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Hoffmanns Das o?de Haus (1817)", "date": "2014", "keywords": "aber; als; animalischen; auch; auf; aufkl\u00e4rung; berlin; bzw; dabei; damit; das; dass; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; durch; e.t.a; einer; erkenntnis; erz\u00e4hlung; fledermaus; focus; frankfurt; f\u00fcr; gaderer; haben; hat; haus; hgg; hier; hoffmanns; indem; ist; jedoch; kann; lekt\u00fcre; literatur; magnetismus; mit; nach; neumann; nicht; noch; nur; oder; poesie; romantische; scheint; science; seinen; selbst; sich; sie; sind; sinn; soll; sondern; studies; text; theodor; trautmann; und; vgl; vom; von; wahnsinn; wahrnehmung; werden; wie; wird; wissen; wissenschaft; wissenschaftliche; wissenspoetik; wunderbaren; wunderliche; zugleich; zum; zur; zwischen; \u00f6den; \u00fcber", "summary": "Hayles beschreibt die gerade nicht selbstverst\u00e4ndliche Unterscheidung von Literatur und Wissenschaft als einen Fluch, der \u00fcber der Literaturwissenschaft liegt und der nach Erkl\u00e4rungen verlangt, die an die grundlegenden Grenzen disziplin\u00e4ren Wissens r\u00fchren.29 Literarische Texte und Wissensordnungen stehen in keiner je entschiedenen Relation, sondern in [...] Wissenssoziologisch gesehen handelt es sich bei diesem vielschichtigen Proze\u00df der Umbesetzung nicht um die auf Totalit\u00e4t hin orientierte Abdichtung und Vervollkommnung des zuvor von der Aufkl\u00e4rung konzipierten Archivs, sondern vielmehr um dessen \u00d6ffnung und Dynamisierung: das \u00dcberspringen des enzyklop\u00e4dischen Systems und seines Subsumptionsmechanismus, wie es zum Beispiel Friedrich von Hardenbergs \u201aEnzyklop\u00e4distik\u2018 nach dem hybriden Vorstellungsmuster der Zerst\u00e4ubung (\u201aBl\u00fctenstaub\u2018), der Dissemination und der Proliferation in Vorschlag bringt\u201c (Brandstetter et al. 10).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-10", "words": "332", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "4", "author": "Bauman, Emily", "title": "Acknowledgements", "date": "2014", "keywords": "cincinnati; focus; studies; university", "summary": "Each article considered for this volume was refereed by two or more of the following area experts: Moritz Ba\u00dfler, Westf\u00e4lische Wilhelms-Universit\u00e4t Elizabeth Mill\u00e1n, DePaul University Ulrike Bohle, Universit\u00e4t Heidesheim Tanja Nusser, University of Cincinnati David Caldwell, University of Northern Colorado Florence Oloff, Universit\u00e4t Z\u00fcrich David H. Culbert, Louisiana State University Michael Pickering, Loughborough University Kathy Davis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Edward T. Potter, Mississippi State Ronald Day, Indiana University Amy Ransom, Central Michigan University Siobh\u00e1n Donovan, University College Dublin Petra Rau, University of East Anglia Marjanne E. Gooz\u00e9, University of Georgia Ritchie Robertson, University of Oxford Dirk G\u00f6ttsche, University of Nottingham Kate Roy, University of Leeds Barbara Hahn, Vanderbilt University Holger Schulze, K\u00f8benhavns Universitet Katharina Hall, Swansea University Kevin Schwandt, University of Minnesota Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Cyrus Shahan, Colby College Todd Herzog, University of Cincinnati Annette Simonis, Justus-Liebig-Universit\u00e4t Giessen Andrew W Hurley, University of Technology, Sydney Benjamin Specht, Universit\u00e4t Stuttgart Rachel Jones, George Mason University Maria Stehle, University of Tennessee Matthias Keidel, Wolfsburg Katholische Akademie Begonya S\u00e1ez Tajafuerce, U Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona Todd Kontje, University of California, San Diego Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Ohio State University Ulrike Landfester, Universit\u00e4t St. Gallen Nicholas de Villiers, University of North Florida Mar\u00eda P\u00eda Lara, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma Metropolitana Valerie Weinstein, University of Cincinnati We reserve the right to make any necessary editing changes without the express written permission of the authors. Microsoft Word - vol21-01-Contents-and-Notes-from-the-Editor.docx \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Focus on German Studies 21 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ii \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 he twenty-first volume of Focus on German Studies was made possible by the continued support of the faculty of the University of Cincinnati Department of German Studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-100", "words": "3901", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Schulz, Dagmar", "title": "Stilistische Elemente in der Prosa von Brigitte Kronauer exemplarisch dargestellt an Rita M\u00fcnster, Berittener Bogensch\u00fctze und Frau M\u00fchlenbeck im Geh\u00e4us ", "date": "1994", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; autorin; bei; das; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; eine; figuren; f\u00fcr; ihre; ist; kann; kronauer; literatur; mit; m\u00fcnster; nach; nicht; oder; rita; roman; sich; sie; sind; und; von; wahrheit; werden; wie; wird; zur", "summary": "Das Bild der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika in der Literatur der DDR. Sinn durch die Verzahnung verschiedener Erz\u00e4hlkategorien, die sie als omni\u00ad potenten Forrngegner bezeichnet ( Literatur 54).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-101", "words": "11214", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Finger, Anke", "title": "Der Stand des Experiments under Avantgarde in der deutschsprachigen Literatur am Beispiel des Osterreichischen Literaturmagazins perspektive", "date": "1994", "keywords": "aber; aber es; als; auch; auf; aus; autoren; avantgarde; bei; berlin; bzw; dab; damit; dann; das; das ist; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; dort; eben; eher; eigenen; eine; einzelnen; es gibt; es ist; etwas; finger; forum; fur; f\u00fcr; gab; ganz; gegen; gibt; graz; gruppe; haben; hat; ihr; immer; ist; kann; korte; leute; lind; literatur; man; mehr; mit; nat\u00fcrlich; nicht; noch; nun; nur; oder; perspektive; schon; sehr; selbst; sich; sie; sind; szene; und; uns; viele; von; von der; war; wie; wiener; wir; wird; wurde; z.b; zeitschrift; zum; zur", "summary": "und es gibt auch einige, die bei uns ver\u00f6ffentlicht haben und die dann irgend wann ins Forum gewanden. Dieses Magazin, gegr\u00fcndet vor circa zw\u00f6U Jahren, Leiten hel;1te f\u00fcnI Autor\u00ad Innen, '(Helmut Schranz tmd Dieter Sperlln Graz:, Silvia Egger und RaU Korte in Betlin und Robert Steinte inSalzbur&), die sich, basierend auf individuell organisierten Kontakten und demlnteresse", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-102", "words": "20079", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Coury, David N.", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "1994", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; author; bei; berlin; blok; book; bruyn; child; cine; clem; cler; contemporary; dann; das; def; dem; den; denn; der; des; die; diese; doch; durch; ein; eine; ellen; end; entries; focus; form; fur; gercke; german; haben; hader; hat; helm; herr; hier; history; hodjak; identity; ihn; ihrer; iii; immer; ing; ion; isl; ist; jedoch; killer; konnen; kunert; kunze; language; leben; lena; leser; lhe; lichtenberg; life; lilly; lind; literature; mehr; men; menschen; mil; mit; nach; narrative; neuen; nicht; niers; no.2; noch; novel; nun; nur; oder; oer; ohne; past; paul; perspective; poems; poetry; present; prose; reader; reviews; roman; schon; section; sein; seiner; sellin; sich; sie; sind; sondern; spiel; story; text; themes; time; und; university; uns; urn; vol; von; von der; vor; war; wenn; werden; wie; wieder; wird; work; world; writers; writing; zeit; zum", "summary": "Die Trauer und der Schmerz. The plJY opens 01110 a kind of Vor~piel' that prefigures the rc\u00b7 mainder of the play, as annoyed S-Bahn commuters Joltack Lilly WII h rolled-up newspapers, fists, dJld feel while she loudly chants, Schon ist die Welt schon iSl die Welt (7).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-103", "words": "3756", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Redding, Gregory J.", "title": "Ein Zirkel, der sich schliesst, Interview mit Guenter Kunert", "date": "1994", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; dann; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; die; diese; eine; f\u00fcr; habe; hat; ich; ist; kann; kunert; man; mich; mir; mit; nicht; oder; redding; sich; sie; sind; tr\u00e4ume; und; von; war; wie", "summary": "Dingliche sagt mir eben sehr viel, und-Sie kennen ja viele Texle-die Gegenst\u00e4nde, die Dinge, sind f\u00fcr mich An\u00ad l\u00e4sse zur Reflexion, also versuche ich sie denn zum Sprechen zu bringen. Haben Sie auch wenig Prosa geschrieben zu dieser Zelt, oder war das die Periode, in der Sie die Tagtr.i,tme geschrieben haben?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-104", "words": "985", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Redding, Gregory J.", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "1994", "keywords": "cincinnati; german; students; university; work", "summary": "Focus Fall 1994.tif 231 Contributors ANKE FINGER is a doclOral candidate in t he CompJf<luve Literature Depa rt ment at Brandeis University, whe re she IS compicllllg resc.1rch for a dissenalion on the changing concept of Ges.lT1UkU1JSl'll. Ul and GermJIl iilCr,ltUre .Inti in history at t he University of Konstanz., Germany.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-11", "words": "310", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Bauman, Emily", "title": "Table of Contents", "date": "2014", "keywords": "editor; germany; und", "summary": "The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School 95 HENK DE BERG and DUNCAN LARGE, editors Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas: An Annotated German-Language Reader 96 TIMOTHY SCOTT BROWN West Germany and the Global Sixties: The Antiauthoritarian Revolt 98 JAIMEY FISCHER, editor Generic Histories of German Cinema: Genre and Its Deviations 101 Table of Contents \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Focus on German Studies 21 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 iv \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 DIRK G\u00d6TTSCHE Deutsche Dichterinnen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart 112 MARIA STEHLE Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture: Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes 114 TAMAR STEINITZ Translingual Identities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-114", "words": "2615", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Fourman, Garry L.", "title": "Front mater", "date": "1995", "keywords": "book; conference; editor; focus; german; graduate; history; literature; papers; sessions; storm; university", "summary": "Writing History Against the Grain Ann Reidy (I n the mOSt astute pronouncement on Theoclo r Storm's thematization of history 10 date, David Jackson stoues: 1-{e wrOte hisrory against lhe official grain (203). Other conference papers not found m thiS volume: Michael Staebe (UMass/ Amherst), Die Heimkehr-ein feier~i~h:.s Gefiihl, was?-Deulsche Geschichte(n) in der xhwarzwaldkliOlk ; Ingrid Schenk (penn), T~t which ~est: German Cigarel~i!", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-115", "words": "6236", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Reidy, Ann", "title": "Theodor Storm: Writing History Against the Grain", "date": "1995", "keywords": "century; documents; fact; focus; german; grain; history; ion; josias; manuscript; narrative; narrator; objective; past; process; ranke; reading; renate; schubert; storm; text; und; von", "summary": "Theodor Storm invokes the methodology of scientific historians through his use of the Chroniknovelle, a gen re typically defined by its structural dependence on historical documents. In problematizing the authority of the original manuscript, Storm seeks to cultivate in the reader a new, more critical attiludo: towards historical documents and culturally transmitted accounts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-116", "words": "6329", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Appl, Cynthia L.", "title": "Helga Schubert's Judasfrauen: The Use of Narrative in Documentary Literature", "date": "1995", "keywords": "case; denunciation; die; documentary; documentary literature; east; form; history; literature; material; narrative; reader; schubert; studies; und", "summary": "Schubert draws on the tradit ion of documentary literature, but by combining documentary and na rrat ive she avoids the problems discussed above. Schubert draws on the tradit ion of documentary literature, but by combining documentary and na rrat ive she avoids the problems discussed above.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-117", "words": "2880", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Roessler, Norman", "title": "Clio in the Midst of Patriarchy: Tony Buddenbrook and the Mediation of the Buddenbrook Family Past", "date": "1995", "keywords": "album; buddenbrook; character; family; family album; history; mediation; novel; past; tony", "summary": "The depictions of the Buddenb rook family and the character Tony Buddenbrook are consistent with contempo\u00ad rary historical appraisals of the middle to late nineteenth century. Kept .m the des~ .0: the reigning Buddenbrook palriouch, it lists births, marriages, acquIsIti ons. notable events, and provides both commentaries and small vigneu~s. The family album appears throughout the novel in a nu~ber of .dl~\u00ad ferent situations with a variety of family members.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-118", "words": "3577", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Reich, Gerhard", "title": "The German Exile Writer in New York City 1933-1945: A Case Study", "date": "1995", "keywords": "american; das; der; des; die; exile; family; german; hat; ist; mann; new; paper; thomas; tieck; und; united; york", "summary": "The AUfbal1 provided suppOrt in many ways and was intended (Q alle\u00ad viate the pain of political persecution by providing a social net of German exiles, united by a common fate. t-olany articles and book reviews dealt with the quest for a Jewish identity, but the preservation of German culture and language was equally important .", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-119", "words": "4412", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Marshall, Jennifer Cizik", "title": "Ludwig Tieck and the Renaissance: Questions of Canon on the Cusp of Realism", "date": "1995", "keywords": "accorombona; art; das; der; des; die; franz; ist; italy; ludwig; novel; place; prose; renaissance; society; tieck; time; und; vinoria; von; works", "summary": "This image of the to rso, something broken and incomplete, refers to the status of Tieck criticism in which hi s early works, with thei r Waldeinsamkeic and Zwbernachl, have come 10 be so far privileged above his later production as to leave his most mature writings in a shadow of comparative critical neglect. Only through such a unified vision of his works can the conundnLm of Tieck scholarship be rectified, and only then can the change in his literary style be studied and pursued as an important aspect of any understanding of this enigmatic and talented writer.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-12", "words": "518", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Bauman, Emily", "title": "From the Editor", "date": "2014", "keywords": "editor; focus", "summary": "With the new millennium came annual publication and our current title, and in 2008, Editor-in-Chief Marie Buesch began the process of digitizing Focus issues to ensure the worldwide accessibility of the journal. A fully graduate student-directed, professionally peer-reviewed publication, Focus was a first of its kind in the field of German Studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-120", "words": "3495", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Jux, Stefan", "title": "Klopstock: National-patriotische Gedanken eines deutschen Poeten", "date": "1995", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; deutschen; dichter; die; durch; eine; friedrich; f\u00fcr; gedanken; geschichte; ist; klopstock; mit; nach; nicht; patriotismus; sein; seinen; sich; sie; sprache; und; vaterland; von; werden; wie; wird; zur", "summary": "Verdienst bei der Bildung einer einheirlicheren deutschen Hochsprache w\u00fcrdigt Klopstock deshalb den Reformator luther in dem Prosast\u00fcck Zur Geschichte unsrer Sprache als vorbildlichen Spracht.nieher.~ Sprache ist f\u00fcr Klopstock ein Beh\u00e4ltnis der Begriffe eines Volkes, Ausdruck der nationalen Identit\u00e4t und der historischen Erfahrung eines Volkes und folglich eine wesentl iche Voraussetzung f\u00fcr den ZUg<lng zur geschichtlichen Wahrheit: Die Sprache eines Volkes bewahrt seine Begriffe, Empfindungen, Leidenschaften, die\u00df alles oft bis zu feinsten Nebenausbildungen, wie in einem Beh\u00e4ltnis auf. In erster Linie geht es Klopstock bei der Darstellung der germanischen Religion n\u00e4mlich um die Treuebindung der Germanen an die G\u00f6tter der V\u00e4ter, in der die religi\u00f6seund nationale Verpflichtung eine Einheit bilden.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-121", "words": "12076", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Sosulski, Michael J.", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "1995", "keywords": "alex; als; auch; auf; aus; berlin; book; cler; dab; das; daughter; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; dorst; durch; eigenen; ein; eine; ende; fenix; focus; fur; gabriela; german; geschichte; hat; hier; ihn; ihre; ing; ist; jens; journey; kann; koeppen; leben; life; lind; mahhus; malthus; man; mehr; mit; nach; narrator; nicht; novel; nur; oder; past; person; reader; reviews; roman; schenk; schwarze; sein; seiner; sich; sie; sind; story; struzyk; time; und; venedig; vol; von; vor; werden; wie; wird; zum; zwischen", "summary": "Bodo Kirchhoffs monologische Erzahlung, die als Theaterstiick bearbeitet zu Beginn diesen Jahres im Kainer Sch.1uspielhaus uraufgefUhrt wttrde, ist die 60 Seiten lange Anki.indigung einer Srrip\u00ad tease-Vo rstellung, die letztlich niemals stattfinden wird. Gabriela beschreibt ihre Wege zwischen der Suppenkiiche der Caritas und ihrem Schlaf\u00ad und Schreibplatz unter einer Brucke.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-122", "words": "1215", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Hull, Jeffery S.", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "1995", "keywords": "focus; germanic; literature; submissions; university", "summary": "In addition to being a forum for graduate student research on literary topics, Focus 011 LiteralUr also seeks to engage readers in const ructive dialogue on current issues in German studies, with particu lar refer\u00b7 ence T he average graduate student spends four to seven years post-BA earn ing the doctoral degree, yet duri", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-123", "words": "1516", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Todd, Jeffery Dean", "title": "Front mater", "date": "1996", "keywords": "book; focus; german", "summary": "Special thanks also to the following people .for evaluating articles for this issue o f FoCl/s: Roswitha Burwick (Scnpps College), .Erh~rd Friedrichsmeyer (U ni versity o r C incinnali), Jerry Glen n 0-'OIverslty of C incinnati), Clayton Koelb (University o f North Carolina , Chapel Hill) . T onya acq uai nted the audience with FOCi/5 and info rmed the m o f", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-124", "words": "7159", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Zoellner, Nicole", "title": "Bekenntnis zum Einzelgaengertum: Hans Sahls Exilroman Die Wenigen und die Vielen", "date": "1996", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; bis; buch; das; da\u00df; dem; den; denn; der; des; deutschland; die; diese; durch; ein; eine; exil; fast; f\u00fcr; gegen; hans; ihre; immer; ist; jahre; jedoch; kann; kobbe; leser; lind; literatur; l\u00e4\u00dft; mit; nach; new; nicht; noch; nur; oder; partei; politischen; roman; sah; sahls; seiner; selbst; sich; sie; sind; und; vielen; von; vor; war; wenigen; werden; wie; wieder; wird; wurde; york; zeit; zum; zur; \u00fcber", "summary": "Auch hier benutzt Sah I wieder das Stilmittel der W iederholung: Kobbe erk l\u00e4n seine MitSchuldan jenem geistigen Verrat, der aus der menschlichen Verzweiflung Kapital schlug, um Als mit Hitlers Machtergreifung und dem kurz darauf folgenden Reichst agsb rand der Massenexodus der intellektuellen Elite aus Deutschland einsetzt, scheint sich kaum einer der Exilanten \u00fcber den Ernst der Lage bewu\u00dft zu sei n, In seinem Buch Exil und Literatur schrei.bt Mallhias Wegener: AllS allen Berichten der emigrierten Schriftsteller, die in den ersten sec hs Monaten nach det Macht\u00ad ergreifung fl\u00fcchteten, geht hervor, da\u00df nur wenige glaubten, es werde sich um einen l\u00e4ngeren Auslands-Aufenthalt handeln (44).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-125", "words": "4559", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Angermeier, John S.", "title": "Greed and Economic Self-Interest in Kleist's \"Verlobung in St. Domingo\"", "date": "1996", "keywords": "babekan; congo; das; dem; den; der; die; domingo; ein; gustav; hoango; island; kleist; mit; race; sich; sie; states; toni; und; verlobung; von", "summary": "We can also imagi ne lhat Gustav von der Ried, a mercenary adept at adjusting to various political and social ci rcumstances, would not be easily dissuaded from staking his legit i\u00ad mate fina ncial claim once he has wedded Toni. As the title suggests, at the co re of Kleist's work lies the question of why Toni Be rtrand and Gustav von der Ried even become bet rothed at ali, and under what circumstances their fragi le union fai ls.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-126", "words": "12316", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Prang, Christoph", "title": "Franz Kafkas Der Prozess: Die Problematik des Schriftstellerseins als sozialer Konflikt\"", "date": "1996", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; ausweg; badv; brief; corngold; dabei; damit; das; da\u00df; dem; den; den vater; denen; der; der gesellschaft; des; dessen; die; diese; dir; durch; ehe; eigene; eine; einzelnen; focus; form; franz; freisprechung; fur; f\u00fcr; gericht; gesellschaft; gleich; hat; hier; ihm; ihn; ist; k.s; kafka; kann; leben; mit; nach; nicht; noch; nun; nur; oder; proze\u00df; schreiben; sein; seinem; selbst; sich; sie; sind; sondern; und; urn; vater; vgl; von; vor; war; welches; werden; wie; wird; zum; zur; zwischen", "summary": "Dies komm t einer Konsequenz gleich, die Kafka vielleic ht ci ne gewisse Genugtu1.lng bereitete. Hinzu tritt aber noch ein zweiter Aspekt, die Resignation vor der U bermacht der Vielen, die als Reprasentanten der Gesellschaft auf K. einzuwirken ve rsuchen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-127", "words": "15075", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Hampton, Tonya", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "1996", "keywords": "aber; als; anderen; aod; art; auch; auf; aufbau; aus; author; baum; bei; berlin; beton; book; cooking; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; diderot; die; diese; durch; eine; felice; fischer; focus; food; franz; f\u00fcr; gahse; genre; geschichte; hier; ihre; immer; ist; kafka; kling; kunert; lander; language; leben; lilly; literatur; man; mehr; mit; nach; nicht; nur; oder; pleasure; reading; reviews; rhe; sein; sich; sie; sondern; sprache; texts; time; und; volume; von; way; werden; wie; wird; work; writing; zum; \u00fcber", "summary": "Was dabei herauskommt, sind selbstgef\u00e4llige Banalit\u00e4ten wie Asfalt, Atmosf\u00e4re, Emfase, Triumf, lzige, 2mal, Iklang; sind interessante Variat ionen zur orthographischen Norm wie Wir hier= untn; ist das Erset zen der Konjunktionen von und und oder durch bedeurungstragende Schriftzeichen wie u, od, u:, + oder &, und dergleichen; sind aber auch wahre Entdeckungen, wie die von der Wicht-Igkeit der deutschen Beamten. es sich nicht um eine Anleitung fur Dolmetscher oder eine linguistische Arbeit handelt, sondern um die Beschreibung eines Zustandes: nicht nur den der ubersetzten Warter, auch den des ubersetzenden Menschen-jemand, der von einer kulturellen und sprachlichen", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-128", "words": "3569", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "85", "author": "Jackson, Laura", "title": "Creating the Statue out of the Mass of Clay: An Interview with Ursula Hegi", "date": "1996", "keywords": "fiction; interview; need; people; river; silence; talk", "summary": "LJ: Your work assembl ing information and collecting life stories re\u00ad minds me of Tmdi, a collector of stories in Stones from the River. In fiction we need to tell the stories of certain characters and we need to get to know the characters really well, so [hat we can discover t heir stories.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-129", "words": "1214", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Todd, Jeffery Dean", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "1996", "keywords": "cincinnati; focus; german; university", "summary": "University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH 45221-0372. For further infor\u00ad mation, comact the editors of FOCIIS on Lirem(ur, Department of Ger\u00ad manic Languages and Lireratllres, University of Cincinnati ,", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-13", "words": "296", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Bauman, Emily", "title": "Calling Potential Authors for Volume 22", "date": "2014", "keywords": "focus", "summary": "Focus casts as broad a net as possible, encouraging publication on all aspects of German Studies to reflect the varied intellectual engagement and research conducted by graduate students. Microsoft Word - vol21-09-Call-for-Submissions.docx \u00a0 Focus on German Studies 21 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Call for Submissions 130 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Focus on German Studies, volume 22 Deadline: January 1, 2015 Focus on German Studies is currently seeking articles for publication in our twenty-second volume, due for publication in early Summer in its new, online format.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-130", "words": "1535", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Kallin, Britta", "title": "Front mater", "date": "1996", "keywords": "book; cincinnati; fall; german; graduate; issue; language; rules", "summary": "Schade and o ther fac\u00ad ulty members of the Depanmelll of German ic Languages and Litera\u00ad tures who have been very support ive of this publ ication. Maybe speakers of German wi ll adJ.pl as easily to the new rules as they did lO rhe introduction of the S-digit Posrleirzahlen, which WJ.S intensely debated by the media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-131", "words": "7319", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Werner, Ralf E.", "title": "Die Suche nach der schrecklichen Poesie. Zur literarischen Programmatik und Sprachthematik in Ingeborg Bachmanns Der Fall Franza", "date": "1996", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; bachmann; bei; bis; das; da\u00df; dem; den; denn; der; des; die; diese; durch; eine; erleben; ersten; fall; franza; freud; f\u00fcr; hat; hei\u00dft; hier; ihr; ihren; ingeborg; inneren; ist; jordan; kindheit; k\u00f6nnen; leser; lind; mehr; mit; nach; nicht; noch; nur; poesie; schreckliche; sich; sie; sind; sinn; soll; sprache; text; und; verfahren; vgl; von; weil; werden; wie; wird; w\u00fcste; zerst\u00f6rung; zum; zur; \u00fcber", "summary": "Anderen, das zum weiblichen polare m\u00e4nnliche, von der Vernunft (Logos) bestimmte Denken. Ingebarg Bachmans Der Fall Fr.mzd 107 Bachmann vollz.ieht also die Suche nac.:h JerschrcckJichen Poesie durch die Protagonisull und somit ist die von der PrOlagonistin gesuchte magische Sprache (auf der Handlungsebene) die (sichl~are) Ikone.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-132", "words": "11004", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Yang, Peter J.", "title": "Erzaehler in Brechts Kreidekreisst\u00fcck: Eine Analyse der montierten theatralischen Perspektiven", "date": "1996", "keywords": "aber; als; anfang; auch; auf; aus; azdak; bei; bezeichnet; brecht; brechtschen; dabei; dadurch; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; der s\u00e4nger; des; die; diese; dramatische; durch; ebene; eine; epik; ersten; erz\u00e4hler; funktion; f\u00fcr; gedanken; geht; geschichte; gestalten; gibt; grusehe; haben; handlung; hat; hier; ibid; ihr; ist; jedoch; kann; kind; kreidekreis; kreidekreisst\u00fcck; k\u00f6nnen; lind; man; mehr; mit; musiker; nicht; noch; nur; oder; personae; personen; perspektive; rolle; seinen; selbst; sich; sie; sind; solche; soll; sondern; s\u00e4nger; theatralischen; und; vgl; von; vor; war; weil; wenn; werden; wie; wird; wurde; zeigt; zum; zur; zuschauer; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Der S\u00e4nger ist hier sozusagen ein primus inter pures, weil er illlmer derjenige ist, der die I.nitiali ve ergreift. Aufzuges zeigt der S\u00e4nger mit seinem pl\u00f6tzlichen \\'{fechsei der theatrJ. lisc~en Perspek~.iv~, da\u00df er sich stark vo n der festen Er-Erz\u00e4hlperspekuve l5 des vol hg distanzierten Erz\u00e4hlers in der traditionellen Epik unterscheidet Der Satz, der der unmittelbar am Anfang angef\u00fchrten Er-Erz\u00e4hlung folgt, ze igt ,", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-133", "words": "4527", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Todd, Jeffery Dean", "title": "Adorno's 'Ban' on Poetry After Auschwitz", "date": "1996", "keywords": "adorno; argument; auschwitz; ban; culture; der; die; donahue; essay; industry; ing; lhe; order; poetry; position; sich; social; statement; und", "summary": "One reason for Donahue's sanguine interpretation of Adorno's dictum is his assertion that Adorno simply did nOt mean what he said about poetry after Auschwitz: it is a view Mthat Adorno here ;!.niculates but does not subscribe to.- Instead, Don;!.hue says, Adorno delivers III th,ll muth\u00ad qUOted remark a pointed overstJ.temem of a position dialectically antitheti\u00ad ca.l to his own (58). I stated earber thdt Adorno Il.lJ ta choose.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-134", "words": "14054", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Hampton, Tonya", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "1996", "keywords": "1st; aber; als; auch; auf; aus; author; bei; berlin; beyer; book; buch; clem; cler; dab; das; del; dem; den; der; des; dessen; deutschen; die; diese; durch; ein; eine; eugen; focus; franz; frau; fur; gegen; geist; german; gertrud; goebbels; hanna; hat; ihn; ihr; ihre; immer; isl; ist; kann; karnau; kleist; kolbe; language; life; lind; love; man; medea; michael; mil; mit; mutter; nach; narrator; new; nicht; no.2; noch; novel; nur; oder; past; poetry; reader; reviews; schade; schon; sein; seiner; sich; sie; sieh; sind; sondern; und; urn; vol; vom; von; von der; vor; weil; wenn; werden; wie; wieder; wird; wolf; woman; world; zeit; zum; zur; zwei; zwischen", "summary": "Dies:e le idet .In einer Art Fallsucht, die durch die Bebandlung der ansassigen ArZle verschlimmert wi rd . Goebbels ist von der gigamisehe[nJ (-\\6)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-135", "words": "808", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Gross, Alexander", "title": "Wir m\u00f6chten sch\u00f6ne, gehaltvolle B\u00fccher f\u00fcr geistvolle K\u00f6pfe herausgeben: Gespr\u00e4ch mit dem verleger Albert V\u00f6lkmann", "date": "1996", "keywords": "der; die; ein; ist; mit; sie; und; wir", "summary": "Literatur aber entsteht, wie jede neue Energieform, nur im Widerpart, beim Zusa~nmenslO\u00df mit der Wirkl ichkeit und kann d:lnn Kunst, Mythos, Poesie, neue Realit\u00e4t werden. V\u00f6lkman n: Diese ist so miserabel wie der derLeitige geistige Zustand der gesamten Republik, in der viele ihren Kohl mit mehr Sorgfah ziehen als ihren Verstand.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-136", "words": "1473", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Kallin, Britta", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "1996", "keywords": "focus; german; graduate; university", "summary": "CALL FO R ESSAYS rn addition to being a fOnlm for graduate student research on literary topics, Focus on Literatllr also seeks to engage readers in constructive dialogue on current issues in German studies, with particular refer\u00b7 ence to t he effect recent trends have on t he graduate students who represent the future of the profession. Focus Fall 1996.tif 201 Contributors ALEXANDER GROSS studied German literature, Political Science and Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Miinchen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-137", "words": "2052", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Kallin, Britta", "title": "Front mater", "date": "1997", "keywords": "book; cincinnati; der; die; editor; focus; german; graduate; students; work", "summary": "In addiljon to t he Focus on Literatur con ference, Professo r K:nharina Gerstenberger (U niversity o f Cincinnati) organized a Mm;\u00ad Kon!erenz at the end of a seminar on Bddlmgsromanc. from the editor articles Focus on Literatur Volume 4, Nu mber 1 Spring 1997 Contents Mauern haben sich iiberlebt: Die Unmoglichkeit der Ideotitatsbildung durch Andere in Grass' Kopfgeburlen odeT die Deu\u00a3schen sterben ails SILKE R .", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-138", "words": "4474", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Falkner, Silke R.", "title": "Mauern haben sich \u00fcberlebt: Die Unm\u00f6glichkeit der Identit\u00e4tsbildung durch Andere in Grass' Kopfgeburten oder Die Deutschen sterben aus", "date": "1997", "keywords": "als; andere; auch; auf; aus; bei; das; dem; den; der; des; die; durch; d\u00f6ne; d\u00f6rte; eine; erz\u00e4hler; frau; f\u00fcr; grass; harm; hier; ihre; ist; kind; lind; mann; mit; nach; nicht; oder; sich; sie; sind; text; und; von; werden; wie; wird; zwischen", "summary": "Britta Kallin Mauern haben sich \u00fcberlebt : Die Unm\u00f6glichkeit der Identit\u00e4tsbi ldung durch Andere in Grass' Kopfgeburten oder Die Deutschen sterben aus! Und nicht verzufrteF\u00e4den sind F\u00e4den, die gri..indlich nicht verzurrt wurden.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-139", "words": "3655", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "William, Jennifer Marston", "title": "Life under the Table: An Investigation into the Themes and Insecurity in Gunter Grass's Die Blechtrommel", "date": "1997", "keywords": "agnes; anna; auf; das; dem; den; der; die; fear; grass; koljaiczek; novel; oskar; security; skirts; und; unter", "summary": "Oskar's resistance to exposure becomes even more apparent as he explains his inclination to spend time in the attic of the apartment building in which the Matzeralhs live: Wah rend der H of fUr Oskar voller Gefahren war, bot ihm der Dachboden Sicherheit (109). As Noel L. Thomas remarks about t he novel's protagonist, Osbr speaks the language o f doubt; the metaphorical language, despite Oskar and as it were unbeknown to Oskar, sometimes reveals more than the narra\u00ad tor himself (59-60) .", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-140", "words": "4566", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Krol, Maria", "title": "Friederike, Martha, Hilde: Christoph Heins 'Kleinaufnahmen' aus der deutschen Geschichte", "date": "1997", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; christoph; das; da\u00df; ddr; dem; den; der; des; deutschen; die; ein; eine; eins; faschismus; friederike; f\u00fcr; geschichte; grass; hein; hilde; ideologie; ihr; ist; kleinaufnahmen; lind; mit; nach; nicht; oder; seiner; sich; sie; und; vgl; von; war; wie; wird; wurde; zur", "summary": "Viele Aspekte des Problems, wie z.B. die Frage nach der Beziehung zwischen H eins Geschiclmauffassung, die in seinen 'chronikalischen Aufzeichnungen' besonders deutlich zu Tage trin, und dem offiziellen Geschichts\u00ad entwurf der marxistischen Geschichtsphi losophie in der DDR, bl ieben jedoch bis jetzt weitgehend unerforscht. Sie sollte sich zwecks der Legitimienlllg des sozialistischen Staates der DDR best immten progress iven Epochen der deutschen Geschichte zuwenden , um so die bis ins ho he Mittelalter :wriick reichenden Freiheits-", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-141", "words": "6634", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Bonner, Christina L.", "title": "The Beau Alman and Armand: Simplicissimus and Felix Krull in Paris", "date": "1997", "keywords": "alman; als; beau; characters; dem; den; der; des; die; ein; episode; felix; god; grimmelshausen; hermes; ich; krull; mann; mit; orpheus; paris; role; sie; simplicissimus; simplicius; thomas; und; vii; von; wimmer; work", "summary": "Felix Krull is not merely a Scheimenroman, Krull is not merely a Schehn in the t radition of Der abentellerfiche Simpiicissimus Telllsch. Faustus in Fran ce, one hears echoes perhaps o f the author's thoughts while writing o f Krull in Paris: Es gibt ein franz6sisches Interesse am Deutschtum unend lich geistvoller als aller deutscher Nationalimus, dem ich so abgeneigt bin, wie jenes", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-142", "words": "9019", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Hampton, Tonya", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "1997", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; book; clem; cler; dab; das; death; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; dorst; durch; ein; eine; focus; fur; handke; hat; heinrich; immer; ing; ist; kunert; leben; life; man; mehr; mit; nach; nicht; nike; novel; nur; oder; reise; reviews; seiner; sich; sie; sind; story; und; vol; von; war; werden; wie; wird; woman; work", "summary": "DaB sie 'lIs Medium der Erkenlllnis ullzuverlassig ist, zeigt sich zum Beispiel immer danEl, wenn unser ~Held seinen GraBen Brockhaus konsu ltiert und festste llen mufi, dafi die vermeintlich neuen Waner schon vorhanden sind, jedoch ihrer urspriinglichen Bedeutung beraubt sind lind nur falsch angewandl werden (16). Die Idee zu dieser Reise ergab sich aus einem Gefiihl der Unzufriedenheit hemus: Beinah aile Bilder und Berichte der letztcn vier Jahre kamen ja von der ei nen Seite der Fronten oder Gren ze n. als blof1e", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-143", "words": "5320", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "Kallin, Britta", "title": "Die besten Ideen und die 'unverhofften Bekannten' kommen beim Schreiben: Interview mit den Autoren Klaus Modick", "date": "1997", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; dann; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; die; ein; eine; focus; f\u00fcr; ganz; geschichte; gibt; habe; hat; ich; ist; kann; literatur; man; mehr; mich; mir; mit; modick; nicht; noch; nur; oder; roman; schreiben; sehr; sich; sie; sind; und; von; war; weil; wenn; wie", "summary": "Desh.llb habe ich wohl auch einen el was anderen Zugang zu amerikanischer Literatur als Leute, die das nur von au\u00dfen sehen. Nicht, weil ich meine, ich k\u00f6nnte das nicht.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-144", "words": "3646", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "78", "author": "Rape, Julie", "title": "Ein knallroter Umschlag w\u00e4re mir f\u00fcr Ruth Kl\u00fcgers Buch unpassend erschienen.. : Interview mit dem verleger Thedel von Wallmoden", "date": "1997", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; buch; b\u00fccher; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; die; ein; eine; focus; f\u00fcr; gibt; haben; hat; ist; kl\u00fcger; man; mir; mit; moden; nicht; sehr; sich; sie; sind; und; viel; von; war; wir", "summary": "Das sind genau die vier Bilder, die man auf dem Umschlag sehen kc.nn: der Stephansdom in Wien, das Lagenor von Auschwitz, ein Bnmnen in G\u00f6ttingen und ein Bild von der Skyline von M:;mhauan. F OCUS: Wie viele Auflagen sind von dem Buch erschienen?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-1448", "words": "13865", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "74", "author": "Augustyns, Annelies", "title": "Now I\u2019ve become a stranger in my own hometown. Representations of Home in the Diaries of Willy Cohn.", "date": "2019", "keywords": "april; augustyns; breslau; city; cohn; diaries; focus; germany; home; israel; jews; life; march; palestine; people; place; space; studies; world", "summary": "Home and Memory: Cohn and his Writings 1 Focus on German Studies 25/26 Augustyns Now I\u2019ve become a stranger in my own hometown Representations of Home in the Diaries of Willy Cohn Annelies Augustyns University of Antwerp", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-1449", "words": "6134", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Wilke, Alexandra", "title": "Wovon hat man etwas? Ich meine etwas f\u00fcr sich haben, \u2013 du verstehst?\u201c \u2013 Der Bildungsbegriff bei Goethe, Musil, Jelinek und Kafka.", "date": "2019", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; bei; bildung; bildungsbegriff; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; durch; eine; erika; faust; focus; f\u00fcr; goethe; hat; ihm; ihr; ist; jedoch; jelinek; kafka; kann; man; mit; musil; mutter; nach; nicht; nur; selbst; sich; sie; sinne; steht; studies; t\u00f6rle\u00df; und; von; werden; wie; wilke; wird; wissen; zum; \u00fcber", "summary": "Sie lenkt, straft und ist allem voran darum bem\u00fcht, ihre Tochter vor jeglichen schlechten Einfl\u00fcssen zu sch\u00fctzen, die sie wom\u00f6glich von der rechten Bahn \u2013 ihrer Pianistinnenkarriere \u2013 abbringen k\u00f6nnten. \u201evon au\u00dfen kommenden Assoziationen\u201c (Musil 15) eine M\u00f6glichkeit der Distanzierung von der eigenen emotionalen \u00dcberforderung und haben somit \u201eeinen unsch\u00e4tzbaren Wert\u201c (ebd.).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-145", "words": "1169", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Kallin, Britta", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "1997", "keywords": "cincinnati; focus; german; university", "summary": "In add ilion to bein g a (olum fo r graduate student research on lirera r topics, FontS on Lileratllr also seeks to engage readers in const ructi dialogue on current issues in German studies, with pJrticular refe ence to the effect recent trends have on the graduate students wh represent the futu l\u00b7e o f the profession. Un iversity of Cincinnati , Cincinnati O H 4522 1-0372.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-1450", "words": "10486", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Monsell, Juanjo", "title": "Vieldeutigkeit und Sinnsuche in Dea Lohers \"Adam Geist.\"", "date": "2019", "keywords": "aber; adam; adam ist; als; anderen; auch; auf; aus; beiden; christus; das; dem; den; der; des; deshalb; die; diese; durch; eine; fall; figur; figuren; focus; friedhof; f\u00fcr; geist; gibt; handlung; hat; hauptfigur; ihn; ist; jesus; kann; leben; loher; man; mehr; mit; monsell; muss; mutter; nach; nicht; nur; oder; ort; raum; r\u00e4ume; sein; seiner; sich; sie; sind; sinn; sterben; studies; st\u00fcck; szene; tod; und; vergangenheit; von; von adam; weil; weise; werden; wie; wird; zeit; zukunft; zum; zwischen", "summary": "In der Geschichte des Christentums war Adam der erste Mann, der zur Sterblichkeit und Weltlichkeit verurteilt wurde, der die Erbs\u00fcnde beging, der mit der Schuld leben musste. Er ist nicht nur ein Verbindungspunkt zwischen der Welt der Lebenden und der Welt der Toten, sondern auch ein r\u00e4umlicher und zeitlicher Verbindungspunkt.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-1451", "words": "9914", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Gizewski, Erin", "title": "Breaking the Cycle: Establishing New Feminist Phenomenology within Movement-Image in Maren Ade\u2019s \"The Forest for the Trees.\"", "date": "2019", "keywords": "body; camera; deleuze; feminist; film; image; melanie; mind; movement; phenomenology; space; spectator; theory", "summary": "Rather, such ambiguity and awkwardness allow for phenomenological interaction because of movement image, situating this film as one in which the spectator and film constantly interact and produce each other in accordance with the mind and body of the individual, experiential viewer. Using this new combination of film theories, I emphasize moments in Ade\u2019s film in which the movement-image facilitates negotiation and collaboration between film and the spectator as a mind-body whole.