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Stasis In Moltmann E Schmitt, Pier Giuseppe Monateri

Pier Giuseppe Monateri

The essay introduces an original interpretation of Moltmann’s thought on Christian kenosis, according to the fundamental critical method known as ‘close reading’. On this ground, the Author brings to the surface the complex bulk of literary quotations which give substance to a specific passage in Moltmann’s work “The Crucified God”. Quotations become an intellectual device apt to produce meaning through its proper deferral and suspension. Within this framework, the Author’s main purpose is to put at the centre of the scene the explicit reference made by Moltmann to C. Schmitt’s concept of stasis, in order to explain the self-emptying of …

Schwarz Auf Weiß: The History Of Race Representation And Revision In [German] Children’S Books, Maureen Gallagher

Maureen O. Gallagher

In this poster I will attempt to create a visual history of the representation and description of Black characters in select German children’s books in light of the recent controversy that erupted when the Thienemann Verlag announced their new edition of Otfried Preußler’s classic Die kleine Hexe would remove the word “Negerlein.” A full-scale public debate emerged in Germany with Stern, Spiegel, and other prominent publications weighing in to a debate that placed the white literary establishment against a host of Black German artists, activists, and citizens. Denis Scheck even appeared on his popular Druckfrisch program on ARD in Blackface …

Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women And Fashion In 1920s Germany, Kerry Wallach

German Studies Faculty Publications

This volume presents papers delivered at the 24th Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, held at Creighton University in October 2011. The contributors look at all aspects of the intimate relationship between Jews and clothing, through case studies from ancient, medieval, recent, and contemporary history. Papers explore topics ranging from Jewish leadership in the textile industry, through the art of fashion in nineteenth century Vienna, to the use of clothing as a badge of ethnic identity, in both secular and religious contexts. Dr. Kerry Wallach's chapter examines the uniquely Jewish engagement with fashion and attire in Weimar, Germany.

Magic(Infra)Realism: Jetztzeiten Of Believability And Latin American History In García Márquez’S Cien Años De Soledad And Otoño Del Patriarca., Katarzyna Jasinski

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This thesis examines the idea of Colombian history as ‘random coincidence’ in Gabriel García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad and El otoño del patriarca. Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History and Michel Foucault’s Nietzsche, Genealogy, History provide the theoretical framework for the research. This thesis examines magic realism as a way of representing the true invisible past of Latin America. The combination of Foucault’s concept of genealogy, Walter Benjamin’s ‘messianic historical materialism’ and García Márquez’s ‘magic realism’ demonstrates that the combination of living and telling produce a Jetztzeit of believability that redeems Latin American history from historicism. …

Commentary On Translating Heinrich Heine, Charles Baudelaire, And Martial, Susan Mclean

Transference

Notes on translating poems in German, French, and Latin into English by Susan McLean.

A Woman By Heinrich Heine, Susan Mclean

Transference

Translated from the German by Susan McLean.

Commentary On Translating Rose Ausländer, Ingeborg Bachmann, And Nelly Sachs, Rebekah Wilson

Transference

Notes by Rebekah Wilson on translating four German poems into English.

If Only I Knew By Nelly Sachs, Rebekah Wilson

Transference

Translated from the German by Rebekah Wilson.

To Say Dark Things By Ingeborg Bachmann, Rebekah Wilson

Transference

Translated from the German by Rebekah Wilson.

At The End Of Time By Rose Ausländer, Rebekah Wilson

Transference

Translated from the German by Rebekah Wilson.

The Picket Fence By Christian Morgenstern, John Perry

Transference

Translated from the German with commentary by John Perry.

Transference Vol. 1, Summer 2013

Transference

Transference is published by the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University. Dedicated to the celebration of poetry in translation, the journal publishes translations from Arabic, Chinese, French and Old French, German, Classical Greek and Latin, Japanese, and Russian into English verse. Transference contains translations as well as commentaries on the art and process of translating.

Be A Man, Comrade! Construction Of The ‘Socialist Male Personality’ In The Gdr Youth Literature Of The 1950s And 1960s., Joanna Broda-Schunck

Doctoral Dissertations

One of the main goals of the East German government was the education of its population towards Socialism, and the creation of the new type of human – the Neue Mensch. The belief in the possibility of molding the next generation was particularly strong in the first decades of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), – in the 1950s and the 1960s. At the same time, the leaders of the regime presented the new Socialist state as the rightful heir to the German cultural and historical traditions. Both claims were aimed at strengthening the legitimacy of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei (SED …

Brundibár: Confronting The Misrepresentation Of Resistance In Theresienstadt, Anna Catherine Greer

Masters Theses

Brundibár, a children’s opera written by Czech composer Hans Krása (1899-1944), routinely appears in Holocaust musical scholarship as a depiction of “thriving” Jewish cultural activity during the Holocaust. First performed clandestinely in a Prague orphanage in 1942, the work was ultimately co-opted by Nazi authorities in Theresienstadt. Under the jurisdiction of the Freizeitgestaltung (Leisure Time Activities), the opera came under control of the camp administration and became part of several propaganda schemes, including the 1944 Nazi propaganda film, Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt (The Führer Gives a City to the Jews). In preparation for the International Red …

