Die Funktion des Gespenstermotivs Bei Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué und Heinrich von Kleist

Author(s): Ivana S. Marinkov / Language(s): German Issue: 6/2016

The period around 1800 represents a very interesting chapter in the several-centuries-long history of the literary representation of the ghost motif, as it marks the emergence of fantasy literature, which entailed the enrichment of the classical ghost story by the addition of the element of the uncanny, which, in turn led to the flourishing of the ghost story genre as part of the dark romanticism movement. This paper focuses on the analysis and comparison of the function of the ghost motif in Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's stories The Evil Ghost of the Forest (Der böse Geist im Walde, 1812) and The Collier's Family (Die Köhlerfamilie, 1814) and Heinrich von Kleist's The Beggarwoman of Locarno (Das Bettelweib von Locarno, 1810). This comparative approach aims to determine the similarities and distinctions in the literary depiction of the ghost motif in the selected works of the two distinguished authors of ghost stories, that give an insight into the many possible ways in which the ghost motif can contribute to the central idea and message of literary works in the fantasy literature around 1800.

Aufarbeitung der sozialistischen Vergangenheit Bulgariens im Roman von Ilija Trojanow Die Welt ist groß und Rettung lauert überall [Trojanow 1996]

Author(s): Snezhana Boycheva / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2013

This article thematizes rethinking the recent past of Bulgaria in the literature with the following main points: the world of spirituality as an escape from socialist realism, the friendship between the peoples of Eastern Bloc, class enemy, collectivism and individualism ascent in the social hierarchy, talking and thinking as parallel worlds, respect to the historical past, homeland and identity.

Две сестри. Археология на митове и реалност в романа на Сибиле Левичаров: Апостолов

Author(s): Snezhana Boycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2012

The present article studies Sibylle Lewitscharoffs interpretation of own and foreign. The attitude of criticism of the novel resembles the literary works of the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhardt, not in style, melody or linguistic structures, but in intensity and power of literary provocation towards the readers. The art of exaggeration (Ubertreibungskunst), in which Bernhardt excels, is not an end in itself in Lewitscharoffs novel. Both authors use the drastic hyperbole in order to twist (zur Kenntlichkeit entstellen) the poverty of spirit imposed by the myths, maybe in an attempt to make it...surmountable, until it becomes recognizable.

Калейдоскоп на българското в съвременни немскоезични литературни текстове

Author(s): Snezhana Boycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2010

The paper dwells on German and Austrian authors and their literary works depicting the Bulgarian reality. The way of reception the contemporary Bulgarian reality on behalf of the German- language authors, respectively from their literary works outlines the following scheme of: Conflict with the other, which does not belong to the common set of knowledge and experience of the recipient (in most cases cultural shock). As a result of the conflict - a reflex towards approaching and exploring the other, the strange in order to define the new cultural fact. The scheme of the one’s own cultural pattern is to be transformed by means of comparison and relativity in order the other fact be compatible to the facts of one’s own experience. The other fact, at the very beginning confronts our way of thinking, but later turns into an extra element of our knowledge and experience (intercultural competence).

Роман З. Ленца “Перебіжчик”: успіх після провалу або парадокс рецептивної трансгресії

Author(s): Tetiana Basniak / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 99/2019

Siegfried Lenz (1826–2014) has experienced arrange of tragic events, related to his manuscript “The Deserter” (1951) on the way to a great success of the novel “The German Lesson” (the latter starts the list of the Austrian Manes Sperber Prize winners (1985). In the novel, the Wehrmacht soldier Walter Prosca (who had shot and killed the enemies throughout the whole war) suddenly realizes the worthlessness and futility of all his efforts, as well as starts pondering whether justice exists, and if yes, who it belongs to. When the question of his faith to Wehrmacht arises, he hesitates. The novel was designed as the continuation of Lenz’s rather successful work “Hawks in the Air” (1951). However, it was not published due to a very negatory review of O. Görner. The readers saw “The Deserter” only two years after S. Lenz’s death. It became are sonant bestseller in 2016. As to the novel itself, there is an evident inversion of critical narrative in it. The article under discussion deals with this receptive paradox. The key role in perceiving the author’s view belongs to his ambiguous inscription on a folder with the manuscript “Death Makes Music”. The latter inscription requires a more detailed analysis. In the book epilogue, the manager of Lenz’s literary heritage G. Berg points at the reasons why the editor refused to publish the novel. The above refusal was closely related to the beginning of Cold War. The text analysis proves how risky it is to reveal the topical issues, provided the author’s view is greatly affected by historical uncertainty.

