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Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched, Jesse C. Wood, Dr. Michelle Scott James Oct 2013

Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched, Jesse C. Wood, Dr. Michelle Scott James

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Johann Christoph Gottsched is an extremely well-known figure in German literary history. He was a prominent author of the enlightenment, and scholars and casual readers of German drama and literature recognize him as one of eighteenth century Germany’s most read authurs. Unfortunately, the light on Johann Gottsched has cast a shadow on his wife, an equally talented author and playwright. Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched wrote many plays in her life and translated many more. Once her husband began compiling the Dictionary of the German Language & Model Grammar, however, she devoted her time to helping him with this monumental task. …

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Viennese Feuilleton During The Early 1920s: Description And Analysis Of Bertha Pauli’S Biographical Sketches As Contributions To A Literary Genre1, Ruth Kirsten Seppi, Dr. Robert Mcfarland Oct 2013

Viennese Feuilleton During The Early 1920s: Description And Analysis Of Bertha Pauli’S Biographical Sketches As Contributions To A Literary Genre1, Ruth Kirsten Seppi, Dr. Robert Mcfarland

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I spent the summer of 2002 scrolling through microfilm, cataloguing everything written by women between 1921 and 1926 in the Neue Freie Presse, one of the most influential Viennese newspapers then. On the front page of the morning edition, a line divided the column titled “Feuilleton” from the rest of the paper. Various writers wrote feuilletons, and the name “Bertha Pauli” appeared regularly. Her sketches of women were intriguing because the subject matter was unique. However, when I looked for more information about her, I could not find much.

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Fundamentals Of Modern Belarusian, Christian Marchant, Dr. Michael Kelly Oct 2013

Fundamentals Of Modern Belarusian, Christian Marchant, Dr. Michael Kelly

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Republic of Belarus, located in the very heart of Europe, is a relatively unknown country to many westerners. Belarus has an important role in the political future of Europe. Belarus is located in the geographic center of Europe and is a major corridor for energy transport. The country is the only dictatorship remaining in Europe, and with the recent expansion of the European Union, it will now lie directly on its eastern border. Any traveler visiting Belarus would benefit greatly from a knowledge of Belarusian, yet there is a striking absence of any material in English about the Belarusian …

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The Sophie Digital Library Of Early Women’S Research: A Blueprint For Mentored Undergraduate Online Research, Blaine Evanson, Dr. Michelle Stott James Oct 2013

The Sophie Digital Library Of Early Women’S Research: A Blueprint For Mentored Undergraduate Online Research, Blaine Evanson, Dr. Michelle Stott James

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I was first introduced to Sophie in September 2001 in my German Cultural History class. Dr. McFarland announced that there was some grant money left over and that some students who were interested in the research would be invited to work a few hours each week helping prepare texts to be published on the website. I immediately recognized the opportunity to get research experience and knew both how important and beneficial such an opportunity would be, as I was planning on applying the following year for graduate school.

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Celtic And Slavic Contact On The Balkan Peninsula: A Linguistic Analysis Of Modern Celtic And Slavic Languages, Daniel Josef Gashler, Walter Whipple Oct 2013

Celtic And Slavic Contact On The Balkan Peninsula: A Linguistic Analysis Of Modern Celtic And Slavic Languages, Daniel Josef Gashler, Walter Whipple

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Celts and Slavs were widespread and important cultural phenomena in Iron-Age Europe. Their influence is still felt in contemporary Europe and the Americas. Many states and peoples speak modern languages derived from proto-Celtic and proto-Slavonic. The purpose of my research is to show that these ancient cultures were once in contact on the Balkan Peninsula. The ultimate goal is to discover the time period, duration, and social nature of this contact through examining linguistic evidence of contact present in modern South Slavic (those Slavic languages spoken on the Balkan Peninsula) and Celtic languages.

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Maria Theresia Ledochowska, Jacob Jarvis, Dr. Michelle James Oct 2013

Maria Theresia Ledochowska, Jacob Jarvis, Dr. Michelle James

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The purpose of my project was to obtain original texts written by a woman named Maria Theresia Ledochowska. She was an Austrian woman, living at the turn of the nineteen century to the twentieth century. She was the foundress of an organization under the sanction of the Catholic church, which embrace the cause of missionary work in Africa, as well as the abolishment of slavery. Like the texts of many early woman authors, her work has largely been ‘left on the self to gather dust.’

