Microsoft Word - Front Matter_Issue 29 (1).docx focus on German Studies. https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/fogs (ISSN 1076-5697) Issue 29 (2023) focus on German Studies 29 (2023) Published by the German Graduate Student Association of the University of Cincinnati Edited by Mareike Lange (langemk@mail.uc.edu) Barbara Besendorfer (besendba@mail.uc.edu) How to cite: Lange, Mareike and Barbara Besendorfer. focus on German Studies, no. 29, German Graduate Student Association of the University of Cincinnati, 2023. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.34314/fogs2022.00001 Please send correspondence to: UCGerman@uc.edu or focus on German Studies University of Cincinnati PO Box 210372 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0372 U.S.A. focus on 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 – 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 Bärbel Such, Ph.D., Ohio University Tonya Hampton, ABD, University of Cincinnati David Prickett, Ph.D., Universität Potsdam Susanne Lenné 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 Lückel, 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, 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’s Department of Asian, East European, and German Studies. Our former Department Chair, Professor Todd Herzog, and our current Department Chair, Professor Dinshaw Mistry, and the Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Tanja Nusser deserve our sincere gratitude for helping in so many ways to keep focus in operation. We also thank the many graduate students who volunteered their time to help with this volume. We extend our thanks to all members of our Editorial Board, Board of Reviewers and Board of Graduate Student Reviewers! We reserve the right to make any necessary editing changes without the express written permission of the authors. focus on German Studies. https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/fogs (ISSN 1076-5697) iv TABLE OF CONTENTS FROM THE EDITOR / v ARTICLES Florian Kastner. Flaschenbier im Trümmerfeld: Temporäre autonome Zonen in Rafael Horzons Das weisse Buch / 1 Detlev M.G. Weber. Saint Francis’s Brother Wolf / 23 Lisa Höller. Reading Matters – Materiality and (Il)legible Inscriptions in Yoko Tawada’s Das Bad / 55 BOOK REVIEWS Victoria Pöhls & Mariane Utudji. Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers (Natasza Gawlick) / 85 Yannick Gnipep-oo Pembouong. Generation und Strategie: Barbara Honigmann im literarischen Feld der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur 1986-2015 (Molly Krueger) / 92 Heike Wiese et al. Deutschpflicht auf dem Schulhof? – Warum wir Mehrsprachigkeit brauchen (Annemarie Hezel) / 98 Herfried Münkler. Marx, Wagner, Nietzsche: Welt im Umbruch (Maximilian Gindorf) / 104 Peter Philipp Riedel. Gelassene Teilnahme: Formen urbaner Muße im Werk Goethes (Matthew R. Childs) / 110 focus on German Studies. https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/fogs (ISSN 1076-5697) v FROM THE EDITOR focus on German Studies has been published by the Graduate Students of the German Studies program at the University of Cincinnati since its first issue in 1994, meaning our journal is now almost as old as our current editors. We are humbled by this fact, and we are very proud to keep the tradition alive. focus on German Studies is one of three graduate student journals dedicated to German Studies in the United States. In addition to Literature, our journal publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics tangential to German Studies, including Film and Media Studies, Women and Gender Studies, History, Sociology, Music, and Performance Studies. Our authors submit to us from around the world and we have the privilege to meet fellow scholars and future colleagues through our journal. Each Graduate Student involved in the editing process dedicates an extraordinary amount of time outside of their personal responsibilities at the university (teaching, classwork, and their own research) to make the focus on German Studies journal a reality. focus on German Studies is a multi-year commitment typically taken on by PhD students, beginning with the organization of the Focus on German Studies graduate student conference, then assuming the role of Book Review Editor, and finally taking on the role of Editor-in-Chief. This year, we are pleased to present Volume 29 (2023). I would like to specifically thank my co-Editor, Barbara Besendorfer, for approaching each step in the editorial process concerning our book review section with a committed and eager spirit. We also owe special thanks to our fellow graduate students who served as copyeditors, as well as to the many professors who donated their time to peer-review our articles. Furthermore, I want to express my gratitude to Mark Minelli at University of Cincinnati Press, who supported us through every step of the editing and publishing process with a positive attitude and who was always available for a meeting. Lastly, as editors and graduate students, we wish to thank our former Department Head, Todd Herzog, as well as our current Department Head, Dinshaw Mistry, and our Graduate Director, Tanja Nusser, for giving us the opportunity to publish in our graduate careers and for your constant support. Mareike Lange