Acculturation Process and Ethnic Identity of Immigrants in Germany

Author(s): Liudmyla Smokova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

In the present study, we discuss psychological acculturation, by which we mean the internal processes of change that immigrants experience when they come into direct contact with members of the host culture. The model we present builds on research in the areas of social and ethnic identity. Each of these perspectives is discussed in accordance with its relevance to the acculturative processes operating in immigrants. We understand ethnic identity as a dynamic state, that is determined by three components: (1) by the degree of inclusion in the group of one’s cultural origin; (2) the tendency to assimilate to the ethnic group of origin; and (3) the complementary tendency to differentiate from one’s own ethnic group. Social identity conveys belonging of the individual to different social categories and the value as well as emotional significance of this membership. We have sought to explain how the processes of social categorization, inand out-group identification and social comparison predetermine the direction of the acculturation process and hence the intercultural interaction and wellbeing of the youth from immigrant backgrounds in Germany. Results indicated that immigrants who have more identified themselves with dominant society have expressed the strong preference to integration strategies. The immigrants that had a high degree of ethnic identification have expressed the low preference to the integration as well to marginalization and assimilation. In its turn, the powerful feeling of belonging to an ethnic group and attitude towards the group promotes immigrants segregation choice.

Текстът във всекидневието на българските германци

Author(s): Tanya Matanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Тhis paper is focused on the presence of German and Bulgarian texts in the everyday life of German expats in Bulgaria, more exactly in their activities and communication with other people in the real world – relatives, friends, neighbours and other fellow-citizens, and on the Internet – as members of virtual communities and groups or as owners of websites.

KOMPLETNO IZDANJE KNJIGA XXV. BROJ 9., 1932

Author(s): Milan Ćurčin,Jevgen Jelačić,Albert Haler,Nikolaj Fedorov,Lazar Tomanović / Language(s): Croatian,Serbian Issue: 09/1932

Фантастиката – медиум на модерността: Светослав Минков

Author(s): Nikolina Burneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The article introduces the reader to the context of the momentous transformations of the aesthetic and worldview paradigms at the end of ‘the long 19th century’ and the arrival of modernity in Bulgarian culture which had– until then – been traditional and folklore-based. In this context, the author traces the early work of Svetoslav Minkov – a distinguished author of fantastic literature and cofounder of Bulgarian diabolical literature. The article focuses on comparative reading of several short stories by Gustav Meyrink and Svetoslav Minkov in order to highlight the arguments supporting the discussion of this literary movement in a broad, European context.

Гласовете на диаболизма и гласните струни на литературната наука (За Гласовете на българския диаболизъм…)

Author(s): Boris Minkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Peut-on vivre sans noblesse ? Le problème du « réalisme » dans le roman des XIXe-XXe siècles

Author(s): Kalin Mikhailov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,French Issue: 1/2020

In the Western European novel, the death of the nobleness of the soul brings to life the “social realism” characteristic of Balzac’s work. This change is signified by the transformation of the novel’s protagonist from a moral into a social individual (S. Hadzhikosev). Later, this development will logically progress into the ascension of the antihero and conclude with the “cynical realism” (“réalisme cynique”), preached by authors like Frédéric Beigbeder. Reflecting on several major novels written in the 19th and 20th centuries, this article strives to answer the principal question of whether the novelist could take another realistic path, and tries to imagine what this path would look like.

За книгата: Francis Claudon. A l’école de Fauriel. Mélanges de littérature comparée. Editions universitaires européennes, 2018.

Author(s): Roumiana L. Stantcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

Book review: Francis Claudon. A l’école de Fauriel. Mélanges de littérature comparée. Editions universitaires européennes, 2018.

Trzy baśnie braci Grimm z oryginalnego wydania Kinder- und Hausmärchen. Pierwszy przekład na język polski w kontekście badań nad biografią i wkładem informatorów w powstanie zbioru

Author(s): Eliza Pieciul-Karmińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

The author of the article presents three tales by the Grimm brothers – Herr Fix und Fertig [Herr Fix-It-Up], Die wunderliche Gasterei [The Strange Feast], and Die lange Nase [The Long Nose] – from the original edition of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen [Children’s and Household Tales] collection (1812–1815), which were removed from the subsequent editions and thus were not translated into Polish yet. The texts of the tales, translated by the author of the paper, are each time preceded by an introduction that considers the biographies and characteristics of the storytellers. This is in accordance with the trend in the research on the Grimms’ informers, summarized in the article’s introduction.