Sarajevska poetička docentura

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 3-4/2019

Katedra za njemačku književnost na Filozofskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Sarajevu i Fondacija S. Fischer iz Berlina zajedno su uspostavili Sarajevsku poetičku docenturu, i njen prvi nosilac za 2019. godinu je njemački pisac Ilija Trojanow koji tim povodom boravi od početka maja do kraja juna u Sarajevu, prvenstveno kako bi održao seriju predavanja za studente na Filozofskom fakultetu u Sarajevu.

Požderani zoološki vrt

Author(s): Ilija Trojanow / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 3-4/2019

Short story written by Ilija Trojanow: Požderani zološki vrt

Nakon bijega

Author(s): Ilija Trojanow / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 3-4/2019

Prose written by Ilija Trojanow: Nakon bijega

Is it possible to see darkness? Goethe and Aristotle on the role of light and darkness in vision

Author(s): Svetlana Mesyats / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

J.W. Goethe in his Farbenlehre deduced all physical colors from a simple primordial phenomenon that takes place every time light and darkness act through a semitransparent colorless medium either on our eyes or on the opposite surfaces. This basic rule of Goethe’s color theory was criticized by his contemporary physicists, who argued that darkness could not play an active role in the origin of colors because of being a mere absence of light. The paper demonstrates that this criticism became possible only if one shares the Newtonian view on the nature of light and darkness. Goethe however held a more traditional point of view, which he traced back to Antiquity and Aristotle. In contrast to Newton and his followers, previous scientists considered light not as an immediate cause of colors but as an actually transparent medium that conveyed colors from the visible objects to the organ of sight. For vision to take place, the color must first affect the light, which in its turn, must affect the faculty of vision. Though it is difficult to say what kind of change the light undergoes when some colored object is seen through it, most Aristotle commentators agree that this change must be real and not mere relational. In Aristotle’s physics, however, things that are capable of acting on and being affected by one another are either contraries or consist of contraries. Therefore, to be visible the color must be either dark or to contain darkness. Thus, assuming that Goethe shared the Aristotelian concept of light, we have to conclude that he was not mistaken saying that darkness "acts” upon our eyes or “is seen through” the illuminated semi-transparent medium.

The Utopian Potential in Hannes Stein’s Novel Der Komet (2014)

Author(s): Jelena Spreicer / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2018

In his essay entitled “Future City”, Fredric Jameson challenges the assumption that it would be easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, by asserting that writing can be utilized to construe “feeble signals of time, of otherness, of change, of Utopia” (Jameson 2003: 76). One such signal emanates from the parahistoric novel Der Komet (2014) by Hannes Stein, a rare case of utopia in contemporary German literature, in which Franz Ferdinand not only survives his 1914 visit to Sarajevo, but also saves the Habsburg Monarchy from collapse, thus divesting the twentieth century of war and genocide, as well as of the exponential growth of the capitalist economy after WWII. However, Stein’s Habsburg uchronia is fatally undermined not only by the imminent danger of apocalypse in the form of a comet plummeting towards the pacifist population of the modern-day Danube Monarchy, but also by the novel’s dual structure, which precludes any possibility of historical otherness. Given the chasm at the very heart of this structure, the article addresses the question of whether the novel shows any utopian potential at all.

“MUTTER MEINE QUELLE…” ОБРАЗ МАТЕРІ У ЛІРИЦІ МОЗЕСА РОЗЕНКРАНЦА

Author(s): Tetiana Lakusta / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2019

The German-language literature of Bukovina was not the subject of interest of Ukrainian scholars for a long time. There are several reasons for this: firstly, many Bukovinian German-speaking authors were forced to emigrate abroad, and some were repressed and spent their lives in Soviet labor camps. In addition, the German-language literature of Bukovina was regarded as a colonial heritage of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, that is why the German language was forced out from the daily use in connection with the new political and social conditions. The article is aimed at the image of the mother in the poetic work of the Bukovinian German-speaking writer Moses Rosenkranz, in particular, in the collection “Bukovina. Verses 1920–1997”. The poems “Die Mutter”, “Die armen Mütter”, “Pieta auf dem Schlachtfeld”, “Abschied” are ana-lyzed, which give a clear idea of the author’s attitude to his mother and its reflection in lyrical poetry.

