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«Verweile nicht bei den Hellenen, vernimm dich zu Byzanz». Facetten der Griechenlandsehnsucht in deutschsprachigen literarischen Reiseberichten des 19. und angehenden 20. Jahrhunderts: [«Linger not among the Greeks, betake yourself to Byzantium». Aspects of the nostalgia for Ancient Greece in German travel literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries]
Full text linkAustrian and German intellectuals were often disappointed when visiting contemporary Greece. This article examines various aspects of this tension between expectation and disappointment, as recorded in travel literature dating from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. It focuses on the nostalgia for Ancient Greece and its disillusionment due to the immense temporal distance. It also examines the portrayal of the landscape as a guarantee of continuity, in order to overcome this disappointment. To this Ancient-centered nostalgia this article juxtaposes one of a different kind, this time related to the Byzantine tradition. This nostalgia can be found in the German and Austrian travel literature that describes visits to Greek monasteries, especially on the Athos peninsula, and reaches its peak in the mystical overtones of travellers’ accounts in the twentieth century
Premessa / Vorwort
Full text linkA bilingual foreword by the two volume editors, in which they briefly describe the structure of this publication
Hälfte des Lebens
Full text linkThe paper is the written version of a previous lecture, held on the occasion of a new translation of Hölderlin’s poem Hälfte des Lebens by the world-known French scholar Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, who was a student of Paul Celan. The Sorbonne Emeritus, former member of the Board of the Hölderlin-Gesellschaft Tübingen and translator of Goethe, Hölderlin, Hegel and Heine, as well as of Rilke, Kafka, Brecht and Celan, discusses here in detail the task of the poet in his times, and of his interpreters and adapters. His new translation, A moitié de la vie, is reproduced at the bottom of the essay
Cover and Introductory Pages
No full textStudia theodisca, Vol 26 (2019) - Cover and Introductory Page
Beckett, Bernhard, Dante: Intertextuelle Referenzen in Lilian Faschingers «Magdalena Sünderin»: [Beckett, Bernhard, Dante: Intertextual References in Lilian Faschinger’s «Magdalena the Sinner»]
Full text linkThe prose of the Carinthian writer Lilian Faschinger features complex intertextual networks. By integrating as well as interweaving quotations and motives from Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies, Thomas Bernhard’s Frost and Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia, her picaresque novel Magdalena Sünderin does more than merely engage in postmodern playfulness. This article investigates how Faschinger’s text makes use of its intertextual elements to ridicule the literary canon. It also poses the question whether this can be interpreted as a tongue-in-cheek feminist act against male domination in the literary scene as such
Searching for Harmonia. «Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus» and Hungarian Anabaptists
Full text linkIn Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus (1668) Grimmelshausen depicts the Hungarian Hutterites as an ideal society, focusing predominantly on the ethics and social structure of this communal branch of Anabaptism. In this critical reading, I explore how Grimmelshausen fictionalized the religious minority, its commitment to particular social structures and ethical aspects, and its separation from society. As part of this analysis, the study investigates which social and religious principles drawn from polemical accounts and contemporary sources influence and counter the minority’s image as an ideal society and how this image of the religious group supports the novel’s notion of utopia