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Digitizing And Analyzing The Works Of Hermine Cloeter: Increasing Accessibility Of Writings And Exploring A New Version Of Vienna, Kelli D. Barbour, Dr. Robert B. Mcfarland Oct 2013

Digitizing And Analyzing The Works Of Hermine Cloeter: Increasing Accessibility Of Writings And Exploring A New Version Of Vienna, Kelli D. Barbour, Dr. Robert B. Mcfarland

Journal of Undergraduate Research

While there are many well-known German-speaking/writing male authors and high availability to their texts, the same does not follow for German-speaking/writing women. Scholarships access to texts by women, especially at the beginning of and before the twentieth century, is minimal. Seeing the need in the scholarly community to make texts available for reading and analyzing, I proposed to digitalize and analyze texts by the Viennese Journalist, Hermine Cloeter, who began writing in 1907.

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“Men Can And Women Cannot”?1 Revealing The Secrets Behind The Private Woman In The Public Sphere, Matthew D. Embley, Dr. Robert Mcfarland Oct 2013

“Men Can And Women Cannot”?1 Revealing The Secrets Behind The Private Woman In The Public Sphere, Matthew D. Embley, Dr. Robert Mcfarland

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Flanerie is the art of taking a walk, observing the movements and spaces of the city. By writing about cityscapes, urban realms, and the condition of society, flaneurs are able to describe the uniqueness of the metropolis and give life to the modern city—they create for the reader, a “photograph of an urban setting” in which the flaneur promenades.2 In the early nineteenth century, and even today, flaneur literature has been ultimately dominated by men who have documented their cultural and aesthetic interactions with the city. During these past centuries unwritten rules have often excluded the female from participating in …

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The Consumption And Adoption Of A Glamorized Version Of American “Pop Culture” Via The Television By Adolescents In Ukraine, Tyler D. Thompson, Dr. David Hart Oct 2013

The Consumption And Adoption Of A Glamorized Version Of American “Pop Culture” Via The Television By Adolescents In Ukraine, Tyler D. Thompson, Dr. David Hart

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The jumping off point for my research was in Kiev, Ukraine, where I had served a two year LDS mission two years previous. As I deplaned in Borispol (15 minutes outside of Kiev) I found myself almost giddy in anticipation of savoring a bowl of red Ukrainian borcshe, watching the gipsy children run around the center of the city harassing all those who were unlucky enough to be in their path, and just plain basking in the ambiance of the post-Soviet culture that I had learned to love while living in Ukraine two years previous. I did, however, prepare myself …

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Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women And Fashion In 1920s Germany, Kerry Wallach Oct 2013

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.

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Ann Tizia Leitich: New Voice, New Woman Packaging America For Vienna, Brooke M. Wright, Dr. Robert Mcfarland Oct 2013

Ann Tizia Leitich: New Voice, New Woman Packaging America For Vienna, Brooke M. Wright, Dr. Robert Mcfarland

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Throughout history, the literary works of female authors have been marginalized and many such works have been lost. The German and Slavic Languages department at Brigham Young University has devoted a great amount of time and energy to rediscovering and studying the art and significance of such texts. The 1920s works of Austrian journalist and novelist Ann Tizia Leitich are an important addition to this field of study.

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Peace In Unity: Irenic Motivations In European Integration, Robert Keele, Dr. Robert Mcfarland Sep 2013

Peace In Unity: Irenic Motivations In European Integration, Robert Keele, Dr. Robert Mcfarland

Journal of Undergraduate Research

On May 29, 2005, French voters shocked Europe and the rest of the world by rejecting the new EU Constitution after nine other European countries (including Germany) had already ratified it. A few days later, Holland followed suit and voted “Nee” by an even greater margin. Panic and disbelief settled upon EU politicians, and the Euro dipped as markets reacted to the news. Europeans on other parts of the continent grumbled about the temperamental French, while political analysts and the media exploited this new challenge as The EU Crisis.

