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History As Trash: Reading Berlin 2000, Peter Fritzsche

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The expectation that Berlin, at the cusp of the twenty-first century, should produce "big-city" novels that, like Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz in its own time, would catch the encounters, juxtapositions, and historical layerings of the newly reunified capital is perhaps unfair, and certainly a high bar, but it reflects widespread interest in literary representations of this brazenly, even insolently transformed city...

Post-Colonial Berlin? Pieke Biermann's Crime Novels As Globalization Critique , Katrin Sieg

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Set in and around Tempelhof Airport, the crime novel 4,5,6 poses the question whether social, cultural, and economic "globalization" continues and aggravates colonizing practices (as scholars like Miyoshi, Chomsky, and Said have argued), or whether the term describes the social conditions of postcoloniality, beyond superpower domination and the bloc system it created...

The Desire To Achieve "Normalcy" - Peter Schneider's Post-Wall Berlin Novel Eduard's Homecoming , Siegfried Mews

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

As one critic correctly observed on the occasion of Peter Schneider's sixtieth birthday (21 April 2000), the author's life and work have been defined by two momentous events whose import far surpasses that of happenings of merely local significance (see Karasek)...

The Presence And Absence Of The Past: Sites Of Memory And Forgetting In F. C. Delius's Die Flatterzunge , Carol Anne Costabile-Heming

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Perhaps no site better embodies the juxtaposition of the German past with the challenges of the present and prospect for the future than Berlin. For the city of Berlin, the past (Third Reich, Holocaust) is simultaneously present and absent from view…

Berlin Heinrichplatz: The Novels Of Ulrich Peltzer, Christian Jäger

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

For at least a decade Germans have been waiting—waiting for literature, waiting for the great Berlin novel, waiting for the great novel of reunification…

Introduction: Reading And Writing Berlin, Stephen Brockmann

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

On June 20, 1991, eight and a half months after the peaceful reunification of Germany, the German Bundestag voted 337 to 320 to move the capital of the Federal Republic from Bonn to Berlin…

A Stranger In Berlin: On Joseph Roth's Berlin Discourse , Sabine Hake

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

As the quintessential urbanite, Joseph Roth continues to be extremely relevant to ongoing public debates on Berlin's identity as the new center of a multicultural society and architecture of postmodern urbanity…

Guides To The City: Berlin Anthologies, Ulrike Zitzlsperger

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Michael Lewitscharoff's Berlin-Paket (Berlin Package) first appeared in 2001; it invites readers to take a stroll through the city and promises "surprising revelations" about Berlin's architecture, culture and history…

Arrivals, Arrivees: Literary Encounters With Berlin In The Weimar And Berlin Republics , Erhard Schütz

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The Neurotic City

Attention is the hard currency of media society. Attention is a scarce resource (compare Franck, Crary, and Assmann)...