Frauenschicksale in Ingeborg Bachmanns späten Prosawerken

Author(s): Goran Lovrić,Slavica Dajak / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2017

The authors of this article analyse female characters in the prose of Ingeborg Bachmann. Her series of novels Todesarten – which includes Malina (1971) and Der Fall Franza (1979) – and a series of short stories Simultan (1972) are the subjects of the analysis. The authors prove that in the prose of the Austrian writer there appear women who are tyrannised by men and accept the role of a victim. Such an attitude leads Bachmann’s protagonists to both the loss of identity and self-destruction.

МОЖЕ ЛИ БЪЛГАРСКАТА ЛИТЕРАТУРА ДА УСПЕЕ НА НЕМСКОЕЗИЧНИЯ ПАЗАР?

Author(s): Thomas Frahm / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Due to the existence of an endless number of prejudices among Bulgarian intellectuals coupled with the paranoia that Bulgaria and its writers are being intentionally neglected by the world at large, the author of this article reveals the most influential factors that contribute to literary success, or failure thereof, among German-speaking readers and literary critics. He concludes that contemporary Bulgarian writers are inclined to either follow the Anglo-American pattern of fiction writing, or focus on their domestic cultural tradition, thus paying no attention to the universal human qualities and patterns of behaviour that would enable readers all over the world to indetify with their works. Toward its end, the paper points out a few specifics of Milena Kirova’s History of Bulgarian literature that have rendered the volume (in its German translation) valuable to the German-speaking audience.

Изучаване на мита за Прометей в VIII клас – възможности за съпоставки

Author(s): Nikolay Metev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

This article presents variants for organizing the study of the myth for Prometheus in eight grade, that are designed in attempt at diversify the forms of interaction between the pupils and the teacher. A comparison with two other works – the poem “Prometheus” of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774) and the story “Punishment for Prometheus” of Czech author Karel Chapek (included in book “Apocrypha”, 1932) – could be made in the lessons. The article comments the necessity of creating such conditions for self-dependent work of pupils that can motivate them for appearance in front of the class. This also leads to a profound interpretation of the myth.

Götz Aly und Hans-Ulrich Wehler über Kapitalismus, Antisemitismus und Sozialpolitik

Author(s): Karsten Dahlmanns / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2018

Götz Aly’s book „Europa gegen die Juden 1880–1945” (Europe against the Jews 1880–1945) is a sequel to his earlier published treatise „Warum die Deutschen? Warum die Juden? Gleichheit, Neid und Rassenhass” („Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Equality, Envy, and Racial Hatred”). Both volumes explore the impact of envy on policies of ‘social’ justice and national homogeneity in the interwar period, thereby pointing out the negative aspects of social engineering. As its predecessor, „Europa gegen die Juden” has been, therefore, criticized by commentators of a more interventionist outlook. One of Aly’s most prominent – and sternest – critics is the historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler. This essay presents a critical assessment of Aly’s argument, the replies of his critics, and Wehler’s views on the market economy, interventionism and ‘social’ justice.

Tłumaczenie poezji w tandemie. Komentarz do przekładów wierszy Wacława Rolicza-Liedera na język niemiecki

Author(s): Robert Rduch / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2018

The author presents translations of Wacław Rolicz-Lieder’s poems into German as an example of translating poetry in tandem. With the aid of archival materials, he proves that Rolicz-Lieder is a co-author of translations previously attributed solely to George.

Senoji baltų leksikografija Hanzos pirklių tarnyboje. Rankraštinių žodynų paskirtis bei sudarymo laikas

Author(s): Ilja Lemeškin / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 78/2018

It is meaningful to study the medieval Baltic lexicography from the perspective of the Hanseatic linguistic policy and in the context of the Hanseatic lexicographic production (bilingual and utilitarian). Such a direction of research reveals the similarity of composition of closely related vocabularies. The comparative analysis of German-Prussian, Prussian-German and Russian-German vocabularies shows that the protograph of the “Russian books” of the 13th–14th centuries (created in Low German in the office of Novgorod) resembled the Elbing vocabulary of the second half of the 13th century by its layout, scope and composition.The latter source will be useful in reconstructing the protograph of Russian-German vocabularies. The comparison with the Latin-Low German Liber ordinis rerum dating to the late 14th century should be considered remote and abstract. By analogy with the akin “Russian books”, it is proposed to call Elbing vocabulary (Elbinger Vokabular) and the so called Grunau’s vocabulary the “Prussian (Elbing) Book” and the “Littl Prussian Book” respectively.