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-1452", "words": "8133", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Cleverley, James", "title": "Concrete Legacies of the GDR: Elke Hauck\u2019s \"Der Preis\" (2011).", "date": "2019", "keywords": "alex; berlin; cleverley; der; east; film; focus; future; gdr; hauck; past; post; preis; present; school; studies; time", "summary": "Berlin School films have notably been suffused with eerie, temporally uncertain, ghostly depictions. Marco Abel has observed that \u201cmany, though not all, Berlin School films are dominated by long takes, long shots, clinically precise framing, a certain deliberateness of pacing, sparse usage of extra-diegetic music\u201d (Counter-Cinema 15).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-1453", "words": "11545", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Chew, Ellen", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2019", "keywords": "american; antisemitism; book; chapter; craver; den; der; disability; focus; german; historians; history; illness; intellectual; kracauer; mccarthy; miller; new; reviews; schmidt; studies; text; und; von; war; west; women; workers; works; world", "summary": "She demonstrates that the roots of the wage disparity between the workers with immigration backgrounds and German workers lies in the discriminative treatment of West German labor unions, which promoted the idea of \u201clight wage categories\u201d (146). Miller particularly emphasizes the role of female foreign workers in resisting and protesting capitalist exploitation, workplace inequality, and poor housing conditions and promoting solidarity between foreign workers and West German workers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-1454", "words": "1074", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Chew, Ellen", "title": "Front Matter", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cincinnati; focus; graduate; ph.d; studies; university", "summary": "Focus on German Studies is a multi-year commitment typically taken on by PhD students, beginning first with organizing the Focus on German Studies conference, then assuming the role of Book Review Editor, and finally taking on the role of Editor-in-Chief. Staatsexamen, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Joshua Arnold, ABD, Johannesschule Meppen Wesley Jackson, PhD Vanessa Plumly, PhD, SUNY New Paltz Emily Bauman, ABD, University of Cincinnati Alex Hogue, PhD, Coastal Carolina University Please send correspondence to: fogs.editor@gmail.com or Focus on German Studies University of Cincinnati PO Box 210372 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0372 U.S.A. ii Focus on German Studies 25/26 Acknowledgements The twenty-fifth/twenty-sixth volume of Focus on German Studies was made possible by the continued support of the faculty of the University of Cincinnati Department of German Studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-153", "words": "1257", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Such, B\u00e4rbel", "title": "Front mater", "date": "1997", "keywords": "book; cincinnati; conference; focus; graduate", "summary": "I 10 c U S on LITERATUR Editors Michael Rice Barbel Such Technical Manager Tom Stewart Published by the German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of Cincinnati Fows on Literatur is published semiannually (Spring & Fall) by the German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of Cincinnati. We will be holding our Third An\u00ad nual Graduate Student Conference on October 9-10, 1998 and en\u00ad couldge all those interested to send their abstractS to us.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-154", "words": "9274", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Wilms, Wilfried", "title": "Mesch'schurs, ihr macht ja verteufelt wenig Federlesens!\" Rassendiskurse im Wilden Westen?", "date": "1997", "keywords": "aber; als; anderen; auch; auf; augstein; aus; bei; beiden; chinesen; damit; dann; das; da\u00df; dem; den; denn; der; des; die; diese; doch; durch; ein; eine; freiheit; f\u00fcr; gut; haben; halbblut; hier; ihn; ihre; ist; kann; kar; karl; kava; komantschen; leben; man; mann; mays; mayschen; mehr; mit; mustang; nach; nicht; noch; nun; nur; oder; rassendiskurse; seiner; selbst; senanda; shatterhand; sich; sie; sind; text; tokvi; und; uns; vgl; von; vor; war; wei\u00dfen; werden; westen; wie; wilden; winnetou; wird; zur; \u00fcber", "summary": "May im Vordergrund stehen sol l. Der heutige Leser so gU[ wie der der letzten Jahrzehnte bezieht seine eventuellen Vorbilder und Handlungsmaximen aus dem vorliegenden Text und Das Halbblut als eines der zahlreichen Wildwest-Abenteuer stellt weder, wie Lowsky behauptet, die \u00dcberlebensk\u00e4mpfe der von der Ausrottung bedrohten Indianer dar, (59) noch wirkt es dank seiner geschickten Didaktik angenehm belehrend.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-155", "words": "10009", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Mathes, Bettina", "title": "Representing Torture: The Struggle for the Masculine Self in the Historia von D. Johann Fausten", "date": "1997", "keywords": "als; auch; control; dab; das; den; der; devil; die; disputations; ein; faust; focus; gender; hell; ich; identity; making; man; mann; masculinity; mephostophiles; mit; narrator; nicht; pain; power; relationship; self; selves; struggle; subject; subjection; text; torture; und; vnd; vnnd; vod; von; women", "summary": "In an extensive monologue (chapter 65), he confronts him with a long list of proverbs all aimi.ng at maki ng Faust acknowledge himself as the o riginator of his deeds and sins 3S well as at acknowl\u00ad edging that there is no escape fo r him: heu estu Galt vOr Augen gehabt / vnd dich mit denen Gaben / so I argue that the disputations between Mephostophiles and Faust in the HlS70RlA lION D. JOHANN FAumN represent tonure in that they appropriate the structure and logic of lOrture as far as the vio\u00ad lent construction of Faust's identity as irredeemable sinner is con\u00ad cerned.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-156", "words": "3627", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "74", "author": "Prickett, David", "title": "The Constancy of Change: The Role of the Paternoster in Grass's Ein weites Feld", "date": "1997", "keywords": "building; change; den; ein; feld; fomy; fontane; fonty; germany; grass; history; hoftaller; new; paternoster; treuhand; und", "summary": "Wunke, called Fonty by all, has a career that spans from the Third Reich and serves above all as a model of Wiederkehr in recent hi story: Fonty, den das Tausendjahrige Reich immer noch krankte, blieb schroff: ' H iell nur zwoif Jahre, wirft abereinen kolossal langen Schauen' (67). .forgive us our trespasses ... Fonty must on some level repent for the war crimes of the Nazis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-157", "words": "3271", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Bartle, Gamin", "title": "Thomas Mann's First Vision of Woman (1893)", "date": "1997", "keywords": "characters; female; image; mann; narrator; power; story; vision; woman", "summary": "Since typical Mann characters are from bourgeois back\u00ad grounds, their power usually includes financial power. Vi. sian is a conspicuous example of female image as impe[Us for male\u00ad dominated literature, or for Theweleit's idea of desire flowing through the image of woman.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-158", "words": "7676", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Such, Barbel", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "1997", "keywords": "aber; als; auf; author; book; bronja; bruckner; christ; dab; das; dem; den; der; des; die; east; ein; eine; erzahlers; falk; fliigge; focus; frau; germans; history; ihre; ist; kind; klaus; leben; leser; mit; nicht; novel; pirckheimers; rainer; reviews; roman; sich; sie; sophie; story; thomas; und; urn; vol; von; wende; wie; wieder; wird", "summary": "Die von Sophie immer wieder verdrangte Gegenwart verschafft sich in dieser Kontr.lstierung Gehor. Die Mutter, aus kleinen Verhahnissen stammend hane als", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-159", "words": "998", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Such, Barbel", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "1997", "keywords": "cincinnati; focus; german; graduate; university", "summary": "Essays addressing topics of concern should be well argued} lhought provoking, and of general interest to fellow students. Aside from selected sessions at the MLA Convention, there are essenually no avenues for intercol legiate discussion amongst students.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-160", "words": "1179", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Such, Barbel", "title": "Front mater", "date": "1998", "keywords": "book; cincinnati; conference; editor; focus; graduate", "summary": "Focus Spring 1998.tif o e ll s on h c u s on LITERATUR Editors Michael Rice Barbel Such Technical Manager Tom Stewart Published by the German Graduate Srudenl Governance Association of [he University of Cincinnati Focuso,lLiJmwI:ar is published semiannually (Spring & Fall) by the Gennan Graduate Srudem Governance Association of the Universiry of Cincinnati Michael Rice BookJlcricwEdJIDr Barbel Such T<dmlcaI Manager Tom Stewart Copy_ CONTACT ADDRESS Send subscription fees and all oilier correspondence to Focu.sonLiteralur, Departmem of GermaniC Languages and literatures, UruversllY of CinCin\u00b7 nati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221...()372.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-161", "words": "4396", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Ferstenberg, Helen", "title": "German-Jewish Creative Identity in the Age of Lessing and Beyond: Berthold Auerbach's Dichter und Kaufmann", "date": "1998", "keywords": "auerbach; career; community; der; dichter; ewish; german; identity; jews; kuh; lessing; novel; success; und; wit; writer", "summary": "As Lothar Kahn and Donald Hook show, Auerbach was one of a group of writers concerned with showing that Jewish writers are indeed de~ng ~f the Gennan label and to dissociate themselves from [Hcine), while looking upon him as a d ire threat to their continued well-being in Germany (53). Lessing's praise of Jewish wit turns out to be a double\u00ad edged sword, since he adds that wit is rather insubstantial: Der \\'(liLZ ist, wic das Salz, oieht sattigc:ode Speise, aber es wurZI die Nahrung und bewahn vor FaulniB (12: 131).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-162", "words": "5521", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Hunnicutt, Susan E.", "title": "The Werther-pistol killed me! Understanding Ulrich Plenzdorf's Novel Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. as a Cult Book", "date": "1998", "keywords": "article; book; criticism; cult; death; der; des; die; east; edgar; goethe; ich; leiden; novel; plenzdorf; society; text; war; way; werther; wibeau; work", "summary": "Ukewise, one could wear blue jeans, grow long hair and listen to jan while leading a Bohemian existence like Edgar Wibeau without understanding the criticism inherent in Edgar's nonconforll11sl behavior III the mid-1970s. (498) Is it possible that the statement, ''Edgar W. war unsachgemaB mit elektrischem Strom wngegangen, wh en understood in conjunc\u00b7 tion with Stroltlsochc, not only means that he handled electric cu rrent (i n) expcrtly, but that Edgar expertly (i f tragically) circum vented the deadly current of societal norms and that Plenzdorf thereby expertJy (if controversially) circwnvemed those voices demanding a clear au\u00b7 thorial position and created a cult book?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-163", "words": "11719", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Nelson, Julian", "title": "Technologies of Death in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain", "date": "1998", "keywords": "benjamin; body; clinic; death; der; die; hans castorp; images; life; machine; mann; moment; novel; past; patients; ray; space; technology; time; und; war", "summary": "He exclaims to his cousin J oachim that despite the fact Ula[ death is all about them, the Berghof manage\u00ad ment has carefully arranged everything in order to spare us and pre- Technologies of Death 29 vent our coming into cOntact with it [death], or seeing anything at all\u00ad -they will rake away Lhe gentleman rider while we are at breakfast or tea--and that I find immoral (Mann 295). Death does not exist from the per\u00ad spective of the commodity--that is until economic systems reinvent death itself as such.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-164", "words": "2507", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Such, Barbel", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "1998", "keywords": "als; book; den; der; des; die; goltz; mit; novel; seine; und; von", "summary": "In Unwegsames Gelande gibt von der Goltz seine Kindheits\u00ad und Jugenderinnerungen wieder. In Unwegsames Gelande gibt von der Goltz seine Kindheits\u00ad und Jugenderinnerungen wieder.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-165", "words": "2791", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "80", "author": "Straubel, Timothy", "title": "Ich schreibe B\u00fccher, die ich auch selber gerne lesen w\u00fcrde: Interview mit dem Autor Thomas Brussig", "date": "1998", "keywords": "auch; buch; dann; das; da\u00df; ddr; den; der; die; eine; focus; habe; hat; ich; ist; mich; mir; mit; nicht; sich; sie; und; von; war; wie", "summary": "gesetzt, und das ~var auch gut so. Wenn das im Dritten Reich passien w\u00e4re, w\u00e4re das nicht", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-166", "words": "2371", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Langeheine, ", "title": "Vielleicht entspricht die kleine Form des Gedichts am ehesten meinem literarischen Temperament: Interview mit dem Autor Hans Georg Bulla", "date": "1998", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; bulla; das; den; der; des; die; eine; f\u00fcr; habe; hat; ich; ist; mich; mir; mit; nach; oder; sie; und; von", "summary": "Es braucht dann, abh\u00e4ngig von der selbstkritischen Distanz, W\u00fcson \u00fcbersetzt, der selbst eine ganze Reihe von Theaterst\u00fccken, Kinderb\u00fcdlem und Romanen geschrieben hat.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-167", "words": "910", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Such, Barbel", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "1998", "keywords": "focus; submissions; university; work", "summary": "In addition to being a forum for graduate srudent research on literary topiCS, Foclls onL 'r \u2022 wUNr also seeks to engage readers in CQnSU\\1C[h'e dialogue on current issues in German studies, \\-vim panicular refer\u00ad ence to the effect recent trends have on the graduate students who represent (he furure of the profession. Essays addressing topiCS of concern should be well argued , thought provoking, and of generdl inlerest to fellow students.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-168", "words": "1213", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Such, Barbel", "title": "Front mater", "date": "1998", "keywords": "book; conference; editor; focus; graduate; university", "summary": "Our sincere thanks go to Oepartment Head P rofessor Sara Friedrichsmeyer, ou r Faculty Advisor Professor Richard Schade, and other faculty members o f the D epartment o f Germanic Languages and Literatures who have been very supportive of this publication. Member S Council of Editors of Learned Journals ISSN 1076-5697 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The second installment of the fifth volume of FoeM on Literalltr was made possible o nly with the continued commitment o f Dr. Judith Trent, Associate V ice President", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-169", "words": "4139", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Creech, Jennifer L.", "title": "Christianopolis: A Woman's Dystopia?", "date": "1998", "keywords": "andreae; christianopolis; die; dystopia; female; husband; marriage; modern; new; role; society; und; woman", "summary": "Women also played an important role as market traders: A glance around the markets of western Europe might reveal some in teresting variations on the range of goods on sale, but the preponderance of women as sellers is everywhe re remarkable (H unan 167). During the earl y-mod\u00ad ern penod, many women began expressing their dissatisfaction with their educational exclusion, social marginalization, and political im\u00ad pot~n~e. M~y critical, .dissident female voices openly repudiated the chLidish things prescnbed for women, including ignorance and the slavery\u00bb of marriage.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-170", "words": "8047", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Preuss, Evelyn", "title": "Christian Weise's Masaniello: Rewriting the Peace of Westphalia", "date": "1998", "keywords": "conring; der; des; die; drama; fragen; gentry; government; kaiser; law; man; masaniello; naples; order; peace; people; play; politische; power; reichelt; scholars; social; state; students; tion; und; viceroy; von; war; weise; westphalia; years", "summary": "For several reasons, the establishment of this intent has proven very difficult: First, scholars do not see Weise's dramas as part of his comprehensive educational concept, which included political philosophy, rhetoric, and practical political prudence and was designed to suit sons of peasantry, bour\u00ad geoisie, and nobilit y alike, or they fa il to prov ide a content-based analysis of Weise's educational design.s With the exception of Marianne Kaiser's and KJaus Reichelt's studies, Weise emerges as an opportunis\u00ad tic ideologist of absolutist government, although Reichelt conceives o f Weise as a schoo lman quite limited in his political and ethical out\u00ad look. For his students, Weise certai nly wanted these performances to be a learning experience.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-171", "words": "2180", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Werner, Ralf Erik", "title": "Zwei unbekannte Gedichtwidmungen von Ricarda Huch. Vorstellung, Untersuchung und Deutung um zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext", "date": "1998", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; das; dem; den; der; des; die; dienstags; gerland; huch; jena; mit; nicht; rad; ricarda; schiller; sich; und; von", "summary": "Glimmt im neuzei tlichen Schm\u00f6ker n och ein lebendiges Fl\u00e4mmchen, Sp richt er vielleicht auch zu dem , der der Mysterien gewohnt. tm weiteren lobt ~ie ;e.ne Treffen, die sie als ..", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-172", "words": "6575", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Straubel, Timothy", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "1998", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; book; charlotte; cler; das; dem; den; der; des; die; dorst; durch; einer; family; focus; germany; geschichte; hat; ist; kalt; leipzig; life; mit; nach; narrator; noll; novel; protagonist; reader; reviews; rosa; salomon; sich; sie; sieh; sind; und; von; vor; war; werden; wie; wird", "summary": "Das Gediichtnis def Medien konterkariert Matthes' Erinnerun gen, wec hse lt sic aus wie St raBenschi lder u nd ge nerie rt e ine neue Topograph ie seiner ldentilal, die der Welt die Lacherlichkei t seines D aseins vor Augen fiih Die Geschichte des Augenblicks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-173", "words": "7384", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Muller, Herbert", "title": "Grunds\u00e4tzlich l\u00e4uft alles, was mit Grass zu tun hat, \u00fcber meinen Schreibtisch: Interview mit Daniela Hermes", "date": "1998", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; dann; das; da\u00df; ddr; dem; den; der; des; deutschen; die; ein; eine; fur; f\u00fcr; grass; haben; hat; hermes; ist; kritik; man; mit; nicht; noch; roman; schon; sehr; sich; sie; steidl; und; verlag; von; werk; wie; wird; wurde", "summary": "Grass ist mit Sicherheit jemand, der der DDR nicht eine Trane nachweint. Grass ist mit Sicherheit jemand, der der DDR nicht eine Tr\u00e4ne nachweint.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-174", "words": "1857", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Such, Barbel", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "1998", "keywords": "focus; german; literatur; university", "summary": "Her research interests include feminist theories and contemporary German literature and film. Moller 's interests lie in postmodernism, especially in film and popular culture, in literary theory, and in contemporary German literature.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-175", "words": "1221", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Such, Barbel", "title": "Front mater", "date": "1999", "keywords": "book; cincinnati; focus; german; graduate; university", "summary": "Working for Focus has given me the opportunity to experience the world of publishlng and international German schol\u00ad arship firsthand. Editor Barbel Such Book Review Editor Timorhy Straub~ l Technical Manag~r Michael Shaughnessy Copy Editors Susanne Lenne David Prickett~Barnes Michael Rice David Stroeh Subscriptions and Mailings Barbel Such SUBMISSIONS Foot, on Literatllr welcomes article submissions from 10-25 pages on topics related to German literary studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-176", "words": "5312", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Frei, Christina", "title": "Minds, Bodies, and Memories: The Mind/Body Split in Christa Wolf's Kassandra", "date": "1999", "keywords": "bodies; body; das; der; die; ego; ein; experiences; freud; grosz; history; ich; kassandra; memories; mind; sich; split; subject; und; von; wolf; women", "summary": "What, in tum, emerges in these body/ mind spaces is a subjectivity inclusive of mind and body experiences. Focus Spring 1999.tif Minds, Bodies, and Memories: The Mind/Body Split in Christa Wolf's Kassandmi Christina F rei Tbe postmodern movement in literary ana lysis re-evaluates the concept of hislory.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-177", "words": "12373", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "H\u00f6ppner-Stone, Stefan", "title": "Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Communist Classic: The Image of Bertold Brecht in the German Media Coverage of his 100th Birthday and its Connections to Recent Shifts in the German Brecht Reception", "date": "1999", "keywords": "als; artist; auf; authors; brecht; classic; communist; das; den; der; die; eine; feb; focus; geburtstag; germany; ich; internet; ist; jan; mit; n. pag; online; poem; rathenow; reception; series; sie; taz; und; von; works; wortmeldung; writers; zeit; zum", "summary": "Mancher Unternchtsgeschadigte mag davan niehtS ruehr horeo (Brecht auf! Alles, was Brecht ist: Eine Wonmeldung zum 100.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-178", "words": "8804", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Kallin, Britta", "title": "Gut sei gewesen, was die Entfaltung alles Lebendigen gef\u00f6rdert habe:\" Feminist Mythmaing and Christa Wolf's Medea. Stimmen", "date": "1999", "keywords": "criticism; der; die; euripides; female; feminist; focus; gender; history; literary; literature; medea; medea myth; myth; new; novel; perspective; stories; story; tradition; und; wolf; women; world", "summary": "Before I examine these points with examples from Wolf's novel, I would like to outline the recent history of feminist myth criti\u00ad cism as part of feminist literary criticism. Before I examine these points with examples from Wolf's novel, I would like to outline the recent history of feminist myth criti\u00ad CISm as part of feminist literary criticism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-179", "words": "9809", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Straubel, Timorhy", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "1999", "keywords": "als; auf; aus; book; brasch; brunke; d.h; das; dem; den; der; des; die; dorothea; einem; feldt; focus; fur; geschichte; house; ihre; ist; liebe; life; man; milad; mit; nephew; nina; novel; philosopher; play; reader; seine; sich; sophie; story; sybille; text; time; tion; und; university; vol; von; werden; wird", "summary": "Bobrowski-z.u einer Zeit, als dies nicht opponun war und von der offiziosen Literaturkritik gemeinhin als Uberwindung spatburgerlieher Positionen auf dem \\'\\leg z.ur entwickehen soz.ialistisehen Ihre Diskretion ist jedoch vergeblich, denn einige Briefe werden entdeckt, und der H of wid der AHare gewahr.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-180", "words": "14645", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Kallin, Britta", "title": "Die Andere Frau: Professorin f\u00fcr Theater-und-Film wissenschaft: Interview mit Renate M\u00f6hrmann", "date": "1999", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; bergman; dann; das; das ist; da\u00df; dem; den; denn; der; des; deutschland; die; eine; es ist; etwas; film; focus; frauen; fur; habe; hat; ich; ich eine; ich habe; ich nicht; immer; ist; kann; literatur; mal; man; mich; mir; mit; mit der; mohrmann; nicht; noch; nur; rossellini; sehr; sich; sie; sind; uber; und; von; war; weil; wenn; wie; wir; wird", "summary": "Das ist eine Geschichte zum Weinen, Die Duse war eine Frau, die in den Fangen des Machos D'Annunzio hing. Das ist eine Geschichte zum Weinen, Die Duse war eine Frau, die in den F\u00e4ngen des Machos D'Annunzio hing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-181", "words": "1677", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Such, Barbel", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "1999", "keywords": "focus; german; literatur", "summary": "In addition to being a forum for graduate student research on literary topics, Focus on Literatur also seeks to engage readers in constructive dialogue on current issues in German studies, with particular refer\u00ad ence to the effect recent trends have on the graduate students who represent the future of the profession. In addition to being a forum for graduate student research on literary topics, Focus on Literatur also seeks to engage readers in constructive dialogue on current issues in German studies, with particular refer\u00ad ence to the effect recent trends have on the graduate students who represent the future of the profession.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-182", "words": "2079", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Redding, Gregory J.", "title": "Front mater", "date": "1995", "keywords": "american; book; editor; focus; german; literature; university; works; writers", "summary": "One may argue, however, that in the 20th century-especially in the postwar period- the United States has supplanted luly as the destination of choice for German writers. Glenn makes a distinction between exiled German writers like Bertolt Brecht-who was never real ly at home in the United States\u00ad and Thomas Mann, who became a US citizen and actively partici\u00ad pated in American cultural and politica1life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-183", "words": "3818", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Hofmann, Heike", "title": "Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand...Wedekinds Lulu: Femme fatale par excellence?", "date": "1995", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; die; durch; eine; fatale; femme; frau; f\u00fcr; ihr; ihre; ist; literatur; lulu; mit; m\u00e4nnlichen; nach; nicht; nur; oder; selbst; sich; sie; sind; sondern; und; von; wedekinds; wie; wird", "summary": "Gerade die \u00dchererf\u00fcllung der auf sie proj izierten Rollenerwartung erweist sich als deren Negation. Und alle hoffen, durch den Vorgang des Benennens Macht \u00fcber Lulu zu erlangen und sie als ihre n Besitz zu etablieren.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-184", "words": "8051", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Thomas, Jung", "title": "Grenzenlos und lustvoll. \u00dcber das Politische und das Private in Gabriele Stoetzer-Kacholds Lyrik in Zeiten der Wende", "date": "1995", "keywords": "als; anderen; auch; auf; aus; autorin; berg; bis; das; da\u00df; ddr; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; durch; eigenen; eine; ersten; frauen; f\u00fcr; gabriele; gegen; grenzen; haben; hatte; hei\u00dft; hier; hineingeboren; ihrer; ist; kachold; kann; k\u00f6nnen; literatur; los; lust; lyrik; mehr; mit; nach; neuen; nicht; noch; nur; oder; prenzlauer; seit; selbst; sich; sie; siehe; sind; sondern; sowie; sprache; st\u00f6tzer; szene; text; texten; und; unter; von; war; werden; wie; wird; wurde; zum", "summary": "Ihr wurde klar, da\u00df der mit der E nt machtung der senilen greise (196; gemeint sind die alten M\u00e4nner des Politb\u00fcros, der F\u00fchrungsspitze der herrschenden SED) Auf die Singu larit\u00e4t in der Darstellung der sexuellen Offenheit und der damit int endierten \u00e4st hetischen Revolte ist bereits Ricarda Schmidt eingegangen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-185", "words": "8930", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Thomas, Mast", "title": "Gender, Class, Jewishness, and the Problem of Self in Fanny Lewald's Jenny: Jenny's \"schielender Blick?\"", "date": "1995", "keywords": "blick; century; class; das; dem; den; der; die; eduard; fanny; father; female; focus; gender; german; ich; ist; jenny; jewishness; lewald; male; marriage; mir; mit; nicht; novel; reinhard; relationship; sich; sie; terms; text; und; von; weigel; wie; women", "summary": "The second pan of the novel is set eight years after the separation between Jenny aJld Reinhard, who, as it turns out, became engaged to Therese, Jenny's conventional and seemingly content yet hypocriti\u00ad cal female companion. Gender, C lass, J ewishness, and the Problem of Self in Fanny Lewald's Jenny: Jenny's schielender Blick?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-186", "words": "19392", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Bonner, Christina L.", "title": "Book Review Focus", "date": "1995", "keywords": "aber; als; anderen; art; auch; aueh; auf; auf der; aus; aus dem; autor; bei; beispiel; bolid; book; buch; clem; cler; dab; das; ddr; def; del; dem; den; denen; der; der sich; des; des t; dessen; deutschen; deutschland; die; diese; doch; durch; eigene; ein; eine; ende; endler; erst; ersten; erzahlung; everyday; focus; frau; fur; gegen; geht; german; geschichte; gibt; haben; hat; heise; hier; ihm; ihn; ihrer; iiber; immer; ing; ins; ist; jeder; jedoch; johnny; jungen; kafka; kann; karl; katzen; kultur; language; lassen; leben; leser; life; lind; literatur; macht; man; mann; mehr; merkel; mit; mit der; nach; neue; neumeister; new; nicht; noch; nun; nur; oach; oder; ohne; page; patrizia; person; pilot; prose; quaerens; reviews; roman; schon; schreiben; section; seiner; shines; sich; sie; sieh; sind; sondern; sprache; stories; text; themes; timm; uber; und; university; urn; ver\u00ad; vol; vom; von; von der; vor; war; welt; wenn; werden; wie; wieder; wird; works; zu den; zum; zur; zwar; zwei", "summary": "Unliebsames wurde n ichl gedruekt (5) begi nnt die 1992 ent\u00ad standene Titelgeschiehte, die von eioem H eizer berich tet, der mit der schlechten Kohle, die man ihm lidert, kaum seine Fabrikhalle warm\u00ad zuhalten ve rmag. Ebenso wie es am Ende aueh seine Lunge ist, die die Schwefeldampfe almer, und seiner Hande Arbeit, die die Verbrennungsriiekstande entfernen muG und der Niedersch lag in seinem Land, der von der Asche cler Akten schwarz gefarbt ist.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-187", "words": "19392", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Coury, David N.", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "1995", "keywords": "aber; als; anderen; art; auch; aueh; auf; auf der; aus; aus dem; autor; bei; beispiel; bolid; book; buch; clem; cler; dab; das; ddr; def; del; dem; den; denen; der; der sich; des; des t; dessen; deutschen; deutschland; die; diese; doch; durch; eigene; ein; eine; ende; endler; erst; ersten; erzahlung; everyday; focus; frau; fur; gegen; geht; german; geschichte; gibt; haben; hat; heise; hier; ihm; ihn; ihrer; iiber; immer; ing; ins; ist; jeder; jedoch; johnny; jungen; kafka; kann; karl; katzen; kultur; language; lassen; leben; leser; life; lind; literatur; macht; man; mann; mehr; merkel; mit; mit der; nach; neue; neumeister; new; nicht; noch; nun; nur; oach; oder; ohne; page; patrizia; person; pilot; prose; quaerens; reviews; roman; schon; schreiben; section; seiner; shines; sich; sie; sieh; sind; sondern; sprache; stories; text; themes; timm; uber; und; university; urn; ver\u00ad; vol; vom; von; von der; vor; war; welt; wenn; werden; wie; wieder; wird; works; zu den; zum; zur; zwar; zwei", "summary": "Unliebsames wurde n ichl gedruekt (5) begi nnt die 1992 ent\u00ad standene Titelgeschiehte, die von eioem H eizer berich tet, der mit der schlechten Kohle, die man ihm lidert, kaum seine Fabrikhalle warm\u00ad zuhalten ve rmag. Ebenso wie es am Ende aueh seine Lunge ist, die die Schwefeldampfe almer, und seiner Hande Arbeit, die die Verbrennungsriiekstande entfernen muG und der Niedersch lag in seinem Land, der von der Asche cler Akten schwarz gefarbt ist.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-188", "words": "4887", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "74", "author": "Coury, David N.", "title": "\u201cDas Erz\u00e4hlen muss wie Sand im Getriebe sein\u201d: Gespr\u00e4ch mit Uwe Timm", "date": "1995", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; dann; das; das ist; da\u00df; den; der; des; die; diese; ein; eine; erz\u00e4hlen; ganz; gibt; haben; hat; ich; ist; kann; leute; man; mehr; mich; mit; mu\u00df; nicht; oder; sehr; sich; sie; sind; timm; und; von; war; wie; wird", "summary": "Und es gibt eben sensible Menschen, die das einfach nicht schaffen, und die interessieren mich eben. Die Sprache und die Gesch ichte hatten nat\u00fcrl ich einen Defekt , und zwar einen ganz entscheidenden Defekt, mit dem man sich als Deutscher auseinanderzusetzten haue , was man auch nicht einfach wegschieben konnte, und das war die Nazizeit.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-189", "words": "3006", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "86", "author": "Kluempers, John", "title": "Gather at the River: Interview with Patrick Roth", "date": "1995", "keywords": "die; german; johnny; language; man; moment; roth; shines; world", "summary": "Ausgerechnet eine Frau, diese GroBmutter, eine sehr resolu te F rau, hau e in H amburg 1943 eioem SS\u00b7Mano den Knuppel weggenommen, :lIs der einen KZ\u00b7ler sehlug, der die T riimmer aufraumen mu(he. r like for the reader to become aware o f other meanings, forgotten ones, a meaning level that was dormant and comes alive with the last page.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-190", "words": "1306", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Redding, Gregory J.", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "1995", "keywords": "focus; german; literature; university; work", "summary": "He earned a BA in German history from Indiana University in 1988 and an MA in German literature from the University of Cincinnati in 1990. She earned her MA in German literature at the University of Cinc innati with a thesis on Helga Konigsdorf.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-191", "words": "2086", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Prickett, David", "title": "Front mater", "date": "2000", "keywords": "book; focus; german; graduate; studies", "summary": "Sara f-ricdrichsmeycr (U of Cillcil lllati), Katimrina Gerstcnbcrger (U of Cincinnati) , Jerry G len n (U of C incin nati) , and Richard Schade (U o f Cincinnati). htm COVER: T he Book Fool from Sebastian Brant's Ship of /voles, Lon clort, 1570, Cou rtesy of thc Archives and Rare Books Departmem, University of C incinnati Libmries.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-192", "words": "6915", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "81", "author": "Axelsson, Anna-Karin", "title": "Kafkaeske Elemente in Jakov Linds Erz\u00e4hlung Eine Seele aus Holz: Ein Vergleich in Bezug auf Darstellungen des Grotesken und der Sexualit\u00e4t", "date": "2000", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; das; dasein; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; durch; eine; elemente; fischer; frau; frieda; f\u00fcr; grotesken; hat; holz; ihn; ist; kafka; kafkaeske; leser; lind; menschen; mit; nach; nicht; noch; nur; oder; ohne; seele; sein; seiner; sexualit\u00e4t; sich; sie; sind; und; voll; von; vor; war; welt; werden; wie; wird; zum", "summary": "D iese Kriti ker-Stimmen geh\u00f6ren unter anderem G \u00fcnter Anders und BeftOlt Brecht, die i..n Kan,as Werk Prophezeiungen d er KOrl7..ent rationslager, des hierarchischen Staatsappa rats des Nazi-Regimcs lind der G leichg\u00fcltigkeit der SS\u00ad Ei n gutes Beispiel im Werk Kafkas ist die Sexualit;it der dicken S:-ingcri n", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-193", "words": "18789", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "Pfitzner, Ina", "title": "Socialism and Adventure, Politics and Entertainment: Martine Monod's Novels in the GDR", "date": "2000", "keywords": "alld; background; berlin; book; cdr; das; der; die; east; french; gdr; german; iii; ill; ing; l l; les; love; martine; monod; novels; o f; o r; people; readers; reed; socialist; und; war; works; writers", "summary": "Monod makes this news item a human sto ry by turnin g it imo all indi vidll:l l t ragedy. Monod makes this news item a human sto ry by turnin g it imo all indi vidll:l l t ragedy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-194", "words": "4697", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "77", "author": "Prickett, David", "title": "Like a Stone Thrown into Water: The Testimony of Magnus Hirschfeld", "date": "2000", "keywords": "berlin; die; german; homosexual; homosexuality; ill; ing; magnus; rschfeld; sex; society", "summary": "The T h ird Sex and the Law In 1910 I lirschfeld publ ished Die 1ralJs'UCslilen (7ransveslites), a work based o n scientific meth od which featured case studies, analyses of these studi es, and a discuss ion of the phenomenon of the WlIlsvcstilC. Hirschfeld coined the te rm tr:msvestilC: For th e sake of brevity we will label this drive as trallsvestism (from t la IlS - over or Opposile, and vestis _ dothing) ('/Tansvcslllcs 124). T h c Respcctabi lily of Hcd in's 'O.-illes Gesch lcch t", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-195", "words": "7684", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Stimmel, Joanna Kedzierska", "title": "Codes of Die Marquis von O...: Modes of Signification in Kleist's Novella and Rohmer's Film", "date": "2000", "keywords": "barthes; codes; count; die; film; kleist; marquise; marquise von; narrative; narrator; novella; reader; rohmer; shot; story; text; und; von 0", "summary": "IOAnthony Stephens, Heinrich von Kleist: The Dramas and Stories. 65 15 Timothy J. Mehigan, 'lext as Contract: the Nature and Function 0/ Narrative Discourse in the Erzahlungen 0/ Heinrich von Kleist.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-196", "words": "5980", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Prickett, David", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2000", "keywords": "bichsel; book; braun; cherubin; das; den; der; die; doppelganger; ein; focus; hammer; handke; ist; life; literatur; man; mit; nach; new; nicht; past; reviews; schami; sich; stories; story; und; von; war; york", "summary": "In dem Sinne ist dieses Bueh nicht das typische Reisebuch des New York louristen, vielmehr kann man es ais literarisehen Querschnitt zum Thema New York bezeichnen, ohne sich dabei auf die Stadt alIein zu beschranken. Die Schweiz erzahlt.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-197", "words": "3355", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Packer, Jeff", "title": "Um alles, was in der Zeit ist, an Sprachersheinungen wahrzunehmen, aufzunehmen, zu verarbeiten... : Interview mit Michael Speier", "date": "2000", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; aus; autoren; dann; das; da\u00df; den; der; die; eine; focus; hat; ich; ist; man; mit; nat\u00fcrlich; nicht; sehr; sich; sie; sind; speier; und; von", "summary": "Das eine ist, um das mal etwas holzschnittartig zu formulieren, eine analytische, das andere eine synthetische, das eine mehr eine einordnende, r\u00fcckblickende, und das andere eben mehr eine kreative, hervorbringenwollende. Und das endet dann nat\u00fcrlich bei Entscheidungen, die man treffen mu\u00df, wenn ein Wort in einer Sprache, in der anderen aber nicht, oder umgekehrt, existiert, wobei das noch die einfachsten F\u00e4lle sind, von der Musikalit\u00e4t her nicht zu reden, vom Rhythmus, von den Feinheiten, die nur der native speaker h\u00f6rt.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-198", "words": "1108", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Prickett, David", "title": "Am Anfang eines Neubeginns: Interview mit Guy Stern", "date": "2000", "keywords": "das; da\u00df; der; die; focus; habe; ich; mit; sie; stern; und", "summary": "Ich bin mit den deutschen Interview mit Guy Stern 103 Studenten immer gut ausgekommen, zum Beispiel in M\u00fcnchen als Gastprofessor, und sie arbeiten mit mir mit Feuer und Flamme. Es wurd~ mir klar, da\u00df dadurch eine Ber\u00fchrung mit deutschen Kol1~gen, mit der deutschen Bev\u00f6lkerung, nicht zu vermeiden sei.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-199", "words": "247", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Prickett, David", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "2000", "keywords": "university", "summary": "Originally from Sweden, Anna\u00ad Karin attended the University of Cincinnati in conjunction with an exchange with Lund University, Sweden. buesch-2000FocusSample-001.tif 106 Focus on Literatur 107 Contributors -------------------------- ----------- ANNA-KARIN AXELSSON received her M.A. in German Literature from the University of Cincinnati in 1999.