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Second Language Acquisition In Utah English Speakers With Utah Vowel Mergers, Janae Lynn Madsen Sharp, Dr. Laura Smith Sep 2013

Second Language Acquisition In Utah English Speakers With Utah Vowel Mergers, Janae Lynn Madsen Sharp, Dr. Laura Smith

Journal of Undergraduate Research

For our project we asked how vowel mergers and vowel perception in native language would influence second language acquisition. We dealt specifically with native English speakers from parts of Utah and acquisition of German. Our prediction is that speakers of Utah English who don’t differentiate between certain vowel pairs will not be able to differentiate between those vowels in German.

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Analyzing Children’S Literature: Byu Sophie Project, Brittney Lemons, Dr. Cindy Brewer Sep 2013

Analyzing Children’S Literature: Byu Sophie Project, Brittney Lemons, Dr. Cindy Brewer

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I spent the Spring and Summer terms of 2006 doing the Brigham Young University study abroad program in Vienna, Austria. One of the purposes of me being there was so that I could do research for the Sophie Project headed by the BYU German Department. The purpose of the Sophie Project is stated on the website:

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Frieda Zieschank: Through The Eyes Of A Colonizer, Nathan C. Priddis, Dr. Robert Mcfarland Sep 2013

Frieda Zieschank: Through The Eyes Of A Colonizer, Nathan C. Priddis, Dr. Robert Mcfarland

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Colonialism and imperialism are important topics in the study of modern history. Germany as a nation joined the colonial race relatively late, in the late 1800’s. It had a relatively short history of colonialism ending with the end of World War I, in 1916. Because of this short history, the discussion of colonialism often focuses very little attention on Germany’s colonies and on Germany’s role in colonialism. One area that receives very little attention is the German colony of Samoa, which Germany held as a colony for nearly twenty years.

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English Translations Of German Women Writers, Tammi Olsen, Dr. Cindy Brewer Sep 2013

English Translations Of German Women Writers, Tammi Olsen, Dr. Cindy Brewer

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Until recently, the body of work represented by German women writers has been sadly neglected. The Sophie Project is an ongoing research project involving both professionals and students that makes these works readily available. It is, however, difficult to come by English translations, which limits the usefulness of the website. My project was intended to expand the translation section of the Sophie site, making this literature equally available to non-German speakers, and allow literature classes beyond the German department will then be able to study these works.

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Reclamation Of Elsa Bernstein’S Königskinder For Scholastic Evaluation, Krista Landon, Dr. Robert Mcfarland Sep 2013

Reclamation Of Elsa Bernstein’S Königskinder For Scholastic Evaluation, Krista Landon, Dr. Robert Mcfarland

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Sophie Digital Resource and Research Center project was created to recover the works of previously marginalized authors, specifically focusing on female German artists. Run by “Women in German,” the project is designed to facilitate mentored research by students. The Sophie project fills a scholarly need for access to basic materials and information on artists, who because of their gender were excluded from the canon. Marginalized works are not currently widely available for academic consideration, having had limited publication and circulation, and many texts are not even available outside of Europe. The BYU students who work with the Sophie project …

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Portrait Of Elsa Bienenfeld A Jewish Music Critic In Turn-Of-The Twentieth Century Vienna, Kelsey Draper, Dr. Robert Mcfarland Sep 2013

Portrait Of Elsa Bienenfeld A Jewish Music Critic In Turn-Of-The Twentieth Century Vienna, Kelsey Draper, Dr. Robert Mcfarland

Journal of Undergraduate Research

For my project, I researched the life and written works of Elsa Bienenfeld (1877–1942), a Viennese-born Jewish music critic who worked for the Neues Wiener Journal (daily newspaper) in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century. I studied her life and her music reviews and wrote about her influence on the budding modern music movement that originated in Vienna during her lifetime. Because my project required original research from almost exclusively primary texts, I traveled to Vienna in the fall for a two-week research trip. This trip generated about 90% of my research and subsequently my thesis. I used …

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Olga Wohlbrück And The Big City, Dane A. Heilner, Dr. James Lyon Sep 2013

Olga Wohlbrück And The Big City, Dane A. Heilner, Dr. James Lyon

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Imagine Berlin in 1911. From 1900 to 1911, the population had nearly doubled from two to four million people. Industry and commercial centers developed as well as new jobs and opportunities. Berlin was now the largest city on the continent.