Njemačka lirika u bosanskohercegovačkim književnim časopisima u periodu od 1878. do 1918. Godine

Author(s): Jasmina Đonlagić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 3/2013

The transition from the 19th into the 20th century is of great importance to Bosnia and Herzegovina and could be referred to as a process of modernisation and europeanisation of this Ottoman province as a result of the Austro-Hungarian occupation in 1878. The process of integration of cultural and literary life of all ethnic groups began with the arrival of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and its strives to strengthen the position in the newly occupied country by bonding the three ethnic groups. Although in this period all ethnic groups faced increased national awakening the Austro-Hungarian monarchy saw a convenient way to promote the idea of unity; mutual respect and coexistence of all people by development and strengthening of journalism. Periodicals were entertaining and educational, and readers were allowed to acquire new knowledge and broaden their horizons. Literary magazines were the first one to open up to Western European culture and cultural heritage, and as a result of that the bosnian-herzegovinian readership for the first time was introduced to literary production of entire Western Europe. Given that the occupation and everything that came from German-speaking countries was viewed with suspicion no translation of literary works from the German language have largely filled the columns. Such an attitude towards German and Austrian authors changed only after the year 1907. The contact with the world’s literature is very important for further development of Bosnian literature and culture in general and has a dual meaning: creating a circle of educated readers and creating a new generation of Bosnian writers, who are gradually moving away from the influence of national ideology, creating the preconditions for the birth and development of modern Bosnian literature. This paper will try to show the development in terms of themes and motifs of poetry translated and published in literary magazines during the Austro- Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the reception of German poetry from the Bosnian public and its contribution to the development of culture.

Doświadczenie szoku. Walter Benjamin i trauma nowoczesności

Author(s): Grzegorz Marcinkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (12)/2018

The author of the article tries to reconstruct both the way of perceiving subjectivity in the works of Walter Benjamin and the ways in which the tension between identity and history is manifested in his writings. The article concentrates on the concept of shock, developed by the philosopher during reading Baudelaire and Kafka. With this concept, it is possible to describe the transition from the narrative conception of experience to “point experience” constituted by series of sudden unconnected impulses. The moment conducing to this transition was the I World War which for Benjamin – as well as for others significant thinkers of that time – constituted an important turning point.

„Hologramy Ciemności” — Paula Celana teodycea po Shoa

Author(s): Ewa Borkowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

Paul Celan’s (1920–1970) poetic cartography builds on the “holograms of darkness” (thus addressed by Amy Colin, an American Celan scholar), the metaphorical constellations which map the experiences of suffering, twilight and death. The poetry “after Shoa” of the Romanian poet of Jewish descent, writing in German, constitutes a particular landscape of his musical “death fugue” in which human suffering is depicted in surrealist images that silently express of the trauma of the Holocaust. Celan’s theodicy is created as the “rhetoric of the ineffable”, a silent dialogue with the Other (Lévinas) but also the absent Other, the No one with whom the poet converses and who becomes the addressee of his “poems-prayers” or “no-poems” (noems), as he calls them. It is the absent Other the poet worships and celebrates in his “poetry of silence”. Language also experienced suffering but was “enriched by it” and now can be heard “on the other side of silence”. Celan’s poetry is firmly anchored in the memory of the Holocaust and Jewish people’s traumatic experiences. To soothe his pain, the poet constantly returns to the “Brunnenland”, his birthplace located in Bukovina where he always found the spring that fueled his poetic soul and heart. The poet’s favourite metaphor is that of the meridian which marks the reference place on the cartographic grid of all his poetic images.

Преполовљени – први роман Предрага Степановића (интертекстуална анализа)

Author(s): Rada B. Stanarević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 20/2019

An intertextual analysis of Stepanović's novel reveals two things. First, a fruitful influence of Turgenev on the structure of fabula (reunion of friends at the same location) and on the typology of characters (Dragan – Lytvinov, Vojin – Rudin). Secondly, a highly unusual, impressive mixture of Turgenev and Goethe with reference to their respective works of the same title, Faust, providing the two aforementioned encounters of old friends with magic properties. This is achieved in such a manner that the two nocturnal, Mephistopheles-like meetings happen simultaneously, with Stepanović's characters enduring double destiny (Ana = Margareta and Vera Nikolayevna, Vojin = Mephistopheles and Rudin).With regard to its composition and subject matter, Stepanović's novel offers several interesting features. To start with, Mephistopheles' First/ Mother Night, unique and very successfully designed in artistic terms, takes place, intertwined with another night, within Chapters IV and VI, which justifies their central position as regards the novel's overall structure of fourteen chapters. In contrast with that, the protagonists' split lives of the present develop in the respective chapters of VIII, X, and XII. As for the subject matter – Ana and Dragan's unhappy love – it is comprised within the respective Chapters of V, VII, IX, and XI. As a result, events and relations between characters are not portrayed in a linear manner, but mutually intertwined. Yet, the frame, that is, the first and final chapters, which feature the partly ironically depicted character of Milorad Janković, makes sure that the desired unity of the plot, taking the novel in its entirety, is achieved, thus providing us with an open door to indulge in aesthetic delight.