“Hansel and Gretel” Films: Crimes, Harms, and Children

Author(s): Pauline Greenhill,Steven Kohm / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

A brutal narrative of child abandonment, murder, and cannibalism may not seem the conventional stuff of fairy tales to those trained for a Disney-eyed view. Yet that is exactly what “Hansel and Gretel” offers. Film versions across genres, including drama, noir, horror, slasher, thriller, comedy, and adventure, deal seriously with crimes against and harms to children. Many practices and behaviours that endanger and damage people of various ages in all kinds of contexts, including environmental degradation, economic exploitation, and many forms of discrimination, are not proscribed in the formal criminal justice system, and/or are beyond the jurisdiction of public institutions. Many actions and inactions that affect and/or pertain to children’s wellbeing are found as recurring themes and ideas in “Hansel and Gretel” films. In this paper, the authors focus on non-supernatural, live-action films available in English for adult viewers that include child main characters, that is, those whose Hansels and Gretels are clearly below the age of puberty. These films, the authors contend, offer distinctive perspectives on harms to children as individuals and as groups, especially with relation to institutions implicating justice.

ПАРИЗ И БЕРЛИН КАО КУЛТУРНЕ ПРЕСТОНИЦЕ ИЗМЕЂУ ДВА СВЕТСКА РАТА И ЊИХОВ УТИЦАЈ НА КУЛТУРНЕ ПРИЛИКЕ У СРБИЈИ

Author(s): Ana M. Vujović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 75/2021

La place et le rôle de Paris et de Berlin en tant que capitales de deux pays importants de l’Europe, mais aussi en tant que capitales des événements culturels dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, et en particulier entre les deux guerres mon- diales, peuvent être étudiés sous différents aspects. Leur énergie créatrice et la forte influence culturelle qu’ils avaient sur le reste du monde sont incontestables, même avant et après cette période. Dans cet article, nous voudrions évoquer les éléments essentiels de leurs activités culturelles, comparer leurs actions culturelles et identi- fier ce qui les a rendus si attrayants pour d’autres pays. Vu les points de départ très différents dans nos relations avec ces pays, le but de cet article est d’analyser leur influence sur la situation culturelle de la Serbie en tant que partie du Royaume de Yougoslavie et plus particulièrement de sa capitale, Belgrade. Alors que la France était un allié traditionnel et un grand ami après la Première Guerre mondiale, l’attitude à l’égard de l’Allemagne a été sensiblement différente et alourdie par les conflits de guerre et les souffrances du peuple serbe. Il est possible de conclure que, dans la période donnée, l’influence culturelle de la France a été dominante, ce pays passant pour un ami à qui certaines omissions pouvaient être pardonnées, tandis que, d’autre part, l’Allemagne a été longtemps considérée avec suspicion, puis une plus grande confiance et une coopération se sont développées, pour être finalement remises en question à la veille d’une nouvelle guerre mondiale.

TOWARDS THE SOURCES OF THE LEGEND OF THE DRAGON OF RHODES

Author(s): / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The present article is an attempt to search for the sources of the legend of the fight of Deodat de Gozon (Dieudonne de Gozon), the future 27th Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John at Rhodes (1346 – 1353) with the monstrous dragon of Rhodes in the period during which the island was ruled by the Order of the Knights Hospitaller and also for its possible primary literary sources in the mediaeval tradition of the Alexander Romance, resp. of its version Historia di preliis;

КOЛОНИЈАЛНА ПРОПАГАНДА У НЕМАЧКОМ КЊИЖЕВНОМ ДИСКУРСУ ПРВЕ ПОЛОВИНЕ 20. ВЕКА

Author(s): Nataša P. Rakić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 78/2022

Die Idee, dass die Kolonisation notwendig ist, um die deutsche Identität zu festigen, wurde im deutschen literarischen Diskurs Seite an Seite mit der Eroberung Afrikas und der Umsetzung der gewalttätigen Kolonialpolitik des Deutschen Reiches umgesetzt. Obwohl das Deutsche Reich mit der Unterzeichnung des Versailles Vertrags im 1919. seine Kolonien verlor, blieb noch weiter die Hoffnung, dass die Macht in ehemaligen Kolonien wiederhergestellt wird. Kolonialfantasien und und die Gedanken über die Eroberung eines neuen Raumes für das deutsche Volk wurden durch zahlreiche Flugschriften, Zeitungsartikel, sowie populäre Werke der Kolonialliteratur populär gemacht. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der deutschen Kolonialliteratur mit dem Ziel, das Fortbestehen der Idee der Kolonisierung und Rassenungleichheit aufzuzeigen, die trotz historisch- sozialer Turbulenzen den deutschen literarischen Diskurs in der ersten Hälfte des20. Jahrhunderts maßgeblich prägte.

Spiral Coercion: Nazi Power and Family Authority in Charlotte Salomon’s Autobiographical Work Life? Or Theatre?