Поезија

Author(s): Peter Rühmkorf / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3-4/2019

Poetry by Peter Rühmkorf: ПРИЗОР С ПРОПУТОВАЊА.

Katharina von Bora, die Lutherin, in "Ungehaltene Reden ungehaltener Frauen" von Christine Brückner

Author(s): Sunhild Galter / Language(s): German Issue: 18/2018

Anlässlich des 500jährigen Reformationsjubiläums im Jahr 2017 soll in dem Beitrag auf die sich durch die Reformation verändernde Rolle der Frauen eingegangen werden mit besonderem Bezug zu Katharina von Bora, der Frau des Reformators Martin Luthers. Auch werden Aspekte der fiktiven, „ungehaltenen“ Rede, die Christine Brückner in ihrem Buch "Wenn du geredet hättest, Desdemona. Ungehaltene Reden ungehaltener Frauen" in eine ganze Reihe im doppelten Sinne ungehaltener Reden eingliedert, mit den biografischen Entsprechungen der realen Katharina von Bora zusammengeführt.

,Ent-Spatialisierung‘? oder: Das Scheitern der insularen Existenz in THEODOR STORMS Novelle Waldwinkel, mit Seitenblicken auf RAABE und STIFTER

Author(s): Torsten Voß / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2019

The article deals with successful and unsuccessful constructions of the island utopia (which, however, are not bound to any real island, as in so many designs of the century, which are, however, briefly referred to), in terms of narrative issues and approaches from the Spatial Turn, and connects them with resolution tendencies of the so-called romantic “loneliness of the forest.” Das Odfeld (1889) by RAABES and Die Narrenburg (1844) by ADALBERT STIFTER’S are discussed, and in particular THEODOR STORM’S greatly underrated and little-interpreted novel Waldwinkel (1874), as an unattractive and there-fore innovative counter-model, which shows openly how time, and history itself, break into the spatial utopia, and thereby transfer it to a realistic level.

Nesthäkchens Backfischzeit von ELSE URY und die deutsche Revolution von 1918/1919

Author(s): Angelika Schneider / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2019

The fifth volume of ELSE URY’S Nesthäkchen series, published around 1920, combines typical elements of the “Backfischroman” (teenage girl novel) with motifs of the German Revolution of 1918/1919 and creates a partially heterogenic and partially homogenic narrative. In this context the idea behind the entire series is presented and the way in which the series became part of the process of modernization and politicization of books for girls in the late Empire is discussed. The analysis shows how the text focuses on the revolution, class conflict, and debates on student councils from a bourgeois perspective, foregrounding them as the most important aspects of the “revolutionary novel for young girls”.

Der revolutionäre Dichter. JOHANNES R. BECHERS ästhetische Rezeption der Russischen Revolution

Author(s): Kristin Eichhorn / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2019

The article examines two phases in JOHANNES R. BECHER’S response to the Russian Revolution and its aesthetic consequences, by looking at the two versions of his play ArbeiterBauern Soldaten (Workers Peasants Soldiers; 1919/1924). In the first phase, BECHERexpresses his enthusiasm for the revolution and combines communist ideology with the expressionistic pathos of awakening into a new and groundbreaking future. In the second phase, the topic of the Russian Revolution is, paradoxically, more autobiographically-shaped, and it is accompanied by stronger arguments in support of collectivism.

„Lethe-Effekte – Forensik des Vergessens“. Interdisziplinäre und inter-nationale Tagung an der Universität Łódź, 9.-11.10.2019

Author(s): Maja Dębska / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2019

PESME

Author(s): Hans-Magnus Enzensberger / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 278/1982

Poetry written by Hans Magnus Enzensberger: TRI PESME.

POEZIJA

Author(s): Gottfried Benn / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 266/1981

Poetry written by Gottfried Benn: LEPA MLADOST.

POEZIJA

Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 253/1980

Poetry written by Friedrich Nietzsche: DIONISOVI DITIRAMBI.