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-2", "words": "5898", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Van Hertbruggen, Anneleen", "title": "Methodische Anna?herungen an die politische Theologie als Interpretationsansatz fu?r nationalsozialistische Propagandadichtung", "date": "2014", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; eine; focus; f\u00fcr; hertbruggen; ist; kann; literaturwissenschaft; man; mit; nationalsozialismus; nicht; nur; oder; politik; politische; religion; religi\u00f6sen; sei; sich; sie; sondern; studies; theologie; und; van; von; vondung; werden; wie; wird", "summary": "Die Theologie war nicht mehr nur eine \u201aGotteslehre\u2018, sondern eine \u201areligi\u00f6se Wissen- schaft\u2018, die nicht nur eine Lehre \u00fcber Gott, sondern die Studie \u00fcber alle christlichen Dogmen umfasste. W\u00e4hrend die Theologie der ersten Christen eher eine \u201aGotteslehre\u2018 war, die versuchte, eine Antwort auf die Frage nach der Identit\u00e4t Gottes zu formulieren, entwickelte sich die", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-23", "words": "26", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Plumly, Vanessa", "title": "Title Page", "date": "2015", "keywords": "anniversary", "summary": "Anniversary Volume Vol. 20 2013 Edited by Vanessa D. Plumly Alexandra Parks Published by the German Graduate Student Association of the University of Cincinnati Interdisciplinary Foci", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-24", "words": "306", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "26", "author": "Plumly, Vanessa", "title": "Board of Editors", "date": "2015", "keywords": "cincinnati; university", "summary": "Annika Sterzenbach \u2022 Katrin Bahr Focus on German Studies is published annually by the German Graduate Student Association of the University of Cincinnati BOARD OF FORMER EDITORS Dr. David N. Coury, University of Wisconsin\u2013Green Bay Dr. Herman J. DeVries, Jr. Calvin College Dr. Britta Kallin, Georgia Tech Dr. J. Gregory Redding, Wabash College Dr. Jeffrey D. Todd, Texas Christian University Dr. Michael Rice, Middle Tennessee State University Dr. B\u00e4rbel Such, Ohio University Tonya Hampton, ABD, University of Cincinnati Dr. David Prickett, Universit\u00e4t Potsdam Dr. Susanne Lenn\u00e9 Jones, East Carolina Universit Dr. Silke Schade, University of British Columbia\u2013Vancouver Dr. Aine Zimmerman, Hunter College, New York Dr. Julia K. Baker, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville Dr. Laura Traser-Vas, American International School of Budapest Dr. Wolfgang L\u00fcckel, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana Dr. Todd Heidt, Knox College, Illinois Dr. Alexandra Hagen, Bradley University, Illinois Marie Buesch, ABD, University of Cincinnati Joshua Arnold, ABD, University of Cincinnati Wes Jackson, ABD, University of Cincinnati CONTACT ADDRESS Send correspondence and subscription fees to: Focus on German Studies, PO Box 210372 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0372, USA Email: fogs.editor@gmail.com Fax: (513) 556-1991 Council of Editors of Learned Journals ISSN 1076-5697 COVER The photo image is courtesy of Dr. Tanja Nusser and was taken in Essen, Germany at the UNESCO", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-25", "words": "395", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "9", "author": "Plumly, Vanessa", "title": "Acknowledgements", "date": "2015", "keywords": "cincinnati; university", "summary": "Each article considered for this volume was refereed by two or more of the following professors: Acknowledgements Dr. Monika Albrecht, University of Limerick Dr. Matthias Bauer, Universit\u00e4t Flensburg Dr. Thomas Beebee, Penn State University Dr. Jeff Bowersox, Southern Mississippi University Dr. Rebecca Braun, Lancaster University Dr. Medardus Brehl, Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum Dr. Stefan Davies, University of Bristol Dr. Yasemin Dayioglu-Y\u00fccel, University of Pennsylvania Dr. Hannah Eldrige, University of Wisconsin- Madison Dr. Edwin Gentzler, University of Massachu- setts, Amherst Dr. Rolf Goebel, University of Alabama, Huntsville Dr. David Gramling, University of Arizona Dr. Serge Glitho, University de Lome, Togo Dr. Dirk G\u00f6ttsche, University of Nottingham Dr. Stefanie Harris, Texas A & M Dr. Todd Heidt, Knox College Dr. Calvin Jones, University of Southern Alabama Dr. James W. Jones, University of Wisconsin- Madison Dr. Michael Jones, University of Kentucky Dr. Joshua Kavaloski, Drew University Dr. Florian Krobb, National University of Ireland, Maznooth Dr. Volker Langbehn, San Francisco State University Dr. Mark McCulloh, Davidson College Dr. Tanja Nusser, University of Cincinnati Dr. Claudia \u00d6hlschl\u00e4ger, Universit\u00e4t Paderborn Dr. Rolf Parr, Universit\u00e4t Duisburg-Essen Dr. Martin Rector Dr. Christine Rinne, University of Southern Alabama Dr. Michael Rothberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Richard Schade, University of Cincinnati Dr. Caroline Schaumann, Emory University Dr. Martin Schierbaum, Universit\u00e4t Hamburg Dr. Walter Sch\u00f6nau, Rijks University Groningen Dr. Rainer Schulte, University of Texas at Dallas Dr. Elke Segelcke, Illinois State University Dr. Kate Sturge, Aston University Dr. Albert Pascal Temgoua, University de Yaounde Dr. Jason Verber, Austin Peay State University Dr. Valerie Weinstein, University of Cincinnati Dr. Mark Zisselsberger, University of Miami We reserve the right to make any necessary editing changes without the express written permission of the authors. Focus on German Studies 20 iii The twentieth volume of Focus on German Studies was made possible by the continued financial, academic, and institutional support of the University of Cincinnati Graduate Student Governance Association.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-26", "words": "436", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Plumly, Vanessa", "title": "Table of Contents", "date": "2015", "keywords": "der; focus; mit; studies; und", "summary": "With Dr. Tina M. Campt 185 Contributors 196 Announcements Focus On German Studies Conference 2012 Call For Papers 200 Call For Book Reviewers 202 Submissions Requested 202 Subscriptions 203 Focus on German Studies 20 xi xii In Der Hermeneutischen Und Technozentrischen Schriftauffassungen Alexander Scholz 115 Focus on German Studies 20 vii Book Reviews HEINZ LUDWIG ARNOLD.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-27", "words": "2333", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Plumly, Vanessa", "title": "From the Editor", "date": "2015", "keywords": "focus; graduate; journal; studies; work; year", "summary": "Focus on German Studies 20 xiii From The Editor For a landmark two decades and counting, the German Studies Department at the University of Cincinnati has been focusing its attention on the publication of graduate student scholarship within the broadly defined field of German Stud- ies. What once began as a biannual edition of Focus on Literatur later transitioned into the annual publication entitled Focus on German Studies and became coupled with an annual fall conference\u2014now going on its eighteenth consecutive year\u2014designed to incite presenters to publish their revised work in our edited volumes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-28", "words": "3149", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Plumly, Vanessa", "title": "You're Capturing... Who You Want to Be. A Multidimensional Discussion on Perception(s) with Dr. Tina M. Campt", "date": "2015", "keywords": "diaspora; focus; german; tmc", "summary": "I had been training as a European historian and had never thought about Blackness in Germany; I just thought about German intellectual history and German social history and this put a whole different spin on it. It was really about the way in which Blackness is lived in different ways, despite the fact that racism is present in most contexts, and trying to understand what the specificities of racial formation looks like in different places.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-29", "words": "571", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Plumly, Vanessa", "title": "Contributors", "date": "2015", "keywords": "german; literature; studies", "summary": "Focus on German Studies 20 197 Benjamin Schaper studied Lehramt an Gymnasien (German, English, and Philosophy) at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universit\u00e4t in Munich in 2009. She is a permanent teacher of German language and culture at Italian high schools.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-3", "words": "12151", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Rupka, Sean", "title": "Progress and Actuality: Koselleck\u2019s Begriffsgeschichte and Benjamin\u2019s Historical Materialism", "date": "2014", "keywords": "benjamin; change; experience; focus; future; history; koselleck; moment; past; present; rupka; structure; time", "summary": "This conceptual co-constitution makes a certain form of historical time (in Koselleck\u2019s estimation, modern historical time) possible, but this historical experience is not simply divided from political possibility. This apparatus maps over past and future and as such \u201care also suitable for detecting historical time in the domain of empirical research since, when substantially augmented, they provide guidance to concrete agencies in the course of social or political movement\u201d (Koselleck 258).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-30", "words": "888", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Plumly, Vanessa", "title": "Announcements", "date": "2015", "keywords": "focus; german; studies", "summary": "Announcements Focus On German Studies Conference 2012 Call For Papers200 The German Graduate Student Association of the University of Cincinnati and the editors of the graduate student journal Focus on German Studies present the Eighteenth Annual Focus Graduate Student Conference to be held November 8\u20139, 2013 at the University of Cincinnati. New ways of telling a story, evoking emotion, protesting, advocating, and expressing oneself are Call For Papers Conference 2012 Focus on German Studies 20 201 being developed every day.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-31", "words": "25818", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Parks, Editor, Alexandra", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2015", "keywords": "aber; adorno; als; analysis; anderen; anna; arendt; arnold; atlas; auch; auf; auf der; aus; berlin; book; century; chamisso; chapter; characters; collection; das; dass; dem; den; der; der sich; des; die; diese; durch; eine; ende; example; fall; films; focus; future; f\u00fcr; gender; german; geschichten; gr\u00fcnbein; hat; history; identity; ihr; ihre; immer; intellectuals; ist; jedoch; leben; life; literature; marleen; marriage; mehr; mit; mit der; m\u00fcller; nach; narrative; natur; new; nicht; novel; nur; oder; ohne; o\u2019brien; past; people; photograph; poems; protagonisten; ransmayr; reader; ridley; role; scholars; sein; seiner; sich; sie; sind; sondern; studies; study; sven; text; time; und; university; vanderbeke; verlag; viewer; volume; von; von der; vor; wagner; wall; war; way; welt; wenn; werden; wie; wird; women; words; work; world; writers; writing; zum; zur; zur\u00fcck; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Stattdessen sieht man sich einem Mafiaboss ge- gen\u00fcber, der von seiner Tochter redundant als \u201emein Vater, der Verbrecher\u201c betitelt wird (33) und dieser Bezeichnung auch alle Ehre macht, da er seiner Tochter befiehlt, ihr Bett mit dem Froschk\u00f6nig zu teilen, der ihr die goldene Kugel aus dem Sumpf geholt hatte. Danach geht es weiter auf die HMS Beagle mit ihrem Kapit\u00e4n Fitz-Roy, der sich eine Kabine mit Charles Darwin teilt und Focus on German Studies 20 149 M\u00e4ngel in der Evolutionstheorie aufzeigt, bevor die erste Folge an Geschichten 1929 auf Gr\u00f6nland in vier verschiedenen Versionen der Sch\u00f6pfungsgeschichte vom Gro\u00dfen Raben endet.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-35", "words": "6904", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "B\u00fcrger, Christiane", "title": "Ein \"Richtiges Afrikabild.\" Das koloniale Namibia und die fr\u00fche Historiographie der DDR", "date": "2015", "keywords": "afrikabild; als; auch; auf; aus; bereits; dabei; damit; das; dass; ddr; dem; den; denn; der; der ddr; des; deutschen; die; druck; durch; eine; etwa; f\u00fcr; german; geschichte; geschichtsschreibung; herero; innerhalb; ist; kolonialen; kolonialismus; mit; nach; nama; namibia; nicht; nur; rassismus; sich; sie; studies; s\u00fcdwestafrika; und; universit\u00e4t; von; vor; war; werden; westermann; wird; wurde; zum; zur; \u00fcber", "summary": "Um das Changieren zwischen Br\u00fcchen und Kontinuit\u00e4ten zu analysieren, werden sowohl konkrete Ereignisse auf der Ebene der histoire, aber vor allem Erz\u00e4hl- S\u00fcdwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft: Der Kampf der Herero und Nama gegen den deutschen Imperialismus (1884-1915).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-38", "words": "9045", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Buglioni, Chiara Maria", "title": "Die N\u00fctzlichkeit der philologischen Untersuchung. Zum U?berarbeitungsprozess von Marieluise Flei\u00dfers Fegefeuer in Ingolstadt", "date": "2015", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; autorin; bin; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; dich; die; dramen; druck; durch; eine; fassung; fassungen; fegefeuer; figuren; flei\u00dfer; f\u00fcr; gesellschaft; hat; ihrer; immer; ingolstadt; ist; kann; man; marieluise; mehr; menschen; mfa; mfa vi; mich; mit; nach; nicht; nur; oder; olga; roelle; schreiben; sich; sie; sind; sondern; sprache; struktur; und; von; weil; wenn; werden; wie; wird; zum; zur; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Die kommunikative Absicht prallt mit der tats\u00e4chlichen Beschaffen- heit der Sprache aufeinander, die das armselige Subjekt zur Verf\u00fcgung hat.12 Die in den St\u00fccken vorgestellte kleine Gesellschaft macht den Figuren den freien Ausdruck ihrer Triebe unm\u00f6glich, weil diese, sofern sie nicht sozialisiert werden, die Gesellschaft aus ihrem Gleichgewicht bringen k\u00f6nnten. Roelle beschuldigt Olga, ihm kein Zeichen von Dankbarkeit oder zumind- est Verst\u00e4ndnis zu zeigen, sondern nur die gew\u00f6hnliche Gleichg\u00fcltigkeit, die sie mit unpers\u00f6nlichen Floskeln ausdr\u00fcckt.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-39", "words": "10374", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Engler, Jenny", "title": "Renaming Streets, Inverting Perspectives: Acts of Postcolonial Memory Citizenship In Berlin", "date": "2015", "keywords": "activists; african; berlin; citizenship; city; colonial; colonialism; der; die; europe; german; history; local; memory; mohrenstra\u00dfe; names; past; postcolonial; print; public; quarter; racist; remembrance; renaming; street; white", "summary": "The case of colonial street names in Berlin and the claims to rename those streets underline geographer Doreen Massey\u2019s claim that the global and the local scale are not separable from each other. As the short summary of the course of the debate about colonial street names in Ber- lin-Mitte shows, the BVV might be the official place of discussion and the political institution that finally resolves the case.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4", "words": "6588", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Baumann, Karoline", "title": "\u201echill mingo night barbarella space cake mad cow disco party oder wie oder was?\u201c Zum Verha?ltnis von Musik und Sprache in den Texten von Max Goldt und Andreas Neumeister", "date": "2014", "keywords": "als; angela; auch; auf; aus; baumann; bei; das; dass; davis; dem; den; der; des; die; durch; eine; ernst; focus; f\u00fcr; goldt; gut; gut laut; ihre; ist; laut; literatur; max; mit; musik; nach; neumeister; nicht; nur; oder; pop; popliteratur; selbst; sich; sie; sind; sprache; studies; text; und; von; vor; website; werden; wie; wird; zum", "summary": "Werner Wolf hatte noch \u201ethe inevitable linearity of the reading process\u201c (Wolf 21) als einen der Hauptunterschiede zwischen der Rezeption von literarischen und der von musikalischen Werken bezeichnet. von der Dichtung und den Collagen Rolf Dieter Brinkmanns und anderer, als kulturelle", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-40", "words": "6483", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Milone, Giulia Ferro", "title": "Mesmerismus und Wahnsinn in E. T. A. Hoffmanns Erz\u00e4hlung \u201eDas Gel\u00fcbde\u201c", "date": "2015", "keywords": "aber; als; animalischen; auch; auf; bei; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; druck; durch; eine; erz\u00e4hlung; f\u00fcr; gel\u00fcbde; hat; hermenegilda; hier; hoffmann; ihre; ist; kluge; k\u00f6rper; magnetischen; magnetismus; mesmerismus; mit; nach; neumann; nicht; nur; oder; protagonistin; reils; sich; sie; stanislaus; und; von; wahnsinn; werden; wie; wird; xaver; zum; zur; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Ego verfolgt dessen Popularisierung um 1800 in Deutschland durch die Debatten in der Presse und in den Fachzeitschriften; sie erw\u00e4hnt detaillierte Daten \u00fcber die Anzahl der magnetisch behan- delten Patienten nach Geschlecht verteilt. 15. Diesmal kommt der \u201edumpfe Wahnsinn\u201c in Frage, der f\u00fcr Reil eine der m\u00f6glichen Konsequen- zen der fixen Ideen ist: \u201eIn dem dumpfen Wahnsinn\u201c\u2014schreibt er\u2014\u201eist der Kranke unbeweglich wie eine Bilds\u00e4ule.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-41", "words": "9269", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Peter, Nina", "title": "Worte f\u00fcr bare M\u00fcnze nehmen? Macht und M\u00fcnze in Schillers Wallenstein-Trilogie", "date": "2015", "keywords": "abb; aber; als; armee; auch; auf; aufstieg; aus; bare; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; druck; durch; eine; focus; friedland; f\u00fcr; geld; geschichte; hat; herzog; ist; kaiser; kaiserlichen; kann; lager; l\u00e4sst; macht; mit; m\u00fcnze; nach; nicht; nur; oder; ordnung; piccolomini; rebitsch; schillers; seiner; selbst; sich; sie; sind; situation; soldaten; sondern; studies; trilogie; und; unter; vom; von; vor; wachtmeister; wallenstein; wallensteins lager; wappen; war; werden; wie; wird; worte; zum; zur; \u00fcber", "summary": "Abb. 2: Die R\u00fcckseite des Groschens zeigt den friedl\u00e4ndischen Adler, der die vier L\u00f6wen der Herren von Waldstein auf der so evoziert sie zugleich eine dem M\u00fcnz-Geld inh\u00e4rente Unsicherheit und Instabil- it\u00e4t, die die historische Situation wiederspiegelt: Weder die \u201aalte\u2018, st\u00e4ndische Ordnung, noch die \u201aneue\u2018 Ordnung, die Verdienst mit aufstieg honoriert, scheinen verl\u00e4sslich G\u00fcltigkeit beanspruchen zu k\u00f6nnen; welches der beiden Herrschaftszeichen gilt, bleibt umstritten.19 Schillers Wallenstein scheint der Grundlage seiner Macht\u2014und der M\u00fcnze als ihrer Basis und ihrem Symbol\u2014weit weniger zu vertrauen als der Wachtmeister, w\u00fcrde er doch am liebsten sofort M\u00fcnze gegen Zepter tauschen: Wallenstein beschreibt im letzten St\u00fcck der Trilogie nicht nur seinen Aufstieg in wirtschaftlichen", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-42", "words": "6954", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Schaper, Benjamin", "title": "The Importance of the Literary Title and its Implications for Translation Theory", "date": "2015", "keywords": "book; eco; english; essay; genette; german; novel; original; text; title; translation", "summary": "Not only can transmutations into film lead to a definitive change of title or do the translations of film titles signify the same functions and deviations as literary ones, but films also open up another level for analysis. Then again, it appears that after the success of the Millennium Trilogy another phe- nomenon has arisen: namely, that titles of crime fiction refer back to Larsson\u2019s novels.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-424", "words": "2555", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Prickett, David", "title": "Front mater", "date": "2001", "keywords": "der; gncinnati; monika; studies; university; volume", "summary": "Michael Rice Barbel Such WE BMASTER Dorolhy Young ED ITO RI AL BOARD BOOK R\u00a3 VI E \\V EDITOR Monika Hohbe:in-Deegen SUBSCRI PTIONS & M AILI NGS David Prickett \u00b7 6 2rbel Such LaUr.l Vas T ECH NICAL EDIT OR Brian J. Powell Dr. David N Cou.-v ,., ncmnatl r. Bnna Kallin, Georgia Tech Mr. David Prickeu M A. U of G\u00b7 .", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-425", "words": "7816", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Alberghini, Diana", "title": "Helga K\u00f6ngisdorf's Identity as a Citizen: Redefining the Meaning of Heimat in the Post-Unification Years", "date": "2001", "keywords": "belonging; cdr; der; die; experience; fact; family; gdr; helga; identity; iii; konigsdorf; new; novel; o f; past; rev; sense; sich; society; time; umgang; und; war; wir", "summary": "(DzlemIl'l 83) 11lls politically and culLur.l.lly independent concept of ident1tycan be vie'wed as Ko nigsdorf 's reactio n to the cris is she h.ld suffered because o f her fo rmer equatio n o f a utOpian, socialist G ermanyv.ith the embodiment of her political values. o f creating a bener society and the belief in the possibility to comribUle per\u00b7 sonallytowards it, which marked Konigsdorf 's sense of belonging during the GDR era, seem to be the elements she misses the most within the heterogeneous character of comemporaryGerman society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4258", "words": "6716", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Liese, Lea", "title": "Die unverf\u00e4lschte Gemeinschaft. Authentifikationsstrategien einer exklusiven Geselligkeit bei Achim von Arnim und Clemens Brentano", "date": "2021", "keywords": "aber; als; anekdote; arnim; auch; auf; aus; brentano; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; deutschen; die; diese; durch; eine; erz\u00e4hlen; erz\u00e4hlung; focus; friedenspuppe; f\u00fcr; geselligkeit; hier; hrsg; issn; ist; juden; knigge; mit; nach; nicht; nur; oder; politischen; sich; sie; sind; studies; tischgesellschaft; und; unter; vom; von; vor; weil; wenn; werden; wie; wird; zum; zur; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Die Gattung der Anekdote ist dabei als Medium politischer Narrative besonders wirksam, weil patriotische Schriftsteller der Romantik sie sowohl als Geselligkeit erzeugendes als auch als zensurtaugliches Agitationsmittel erkennen. spontan auf seinem Gut unterbringt, werden mehrere Schicksale aus den Revolutionsjahren zusammengef\u00fchrt, wobei die sich widersprechenden, l\u00fcckenhaften und teilweise erlogenen Schilderungen aus der Vergangenheit auf komplizierte Weise miteinander verstrickte Binnengeschichten bilden, die sich erst nach und nach entwirren (Matala de Mazza und Vogl 238): Der b\u00fcrgerliche Advokat Sanseau und der j\u00fcdische Leichengr\u00e4ber Dumoulin hatten sich der Enteignung von Adelsprivilegien, des Erbbetrugs und der Kindesentf\u00fchrung schuldig gemacht und versuchen jetzt, ungestraft und unter falscher Identit\u00e4t, in der postrevolution\u00e4ren Gesellschaft unterzutauchen, w\u00e4hrend ihre missbrauchten Opfer, der enteignete Adlige Frenel und seine Frau Antoinette, die als Kind von Dumoulin entf\u00fchrt wurde, von den zur\u00fcckliegenden Ereignissen traumatisiert, aber in Unkenntnis zur\u00fcckblieben.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-426", "words": "7692", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Allen, Julia Kalani Smith", "title": "Self-Fashioning and Gender Construction in Franziska zu Reventlow's Amouresken", "date": "2001", "keywords": "auch; construction; das; die; eine; expectations; fashioning; freedom; gender; german; hat; ich; identity; iii; ist; john; life; love; man; narrator; nicht; novel; paul; reader; revemlow; reventlow; self; sich; sie; smith; und; von; wie; women; writing", "summary": "In COntrAst to many mid-nineteenth-century social novels by women authors, such as Louise Aston's A /lj clem Leb.'rl eurr Fr.1II, which sharplycriticiz.e m.1.rodges of convenience and affirm an ideology of true love, A nOnT5kenJ.pparendypraises such marriages. TIle publication of women')", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4262", "words": "1549", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Brown, Bree'ya", "title": "Radio as Art: Concepts, Spaces, Practices: by Anne Thurmann-Jajes et al., VG Bild-Kunst, 2019. 312 pp. $48.99", "date": "2021", "keywords": "art; concepts; media; radio; studies; ways", "summary": "Natalie Singer argues that the discourse on radio art orbits around the realities of the inaccessibility of art and the lack of academic teaching and research on radio art. The central goal of the research was to bring accessibility to radio art and to audiences on a global scale.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4265", "words": "1160", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Journal Editors", "title": "Front Matter", "date": "2021", "keywords": "cincinnati; focus; graduate; ph.d; studies; und; university", "summary": "Staatsexamen, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Joshua Arnold, ABD, Johannesschule Meppen Wesley Jackson, PhD Vanessa Plumly, PhD, SUNY New Paltz Emily Bauman, ABD, University of Cincinnati Alex Hogue, PhD, Coastal Carolina University ii focus on German Studies. focus on German Studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4266", "words": "7230", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Sommer, Oliver", "title": "Labyrinthische Erz\u00e4hlweisen in Friedrich Du\u0308rrenmatts Der Winterkrieg in Tibet", "date": "2021", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; autobiound; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; d\u00fcrrenmatt; ein; einer; erz\u00e4hler; erz\u00e4hlweisen; focus; f\u00fcr; historiographische; issn; ist; labyrinth; minotaurus; mit; nicht; nur; oder; rahmenerz\u00e4hlung; reflektiert; seine; sich; sie; sind; sondern; studies; tibet; und; von; weil; welt; wenn; wie; winterkrieg; zum; zur; zweiten; \u00fcber", "summary": "Er will also eine neue Geschichte schreiben, die zwar nicht auf den Zweiten Weltkrieg referiert: \u201eDie Welt, die ich nicht zu erleben vermochte, wenigstens zu erdenken, der Welt Welten entgegenzusetzen, die Stoffe, die mich nicht fanden, zu erfinden\u201c (68); seine focus on German Studies. Die von ihm als \u201e[l]abyrinthisch\u201c gekennzeichneten \u201eersten Eindr\u00fccke\u201c sind ihrer nachtr\u00e4glichen narrativen Umsetzung, also der von der Forschung bereits herausgearbeiteten labyrinthischen narrativen Struktur, in \u00e4sthetischer Hinsicht unterworfen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4267", "words": "7266", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Forsbach, Felix; Forsbach, Felix", "title": "Irakkrieg 2003, ein Theaterstu\u0308ck. \u00dcber die Fotografien in Elfriede Jelineks Bambiland", "date": "2021", "keywords": "abbildungen; als; auch; auf; aus; bambiland; bei; bereits; bezug; bilder; das; dass; dem; den; denn; der; des; die; dieser; durch; eine; elfriede; focus; fotografien; fotos; immer; irakkrieg; issn; ist; jelinek; kann; l\u00fccke; mit; nicht; oder; realit\u00e4t; repr\u00e4sentation; sein; sich; sie; sind; studies; text; textes; und; von; vor; werden; wie; wird; zum; \u00fcber", "summary": "Die Verbindung der Pr\u00e4senz in der Theaterinszenierung und dem Die Integration der Fotografien ist dabei sowohl als Verhandlung der Poetik Jelineks als auch eine direkte mediale und authentizit\u00e4t-schaffende \u201eSpur\u201c zum tats\u00e4chlichen Krieg zu sehen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4268", "words": "1864", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Saunders, Edward ", "title": "Kaliningrad and Cultural Memory: Cold War and Post-Soviet Representations of a Resettled City : by Edward Saunders, Peter Lang, 2019. 308 pp", "date": "2021", "keywords": "city; german; kaliningrad; k\u00f6nigsberg; saunders", "summary": "In other words, much of the memories Saunders traces are not reflective of how the vast majority of K\u00f6nigsbergers/Kaliningraders feel.1 Germans contemplated the German East a lot, and it was these iterations that left lasting impressions on German memory. To put it succinctly: Saunders undertakes a study of cultural memory, but a particular and elitist vantage point.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4269", "words": "998", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Weiglein, Kayla", "title": "The Virginal Mother in German Culture: From Sophie von La Roche and Goethe to Metropolis: by Lauren Nossett, Northwestern University Press, 2019. 234 pp.", "date": "2021", "keywords": "mother; nossett; virginal", "summary": "Nossett draws on several vital points related to virginal mothers in this chapter that carry on throughout the rest of her analyses throughout the book, one point being that the existence of virginal mothers is due to either the lack of \u201cgood\u201d mothers (24) or the presence of \u201cbad\u201d mothers (24). Nossett\u2019s work demonstrates the relevance of depictions of virginal mothers in German film, literary, cultural, and societal history.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-427", "words": "3878", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "B\u00e4umel, Martin", "title": "Wer ist dieser B\u00fcchner? Aspekte zur Rezeption B\u00fcchners und seins Danton um neunzehnten Jahrhundert", "date": "2001", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; b\u00fcchner; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; eine; f\u00fcr; geschichte; historismus; ist; leben; nicht; nur; sich; sie; somit; und; von; wie; wurde; zeit; zum", "summary": "Jeglichem historistischen Verfahren ist von daher gnmdlegend ein apriori \\elSundenes Primat der Quelle zu eigen, die als autonome lUld zentrale c e c u en m der JUrISprudenz der T l", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4270", "words": "1070", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Ford, Natalie", "title": "Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914 : by Jeffrey T. Zalar, Cambridge University Press, 2019. 386 pp.", "date": "2021", "keywords": "catholics; reading; zalar", "summary": "The publication illuminates the lives of German Catholics of the Rhineland and Westpahlia and features the reading cultures of those in all socio-economic classes, while paying close attention to underprivileged Catholics who might have been wrongfully assumed as illiterate. From the beginning, Zalar fundamentally establishes that German Catholics were not uniformed disciples blindly following their spiritual leaders but rather cerebrally curious intellectuals who partook in reading more than just religious texts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4271", "words": "1387", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Beilinson, Orel", "title": "Love at Last Sight :Dating, Intimacy, and Risk in Turn-of-the-Century Berlin : by Tyler Carrington. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2019.", "date": "2021", "keywords": "berlin; carrington; love; marriage", "summary": "Thus, as Carrington demonstrates, modern love was contested not only in public \u2013 the people of Berlin often had to justify their own decisions to pursue such mediatory means of finding partners. Such fleeting relationships were basically a gay person\u2019s only choice in a country that criminalized homosexual sex \u2013 and for Carrington, the story of Berlin\u2019s non-heterosexuals is interwoven within that of other loves in the metropolis instead of artificially bifurcated.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4272", "words": "1324", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Lanz, Jonathan", "title": "Asperger\u2019s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna : by Edith Sheffer, W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. 317 pp.", "date": "2021", "keywords": "asperger; children; nazi; sheffer", "summary": "Yet the extent to which Asperger actively participated in the process of child murder, such as the killing process at the Spiegelgrund facility itself, remains to be seen. Rather, she examines the life of Hans Asperger from multiple levels: his writing, the racial beliefs shared by his peers, and most poignantly, the stories of his victims.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4274", "words": "998", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Jacobson, Sarah ", "title": "The Conquest of Ruins: The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome: by Julia Hell. The University of Chicago Press, 2019. 618 pp.", "date": "2021", "keywords": "hell; roman; rome", "summary": "Hell\u2019s survey is understandably fragmentary in investigating the longue dur\u00e9e of neo- Roman mimesis in Western Europe, yet her overarching model of neo-Roman mimesis will be of interest to anyone studying empire building. Beginning with how Roman intellectuals themselves envisioned their empire, Hell then traces strands of continuity in neo-Roman mimesis in the context of the Holy Roman Empire\u2019s conquests, British naval expansion, France under Napoleon, and the rise of Germany\u2019s Kaiserreich in the late 19th century, concluding with the Nazi racial empire and its aftermath.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4275", "words": "897", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Schoedel, Marissa ", "title": "Die neue Rechte und ihr Design: Vom \u00e4sthetischen Angriff auf die offene Gesellschaft: by Daniel Hornuff, transcript Verlag, 2019. 142 pp.", "date": "2021", "keywords": "hornuff; right; und", "summary": "Interpreting aesthetic practice allows us, in turn, to interpret the identities created through aesthetic practices. What may surprise readers is the so-called New Right\u2019s coopting of aesthetic practices common to liberal and socialist campaigns.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4276", "words": "1512", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Lehmann, Benet", "title": "Holocaust und Zwangsarbeit. Erinnerungen ju\u0308discher Kinder 1938\u20131945 : by Johannes-Dieter Steinert, Klartext Verlag, 2018. 429 pp.", "date": "2021", "keywords": "book; labour; steinert; und", "summary": "The breakdown of this large-scale project on forced child labour into three major books is not only explained by limitation of space; nor does the different treatment of the victim groups seem to be the decisive criterion. It is the numerous stories from the many and varied contexts that Steinert summarises under the theme of forced child labour which certainly qualify the book as the definitive reading.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4277", "words": "1268", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Jones, N.D. ", "title": "Ornament und Mode bei Kafka, Broch und Musil. Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf das Fin de Si\u00e8cle in Wien : by Miriam Annabelle Wray, transcript Verlag, 2019. 194 pp.", "date": "2021", "keywords": "fashion; ornament; wray", "summary": "74.99\u20ac. N.D. Jones University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University How to Cite: Jones, N.D. \u201cBook Review: Ornament und Mode bei Kafka, Broch und Musil. Perspektiven auf das Fin de Si\u00e8cle in Wien by Miriam Annabelle Wray, transcript Verlag, 2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4278", "words": "1566", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Guboglo, Anna", "title": "Europa und Erinnerung. Erinnerungsorte und Medien im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert : by Alexandra Przyrembel and Claudia Scheel, transcript Verlag, 2019. 260 pp.", "date": "2021", "keywords": "focus; memory; und; war", "summary": "The essays on the visualization of Ottoman anti-Armenian violence by Alexandra Przyrembel and that on the Second World War photograph of a boy from the Warsaw ghetto by Florian Gregor revolve around the reception history of photographs, building on the idea that photographs are the formants of visual memory. https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/fogs (ISSN 1076-5697) 79 parts: pre-War master narratives, representations of violence, and post-War memory culture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4279", "words": "799", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Paul, Katherine H. ", "title": "Pina Bausch und das Tanztheater: Die Kunst des \u00dcbersetzens : by Gabriele Klein, Transcript Verlag, 2019. 449 pp.", "date": "2021", "keywords": "bausch; klein", "summary": "In her final chapter, \u201cTheorie und Methodologie,\u201d Klein investigates the blurred lines between popular dance and artistic dance and aesthetic and social practices that Bausch\u2019s work at the Tanztheater Wuppertal has created. https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/fogs (ISSN 1076-5697) 88 Pina Bausch und das Tanztheater: Die Kunst des \u00dcbersetzens by Gabriele Klein, Transcript Verlag, 2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-428", "words": "4097", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "79", "author": "Jaeger, Dagmar", "title": "Digging Deep: The Past Revisited in Works of Elfriede Jelinek and Heiner M\u00fcller", "date": "2001", "keywords": "auf; boden; der; die; ein; fascist; german; half; history; identity; jelinek; memory; muller; new; past; present; sind; subject; und; uns; von; wir", "summary": "Both te}.1.S reconstruct the past through a collective memory ponra~d in collective subjects. Uns gehoren wU (138\u00bb shows that [he collective subject doubts its existence and insists on the obvious: Es gibt uns.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-429", "words": "5805", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Luca, Anca-Elena", "title": "Colonizing Bodies in Ingeborg Bachmann's \"Ein Schritt nach Gomorrha\"", "date": "2001", "keywords": "achberger; bachmann; bodies; culture; das; dem; den; die; ein; gomorrha; hands; horsley; lhe; life; love; mara; nach; new; order; process; sie; story; und; von; women", "summary": "H lvely assume both the role o f the oppressor a!; wdl.1s liut of the oppressed,ln her ende.1vor to est.lblish cOnt.lCt with Otarlotle, MAl';} tries to communi\u00b7 c.lte by employing physical touch .\\$ Tn her rage, M1 rJ. de\u00ad stroys both the cultu re o f the forme r dominant class, and , implicitly.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-43", "words": "4069", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Scholz, Alexander", "title": "\u201eIch erinnere mich (glaube ich).\u201c Zur Rolle der Zeitlichkeit in der hermeneutischen und technozentrischen Schriftauffassungen", "date": "2015", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; eine; funes; f\u00fcr; ged\u00e4chtnis; hermeneutik; ist; kittler; mich; mit; nicht; ordnung; print; schrift; sich; sie; sprache; time; und; von; werden; wie; wird; zur", "summary": "von der Partikularit\u00e4t und Singularit\u00e4t der Dinge, die sie bezeichnet. Diese Konstellation akzentuiert die Relevanz und die Produktivit\u00e4t des Lesers in der zeitlichen Ordnung der Schrift, die in einer technozentrischen Betrachtung der Schrift notwendig au\u00dfen vor bleiben muss.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-430", "words": "8802", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Mims, Teague", "title": "Revisiting Social and Racist Prejudice in Imperial Germany after the Goldhagen Controversy: Anti-Emancipatory Tendencies in Heinrich Mann's Der Untertan", "date": "2001", "keywords": "alter; ami; anti; antisemitism; character; culture; der; die; diederich; ears; emperor; german; goldhagen; hessling; lhe; mann; model; napoleon; new; novel; order; question; self; semitism; set; sich; society; studies; tendencies; und; volkov; von; world", "summary": "Despite the apparent tenacity of anti-Semitism misl.'(\\ to a clll\u00ad ttlral axiom (4 19), For Goldhagen's ambiguous appraisal of anti-Semitism alter 1945 and in the Federal Republic, see 442, and eSp.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-431", "words": "4730", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Schulz, Birte", "title": "hier kommt sowas nicht vor?: Fremdbilder in Theodor Fontanes Effi Briest", "date": "2001", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; effi; eine; fremdbilder; f\u00fcr; hat; hier; ihre; ist; italien; jahnke; jedoch; leben; man; mit; nach; nicht; noch; nur; preece; preu\u00dfen; sehr; sich; sie; sind; sondern; und; von; vor; wie; wird; zeigt", "summary": "(182).1 tch denke aber, es geht mehr darum, da\u00df die Preu\u00dfen aIOJ Barbaren sind, da\u00df sie nicht anders sind als die, die sie verurteilen, da diese Verurteilung ja nur ihr eigenes negatives Potential wiedenpiegel~. Er will weg und hin unter lauler pechschwarze Kerle, die von Kultur und Ehre nichts wissen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-432", "words": "5073", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Stewart, Tom", "title": "Melancholia, Masturbation, and Lesesucht in Anton Reiser", "date": "2001", "keywords": "als; amon; anton; auf; bei; das; den; der; des; die; eighteenth; ihm; masturbation; melancholia; moritz; new; preece; reading; reiser; school; sich; sie; students; surveillance; und; von; war; wie", "summary": "Readers and critics of the book have 1 ypicallyvicwed it as autobiographical and have identified Anton Reiser as Moritz's aher ego: Reiser ist als Emhlender Patient und Analytiker zugleich, das Buch iSldie Couch, auf die sich Karl Philipp Anton Reiser suffers from melancholia and the symptoms of the sickness Are fOWld throughout the novel.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-433", "words": "6748", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Wust, Markus", "title": "Von Kreisen und Br\u00fccken: Jeannette Landers Ein Sommer in der Woche der Itke K.", "date": "2001", "keywords": "aber; als; anderen; auch; auf; aus; br\u00fccken; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; durch; eigenen; eine; etwa; f\u00fcr; gegen; gruppen; hat; heiden; hier; ihr; ihre; ist; itke; juden; j\u00fcdischen; kreisen; laden; lander; lind; man; mehr; mit; nach; nicht; noch; nun; nur; schon; schwarzen; sich; sie; sind; sprache; taue; und; von; vor; wei\u00dfen; welche; wenn; werden; wie; wird; zeigt; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Weitere Ursachen sind, wie schon erw\u00e4lult, die der ji.idischen Kultur inh\u00e4rente Neigung zur Absonderung, aber auch ein fr~i\u00ad willioer R\u00fcckzug auS Furcht ar dem Fremden. \\'(leIm man den Satz jedoch vor dem Hintergrund der von der wei\u00dfen Mehrheit gesprochenen Sprachvariante aus betrachtet, m\u00fcsste man ihn ebenfalls als falsch bezeiclmen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-434", "words": "26082", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Hobein-Deegen, Monika", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2001", "keywords": "a.m.; aber; act; aile; alfred; alles; als; anna; auch; auf; auf den; aus; aus der; autor; band; bei; benjamin; berlin; bis; bleibt; book; braun; buch; cine; clem; cler; collection; dab; das; dass; ddr; dds; death; def; del; dem; den; denen; der; des; die; die von; diese; doch; durch; east; ebenso; eigenen; ein; eine; ende; ersten; fast; fiir; focus; fools; form; frau; fur; gdr; germall; german; gewesen; gibt; gleber; griinbein; haben; hal; hane; hans; hat; hier; hilbig; identity; ihm; ihn; ihr; ihrer; iiber; ing; isl; ist; ist der; ius; jahren; jedoch; jungen; kann; kohl; land; language; lassen; leben; leser; lhe; liebe; life; like; lind; lore; love; maron; mehr; mil; mit; mit der; nach; narrative; narrator; neue; new; nicht; noch; novel; nun; nur; oder; ohne; past; phil; place; play; poem; poet; points; reader; reviews; roman; ruth; schon; seiner; selbst; sense; sich; sich von; sie; sieh; sind; sondern; sonnet; sprache; studies; tills; time; und; und das; und den; und die; urn; volker; volume; vom; von; von der; vor; war; welt; werden; wid; wie; wieder; wird; wird der; wld; words; world; writer; wurde; york; z.u; zeit; zum; zur; zwischen", "summary": "Die drei Ernhlungen, die der mit dem Georg-Bi.i.:hner. Helene Floss, 1954 in Brixen, Si.idtirol geboren, kenm die Atmosphare, die sie in ihrem Roman besehreibt, hautnah.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-435", "words": "2419", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "81", "author": "Hobein-Deegen, Monika", "title": "Huch--was machste hier eigentlich?: ein Gespr\u00e4ch mit Thomas C. Breuer", "date": "2001", "keywords": "auch; auf; das; da\u00df; der; die; ein; eine; gibt; habe; hat; ich; ist; kann; man; mir; mit; nicht; sich; sie; sind; und; wie", "summary": "Und das hat ktinen \\X'en, und das tue ich mir auch nicht mehr an. Das Geld ist nicht mehr so locker- wenn ich das gewu\u00dft h\u00e4ne ...", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-436", "words": "5755", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Prickett, David", "title": "Locating the German Nation: Interview with Dr. Stephen Brockmann", "date": "2001", "keywords": "book; culture; east; focus; german; kind; literature; nation; path; people; studies; talk; united; war", "summary": "FOCUS: \\'<'hat drew )'ou to the topic of nation in German culture and literJ.ture? People then tended to shy a'9...l.Y from central issues of German culture and to focus on the margins, which were per\u00ad ceived as oppressed, neglected, and less guilty.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-437", "words": "1553", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Prickett, David", "title": "Das \"schwule Moment\" in der deutschen Lyrik: Interview mit Hans Stempel und Martin Ripkens", "date": "2001", "keywords": "auch; das; den; der; die; eine; haben; hat; mit; nicht; sich; sie; und; von; wie; wir", "summary": "Diese Anthologie umfa\u00dft aber homose:\\Ueile Poesie von der Antike bis zur Gegemvan und erlaubt sich zugleid1 einen internationalen \u00dcberblick. \u00b7!vhn darf nicht vergessen, da\u00df der von den Naz.is versch\u00e4rfte \u00a7 175 erst in den 70er", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-438", "words": "1505", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Prickett, David", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "2001", "keywords": "foots; german; languages; literature; ph.d; studies; university; work", "summary": "For funher information, contact the editors of FoolS al German Studies, Department of Germanic languages and literatures, University of Gncinnati, Gncinnari OH 45221\u00b70372 USA Focus on German Studies a jamw GIl mri Ixpri GermmL'lIf! The .luthor of the best anicle will receive .l prize of S 100, and the .uncle: will be published in the corresponding valum: of Foo6 en German Studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-439", "words": "2494", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Lenne, Susanne", "title": "Front mater", "date": "2002", "keywords": "book; college; editor; focus; german; studies; susanne; und; volume", "summary": "the responsibilities o f editor. , U of ClncannIU Dc j erry Glcou, U o f CioC.,,, .. ll D~ 5Moo F Hall.