Author(s): Eleftheria Karagianni / Language(s): English Issue: 11/2022

Life? or Theatre? is a visual-theatrical, textual, and auto-biographical play of Charlotte Salomon, a Jewish talented artist, executed at a very young age in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In this paper, I consider Salomon’s work a document of life, and a testimony of her personal intra-familial, and personal experience of “the before—Auschwitz” (Jenn-Gastal 228) depicting, among others, historical and socio-political facts articulated and expressed through narrative and painting. Since in Sociology life stories or autobiographical narratives constitute a valuable tool, I will employ Salomon’s drawings, captions and texts as a “synergetic fusing of social sciences and the arts” (Bagley 34), in order to shed ample light on her reconstructed lived experience. This research aims at examining Salomon's autobiographical work from a sociological and philosophical perspective, referring to the views of great theorists, such as Hannah Arendt, Zygmunt Bauman, and the founders of the Frankfurt School, who tried to explain the origins of totalitarianism, power relations and the causes of the Holocaust.

Herta Müller en el exilio, la garra en el corazón

Author(s): Ines Carvajal Arguelles / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 1/2023

This article aims to show that Herta Müller's life is depicted as one of perpetual uprooting and to portrait elements in her novels where the writer deals with major universal themes, connected to the topic of exile and fundamental to understanding the turbulent 20th century in Europe. Her denunciation of the horrors of totalitarianism, against which she opposes a cry for freedom and against oblivion, stands out for its capacity for reflection, its originality and its poetic sensitivity, in such a way that it manages to traverse this arid terrain with original images of great beauty.Herta Müller in exile, the claw in the heart

За книгата: Владимир Сабоурин. Студии. 2023, 750 с., ISBN: 9786199178348.

Author(s): Maria Endreva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Book review: Vladimir Sabourín. Studies. 2023

Za ścianą. O kobiecie, zwierzętach i (nie)codzienności w powieści „Ściana” Marlen Haushofer

Author(s): Estera Głuszko-Boczoń / Language(s): Polish Issue: 11/2023

Marlen Haushofer’s novel, The Wall (Die Wand), published in 1963, elevated the author to fame, winning the admiration of readers and critics beyond the German-speaking world. As a result of a twist of fate she can neither grasp let alone understand, the heroine is cut off from the external world by an invisible obstacle – the titular wall. Behind it, human and animal life dies away, literally. She is the sole survivor of the catastrophe. From then on, she has to live in complete seclusion, left to her own devices and to fend for herself. Her only companions are a small group of animals giving sense to her existence. The sense of responsibility she feels for those living beings, her care for them, and the total isolation and sense of hopelessness become the determinants of her everyday life. This paper aims to present the main character’s uncommonness of daily living conveyed by the title and caused by an unexpected disaster. It seems important to investigate the protagonist’s attempts to reconstruct her own social space, where human interactions are replaced by interactions with animals. It is no less important to investigate her survival strategies, which are based on the strategies she had known before the disaster. The character has to take on a new role in a new reality that turns out to be a kind of reflection of her previous social role. This paper attempts to review the established social rules which had to become devalued to a certain extent when the character was faced with a radical change. Haushofer’s work can also be interpreted as a parable of the present time, in which fear of what is unknown (a disaster, a war, a pandemic) determines the way that the individual lives day by day. This paper is based primarily on the source text, namely M. Haushofer’s The Wall, and the analysis in this paper refers to feminist discourse, ecocriticism and animal studies.

PEUR ET COEXISTENCE SOCIALE DANS LA PEUR ET VINGT-QUATRE HEURES DE LA VIE D’UNE FEMME DE ZWEIG STEFAN

Author(s): Hayatou DAOUDA / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2022

In these two texts, Zweig Stefan lucidly describes the fear that eats away people who are at fault. This feeling completely destroys the lives of the heroines. Thus, weakened, Irene and Mrs. C. are exposed to all kinds of emotion: fear, hatred, anger and madness succeed one another in their daily lives. Therefore, their confined existence, with no way out, is like an oasis. Through these writings and in a psychocritique approach, we find that fear is a stronger emotion than death. The victims of this feeling, weakened, tortured and profoundly scarred, lose all control. They live a cloistered and quiet life because of fear, and find their freedom only through speech and music.