Sebastian Seyferth, Umbrüche innerhalb der Schriftlichkeit in profanen und sakralen Übersetzungstexten des Deutschen, Tschechischen und Polnischen vom 15. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert

Author(s): Thomas Daiber / Language(s): German Issue: 4/2015

Review of: Umbrüche innerhalb der Schriftlichkeit in profanen und sakralen Übersetzungstexten des Deutschen, Tschechischen und Polnischen vom 15. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert. Hrsg. von Sebastian Seyferth . (westostpassagen – Slawistische Forschungen und Texte, Bd. 19.) Olms. Hildesheim 2014. 186 S., 7 Ill. ISBN 978-3-487-15137-3. (€ 34,80.). Reviewed by Thomas Daiber.

Recenzie

Author(s): Jakub Souček,Valerij Kupka,Ivana Kupková,Lenka Kubriczká,Kristína Kállay,Miroslav Zumrík / Language(s): Slovak,English Issue: 2/2020

Review of: MICHAL JAREŠ – PAVEL MANDYS: Dějiny české detektivky [The History of the Czech Detective Novel] Praha: Paseka, 2019. 488 s. ISBN 978-80-7432-977-7 EVA MALITI FRAŇOVÁ: Andrej Belyj / Celistvosť (v) mnohosti [Andrei Bely / The Wholeness of (in) Multiplicity] Bratislava: Veda, vydavateľstvo SAV, Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV, 2018. 239 s. ISBN 978-80-224-1696-2 ANDREA BOKNÍKOVÁ (ed.): Poetika poézie a jej prekladu [Poetics of Poetry and Its Translation] Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, 2018. 458 s. ISBN 978-80-223-4638-2 NIKOL DZIUB – FRÉDÉRIQUE TOUDOIRE-SURLAPIERRE (eds.): Comparative Literature in Europe: Challenges and Perspectives Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, 265 pp. ISBN: 978-1-52-75-2226-1 THOMAS OLIVER BEEBEE (ed): German Literature as World Literature. New York – London: Bloomsbury Academic 2016. 214 pp. ISBN 978-1501317712

Nieznane losy znanej książki. O ponownym odkrywaniu klasycznego utworu Heinricha Hoffmanna

Author(s): Kamila Kowalczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

Dybiec-Gajer, J. (2017). Złota różdżka – od książki dla dzieci po dreszczowiec raczej dla dorosłych. Kraków: Tertium. The review article discusses the book by Joanna Dybiec-Gajer, Złota różdżka – od książki dla dzieci po dreszczowiec raczej dla dorosłych [A Golden Wand – from a Children’s Book to a Thriller Rather for Adults] (2017). The text presents the structure, methodology, and the most important theses of the monograph on the already classic work by Heinrich Hoffmann (1845), as well as indicates the scholar’s original and valuable findings proving the sense of rediscovering texts belonging to the cultural canon. The article points out also to the productivity of creating a microhistory of a literary work, taking into consideration numerous contexts of its functioning, and refers to Dybiec-Gajer’s reflections on the ways of writing the text (including the structure, genre convention, adaptive mechanisms) and how to read it (including interpretation, reception), which is particularly interesting in the context of relations between the German Struwwelpeter and the Russian Stëpka‑Rastrëpka (1849), or the Polish Złota różdżka [A Golden Wand] (ca. 1858).

О ПРИРОДИ И ЗНАЧАЈУ ИСТОРИЈЕ И ФИКЦИЈЕ ( ТЕМАТ ЛИПАРА 70)

Author(s): Dušan R. Živković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 70/2019

ZWISCHEN ERINNERUNG UND FIKTION: LITERATURSKANDAL 1995 UM BINJAMIN WILKOMIRSKIS BUCH BRUCHSTÜCKE. AUS EINER KINDHEIT (1939–1948)

Author(s): Siniša Vučenović / Language(s): German Issue: 70/2019

Der Begriff Vergangenheitsbewältigung2 ist eines der wichtigsten Forschungsthemen in Deutsch- land, das sich zur Aufgabe stellt, den Umgang mit der deutschen Vergangenheit des 20. Jahr- hunderts zu erforschen. Dabei wird der Begriff namentlich in Verbindung mit der Aufarbeitung der nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit gebracht und ist somit insbesondere seit den 60er Jahren3 als einer der zentralen Begriffe in die öffentlichen Debatten gerückt. Ein wichtiger Forschungsaspekt stellt die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Holocaust4 an den europäischen Ju- den und die damit verbundenen nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen dar, dem, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die noch wenigen Zeitzeugen, besondere Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt wird. Unter diesem Gesichtspunkt will der Artikel die Schwierigkeiten bei der literarischen Aufarbeitung der NS-Vergangenheit durch die Zeitzeugen5 exemplarisch behandeln. Das Augenmerk liegt dabei auf dem Verhältnis zwischen dem Erinnern und Fiktion. Als Basistext dient dabei das 1995 beim Suhrkamp Verlag veröffentlichte Buch Bruchstücke. Aus einer Kindheit 1939–1948.

