297 research outputs found
Ingeborg Drewitz in the Field of Literature and Politics
No full textDer aus einer Berliner Tagung im November 2003 hervorgegangene Band „Von der Unzerstörbarkeit des Menschen“ versammelt zahlreiche interessante Beiträge zu Leben und Werk der Autorin Ingeborg Drewitz. Der erste Teil des Bandes ist unter dem Titel „Vita activa“ vor allem dem vielfältigen politischen Engagement der Autorin gewidmet, während „Themen und Schreibweisen“ ihres literarischen Werks in einem sehr umfangreichen zweiten Teil behandelt werden. Insgesamt zeichnen die Texte in dem Band ein sehr differenziertes Bild von Ingeborg Drewitz als engagierter Schriftstellerin und von ihrem Werk.The volume “On Human Indestructibility” (“Von der Unzerstörbarkeit des Menschen“), which is based on a conference held in Berlin in November 2003, contains numerous interesting contributions on the life and work of the author Ingeborg Drewitz. The first part of the volume, which is entitled “Vita activa,” is dedicated to the author’s numerous political engagements, while the expansive second section, “Themes and Syntax,” approaches her literary work. In total, the texts in the volume draw a differentiated image of the politically engaged author Ingeborg Drewitz and of her work
The post-war division of Berlin and its social effects, as illustrated by the translations of three short stories by Ingeborg Drewitz
No full textThis thesis examines three short stories by Ingeborg Drewitz, translated from German to English for this specific purpose. All three stories deal with a major concern of Drewitz, namely the effects the separation between East and West Germany had on the population. The introduction comments on the importance of the stories, their relevance to the chosen topic, and the author's writing techniques. A brief account of the historical events leading up to the establishment of the Berlin Wall will provide the necessary background information to set the stories into context. A further section is dedicated to Ingeborg Drewitz herself, including a look at her childhood, her literary accomplishments and awards. The central portion of the thesis is the presentation of the English translations of the stories, each followed by a brief analysis. The concluding comparison of these stories focuses on their contribution to the overall theme.Bibliography: leaves 129-132
Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism
No full textPhDThis study examines German literary images of musical life as part of the wider sound identity of the modern German city at the turn of the twentieth century. Focussing on a forty-year period from 1890 to 1930, synonymous with the emergence of the modern German metropolis as an aesthetic object, the project assesses, compares and contrasts how musical life in the Musikstädte was perceived and portrayed by writers in an increasingly noisy urban environment. How does urban musical life influence and condition city writings? What are the differences and similarities between the writings on various musical cities? Can an urban textual sound identity be derived from these differences and similarities? The approach employed to answer these questions is a new, cross-disciplinary one to urban sound in literature, moving beyond reading the key sounds of the urban soundscape using urban musicology, sensorial anthropology and cultural poetics towards a literary contextualisation of the urban aural experience.
