Between Victim and Perpetrator Imaginary: The Implicated Subject in Works by Rachel Seiffert and Cate Shortland TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Susanne Baackmann Download PDF Abstract The future of Germany’s murderous past is now being reconsidered by a new generation … Continue reading
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Dada Futures: Inflation, Speculation, and Uncertainty in Der Dada No. 1 TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Kurt Beals Download PDF Abstract This article discusses the magazine Der Dada No. 1, published in 1919 by Raoul Hausmann and Johannes Baader, arguing … Continue reading
From Colonial to Neoliberal Times: German Agents of Tourism Development and Business in Diani, Kenya TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Nina Berman Download PDF Abstract This essay traces the role of Germans in various economic developments on the Kenyan coast … Continue reading
Generation Mini-Series: Contemporary German Historical Event-Television and the Implications of its Interactive Elements TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Sara F. Hall Download PDF Abstract The controversial 2012 ZDF mini-series Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter/Generation War epitomizes German “historical event television,” a broadcasting … Continue reading
I Am Not You: On the Need for Distance TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 June J. Hwang Download PDF Abstract One of the main problems in many conversations about race, class, and privilege today is not too much distance, but … Continue reading
The Future of the Distant Past: On Teaching the Pre-modern History of Africans in Europe TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Kristin Kopp Download PDF Abstract In this article, the author argues that the field of German Studies is poised to … Continue reading
When Texts Travel: Edward Dmytryk’s The Blue Angel (1959) Remake TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Barbara Kosta Download PDF Abstract The following paper explores the relationship between Josef von Sternberg’s 1930 film The Blue Angel and Edward Dmytryk’s 1959 remake … Continue reading
Ernst Lubitsch & the Transnational Twenties: The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (USA 1927) TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Rick McCormick Download PDF Abstract Ernst Lubitsch epitomized the transnationalism of the cinema in the 1920s as the first German director to come … Continue reading
Attack of the Cyberzombies: Media, Reconstruction, and the Future of Germany’s Architectural Past TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Rob McFarland Download PDF Abstract While in Frankfurt a few weeks ago, I visited the site of the Dom/Römer project, a series … Continue reading
Reading the “Schwarz” in the “Schwarz-Rot-Gold”: Black German Studies in the 21st Century TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Nancy P. Nenno Download PDF Abstract In 2016, Black German Studies celebrates the 30th anniversary of the publication of Farbe bekennen: Afrodeutsche Frauen … Continue reading