Notes bibliographiques

Author(s): Pavel Trost,Elias Katz,Karel Dolista,Vladimir Sadek,Josef Hrásky,Jiřina Hlaváčová,Karel Lagus / Language(s): English,French,German Issue: 2/1968

Reviews of: 1. Medieval Judaeo-Czech 2. Elias Katz: Tres semestri seu duodeviginti menses, Antwort zur Bemerkung K. Dolistas: Anni tres et menses sex. (Judaica Bohemiae HI, 1967, S. 135/6.) 3. Magyar-zsidó aklevéltár (Monumenta Hungariae Judaica), tome 10 (1150-1766). L’édition préparée par les soins de Sandor Schreiber et ses collaborateurs, Budapest. A magyar izraeliták országos képviseletének kiadâsa 1967. 615 pages de texte, 7 illustrations 4. Jan Herman: Židovské hřbitovy na Moravě (Les cimetières juifs en Moravie) (Památková péče, 1968/3, pp. 81-87) 5. Dagmar Hejdová-Bořivoj Nechvátal: Studie o středověkém skle v Cechách (Etude sur le verre du Moyen âge en Bohême) Památky archeologické, LVIII, No. 2, pp. 433-491, Prague 6. Franz Kafka: Dopisy Mileně (Lettres à Milena) Prague, Academia 1968. 261 pages, 21 illustrations. Traduit par Hana Žantovská 7. Franz Kafka: Briefe an Felice. Herausgegeben von Erich Heller und Jürgen Born Frankfurt a. M., S. Fischer Verlag 1967. 784 s. 8. Dagmar Hilarová: Hundert Farben hat der Regenbogen Aus dem Tschechischen übertragen von Rudolf Iltis und Günther Deicke Verlag der Nation, Berlin, 1966, 112 s. 9. Walter Pillich: Jüdische Goldschmiede unter Kaiser Rudolf II. Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden IV., 1967 Nr. 2/3, Seite 79-82. Herausgegeben von Hugo Gold in Tel Aviv. 10. Bernhard Brilling: Geschichte des jüdischen Goldschmiedegewerbes in Schlesien. Hamburger mittel- und ostdeutsche Forschungen Band VI. Verlag Ludwig Appel, Hamburg 22. 1967, S. 163-221. 11. Bernhard Brilling: Zur Geschichte der jüdischen Goldschmiedgewerbe in Prag. Die ersten Prager jüdischen Goldschmiede Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden Jhg. 1967, Nr. 1, Seite 21-26. Herausgegeben von Hugo Gold in Tel Aviv.

DIDAKTISIERUNGSVERSUCH DER PHRASEOLOGISMEN MIT DER KOMPONENTE "LICHT" / "SVETLO" IN DEUTSCHEN UND SERBISCHEN PHRASEOLOGISMEN IM DAF-UNTERRICHT

Author(s): Katarina Z. Stamenković / Language(s): German Issue: 80/2023

In diesem Beitrag wird versucht ein phraseodidaktisches Lehr- und Lernkonzept zur Vermitt- lung der Phraseologismen anzugeben, die die Komponente Licht / svetlo enthalten. Dabei dient die deutsche Sprache als Ausgangsprache und die serbische Sprache als Zielsprache. Dieser Beitrag soll besonders Germanistikstudenten oder Deutschlernenden auf den Niveaustufen B1 oder B2 hilfreich sein. Das Erlernen der Phraseologismen im Deutschunterricht ist nicht immer einfach, deshalb ist das Ziel dieses Beitrags den Lernenden die Phraseologismen, welche die Komponente Licht / svetlo enthalten näherzubringen. Der Beitrag ist in zwei Teile gegliedert. Aus verschiedenen Wörterbüchern wurden insgesamt 28 Phraseologismen herausgesucht und nach dem Äquivalenzgrad sortiert, um so Unterschiede und Ähnlichkeiten für den Lernenden klar darzustellen. Dieser einheitliche Überblick bildet den ersten Teil der Arbeit. Es wurde die kontrastive Methode verwendet. Der zweite Teil besteht aus den darauffolgenden Übungen, die sowohl Deutschlernenden, aber auch Deutschlehrenden von Hilfe sein können. Die ausgewählten 8 Übungen können im DaF-Unterricht Gebrauch finden, teils aber auch von den Lernenden individuell genutzt werden. Sie dienen zur Rezeption aber fördern auch die Produktion der Phraseologismen.

За книгата: Румяна Л. Станчева. Сравнително литературознание. Фаталната жена и 5 европейски кройки на романа. София, Изд. Колибри, 2023. [Roumiana L. Stantcheva. Littérature comparée. La femme fatale et 5 coupes européennes du roman]

Author(s): Dina Mantcheva / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2024

Book review: Румяна Л. Станчева. Сравнително литературознание. Фаталната жена и 5 европейски кройки на романа. София, Изд. Колибри, 2023. [Roumiana L. Stantcheva. Comparative Literature. The Femme Fatale and 5 European “Cuts” of the Novel. Sofia, Colibri Publishers, 2023./ Littérature comparée. La femme fatale et 5 coupes européennes du roman.]