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-440", "words": "5268", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Baronowski, Kay", "title": "Letzte L\u00e4uterung: no loitering Ernst J\u00fcngers Prosasammlung Das abenteuerliche Herz-neu gelesen vor dem Hintergrund des 11. September 2001", "date": "2002", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; das; da\u00df; dem; den; denn; der; des; dessen; die; dieser; doch; durch; eine; f\u00fcr; haben; hat; herz; ist; jahre; j\u00fcnger; kann; leben; letzte; lind; l\u00e4uterung; man; mehr; mit; nach; nicht; noch; nur; oder; sein; sich; sie; sind; sondern; und; uns; von; war; wenn; werden; wie; wir; wird; zeit; zum; zur", "summary": "Vergleich Stefanie Hofer I. ra s oef Erstaunen hervor, da\u00df Europa, Ellropa im Jahre 1992 von der I..!I im Umfeld der Arheit an der Geburt der Trag\u00f6die en tstandenes Expose, wo es u. a. hei\u00dft E ins n\u00e4mlich ist nicht zu vergessen: dieselbe Gcausamkclt, die wir im Wesen jeder Kulrur fanden..", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4405", "words": "5185", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Azou, Jente", "title": "\u201eEine Art Versuchsritual\u201c: Pers\u00f6nliche und kollektive Trauerrituale in Esther Kinskys Roman Hain", "date": "2021", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; eine; erinnerung; erz\u00e4hlerin; focus; friedhof; f\u00fcr; ged\u00e4chtnis; hauptfigur; ihre; issn; ist; memory; mit; nicht; pers\u00f6nlichen; protagonistin; sich; sie; sind; studies; trauerrituale; und; verstorbenen; versuchsritual; von; wie; zwischen", "summary": "Die Trauerrituale f\u00fcr Verstorbene vor Ort, die sie Friedh\u00f6fe und die historischen St\u00e4tten der Etruskernekropolen, die als eine Materialisierung von Erinnerungsritualen gelten, pr\u00e4gen die norditalienische Landschaft, in der die Geschichte spielt.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4406", "words": "6808", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Kersten, Marja", "title": "\u201eAussterben ist vornehm\u201c \u2013 Eduard von Keyserlings degenerierter Adel im Spiegel der Natur", "date": "2021", "keywords": "adelsenklave; adelsgesellschaft; adligen; als; annemarie; auch; auf; bei; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; durch; eduard; eine; erz\u00e4hlung; farben; felix; figuren; focus; f\u00fcr; harmonie; hier; issn; ist; kann; keyserling; leben; man; mit; nach; natur; nicht; scheint; schw\u00fcle; sein; seiner; sich; sie; studies; s\u00fcdhang; tage; und; von; vor; werden; wie; wird; zeigt; zur", "summary": "Damit ist vor allem die Gestaltung der Parkanlagen verbunden: Die K\u00fcnstlichkeit der kultivierten Natur wird betont durch die Gegen\u00fcberstellung der Schlosslandschaft und \u201egro\u00dfen Waldgebieten, die die Schlo\u00dfbezirke umgeben, r\u00e4umlich abgetrennt durch die Parkgitter, die die Grenzlinien zwischen beiden Bereichen bilden\u201c (Buchlaub und Wefel 256). Untersucht wird, wie Keyserling die Adligen auf ihren Landg\u00fctern darstellt, und vor allem, inwiefern Pflanzen-", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4407", "words": "12383", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Lenger, Charlotte", "title": "Annette Kolbs Die Schaukel und das subversive Potenzial von Literatur", "date": "2021", "keywords": "als; annette; auch; auf; aus; bei; beschrieben; besonders; dargestellt; dass; dem; den; der; der erza; der familie; des; die; dieser; durch; ebd; eine; ernst; erza; erza \u0308hlinstanz; familie; figuren; focus; frau; fu\u0308r; gegenu\u0308ber; geschlecht; herr; hespera; hier; hinsichtlich; hrsg; identita; ihre; innerhalb; ironische; issn; ist; kolb; konstruktion; lautenschlag; literatur; mathias; mit; nach; nicht; oder; raum; roman; schaukel; sei; sich; sie; sind; somit; sowie; stelle; studies; subversion; und; unter; u\u0308ber; von; war; weiteren; welt; werden; wie; wird; zeigt; zur; zwinger; zwischen; \u0308hlinstanz; \u0308hlung; \u0308nnen", "summary": "des Anders-Seins zu erkennen, der von der gesellschaftlichen Geschlechter- Des Weiteren unterscheiden sich die beiden Begriffe der Typologie nach Warhol darin, dass eine Erza \u0308hlinstanz, die als engaged narrator bezeichnet werden kann, die Figuren", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4408", "words": "7341", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Sommer, Oliver", "title": "Autopsie einer Schuld. Zu den Erz\u00e4hlweisen der Fallgeschichte in Friedrich Schillers Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre", "date": "2021", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; das; dass; dem; den; der; der erz\u00e4hler; der verbrecher; des; die; diese; durch; ehre; eine; erz\u00e4hler; erz\u00e4hlung; erz\u00e4hlweisen; fall; fallgeschichte; focus; f\u00fcr; geschichte; ihn; issn; ist; menschen; mit; nicht; nur; oder; poetische; rezipient*innen; schiller; seiner; sich; sie; sondern; studies; und; verbrecher; verbrecher aus; verlorener; von; vorrede; weil; wenn; wie; wolf; zum; zur; zwischen", "summary": "und Binnenerz\u00e4hlung[en] behandeln einen Fall, der auf der inhaltlichen Ebene auf zur Entstehungszeit des Textes neue Kenntnisse zur\u00fcckgreift, die sich aus der seinerzeit neuen Forschungsrichtung der \u201aSeelenkunde\u2018 ergeben. Dieser Beitrag arbeitet heraus, wie der Erz\u00e4hler der Vorrede die kulturelle Praxis des Schreibens von historiographischen Texten problematisiert.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4409", "words": "9157", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Springer, Nadeschda", "title": "\u201eErgreifendes Realtheater\u201c Tendenzen von Bertolt Brechts und Peter Weiss\u2019 Theatertheorien in Milo Raus Schauspielstu\u0308cken und Dramenpoetik1", "date": "2021", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; auf der; bei; bossart; brecht; b\u00fchne; dadurch; damit; das; dass; dem; der; des; die; dieser; durch; ebd; eine; erfahrungen; focus; f\u00fcr; hora; ihre; issn; ist; kann; k\u00f6nnen; milo; mit; nicht; nur; oder; orestes; peter; publikum; rau; raus; realismus; schauspieler*innen; selbst; sich; sie; sind; sodom; sondern; studies; st\u00fcck; szenen; tage; theater; und; verlag; von; weiss; wenn; werden; wie; wird; zum; zuschauenden; \u00fcber", "summary": "Theatertheorie fehlen w\u00fcrden: \u201eDie Erkenntnis der historischen Gemachtheit der Situation. In Anlehnung an G\u00e9rard Genettes Intertextualit\u00e4tstheorie besteht hierbei eine Nachahmung, die als Unterkategorie der Hypertextualit\u00e4t4 angeh\u00f6rt, \u201eda die Struktur der Befragung zwar \u00fcbernommen, jedoch mit einem anderen Inhalt gef\u00fcllt wird.\u201c", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-441", "words": "4372", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Hofer, Stefanie", "title": "Wieviel Vergangenheit ist erlaubt? Eine Frage der deutschen Selbstwahrnehmung. Hollands Europa, Europa und F\u00e4rberb\u00f6cks Aimee und Jaguar im Vergleich", "date": "2002", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; deutschen; deutschland; die; eine; europa; film; frage; f\u00fcr; holocaust; identit\u00e4t; ihm; ihrer; ist; jedoch; mit; mu\u00df; nach; nicht; noch; nur; oder; salomon; sein; sich; sie; sondern; und; von; vor; werden; wie; wird; zwar", "summary": "in der der Binzeine, das Individ uum im Vergleich zum staatlichen Willen nichts z\u00e4hlt, werden die melodramatischen Elemente verst\u00e4rkt, die Frage nach pers\u00f6nlicher Ver:uuwoClung jedoch relativiefl. Vergleich Stefanie Hofer I. ra s oef Erstaunen hervor, da\u00df Europa, Ellropa im Jahre 1992 von der I..!I", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4410", "words": "6813", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Zhou, Qingyang", "title": "Der Neo-Orientalismus in der DDR-Reiseliteratur der 1950er-Jahre: Gerhard Kiesling und Bernt von Ku\u0308gelgens China (1957)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; autoren; bild; china; chinesen; chinesischen; das; ddr; dem; den; der; der ddr; des; die; east; eine; focus; f\u00fcr; gerhard; german; herausgegeben; ihre; issn; jahren; kiesling; k\u00fcgelgen; mit; new; nicht; nur; reisebericht; reiseliteratur; sich; sie; studies; und; volksrepublik; von; vor; vrc; war; wie; wird; wurde; york; zum; zur; zwischen", "summary": "Die hasserf\u00fcllte Reaktion gegen die Chinesen kulminierte in der sogenannten \u201eHunnenrede\u201c von Kaiser Wilhelm II., der die Chinesen mit Die Komplexit\u00e4t der Fremderfahrung in Bernd Schirmers Algerien-Reisebildern Die Hand der Fatima auf meiner Schulter.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4411", "words": "1268", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Huang, Yu", "title": "Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953", "date": "2021", "keywords": "book; dispossession; nazi", "summary": "En masse, Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953 is a critical step towards the research on financial history and economic antisemitism. In so doing, the purpose of this edited volume is to investigate the influence of the Nazi policy toward Jewish economic life including Jews\u2019 properties, unemployment, everyday business, and market competition.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4412", "words": "1605", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Quinn, Brian", "title": "Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age", "date": "2021", "keywords": "eicher; german; mennonite; studies", "summary": "German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age by John P. R. Eicher, Cambridge University Press, 2020. https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/fogs (ISSN 1076-5697) 179 Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age by John P. R. Eicher, Cambridge University Press, 2020.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4413", "words": "1360", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Stephan, Sigmund Jakob-Michael", "title": "Menschen im Weltgarten: Die Entdeckung der \u00d6kologie in der Literatur von Haller bis Humboldt: Heinrich Detering (author)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "der; detering; nature; von", "summary": "By doing so, Detering also suggests that \u201cproto-ecology\u201d is deeply intertwined with the poetic question of how to represent nature. Drawing on Haller\u2019s poem, Detering argues that long 18th-century writers were preoccupied with the question of whether and how to take a poetic approach towards nature.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4414", "words": "801", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Harrabin, Molly ", "title": "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape", "date": "2021", "keywords": "ashkenazi; heimat", "summary": "Anti-Heimat Cinema_The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape.docx focus on German Studies. Ashkenazi\u2019s work, therefore, not only generates new conversations about the concept of Heimat cinema and its counter, but also offers an opportunity for German Film Studies to enhance its scope by examining films that are not part of the traditional canon.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4415", "words": "1385", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Anderson, Troels Thorborg", "title": "The Films of Konrad Wolf: Archive of the Revolution", "date": "2021", "keywords": "film; konrad; powell; wolf", "summary": "With his adaption of Christa Wolf\u2019s famous novel Der geteilte Himmel (novel 1963, film 1964), Wolf introduced new wave cinema to the East German audience, and throughout the book, Powell often refers to and indirectly compares Konrad Wolf to the West German film icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In the introduction, Powell situates his book in the field of research on the former German Democratic Republic, film and Konrad Wolf\u2019s legacy, and he presents the theoretical lens of his viewings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4416", "words": "1457", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Berger, Michael", "title": "Zeit und \u203a\u00e2ventiure\u2039 in Wolframs von Eschenbach \u203aParzival\u2039. Zur narrativen Identit\u00e4tskonstruktion des Helden", "date": "2021", "keywords": "als; auf; das; der; des; die; durch; f\u00fcr; issn; sich; studies; und; von; \u00e2ventiure", "summary": "Dies erreiche Wolfram u. a. durch die Inszenierung von Gleichzeitigkeit, die nicht nur im Damit schafft es die Autorin auf geschickte Weise, die Betrachtung der Transzendenz auch losgel\u00f6st von der heilsgeschichtlichen Komponente, die in der Parzival-Forschung wiederholt ins Zentrum ger\u00fcckt wurde, zu untersuchen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4417", "words": "1425", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Finkenstein, Franzi", "title": "Fictions of Legibility. The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred D\u00f6blin", "date": "2021", "keywords": "bodies; body; stoicea; studies", "summary": "Regarding the intersection of body, mind and text, Stoicea\u2019s finding in her observation is that bodies cannot be reduced to causal and \u201ccognitive operations, since so much in literature, as in real life, depends on the imagination and on historical conditions\u201d (61). $60.00 Franzi Finkenstein Against the backdrop of modern European discourses on the body as text, the paradigm of readability of human bodies and its development in literary texts, Gabriela Stoicea\u2019s Fictions of Legibility marks an important contribution to cultural and German studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4419", "words": "1964", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Augustyns, Annelies", "title": "Food, Culture and Identity in Germany\u2019s Century of War", "date": "2021", "keywords": "focus; food; germany; studies; war", "summary": "She also links this question with Germany\u2019s division by Allies and continued difficulties with food in American and British controlled zones, which is further examined in Kaete O\u2019Connell\u2019s text The Taste of Defeat: Food, Peace and Power in US-Occupied Germany. Although there is a growth of food studies \u2013 based on the ideas of \u201cfather of food anthropology\u201d Sidney Mintz and his works Sweetness and Power.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-442", "words": "7348", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Mosemann, Eleanor", "title": "Monumental Drapery: the Aesthetic Evolution of the Wrapped Reichstag", "date": "2002", "keywords": "appearance; art; berlin; body; building; christos; design; die; dle; drapery; fabric; folds; germany; history; lhe; memory; new; o f; past; project; reichstag; ropes; wrapping", "summary": "The Reichstag's dope.ry had a life of ItS own, played out in the Uldtvidu:u folds that fall according to therr will, unencumbered by metaphors o f constric\u00ad tio n. These principles of freedo m central to Enlightcnmelll p hilosophy were apparent in die Christos' final design as well as the ultlflur.e installa\u00ad tion, which were thus in keeping wi th traditional expectatio n s regarding the appropriate form o f drapery. In this essay I will show how dIe \u00abtasteful appearance o f the final design enabled the project's approval by parliament and yet simultaneously contributed to the perva\u00ad sive reluctance on the part of many Germans to address the ambiguities o f their nation's past I will argue here tbat the Christos' d rawings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4420", "words": "1102", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Feldt, Jonas", "title": "Krebs fu\u0308hlen \u2013 eine Emotionsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts", "date": "2021", "keywords": "auf; das; den; der; des; die; hitzer; krebs; und; wie", "summary": "\u201eDie Gef\u00fchle waren der rote Faden, an dem entlang die Erz\u00e4hlung ihren Weg durch diese 100 Jahre gesucht hat.\u201c (393). Die Debatten, die sich vor allem um die Psychosomatik, sp\u00e4ter", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4421", "words": "1665", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Wilson, Rachel ", "title": "Culture in the Third Reich", "date": "2021", "keywords": "culture; focus; f\u00f6llmer; reich", "summary": "Rachel Wilson In his impressive monograph, Moritz F\u00f6llmer details the creation, implementation, and evolution of National Socialist culture from the Weimar Republic to the end of World War II. F\u00f6llmer explains that National Socialist culture was shaped by 19th century imperialism and German nationalism, the immediate impact of World War I, and the failures and perceived excesses of Weimar.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4422", "words": "1497", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Moody, Daniel", "title": "Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919-1936", "date": "2021", "keywords": "german; japanese; law", "summary": "In the time leading up to World War II, a growing relationship between Nazi Germany and militarist Japan encouraged the spread of Nazi ideology to Japan and led to the development of the Tokyo-Berlin Axis. Chapter Five deals with the perception of Japan through German newspapers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4423", "words": "1107", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Roman, Marisol Bayona", "title": "Meanings of Modern Work in Nineteenth- and Twenty-First-Century German Literature and Film", "date": "2021", "keywords": "century; focus; volume; work", "summary": "Altogether, this volume highlights the wide-ranging impact of material changes on meanings of modern work and, by foregrounding the preclusion of community and self- fulfillment that has followed suit, addresses a sentiment that is already present in the scholarship about work and neoliberalism in the twenty-first century but has not yet been studied in depth. $52.95 Marisol Bayona Roman The present volume was born of an interdisciplinary conference that took place at Georgetown University in April 2016, co-organized by Professor Peter C. Pfeiffer and then- undergraduate Nathan T. Tschepik to explore meanings of modern work in times of disruption.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4424", "words": "1473", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Martin, Matthieu", "title": "Hitler\u2019s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal", "date": "2021", "keywords": "kaplan; portugal; refugees; studies", "summary": "Unfortunately, the experience of refugees facing dehumanizing bureaucracy and anti-immigration prejudice in the 1930s and 1940s parallels the experiences of many refugees escaping war and terror today. Composing an \u201cemotional history of fleeing\u201d this book is one of contrast: both the hope and anxiety experienced by refugees, generosity despite poverty among the Portuguese people, and the numerous Catch-22\u2019s of refugee policy within and outside of Portugal (2).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-443", "words": "8057", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Saunders, Anna", "title": "The Socialist and Post-socialist Jugendweihe. Symbol of an Evolving East(ern) German Identity", "date": "2002", "keywords": "activities; berlin; ceremonies; ceremony; citizens; classes; das; der; die; dle; eastern; emphasis; example; gdr; german; history; identity; lhe; life; lind; mit; national; o f; participants; people; ritual; sed; society; state; studies; symbol; today; und; west", "summary": "Following the introduction o f the more liberal new course and the workers' uprising o f 1953, the Slate could no t allow itself to be so severe in the persecution of religious com\u00ad munities and youth groups as it had previously been. Although {he number o f participan ts in the first year o f 1955 totaled only 17% o f all 14-yeac-olds, {hiS rapidly rose to 87% by 1960, and encompassed over 97% of all young people by the mid 1970s, a level which was to remain constant until the end o f the GDR (DDR-Hollllbilch 693).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-444", "words": "4626", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Schneider, Thomas", "title": "Thomas Manns Schwere Stunde. Schiller und Goehte--Krise und Ausweg?", "date": "2002", "keywords": "aber; als; anderen; arbeit; auch; auf; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; eine; f\u00fcr; goethe; ihm; ist; kann; leben; lind; mann; mir; mit; mu\u00df; nach; nicht; noch; nur; oder; schiller; seiner; selbst; sich; thomas; und; vom; von; war; wenn; werden; wie; wird; zum; zur; \u00fcber", "summary": "in der der Dichtet z\u00e4rdiche Worte an seine schlafende Frau nehtet. der die Au&nerksamkeit auf sein gesamtes dichterisches Schaffen lenken soUte.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-445", "words": "6152", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "Balestrini, Daniel Patrick", "title": "Schillers absolute Ethik: Eine Deutung der Max und Thekla-Handlung", "date": "2002", "keywords": "absolute; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; durch; eine; ethik; freiheit; friedrich; f\u00fcr; gegen\u00fcber; gem\u00e4\u00df; ihm; ihn; ihrer; ist; liebe; lind; man; max; menschen; mit; nach; nicht; schicksal; schiller; seiner; sich; sie; stuttgart; thekla; tod; und; von; wallenstein; wenn; wie; wird; zum; zwei; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "d was sich au\u00dferhalb der n....>eroen behaupten, d.h . remhalten, mu\u00df, un em, ' '''6' \u2022 r ' \u2022\u2022 .\u2022 die Seele _ welchen M:uc in dieser Passage sduldert, weISt au eitlen nlllTIenuIU' , f \u00e4hnlichen Dualismus 11In, welcher Schillers Arthtlmbe Erz;ehllf\u00ab pr\u00e4gt: der Kamp, de~ sowohl auf der E.bene des Indrvlduums als auch auf der der Gesellschaft Brief der Asth,tiJehUl Ef'{jehJlltg beschreibt Schiller, wie der im D iesseits verha&erc Mensch sich durdl sein Betragen gem\u00e4\u00df \u00e4sthetischen Prinzipien von irdischen Zw\u00e4ngen geistig befreit Der physische Mensch' (AE. 23.5: 91,36--92,1), der von irdischen Bed\u00fcrfuissen abh\u00e4ngig ist, wird ein geistige[r!, (AB. 23.5: 92,1)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-446", "words": "12904", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Sievern, Sabine", "title": "Wieder die Alte? Claire D\u00fcbois zwischen Illusion und Wirklichkeit", "date": "2002", "keywords": "als; alte; arnold; auch; auf; aus; baronin; bei; bretfeld; claire; das; dass; dass sie; dem; den; denn; der; der sie; des; die; diese; durch; ebner; eine; eschenbach; familie; fur; f\u00fcr; gesellschaft; grund; hat; ihr; ihrer; illusion; ist; ist sie; kann; leben; liebe; man; marie; meiberg; mit; mit claire; mit der; muss; nach; nicht; novelle; nur; oberschicht; reich; schein; sein; seiner; sich; sie; sie sich; und; und die; unterschicht; von; von claire; von der; werden; wie; wieder; wird; zeigt; zu claire; zum; zur; zwischen", "summary": "So ahnelt Graf Meiberg, der als stattlich und verdriei3lich beschrieben wird und der sich uber die fehlende Heiterkeit beim nachmittaglichen Familientreffen der Meibergs bei Claire beklagt (228), Ebner-Eschenbachs eigenem Vater (Klostermaier 49). Sie kennt die Bedeutung der Wirkung auf andere und ihr Verhalten wird dadurch reguliert, denn in der Oberscrucht zahlt nicht die Person als Individuum., SOlldem die Rolle, die sie in der Gesellschaft zu spielen vermag sowie die auL3ere Fassade.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-447", "words": "8908", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Binney, Matthew", "title": "Eighteenth-Century Origins of the Self and Other in the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "date": "2002", "keywords": "affections; community; connection; desires; god; good; individual; laws; leibniz; love; mind; notion; o f; order; people; self; shaftesbury; subject; system; theory; world", "summary": "T hat is, peop le mllst ~ec~ssa.[\\ ly o bserve and react to dlC wo rld throllgh the dictates o f God. Since individuals carry an image of God with them, o thers can see them in a d isinterested manner and connect through the natural recognition o f a residual deity within each person, which ulti\u00ad mately connects back 10 the wisdom and goodness o f God.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-448", "words": "7395", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "Brunkhorst, Katja", "title": "The \"Wayward Gleam of the Lyrical\": Freud's \"Hostility Towards the Id\"", "date": "2002", "keywords": "andreas; art; das; den; der; die; eine; fact; freud; gleam; london; lyric; mit; molnar; o f; pfeiffer; phillips; poetry; poets; psychoanalysis; qtd; rilke; salome; sich; sie; studies; und; view; wayward", "summary": "For, aJdlOUgh Rllke considered psychoanalysis or, as he caJled it, \u00abdie Sache selbst, die mit ihm (Freud] ducchgeht, as having \u00abihrc echten und swkcn Seiten; his judgement of Freud's writings as known to tum 10 the ye:;r.t 1912 was mther harsher: \u00ab\\Vas ich von Freud:; Schriften kennc, [t!l t mir] unsymphatisch und stellenweise luarstriiubend (qtd. freute mich, Rainer Freud zu bringen, und sic gefielen sich [ ... J, Andreas-Salome wrote in her Freud \u00ad diary (qtd.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-449", "words": "6247", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Wachter, David", "title": "Die Ambivalenz der decadence Nietzsche, Wagner und Bourget", "date": "2002", "keywords": "als; ambivalenz; auch; auf; aus; bei; bin; bourget; das; dass; decadence; dem; den; denn; der; deren; des; die; dieser; durch; eine; fad; frage; f\u00fcr; ganzen; gegen; hat; homo; ist; jedoch; kann; kunst; mehr; mit; nicht; nietzsche; nur; organismus; seiner; selbst; sich; sie; studies; theorie; und; vom; von; vor; wagner; war; wenn; werden; wie; wird; zum; zur; \u00fcberwindung", "summary": "So w ird im Fall lIYogmr eine vom sub jektiven Bewusstsein ausgehende Kritik des Ph\u00e4llomcns vorgenommcn~ die in ihrer Radi kalit\u00e4 t den Selbstanalysen ei nes zum Unterga ng bestimmten Daseins - ein in der LitcraNr der Diese neue Sicbtweise 1St auch f\u00fcr Paul Boucgets Essay Theorie de Ja decadence\u00ab konstitutiv, der die ditlJfkNl als gesellschaftliche wie spradlliche Erscheinung thematisiert.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-450", "words": "8638", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Becker, Anja", "title": "Parzivals redegewandter Vater: Zur Einsch\u00e4tzung Gahmurets und der Auszugsszene (4, 27-13, 8)", "date": "2002", "keywords": "als; angebot; angemessen; auch; auf; aus; auszugsszene; bei; bereits; bitte; bruder; cicero; damit; dann; darauf; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; deshalb; dialog; die; dieser; doch; durch; ein; eine; ersten; f\u00fcr; gahmuret; galoes; ganz; hat; h\u00f6fischen; ihm; ihn; ihre; ist; kann; k\u00f6nig; k\u00f6nnen; man; mehr; mit; muss; nach; nicht; noch; nun; nur; rede; redegewandter; sein; seinen; sich; sie; sind; sondern; sprechen; studies; und; vater; vgl; vom; von; vor; werden; wie; wird; wolfram; wurde; zum; zur; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Er ist keineswegs von der Blne der f\u00fcrsten innerlich bewegt. G:iWein und lwein reden, nachdem der K.unpf zwischen ihnen von der hereinbrech enden Nacht vOfZeitig beendet wurde, im Ton des Minnesa ngs", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-451", "words": "6861", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "Williamson, Jason", "title": "The Priorities of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust", "date": "2002", "keywords": "anti; catholic; church; concordat; cornwell; die; dle; german; hitler; holy; jews; nazi; new; o f; pacelli; phayer; pius; pope; reich; rome; studies; time; vatican; war", "summary": "On August 14, the president o f the Union for the Israelite Comnlllfury of Alrari wrote to Vatican Secretary of State Luigi Maglione pleading for Croatia's Jews, but Cornwell notes there is \u00abno record o f a respo tl.se OC action o n the part of the Holy Sec (256-7). thrown 111[0 qucstlon when o ne considers dl3t he knew o f the impending roundup of the Jews at least o ne week before it started 0 0 October 15 but apparently failed to warn anyone O)hayer 98).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-452", "words": "3016", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Shaughnessy, Michael R.", "title": "Electronic Research and Reference Tools for German Studies: Analysis and Review", "date": "2002", "keywords": "german; media; reference; research; rom; series; site; tile; works", "summary": "T he universal appeal of electronic reference works is not lost in the wocld of German srudies. There are a number of o tller reference works published in the Digitak Biblio1hek series including the SYfI,bollext'kofl and Lexikoll der Sprache.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-453", "words": "15139", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Buckesfekl, Susanne", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2002", "keywords": "1st; aber; adorno; allen; als; analysis; art; auch; auf; aus; author; bachler; bauer; book; buch; chapter; cine; critiques; das; dass; dec; dem; den; der; des; dessen; die; diese; dle; durch; ein; eine; erich; essay; eur; focus; frau; fur; german; hat; history; ideology; ihm; iii; ist; jedoch; kann; leben; leser; lhe; lind; margarethe; men; mit; muss; nach; nazi; new; nicht; nietzsche; noch; novel; nur; o f; o r; oder; past; poems; pro; reader; reviews; roman; schweiz; sebald; sein; seinem; selbst; sense; sich; sie; sieh; sind; socialism; story; studies; terms; tiber; tile; tion; tlle; und; urn; volume; von; wagner; war; wenn; werden; wie; wird; women; work; world; zum; zwischen", "summary": "Die Szene bildet den abSOll1ten Gegensatz zu den zahircidlf~n allOlic.h dcrailliert beschnebencn I land iungen aus dem GewlIlllspiei Gliic.ksspagal, das die Autorin den Clll M..thonenpuhlikum fasZlIlic[cnden Dm wooer Geld noeh sonstlger Sesitz gliic.klic.h machen, 1st et.w2s, das die Kandldaten gewiss erst llach Erhalt w er Preise, auBedulb dec Fernschsendwtg ecfahren werden.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-454", "words": "4761", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Buckesfekl, Susanne", "title": "Analytical Alternatives: An Interview with Prof. Leslie A. Adelson", "date": "2002", "keywords": "adelson; book; focus; german; identity; new; studies; terms; texts; time; turkish; ways; work", "summary": "At the same time T would have to say that 1 don't think there are any pat answerS about German identity or identities since 1990. Susanne Buckesfcld and SusaJUle Lenne were given the oppommity (0 have the foUowing conversation on chang\u00ad ing questions of identity aud cn tlcal terminology, o n migrant hterarure and on the present sta re o f German Studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-455", "words": "3913", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "77", "author": "Lenne, Susanne", "title": "Fashion is not a bad thing: Conversation with Sander Gilman", "date": "2002", "keywords": "class; education; focus; german; gilman; language; people; university; way", "summary": "The arguments for tuition do not recognize the notion o f the wliversities being a fo rce o f social mo bil\u00ad ity. I JUSt did a r:r program with TIlOmas Meinicke, who is o ne o f the beS t yOWlg nov\u00ad elis ts today, who spent a year in the Sta tes when he was in high -school, and you see: tlut pemlCaring aU o f his fiCbOlL His experiences in the United States helped him understand himself as a roung German writer bencc.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-456", "words": "3688", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "Wynand, Derk Grunzweig Dorothea", "title": "Word and Flesh: Conversation with Dorothea Gr\u00fcnzweig", "date": "2002", "keywords": "body; das; jeremiah; language; new; poetry; process; und; way; words; writing", "summary": "Because it is an ethical question, and one which invo lves power; rou take the wo rds o f another and - weU, it seems pre\u00b7 surnp ruous, to take o n sllch an impo rtant task. You can find concepts, e~pressions, or patterns o f sound funn) even grotesque, when }'Ou hear th em fro m the o utside.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-457", "words": "2909", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "78", "author": "Prickett, David", "title": "Das Ende der Illusionen ist noch lange nicht das Ende des Gl\u00fccks: oder Der Wunderglaube von Mario Wirz", "date": "2002", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; b\u00fccher; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; f\u00fcr; habe; ich; ist; mario; meine; mich; mit; nicht; oder; sich; sie; und; von; wie; wirz", "summary": "E inige werden meine Tex te kraftvoll und sinn li ch und leidenschaftlich finden, andere werden das Buch in die Ecke schmei\u00dfen, weil es Ihnen zu hysterisch oder zu pathetisch\u00ab ist Der Dialog zwischen Leser und Text ist sehr intim und heikel. Meine Lesednnen stnd heterosexuell und homosexuell, bisexuell und vegetarisch, Kenenraucher und Alkoholiker, manchmaJ s ind auch sie bedr\u00e4ngt von einer schweren Knnkengeschichte oder haben einen geliebten Menschen verlo ren.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-458", "words": "2118", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Lenne, Susanne", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "2002", "keywords": "cincinnati; german; litera; literature; phd; research; studies; university; work", "summary": "For further in formation, eOntlie r the ed itors of Forys on German Studies, Departmem of Germa nic Languages lind Litera rures, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH 4522 1-0372 USA. In addition [0 being a forum for graduate student research on literary lop ics, Focus 0'1 Germ flD Shldics also seeks to engage readers in con\u00ad structive dialogue on cunent issues in German studies, with pa.rbCU\u00b7 la.r reference to the effect recent trends have on the graduate snidcnts who (ep(eselll the fUnire of thc profeSSion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-459", "words": "2224", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Schade, Silke", "title": "Front mater", "date": "2003", "keywords": "articles; board; book; cincinnati; conference; der; focus; german; graduate; process; schade; university; volume; year", "summary": "Uni\\'.:nity ofCincilUl3ti Dr. Jcrry GJelUl, University ofCinciitnati Dr. Heike Henderson, BoiS\\: St3te University Dr. Todd Hen:og, University of Cincinnati Dr. Nils Langer, University of Bristol Dr. John Lavalle, Wesltm New Mexico Slate Uni~c~ity Dr . .... 'ahraud Maierhofcr, University of Iowa Dr. Paul Malone, University of Waterloo Dr. Klalls Mladck, University ofCineinr>:l1i Dr. Ju lian Preece, Univer~ily of Kent Dr. Andrea ReiLer, University of Southampton Dr. Mieh:lel Riee, Mississippi StaLe Uuiversity Dr. Sabine SChmidt, Rhodes Colleg~ Dr. Guy Sttrn, Wayne SL8te University Dr. Alfred White, University of Cardiff Dr. Jennifer William, Purdue University Dr. Manfred Zimmermallll, Universily ofCincumali Dr. Nina Zimn;!.:., UniversiUtl Ulneburg GRADUATE STIJDENT REVIEWERS, UNIVERSITY OF CtNCINNA Tl Julia Baker Jessica Bubendorf Kristen ~letrielt Monika Ilohix:in\u00b7Oct'gen JeITPacker Susanne Leum! Dr. Sara Fritdriehsmeyer, University ofCincinnali Dr. Kalharina Gerstenberger.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-460", "words": "3361", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Wilson, Sean", "title": "Mastery, Secrecy, and Money in Wilhelm Meisters Lehjahre", "date": "2003", "keywords": "baron; book; class; das; der; melina; money; relationship; sie; simmel; theater; und; wilhelm", "summary": "Hor reports, Der Baron hane kaum das Z immer ve rlassen, als Wilhelm eifrig die Barschaft zabhe ... (2 12; Book 4, Ch. I). These parallels lhen serve as the foundation for my argument tha r money i s a key factor in determining Wilhelm's ultimate relationship to the TIII7!'lmlluhaft.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-461", "words": "6755", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Suglia, Joseph", "title": "03. Focus on German Studies, Volume 10 (2003), Empedokles and the Absence of Sacrifice", "date": "2003", "keywords": "absence; art; auf; das; death; dec; den; der; des; die; difference; empedokles; fragments; hero; lhe; manes; mit; moment; nature; reconciliation; sacrifice; self; sich; suicide; sw4; synthesis; tile; und; version; von", "summary": "Empedokles, then, who does not attend to the difference, IS much ltke the sages of whIch I ioideriin wrOte in Die \\'\\'eisen abeL .. who onl), dlfferenu21e spiritually/intellectually and, fo r me fau lt of making a purely ideal disuncoon, are victimized by nawrd Die Weisen aber, (he nur mit clem GclSte, nU f aUgemein unterschdden, eilen schnell Wied er ins reine Seyn zuruk, und fallen in cine um so grosserc J ndiffccenz, wei! (SW4 134\u00bb) will be translated into a testimony in the Entwu.cf zur FonselZung dec drinen Fassung: + Manes, der Allerfahcene, dec Seher erstaum tiber den Reden des Empedokles, und seinem Geiste, sagt, er sei dec Beru fene, der todte und bclebc, in dem und durch den CIne \\'(felt sidl zugleich auflose unci erneue.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-462", "words": "5776", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Sievern, Sabine", "title": "Revolution\u00e4re Frauen--Therese Hubers Sara Seldorf und Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachs Marie Roland", "date": "2003", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; bereich; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; drama; durch; ebner; eine; eschenbach; familie; franz\u00f6sischen; frauen; f\u00fcr; huber; ihr; ihre; ist; jedoch; marie; mit; nach; nicht; noch; politischen; privaten; revolution; revolution\u00e4re; roland; sara; sich; sie; somit; sondern; sph\u00e4re; therese; und; von; werden; wie; wird; zum; zur; \u00fcber", "summary": "Dies verdeutlicht ihre inzwischen tiefe Verwurzelung in der Revolution und ih(cn l eleen, denn als Mann verkleidet kann sie noch Anerkennung ge\\'irinnen und in der Gesellschaft funktionieren, als Frau hingegen is t sie moralisch inakzeptabel. Sara in eine 36 Foats on German S/udiu Zwickm\u00fch le, in der sie zwischen der privaten Sph\u00e4re, das hei\u00dft ihrer famili\u00e4ren \u00dflndung zu dem Rebellen, und der politischen, das hei\u00dft ihrer Pflicht gegen\u00fcber den republikanischen Truppen, w\u00e4 hlen muss.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-463", "words": "7001", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Duttlinger, Caroline", "title": "Traumatic Metamorphoses: The Concept of the Animal in Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialektik der Aufkl\u00e4rung", "date": "2003", "keywords": "adorno; animal; argument; authors; critique; das; dda; den; der; des; die; discourse; enlightenment; fairy; horkheimer; language; lhe; man; memory; narrative; nicht; notion; reason; rhe; stance; subject; tale; tier; und", "summary": "In comras[ to rhis experimental exploitation of the animal's body in vivisection, [he authors propose an alternative perspective on rhe animal, based on some more 'intangible' aspen of its existence, that is, das Dasein ohne Licht der Vemunft, (ue Existenz der Tiere se!bsc. The anti-Semitic idemification of the Jewish subject wirh lhe animal can therefore be said (Q be motivated by the same exclusionary gesture that is performed by \\'('estern philosophy against rhe animal as the Othcr of reason.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-464", "words": "11318", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Sepp, Emily", "title": "Rethinking Resistance: Children in the Holocaust and in Ilse Aichinger's Die gr\u00f6\u00dfen Hoffnung", "date": "2003", "keywords": "aichinger; childhood; children; das; death; den; der; die; eisen; ellen; face; fantasy; games; ghetto; holocaust; hope; ihr; iii; jews; lhe; life; lise; lives; man; new; nicht; o f; physical; place; play; qtd; reality; resistance; rhe; sense; sich; sie; sind; und; war; world; york", "summary": "Children's play dunng the I lolocaust rarely dIsplayed the hedonistic, escapIst and frivo lous qualities that commonly characterrzed mat of adults; rather, children used the act of play to make some son of Sense of their surroundings - an ability most adults bcked. Children are children on either side of me barbed wire - and yet they are nO( the same.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-465", "words": "8328", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Hoppner, Stefan", "title": "Icebergs in the Caribbean Sea: Cuba in Hans Hagnus Enzensberger's Der Untergang der Titanic", "date": "2003", "keywords": "auf; author; blick; canto; change; countries; cuba; das; dec; den; der; des; die; dtr; enzensberger; essay; german; hans; iii; ist; lhe; magnus; narrator; new; nicht; peter; revolution; rhe; sea; text; titanic; und; von; war; way; world; writers; york", "summary": "the evenu III Cuba are pan of a global struggle of liberation from capitalism. Dtr Unltrgong dtr Titan;! eventually reaches the conclusion that the living conditions III Cuba are genau wie bei uns und sonslliberaU auch (15).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-466", "words": "7097", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Sutherland, Marielle", "title": "Linguistic Squinting: The Reader's Encounter with the Textuality of Peter Handke's Die Angst des Tormans beim Elfmeter", "date": "2003", "keywords": "als; auf; bloch; das; da~; den; die; ein; handke; ihe; ihm; iii; language; lhe; man; novel; peter; reader; sense; sich; sound; squinting; text; und; von; vor; war; words; world", "summary": "SCla Igtes IrSC geweih on .rwo oc~asions, and because the barmaid explains es sramme v?~ emcm Hirsch, der sich ins Minenfeld verirn habe (38), rile susploon arises alat the broken antlers could b for Bloch f, h ' e an omen , Or e too IS disonemed as words set traps fo r him. An example of this ambiguity is: Die KeUnwn brachte das Getraok, das Bloch fUr sie bestdh hatte.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-467", "words": "7964", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "Kempinski, Avi", "title": "Theatrics of Sound in Marcel Ophuls' November Days and Hotel Therminus", "date": "2003", "keywords": "alter; barbie; brecht; camera; cuts; das; days; documentary; essay; film; filmmaker; folk; freedom; german; ich; iii; interviews; lhe; lyrics; ophuls; rhe; scene; singing; song; sorrow; sound; soundtrack; space; theatrics; use; work", "summary": "Wlla[ distinguishes Ophuls' ,ist-en Jcine, however, is the rrequent juxtaposItion or and interplay belween a theatrics of space and what I posit here as a theatrics of JOlII/d': Ophuls' strategic and provocative use of diegetic and non-dicgeuc audio. Barbie (1988).1 Through an analysis of such a theau:ics of sound , Ophuls' documentary techniques, and his work as a whole, can be more richly interpreted and understood.1 Not'fmiJtr DtqI was commissioncd and firs( broadcast by BBC 2 to mark the one-year ann iversary of the opening o f the Berlin Wall.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-468", "words": "5627", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Alberghini, Diana", "title": "The Theme of Lesbianism in Helga K\u00f6nigsdorf's post-Wende Novel Gleich neben Afrika", "date": "2003", "keywords": "afrika; decision; der; die; gdr; german; homosexual; homosexuality; identity; konigsdorf; lesbianism; lhe; life; love; maria; novel; relationship; rhe; theme; und; women; work; writer", "summary": "This is also tbe reason why in the 1970s and 1980s many women writers, such as Christa \\\\Yole searched for self-fulfiUmem through creative writing. Ultimately, the focus of ule Story remains on heterosexual relationships, in parucular on the one belWeen Valeska and her husband.