Neue Jugend - Einleitung, Henning Wrage

German Studies Faculty Publications

Book Summary: This book discusses research on the culture of postwar Germany (1945–1962), a topic that has become increasingly complex in recent years. Virulent topics such as war, destruction, homecoming, flight, expulsion, guilt, daily life, religion, etc., are explored systematically, using examples and by focusing on fiction, nonfiction, and film in the two German states. Historians and scholars in the field of literature and film have contributed to this compendium. They address various core questions concerning aesthetic representation and the formation of contemporary history.

Übersetzungsmanagement: Kein Hexenwerk, Uwe Muegge

Uwe Muegge

Das so genannte Simship, die Auslieferung von Produkt und Anleitung auf mehreren Märkten zur gleichen Zeit, ist in der Praxis möglich – und zwar nicht nur für Großunternehmen. Vier Faktoren müssen Auftraggeber von Übersetzungsdienstleistungen berücksichtigen: 1. Für die Übersetzung planen 2. Terminologiegebrauch standardisieren 3. Korrekturaufwand minimieren 4. DTP-Arbeiten vermeiden

Reviews Of Recent Publications

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

David Palumbo-Liu. The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age. by Paul Cahill

Natalie Edwards. Shifting Subjects. Plural Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Women’s Autobiography by Anna Rocca

Zsuzsu Baross. Posthumously: For Jacques Derrida by Stephen Barker

Natalie Edwards, Amy L. Hubbell, and Ann Miller, eds. Textual and Visual Selves by Rachel Gabara

Stephen M. Hart. Gabriel García Márquez by Regina Janes

Vivian Liska. When Kafka Says We: Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature by Tyler Whitney

"Mich Beschäftigen Vor Allem Dinge, Die Sich In Meiner Umgebung Abspielen": Konstruktionen Des Privaten Und Des Öffentlichen In Der Literatur Der Brd Und Der Ddr, Christina E. Getaz

German and Russian Studies Honors Projects

Common knowledge assumes that capitalism and socialism structured life differently with regards to what was public and private. This paper critically investigates this notion, focusing not on property, but on the realm of ideas and personal experiences. With a basis in historical and theoretical notions of the public and private spheres as conceptualized by Hannah Arendt, I analyze critical works by Jurek Becker and Heinrich Böll written in the two German states in the 1970s. Focusing on the ways in which these works depict an entanglement of the public and the private, I show how the East- and West-German works …

Robert Schumann's Piano Sonata No. 1 In F-Sharp Minor, Op. 11–Style And Structure, Stephanie Abigail Emberley

Dissertations, 2014-2019

Robert Schumann's music reflects the complexity of his life and psyche. Even Schumann himself acknowledged the challenges this presented to anyone attempting to understand his music, and the Piano Sonata no. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 11 is an example of the complex inter-relationship between Schumann's music and life. This document will have a three-fold approach to discussing Schumann's Sonata. I will outline the literary characteristics of German Romantic authors, discuss how Schumann musically interprets these characteristics while reflecting other composers, and show how these techniques help add extra-musical significance to op. 11, particularly in connection with Clara.

Robert Schumann's …

The Middle Ground Between Good And Evil: The Role Of Young Adult Literature In Modern Understandings Of German History, Bonnie Kristin Mary Jendrek

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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German Undergraduate Research Conference, Nunzia Martino

News and Events

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Reading, Travel, And The Pedagogy Of Growing Up In Late Nineteenth-Century Germany, M. Stanley Majors

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This project brings together the domestic world of young adult reading with the foreign world of international travel that informed German experience at the end of the nineteenth century. By uniting these two ostensibly disparate realms under one interpretive frame, I offer a new perspective on the theory and practice of young-adult reading at the turn of the last century and the role this reading about travel played in the development of sense of self and sense of place within a national body.

My analysis reads specific youth literature about travel: Brigitte Augusti, Friedrich Pajeken) against depictions of youth reading …

Senior Mary Kate Smith Awarded Fulbright Fellowship To Germany, Lawrence University

Press Releases

It seems at a young age Mary Kate Smith already was destined to be a teacher. Volunteering as a fourth grader on weekends to help her teacher with a class for pre-kindergarten students, it was clear what path her career would follow.