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The Lost Diaries Of Augustin Krämer, Mary Cox, Dr. Rob Mcfarland Sep 2013

The Lost Diaries Of Augustin Krämer, Mary Cox, Dr. Rob Mcfarland

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Virtually every significant study of Samoan culture and language published since 1900 relies on Augustin Krämer’s seminal work die Samoa Inseln. It is unusual for a scholarly ethnography to become so completely accepted and loved by an indigenous people, but die Samoa Inseln is second only to the Bible in its esteem by the Samoan people. Although the original Stuttgart printing was limited, copies of die Samoa Inseln were acquired by his Samoan contemporaries and were lovingly handed down from generation to generation. Today, any copy that is advertised for sale in Samoa is almost instantly purchased. The value of …

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The Transition From Girlhood To Womanhood As Outlined In Lou Andreas-Salome’S Ruth, Andrea Hayward, Dr. Robert Mcfarland Sep 2013

The Transition From Girlhood To Womanhood As Outlined In Lou Andreas-Salome’S Ruth, Andrea Hayward, Dr. Robert Mcfarland

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The transition from girlhood to womanhood is a very ambiguous concept that Lou Andreas-Salome attempts to grasp in her literary novel Ruth. Andreas-Salome was an early twentieth century author and psychologist who worked with contemporaries like Friedrich Nietzsche and Rainer Maria Rilke. Her novel Ruth is often thought of as a mere autobiographical story about a young girl and her much older tutor, but there is more to the story by analyzing Ruth and showing what happens to her throughout the story as she becomes a woman.

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Plants And Traditional Healing In Russia, Mathew Parke, Dr. Julia Nemirovskaya Sep 2013

Plants And Traditional Healing In Russia, Mathew Parke, Dr. Julia Nemirovskaya

Journal of Undergraduate Research

“We should be endlessly thankful to the people for preserving this valuable experience in medicine. Phytotherapy without a doubt belongs to a rich future.” Professor C. A. Tomilin

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The Rare Writings Of Johanna Eleonore Petersen, Kelsie Ann Malyon, Dr. Michelle Stott James Sep 2013

The Rare Writings Of Johanna Eleonore Petersen, Kelsie Ann Malyon, Dr. Michelle Stott James

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My original proposal was to collect the rare texts written by Joham1a Eleonore Petersen. I was to travel to Vienna, Austria and locate texts in Europe and also in the United States. I proposed selecting one of the texts and writing an analysis about it, comparing the views of Petersen with the prominent Lutheran and Pietist views of her time. I would then submit my paper to the Sophie Project, a refereed online journal devoted to the to the writings of German female authors. I would also submit the texts to Sophie for translating and posting online so they would …

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Heimatfilme 1945-55: Austrian Identity Reconstructed Through The Alpine Image, Shane D. Peterson, Dr. James K. Lyon Sep 2013

Heimatfilme 1945-55: Austrian Identity Reconstructed Through The Alpine Image, Shane D. Peterson, Dr. James K. Lyon

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Approximately one-third of Austrian cinema during the mid-1950s was composed of the genre of Heimatfilme (Homeland films) which depicted country landscapes, especially the alpine terrain, in a mythical and nostalgic light. Though often dismissed as trivial and therefore largely unexamined on their own visual terms, these films depict “an intact, guiltless, eternal Austria” through the prolific imagery of natural settings. Indeed, so significant is the role of the Austrian landscape that it is listed alongside the actors in the credits of the 1954 film Echo der Berge (Echo of the Mountains) , a film whose lead actor, Rudolf Lenz, said …

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Gender And Law: The Incorporation Of Gender Into Austrian Political And Legal Systems, Sarah Kemeny, Dr. Cindy Brewer Sep 2013