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-469", "words": "10689", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Blumer, Nadine", "title": "Beyond Collective Memory? The Reestablishment of Jewish Life in Post-Holocaust Germany", "date": "2003", "keywords": "berlin; collective; communities; community; east; germany; group; history; holocaust; identity; ihe; interview; jewish; jews; judaism; lhe; life; memory; new; o f; past; people; personal; present; rhe; society; soviet; today; war", "summary": "It is as well the variety of memoriu within Jewish communities lhat deRect off ont another to create clle present landscape of Jewish life in Germany. Jewish life in Germany si nce the H o locaust T he comradictions and obstacles that have faced Jewish community and identity formation in the decades following the I lolocaust arise Out of the paradox of an aimosl 6000 year o ld", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-470", "words": "5979", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Putman, Michael T.", "title": "Parzivals redegewandter Vater: Zur Einsch\u00e4tzung Gahmurets und der Auszugsszene (4, 27-13, 8)", "date": "2003", "keywords": "accusative; american; article; case; change; dative; dialects; enclave; english; forms; german; iii; language; lhe; loss; markers; morphology; place; prepositions; syncretism; system", "summary": "A strong argument against puce pl:onological change with no effects on the strucrure of the case morphology is the fact char rhe prepositional case pronoun dm is assumed not only by the masculi ne, but also by the neuter forms. First, [Wo-way prepositions such as Standard German itf exhibit objects marked for dative case when the matrix verb of the semence does nOt imply movement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-471", "words": "11609", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Zimmerman, Aine", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2003", "keywords": "1st; aber; alles; als; auch; auf; aus; autorin; berlin; book; buch; cine; claire; class; clem; dann; das; dass; dec; def; dem; den; der; des; die; diesem; doch; durch; ein; eine; eur; example; frauen; fur; god; hat; hier; ihm; ihre; iii; immer; ist; kann; kessel; langeweile; leben; leser; lhe; lind; man; mann; mil; mit; nach; narrator; nicht; noch; novel; nur; oder; paris; reviews; rilke; rossi; samson; schmitt; schone; self; sich; sie; sieh; sind; somban; sombart; story; und; urn; von; vor; war; weber; wenn; werden; wie; wieder; wird; zeit; zum; zur; zwischen", "summary": "in se.inem Nachwon geht Marzolph zunachs[ auf Wtrke e1n, in denen die FUlI-Aliihrrhtll Erwahnung finden: die Beuder Grimm, die sie, in den Wonen von Book Reviews 245 Marzolph, nicht als ideaJrypische Priisentation von Miirchcn schen (297); Ludwig Bechsrein, def sie nid\\( ausscbhcBuch auf cinen franzosischen Ursprung bcschrankr, sondern auch deuische Zuge erkennt; Richard Benz, der ihncn Quahdil abspricht, aber ihnen eine gute Absicht zubilligt; Alben \\X'essels~, der die Marchcn ausftihrlich bespriclll, abe.c sie als ein scltsames Buch ansicht (298) und schucBlich lhr eigenes Ne tz, III dem sie aIle, die sic liebl und alles, was zu ihr gehon, zusarnmengehallen hat, hat sich aufgdost.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-472", "words": "1997", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "Schade, Silke", "title": "Ber\u00fchrungspunkte: Ein Gespr\u00e4ch mit Zafer Senocak", "date": "2003", "keywords": "auch; das; dass; der; deutschland; die; eine; habe; ich; ist; man; mit; sehr; sich; sie; sind; und; von; wie", "summary": "Die Frage ist nur, inwieweit man bereit ist. [Ut sich sehr, sehr schwer, weil die Kr\u00e4fte, die ver\u00e4ndern wollen und die, die es nielu wollen, etwa gleich stark sind.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-473", "words": "2341", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Schade, Silke", "title": "On the Enduring Impact of Literature: A conversation with Azade Seyhan", "date": "2003", "keywords": "bridge; focus; german; impact; interest; literature; seyhan", "summary": "Scyhan: Feridun Zaimoglu cre~Hes a kind of culture that is so radically cut off from the home culture, but at the same time defines what otherness really means, not for the intellectual elite bm for a large segment of rhe Turkish German population that is marginalized. I think it is impon am d, at we see bridges in their histOrical con u::xr rather than just their spatial context.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-474", "words": "1479", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Schade, Silke", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "2003", "keywords": "focus; german; ph.d; studies; university; work", "summary": "She ob tained a Ph.D. from Ihe University o f Balh with a dissertation entitled Helga K6nigsdorf 's Evohring Identities: An Eastern German Author's Responses lO an Era of Personal and Po litical Upheaval: 1978- 1998. Phmography and Visua l Culture at St. John'S Culk ge, University o f Cambridge. UK.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-475", "words": "2937", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Zimmerman, Aine", "title": "Front mater", "date": "2004", "keywords": "articles; board; book; cincinnati; conference; der; die; film; german; graduate; history; studies; university; volume; year", "summary": "De Vries, Calvin College Dr. 8 ritta Kallin, Georgia Inti tute of Technology Ms. Susanne Lenne, ABO, UniversilY of Cincinnati Dr. David Pricken, Ph.D. 2003, University of Cincinnati Dr. J. Gregory Redding, Washington and Jefferson College Dr. ~'I i chael Rice, Mississippi Slate University Ms. Silke Schade, ABO, University of Cine inn ali Dr. Jeffrey Dean Todd, Texas Christian University Ms. Aine Zimmennan, M.A., University of Cincinnati CONTA CT ADDRESS Send correspondence and subscription fees to: Foem 0 11 Germull S tudies, P.O. Box 210372 University ofCincinnali, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0372 U.S.A. Phone (513) 556-2755 Fax 556- 1991 Emai l: focuson lit@fasllllail.fm http://artsci.uc.edulgennan/ncwsE\\\u00b7entsffocuslindex.htllll We reserve the right to make any necessary editing changes AC KNOWLEDGEM ENTS The eleventh volume of FoclI$ UII Germall Studies was m(lde possible only with the continued commitment of Dr. !", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-476", "words": "6480", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Buss, Christian", "title": "Toward an Event-based History: Chronik der Wende, Die leere Mitte, and Good-bye Lenin", "date": "2004", "keywords": "alex; berlin; borders; die; east; event; fall; film; german; history; image; lhe; mother; narrative; new; o f; past; present; unification; wall", "summary": "Renll:ning m ci\\c sile o f the Delellzian breach, the cinematic image, the purpose o f fi lm analysis becomes clear: ( 0 explo re the borderlines, examining the rup ture o f imposed un ity in o rder to mo re completely develo p a 'Chronik' o f contesta tio n between narrative mtality o n the o ne hand and its impossibili ty on the other. 111e sense o f the event.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-477", "words": "7946", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Klocke, Sonja Ellen", "title": "'Zungen,' Borders and Border Crossings: \u00d6zdamar's Mutterzunge as an Attempt to Deal with the Effects of Globalization", "date": "2004", "keywords": "borders; country; culture; die; german; globalization; hand; heroine; ich; language; lhe; loss; love; mother; narrator; o f; ozdamar; space; time; turkey; turkish; woman; world", "summary": "[he traditional roles o f wo men by describing a Turkish woman, bo th in h er country o f o rigin and in Germany. Here, the narrator expresses her awareness o f the 'Z ungen,' Bo rders and Border Crossings 23 advanrages and d isadvantages accompanying the attachment with a Turkish family: o n the one hand, she would be protecled by the o th er family members, would nor be held respo nsible fo r herself and her actio ns any more, and could live as a child.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-478", "words": "5636", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Farges, Patrick", "title": "The Cultural Hyphen: Transgression and Translation in the Narratives of Self of German-Speaking Exiles to Canada", "date": "2004", "keywords": "canada; canadian; crossing; displacement; exile; german; ich; identity; lhe; narrative; new; o f; rhe; space; time; transgression; translation; und; war; york", "summary": "Displacement is a reality in the lives o f rhe mferV1ewee~ ~nd there is material evidence that testi fi es to it, such as the re malmng accent _ in o ne's native tongue o r in o ne's second l al~gllage. How do agents make sense o f meir lives as thq interact with meir social, culrural and instirutional environment?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-479", "words": "6593", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Widmann, Andreas Martin", "title": "Polyphonie einer Geschichte--Geschichtsperspektiven und Imperialismuskritik in Heiner M\u00fcllers Der Auftrag", "date": "2004", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; auftrag; aus; bei; bis; das; dass; debuisson; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; drei; durch; edward; eine; europ\u00e4ischen; figuren; geschichte; haben; hat; heiner; hier; ihre; ist; lang; man; mann; mit; m\u00fcller; nach; nicht; noch; nur; oder; polyphonie; revolution; sasponas; sasportas; schwarzen; sich; sie; sind; sklaven; stimme; text; und; von; vor; werden; wie; wird; zeigt; zum; zur; zwischen", "summary": "im Fahrsruhl zeigt, dass M\u00fcller \u00fcbe.r die marxistische Imperialismustheorie, der zufolge der Imperialismus die bzre Phase des Kapitalismus darstellt, bereits weit hinaus is(. Die Befreiung der Sklaven ist ein Schrin auf diesem Weg zum ZIel.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-480", "words": "5229", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Ascarate, Richard John", "title": "Gebraucht wurden 100 Neger, 25 Chinesen: Colonialist Fantasies in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927)", "date": "2004", "keywords": "baker; dance; debut; die; ethnographic; fantasies; fig; film; fritz; jazz; lang; lhe; man; maria; men; metropolis; new; rhe; robot; scene; und; visual; white; world", "summary": "fro m a different, allochronic rime (36 1), applies equally well to me black men kneeling in the Fig. What the tableau suggests, (hen, is that sUlI higher on the evolutionary scalI: from black man to wlme woman stands dle cyborg, a combInation of man and maclune.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-481", "words": "9214", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Traser-Vas, Laura", "title": "Es ist gar nicht die Malerei, die ich studiere... Es ist die Wendung in dieser Malerei, die ich erkannte: The Influence of Cezanne's Painting of Rilke's Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge", "date": "2004", "keywords": "art; auf; background; briefe; cezanne; das; der; des; die; dle; ein; foreground; hat; ich; influence; ist; lhe; life; malte; novel; o f; object; painting; paris; poem; poet; point; rhe; rilke; rodin; space; subject; time; und; von; war; way; work", "summary": "According to Rilke Cezanne knew Baudel:ille's poem by heart '~u bnnst Dir denken, wie es ouch beruhn, zu lesen, dass Cezanne eben dieses Gedicht - Baudelaires Charogne - nocn in seinem lenten Jahren ganz auswendig wusste und es WOrt fUr Wort ne(sagte (Briefe n, 394). The In fl uence of Cezanne's Paiming on Rilke's Die AuJzeichmmgen des /vIa/", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-482", "words": "6086", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Eschborn, Ulrich", "title": "Stadtdarstellung in Alfred D\u00f6blins Berlin Alexanderplatz", "date": "2004", "keywords": "aber; alles; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; biberkopf; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; der stadt; des; die; diese; durch; d\u00e4cher; d\u00f6blin; eine; ersten; erz\u00e4hler; f\u00fcr; hat; hier; ihm; ihn; ist; kann; menschen; mit; nach; nicht; noch; nun; nur; roman; seinem; sich; sie; sind; stadt; technik; und; von; vor; wahrnehmung; werden; wie; wieder; wird; zum; \u00fcber", "summary": "Nach den N arurcinA \u00fcssen und dem Geldwert wird nun die biologische \u00dcbe reinstimmung des ~ofenschcn als ein Fakto r gezeigr, der die anonymen Stad rmenschen in der Masse verbindet. D er Ta t suche einen ,.gemeinsamen Nenner, der die UOtzden1 augenfallige Einheit der t\\b sse ernellen k\u00f6nn te (83).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-483", "words": "5204", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Hutchinson, Ben", "title": "Uses and Implications of the Verb 'Zittern' in Rilke", "date": "2004", "keywords": "das; den; der; des; die; ein; god; ich; lhe; monk; o f; poem; rilke; sich; time; und; use; uses; verb; von; zinern; zittern", "summary": "\\'V'e can (hus sugges t that twO main ones o f influence derermine Rilke's use o f 'zlUern' in his ea rty poetry: the biblical tradition of 'ziuc rn' as a sign of religiOUS angst, indicating an approach both 10 and by God, and mis reigning movement of j llgentMil preciosity. It is an ambiguous term, for it can imply u:embling both vor Forcht and vor Freude, Rilke certainly uses it in botb senses in the stage directions to his early plays.6 It is through this ambivalence that Kierkegaard's ride hints at the ethical clilemma facing Abraham; his relationship with his Old Testament God is sU:alned, for o ne half o f him re joices in the putative deed since it will please God, whilst the orner narurally hesitates (Q perfo rm such an ace", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-484", "words": "9945", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Schulz, Birte", "title": "'Mi\u00dfgestaltet und Mi\u00dfcerstanden': The Representation of Disability in Twentieth Century German-Speaking Theatre", "date": "2004", "keywords": "audience; blind; brecht; characters; courage; das; den; der; des; die; disabilities; disability; duke; ein; frisch; handke; idiot; ist; kaspar; lhe; o f; people; play; reality; representation; shows; sich; sie; stage; suhrkamp; theatre; und; von; way; world", "summary": "When Max Frisch describes theatricality as [he interaction o f the imagination evoked by me tex t with the perceptio n b)' the senses of irs manifesr3ti? n ~n sta~e~ he thinks o f himsel f, and presumably any other peI~on In hIS posltlon, as naruraUy possessing cen ain m ental and p~ystcal. abilities (Tagebuch 570). h is actually because of Kamin's muteness that in the eyes o f her mother she is (worth) nothing, but this ' flaw' is ehen interpreted as a desirable sidc-effeC[.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-485", "words": "4577", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Wilford, Katherine", "title": "Frank Wedekind's 'Lulu' plays: History and Modern Myth", "date": "2004", "keywords": "alwa; changes; der; die; effect; era; lhe; london; lulu; money; myth; nietzsche; plays; sich; text; time; value; wedekind", "summary": "the idea has emerged that the original, uncensored version of L1le plays can assist in our interpretation o f Lulu, and can therefor:e aid our: understanding of the interpretative puzzles that the plays set. Wedekind 's 'Lulu' plays: Histo[y and Modern Myth Katherine Wilfo rd Frank Wedekind's 'Lulu' plays have long been regarded as his grea test literary creation, largely owing to lhe enigmatic and captivating figure of Lulu herself.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-486", "words": "9752", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Wachter, David", "title": "Zwischen Konstruktivismus und Intuition: Zum Verh\u00e4ltnis von Ethik und \u00c4sthetik bei Robert Musil", "date": "2004", "keywords": "aber; als; anderen; auch; auf; aus; bei; beiden; clie; das; da\u00df; dem; den; denn; der; des; die; diese; durch; eigenschaften; eine; erfahrung; erlebnis; essayismus; ethik; frauen; fur; f\u00fcr; genauigkeit; gesinnung; hrsg; ihrer; individuum; ist; jedoch; kann; kunst; leben; mann; mit; moderne; moe; musil; nach; neue; nicht; noch; nur; ohne; prinzip; roben; robert; seele; seiner; selbst; sich; sie; sondern; ulrich; und; utopie; verbindung; vgl; vom; von; welt; werden; wie; wird; wirklichkeit; zum; zur; zustand; zwischen; \u00e4sthetik; \u00e4sthetischen", "summary": "Sie bringt jedoch eine Reihe von Problemen mit sich, die das Projekt einer bewu\u00dften Wirklichke itskonsuuktion in erhebliche Schwierigkeiten bringen. Das G rundproblem, das der Ma1l11 ohnl Eiglfl!(hajun damit in literarischer Aufnahme des zeitgen\u00f6ssischen geseUschafrskritischen Diskurses refl ektiert,l besteht in einer fu ndamentalen Ver\u00e4nderung der Wirklichkei~rfahrung in der fo rrgeschrittenen Moderne (Makropoulos, M odlrnit\u00e4t lId !", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-487", "words": "14728", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Xu, Lanlan", "title": "Selbstkultivierung und Selbstformation: Zur Frage der weiblichen Subjektivit\u00e4t in Lessings Trauerspiel Mi\u00df Sara Sampson", "date": "2004", "keywords": "aber; als; anderen; auch; auf; aus; beiden; dass; dass der; dass sich; dass sie; dem; den; der; der frauen; der sie; des; die; die sie; dieser; drama; durch; eine; foucault; frauen; fur; f\u00fcr; german; haben; hat; hier; ihm; ihre; immer; ist; ist die; jedoch; kann; lady; lessing; man; marwood; mellefont; mich; mir; mit; mit der; nach; nicht; noch; nur; sampson; sara; seiner; selbst; selbstformation; selbstkultivierung; self; sich; sich selbst; sie; sind; sondern; tugend; und; und die; und marwood; vaters; von; von der; weg; wenn; werden; wie; wird; zum; zur; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Meine Entscheidung, den auBeren Ursachen fur die Objektposition der Frauen in dieser Arbeit wenig Aufmerksamkeit zu schenken, basiert hauptsachLich auf dem Forschungsinteresse der bishengen Literatur, in der die negative Wirkung der mannLichen Diskurse schon aus verschiedenen Perspektiven ausfuhrLich analysien, aber die Eigeninitiative der Frauen meistens vernachlassigt wurde. Meine E ntscheidung, den \u00e4u\u00dferen Ursachen f\u00fcr die Objektposition der Frauen in dieser Arbeit wenig Aufmerksamkeit zu schenken, basiert haupts\u00e4chlich auf dem Forschungsinteresse der bisherigen Literatur, in der die negative Wirkung der m\u00e4nnlichen Diskurse schon aus verschiedenen Perspektiven ausf\u00fchrlich analysiert, aber die Eigeninitiative der Frauen meistens vernachl\u00e4ssigt wurde.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-488", "words": "32746", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Baker, Julia", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2004", "keywords": "aber; adomos; aktion; als; auch; auf; auf der; austrian; authors; bank; bei; book; buch; characters; claussen; contemporary; das; dass; david; dem; den; der; der schweizer; der sich; der sie; des; desire; die; die von; diese; durch; east; ein; eine; essays; eur; focus; frankfurt; fur; fur den; fur die; german; hat; history; identity; ihre; ist; ist die; jahre; jost; kata; kiefer; leser; literature; loetscher; mehr; mit der; mutter; nach; nach der; new; nicht; noch; nur; oder; peter; ransmayr; reader; relationship; reviews; rhe; role; rusch; sacher; schnitzler; schweizer; sebald; sein; seinen; selbst; sich; sie; sie zu; sind; social; society; stories; studies; swiss; text; uber; und; und auf; und der; und die; und mit; unification; urn; vater; von; von der; vor; war; wenn; werden; wie; wird; wird der; work; world; zeit; zu den; zum; zur", "summary": "Nebelspalterin nennt sie ihre Mutter heimlich, die eines Tages ira Nebel ein fur aile mal verschwindet. Kata fuhrt den Leser in eine Welt, die sie entdecken will, doch nicht zu fassen bekommt: Irgendwo blieb eine Stelle leer, immer (277).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-489", "words": "6671", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Zimmerman, Aine", "title": "On and Beyond Academic Journals, Globalization, and Literary Canonization: A Conversation with Hans Adler", "date": "2004", "keywords": "adler; field; focus; german; herder; literature; texts", "summary": "It used to be a real 'Monatsheft,' appea ring every month for teachers in the early 20U\\ century, and now we are 274 275 Focus on German Studies a quarterly. Could you briefly summarize the argu ments 274 Focus on German Studies a quarterly.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-490", "words": "6188", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "Zimmerman, Aine", "title": "Leni Riefenstahl and Propaganda Film: A Conversation with David Culbert", "date": "2004", "keywords": "culbert; film; focus; german; interview; leni; propaganda; studies", "summary": "He has written on film, radio and television as history and propaganda in the U.S. and Germany during World War II. FOCUS: You have written extensively on propaganda and film.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-491", "words": "3078", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Zimmerman, Aine", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "2004", "keywords": "cincinnati; focus; german; interests; literature; research; studies; university", "summary": "294 295 Focus on German S ttldies SUB MISSIONS REQUESTED Submit an example of your best academic work to Focus on German Studies! 294 Focus on German S ttldies SUBMISSIONS REQUESTED Submit an example of your best academic work to Focus on German Studies!", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-4937", "words": "7587", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Besendorfer, Barbara", "title": "The Real and Reality in Milo Rau\u2019s The Congo Tribunal", "date": "2022", "keywords": "congo; congo tribunal; documentary; enactment; film; focus; future; issn; rau; real; reality; studies; theater; theatre; trial; tribunal", "summary": "These are only two of the questions that should be answered in the following article about The Congo Tribunal by the Swiss filmmaker, author, and theater director Milo Rau. Before realizing The Congo Tribunal, Rau produced several documentary films, with many of them being based on theatrical tribunals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-5", "words": "7738", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Andrews, Derek", "title": "Gestures as Requests for Information: Initiating Repair Operations in German Native-Speaker Conversation", "date": "2014", "keywords": "conversation; data; example; german; gesture; head; information; line; repair; speech", "summary": "Focus on German Studies 21 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Andrews 89 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Much like the use of leaning gestures in the other examples discussed in this paper, gesture, in this case a head tilt, can be seen here to be prompting the production of an explanation. She continues to speak on the topic, no longer concerning herself with her past statement, presumably due to being influenced by the new information she has just received from L. Preliminary Findings Through a consideration of the above data, it could be determined that leaning gestures which produce an orientation towards one\u2019s speech partners can be said to be initiators of repair, primarily in seeking additional information.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-505", "words": "2618", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "L\u00fcckel, Wolfgang", "title": "Front mater", "date": "2006", "keywords": "cincinnati; editor; focus; german; graduate; journal; student; studies; traser; university; volume; year", "summary": "Each article considered for this volume was refereed by two of the following professors: Dr. Hans Adler, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dr. Arne Koch, University of Kansas Dr. Gisela Argyle, York University Dr. Kathleen Komar, UCLA Dr. Nina Berman, Ohio State University Dr. Nils Langer, University of Bristol Dr. Anke Biendarra, University of California, Irvine Dr. Richard Langston, University of North Carolina Dr. Claudia Breger, Indiana University Dr. Grit Liebscher, University of Waterloo Dr. Christopher Clark, New York University Dr. Waltraud Maierhofer, University of Iowa Dr. Robert Conard, University of Dayton Dr. Klaus Mladek, Dartmouth College Dr. Karen Eng, University of Cincinnati Dr. Timothy Pursell, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Dr. Erzs\u00e9bet Forg\u00e1cs, University of Szeged Dr. Richard E. Schade, University of Cincinnati Dr. Sonja Fritzsche, Illinois Wesleyan University Dr. Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College Dr. Sara Friedrichsmeyer, University of Cincinnati Dr. George Steinmetz, University of Michigan Dr. Katharina Gerstenberger, University of Cincinnati Dr. Don H. Tolzmann, University of Cincinnati Dr. Jerry Glenn, University of Cincinnati Dr. Gergely T\u00f3th, University of California, Berkeley Dr. Todd Herzog, University of Cincinnati Dr. Jennifer William, Purdue University Dr. William Keel, University of Kansas Dr. Scott Windham, Elon University We reserve the right to make any necessary editing changes without the express written permission of the authors. Microsoft Word - focus2006.doc Edited by Laura Traser-Vas Wolfgang L\u00fcckel Published by the German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of Cincinnati ii Focus on German Studies is published annually by the German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of Cincinnati EDITOR-IN-CHIEF BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Laura Traser-Vas Wolfgang L\u00fcckel COPY EDITORS BOOK REVIEW EDITOR ASSISTANT Julia K. Baker \u2022 Carolin Donhauser Todd Heidt Alexandra Hagen \u2022 Todd Heidt SUBSCRIPTIONS, MAILING Wolfgang L\u00fcckel \u2022 Daniel McGee Laura Traser-Vas Debbie Page \u2022 Silke Schade TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Erick Urbaniak \u2022 Aine Zimmerman Ferenc Traser EDITORIAL BOARD Dr. David N. Coury, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Dr. Herman J. De Vries Jr., Calvin College Dr. Britta Kallin, Georgia Tech Dr. J. Gregory Redding, Washington and Jefferson College", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-506", "words": "7190", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Harrington, Giles", "title": "Homo-Mercedes and Heimatlosigkeit: Arnold Stadler's Ein hinreissender Schrotth\u00e4ndler", "date": "2006", "keywords": "author; der; die; ein; german; heimat; heimatlosigkeit; hinreissender; ich; memory; mercedes; narrator; novel; pain; past; protagonist; province; schrotth\u00e4ndler; stadler; und; walser; war", "summary": "This is a realization reached also by earlier narrators in the Stadler oeuvre, who are also often the putative composers of the novels. The narrator of Faserland narrator vomits violently and repeatedly in the text, invoking the void within the individual in a German society characterized by corporate identities, over-identification with logos and the hybridization of the German language.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-507", "words": "5408", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Schade, Silke", "title": "Emine Sevgi \u00d6zdamar's Berlin: Linking Migration and Home in Die Br\u00fccke vom Goldnen Horn", "date": "2006", "keywords": "berlin; city; cosmopolitanism; die; emine; home; migration; new; protagonist; sense; sevgi; space; turkish; \u00f6zdamar", "summary": "Before actively placing herself in the city, the protagonist gradually gathers up these images of Berlin spaces to take home to the dormitory with her. She constructs a new, locality-based cosmopolitanism that is made up of active engagement with physical space and multiple social attachments.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-508", "words": "6668", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Krueger, Katharine Byrne", "title": "The Long, Dusty Highway: The German Postwar Generation in the Road Films of Wim Wenders", "date": "2006", "keywords": "alice; america; bruno; characters; generation; german; parent; phillip; road; robert; wenders", "summary": "Like Alice in the Cities, which follows Phillip\u2019s solo wanderings in America and then with a young girl named Alice from New York through Holland and Germany, Wenders\u2019s Kings of the Road (1976), explores the journeys of postwar generation characters \u2014 Bruno, a movie projector repairman, and Robert, a man recently separated from his wife \u2014 across the divided German landscape. One cannot help but hope that postwar generation audiences would have learned from this subtle vow.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-509", "words": "7654", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Ryland, Charlotte", "title": "Wenn wir weiterleben wollen, mu\u00df dieser Satz widerlegt werden: Rewriting Adorno in the Debate on post-Holocaust Poetry", "date": "2006", "keywords": "adorno; auschwitz; culture; debate; die; enzensberger; essay; german; grass; holocaust; poetry; reality; society; statement; und", "summary": "Enzensberger\u2019s re-interpretation of Adorno\u2019s dialectical argument as stating the impossibility of poetry after Auschwitz is evident in his paraphrasing of Adorno\u2019s supposed argument: Der Philosoph Theodor W. Adorno hat einen Satz ausgesprochen, der zu den h\u00e4rtesten Urteilen geh\u00f6rt, die \u00fcber unsere Yet, Adorno argues, cultural critics and artists continue to believe in their autonomy, and thus do not FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 53 act to prevent their reification in society.8 Adorno is, therefore, taking issue neither with culture per se, nor with particular forms or types of culture, but with the intimate relationship between culture and society, according to which each cultural product inserts itself into current reality and so contributes to the continuation of that reality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-510", "words": "7344", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Ilett, Darren", "title": "The Poetics of Deniable Plausibility in Rainer Maria Rilke's \"Die Turnstunde\"", "date": "2006", "keywords": "academy; anxiety; cadets; demetz; der; karl; krix; maria; military; narrative; narrator; plausibility; rainer; rilke; school; secret; story; turnstunde", "summary": "Much of the scholarship on \u201cDie Turnstunde\u201d focuses on the relationship between Rilke\u2019s works and his experiences as a student at the Austro-Hungarian military academies in St. P\u00f6lten and M\u00e4hrisch- Wei\u00dfkirchen.4 Other research considers the structure of the text and its language and situates \u201cDie Turnstunde\u201d in Rilke\u2019s oeuvre generally and in relationship to his novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge specifically.5 The crucial topic of sexuality remains, however, relatively unexamined. The same tensions also inform Rilke\u2019s comments regarding the text\u2019s composition as well as its later reception.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-511", "words": "3854", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Jackson, Theodore", "title": "Struggle for Recognition: The Saint Louis Schillerverein", "date": "2006", "keywords": "american; culture; der; die; german; louis; members; post; recognition; saint; schillerverein; und; westliche", "summary": "The existence of such a serious club for the sole purpose of protecting German language and literature must have indicated a threat, imagined or real, to German culture. In his book entitled Germans in Missouri, David Detjen confirms the importance of Vereine: \u201c[T]he primary way in which many German- Americans in St. Louis identified with German culture was through personal contact with other German-Americans in various ethnic social organizations\u201d (15).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-512", "words": "5994", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Bagi, Viktoria", "title": "Reported Speech Techniques in the Language Use of Non-Native Speakers of German", "date": "2006", "keywords": "german; ich; non; present; quotative; speakers; speech; tense; und", "summary": "All of them live in an environment where they are surrounded by German native speakers on a daily basis. Examining this aspect of reported speech can be fruitful, because it may enable us to detect certain stages of pragmatic development and interlanguage phenomena with non-native speakers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-513", "words": "4174", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Hrisztova-Gotthardt, Hrisztalina", "title": "Neue Besen kehren gut, aber die alten kennen die Ecken: Zum Stellenwert von Sprichw\u00f6rtern und Antisprichw\u00f6rtern im DaF-Unterricht", "date": "2006", "keywords": "als; antisprichw\u00f6rtern; auch; auf; beispiele; daf; das; dem; der; des; deutschen; die; duden; ein; eine; f\u00fcr; ist; k\u00f6nnen; man; mit; nicht; oder; par\u00f6mien; sich; sie; sind; sprache; sprichw\u00f6rter; und; unterricht; von; werden; wird; zum", "summary": "Die Sprichw\u00f6rter dienen aber nicht nur der Vermittlung richtiger grammatischer Strukturen, sie erf\u00fcllen auch pragmatische Funktionen und verf\u00fcgen \u00fcber einen soziokulturellen Charakter. Die Rolle der Sprichw\u00f6rter im DaF-Unterricht Unter", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-514", "words": "19149", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Heidt, Todd", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2006", "keywords": "aber; als; art; auch; auf; aus; aus der; bei; bettine; bis; bleibt; book; brother; case; chapter; dabei; damm; das; dass; david; dem; den; der; deren; des; dessen; die; diese; durch; eine; essays; familie; film; focus; fontane; frankfurt; french; f\u00fcr; german; geschichte; gravenkamp; haben; hat; heinrich; hier; history; holocaust; ihre; immer; ist; ist der; jahre; jedoch; keilson; koopmann; k\u00f6nnen; leben; leser; life; literature; mann; media; mit; mit der; nach; narrative; national; nazi; new; nicht; noch; novel; nur; oder; ohne; reader; representation; reviews; schiller; sein; seiner; selbst; sich; sich der; sie; sind; sloterdijk; sondern; sprache; story; studies; study; subjektivit\u00e4t; text; thomas; und; university; volume; von; von den; vor; war; werden; werk; wie; wieder; wien; wird; works; world; wurde; zeit; zum; zur; zwei; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "So bezieht er in der von der Forschung 174 BOOK REVIEWS stark umstrittenen Frage der Echtheit zweier Briefe Beethovens an Bettine, in denen der Komponist sich abf\u00e4llig \u00fcber Goethe und dessen \u00fcbertriebenen Hang zur Selbstdarstellung am Hofe des F\u00fcrsten \u00e4u\u00dfert, klar Stellung. D\u00e4monisch ist dabei, was sich abhebt von der jeweils g\u00fcltigen Matrix, wobei es von Bedeutung ist, das D\u00e4monische nicht allein", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-515", "words": "2633", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "L\u00fcckel, Wolfgang", "title": "Wanderzirkus der Deutschen Literatur: Interview mit Wilfried Barner zur Gruppe 47", "date": "2006", "keywords": "aber; auch; auf; das; dass; den; der; die; eine; focus; gruppe; hat; ist; man; mit; nicht; sich; sie; und; von; war; wie", "summary": "Die Gruppe ist auch in ihren letzten Jahren FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 191 nie eigentlich elit\u00e4r gewesen, sondern hat gerade bewusst die \u00d6ffentlichkeit gesucht. Das fiel umso mehr auf, als es eben sonst kaum Frauen in der Gruppe 47 gab.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-516", "words": "3473", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Baker, Julia K.", "title": "Creativity in the Midst of Cruelty: A Conversation with George Brady and Michael A. Meyer about life in Terezin and the Tasks of the Holocaust", "date": "2006", "keywords": "children; focus; george; german; hana; story", "summary": "When I went to the website, which is dedicated to Hana\u2019s Suitcase and the memory of your family, I stumbled across the \u201cquestions & answers section\u201d on the website http://www.hanassuitcase.ca which lists questions children have asked you. Since 1967 he has been on the faculty of HUC, Cincinnati, where he currently serves as the Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-517", "words": "3293", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Traser-Vas, Laura", "title": "Liebhaber der Literatur und der Kunst: Ein Gespr\u00e4ch mit Alexander Kosenina", "date": "2006", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; berlin; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; ein; eine; focus; f\u00fcr; habe; hat; ich; ist; man; mich; mit; nicht; sich; sie; und; von; war; wie; \u00fcber", "summary": "Wenn man etwa Panofsky \u00fcber D\u00fcrers Melencolia I. liest, gehen einem die Augen auf und man versteht, dass die Deutung eines einzigen Bildes ungeheuer viel Wissen erfordert, von der antiken Astronomie \u00fcber die Humoralpathologie bis zur Symbolsprache der Renaissance. Deswegen habe ich mich auf die Suche nach der Wahrnehmung von Gelehrten gemacht, mit der Frage, ob deutsche Autoren und Maler mit Blick auf uns Narren wirklich so spr\u00f6de und humorlos sind, wie es das Vorurteil will.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-518", "words": "1869", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "L\u00fcckel, Wolfgang", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "2006", "keywords": "cincinnati; focus; german; literature; studies; university", "summary": "The American dream in German literature and film \u2022 Holocaust literature / Blut-und-Boden literature \u2022 Romantic literature (\u201eGolden Age\u201c vs. \u201cNachtseitiges\u201d) \u2022 Weimarer Klassik (the construction of a harmonious society) \u2022 Utopian courtly societies in medieval literature \u2022 Allegorical thinking in the literature of the Baroque \u2022 Films referring to utopian / dystopian ideas \u2022 Escapist literature \u2022 Political literature \u2022 GDR literature \u2022 His research interests include fin- de-si\u00e8cle literature and art, film studies, queer studies, gender studies, transnational German literature, and German Orientalism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-519", "words": "3895", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "L\u00fcckel, Wolfgang", "title": "Front mater", "date": "2007", "keywords": "author; cincinnati; der; editor; focus; german; graduate; meinecke; student; studies; thomas; todd; und; university; year", "summary": "Each article considered for this volume was refereed by two or more of the following professors: Dr. Benjamin Bennett, University of Virginia Dr. Todd Herzog, University of Cincinnati Dr. Julia Bertschik, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin Dr. Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, University of Maine, Orono Dr. Anke Biendarra, University of California, Irvine Dr. Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Andreas B\u00f6hn, Universit\u00e4t Karlsruhe Dr. Stefan Keppler, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin Dr. Claudia Breger, Indiana University Bloomington Dr. Wolf Kittler, University of California, Santa Barbara Dr. Paul Brians, Washington State University Dr. Todd Kontje, University of California, San Diego Dr. Stephen E. Bronner, Rutgers University Dr. Richard Langston, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dr. Steven Cerf, Bowdoin College Dr. Karen Leeder, University of Oxford Dr. Paul Cooke, University of Leeds Dr. Martin Liebscher, University College London Dr. Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Missouri State University Dr. Gunther Mertens, Universiteit Gent Dr. Wolfgang D\u00fcsing, Universit\u00e4t Mainz Dr. Fatima Naqvi, Rutgers University Dr. Matthew Erlin, Washington University in Saint Louis Dr. Peter C. Pfeiffer, Georgetown University Dr. Helen Fehervary, Ohio State University Dr. Anke Pinkert, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Devin Fore, Princeton University Dr. Benjamin Robinson, Indiana University Bloomington Dr. Christophe Fricker, Duke University Dr. Richard E. Schade, University of Cincinnati Dr. Sara Friedrichsmeyer, University of Cincinnati Dr. Ellis Shookman, Dartmouth College Dr. Katharina Gerstenberger, University of Cincinnati Dr. Oliver Simons, Harvard University Dr. Rolf Goebel, University of Alabama in Huntsville Dr. Sabine Wilke, University of Washington Dr. Dirk G\u00f6ttsche, University of Nottingham Dr. Rhys W. Williams, Swansea University Dr. Roman Graf, Middlebury College Microsoft Word - focus14.doc Edited by Wolfgang L\u00fcckel Todd Heidt Published by the German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of Cincinnati ii Focus on German Studies is published annually by the German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of Cincinnati EDITOR-IN-CHIEF BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Wolfgang L\u00fcckel Todd Heidt COPY EDITORS BOOK REVIEW EDITOR ASSISTANT Joshua Arnold \u2022", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-520", "words": "5553", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Widmann, Andreas Martin", "title": "Garten Eden in einem anderen Deutschland: Kontrafaktische Geschichte als Utopie in Michael Kleebergs Ein Garten im Norden", "date": "2007", "keywords": "als; anderen; auch; auf; aus; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; deutschland; die; dieser; durch; ein; eine; erz\u00e4hler; f\u00fcr; garten; geschichte; historischen; ist; kleebergs; klein; kontrafaktische; mit; nach; nicht; norden; nur; oder; roman; sich; sie; sind; und; utopie; utopischen; von; war; wenn; werden; wie; wird; zum; zur; \u00fcber", "summary": "Ein Garten im Norden wurde von der Kritik \u00fcberwiegend mit Zustimmung bedacht,6 von der germanistischen Forschung bislang hingegen nur vereinzelt zur Kenntnis genommen. Erinnerungen des Erz\u00e4hlers behaupten sich auch in der Fiktion und in der Handlung um den Bankier Klein.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-521", "words": "6902", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Matthes, Frauke", "title": "\u201cWas deutsch ist, bestimmen wir\": Definitions of (Turkish-) Germanness in Feridun Zaimoglu's Kanak Sprak and Koppstoff", "date": "2007", "keywords": "der; die; german; germanness; identity; ist; kanak; kanak sprak; kanaken; koppstoff; language; mainstream; new; power; sprak; term; turkish; turks; und; use; women; zaimo\u011flu", "summary": "As a prominent feature of the German language (which also includes ignoring the capitalization of nouns in Kanak Sprak), this technique suggests a strong sense of fighting against the German mainstream by linguistically using German \u201cweapons:\u201d primarily pejorative words such as \u201cAlemangeschichtsfick,\u201d FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 14 29 \u201cInsgesichtspucker,\u201d \u201cRadieschenvonuntenricher,\u201d \u201cAlemanweitewelt\u201d (Aynur, 34, K\u00fcnstlerin; Koppstoff 32-4) reveal a conscious parody of the German use of compounds. In this sense, the writer Zaimo\u011flu seems to know exactly how to \u201cexploit\u201d his own experiences of his (and his parents\u2019) marginality that he has successfully shifted to the attention of the \u201ccenter:\u201d Kanak Sprak and Koppstoff were written about ten years ago, at a time when Zaimo\u011flu himself shook up the literary mainstream with the FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 14 31 creation of his \u201cKanak Sprak.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-522", "words": "5584", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Krylova, Katya", "title": "The Function of the Analyst: Bachmann's Malina Read Through Lacan", "date": "2007", "keywords": "analysand; analysis; analyst; bachmann; desire; ego; father; ich; lacanian; malina; real; subject; symbolic", "summary": "The Subject The anonymous Ich, or I-subject, of Malina evokes all four principles central to Lacanian psychoanalysis: the unconscious, repetition, transference, and the drive. However, the Hegelian desire that Malina manifests is by no means constitutive of Lacanian psychoanalysis where \u201cthe desire proper to the analyst\u201d is \u201cthe desire to obtain absolute difference\u201d between himself and the analysand, thus allowing the analysand\u2019s own truth to emerge in the treatment (cf.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-523", "words": "10002", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Schacherl, J\u00fcrgen", "title": "\u201cWarte, warte noch ein Weilchen...\": Towards a History of the Serial Killer in German Film History", "date": "2007", "keywords": "american; antik\u00f6rper; art; buttgereit; der; dir; dvd; eds; film; focus; genre; german; haarmann; haneke; history; horror; kargl; killer; lang; murder; schramm; serial; studies; tattoo", "summary": "This observation of temporal correlation can be paralleled or extended to the production of serial killer films, the most famous of which were all made in the Weimar era. Since then, the approaches of 56 TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE SERIAL KILLER IN GERMAN FILM HISTORY instrumentalization and metaphorization (ibid) have remained an essential part of German serial killer film production.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-524", "words": "5746", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Anke, Darren", "title": "TechnikStil und StilTechniken: Technik als Topos neusachlicher \u00c4sthetik", "date": "2007", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; becker; berlin; brecht; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; durch; eine; frankfurt; f\u00fcr; hrsg; ist; literatur; lyrik; maschine; mensch; mit; nach; neuen; neusachlicher; nicht; nur; sachlichkeit; selbst; sich; suhrkamp; technik; technischen; und; von; werden; wie; wird; zit; zum; zur; \u00e4sthetik; \u00fcber", "summary": "In einer Zeit, in der der technische Fortschritt an den Ma\u00dfst\u00e4ben von h\u00f6chstm\u00f6glichster Leistungseffizienz gemessen wird, deren popul\u00e4re Formeln Tempo und Rekord hei\u00dfen, wird der beschleunigte Rhythmus zum Charakteristikum insbesondere der gro\u00dfst\u00e4dtischer Wahrnehmung. Das aggressive und \u201eteuflische T\u00f6ff-T\u00f6ff\u201c (Marinetti 5) des Expressionismus und Futurismus l\u00f6st sich nun auf in dem neuen \u201eSang der Maschinen\u201c (Brecht), in dem \u201eLied der R\u00e4der\u201c; in das der von der Angst vor der Technik befreite Mensch einstimmt: \u201eOb ich Herr bin, ob ich diene: nur zusammen sind wir Rhythmus.