Sixteen years later, Smith’s passion for teaching burns as bright as ever. She soon will put her passion into practice in Germany as the recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Scholarship. Beginning in August, Smith will spend the 2013-14 academic year as a teaching assistant at either a German middle or high school in a city still …

Erich Kästners Kinderliteratur In Der Weimarer Republik, Emma Vander Woude '15

Undergraduate German Research Conference

In der Weimar Republik war Literatur sehr wichtig, besonders die Kinderliteratur. Kinderliteratur Autoren und Übersetzeren waren in Deutschland immer hoch angesehen, weil sie den Verstand der Kinder beeinflussten und die Idealen Deutschlands in die jungere Generation hereinbrachten. Erich Kästner ist ein Autor, der in der Weimar Republik Zeit geschrieben hat. Im Jahre 1929 schrieb er Emil und die Detektive, eine Geschichte, die von der Zeit beeinflusst wurde. Diese Geschichte hat die Idee von dem Kriminalroman für alle Zeit beeinflusst und geändert.

Ich werde ein Poster über Erich Kästners Emil und die Detektive für den Poster Session präsentieren. Kästner war ein …

Mythos Und Symbol: Ernst Jünger In Der „Konservativen Revolution“, Hannah Froehle

Undergraduate German Research Conference

In der verworrenen politischen Lage der Weimarer Republik breiteten sich viele bilderstürmerische politische und philosophische Ideen aus, womit das deutsche Volk sich mit dem vergangenen Horror des Ersten Weltkriegs und mit den derzeitigen ökonomischen, politischen, und seelischen Problemen auseinandersetzen sollte. Die sogenannte „Konservative Revolution“ dieser Zeit war einer diesen philosophischen Strömungen. Grob gesagt waren die Autoren und Denker der Konservativen Revolution von ihrem gemeinsamen Militarismus, Antiliberalismus, und Antidemokratismus geprägt, obwohl sie darunter unterschiedliche politische und philosophische Vorstellungen vertraten.

Einer der prominentesten Autoren der Bewegung war der ehemalige Frontsoldat Ernst Jünger. Die früheren Werke von Jünger, der oft fälschlicherweise als Nationalsozialist …

A Questionnaire Study Of Two-Verb Clusters In West Central German, Shannon A. Dubenion-Smith

Modern & Classical Languages

Until recently, the West Central German dialect area was largely neglected in investigations of verb clusters. The article presents the results of a questionnaire study of two-verb clusters involving 55 participants in 17 localities in that dialect area. These results indicate that the occurrence of particular orders is subject to interspeaker, intraspeaker, and areal variation as well as morphosyntactic constraints. Furthermore, a comparison of these results with those from a corpus study of the same dialect area suggests diachronic stability in the relative areal distribution of verb clusters over the roughly 50 years since the spoken data for the corpus …

Vocabulary Acquisition And Technology, German I/Ii, Grade 10-12, Beate U. Brunow, Travis Trojan, Arthur Turfa

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

Information technology plays an important role at Blythewood High School and the recent purchase of chrome books for students will be part of our project. All students will have access to chrome books, and Dr. Turfa also uses the social learning network “Edmodo” to communicate with his students. The project focuses on developing lessons for beginning German classes that combine knowledge and understanding of German-speaking cultures with communication. This approach reflects the current ACTFL standards for foreign language learning (preparing for the 21^st century) with the guiding learning principle: “Knowing how, when, and why to say what to whom.” …

German Everyday Culture And Technology, Kirsten A. Krick-Aigner, James Avinger, Karen Patinella

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

The project focuses on developing lessons for beginning German classes that combine knowledge and understanding of German-speaking cultures with a focus on daily life, especially that affect students at the High School and College level. This approach reflects the current ACTFL standards for foreign language learning (preparing for the 21^st century) and the South Carolina State Standards for Foreign Language. Since technology plays a vital role in student learning, Ms. Patinella will display Power Point presentations, as well as overheads to review documents. Ms. Patinella is able to show DVDs and you tube clips only once approved by the …

Nietzsche’S Zarathustra And Parodic Style: On Lucian’S Hyperanthropos And Nietzsche’S Übermensch, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

It is well-known that as a term, Nietzsche’s Übermensch derives from Lucian of Samosata’s hyperanthropos. I argue that Zarathustra’s teaching of the overman acquires new resonances by reflecting on the context of that origination from Lucian’s Kataplous – literally, “sailing into port” – referring to the soul’s journey (ferried by Charon, guided by Hermes) into the afterlife. The Kataplous he tyrannos, usually translated Downward Journey or The Tyrant, is a Menippean satire of the “overman” who is imagined to be superior to others of “lesser” station in this-worldly life and the same tyrant after his (comically unwilling) …

Interview Of Thomas J. Wurtenberger, Thomas J. Wurtenberger, Charles D. Muzyczek

All Oral Histories

Thomas J. Wurtenberger was born and raised in the Lower Olney (Feltonville) section of Philadelphia in 1935. He was raised primarily by his mother after the death of his father in 1944. Tom attended North Catholic High School where he took business courses. He did not have aspirations to attend college right out of high school. He was encouraged by a former employer to better himself by going to college and earning a degree. One year after graduation Tom enrolled at La Salle College. He chose La Salle because of its reasonable tuition and proximity to home. Originally Tom desired …