Zur Abfolge der Nominalphrasen im Deutschen

Author(s): Ivica Tokić,Sanela Mešić / Language(s): German Issue: 14/2018

Dieser Beitrag besteht aus einem theoretischen Teil, in dem der bisherige Forschungsstand auf dem Gebiet der NPs (Nominalphrasen) und der Abfolge der NPs vorgestellt wird, der als Grundlage für eine korpusbasierte Analyse dienen wird. Dem Hauptziel widmen wir uns im zweiten Teil des Beitrags, der korpusgestützten empirischen Untersuchung. Das Ziel ist es, zu überprüfen, od die zahlreichen theoretischen Ansätze, die Abfolge der NPs betreffend, einer solchen empirischen Untersuchung standhalten. Es sei an dieser Stelle vermerkt, dass während der Analyse nicht auf den ganzen Satz Bezug genommen wird, sondern nur auf den Teil des Satzes, in dem zwei NPs aufeinander treffen können. Das beudeutet, es wird der Teil des Satzes zwischen der linken und der rechten Klammer analysiert (z.B. Franz hat seinem Bruder die Wahrheit gesagt.; [...] dass Franz seinem Bruder die Wahrheit gesagt hat.), wobei die NPs nicht unmittelbar aufeinander folgen müssen.

Disappearance of the Self and Its Constitutive Outside in Kafka and Woody Allen's Zelig

Author(s): Lukas Mozdeika / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2020

Although parallels between Kafka’s hybrid characters and Woody Allen’s Leonard Zelig have been noted in literature studies (Bruce 1998), the underlying interpretative synergy is not exhausted and occasions a revisit, timely in light of the social tensions of the century-later-present. Juxtaposing counterfactual history with actual highbrow commentary in quasi- or mockumentary film genre allows Woody Allen to transpose Kafka’s grotesque into American realm of the 20s and thus Americanize it. The contention of this article is to suggest that Leonard Zelig, a changing man, is a derivative of Kafka’s characters, primarily cat-lamb in Hybrid, but Allen’s postmodern visual language in Zelig radically alters their inner metamorphoses and hybridity serving as a social critique, if only seen through triviality of its humour. Interpreting Zelig alongside Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Hybrid, we can trace genealogy of themes of anti-Semitism, racism and fascism resolve into contradiction of individualism versus petit-bourgeois mass culture marked by commercialization, commodification and assimilation, features that still define our present. The takeaway may be phrased in terms of a constitutive outside. That is, Leonard Zelig, the omnipresent-self, renders certain truth about society predefined by the cult of individualism by re-constituting his lack of individuality as inherently social phenomenon—constitutive outside, and thus disturbing it. In an ironic twist then, Zelig, released around the time of Margaret Thatcher’s famous denial of society, can be read as a structuring-absence revealing fiction, that of a non-existent society.

No More Hugs: Depictions of the Prodigal Son in 1920s Art and Literature

Author(s): Christian Arffmann / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2020

This essay examines the parable of the prodigal son in the New Testament and compares it to different visual and literary representations from the 1920s in Europe. The story of the prodigal son revolving around themes such as family, home, resistance, order and restoration will be juxtaposed with texts and art works from the so-called Lost Generation, a generation of artists and thinkers developing and rebuilding new art in a continent shattered by the atrocities of World War I. The essay examines the conflict between generations and worldviews that emerges in the 1920s and the prodigal artists’ reorientation in a fragmented world in which it is hard to feel at home.

Olimpia Revisited. Variations on a Theme by E. T. A. Hoffmann in 20th Century Avant-Garde Art

Author(s): Judit Bartha / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

The long reception of the doll Olimpia in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Sandmann represents the change of the ideologies concerning androids. The paper focuses on three transformations of the Romantic creature in 20th century Avant-garde art, namely, in works by Max Ernst, Oskar Schlemmer, and Cindy Sherman. It is aimed at showing how the machine myth of the 18th and 19th centuries, closely related to Gothic Romanticism, could become an important part of 20th century art.

Między Hilferuf a Lug i Trug – spór o interpretację początków państwa krzyżackiego w Prusach w historiografii XIX i pierwszej połowy XX wieku

Author(s): Maciej Dorna / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2020

This article offers an account of a dispute between Polish and German historians (and to a lesser extent among Polish historians themselves) over the process of establishing the Teutonic Order State in Prussia at the turn of 1220s–1230s. The dispute broke out in the nineteenth and continued into the first half of the twentieth century.