Digital Humanities as Translation: Visualizing Franz Rosenzweig’s Archive / by Matthew Handelman | TRANSIT
Digital Humanities as Translation: Visualizing Franz Rosenzweig’s Archive Matthew Handelman Download PDF Abstract This article consists of a theoretical framework for and a demonstration of the process of visualizing the finding aid to Franz Rosenzweig’s archive at the University of Kassel, which contains metadata describing documents and letters pertaining to the German-Jewish philosopher, pedagogue, and […]
Thinking Sexuality Differently: Hartmann von Aue, Michel Foucault, and the Uses of the Past / by James A. Schultz | TRANSIT
Thinking Sexuality Differently: Hartmann von Aue, Michel Foucault, and the Uses of the Past James A. Schultz Download PDF Abstract In the introduction to the second volume of his history of sexuality Foucault suggests that “the effort to think one’s own history” might “free thought from what it silently thinks, and so enable it to think […]
W oder die translinguale Erinnerung: Cécile Wajsbrot und die deutsche Sprache / by Dirk Weissmann | TRANSIT
W oder die translinguale Erinnerung: Cécile Wajsbrot und die deutsche Sprache Dirk Weissmann Download PDF Abstract Mit ihrem im Januar 2013 erstmals ausgestrahlten zweisprachigen Hörspiel W wie ihr Name/Avec un double V wagt die 1954 in Paris geborene, französische Schriftstellerin Cécile Wajsbrot erstmal den Weg in die deutsche Sprache als literarisches Ausdrucksmedium. Diese Form zweisprachigen […]
Schwarm und Schwelle: Migrationsbewegungen in Elfriede Jelineks Die Schutzbefohlenen / by Silke Felber and Teresa Kovacs | TRANSIT
Schwarm und Schwelle: Migrationsbewegungen in Elfriede Jelineks Die Schutzbefohlenen Silke Felber and Teresa Kovacs Download PDF Abstract Ausgehend vom Begriff des Schwarms fragt der Beitrag nach dem Schreiben über Asyl und Migration in Elfriede Jelineks Theatertext Die Schutzbefohlenen (2013). Basierend auf der Beobachtung, dass Jelinek den Begriff des Schwarms aus Aischylos’ Tragödie Die Schutzflehenden entlehnt (konkret […]
Alley-grave: The Boundary of the Ghetto in Der Schrei, den niemand hört! by Else Feldmann / by Christina Färber | TRANSIT
Alley-grave: The Boundary of the Ghetto in Der Schrei, den niemand hört! by Else Feldmann Christina Färber Download PDF Abstract I aim to analyze the space of the ghetto alley in the play Der Schrei, den niemand hört! by Else Feldmann. In the play, urban and identity barriers are combined within spatial speech and their violent boundaries […]
Migration and Its Discontents: Israelis in Berlin and Homeland Politics / by Yael Almog | TRANSIT
Migration and Its Discontents: Israelis in Berlin and Homeland Politics Yael Almog Download PDF Abstract The essay discusses some ethnic and racial presumptions which subtend discussions of the recent Israeli migration to Germany, specifically the description of the Israeli presence in Berlin as signifying a “return” of Jews to Europe after the Holocaust. The essay […]
Amigo Armado / Translated by Tes Howell | TRANSIT
Amigo Armado by Osman Engin Translated by Tes Howell Download PDF Translator’s Introduction In my early fascination with East Germany and the problems of reunification, I had only really thought about German identity in terms of East and West Germans because that is what was presented in my German language classrooms, the German mainstream media, […]