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-525", "words": "8126", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Murnane, Barry", "title": "Aber merken Sie sich, ein Gespenst ist ein Gespenst: Zum Gespenstischen in Kafkas Betrachtung \"Ungl\u00fccklichsein\"", "date": "2007", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; betrachtung; das; das gespenst; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; eine; erscheinung; erz\u00e4hler; etwas; frankfurt; franz; f\u00fcr; gespenst; gespenstern; gespenstischen; gespr\u00e4ch; hier; hrsg; ist; kafkas; kann; man; mit; nach; natur; nicht; nur; oder; phantastischen; selbst; sich; sie; sind; sondern; sprache; text; und; ungl\u00fccklichsein; vgl; von; vor; werden; wie; wird; zum; zur; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "F\u00fcr Sophie von Glinski, die das Gespenst als erneutes Beispiel der imaginierten und f\u00fcr objektiv genommenen subjektiven Setzungen des Fr\u00fchwerks ansieht, wiederum nicht.6 Diesen interpretatorischen Ans\u00e4tzen gemeinsam (mit Ausnahme von Dierks) Der Akt des Erz\u00e4hlens war es, der in \u201eUngl\u00fccklichsein\u201c zur Geisterbeschw\u00f6rung des Kindes als kleines Gespenst f\u00fchrte: Die Sprache war es, die das Gespenst als solches entstehen lie\u00df.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-526", "words": "6498", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Bangert, Axel", "title": "Widerstreit zwischen \"Marchen\" und \"Wirklichkeit\": Robert Musils \"Tonka\" als eine Auseinandersetzung mit Friedrich Nietzsches Kritik am Begriff der Wahrheit", "date": "2007", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; begriff; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; ebd; eine; erinnerung; erkenntnis; erz\u00e4hlung; f\u00fcr; ihre; indem; inneren; kritik; menschen; mit; musils; m\u00e4rchen; nicht; nietzsches; nur; protagonisten; seiner; sich; sie; sondern; tonka; und; vom; von; wahrheit; wahrnehmung; war; wie; wird; wirklichkeit; zum; zur; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Dem Handlungsbogen der Erz\u00e4hlung entsprechend, der sich von der Idealisierung Tonkas bis zur ihrer Entzauberung spannt, werden dem Protagonisten seine Erinnerungen an Tonka sp\u00e4terhin \u201ealle zweideutig\u201c und besagen ihm schlie\u00dflich \u201edas Gegenteil von dem, was sie anfangs bedeuteten\u201c (296, 278). Die von Nietzsche in seinem Sp\u00e4twerk vertretene", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-527", "words": "6743", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Henderson, Dayton", "title": "Reading Trauma as an Extension of the Uncanny in Hofmannsthal's \"Reitergeschichte\"", "date": "2007", "keywords": "das; den; der; des; die; doppelg\u00e4nger; ego; eine; freud; hofmannsthal; lerch; memory; mit; novella; past; reitergeschichte; sich; squadron; studies; trauma; und; van; von; vuic; war", "summary": "This Tr\u00e4umerei is notable for creating a subjective breach of an otherwise objective narration that displaces Lerch from the spatial/temporal continuity of the rest of the novella. (41) It takes a moment for Lerch to remember what to call the woman.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-528", "words": "17905", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Heidt, Todd", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2007", "keywords": "aber; als; art; auch; auf; aus; author; book; burnett; chapter; cohen; corngold; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; doch; durch; east; eine; focus; franz; freud; f\u00fcr; gay; german; gilman; grass; hat; hens; isabelle; ist; jakob; jonas; kafka; k\u00f6rper; life; literarischen; literature; menschen; mit; mit der; moritz; musil; nach; narrative; new; nicht; novel; oder; ohne; reader; reviews; roman; schon; seele; seiner; self; sich; sie; simmons; sind; society; stories; studies; text; theory; thought; time; und; university; von; walser; war; way; wenn; werden; wie; wird; work; world; writing; zum; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "In der letzten Erz\u00e4hlung \u201eDer ganze Weg\u201c stirbt ein alter Zirkustiger, bevor ein Tierpfleger einen Artisten erschl\u00e4gt, weil der die von ihm betreuten Lamas gequ\u00e4lt hat. W\u00fcnschen der Figuren und der Realit\u00e4t, der n\u00fcchterne Tonfall, mit dem diese Wirklichkeit geschildert wird und in der ab und zu etwas aufzublitzen scheint wie der Vogelschwarm, der sich in der Erz\u00e4hlung \u201eGethsemane\u201c im Schwimmbecken spiegelt, unmittelbar bevor der alte Mann ins Wasser eintaucht: \u201eV\u00f6llig glatt und unber\u00fchrt liegt die Wasseroberfl\u00e4che da und erscheint in ihrer Reglosigkeit fast konvex, so da\u00df Raul, schon vorgeneigt zum Sprung, momentelang nicht wei\u00df, ob der Himmel mit den pl\u00f6tzlich wieder auftauchenden Vogelschw\u00e4rmen \u00fcber oder unter ihm ist\u201c (112).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-529", "words": "5486", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "L\u00fcckel, Wolfgang", "title": "... eine Kugel vor sich Herrollen, die immer Fetter wird: Interview mit dem Popliterarten und Musiker Thomas Meinecke", "date": "2007", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; dann; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; eine; etwas; focus; f\u00fcr; gibt; habe; hat; ich; immer; ist; man; meinecke; mich; mir; mit; musik; nicht; oder; sehr; sich; sie; sind; sondern; und; von; war; weil; wenn; wie; wieder; wird; \u00fcber", "summary": "Insofern erl\u00e4utert mein Buch Dinge, die man in der Ausstellung sieht, aber umgekehrt ist es nicht Dennoch schaut man her\u00fcber, um zu sehen, was im anderen K\u00e4fig passiert \u2013 eine Rivalisierung mit dem eigenen Geschlecht, die man auch an sich selbst beobachtet.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-530", "words": "2411", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Widmann, Martin", "title": "Repr\u00e4sentativer Au\u00dfenseiter der Deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein Gespr\u00e4ch mit dem Schriftsteller und \u00fcbersetzer Michael Kleeberg", "date": "2007", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; das; dem; den; der; des; die; ein; focus; f\u00fcr; ist; man; mit; nicht; sich; sie; sind; und; von; wie", "summary": "Aber bestimmt ist der Einfluss des Lebens au\u00dferhalb von Deutschland auf meine Existenz und mein Schreiben gro\u00df: in der Unabh\u00e4ngigkeit und Originalit\u00e4t der Stoffwahl, dem Ab- stand des Blickes, dem gr\u00f6\u00dferen Erfahrungs- und historischen Echoraum. Aber wenn man sich einmal umschaut in der deutschen Literatur und Geschichte, dann ist es schon so: Es sind meist Landpomeranzen (bzw.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-531", "words": "1744", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "McGee, Dan", "title": "German Cinema: A Plurality of Visions: An Interview with Gerd Gem\u00fcnden", "date": "2007", "keywords": "cinema; film; focus; german", "summary": "Many more German films have appeared as Oscar nominees in the past few years; we had not seen a true success for German film since the 1970s with The Tin Drum\u2019s Oscar win. German film has always been international, especially in the case of Weimar Cinema.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-532", "words": "2763", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Ennis, Michael", "title": "Man Lernt immer mehr und anderes, als man erwartet: Ein Gespr\u00e4ch mit Gesa Dane", "date": "2007", "keywords": "als; auch; das; den; der; die; ein; eine; focus; f\u00fcr; hier; ich; ist; literatur; man; mit; nicht; sich; sie; sind; und; von; wie", "summary": "Blick auf die Literatur vor allem die beiden literarischen Vergewaltigungsf\u00e4lle der r\u00f6mischen Lucretia und der Clarissa aus Richardsons gleichnamigen Briefroman die gro\u00dfen Para- digmata sind, auf die literarisch immer wieder Bezug genommen wird: Bei der Lucretia geschieht dies im Hinblick auf die Politisierung der Tatfolgen einer Vergewaltigung, die zum Die Literatur thematisiert die Leiden vergewaltigter Frauen, gleichg\u00fcltig, ob diesen das Attribut der Ehre oder sp\u00e4ter der gute Ruf zuerkannt wurde oder nicht.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-533", "words": "1516", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Guck-Gefall, Leon W.", "title": "Friede der Germanistik, Krieg den Banausen: Eine Seance mit Georg B\u00fcchner", "date": "2007", "keywords": "als; auch; das; den; der; die; doch; focus; hat; ich; nicht; sich; sie; und; war", "summary": "Ich war doch froh, dass Bertolt Brecht sich sp\u00e4ter meiner revolution\u00e4ren Erkenntnisse annahm, die ich aufgrund meines fr\u00fchzeitigen Ablebens nun nicht mehr vertreten konnte. FOCUS Abschlie\u00dfend eine Frage zum akademischen Nachwuchs: Wie beurteilen Sie die Einf\u00fchrung der Studiengeb\u00fchren in Deutschland?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-534", "words": "2001", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "L\u00fcckel, Wolfgang", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "2007", "keywords": "culture; focus; german; images; literature; studies; university", "summary": "We invite students from all disciplines to submit paper proposals responding to these or similar questions related to German visual culture in a modern or pre-modern context. The late 19th century saw the dawn of a series of technological advances in the form of photography and film which have marked German culture ever since.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-535", "words": "3602", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Heidt, Todd", "title": "Front mater", "date": "2008", "keywords": "berlin; book; cincinnati; college; department; editor; focus; german; graduate; journal; literature; research; studies; university; year", "summary": "Each article considered for this volume was referreed by two or more of the following professors: Katherine Arens, University of Texas, Austin Kader Konuk, University of Michigan Ben Bennet, Universty of Virginia Karen Leeder, University of Oxford Hunter Bivens, Moravian College Karl Leydecker, University of Kent Ruth Bottigheimer, SUNY Stoneybrook Georg Lilienthal, Universit\u00e4t Mainz Robin Clouser, Ursinus College Moray McGowan, Trinity College Dublin Monika Hohbein-Deegen, UW Oshkosh Joseph O'Neil, University of Kentucky Randall P. Donaldson, Loyola College, Maryland Rainer Rumold, Northwestern University Christian J. Emden, Rice University Gerhard Richter, University of California, Davis Helen Fronius, University of Oxford Renata Schellenberg, Mt. Allison University, Canada Mila Ganeva, Miami University, Oxford OH James Skidmore, University of Waterloo Canada Gerd Gemunden, Dartmouth College Judd Stitziel, PhD, Johns Hopkins University Katharina Gerstenberger, University of Cincinnati Jamie Trnka, Scranton University Katja Hartmann, Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin Florence Vatan, UW Milwaukee Todd Herzog, University of Cincinnati Sabine Wilke, Washingston University, Seattle Goeff Howes, Bowling Green State University Ute W\u00f6lfel, University of Reading, UK Darren Ilett, Michigan State University Mark Wolfgram, Oklahoma State University Anna Kaminsky, Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED Diktatur Ulf Zimmerman, Kennesaw State University Erich Kleinschmidt, Universit\u00e4t zu K\u00f6ln Nina Zimnik, P\u00e4dagogishe Hochschule Zentralschweiz, Luzern We reserve the right to make any necessary editing changes without the express written permission of the authors. Dr. Herman J. De Vries, Jr., Calvin College Dr. Britta Kallin, Georgia Tech Dr. J. Gregory Redding, Wabash College Dr. Jeffrey Dean Todd, Texas Christian University Dr. Michael Rice, Middle Tennessee State University Dr. B\u00e4rbel Such, Ohio University Ms. Tonya Hampton, ABD, University of Cincinnati Dr. David Prickett, Associate Member, Zentrum f\u00fcr transdiziplin\u00e4rische Geschelchterstudien, HU, Berlin Dr. Susanne Lenn\u00e9 Jones, University of Wisconsin \u2013 Milwaukee Dr. Silke Schade, University of British Columbia \u2013 Vancouver Ms. Aine Zimmerman, ABD, Hunter College Dr. Julia K. Baker, Tennessee Tech Dr. Laura Traser-Vas, University of Cincinnati Mr. Wolfgang L\u00fcckel, ABD, University of Cincinnati CONTACT ADDRESS Send correspondence and subscription fees to: Focus on German Studies, PO Box 210372 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0372, USA Phone: (513)556-2755 Fax: (513)556-1991 Council of Editors of Learned Journals ISSN 1076-5697 COVER \u201cThe Book Fool\u201d from Sebastian Brant\u2019s Ship of Fools, London, 1570.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-536", "words": "5164", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Mansky, Matthias", "title": "Oesterreichische Kollisionen mit dem etablierten Literaturkanon. Zu Cornelius von Ayrenhoff", "date": "2008", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; ayrenhoff; bis; cornelius; das; dem; den; der; des; die; drang; eine; friedrich; f\u00fcr; goethe; hat; hrsg; ist; johann; kom\u00f6die; lessing; literatur; lustspiel; mit; nicht; oder; postzug; seiner; sich; sie; sind; studies; sturm; theater; und; von; werden; wiener; wird; zum; zur; \u00f6sterreichischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Seine satirischen Kommentare spiegeln vielmehr eine von der neueren Literaturwissenschaft er\u00f6rterte allgemeine josephinische werden von der Zensur nach nur wenigen Auff\u00fchrungen erneut vom Theater vertrieben.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-537", "words": "6312", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Shen, Qinna", "title": "Feminist Redemption of the Witch Grimm and Michelet as Nineteenth-Century Models", "date": "2008", "keywords": "century; christianity; church; deutsche; faust; feminist; grimm; jacob; michelet; mythologie; new; tales; und; witch; witchcraft; witches; women", "summary": "(881-2) Witches obeyed and sacrificed to \u201cfrau Holda\u201d on Horselberg, a trysting-place of witches in Thuringia, but there is no mention of a 24 FEMINIST REDEMPTION OF THE WITCH covenant with the devil: \u201cvon einem bund mit dem teufel aber durchaus noch keine rede ist\u201d (882). Drawing on Michelet, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English\u2019s well-known Witches, Midwives, Nurses: A History of Women Healers (1973) focuses precisely on this key aspect of witches as women healers to which Michelet dedicates so much of his book.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-538", "words": "8588", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Weixler, Antonius", "title": "Die optische Kluft. Vor-Augen-Stellen in Carl Einsteins Poetik des Transvisuellen", "date": "2008", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; augen; aus; bebuquin; begriff; bei; bild; carl; carl einstein; damit; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; diskurswandel; durch; eine; einstein; f\u00fcr; gestalt; hat; hier; hrsg; ist; kann; kiefer; kluft; kunst; literatur; man; mit; nach; nicht; noch; nur; oder; optische; sehen; sich; sie; sprache; stellen; studies; text; textes; transvisuelle; und; vgl; vision; von; vor; werden; werke; wie; wird; zum; zur; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Einsteins Sprachkritik ist durchaus noch radikaler als Nietzsches, indem er mit der Metaphorik in der Literatur, der Perspektive in der Malerei und der Narration in der Plastik die Genetik und Literarizit\u00e4t und damit verbunden die Innerlichkeit der westlichen Kultur kritisiert und demgegen\u00fcber die unmittelbare \u2013 und \u201eprior to any articulation in form or concept\u201c (Haxthausen, \u201eEkphrasis: Die Entstehung der Gattung in der Antike.\u201c", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-539", "words": "8073", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Linden, Ari", "title": "Textual Suicide, Divine Violence, and the Unwritten Law in Kafkas In der Strafkolonie", "date": "2008", "keywords": "benjamin; colony; der; derrida; kafka; language; law; man; officer; story; strafkolonie; text; violence; world", "summary": "The notion of the extreme emerges once again in Benjamin\u2019s \u201cCritique of Violence,\u201d this time in the service of explaining the origin of mythic law, or, as we will see, of law as such. Benjamin understands mythic law to have both a law-creating and law-preserving function (though he separates the two), which can only be undone by the irruption of what he will call \u201cdivine violence.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-540", "words": "9767", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Kley, Martin", "title": "Industrieliteratur Reconsidered: Weimar Communists on Labor and Rationalization", "date": "2008", "keywords": "als; art; authors; communist; das; der; des; die; division; fahne; focus; germany; kunst; labor; life; literature; marx; new; production; rationalization; republic; rote; soviet; studies; texts; time; und; verlag; weimar; work; workers", "summary": "In this article, I will look at little-known communist worker- authors\u2019 (Arbeiterkorrespondenten) non- and semi-fictional writings about industrial labor and the ways in which they aided the establishment of this desired synthesis between labor and literature within an expanded notion of proletarian culture.2 More concretely, I will focus on this literary issue within the larger context of debates about labor, its status and organization, and its real and perceived changes at the time \u2013 a context that found its clearest discursive expression in the debate about rationalization. Therefore, the questions I would like to pose at the outset are: why does labor theory enter so rarely into accounts of writing about industrial labor?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-541", "words": "6624", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Berger, Karina", "title": "Children of the Lebensborn: the Search for Identity in Selected Literary Texts of the Berlin Republic", "date": "2008", "keywords": "berta; children; das; der; die; generation; heidenreich; lebensborn; literature; mother; narrative; nazi; organization; past; schmitz; texts; und; war", "summary": "Unfortunately, their claims to have found evidence of \u201cplanned reproduction\u201d in Lebensborn homes only served to increase the confusion surrounding the institution, and were later found to be unreliable (Henry and Hillel 76-98).5 Nonetheless, Henry and Hillel can be credited with being the first to supply the public with original documentation and generally forcing the issue into the open. 15 Children born in Lebensborn homes were \u201cchristened\u201d by the SS, thus automatically becoming members, and stood under the official legal guardianship of the SS.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-542", "words": "23937", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Hagen, Alexandra", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2008", "keywords": "aber; als; analysis; art; auch; auf; aus; author; bei; body; book; book reviews; borgards; century; chapters; cinema; city; culture; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; d\u00f6rr; eighteenth; eine; enlightenment; ernst; essay; european; film; focus; f\u00fcr; gdr; german; geschichte; girls; handke; hat; hein; history; images; ist; kehlmann; k\u00f6hler; life; literature; long; mit; mit der; movement; nach; narrative; new; nicht; novel; nur; oder; organizations; pain; past; paula; peter; raf; ras; reader; reading; reviews; romanticism; scholarship; sea; sebald; section; seiner; sich; sie; sind; south; stereotypes; studies; study; texts; theodor; time; und; university; von; vor; war; wie; wird; women; works; world; writers; writing; zum; \u00fcber", "summary": "In vielen Briefen klammern sich Theodors Gedanken an bevorstehende Besuche bei Ernst, die als \u201eLichtpunkte\u201c und idyllische Einschnitte in einer ansonsten schwierigen Zeit beschrieben werden: \u201eIn den Ferien Du zu uns, au\u00dfer den Ferien ich zu Dir; irgend eine Arbeit in der Mappe, woran ich Vormittags arbeite, Nachmittags besprechen wir Amtsgerichtliches irgendwelcher Art, Abends lesen wir \u2013 etwa Grillparzer, der doch sehr lesenswerth ist\u201c (179). Widmet sich Winkler jenen Ereignissen des Jahres 1977, die als \u201eDeutscher Herbst\u201c in die bundesdeutsche Geschichtsschreibung eingehen sollten, noch mit recht gro\u00dfer Ausf\u00fchrlichkeit, so findet er f\u00fcr die Zeit zwischen 1977 und 1998 \u2013 dem Jahr der offiziellen Aufl\u00f6sung der RAF \u2013 noch nicht einmal 100 Seiten.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-543", "words": "2375", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Jackson, Wesley", "title": "Provokative Stereotype: Ein Gespraech ueber Suedseeliteratur und das postdramatische Theater Elfriede Jelineks", "date": "2008", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; eine; ist; mit; nicht; oder; sich; sie; theater; und; von; wird; \u00fcber", "summary": "Sie sind sehr provokativ und sie fordern von der Anlage her ein sehr starkes Regietheater, weil sie von der Art der szenischen Phantasie, von der Art der Diskursassemblagen, von der Art der Montagen und individualisierten Figuren, die wir da pr\u00e4sentiert bekommen, FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 15 195 Texte sind, die die Leser und Zuschauer kaum verstehen k\u00f6nnen. Nimmt man nur die eine Szene aus Ulrike Maria Stuart aus Nicolas Stemanns Inszenierung, wo Pappfiguren mit den Bildern vom Deutsche Bank-Chef Josef Ackermann, Altkanzler Gerhard Schr\u00f6der und Kai Diekmann, dem Chefredakteur der Bild-Zeitung, auf die B\u00fchne gestellt werden, die das Publikum mit Wasserbomben bewirft, die die fast nackten Schauspieler von der B\u00fchne herab reichen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-544", "words": "2749", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Hagen, Alexandra", "title": "\u201cMan besucht eine Welt -- wie eine Titanic kurz vor dem Untergang.\u201d Kulturgeschichtliche Reminiszenzen ueber die Deutsch-Deutsche Grenze mit dem Schriftsteller Hans Pleschinski", "date": "2008", "keywords": "als; auch; das; dass; ddr; dem; den; der; die; ein; eine; focus; haben; hat; ich; ist; man; mit; nicht; sehr; sie; und; usa; war", "summary": "Die USA wollten Verb\u00fcndete in Deutschland haben. Die USA waren sehr wichtig f\u00fcr mich, zumal ich 1986 ein wunderbares Stipendium bekam vom \u201eGerman Marshall Fund of the United States\u201c \u2013 eine Danksagung Deutschlands an die USA f\u00fcr den Marshall-Plan.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-545", "words": "2304", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Heidt, Todd", "title": "\u201cWer bestimmt, was gut ist?\u201d: Ein Interview mit Birgit Dahlke", "date": "2008", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; das; ddr; den; der; die; eine; focus; habe; ich; ist; mich; mit; nicht; sich; sie; und; von; war; \u00fcber", "summary": "Ich war im frisch gegr\u00fcndeten Unabh\u00e4ngigen Frauenverband aktiv, musste lernen, gegen den unbekannt-privaten Vermieter meiner Wohnung zu klagen und das westdeutsche Mietrecht oder Krankenversicherungssystem zu verstehen. Zugleich vergesse ich nie, dass ich aus der Gruppe meiner befreundeten WissenschaftlerInnen an der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR fast die einzige bin, die (noch) an einer deutschen Universit\u00e4t angestellt ist.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-546", "words": "1428", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Heidt, Todd", "title": "German Studies from the Medieval to the future: An Interview with Gerhild Scholz Williams", "date": "2008", "keywords": "administration; focus; studies", "summary": "Microsoft Word - focus15 FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 15 217 GERMAN STUDIES FROM THE MEDIEVAL TO THE FUTURE r. I wanted to do some more work on the science of demonology and came upon Johannes Praetorius who had published a hugely popular demonology, \u201cDes Blockes-Berges FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 15 219 Verrichtung,\u201d which served as an inspiration for Goethe.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-547", "words": "1729", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Heidt, Todd", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "2008", "keywords": "communication; film; focus; german; literature; studies; university", "summary": "Her research interests include 20th century German literature, East German literature, Women\u2019s Studies and German film, especially DEFA films. MARTIN KLEY studied at the Universities of Augsburg (Germany), Pittsburgh (where he earned his M.A. in German Studies with a thesis on the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard), and Texas.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-548", "words": "3530", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Alexandra, Hagen", "title": "Front mater", "date": "2009", "keywords": "book; cincinnati; conference; der; editor; focus; german; graduate; journal; literature; media; student; studies; und; university", "summary": "Each article considered for this volume was referreed by two or more of the following professors: Barbara Becker-Cantenino, Ohio State University Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, University of Maine Andreas B\u00f6hn, Universit\u00e4t Karlsruhe Nina Zimnik, P\u00e4dagogische Hochschule Zentralschweiz, Luzern Kai Bremer, Universit\u00e4t Gie\u00dfen Christiane Ivanovic, University of Tokyo Steven Cerf, Bowdoin College Yvonne Ivory, University of South Carolina Amy Ciclo, Washington University St. Louis Dr. Christine K\u00fcnzel, University of Hamburg Kathleen M. Crowther-Heyck, University of Oklahoma Erich Kleinschmidt, Universit\u00e4t K\u00f6ln Gabriele D\u00fcrbeck, Universit\u00e4t Hamburg May Mergenthaler, Ohio State University Christophe Fricker, Duke University Matthew Philpotts, University of Manchester Mila Ganeva, Miami University Heike Polster, University of Memphis Katharina Gerstenberger, University of Cincinnati Silke Schade, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Rolf Goebel, University of Alabama in Huntsville Gehild Scholz-Williams, Washington University, St. Louis Axel Goodbody, University of Bath Jochen Wesche, Universit\u00e4t Augsburg Dirk G\u00f6ttsche, University of Nottingham Scott Windham, Elon University Michael Grazke, University of Edinburgh Sabine Wilke, University of Washington, Seattle Todd Herzog, University of Cincinnati Michael White, University of Edinburgh We reserve the right to make any necessary editing changes without the express written permission of the authors. Dr. Herman J. De Vries, Jr., Calvin College Dr. Britta Kallin, Georgia Tech Dr. J. Gregory Redding, Wabash College Dr. Jeffrey Dean Todd, Texas Christian University Dr. Michael Rice, Middle Tennessee State University Dr. B\u00e4rbel Such, Ohio University Ms. Tonya Hampton, ABD, University of Cincinnati Dr. David Prickett, Associate Member, Zentrum f\u00fcr transdiziplin\u00e4rische Geschelchterstudien, HU, Berlin Dr. Susanne Lenn\u00e9 Jones, East Carolina University Dr. Silke Schade, University of British Columbia \u2013 Vancouver Dr.. Aine Zimmerman, Hunter College, New York Dr. Julia K. Baker, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville Dr. Laura Traser-Vas, American International School of Budapest Wolfgang L\u00fcckel, ABD, University of Cincinnati Todd Heidt, ABD, University of Cincinnati CONTACT ADDRESS Send correspondence and subscription fees to: Focus on German Studies, PO Box 210372 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0372, USA Phone: (513)556-2755 Fax: (513)556-1991 Council of Editors of Learned Journals ISSN 1076-5697 COVER \u2015The Book Fool\u2016 from Sebastian Brant\u2018s Ship of Fools, London, 1570.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-549", "words": "7145", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Vecchiato, Daniele", "title": "MonoLogische Gedichte? \u00dcber Durs Gr\u00fcnbeins Rezeption von Gottfried Benn und Ossip Mandelstam", "date": "2009", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; benn; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; dichter; dichtung; die; diesem; durch; durs; eine; focus; frankfurt; f\u00fcr; gedichte; gegen; gespr\u00e4ch; gottfried; gr\u00fcnbein; hier; hrsg; ihm; indem; ist; kann; literatur; lyrik; mandelstam; mit; monologische; nach; nicht; nur; oder; schreiben; sein; seiner; selbst; sich; sie; sondern; studies; und; verlag; vgl; von; wenn; werden; wie; wird; zum; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Diese Gedichte k\u00f6nnten also \u201emono- logisch\u2015 in dem Sinne sein, dass sie als einzelne Reflexionen, als allein stehende Texte gelten, die als vereinzelte Diskurse poetologische Fragen behandeln. Zentral scheint in diesem Zusammenhang die Studie Mandelstams Gespr\u00e4ch \u00fcber Dante (1933), die als bedeutende Anregung f\u00fcr Gr\u00fcnbeins Galilei vermi\u00dft 16 MONOLOGISCHE GEDICHTE?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-550", "words": "5341", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Schenkel, Guido", "title": "Moving on the Edge: Gender and Mobility in Feridun Zaimoglu's Protocols 'vom Rande der Gesellschaft'", "date": "2009", "keywords": "der; female; gender; german; interview; interviewees; kanak; kanak sprak; koppstoff; male; milieu; mobility; sprak; und; women; zaimo\u011flu", "summary": "While the interviewer makes no secret of having (re-)constructed the actual FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 16 31 wording of the individual protocols (KS 18), it nonetheless figures prominently as a means of dissociation as well as association, in both socio-cultural and gender terms, within the context of the protocols\u2018 fictional logic: \u2015Wider die Zuweisungen von Identit\u00e4t bestimmt die hybride Kunstsprache der Kanak Sprak die \u2017Kanaken-Existenz\u2018 als Pr\u00e4senz\u2016 Feridun Zaimo\u011flu\u2018s Protocols \u2017vom Rande der Gesellschaft\u2018 GUIDO SCHENKEL Also, ich bin nicht ne brave T\u00fcrkenmutti hinterm Herd ... (G\u00fcl, 21, Anarchistin; Koppstoff 31) 1 n 1995, Feridun Zaimo\u011flu rose to fame as the newest \u2017enfant terrible\u2018 of the contemporary German literary community with the publication of Kanak Sprak, a collection of allegedly authentic interviews with young Germans of Turkish descent, whose controversial musings on Turkishness, Germanness and the spaces in between temporarily shook the very foundations of German cultural politics and re-ignited a plethora of discussions on integration, multiculturalism, and the politics of language.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-551", "words": "5373", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Pohl, Peter Christian", "title": "Botschafter des Ungewissen. Kritische Intermedialit\u00e4t bei Kafka und Musil", "date": "2009", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; botschafter; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; duttlinger; eine; focus; f\u00fcr; intermedialit\u00e4t; ist; kafka; karl; kritische; literatur; mit; moe; musil; nicht; ohne; printmedien; roman; sein; selbst; sich; sie; sind; sprache; studies; und; ungewissen; verlag; verschollene; von; werden; wie; wird; zum; zur", "summary": "Das kleine Fahrrad. Die Vers\u00f6hnung der Eltern. Die Ordnung der Dinge.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-552", "words": "5986", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Hoffmann, Nora", "title": "Visualit\u00e4t und Gender in Theodor Fontanes Mathilde M\u00f6hring", "date": "2009", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; blick; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; doch; durch; ebd; ebenso; eine; fontane; fotografie; frau; f\u00fcr; gender; hat; hugo; ihm; ihr; ihre; ist; mann; mathilde; mit; m\u00f6hring; nicht; noch; nur; oder; rue; seiner; sich; sie; theodor; und; vgl; von; wenn; werden; wie; wird; zum", "summary": "In Abgrenzung zu den Naturalisten lehnten die poetischen Realisten die als \u201efixiertes Spiegelbild der Natur\u2015 (Kemp 25) empfundene Fotografie als Vorbild ihres Kunstkonzepts und ihrer Schreibweise ab, da sie nur einen zuf\u00e4lligen Ausschnitt der Wirklichkeit mechanisch wiedergebe, ohne einen im Folgenden die entsprechende Textpassage zitiert, in der Mathilde die Sicht eines Kegelspielers, der sie nur im Profil sieht und darauf feststellt, sie habe ein", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-553", "words": "5495", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Greite, Till", "title": "Transgressionen nach Steinhof. Zu Thomas Bernhards Erz\u00e4hlung Gehen im Kontext der psychiatrischen Anstalt \"Am Steinhof\"", "date": "2009", "keywords": "a. m.; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; bernhard; das; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; eine; foucault; frankfurt; f\u00fcr; gehen; hrsg; immer; ist; kritik; liegt; michel; mit; m\u00fcnchen; nach; nicht; psychiatrie; raum; sich; sie; sind; steinhof; suhrkamp; thomas; und; von; wie; wien; zur; \u00fcber", "summary": "[Bernhards], der die institutionalisierte Macht der K 74 TRANSGRESSIONEN NACH STEINHOF Medizin dem Kranken gegen\u00fcber thematisiert, ist f\u00fcr die Literatur der sechziger Jahre etwas Die Ordnung der Dinge.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-554", "words": "5864", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Assmann, David Christopher", "title": "'Tats\u00e4chliche' Autoren und 'Fiktive' Bilder literaturwissenschaftlichen Umgang mit der Herstellung und Darstellung literarischer Autorschaft", "date": "2009", "keywords": "akteur; als; auch; auf; aus; autor; autoren; autorfunktion; autorschaft; damit; dann; darstellung; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; eine; f\u00fcr; handelnden; hrsg; ist; kann; kommunikation; literarische; literatur; literaturwissenschaftliche; nicht; nur; oder; sich; sie; tats\u00e4chliche; und; unterscheidung; von; werden; wie; wird; zwischen", "summary": "Sichtbar wird so ein 92 TATS\u00c4CHLICHE\u2018 AUTOREN UND ,FIKTIVE\u2018 BILDER ,tats\u00e4chlich\u2018 handelnder Autor, der mit der mehr oder weniger ,fiktiven\u2018 Autorfunktion pragmatisch und strategisch umgehen kann. Einerseits sind der Autor und seine Strategie Kriterium f\u00fcr das Vorliegen einer bestimmten Signifikant-Signifikaten-Hierarchie als solcher.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-555", "words": "28567", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "B\u00fcsch, Marie-Luise", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2009", "keywords": "aber; alex; als; aly; american; auch; auf; aus; author; beilein; benjamin\u2018s; berlin; body; book; book reviews; capital; chapter; characters; cheesman; cinema; critics; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; deutschen; die; diese; durch; east; eine; engagement; essay; family; film; focus; form; f\u00fcr; german; grass; haase; handke; hat; heimat; henker; hier; history; hollywood; identity; ist; kann; language; life; literature; long; love; lynn; medieval; meinhof; memory; mit; mit der; modern; modernity; nach; narrative; nazi; new; nicht; novel; nur; past; presner; reader; reading; reviews; sascha; schon; sebald; sense; sexuality; sich; sie; sind; studies; study; term; texts; time; turm; und; und der; und die; university; use; volume; von; von der; war; way; werden; west; wie; wird; women; work; writers; writing; years; zum; zur; zwischen", "summary": "So erf\u00e4hrt man etwa von der gesch\u00f6nten Biographie der Gr\u00fcnen-Politikerin und ehemaligen Vizepr\u00e4sidentin des Deutschen Bundestags Antje Vollmer und ihrem Engagement in einer \u201emaoistisch- stalinistischen Frontorganisation\u2015 (15). Ob sich aber dem Leser oder Dramaturgen hier neue Entdeckungen erschlie\u00dfen werden, darf \u2013 sieht man von der herausragenden Groteske Der Henker von Brescia ab \u2013 bezweifelt werden.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-556", "words": "1521", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Hagen, Alexandra", "title": "\u201cIn diesem Melodram geh\u00f6rt mir die Hauptrolle. Dagegen hilft nur Ironie. Auch Arrak k\u00f6nnte nicht schaden.\u201d Gefangen Zwischen zwei Welten: Die \u00d6sterreichische Schriftstellerin und filmemacherin Susanne Ayoub berichtet \u00fcber die Literarische und Filmische aufarbeitung ihrer Irakischen Kindheit in ihrer Dokumentation \u201cBaghdad Fragment\u201d", "date": "2009", "keywords": "auch; auf; das; den; der; die; ein; film; focus; ich; nicht; sie; und", "summary": "SA Die radiophone Form verlangt nach Sprache. Menschen, die ich absolut nicht teile und auch nicht akzeptieren kann.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-557", "words": "2308", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "B\u00fcsch, Marie-Luise", "title": "Es gibt Dinge, die sich offensichtlich kulturell nur sehr schwer vermitteln lassen. Ein Gespr\u00e4ch \u00fcber Kulturelle Grenzbereiche der Germanistik mit Christiane Ivanovic", "date": "2009", "keywords": "als; auch; das; den; der; des; die; eine; focus; f\u00fcr; habe; ich; ist; japan; man; mich; mit; sehr; sich; sie; und; von; wie", "summary": "198 GERMAN STUDIES FROM THE MEDIEVAL TO THE FUTURE CI Die Studenten an der Universit\u00e4t Tokyo, die als Eliteuniversit\u00e4t ersten Ranges Die Studierenden haben durch die langfristige Besch\u00e4ftigung und die Pause w\u00e4hrend der Semesterferien die Gelegenheit, das bereits Erarbeitete weiter zu vertiefen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-558", "words": "6163", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Hagen, Alexandra", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "2009", "keywords": "als; auch; cincinnati; conference; das; dem; der; des; film; focus; generation; german; graduate; heimat; identitat; identities; identity; ist; literature; media; research; sich; state; studies; und; university; vom; von; war", "summary": "The prevalence of black Americanness suggests a splintering of German identity that rhetorically locates blackness outside of the German body making blackness something from over there. 205 ocus ON GERMAN STUDIES CONTRIBUTORS 206 CONTRIBUTORS DAVID-CHRISTOPHER AssMANN is a Graduate Fellow at the German\u00ad Italian Graduate College at the Universities of Bonn and Florence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-559", "words": "3970", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Arnold, Joshua", "title": "Front mater", "date": "2010", "keywords": "adobe; alexandra; article; cincinnati; college; department; der; editor; focus; german; graduate; literature; professor; studies; university; volume; von", "summary": "Each article considered for this volume was referreed by two or more of the following professors: Johan \u00c5hr, Hofstra University Todd Herzog, University of Cincinnati Katherine Arens, University of Texas, Austin Jennifer Jordan, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Alan Bairner, Loughborough University Jennifer Kapczynski, Washington University St. Louis Anke Biendarra, University of California, Irvine Matthias Keidel, Dozent f\u00fcr Literatur- und Detlef Briesen, Universit\u00e4t Siegen Kulturwissenschaften, M\u00fclheim an der Ruhr David Ciarlo, University of Cincinnati Douglas Klahr, University of Texas, Arlington Amy Cislo, Washington University St. Louis Alexander Kosenina, Leibniz Universit\u00e4t Hannover Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona Peter Lutze, Boise State University, Idaho Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Northern Kentucky University Siegfried Mews, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Kathleen M. Crowther, University of Oklahoma Julian Preece, Swansea University John E. Davidson, Ohio State University Richard E. Schade, University of Cincinnati Nezih Erdogan, Istanbul Bilgi University Monika Schmitz-Emans, Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum Florence Feiereisen, Middlebury College Elliott Schreiber, Vassar College Mounir Fendri, University of la Manouba, Tunisia Patricia Anne Simpson, Montana State University Angelica Fenner, University of Toronto Mary Beth Stein, George Washington University Tara Forrest, University of Technology, Sydney Felix Tweraser, Utah State University Katharina Gerstenberger, University of Cincinnati JM van der Laan, Illinois State University Rolf J. Goebel, University of Alabama in Huntsville Janet Ward, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Joseph Gomsu, Universit\u00e4t Yaound\u00e9 I, Cameroon Andrew Wisely, Baylor University Claudia Gorbman, University of Washington, Tacoma Cecile Zorach, Franklin & Marshall College We reserve the right to make any necessary editing changes without the express written permission of the authors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-560", "words": "7776", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Bell, Jameson Kismet", "title": "Faithful Bodies: Anatomy and Emblematic Fugitive Sheets in Late Sixteenth-Century Wittenberg", "date": "2010", "keywords": "anatomy; anima; body; image; intellect; knowledge; liber; melanchthon; parts; print; sheets; spleen; text; wittenberg", "summary": "Yet, as Jonathan Sawaday (1996) and Katherine Park (2006) have shown, individuals who dissected bodies in the Early Modern Period never claimed to only want body knowledge, to dissect in order to know the dissected. After a brief history of anatomy in Wittenberg, I will focus on the use of dialectic and rhetoric in Wittenberg fugitive sheet images and Melanchthon\u2019s Liber de anima to provide a glimpse of an emblematic2 approach to anatomy that was both common to the broader uses of anatomy in the sixteenth century and specific to the needs and goals of a particular group of reform-focused individuals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-561", "words": "5261", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Tayim, Constantin Sonkw\u00e9", "title": "Von Spanien...bis nach Damaskus \u00dcber fundamentalistische Verhaltensweisen in Heinrich Heines Almansor", "date": "2010", "keywords": "aber; almansor; als; anderen; auch; auf; aus; christen; christentum; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; druck; einer; fundamentalismus; hat; heine; heinrich; hier; islam; ist; kann; mit; nach; nicht; nur; orient; religion; sein; sich; spanien; und; von; wie; wird; wurde; zuleima; zum; zwischen", "summary": "Besonders dieser zweite Punkt, der auf die Sehnsucht nach der Freiheit und auf die Vorz\u00fcge des Orients hindeutet, l\u00e4sst sich mit den ersten Versen von Goethes \u201eHegire\u201c und mit einem seltsamen Brief in Verbindung bringen,6 den Heine am 14. Heinrich Heine wurde wie viele seiner Zeitgenossen auch von der islamisch- orientalischen Kultur beeinflusst.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-562", "words": "5726", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Nover, Immanuel", "title": "Botschafter des Ungewissen. Kritische Intermedialit\u00e4t bei Kafka und Musil", "date": "2010", "keywords": "als; anatol; arthur; auch; auf; aus; cora; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; druck; ein; eine; fischer; frage; frankfurt; hrsg; hypnose; ist; kann; max; mit; nicht; nur; schnitzler; sich; sie; treu; und; verlag; von; wahrheit; werden; wie; wird; \u00fcber", "summary": "Weiterhin konstatiert er einen fortschreitenden Zerfall der Sprache, der die sprachliche Benennbarkeit seiner Welt zusehends erschwert und ausgehend von seinem \u201eUnbehagen, die Worte \u201aGeist,\u2018 \u201aSeele\u2018 oder \u201aK\u00f6rper\u2018 nur auszusprechen\u201c schlie\u00dflich auch die Worte der allt\u00e4glichen Sprache erfasst und so die sprachliche Kommunikation unm\u00f6glich macht (\u201eBrief\u201c 48). Ausgehend von der FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 17 51 \u00dcberlegung Anatols, mittels Hypnose die Wahrheit \u00fcber die Gef\u00fchle und \u00fcber die Treue seiner Geliebten zu erfahren, er\u00f6rtert Schnitzler so die Hypnosetechnik, die Fragmentierung der Identit\u00e4t und die Krise der Sprache.