The literary motifs of the symphony, the gramophone and urban noise are put under the spotlight through the analysis of a wide range of modernist works by authors who have a special relationship with music. At the centre of this analysis are the Kaffeehausliteratur authors Hermann Bahr, Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, the then Munich-based author Thomas Mann and the lesser known René Schickele. The analysis of these particular works is framed in the music-geographical context of the Musikstadt and literary underpinnings of this topos, ranging from Ingeborg Bachmann to Hans Mayer and, once again, Thomas Mann. In analysing these texts, the methodological approach devised by Strohm, who identifies the blending of a range of urban sounds as a definition of urban space and identity, is applied. His ideas combine historical literary
analysis, musical history and urban sociology. They are rarely used in the analysis of the auditory environment.Arts and Humanities Research Council
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The Contribution of Women Authors to the Discovery of People of the Female Sex in German-Speaking Literature Since 1945
No full textThe paper proceeds from the assumption that women write differently from men; that, as Virginia Woolf asserted, if one were to place two texts side by side, one by a woman and one by a man, one would be able to ascertain the sex of the author. This paper attempts to shed some light on the reasons why this should be so: is it a result of innate differences in personality, or in socialization, or both? It also examines in some detail (and this is its main burden) the different subjects that women in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1945 choose to write about and the different ways in which they treat these subjects. Extensive quotations from a number of important women writers are given in order to convey a sense of the texture of this writing to an English-speaking audience
Pisarka w ukryciu. Uwagi do polskiej recepcji twórczości Ingeborg Bachmann
No full textThe author observes and comments on how the reception process has worked in Poland as regards Ingeborg Bachmann, particularly within a feminist context and interpretation of her works. There is indication that difficulties occur in interpretation as well as the frequent occurrence of something that can referred to as the “stereotyping of reception”. Additionally, the author points out the need for a more complete reading of the works of the Austrian writer using a new methodology of literary criticism
Zur Aufnahme der Theaterstücke von Ingeborg von Zadow in Polen
No full textZur Aufnahme der Theaterstücke von Ingeborg von Zadow in Polen In der heutigen polnischen Kindertheaterwelt ist das Werk von Ingeborg von Zadow eine Besonderheit. Der Erfolg ihrer Stücke resultiert aus der engen Bindung der Autorin ans Theater – ihrer vielschichtigen Arbeit als Textverfasserin und Regisseurin. Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt die Stücke von Ingeborg von Zadow vor, die ins Polnische übersetzt und durch polnische Theater aufgeführt wurden. Die Texte werden neben der Rezeptionsanalyse, einer literarischen Analyse unterworfen. Aus der Untersuchung geht hervor, dass die Werke der Dramenautorin sowohl den Kindern als auch ihren Eltern eine Möglichkeit geben, sich objektiv mit den nicht einfachen Themen wie Trennung, Entscheidungentreffen oder Freundschaftskrise auseinanderzusetzen. In the modern realm of children’s theatre in Poland, the works of German playwright Ingeborg von Zadow holds a special position. The success of her texts in Germany and abroad undoubtedly stems from the author’s close relationship with the theatre – her involvement as writer and director. This article presents Ingeborg von Zadow’s “children’s plays” which have been staged by Polish theatres and theatre companies. The plays, besides being analysed on the basis of their reception in Poland, have undergone general literary analysis. It shows that the playwright’s works allow both children and their parents to deal objectively with the rather problematical subjects of parting, making difficult decisions, or the crisis of friendship.Zur Aufnahme der Theaterstücke von Ingeborg von Zadow in Polen In der heutigen polnischen Kindertheaterwelt ist das Werk von Ingeborg von Zadow eine Besonderheit. Der Erfolg ihrer Stücke resultiert aus der engen Bindung der Autorin ans Theater – ihrer vielschichtigen Arbeit als Textverfasserin und Regisseurin. Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt die Stücke von Ingeborg von Zadow vor, die ins Polnische übersetzt und durch polnische Theater aufgeführt wurden. Die Texte werden neben der Rezeptionsanalyse, einer literarischen Analyse unterworfen. Aus der Untersuchung geht hervor, dass die Werke der Dramenautorin sowohl den Kindern als auch ihren Eltern eine Möglichkeit geben, sich objektiv mit den nicht einfachen Themen wie Trennung, Entscheidungentreffen oder Freundschaftskrise auseinanderzusetzen. In the modern realm of children’s theatre in Poland, the works of German playwright Ingeborg von Zadow holds a special position. The success of her texts in Germany and abroad undoubtedly stems from the author’s close relationship with the theatre – her involvement as writer and director. This article presents Ingeborg von Zadow’s “children’s plays” which have been staged by Polish theatres and theatre companies. The plays, besides being analysed on the basis of their reception in Poland, have undergone general literary analysis. It shows that the playwright’s works allow both children and their parents to deal objectively with the rather problematical subjects of parting, making difficult decisions, or the crisis of friendship
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