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
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PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German Studies PROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with Goethe PROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion: Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten PROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion Discovering Networks … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
A Path through the Woods: Remediating Affective Landscapes in Documentary Asylum Worlds Bettina Stoetzer Download PDF Abstract In his book Landscape and Memory, Simon Schama argues that an engagement with the legacies of German nationalism requires a track through the … Continue reading
“On the Train” by Emine Sevgi Özdamar Translated by Leslie A. Adelson Download PDF Translator’s Introduction Emine Sevgi Özdamar, born in 1946 and raised as what the author herself calls a ‘child of Istanbul’, first attracted widespread attention from German literary … Continue reading
Postcolonialism, Islam, and Contemporary Germany Monika Albrecht Download PDF Abstract: This paper argues that unlike in Britain, France, or the United States, postcolonial thought has not yet arrived in German public debates on migration, integration, and Islam. Instead of accusing … Continue reading
Writing Video – Writing the World: Videogeographies as Cognitive Medium Ursula Biemann Download PDF Abstract: This essay relates to my writings recently published in the monograph Mission Reports – Artistic practice in the field. Ursula Biemann Video Works 1998-2008, Cornerhouse … Continue reading