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-563", "words": "9599", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Polak-Springer, Katrin", "title": "\u201cEine Qualit\u00e4t, von der man wei\u00df, dass es sie schon einmal gegeben hat\u201d: Young Berlin filmmakers on the trail of New German Cinema", "date": "2010", "keywords": "anita; berlin; berliner; character; cinema; fanny; female; film; filmmakers; german; identity; karen; kluge; life; new; print; public; role; schule; voigt; world", "summary": "Kluge\u2019s film Abschied von Gestern is said to have been the very first Neuer Deutscher Film, winning silver at the Venice Film Festival 1966 and accrediting German film internationally, followed by Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos, which won gold in 1968. 2 The term New German Cinema is generally used to talk about the wave of critical German film between the Oberhausener Manifest and the death of R.W. Fassbinder in 1982.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-564", "words": "6941", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Mascha, Katrin", "title": "Vanished Site: The Freedom Memorial at Checkpoint Charlie and the Discourse about Cold War Legacies in Contemporary Berlin", "date": "2010", "keywords": "apr; berlin; charlie; checkpoint; die; freedom; freedom memorial; hildebrandt; memorial; site; victims; wall; war; web", "summary": "During the Cold War period, the actual Berlin Wall not only contained a \u201cstrange kind of magic\u201d in its function as concrete political barrier between East and West Germany, but also carried special weight as a symbol (Ladd, Ghosts 8). This blunt statement reveals a competitiveness between memorial sites considering the growing tourist industry behind commemoration practices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-565", "words": "7747", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Hicks, Gavin", "title": "Sporting Nationalism and Turkish-German Ethno-Comedy: Tiger\u2019s \u201cS\u00fcper EM-St\u00fcdyo\u201d", "date": "2010", "keywords": "character; comedy; ethno; german; international; media; nationalism; performance; print; reception; role; series; soccer; sporting; sporting nationalism; stereotype; studies; tiger", "summary": "This form of nationalism has a long history in regards to German soccer and German media. It is needless to say that Germany\u2019s turbulent twentieth-century history has complicated the expression of German nationalism in the public sphere.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-566", "words": "23376", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Arnold, Joshua", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2010", "keywords": "als; art; auch; auf; aus; author; biller; book; century; chapter; collection; contemporary; crime; culture; das; dem; den; der; des; detering; die; ein; eine; essays; example; film; focus; f\u00fcr; generation; german; geschichten; grass; gustloff; hat; herzog; history; ihr; ist; jirgl; kann; kopp; language; life; literary; literature; mann; media; memory; mit; nach; narrative; national; new; nicht; novel; oder; past; perspective; poetry; politics; present; reader; reality; reviews; robinson; roman; ruth; selbst; sich; sie; sind; socialism; society; space; studies; terms; text; time; und; university; volume; von; von der; war; werden; wie; wird; work; world", "summary": "Das Leben unterliegt einer strengen Kontrolle und Reglementierung; selbst die Liebe, die aufgrund ihrer irrationalen und unplanbaren Struktur als potentielles Gefahrenelement f\u00fcr die Ordnung verstanden werden muss, wird mittels der Zuteilung der potentiellen Partner anhand ihrer DNA-Profile durch eine zentrale Mittelalter ist der Name der menschlichen Natur\u201c (235).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-567", "words": "3229", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Bachmann-Medick, Doris", "title": "\u00dcber Das Leben In Verschiedenen Kulturen Und Den Umgang Mit Dem Spatial Turn In Einem Postmodernen Kontext: Ein Interview Mit Dr. Doris Bachmann-Medick", "date": "2010", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; bachmann; dass; den; der; des; die; durch; eine; focus; f\u00fcr; ist; man; mit; nicht; oder; sich; sie; spatial; turns; und; von; werden; wie", "summary": "Im Grunde m\u00fcsste mit solchen Erlebnissen jegliches pauschale Gerede von der angeblich gesteigerten urbanen und globalen mobility doch heruntergebrochen werden auf die allt\u00e4glichen Raumorientierungen und ihre Hindernisse. In ihrem Cultural Turns Kurs erwies sich der Spatial Turn als besonders interessant f\u00fcr die StudentInnen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-568", "words": "3949", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Medick, Hans", "title": "Grabe, wo du stehst: Recovering an up-close Look at History, Violence and Religion. A Conversation with Professor Hans Medick", "date": "2010", "keywords": "german; historian; history; medick; religion; research; war; work", "summary": "How do you make history relevant or interesting to American undergraduates who know little or nothing about the Thirty Years\u2019 War or about European history? He has also founded or co-founded several international research projects: Proto-industrialisation (with Peter Kriedte and J\u00fcrgen Schlumbohm), Family History (with Karin Hausen, Michael Mitterauer, Heidi Rosenbaum and David Sabean) and History and Anthropology (with Robert Berdahl, David Cohen, Jack Goody, Esther Goody, Alf Luedtke, David Sabean and Gerald Sider).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-569", "words": "2701", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Sheehan, James J.", "title": "Remembering 1989: Thoughts on Modern History with Dr. James J. Sheehan", "date": "2010", "keywords": "focus; history; past; wall", "summary": "James Sheehan is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of Modern European History at Stanford University. He has published extensively on a myriad of topics in modern European history, including aesthetics, statehood, liberalism and nineteenth-century culture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-570", "words": "2065", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Speier, Hans-Michael", "title": "R\u00fcckblick nach zehn Jahren: Hans-Michael Speier im Gespr\u00e4ch", "date": "2010", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; das; den; der; die; eine; focus; f\u00fcr; hms; ich; ist; mit; nicht; noch; sie; und; von; wie", "summary": "Die Kehrseite der positiven universelleren Ausrichtung des Fachs k\u00f6nnte sein, dass die Faszination durch Die Frage, ob es sich bei Ihnen um einen hermetischen Dichter handelt, haben Sie damals verneint, und ich nehme an, das w\u00e4re auch heute noch der Fall.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-571", "words": "3662", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Wilke, Sabine", "title": "Ein Interview \u00dcber \u201cDie \u00c4sthetik der Nachhaltigkeit\u201d mit Sabine Wilke", "date": "2010", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; das; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; ein; eine; focus; f\u00fcr; ganz; haben; ich; ist; mit; oder; sich; sie; sind; und; von; wie; wir; \u00fcber", "summary": "Das f\u00fchrte zu einer Reihe von Arbeiten \u00fcber Bachmann, Jelinek, feministische Performancekunst, bis hin zu einer systematischen Befragung der Rolle des K\u00f6rpers in der Moderne und dessen Konstruktionsprinzipien. SABINE WILKE Ich komme von der Kritischen Theorie, deren Grundpr\u00e4missen meine Arbeit bis heute leiten.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-572", "words": "2231", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Marie, Busch", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "2010", "keywords": "adobe; cincinnati; film; focus; german; literature; studies; university", "summary": "GAVIN HICKS is currently a Ph.D. candidate in German Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her MA in German Studies in 2009 at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-573", "words": "2468", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Arnold, Joshua", "title": "Front mater", "date": "2011", "keywords": "book; cincinnati; college; focus; germany; graduate; journal; new; studies; university; volume", "summary": "Goebel, University of Alabama in Huntsville Joseph Gomsu, Universitiit Yaounde I, Cametoan Oauclia Gorbman, University of Washington, Tacoma Todd H=og, University of Cincinnati Jennifer Jordan, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Jennifer Kapczynski, Washington University StLouis Matthias Keidel, Dozent fur Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, Millheim an der Ruhr Douglas Klahr, University of Texas, Arlington Alexander Kosenina, Leibniz Universitiit Hannover Peter Lutze, Boise State University, Idaho Siegfil:rlMew.;, Uniletsity of North Carolirn, ~Hill Julian Preece, Swansea University Richard E Schade, University of Cincinnati Monika Schmitz-Emans, Ruhr-Universitiit Bochum Elliott Schreiber, Vassar College Patricia Anne Simpson, Montana State University Mary Beth Stein, George Washington University Felix Tweraser, Utah State University JM van der L!an, illinois State University Janet Ward, University ofNevada, Lls Vegas Andrew Wisely, Baylor University Cecile Zorach,Franklin & Marshall College Gregory Redding, Wabash College Dr. Jeffrey D. Todd, Texas Christian University Dr. Michael Rice, Middle Tennessee State University Dr. Barbel Such, Ohio University Tonya Hampton, ABD, University of Cincinnati Dr. David Prickett, Universitat Potsdam Dr. Susanne Lenne Jones, East Carolina University Dr. Silke Schade, University of British Columbia- Vancouver Dr. Aine Zimmerman, Hunter College, New York Dr. Julia K. Baker, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville Dr. Laura Traser-Vas, American International School of Budapest Dr. Wolfgang Lucke!, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana Dr. Todd Heidt, Knox College, Illinois Alexandra Hagen, Grinnell College, Iowa Marie Buesch, ABD, University of Cincinnati CONTACT ADDRESS Send correspondence and subscription fees to: Focus on German Studies, PO Box 210372 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0372, USA email: fogs.editor@gmail.com", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-574", "words": "4598", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Jany, Berit", "title": "Auf der Suche nach Gl\u00fcck in Ingo Schulzes 33 Augenblicke des Gl\u00fccks", "date": "2011", "keywords": "als; auf; augenblicke; aus; bei; das; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; eine; focus; frau; f\u00fcr; geschichte; gl\u00fcck; ingo; ist; jedoch; mit; nach; nicht; russischen; schulzes; seiner; sich; sie; studies; suche; tat; und; von; vor; werden; wie; wird; zum; zur", "summary": "Nur wenn man sich von der Absicht trennt, das Gl\u00fcck selbst erschaffen zu wollen und \u201esich statt 15 AUF DER SUCHE NACH GL\u00dcCK IN INGO SCHULZES dessen in die Unverf\u00fcgbarkeit des Gl\u00fccks findet,\u201c ist ein spontaner Gl\u00fccksmoment m\u00f6glich (Thom\u00e4 269). Doch anders als in der Heiligensage nimmt der Retter der Familie in der Kurzgeschichte die \u00e4lteste Tochter zur Frau.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-575", "words": "12296", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Shaev, Brian", "title": "Anticipating the Social-Democratic Schism: Theoretical Disputes within the SPD on Capitalist Evolution and the Nature of the Imperial German State, 1891-1914", "date": "2011", "keywords": "bernstein; capitalist; class; democracy; democratic; der; die; german; kautsky; luxemburg; mass; movement; party; revolution; schism; social; spd; strike; struggle; und; war", "summary": "The immediate cause for intra-party crises that culminated in the withdrawal of many leading Social Democrats from the SPD during WWI were contrasting demands concerning party tactics on issues such as SPD votes in the Reichstag and extra-parliamentary pressure, in particular the debates revolving around the mass strike. Bernstein\u2019s book, which one historian calls \u201cthe bible of reformism\u201d (Gneuss, 40), argued that the SPD must abandon its revolutionary principles, remove references to class warfare from its propaganda, and seek alliances with liberal parties.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-576", "words": "5515", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Walter, Daniel", "title": "Man and (Schreib-)Machine", "date": "2011", "keywords": "derrida; kafka; language; meaning; origin; strafkolonie; text; writing", "summary": "Even if Kafka had found the words he was looking for to complete his texts, from a Derridian perspective, it is not even possible for those words to remain connected to his original ideas over the course of time, changing perspectives or even the instant he began writing. It is difficult to believe that the origin of meaning is really attainable when one simply looks at the vast amount of literature written about Kafka\u2019s works.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-577", "words": "8642", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Reidy, Julian", "title": "'V\u00e4terliteratur' als Literaturgeschichtlicher Problemfall. Das Beispiel Peter Henisch", "date": "2011", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; das; dass; decker; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; einer; figur; focus; f\u00fcr; geschichte; henisch; hier; ist; kann; kleine; literaturgeschichtlicher; mehr; meines; mit; nach; nicht; noch; nur; oder; peter; problemfall; roman; sein; seinem; sich; sie; sind; sohn; sondern; studies; subjektivit\u00e4t; text; und; vaters; verdr\u00e4ngung; von; vor; v\u00e4terliteratur; walter; war; wenn; werden; wie; wird; zum; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Dass der Vater aber \u00fcberhaupt Erkl\u00e4rungsversuche unternimmt, ist angesichts der vielen vollkommen unbelehrbaren V\u00e4ter in der \u201aV\u00e4terliteratur\u2019 doch sehr bemerkenswert und ein Verdienst von Peter Henischs \u201adialogischer\u2019 und investigativ-therapeutischer Vorgehensweise \u2013 und diese entzieht sich den Pr\u00e4missen der \u201aV\u00e4terliteratur\u2019, denn letztere geht ja von einer monologischen Anlage der \u201aV\u00e4terb\u00fccher\u2019 aus, von einem immer schon toten und dadurch auch immer unbelehrbaren Vater. Aus unserer Betrachtung der Kleinen Figur meines Vaters wird sich au\u00dferdem ergeben, dass sich in der \u201aV\u00e4terliteratur\u2019 neben einer Tradition des literarisierten Generationenkonflikts, die in ihrer Spezifit\u00e4t hier als \u201aVertrauenskrise\u2019 bezeichnet wird, auch eine besondere Form literarischer Historiographie manifestiert: In solcher literarischer Produktion, die ein", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-578", "words": "18809", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Jackson, Wesley", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2011", "keywords": "alexanderplatz; als; analysis; auch; auf; authors; berlin; book; brecht; bruns; chapter; cold; culture; das; dem; den; der; des; die; east; ein; eine; essays; focus; f\u00fcr; germany; hegel; history; ist; kafkas; life; mann; mattson; memory; mit; nazi; new; nicht; novel; place; play; reader; religion; reviews; rutter; sich; sie; social; soviet; space; studies; time; und; university; urban; volume; von; war; way; west; weszkalnys; wie; work", "summary": "99 FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 18 Of course, approaching recent history from the perspective of the expellee remains problematic. Es ist 101 FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 18 ein Wechselspiel von Hass und Liebe.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-579", "words": "2437", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Maeda, Ryozo", "title": "\u201c\u00dcber Germanistik \u00dcberhaupt in den Staaten und in Japan\u201d: Ein Gespr\u00e4ch mit Ryozo Maeda", "date": "2011", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; das; den; der; deutsch; die; ein; focus; f\u00fcr; germanistik; ist; japan; japanische; mit; nicht; sich; sie; und; von", "summary": "Mit diesen Beispielen wollte ich nicht sagen: die Japaner h\u00e4tten die westlichen Begriffe mangelhaft \u00fcbersetzt. Die Bedeutung wie etwa \u201efrei von Schuld\u201c oder \u201eunbesetzt\u201c kommt im 162 INTERVIEWS", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-580", "words": "1960", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Renneke, Petra", "title": "\u201cWissen ist Immer eine Form des Nichtwissens, Wobei das Nicht das Gegenteil von Wissen Bedeutet\u201d: Ein Interview mit Dr. Petra Renneke", "date": "2011", "keywords": "als; auch; bei; das; der; die; eine; focus; ich; ist; mit; sie; sind; und; von; wie; wissen", "summary": "Die Lehre macht mir seit f\u00fcnfzehn Jahren unglaublich viel Freude, und das ist eine 166 INTERVIEWS der wirklich tragenden Die Studenten hier sind einfach aufmerksamer, motiviert und leistungsstark, und das gef\u00e4llt mir wirklich gut.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-581", "words": "1197", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Shafi, Monika", "title": "\u201cWhat Intrigues Me About Literature are the Tensions, the Conflicts in a Given Work:\u201d An Interview with Monika Shafi", "date": "2011", "keywords": "focus; german; literature; work", "summary": "Why did you decide to research G\u00fcnter Grass, who is arguably one of the most patriarchal writers of Germany\u2019s contemporary literature scene? FOCUS What is it about contemporary literature that initially piqued and still piques your interest?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-582", "words": "784", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Arnold, Joshua", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "2011", "keywords": "german; race", "summary": "The impact of science and eugenics on German racial theory \uf0b7 How have authors, filmmakers, musicians, dramaturges, politicians, historians, artists, and scientists approached, interrogated, and problematized the concept of \u201crace\u201d within German cultural history?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-583", "words": "3667", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Jackson, Wes", "title": "Front mater", "date": "2012", "keywords": "cincinnati; college; department; der; focus; germany; graduate; journal; literature; michael; new; studies; support; und; university; volume; year", "summary": "Each article considered for this volume was refereed by two or more of the following professors: Donovan Anderson, Grand Valley State University Hester Baer, University of Oklahoma Barton Byg, University of Massachusetts Amherst Randall Bytwerk, Calvin College Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Northern Kentucky University Leanne Dawson, University of Leeds Yasemin Dayioglu-Y\u00fccel, University of Istanbul Laura Deiulio, Christopher Newport University Volker D\u00f6rr, Heinrich-Heine Universit\u00e4t Graeme Dunphy, Regensburg University Angelica Fenner, University of Toronto Katja Garloff, Reed College David Gramling, University of Arizona Cora Granata, California State University, Fullerton John Guthrie, University of Cambridge Elizabeth Hamilton, Oberlin College Nick Hodgin, Lancaster University Leroy T. Hopkins, Millersville University Robert C. Holub, University of Massachusetts Amherst Eleoma E. Joshua, University of Edinburgh Britta Kallin, Georgia Institute of Technology Gerhard Knapp, University of Utah Andreas Langenohl, Universit\u00e4t Giessen Alison Lewis, University of Melbourne Janine Ludwig, Bremen University Lyn Marven University of Liverpool Frauke Matthes, University of Edinburgh Bettina Matthias, Middlebury Language Schools Paola Mayer, University of Guelph Barbara Mennel, University of Florida Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College Joseph W. Moser, Randolph-Macon College Michael Perraudin, University of Sheffield Vibeke R\u00fctzou Petersen, Drake University Eli Rubin, Western Michigan University Michael P. Ryan, Duke University Silke Schade, University of Texas Clinton Shaffer, Wheaton College Matthias Uecker, University of Nottingham Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan-Dearborn Florian Vassen, Hannover University Cynthia Walk, University of California, San Diego Astrid M. Weigert, Georgetown University Andrew Wormald, University of Sheffield Gesa Zinn, University of Minnesota Duluth We reserve the right to make any necessary editing changes without the express written permission of the authors. FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 19 Volume 19 2012 a journal on and beyond German-language literature FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 19 Edited by Wes Jackson Vanessa Plumly Published by the German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of Cincinnati Volume 19 2012 a journal on and beyond German-language literature ii Focus on German Studies is published annually by the German Graduate Student Governance Association of the University of Cincinnati BOARD OF FORMER EDITORS Dr. David N. Coury, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Dr. Herman J. DeVries, Jr. Calvin College Dr. Britta Kallin, Georgia Tech Dr. J. Gregory Redding, Wabash College Dr. Jeffrey D. Todd, Texas Christian University Dr. Michael Rice, Middle Tennessee State University Dr. B\u00e4rbel Such, Ohio University Tonya Hampton, ABD, University of Cincinnati Dr. David Prickett, Universit\u00e4t Potsdam Dr. Susanne Lenn\u00e9 Jones, East Carolina University Dr. Silke Schade, University of British Columbia - Vancouver Dr. Aine Zimmerman, Hunter College, New York Dr. Julia K. Baker, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville Dr. Laura Traser-Vas, American International School of Budapest Dr. Wolfgang L\u00fcckel, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana Dr. Todd Heidt, Knox College, Illinois Dr. Alexandra Hagen, Bradley University, Illinois Marie Buesch, ABD, University of Cincinnati Joshua Arnold, ABD, University of Cincinnati", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-584", "words": "5561", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Bilki\u0107, Ljudmila", "title": "\u201cUnd in dieser Position ... ging\u2019s dann los\u201d: Acknowledging Cinematic Mindfulness in two films by Rosa von Praunheim", "date": "2012", "keywords": "charlotte; der; documentary; film; homosexuelle; movie; nicht; praunheim; von; von praunheim", "summary": "In order to illustrate this, in this paper I turn to cinema and focus on two works by German director Rosa von Praunheim: his 1971 film Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt as well as the movie, Ich bin meine eigene Frau, which von Praunheim filmed a FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 19 3 little over two decades later in 1992. In Ich bin meine eigene Frau, von Praunheim tells us the story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (born Lothar Berfelde), a transvestite who was born in 1928 in Berlin-Mahlsdorf, Germany, and who died recently in 2002.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-585", "words": "6498", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Fischer, Sylvia", "title": "Das Leben auf dem Lande in der Dramatik der DDR der F\u00fcnfzigerjahre. Zu formalen und inhaltlichen Aspekten in Erwin Strittmatters Katzgraben, Bertolt Brechts Katzgraben-Notaten und Heiner M\u00fcllers Die Umsiedlerin", "date": "2012", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; brecht; dann; das; dass; ddr; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; eine; figuren; flint; f\u00fcr; hat; heiner; hier; ist; jedoch; katzgraben; leben; mehr; menschen; mit; m\u00fcller; nach; neue; nicht; noch; nur; oder; sein; sich; sie; sind; sondern; steinert; st\u00fcck; umsiedlerin; und; von; werden; wie; wird; wirklichkeit; zum; zwischen", "summary": "In jeder einzelnen Zeile wird hier die Gegens\u00e4tzlichkeit, die Widerspr\u00fcchlichkeit betont, aber auch die Erfahrung, \u201eeine rasante geschichtliche Bewegung zu erleben und zu durchleben, aus der der einzelne keine Chance hat auszusteigen. \u201evon einer kaum abzutragenden Hypothek belastet, von der nazistischen wie von der preu\u00dfischen Vergangenheit\u201c.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-586", "words": "7286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Johnson, Olivetta", "title": "Die Sprache des Anatomen und des Dichters: \u00dcber George B\u00fcchners Schreibweise", "date": "2012", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; b\u00fcchner; clarus; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; doktor; durch; eine; focus; frankfurt; f\u00fcr; gentilin; georg; hrsg; ihm; ihn; ist; kann; krankheit; lenz; man; melancholie; menschen; mit; natur; nicht; noch; nur; oberlin; oder; olivetta; seiner; sich; sie; sind; sondern; studies; text; und; vgl; vom; von; war; werden; wie; wird; woyzeck; zum; zur; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "B\u00fcchner benutzt hier die plastische, k\u00f6rperliche Sprache des Anatomen, der die Zuckungen, Andeutungen und Mienen, d.h. das reale Leben in der Gef\u00fchlsader mit klinischen Augen aufzunehmen wei\u00df. Die Theatralisierung der Gestik, die an die dritte Szene des Schreiers auf dem Jahrmarkt erinnert, die \u00dcbertreibung der Erwartungen, zuerst spricht der Doktor von der Revolution, dann streckt er die Nase hinaus, um das Niesen zu beobachten, die Verwendung von Fachausdr\u00fccken, die dem ungebildeten Woyzeck jede M\u00f6glichkeit einer Kommunikation zunichtemachen, vermitteln das satirische Bild eines Wissenschaftlers, der zum Peiniger wird und der keine Gef\u00fchle \u00e4u\u00dfern kann, weil sie unwissenschaftlich sind: \u201eNein Woyzeck, ich \u00e4rgere mich nicht, Aerger ist ungesund, ist unwissenschaftlich.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-587", "words": "5168", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Johnson, Eric R.", "title": "Dissecting the Body Politic: Biopower and Medicine in Stefan Ruzowitzky's \u201cAnatomie\u201d", "date": "2012", "keywords": "aaa; anatomie; farben; father; film; germany; history; medicine; new; paula; ruzowitzky", "summary": "In these statements, Grombek insinuates that the control over bodies, whether those who swelled IG Farben\u2019s coffers with their own blood in Auschwitz, or the grandmother able to live to see her great-grandchildren because of Bayer\u2019s drugs, has made medicine, and by extension Germany, what it is today. Hantke explains the film as, in a way, a parable of \u201chow Germany \u2013 West Germany, and subsequently the newly \u2018reunited\u2019 Germany \u2013 came to be the industrial juggernaut, member of the G8, it is today7.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-588", "words": "4639", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Langewand, Knut", "title": "\u201cVaccinate with Crisis Serum\u201d: Metaphors of Sickness in the Political Discourse of Weimar Germany", "date": "2012", "keywords": "body; crisis; discourse; history; metaphors; people; print; republic; sickness; social; weimar", "summary": "One of these books was published in early 1933 under the title Krisenbriefe (Crisis letters - the relationship between economic crisis and character crisis). But what purpose did metaphors of sickness serve within the Weimar discourse of crisis?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-589", "words": "8202", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Magnusson, Nathan ", "title": "The Politics of Hospitality and State Belonging in Heine's Deutschland. Ein Winterm\u00e4rchen", "date": "2012", "keywords": "belonging; der; deutschland; die; estrangement; exile; father; food; german; guest; heine; hospitality; identity; nation; poem; print; prussian; speaker; state; und; winterm\u00e4rchen", "summary": "Both the Odyssey and the Winterm\u00e4rchen recognize the ascertainment of the guest\u2019s identity as key to the host\u2019s power; and both Odysseus and Heine\u2019s speaker survive by adopting a name that is no name at all: \u201cNobody.\u201d For Heine, descent from a Prussian father defines neither his individual sense of German identity, nor does he acknowledge the law handed down from the nation\u2019s symbolic father: King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-590", "words": "6814", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Menck, Anna-Lisa ", "title": "Arthur Schnitzlers Fr\u00e4ulein Else: ein literarisches Fallbeispiel nach Freud?", "date": "2012", "keywords": "aber; als; anna; arthur; auch; auf; aus; das; dass; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; dorsday; durch; eine; elses; familie; freud; fr\u00e4ulein; f\u00fcr; gesellschaftlichen; hat; ihr; ihrer; ist; kann; lisa; menck; mich; mir; mit; mutter; nach; nicht; novelle; nur; protagonistin; schnitzler; sein; sich; sie; und; vater; vgl; von; vor; war; werden; wie; wird; zum; zur", "summary": "\u201eDie Gegens\u00e4tzlichkeit der Geschlechter\u201c. Tochter wurde zum einen auf die \u201aweibliche Natur\u2019 zur\u00fcckgef\u00fchrt, also biologistisch legitimiert.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-591", "words": "6042", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Nickl, Benjamin", "title": "Blackness in German: Locating \u201cRace\u201d in Johannes Schaaf's 1986 Film Adaptation of Michael Ende's Fantasy Novel Momo", "date": "2012", "keywords": "afro; black; blackness; body; bokel; culture; film; german; identity; momo; print; race; schaaf; time; toxi; white", "summary": "The cities of Hamburg and Berlin have large Black German communities, with a high percentage of ethnically mixed families (Wright, 185-187). Both hint at early, critical engagements with the actual presence of black German citizens and their imaginary otherness.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-592", "words": "6252", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Nowroth, Nadine", "title": "Von Sachen, Spitzeln und Schafspelzen Eine intertextuelle Analyse der Werke Die Sache mit B. von Hans Joachim Sch\u00e4dlich und Immer wieder Dezember von Susanne Sch\u00e4dlich", "date": "2012", "keywords": "aber; akten; als; auch; auf; aus; beiden; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; ebd; eine; erz\u00e4hlung; f\u00fcr; geschichte; habe; hans; hat; hier; ich; immer; ist; joachim; kann; mit; nicht; noch; print; sache; sch\u00e4dlich; sich; sie; sind; stasi; text; und; von; war; werden; wieder; wird; zum; \u00fcber", "summary": "Ja, wenn es einen Beobachter gegeben h\u00e4tte, der die ganze Zeit dabeigewesen w\u00e4re, dann k\u00f6nnte der Beobachter falls er noch lebt und falls er will und kann, die Sache mit B. vollst\u00e4ndig erz\u00e4hlen.[Sch\u00e4dlich, B 81] Grundlage f\u00fcr dieses Wortspiel stellt ein Vers aus dem Johannesevangelium dar, der ebenfalls in die Erz\u00e4hlung eingebaut wurde: Der aber zur T\u00fcr hineingeht, der ist der Hirte der Schafe.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-593", "words": "4914", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Schmidt, Jara", "title": "Im Raum der Anderen. Inter- wie intrakulturelle Grenz\u00fcberschreitungen in Emine Sevgi \u00d6zdamars Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei und die Br\u00fccke vom Goldenen Horn", "date": "2012", "keywords": "als; anderen; auch; auf; aus; bei; berlin; br\u00fccke; das; dem; den; der; des; die; durch; ein; eine; erz\u00e4hlerin; f\u00fcr; gutjahr; hier; ihre; ist; kann; mit; nach; nicht; orte; print; protagonistin; sich; sie; sind; und; vom; von; werden; wie; wird; zum; zur; \u00f6zdamar", "summary": "(132) 178 Die Beschreibung der Erlebnisse (wie etwa die phallische Anspielung des langen Sonnenstrahls, welcher den Schritt Jordis trifft) ist surreal genug, um der Protagonistin selbst lange unerkl\u00e4rlich zu bleiben; so erkennt sie erst viel sp\u00e4ter, ihren \u201eDiamanten\u201c tats\u00e4chlich an diesem Tag verloren zu haben12. Silke Schade etwa liest die Handlung als \u201ea narrative in which migration and home \u2013 motion and rootedness \u2013 are intimately linked\u201c (Schade 320).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-594", "words": "1158", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Jackson, Wes", "title": "About the Authors", "date": "2012", "keywords": "german; literature; research; studies; university", "summary": "In 2012, after earning her Bachelor 188 degree from the University of Hamburg, she is starting a Master\u2019s Program on German literature at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. He is the author of a book on the historian Ernst Bernheim and German historical theory in the late 19th century, entitled Historik", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-595", "words": "22334", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Vanessa, Plumly", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2012", "keywords": "advertising; als; analysis; art; auch; auf; aus; author; berlin; bibi; book; chapter; ciarlo; context; das; dass; ddr; dem; den; der; der ich; des; die; dieser; discourse; durch; east; eine; empire; erz\u00e4hlerin; essays; european; films; fin; focus; f\u00fcr; gau\u00df; gender; generation; german; handke; hat; hier; history; identity; ihre; images; ist; kann; language; leben; lemon; liebe; literature; mann; mit; mit der; nach; narratives; new; nicht; noch; nur; oder; performance; post; present; race; raf; rape; roman; schiller; schon; schramm; seiner; sich; sie; sind; si\u00e8cle; studies; study; text; theater; thomas; und; university; vienna; violence; volume; von; von der; vor; war; wenders; werden; west; wie; wird; work; world; writers; zum; zur; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Orientierungslosigkeit und Instabilit\u00e4t werden hier einer literarischen Pr\u00fcfung unterzogen, die versucht der \u201eganz gro\u00dfen 248 Sehnsucht nach einem Leben vor dem Tod\u201c (Klappentext) gerecht zu werden. pers\u00f6nlichen Traumas, das die RAF verursachte \u2013 nur \u201eHoffnungen auf eine neue Forscher- und Historikergeneration\u201c setzen (203), wie Corinna Ponto in ihren Abschlussworten schreibt.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-596", "words": "1287", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Karl, Anna-Lin", "title": "The Current Status and Projected Future of Gender Studies in Germany: An Interview with Anna-Lin Karl", "date": "2012", "keywords": "gender; studies; women", "summary": "That is to say, people who are politically active when it comes to questions of women and politics as well as Gender Studies students are aware of advancements being made, but are not simply satisfied with quotas. That is why in the future we have to increasingly question: \u201chow can Gender Studies provide structural alternatives in Higher Education in Germany?\u201d FOCUS In response to your answer with regards to Critical Race and Critical Whiteness research in the United States, this is also covered heavily in Women\u2019s and Gender Studies programs here, speaking in relation to the University of Cincinnati.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-597", "words": "2162", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Nusser, Tanja", "title": "\u201cMit Jeder Bewegung, und Dies ist Nichts Neues, Verschiebt sich die Perspektive\u201d: ein Interview mit Dr. Tanja Nusser", "date": "2012", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; ich; ist; mit; oder; sich; sie; und; von; wie; wird", "summary": "Der deutsche universit\u00e4re Massenbetrieb und die Zahl der Seminare, die man auf der professoralen Ebene unterrichtet, definieren das Berufsfeld anders. In meinem neuen Projekt besch\u00e4ftige ich mich mit dem seit einigen Jahren zu beobachtenden neuen \u201aRealismus\u2018 in der deutschen Gegenwartskultur (Literatur, Film und Fotografie), der die j\u00fcngsten deutschen Entwicklungen (nach 1989) in ihren globalen Zusammenh\u00e4ngen (nach dem 11.09.2001) thematisiert.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-598", "words": "1652", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Hoorn, Tanja van", "title": "\u201cKulturanthropologie bedeutet ganz unterschiedliche Dinge\u201d: ein Interview mit Tanja van Hoorn", "date": "2012", "keywords": "auch; auf; das; dem; den; der; des; die; ein; ich; ist; man; mit; sich; sie; und", "summary": "Einige Texte hatten sich allerdings beim ersten Seminardurchlauf in Oldenburg als etwas z\u00e4h und nicht so ergiebig herausgestellt \u2013 die habe ich dann einfach weggelassen. K\u00f6nnten Sie diesen Begriff ein bisschen erl\u00e4utern und vielleicht auch erkl\u00e4ren, inwiefern die aufkl\u00e4rerische Anthropologie von der modernen abweicht? TvH: Anthropologie ist, das sagt der Begriff, die Wissenschaft vom Menschen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-599", "words": "1537", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Jackson, Wes", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "2012", "keywords": "cincinnati; focus; german; race; studies; university", "summary": "The intersection of philosophy and \u201crace\u201d \u00b7 \u201cContested\u201d German identities (German-Jews, Afro-Germans, etc.) \u00b7 The impact of science and eugenics on German racial theory \u00b7 Critical approaches to constructing whiteness \u00b7 Human zoos and ethnological exhibits in Germany \u00b7 Racism and Anti-Semitism in contemporary German society \u00b7 Representations of \u201crace\u201d \u00b7 Asians/Native Americans in the German imaginary \u00b7 Imperialism/colonialism, fascism, and racial policies \u00b7 Gender and \u201crace\u201d 287 FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 19 \u00b7 Racial images in German visual culture \u00b7 Focus on German Studies, a journal produced by the German Graduate Student Governance Association (GGSGA) at the University of Cincinnati, is an important voice of the next generation of scholars in German Studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-6", "words": "12747", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Hogue, Alex", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2014", "keywords": "authors; book; book reviews; brown; chapters; colonialism; film; focus; genre; german; ghetto; g\u00f6ttsche; heym; history; language; lind; literature; movement; new; reviews; steinitz; studies; texts; volume; west; women; work", "summary": "The contributors to the volume not only understand the lack of focus on genre studies in German film studies as a cause for the rift between scholarship on popular and art cinema, but also seek to \u201cilluminate German film studies anew\u201d by adapting genre studies in order to \u201chelp develop a broader context in which the links and relations among art and auteur and popular cinema become clearer and more illuminating\u201d (4). Fisher\u2019s introduction situates the volume among scholarship in German film studies and US genre theory.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-605", "words": "1256", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Hogue, Alex", "title": "Focus on German Studies Vol. 22 Front Matter", "date": "2016", "keywords": "abd; cincinnati; college; der; editor; focus; graduate; ph.d; studies; university", "summary": "Each article considered for this volume was refereed by the following area experts: Anne Simon, University of London Chunjie Zhang, University of California, Davis Peter Becher, Adalbert Stifter Verein Brangwen Stone, Macquarie University Hermann Korte, Universit\u00e4t Siegen Astrid K\u00f6hler, Queen Mary University, London Debbie Pinfold, University of Bristol Gisela Argyle, York University Kamaal Haque, Dickinson College Albrecht Klassen, University of Arizona Marion Grein, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t Mainz Renata Fuchs, University of Illinois Heidi Tewarson, Oberlin College Anil Bhatti, Jawaharlal Nehru University Katharina Gerstenberger, University of Utah Tabea Kretschmann, Friedrich-Alexander Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg Sigrid K\u00f6hler, Westf\u00e4lische Wilhelms-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnster Jacob Klingner, Acquisitions Editor in the Department of Literary & Cultural Studies at De Gruyter We reserve the right to make any necessary editing changes without the express written permission of the authors. Staatsexamen, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Joshua Arnold, ABD, Johannesschule Meppen Wesley Jackson, PhD Vanessa Plumly, PhD, SUNY New Paltz Emily Bauman, ABD, University of Cincinnati Please send correspondence to: fogs.editor@gmail.com or Focus on German Studies University of Cincinnati PO Box 210372 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0372 U.S.A. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Focus on German Studies 22 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 iii \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The twenty-second volume of Focus on German Studies was made possible by the continued support of the faculty of the University of Cincinnati Department of German Studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-606", "words": "8667", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Bunzel, Anja", "title": "Johanna Kinkel\u2019s Political Art Songs as a Contribution to the Socio-Cultural Identity of the German Democratic Movement during the Late 1840s", "date": "2016", "keywords": "article; berlin; bonn; bunzel; century; den; der; des; die; focus; gottfried; gottfried kinkel; heine; heinrich; johanna; johanna kinkel; kinkel; lieder; maik\u00e4fer; movement; music; rhein; rhineland; socio; songs; studies; und; von; words", "summary": "Microsoft Word - Bunzel master.docx \u00a0 Focus on German Studies 22 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Bunzel \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Johanna Kinkel\u2019s Political Art Songs as a Contribution to the Socio-Cultural Identity of the German Democratic Movement during the Late 1840s Anja Bunzel Maynooth University Introduction Johanna Kinkel (1810-1858),1 a German composer, writer, music pedagogue and wife to the German professor, poet and revolutionary Gottfried Kinkel (1815-1882),2 produced a remarkable number of art songs, stage works and novels during her short life.3 Besides such typical Romantic themes as love and nature, Kinkel\u2019s art songs also include socio-political subjects praising her home, the Rhineland, and encouraging the democratic revolutionary movement of the 1840s to fight for a united Germany.4 Many of Kinkel\u2019s poems and art songs were created within the context of the Maik\u00e4ferbund, a political and literary association founded by the Kinkels in 1840. Johanna and Gottfried Kinkel\u2019s poems In her Demokratenlied, Johanna Kinkel proves her ability to compose memorable and performable tunes to her own words (Table 3).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-607", "words": "6423", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Olivari, Anna Maria", "title": "Der Mythos der ungeh\u00f6rten Seherin in der Literatur und in der Musik: Christa Wolfs Kassandra und Michael Jarrells Cassandre", "date": "2016", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; cassandre; christa; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; eine; episode; erz\u00e4hlung; focus; f\u00fcr; ich; ist; jarrell; kassandra; katastrophe; man; michael; mit; musik; nach; nicht; nur; oder; olivari; priesterin; print; sich; sie; siehe; studies; text; und; von; war; wenn; werden; wie; wird; wolf; zum; zur", "summary": "Die Orestie besteht aus mehreren Teilen: Kassandra ist im St\u00fcck Agamemnon zu finden, das von der Zeit nach dem Fall Trojas handelt. der innerhalb der deutschsprachigen Literatur von gro\u00dfer Bedeutung ist, siehe Rajewsky.