Edinburgh German Yearbook 14

Politics and Culture in Germany and Austria Today
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-64014-084-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Edinburgh German yearbook

Examines the heightened role of politics in contemporary German and Austrian cultural productions and institutions and what it means for German Studies.

As debates about Europe, migration, resurgent nationalism, and neoliberalism intensify in Germany and Austria, politics has gained particular prominence in cultural production and cultural institutions. How does this development affect German Studies as a discipline and a practice? Volume 14 of Edinburgh German Yearbook examines political or politicized aspects of contemporary life that have become increasingly significant for culture today. The contributions gathered here offer engaging readings of contemporary literary texts (including work by Saša Stanišic, Anke Stelling, and Timur Vermes), films (by Fatih Akin, Ruth Beckermann, and Andreas Dresen), and other forms of cultural intervention (the polemics of Max Czollek and Oliver Polak, and the activism of the left-feminist group Burschenschaft Hysteria). These encourage us to consider how communities are being (re)shaped by current political and social crises, antagonisms around memory cultures, questions of European identity, as well as challenges to the status of an assumed Leitkultur and the discourse of integration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matthes, Frauke

Weitere Mitwirkende

Osborne, Dora

Krylova, Katya

Aspioti, Myrto

Ludden, Teresa

Shortt, Linda

Cosgrove, Mary

Roca-Lizarazu, Maria

Gleißner, Stephanie

Hawthorne, Katie

Preuss, Evelyn

Moser, Joseph W.

Klimpfinger, Regine

Koenigshofer, Elisabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Frauke Matthes, Dora Osborne, and Katya Krylova
Writing the European Refugee Crisis: Timur Vermes' Die Hungrigen und die Satten (2018)
Linda Shortt
Pluralized Selves and the Postmigrant Sublime: Isolde Charim's Ich und die Anderen (2018) and Wolfgang Fischer's STYX (2018)
Teresa Ludden
"Never an innocent game": The Center for Political Beauty and "Search for us!"
Mary Cosgrove
Irreconcilable Differences: The Politics of Bad Feelings in Contemporary German Jewish Culture
Maria Roca Lizarazu
Geography, Identity, and Politics in Saša Stanišic's Vor dem Fest (2014)
Myrto Aspioti
Precarious Narration in Anke Stelling's Schäfchen im Trockenen (2018)
Stephanie Gleißner
Limited Editions: Politics of Liveness at the Berliner Theatertreffen, 2017-19
Katie Hawthorne
The Akin Effect: Fatih Akin's Cultural-Symbolic Capital and the Postmigrant Theater
Lizzie Stewart
Goodbye, Sonnenallee, Or How Gundermann (2018) Got Lost in the Cinema of Others
Evelyn Preuss
Ruth Beckermann's Reckoning with Kurt Waldheim: Unzugehörig: Österreicher und Juden nach 1945 (1989) and Waldheims Walzer (2018)
Joseph W. Moser
Burschenschaft Hysteria: Exposing Nationalist Gender Roles in Contemporary Austrian Politics
Regine Klimpfinger and Elisabeth Koenigshofe
Notes on the Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Cosgrove, Mary
Mary Cosgrove is Professor in German at Trinity College Dublin. Her research and teaching foci include Holocaust memory and representation in literature and culture; German Jewish writing; the cultural history and theory of melancholia and boredom in European letters; and literary
and narrative economics. Key publications include Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (Camden House,
2014); German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 (Camden House, 2006; paperback 2010).

Gleißner, Stephanie
Stephanie Gleißner is currently a research assistant at the PhilippsUniversität Marburg. Together with other members of the DFG Research Unit "Journal Literature" she co-authored a book on the optical appearance of literature and its implications and functions within the broad spectrum of nineteenth-century media formats (Optische Auftritte:

Marktszenen in der medialen Konkurrenz von Journal-, Almanachs- und Bücherliteratur, Wehrhahn, 2019). Stephanie also published the novel Einen solchen Himmel im Kopf (Aufbau, 2012). At present she is working on her PhD project, which explores 1920s short prose within the context
of contemporary newspapers and magazines.

Matthes, Frauke
FRAUKE MATTHES is a Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh.

Roca-Lizarazu, Maria
MARIA ROCA LIZARAZU is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Aspioti, Myrto
MYRTO ASPIOTI is acquisitions editor for De Gruyter in Berlin, where she is in charge of the English-language portfolio in Literary and Cultural Studies.

Hawthorne, Katie
Katie Hawthorne recently submitted her PhD in European Theater at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the Wolfson Foundation. Her thesis argues that "liveness" in the theater is culturally and contextually contingent, using the cities of Edinburgh and Berlin for comparison. This
year she holds a fellowship at the Dortmund Academy of Theater and Digitality.

Osborne, Dora
DORA OSBORNE is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews.

Preuss, Evelyn
Evelyn Preuss is finishing her dissertation on East German cinema at Yale University. In addition, she is pursuing a project on neoliberalism and globalization(s) that examines the political effects of globalized media and culture and asks to what extent art can provide alternative, inclusive
platforms for building political and social consensus. Currently, she is coediting a volume, Through the Wall(s), examining the GDR's transnationalism in relation to informal networking and Eigensinn. She has published on East German Cinema, the intersection of media, architecture and politics, as well as on the disparity between Eastern and Western perspectives in a number of journals and anthologies.

Ludden, Teresa
Teresa Ludden is Senior Lecturer in German Studies at Newcastle University. She researches philosophy and contemporary Germanlanguage literature and film, focusing on the interface between politics,
aesthetics, and ethics in texts. She has published on a range of topics including narratives of trauma, eating disorders, prostitution, memory
and identity, and experimental poetry. She is currently working on radical re-workings of the uncanny in contemporary cultures and new materialisms for literary criticism of texts addressing the anthropocene.

Shortt, Linda
Kinda Shortt is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on concepts of place, belonging, and attachment in
twentieth- and twenty-first-century German-language literature and film. Significant publications in this area include: "Borders, Bordering,
and Irregular Migration in Novels by Dorothee Elmiger and Olga Grjasnowa," MLR 116, no. 1 (2021): 134-52; and German Narratives
of Belonging: Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford: Legenda, 2015).

Moser, Joseph W.
Joseph W. Moser is Associate Professor of German at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and serves as the book review editor for the Journal of Austrian Studies. He has published on Thomas Bernhard,
Lilian Faschinger, Franz Kafka, Robert Schindel, Andreas Pittler, Czernowitz writers, the Austrian Contemporary Novel, and Franz Antel's Bockerer film series.

Klimpfinger, Regine
Regine Klimpfinger teaches German language, Austrian Studies, and Medieval literature at the University of Reading. Her current research
interest is Austrian literature and art as activism, with a focus on feminist and queer activism and protest movements. Further fields of interest
include Memory Studies, the role of popular culture and cinema in the formation of the Austrian Heimat, and anti-Heimat literature and film.

Krylova, Katya
KATYA KRYLOVA is Lecturer in German, Film, and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen.

Koenigshofer, Elisabeth
Elisabeth Koenigshofer is OeAD-Lektorin (Teaching Fellow for the Austrian Exchange Service) at the University of Reading. Her research interests are political dissent in Austrian popular culture, identity studies, and accessibility of cultural heritage through digital tools.