a short literary biography of Bachmann, noting the highlights in her career and the difference in reception between her poetry and prose. While the foreword does serve to situate Bachmann as a writer, it does not …
Lawrence Baron. Projecting The Holocaust Into The Present: The Changing Focus Of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema (Book Review), Kathrin M. Bower
Lawrence Baron. Projecting The Holocaust Into The Present: The Changing Focus Of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema (Book Review), Kathrin M. Bower
Kathrin M. Bower
Projecting the Holocaust is a valuable addition to extant scholarship on Holocaust cinema and offers a refreshingly inclusive and positive take on how feature films contribute to our understanding of history. In contrast to other surveys of Holocaust cinema, Baron includes films that focus on stories of perpetrators, non-Jewish victims, the experiences of the second generation, and neo-Nazi groups. This inclusivity is also evident in Baron's position that the Holocaust is not the property of specific countries or peoples and that its representation speaks to universal concerns about human civilization as well as to particular questions about national identities.
Verbunden Und Gebunden. Mutter-Tochter Beziehungen In Sechs Romanen Der Siebziger Und Achtziger Jahre. (Book Review), Kathrin M. Bower
Verbunden Und Gebunden. Mutter-Tochter Beziehungen In Sechs Romanen Der Siebziger Und Achtziger Jahre. (Book Review), Kathrin M. Bower
Kathrin M. Bower
In Verbunden und gebunden, Katharina Aulls analyzes the figuration of mother-daughter relationships in six quasi-autobiographical novels by women writers. The play on words in Aulls's title anticipates the tensions that characterize the mother-daughter relationships in these novels, tensions that are not only the stuff of fiction, but also of concrete experience in the sociology of the mother-daughter dyad.
Neighbours And Strangers: Literary And Cultural Relations In Germany, Austria And Central Europe Since 1989 (Book Review), Kathrin Bower
Neighbours And Strangers: Literary And Cultural Relations In Germany, Austria And Central Europe Since 1989 (Book Review), Kathrin Bower
Kathrin M. Bower
In this collection of fifteen papers inspired by a 2002 conference held in Salford, England, the reader will find wide variations on the broadly stated theme of neighbors and strangers in the European context. Pulling together the diversity of essays is the main problem with the volume and one that the editors have done little to alleviate in their haphazard introduction. While they allude to the unification of Germany as the impetus and point of departure for the anthology, they offer no coherent argument for the selection and sequence of the essays included in the book. The reader is left …
Erfahrung Nach Dem Krieg: Autorinnen Im Literaturbetrieb 1945-1950. Brd, Ddr, Österreich, Schweiz. (Inter-Lit,4) (Book Review), Kathrin M. Bower
Erfahrung Nach Dem Krieg: Autorinnen Im Literaturbetrieb 1945-1950. Brd, Ddr, Österreich, Schweiz. (Inter-Lit,4) (Book Review), Kathrin M. Bower
Kathrin M. Bower
This fourth volume in the Inter-Lit series produced by the Stiftung Frauen-Literatur- Forschung is a collection of 18 papers from a literary studies conference held at the Universität Bremen in fall 2000. The essays examine women writers from different generations: those who were established authors prior to 1933 and whose careers were interrupted by the Third Reich, those who continued writing during the 12 years of Nazi rule, and those of a younger generation who saw the end of the war as an opportunity to break into the literary market. Although the title of the volume seems to promise a …
Poem (Film Review), Kathrin M. Bower
Poem (Film Review), Kathrin M. Bower
Kathrin M. Bower
POEM is the feature-length debut for Ralf Schmerberg, a self-taught photographer and filmmaker known for his music videos of German bands Die Toten Hosen and Die Fantastischen Vier and his imaginative television commercials. Schmerberg and his collaborator, the writer Antonia Keinz, spent two years reading poetry to determine the final selection of 19 poems for the film project. The concept of creating a film devoted to visual interpretations of poetry was intriguing enough to attract big name actors, including Klaus Maria Brandauer, Meret Becker, Hannelore Elsner, Jürgen Vogel, and Hermann van Veen, as well as camera men who previously had …
Protest Song In East And West Germany Since The 1960s (Book Review), Kathrin M. Bower
Protest Song In East And West Germany Since The 1960s (Book Review), Kathrin M. Bower
Kathrin M. Bower
While the title of this nine-essay anthology focuses on the protest song from the 1960s and beyond, one of key elements of the book is an examination of the legacy of the Vormärz revolutionary songs and political cabaret of the Weimar Republic in the repertoire of West-German and East-German Liedermacher. The first two chapters by David Robb offer a differentiated analysis of how the Vormärz and early twentieth-century political song traditions were adopted and adapted in the FRG and the GDR and how the resulting high/low culture blend of the political song enhanced its appeal. The third chapter, also by …