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-608", "words": "8583", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Sheedy, Melissa", "title": "Gender and Violence in a Fairy-tale World: Romanticism in Kerstin Hensel\u2019s L\u00e4rchenau", "date": "2016", "keywords": "adele; body; die; family; father; female; focus; gender; german; gunter; hensel; l\u00e4rchenau; mitschka; novel; power; romanticism; rosie; self; sheedy; studies; und; violence; women; world", "summary": "In several female figures, for instance Adele and Rosie, similar moments of insanity and self-destructive tendencies appear, like the ones that characterize the distraught Nathanael in Hoffmann\u2019s The Sandman or the tormented artist Cardillac in his Mademoiselle de Scud\u00e9ry. The nickname also signifies and mocks the royal place that Adele has always imagined for herself, indicating Hensel\u2019s strategy of building and deconstructing Romantic ideals of female characters to reveal how they seemingly elevate women, yet really serve to imprison them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-609", "words": "4884", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Spiridon, Claudia", "title": "Intra- und intermediale Bezugnahme auf die Malerei in Adalbert Stifters Der Condor (1840)", "date": "2016", "keywords": "adalbert; als; auch; auf; aus; bei; bilder; blick; condor; cornelia; das; dem; den; der; des; die; durch; ein; eine; focus; f\u00fcr; gustav; ist; kunst; liebe; literatur; malerei; mit; m\u00fcller; nicht; nur; sich; sie; sondern; spiridon; stifter; studies; und; vom; von; werden; wie; wird; zum; zwei", "summary": "Der Maler verliebt sich in seine Sch\u00fclerin, lautet die Voraussetzung der von Stifter geschilderten Liebe. Focus on German Studies 22 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 77 \u00a0 Spiridon \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2039Ei, Trauter\u203a erwiderte ich ihm auf die stumme Frage, \u2039die Zeiten haben sich nun einmal sehr ge\u00e4ndert, das siehst du; - die wei\u00dfen Kissen liegen unzerknittert dort auf dem Bett gestelle und der Vollmond malt die lieblich flirrenden Fensterscheiben darauf, statt, da\u00df er in mein schlummerndes", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-610", "words": "21157", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Bauman, Matthew", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2016", "keywords": "aber; als; analysis; auch; auf; aus; authors; berlin; bilda; book; book reviews; brussig; captain; century; collection; colonial; crime; das; dass; dem; democracy; den; der; des; die; doppelg\u00e4ngerfiguration; east; eine; fall; focus; f\u00fcr; game; gdr; genre; german; hanshew; history; huber; identity; julian; kafkas; life; literature; memory; menschen; mit; new; nicht; novel; past; post; prisoners; public; reader; reviews; robert; scheck; sich; sie; society; state; studies; thomas; und; university; von; vor; war; weimar; west; wie; wird; work; world; zeh; zeichnungen; zum", "summary": "Besonders erhellend ist die Betonung des Wahrnehmungsaspektes, der bei der Inszenierung der Doppelg\u00e4ngerfiguration als eine Form des (den eigenen) Werk gr\u00f6\u00dfere Aufmerksamkeit zuteil werden, n\u00e4mlich insofern als aus dem Brod- Nachlass tats\u00e4chlich eine Vielzahl unbekannter Zeichnungen \u00f6ffentlich zug\u00e4nglich w\u00fcrde, so h\u00e4tte sich der von Fellner skizzierte Stand der Forschung wohl \u00fcberholt.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-611", "words": "2037", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Hogue, Alex", "title": "Interview with Professor Mike Perschon, MacEwan University", "date": "2016", "keywords": "course; fantasy; playing; rpgs; steampunk", "summary": "But fantasy RPGs afford a study that would encompass all three of those, tracing fantasy RPGs antecedents in Tolkien\u2019s writing, then Bakshi, Rankin-Bass, and Jackson\u2019s films, before culminating in a look at Iron Crown Enterprises\u2019 immersive Middle-Earth Roleplaying from the 1980s and \u201890s, and the wider influence of Tolkien on high fantasy RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder. Now I\u2019m mainly speaking of video games in this regard, but a course on video game RPGs demands a look at pen-and-paper RPGs as well.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-612", "words": "9157", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Zelechowski, Jamie", "title": "Emplotting the Air War: J\u00f6rg Friedrich\u2019s Brandst\u00e4tten (2003)", "date": "2016", "keywords": "air; air war; book; brandst\u00e4tten; chapter; context; das; der; des; die; focus; friedrich; german; ist; montage; narrative; photographs; photos; quotes; reader; story; studies; und; victims; von; war; zelechowski", "summary": "For historian Horst Boog, the isolation of the air war undermines Friedrich\u2019s argument: had Friedrich actually situated his book in the greater context of the war, Boog claims, he would have discovered quickly the unsustainability of his thesis: \u201cdie Behauptung, Engl\u00e4nder und Amerikaner h\u00e4tten die systematische Vernichtung der deutschen Zivilbev\u00f6lkerung in den St\u00e4dten von vornherein geplant und dann durchgef\u00fchrt\u201d (133).2 This lack of context also quickly leads Friedrich\u2019s reviewers to the conclusion that his account of the air war attempts to balance out German crimes with German suffering \u2013 a perpetuation of the myth of the German as Opfer.3 Nevertheless, as Peter Schneider warns: \u00a0 Focus on German Studies 22 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 53 \u00a0 Zelechowski \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201c[...] wer J\u00f6rg Friedrich deswegen gleich als Geschichtsrevisionisten abstempelt, macht es sich zu leicht und weicht der Frage aus, die dessen Buch einkreist: Ist ein Kriegsverbrechen dann legitimiert, wenn es die Antwort auf einen faschistischen Angreifer ist, der die Logik der Vernichtung mit allen erdenklichen und unausdenklichen In Brandst\u00e4tten, the literary quotes, statistics, and photos depicting aspects of life before, during, and after the bombings reinforce a much more conservative interpretation of the air war in which the resilience of the German spirit triumphs in the face of the catastrophic loss of what Friedrich calls \u201cdie materielle Spur der Damaligen\u201d (7).9 Friedrich presents the reader with two protagonists: German culture and the German people.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-631", "words": "7561", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Meredith, Britta", "title": "Sensory Perception and Identity Formation in Hans Fallada\u2019s Kleiner Mann - Was Nun? (1932)", "date": "2017", "keywords": "der; die; fallada; focus; german; identity; ist; kleiner; la\u0308mmchen; mann; meredith; novel; nun; perceptions; pinneberg; reads; republic; self; senses; studies; time; und; weimar; wind", "summary": "While previously only the lower senses of taste and smell connected Pinneberg to a lower socio-economic class in this scene, it is the acoustic signal of the police officer\u2019s voice that triggers him to self-consciously realize the visual impression he makes, acknowledging his poor status. Accordingly I establish how the protagonist, Pinneberg, even more so than others, suffers from the inability to distinguish between appearance and reality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-633", "words": "5194", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Guo, Jing", "title": "Erinnerung: Die unverg\u00e4ngliche Vergangenheit in der Novelle Schweigeminute von Siegfried Lenz", "date": "2017", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; bei; beiden; christian; das; dem; den; der; des; die; durch; eine; erinnerung; focus; fu\u0308r; guo; kann; lehrerin; lenz; liebe; mit; nach; nicht; schweigeminute; seiner; sich; sie; siegfried; stella; studies; und; vergangenheit; von; vor; wie; wird; zum; zwischen", "summary": "im Lessing-Gymnasium entfaltet sich die geheime Erinnerung Christians, der die gemeinsamen Erlebnisse mit seiner 57 Focus on German Studies 23 Guo Geliebten in der Ich-Erza\u0308hlung preisgibt. Die Erinnerung ist zwar mit der Vergangenheit eng verbunden, aber nach Schmidt \u201e[ha\u0308ngt] die Erinnerung [\u2026] nicht von Vergangenheit ab, sondern Vergangenheit gewinnt Identita\u0308t allererst durch die Modalita\u0308ten des Erinnerns\u201c (42).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-634", "words": "6585", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Colomb, Monet", "title": "Learning through Entertainment in the Frauenzimmer Gespr\u00e4chspiele", "date": "2017", "keywords": "chess; children; colomb; conversation; die; faith; focus; frauenzimmer; game; gespr\u00e4chspiele; harsdo\u0308rffer; learning; music; studies; und; von; wurst", "summary": "Four conversation plays, \u201cDie Buchstaben,\u201d \u201cDas lebendige Schachspiel,\u201d \u201cVom halben Umbkrei\u00df,\u201d and \u201cDie Tugendsterne\u201d serve as the key examples for this study. 37 Focus on German Studies 23 Colomb \u201cDie Buchstaben\u201d then transitions to the actual conversation game, which is meant for children.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-636", "words": "8972", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Laszlo, Rita Katalin", "title": "Translations of Selfhood in Ver Sacrum: Language and Modernity at the Viennese Fin De Si\u00e8cle", "date": "2018", "keywords": "art; bahr; coffeehouses; das; der; des; die; focus; german; kunst; language; laszlo; magazine; modern; modernism; new; reality; ringstrasse; sacrum; secession; selfhood; studies; und; ver; ver sacrum; vienna; viennese", "summary": "Keywords: artistic selfhood and convergence, Vienna Secession, Ver Sacrum, cultural politics and the rhetoric of the arts, Kunstempfinden, Viennese Modernism. To go beyond mere contemplation, Vienna Secession needed Ver Sacrum to gain support and recognition form the public and to organize events for everyone, \u201cohne Unterschied des Standes und des Vermo\u0308gens\u201d (VS 6).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-642", "words": "7178", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Nesselhauf, Jonas", "title": "Heine und der Kapitalismus. Geld, B\u00f6rse und \"Bankos\" in Heinrich Heines Leben und Werk", "date": "2018", "keywords": "aber; als; auch; auf; aus; bankier; bei; berlin; bo\u0308rse; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; doch; durch; einen; etwa; focus; fu\u0308r; geld; hat; heine; heinrich; heinrich heine; hier; ist; jahre; kapitalismus; liedtke; macht; marx; mit; nach; nesselhauf; nicht; noch; nur; oder; onkel; paris; rothschild; salomon; seiner; selbst; sich; sind; studies; und; u\u0308ber; von; werk; wie; wieder; wird; zeit; zum", "summary": "Heinrich Heine und der \u201aKommunismus\u2018: Begegnungen mit Marx Die Bo\u0308rsen und Rothschild werden somit in Heines Werk aber auch zu Stellvertretern des kapitalistischen Systems generell, das in dieser Zeit nahezu in weiten Teilen Europas die Industrielle Revolution vorantreibt. Heine und der Kapitalismus: \u201aFamillion\u00e4re\u2018 Begegnungen mit Rothschild Tatsa\u0308chlich verbindet Heinrich Heine mit den Rothschilds eine regelrechte \u201eHass-Liebe- Beziehung\u201c (Assmann/Kuschel 73), wobei Die B\u00e4der von Lucca die erste und noch sehr fru\u0308he Auseinandersetzung mit den wohl ma\u0308chtigsten Bankiers des damaligen Europa darstellen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-644", "words": "10720", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Ilgner, Julia", "title": "In Search for the \u2018Great 9/11 Novel\u2019. Kristof Magnusson\u2019s poetological rejection of crisis literature in Das war ich nicht (2010)", "date": "2018", "keywords": "9/11; american; attacks; author; chicago; crisis; das; den; der; des; die; dreiser; ein; focus; german; hatte; henry; ich; ilgner; jasper; literature; magnusson; meike; narrative; new; nicht; novel; roman; september; story; studies; und; von; war; world; writing; york", "summary": "Keywords: Kristof Magnusson, (Post) 9/11 Literature, (Post) 9/11 Novel, Satire, New Economy Novel, Novels about fictioius writers, Crisis Literature, Crisis Narrative, Postmodern Literature, Contemporary German Literature, Fictitious Authors, Faction/Fiction, Postmodern Narratology Introduction The \u201cworld\u201d and \u201cmedia event\u201d 9/11 (Dayan/Katz) has received great attention and multifaceted adaptation not only in the English-speaking world, but also in German literature.1 At first glance, the new economy novel Das war ich nicht2 (2010) of the German-Icelandic3 author Kristof Magnusson4 does not seem to take part in this struggling discourse: The story about the harmful effects of a young trader\u2019s misfortune does not play in 2001, is entirely fictional and ignores any documentary claims. This is due to the fact astonishingly each prize committee consequently ignores novels about September 11, even those of well-respected writers19 \u2013 a result which differs from the mentality of European literary scenes.20 This will turn even the most gentle reader suspicious and let him or her develop misgivings about the expected success of the \u02bbnew Henry LaMarck\u02bc.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-660", "words": "6512", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Stewart, Amanda", "title": "Die Stimmen, die es unternehmen, zu sprechen: Narrative Responsibility and the Free Indirect Mode in Christa Wolf\u2019s \"Nachdenken \u00fcber Christa T.\"", "date": "2018", "keywords": "christa; christa t.; das; der; die; gdr; gertrud; ich; mode; nachdenken; narrative; narrator; sie; style; und; voice; wolf", "summary": "Wolf\u2019s \u2018distinctive\u2019 literary style is often described in similar terms, particularly in relation to her 1968 novel Nachdenken \u00fcber Christa T. Wolf herself has noted: \u201cBei Christa T. habe ich [diese Struktur] zum erstenmal angewendet und gemerkt, da\u00df ich damit eigentlich zu mir selber finde\u201d (Wolf Schreiben im Zeitbezug: Gespra\u0308ch mit Aafke Steenhuis 149). A Close Narrative Theory Reading of Wolf\u2019s Nachdenken By framing Nachdenken \u00fcber Christa T. as the unnamed narrator\u2019s biographical project to rediscover Christa T., Wolf thematizes the process of attempting to represent \u2018voice\u2019 in a work of fiction.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-669", "words": "8763", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Kick, Verena", "title": "Allegorien der Geschichte: Werner Herzogs Lektionen in Finsternis", "date": "2018", "keywords": "aber; allegorie; allegorische; als; auch; auf; aus; benjamin; bewegung; bilder; damit; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; eidt; eine; einstellungen; film; finsternis; focus; fu\u0308r; geschichte; herzog; hier; ist; kann; kick; kommentar; lektionen; menschen; mit; montage; natur; nicht; noch; nur; raum; sich; sie; sind; sondern; sprache; studies; subscriptio; und; von; vor; wenn; werden; werner; wie; wird; zeit; zum; zuschauer", "summary": "So entstehen Spannungsfelder, die eine hohe Bewegungskraft der Allegorie besta\u0308tigen. Werner Herzog, u\u0308berrascht von der negativen 3 Focus on German Studies 24 Kick Reaktion der O\u00dc ffentlichkeit, gibt selbst einen Hinweis auf eine allegorische Lesart seiner Golfkriegsdokumentation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-687", "words": "6140", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Van Hertbruggen, Anneleen", "title": "The Christian Resurrection as a Propaganda Tool in Heinrich Anacker's Nazi Poetry: The Sacralization of Reich and F\u00fchrer", "date": "2018", "keywords": "anacker; christian; die; easter; f\u00fchrer; german; hitler; nazi; poem; poetry; reich; religion; resurrection; und", "summary": "Just as many of his propaganda colleagues, Anacker reinterprets and abuses Christian symbolism for the consolidation of ideological key concepts in his poetry. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2555-5534 Abstract By focusing on the poetry of the Nazi writer Heinrich Anacker, this paper tries to attribute to the study of Nazi literature, which was ignored by German scholars for a long time.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-7", "words": "5919", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Mental Photos of Divided Germany, Matthew", "title": "Mental Photos of Divided Germany", "date": "2014", "keywords": "berlin; course; east; focus; german; richard; schade; studies; time; wall; west", "summary": "For further information on this and other Berlin Wall exhibits in the U.S., see Dr. Schade\u2019s 2004 paper \u201cBerlin Wall Installations in the United States: Documentation with Commentary,\u201d accessible 2 One anecdote at that time: I had a friend who had escaped from East Germany, and we went to visit his grandmother in deep East Berlin.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-710", "words": "9187", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Paul, Katherine", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2018", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; book; catastrophe; chapter; cinema; das; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; disaster; durch; einer; eldridge; essays; family; film; focus; f\u00fcr; herzog; holocaust; ist; johnson; man; memory; mit; nach; new; nicht; novel; raf; reviews; sich; sie; studies; und; volume; von; wird; works", "summary": "Es ging dabei dann tats\u00e4chlich so weit, dass Verlage eigens zur Publizierung eben dieser Literatur gegr\u00fcndet wurden \u2013 denn: Die Sprache dient als Basis f\u00fcr Identit\u00e4t, Kultur und Zugeh\u00f6rigkeit der Menschen, damit sie ihren Platz in der Gemeinschaft finden k\u00f6nnen. Erg\u00e4nzt, beziehungsweise vor der Folie des au\u00dfereurop\u00e4ischen Kinos best\u00e4tigt, wird diese Einsicht unter anderem durch David J. Hogans Aufsatz DOS MONJES (1934) AND THE TORTURED SEARCH FOR TRUTH, der sich sowohl der Wiederentdeckung des", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-711", "words": "868", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Paul, Katherine", "title": "Front Matter", "date": "2018", "keywords": "cincinnati; college; focus; ph.d; studies; university", "summary": "Microsoft Word - Front matter Vol 22.docx Edited by Katherine H. Paul Ellen C. Chew Published by the German Graduate Student Association of the University of Cincinnati Volume 24 2017 Focus on German Studies 24 ii \u00a0 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Katherine H. Paul BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Ellen C. Chew COPY EDITORS Iris Augustinski, Meaghann Dynes, Emily Lamb, Mareike Lange, Daniel Moody, Anna Senuysal BOARD OF FORMER EDITORS David N. Coury, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin \u2013 Green Bay Herman J. DeVries, Jr., Ph.D., Calvin College Britta Kallin, Ph.D., Georgia Tech J. Gregory Redding, Ph.D., Wabash College Jeffrey D. Todd, Ph.D., Texas Christian University Michael Rice, Ph.D., Middle Tennessee State University B\u00e4rbel Such, Ph.D., Ohio University Tonya Hampton, ABD, University of Cincinnati David Prickett, Ph.D., Universit\u00e4t Potsdam Susanne Lenn\u00e9 Jones, Ph.D., East Carolina University Silke Schade, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio Aine Zimmerman, Ph.D., Hunter College, City University of New York Julia K. Baker, Ph.D., Tennessee Tech University Laura Vas, Ph.D., American International School of Budapest Wolfgang L\u00fcckel, Ph.D., Austin College Todd Heidt, Ph.D., Knox College Alexandra Hagen, ABD, Bradley University Marie Buesch, ABD, 1. Staatsexamen, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Joshua Arnold, ABD, Johannesschule Meppen Wesley Jackson, PhD Vanessa Plumly, PhD, SUNY New Paltz Emily Bauman, ABD, University of Cincinnati Alex Hogue, PhD, Coastal Carolina University Please send correspondence to: fogs.editor@gmail.com or Focus on German Studies University of Cincinnati PO Box 210372 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0372 U.S.A. Focus on German Studies 24 iii \u00a0 The twenty-fourth volume of Focus on German Studies was made possible by the continued support of the faculty of the University of Cincinnati Department of German Studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-712", "words": "782", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "Paul, Katherine", "title": "Front Matter", "date": "2018", "keywords": "cincinnati; college; focus; ph.d; studies; university", "summary": "Microsoft Word - Front matter Vol 22.docx Edited by Katherine H. Paul Matthew Bauman Published by the German Graduate Student Association of the University of Cincinnati Volume 23 2016 Focus on German Studies 23 ii \u00a0 CO-EDITORS Katherine H. Paul Matthew Baumann BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Katherine H. Paul COPY EDITORS Simone Boissonneault, Ellen C. Chew, Mareike Lange, Anna Senuysal, John Shahan BOARD OF FORMER EDITORS David N. Coury, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin \u2013 Green Bay Herman J. DeVries, Jr., Ph.D., Calvin College Britta Kallin, Ph.D., Georgia Tech J. Gregory Redding, Ph.D., Wabash College Jeffrey D. Todd, Ph.D., Texas Christian University Michael Rice, Ph.D., Middle Tennessee State University B\u00e4rbel Such, Ph.D., Ohio University Tonya Hampton, ABD, University of Cincinnati David Prickett, Ph.D., Universit\u00e4t Potsdam Susanne Lenn\u00e9 Jones, Ph.D., East Carolina University Silke Schade, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio Aine Zimmerman, Ph.D., Hunter College, City University of New York Julia K. Baker, Ph.D., Tennessee Tech University Laura Vas, Ph.D., American International School of Budapest Wolfgang L\u00fcckel, Ph.D., Austin College Todd Heidt, Ph.D., Knox College Alexandra Hagen, ABD, Bradley University Marie Buesch, ABD, 1. Staatsexamen, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Joshua Arnold, ABD, Johannesschule Meppen Wesley Jackson, PhD Vanessa Plumly, PhD, SUNY New Paltz Emily Bauman, ABD, University of Cincinnati Alex Hogue, PhD, Coastal Carolina University Please send correspondence to: fogs.editor@gmail.com or Focus on German Studies University of Cincinnati PO Box 210372 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0372 U.S.A. Focus on German Studies 23 iii \u00a0 The twenty-third volume of Focus on German Studies was made possible by the continued support of the faculty of the University of Cincinnati Department of German Studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-713", "words": "17826", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Paul, Katherine", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "2018", "keywords": "albrecht; artist; berlin; book; book reviews; chapter; culture; defa; den; der; des; east; east germany; eine; essay; european; fairy; films; focus; game; gdr; german; history; janssen; leitich; mcfarland; nazi; new; players; relations; relationship; research; shen; sich; socialism; states; students; studies; surrealism; tale; teege; time; und; united; university; von; war; work; world", "summary": "Even though it was written by a film historian, a filmmaker and a curator, Berlin Replayed is not a book limited to those strictly interested in German Cinema and quite on the contrary presents a piece of German history and geography narrated by images that can be of interest for anyone in German Studies. Berlin: Rowohlt Verlag, 2016. 86 Focus on German Studies 23 Book Reviews The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films By Quinna Shen Melissa Sheedy University of Wisconsin-Madison Within the last quarter century after the fall of the Wall and the dissolution of the GDR, countless pieces have been published focusing on the legacy of the East German film company DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), with special attention paid to its place in German national film heritage.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-7169", "words": "949", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "The Editors", "title": "Front Matter", "date": "2023", "keywords": "cincinnati; focus; graduate; ph.d; studies; university", "summary": "Staatsexamen, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Joshua Arnold, ABD, Johannesschule Meppen Wesley Jackson, PhD Vanessa Plumly, PhD, Wittenberg University Emily Bauman, ABD, University of Cincinnati Alex Hogue, PhD, Coastal Carolina University focus on German Studies. https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/fogs (ISSN 1076-5697) iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The twenty-ninth volume of focus on German Studies was made possible by the continued support of the faculty of the University of Cincinnati\u2019s Department of Asian, East European, and German Studies. https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/fogs (ISSN 1076-5697) ii COPY EDITORS Maya Gulani, Kayla Weiglein, Anna-Maria Senuysal, Anna Philipp, Saskia Ziemacki BORD OF FORMER EDITORS Kayla Weiglein, ABD, University of Cincinnati Natalie Ford, University of Cincinnati Anna-Maria Senuysal, ABD, University of Cincinnati Ellen (Chew) Kirkendall, Ph.D., St. Norbert College Katherine H. Paul, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati David N. Coury, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin \u2013 Green Bay Herman J. DeVries, Jr., Ph.D., Calvin College Britta Kallin, Ph.D., Georgia Tech J. Gregory Redding, Ph.D., Wabash College Jeffrey D. Todd, Ph.D., Texas Christian University Michael Rice, Ph.D., Middle Tennessee State University B\u00e4rbel Such, Ph.D., Ohio University Tonya Hampton, ABD, University of Cincinnati David Prickett, Ph.D., Universit\u00e4t Potsdam Susanne Lenn\u00e9 Jones, Ph.D., East Carolina University Silke Schade, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Aine Zimmerman, Ph.D., Hunter College, City University of New York Julia K. Baker, Ph.D., Tennessee Tech University Laura Vas, Ph.D., American International School of Budapest Wolfgang L\u00fcckel, Ph.D., Austin College Todd Heidt, Ph.D., Knox College Alexandra Hagen, ABD, Bradley University Marie Buesch, ABD, 1.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-7171", "words": "5568", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Kastner, Florian", "title": "Flaschenbier im Tr\u00fcmmerfeld: Tempor\u00e4re autonome Zonen in Rafael Horzons Das weisse Buch", "date": "2023", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; autonome; berliner; bey; buch; das; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; durch; eine; focus; f\u00fcr; galerie; hakim; horzon; issn; ist; mit; nach; nicht; nur; oder; orte; rafael; raum; sich; sind; studies; tempor\u00e4re; und; von; war; waren; weisse; werden; wie; wurde; zonen; zum; zur", "summary": "Die Performances reichten von der namensgebenden Gurke, die mithilfe von zwei unter Strom stehenden Dr\u00e4hten unter dem Applaus der G\u00e4ste zum Leuchten gebracht wurde, bis hin zur Nutzung einer Krawattenschreddermaschine, die Krawatten und anderes Textil sorgf\u00e4ltig zerst\u00f6rte (Mrozek). Auch fand in der Szene der alternativen", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-7172", "words": "10438", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Weber, Detlev M.G.", "title": "Saint Francis\u2019s Brother Wolf ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "brother; caritas; community; evil; flowers; focus; god; gubbio; issn; july; legend; medieval; peace; people; saint francis; stories; story; studies; vol; wolf", "summary": "Saint Francis identifies with the wolf, and, along this line of compassion and caritas, he creates a peace treaty between the wolf and the citizens of Gubbio. Appearing several decades before the Actus, this passage suggests that the oral tradition had already established an association between Saint Francis and his taming of the wolf across the Roman Catholic Empire.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-7173", "words": "9829", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "H\u00f6ller, Lisa", "title": "Reading Matters - Materiality and (Il)legible Inscriptions in Yoko Tawada\u2019s Das Bad", "date": "2023", "keywords": "bodies; body; das; focus; german; image; issn; japanese; materiality; new; novel; pages; protagonist; reading; studies; tawada; text; water; yoko", "summary": "After offering a brief introduction to the novel as well as new materialism and some of the pertinent concepts used in this analysis, this paper will engage readers in an open and multilayered exploration of bodies\u2014female bodies, foreign bodies, bodies of water\u2014and materiality in Tawada\u2019s Das Bad in order to provide insight into how we focus on German Studies. However, in Das Bad the water also meets resistance, the resistance of other bodies, the resistance of preconceived ideas and categories, the resistance of the page that will show water without materially being water.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-7174", "words": "1660", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Gawlick, Natasza", "title": "Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers: edited by R.L. Victoria P\u00f6hls & Mariane Utudji. transcript, 2021. 264 pp. ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "focus; reader; response; text; theory", "summary": "https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/fogs (ISSN 1076-5697) 90 volume serve not only to revitalize Reader Response Theory but also to add another dimension to this method, in which more attention is paid to the formal and literary qualities of a text and its power on a broad population of readers. \u201cReader Response Theory in the Phenomenology of Reading with the text and the reader as its focal point.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-7175", "words": "1548", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Krueger, Molly", "title": "Generation und Strategie: Barbara Honigmann im literarischen Feld der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur 1986-2015: by YannickGnipep-oo Pembouong, V&R Unipress, 2020. 474 pp.", "date": "2023", "keywords": "chapter; honigmann; pembouong; strategies", "summary": "Book Review Generation und Strategie: Barbara Honigmann im literarischen Feld der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur 1986-2015 by Yannick Gnipep-oo Pembouong, V&R Unipress, 2020. https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/fogs (ISSN 1076-5697) 93 Generation und Strategie: Barbara Honigmann im literarischen Feld der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur 1986-2015 by Yannick Gnipep-oo Pembouong, V&R Unipress, 2020.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-7176", "words": "1325", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Hezel, Annemarie", "title": "Deutschpflicht auf dem Schulhof? \u2013 Warum wir Mehrsprachigkeit brauchen : by Heike Wiese, Rosemarie Tracy, and Anke Sennema, Duden Verlag, 2020. 80 pp.", "date": "2023", "keywords": "als; auf; autorinnen; das; dem; den; der; die; einer; ist; mehrsprachigkeit; und; von; wird", "summary": "Die Autorinnen bef\u00fcrworten den Erhalt und die Einbeziehung von Heritage-Sprachen in Schulen und thematisieren sowohl kognitive als auch gesundheitliche Vorteile einer Mehrsprachigkeit. Die Autorinnen sehen solch eine Verpflichtung allerdings \u00e4u\u00dferst problematisch und betonen stattdessen, dass die Thematisierung und Wertsch\u00e4tzung eines umfangreichen sprachlichen Repertoires an Schulen sowohl Lernprozesse als auch den sozialen Umgang miteinander verbessern k\u00f6nnen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-7177", "words": "1516", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Gindorf, Maximilian", "title": "Marx, Wagner, Nietzsche: Welt im Umbruch: by Herfried M\u00fcnkler, rowohlt, 2021. 720 pp.", "date": "2023", "keywords": "marx; m\u00fcnkler; nietzsche; wagner", "summary": "In conclusion, M\u00fcnkler excels, as usual, in showing the 19th century as a complex and ambiguous chapter of German history that should still occupy our thoughts today, while his individual analyses partially lack depth. In the beginning, M\u00fcnkler clearly states that he does not wish to contribute to the constantly growing and specializing literature on either Marx, Wagner, or Nietzsche (1).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-7178", "words": "721", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Childs, Matthew R.", "title": "Gelassene Teilnahme: Formen urbaner Mu\u00dfe im Werk Goethes: by Peter Philipp Riedel, Mohr Siebeck, 2021. 271 pp.", "date": "2023", "keywords": "goethe; mu\u00dfe", "summary": "Book Review Gelassene Teilnahme: Formen urbaner Mu\u00dfe im Werk Goethes by by Peter Philipp Riedel, Mohr Siebeck, 2021. https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/fogs (ISSN 1076-5697) 111 Gelassene Teilnahme: Formen urbaner Mu\u00dfe im Werk Goethes by Peter Philipp Riedel, Mohr Siebeck, 2021. 271 pp.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-8", "words": "24", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "16", "author": "Bauman, Emily", "title": "Title Page", "date": "2014", "keywords": "microsoft", "summary": "Microsoft Word - vol21-01-Contents-and-Notes-from-the-Editor.docx \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Edited by Emily Bauman Alex Hogue Published by the German Graduate Student Association of the University of Cincinnati Volume 21 2014", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-87", "words": "1916", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "De Vries, Jr., Herman J.", "title": "Front mater", "date": "1994", "keywords": "book; cincinnati; focus; german; graduate; issue; journal; publication; student", "summary": "We believe that the experience for:l student whose subl11lssion IS not accepted is equallY:ls v:lluable:as the student's whose work is accepted-perh:lps een more so. I I I i ~ I ITERATUR Edited by H erman J. De Vries, J r. J. Gregory Redding David N. Coury Published by the German Graduate Student Association of the University of Cincinnati Foclls on Litmllllr is publi~hed semiannually (Spring &.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-88", "words": "3575", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Cushman, Jenifer S.", "title": "Artistic Paradigms at Play in Botho Strauss's Drama Der Park", "date": "1994", "keywords": "art; berman; century; cyprian; death; der; die; enlightenment; georg; oberon; park; play; straub; titania; und; world", "summary": "StrauB is but one in a long tradition of German authors to honor Shakespeare, beginning with Gryphius, whose Herr Peter SqufflZ also draws from A Midmmmer Night's Dream, and continuing with Lessing and other Enlightenment rigurtS. and ultimately Goethe, who con\u00ad sidered Shakespeare a genius, a great .mist destined to create high art. This is the failure of Oberon: the inability for the Romantic no-\u00ad lion of high art to survive in our century.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-89", "words": "5436", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Henderson, Cary", "title": "Zur Essayistik von Friedrich Nietzsche und Robert Musil", "date": "1994", "keywords": "als; anderen; arbeit; auch; auf; aus; autoren; bei; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; durch; eine; essay; essayistik; form; f\u00fcr; gegen; hier; ist; klaus; kurzen; leser; mit; musil; nach; neue; nicht; nietzsche; seiner; sich; sie; sind; sondern; teil; und; verstehen; vom; von; vor; weil; wieder; zeit; zum; zur; \u00fcber", "summary": "das auf die assoz.i.atl,\u00b7e Darstellung, eines M\u00f6glichkeitssinns hinaus\\\u00e4uh. Die Zusammenfas\u00ad sung stel lt den Ve rsuch dar, die Essayistik bei der Autoren als t)'pischen Ausdruck ihrer Epoche z.u erstehen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-9", "words": "219", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-52", "author": "Bauman, Emily", "title": "Board of Editors", "date": "2014", "keywords": "college; ph.d; university", "summary": "Microsoft Word - vol21-01-Contents-and-Notes-from-the-Editor.docx \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Focus on German Studies 21 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 i \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF COPY EDITORS Emily Bauman Matthew Bauman, Simone Boissonneault, Marie Buesch, BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Michelle Dietz, Amanda Hatch, Alex Hogue Jan-Niklas Meier, Michael Monroe, Timo Ostermeier, Katherine Paul, ASSISTANT EDITOR Vanessa Plumly, John Shahan, Acacia Moraes Diniz Selena Sorensen, Katharina Thiel BOARD OF FORMER EDITORS David N. Coury, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin \u2013 Green Bay Herman J. DeVries, Jr., Ph.D., Calvin College Britta Kallin, Ph.D., Georgia Tech J. Gregory Redding, Ph.D., Wabash College Jeffrey D. Todd, Ph.D., Texas Christian University Michael Rice, Ph.D., Middle Tennessee State University B\u00e4rbel Such, Ph.D., Ohio University Tonya Hampton, ABD, University of Cincinnati David Prickett, Ph.D., Universit\u00e4t Potsdam Susanne Lenn\u00e9 Jones, Ph.D., East Carolina University Silke Schade, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio Aine Zimmerman, Ph.D., Hunter College, City University of New York Julia K. Baker, Ph.D., Tennessee Tech University Laura Vas, Ph.D., American International School of Budapest Wolfgang L\u00fcckel, Ph.D., Austin College Todd Heidt, Ph.D., Knox College Alexandra Hagen, ABD, Bradley University Marie Buesch, ABD, 1. Staatsexamen, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Joshua Arnold, ABD, Johannesschule Meppen Wesley Jackson, ABD, Union Institute and University, Cincinnati Vanessa Plumly, ABD, University of Cincinnati Please send correspondence to: fogs.editor@gmail.com or Focus on German Studies University of Cincinnati PO Box 210372 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0372 U.S.A.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-90", "words": "4888", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Djukie-Cocks, Ana", "title": "Die Komposition der Kisch-Reportage in Paradies Amerika", "date": "1994", "keywords": "als; amerika; auch; auf; aus; band; bei; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; egon; ein; eine; ford; form; hat; ist; kisch; komposition; leser; lind; menschen; mit; nach; nicht; noch; oder; reponage; reportage; sich; sie; sind; und; vom; von; vor; wie; wird; zum; zur", "summary": "Die Komposition der Reportage wird vom Wesen des darzustel\u00ad lenden Inhalts und von der Funktion der Reportage bestimmt. Die Komposition der Reportage ist bis 1115 ein7.e1ne Detail auf die Emh\u00fcllung des Wesens dieser Erscheinung gerichtet: Beretts durch den einleitenden SaLZ wird der Leser darauf vorbereitet, lunter der goldgl\u00e4nzenden Fassade eben das Gegenteil zu erv.~~rten.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-91", "words": "3329", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Mosada, Maria", "title": "A Jakobsonian Reading of the Espitstolary Strategies of Communication in Fontane's Effi Briest", "date": "1994", "keywords": "communication; crampas; das; effi; ehi; ich; iii; jakobson; letters; life; mother; novel; process; self", "summary": "r h' , e process 0 cre- ation 0 IS novel Letters, said: (AJ neader of [~e ni~eteenth<entury continental fiction is ~ot. However the mention of letters In Effi Briese has tradjtional/y be d' _~f .", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-92", "words": "2542", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Ringmayr, Thomas", "title": "Hochkomische Hoechstleistungen: Neue Prosa-Sammlungen von Eckhard Henscheid und Max Goldt", "date": "1994", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; bei; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; die; ein; eine; gerade; goldt; henscheid; ist; man; max; mit; nicht; nur; oder; sich; und; von; wie", "summary": "Um den spe7iellen Humor Henscheids goutieren zu k\u00f6nnen (der sich \u00fcbrigens keineswets i.n wohl\u00ad gesetzten Obsz\u00f6nit\u00e4ten ersch\u00f6pft, wenngleich auch die immer h\u00f6chst e,prie\u00dflich ausfallen) mu\u00df der Leser allerdmgs auch Gef\u00fchl mllbnngen f\u00fcr seinen nuancenreichen, manchmal archaisierenden. oh das Stil\u00ad m ittel der Wiederholung und des \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig wirkenden Synonrms bem\u00fchenden Schreibstil, die Ihm erst 5ell1('11 IIltrikat komische \\'(' ir\u00ad kung verleihen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-93", "words": "13374", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Readding, J. Gregory", "title": "Book Reviews", "date": "1994", "keywords": "aber; adam; als; anderen; artmann; auch; auf; auf der; aus; be\u00ad; book; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; deutschen; die; dieser; doch; durch; ein; eine; frau; f\u00fcr; german; gibt; haben; hat; helmut; hirn; ihrer; ist; kleist; land; language; leben; leo; letter; lhe; literatur; love; man; maron; mary; mehr; menschen; mit; nach; narrator; nicht; noch; novel; nur; oder; play; reader; reviews; roman; sad; schon; sein; seinen; selbst; sergej; sich; sie; sind; story; text; thc; und; von; vor; war; weh; weil; wenn; werden; whieh; wie; wird; work; zum; zur; \u00fcber", "summary": "Die anderen hielten sich f\u00fcr wichtig, weil sie Leute \u00fcberwachten, die durch die \u00dcberwachung wichtig wur\u00ad den (43). Die Reden sind nun nicht nur eine Se1bstfindullg des AUlors (so wie sie dies frag los (flieh sind) in den Verirrungen und Verwirrungen der deutschen Vereinigung, es sind Reflektionen, teils phjlosophischen,", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-94", "words": "1202", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "85", "author": "Mennel, Barbara Caroline", "title": "Dass ich eine Sprache gefunden habe, dass ich mich jetzt nich mehr herumquaelen muss...", "date": "1994", "keywords": "buch; das; da\u00df; der; die; ich; ist; man; nicht; sich; und", "summary": "und das Buch auf ungute Weise aktuell geworden ist, Aber ich hoffe nat\u00fcrlich, da\u00df das nicht der einzige Gnmd ist. Ich bin schlie\u00dflich zu dem Punkt gekomTllen, wo mir etwas zur Technik cingefa.llen ist, das Gegen~'\u00e4rttge und das Vergangene so zu\u00ad sammenzubringen, wie ich es in du:sem Buch getan habe.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-95", "words": "4798", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "Krishnamoorthy, Kaushalya", "title": "Das Fremde und das Vertraute: Interview mit Hans Christoph Buch", "date": "1994", "keywords": "aber; als; anderen; auch; auf; aus; dann; das; da\u00df; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; eine; f\u00fcr; gibt; habe; haiti; hat; ich; ist; kann; mit; nach; nicht; noch; nur; oder; sehr; sich; sie; sind; und; von; war; wie; wird; \u00fcber", "summary": "im Grunde ist das ein Satz, der aus der m\u00fcndlichen Erz\u00e4hhradition kommt. Es ist keine Ironie, wenn jemand sagt, ich glaube das und das, und das glaube ich nicht.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-96", "words": "1294", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "De Vries, Jr., Herman J.", "title": "Contributors and Announcements", "date": "1994", "keywords": "cincinnati; dissertation; focus; german; literature; studies; university", "summary": "ANA DJuKlc-CocKS earned her SA at the Uni,-ersilY of Belgrade and her MA in German literature at the University of Cincinnati, where she is presently completing her dissertation on Das Amerikabild in den Repo rtagen von Egon Erwin Kisch. She has studied and wrillen on [he Haiti tradition in German literature, with a focus on I leinrich von Kleist, Anna Seghers and Hans Christoph Buch.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-97", "words": "2099", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Redding, Gregory J.", "title": "Front mater", "date": "1994", "keywords": "book; editor; faculty; graduate; job; journals; student; submissions", "summary": "The increasing frequency of graduate student submissions to schol\u00ad arly journals is attributed to t he extremely competitive job market. Intentionally or not, that same edito rial creates a faculty - good, student - bad paradigm, characterized by twO things: first, while student submissions occasionall y yield a work of publishable quali ty, the bul k o f th e manuscripts are quile poor, and second .", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-98", "words": "6714", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Ritchie, Amanda", "title": "Winter Answers in the Poetry of Ilse Aichinger ", "date": "1994", "keywords": "aichinger; contemplation; das; der; die; fact; images; lorenz; meditation; poems; poetry; rat; reader; silence; snow; speaker; und; war; way; white; winter; work", "summary": "Focus Fall 1994.tif Winter Answers in the Poetry of Ilse Aichinger Amanda Ritchie ... fine distinct ion between silence and muteness has occupied the IiJII interest of lise Aichinger scho lars since she began publishing in 1948. Even so, there are significant differences between the way wLllter is presented in t h is poem and t he way it is presented in \\'qinter, gemalt, U\\VinteranlWOrt, and U$paziergang.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "fogs-99", "words": "5265", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Marshall, Catherine C.", "title": "America: A Modern Day Tauris? A Study of Two Adaptations of the Iphigenia Myth", "date": "1994", "keywords": "america; der; family; german; goethe; greek; humanity; ing; iphigenie; langner; myth; new; orest; society; states; und; united; vietta; von; war; world", "summary": "Not only are both using the classical tradi\u00ad tion to reject the optimism of the late eighteenth century, but Iphigenie in Amerika and Iphigenie Smith kehrc beim also share many common themes in their portrayals of Germany and America as a modern day Mycenae and Tauris. Gen\u00ad eral Schmidt, ~ member of the 55, sem Iphigenie to America to sepA\u00ad rate her from Horst, her lover, whom she falsely believed to be ~ member of the resistance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]