Gender And Law: The Incorporation Of Gender Into Austrian Political And Legal Systems, Sarah Kemeny, Dr. Cindy Brewer

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Rosa Mayreder, Auguste Fickert, and Marie Lang’s publication of “Dokumente der Frauen” and the General Women’s Organization of Austria organization influenced and shaped Austrian political and legal identity for women in Austria. Auguste Fickert (1855-1910), Rosa Mayreder (1858-1938), and Marie Lang (1858-1934) were founders of women’s organizations and publications for the improvement of women’s rights and had profound effects on Austria’s political and legal identity for women. Their theories, publications, and organizations externally developed and then incorporated and codified gender into the Austrian political and legal systems.

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Rediscovering Marie Eugenie Delle Grazie And “Der Schatten”, Melanie Marie Antuna, Dr. Robert Mcfarland Sep 2013

Rediscovering Marie Eugenie Delle Grazie And “Der Schatten”, Melanie Marie Antuna, Dr. Robert Mcfarland

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Marie Eugenie delle Grazie is a name that not many literarians are not familiar with. Perhaps even less familiar is her play Der Schatten (The Shadow). She has been termed as a Naturalist playwright. Yet this play that many have forgotten or merely added as a footnote in her biography is the play in which she transforms from Naturalism to Viennese Modernity, also known as Fin-de-Siecle (Turn of the Century) Vienna. There is no recent literary critique that gives adequate analysis to this intense psychological piece that would provide enough discourse or discussion for a credible thesis paper. Nor is …

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Race And Gender In Southwest Africa: A Study Of German Colonial Women Writers, Amanda J. Anderson, Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Kelling Sep 2013

Race And Gender In Southwest Africa: A Study Of German Colonial Women Writers, Amanda J. Anderson, Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Kelling

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Overlooked historically, women’s colonial literature has helped shape perspectives on race, gender and power. Male and female colonists alike carried glorious imperialistic fantasies, which can be found in the literature of the time. Specifically, German colonialism occurred much later than all other nations and lasted for only a brief thirty year period, 1884 through the end of World War I. Many women wrote on the subject. Lora Wildenthal shows in her book German Women for Empire, 1884-1945 that women colonial writers wanted to promote colonization and the role of women in it. Like most texts, this book only mentions the …

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Bettina Von Arnim And The Importance Of The Female Flaneur In Germany, Courtney Bardin, Dr. Cindy Brewer Sep 2013

Bettina Von Arnim And The Importance Of The Female Flaneur In Germany, Courtney Bardin, Dr. Cindy Brewer

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Upon realizing how deficient my German was, I decided to focus my orca report not on how the American trancendentalists affected German gehkulture, but on how American transcendentalists were influenced by german writers.

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How Second Language Skills Benefit Third Language Acquisition, Brant Christensen, Dr. Randall Lund Sep 2013

How Second Language Skills Benefit Third Language Acquisition, Brant Christensen, Dr. Randall Lund

Journal of Undergraduate Research

For centuries, languages and cultures were mainly restricted to the countries and regions to which they belonged and in which they were created. Today, however, with our trans-continental flights, international restaurants, and global perspective, foreign languages are becoming a part of our daily life. Such is the case especially at BYU, where a large percentage of the student body has lived for an extended period of time overseas and has thus become fluent in languages and cultures. It is in this context that this study was created to explore how students apply their first foreign language (L2) to learn a …

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Summary Of The Creative Research Grant Results For The Integration Of Gospel Principles In Beginning German Classes, Sandra Ehlert, Dr. Randall Lund Sep 2013

Summary Of The Creative Research Grant Results For The Integration Of Gospel Principles In Beginning German Classes, Sandra Ehlert, Dr. Randall Lund

Journal of Undergraduate Research

First of all, I must admit that it was more difficult than I initially thought it would be to approach this project. The curriculum for beginning German classes, as well as for other beginning language classes here at Brigham Young University, is very tight. Class time has to almost be exclusively used for the teaching of grammar and other principles; thus, if I spent much time trying to integrate gospel principles, the class got behind and felt disadvantaged at test time. In other words, the curriculum does not allow time for education outside the curriculum; and gospel teachings are not …

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