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The World Around Ulrichs
No full text'The World Around Ulrichs' begins with and includes special attention to Ulrichs but seeks to explore more of his context within and beyond his European surroundings. A guiding theme in the composition of this volume is what Ulrichs’s world was like: proximally, medially and distally. The period in which Ulrichs and those influenced by him were writing—primarily 1860s to the 1890s—was one of tremendous social and cultural change. In this book, Ulrichs is the starting point but not an ending point. Like the centre of a wagon wheel, Ulrichs can be a node from which various scholarly approaches can illuminate the context of 19th-century gender and sexuality
Book review: Shadows of the Past: Austrian Literature of the Twentieth Century edited by Hans Schulte and Gerard Chapple.
No full textThis is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Frackman, Kyle. Rev. of Schulte, Hans, and Gerard Chapple, eds. Shadows of the Past: Austrian Literature of the Twentieth Century. NY: Peter Lang, 2009. In German Quarterly 83.4 (2010): 522-23. Print., which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1756-1183.2010.00098.x/pdfArts, Faculty ofCentral, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, Department ofUnreviewedFacult
Groomer rumor : the trope of the queer child predator in German and American popular media (1869–2024)
No full textOver the last four years, the term “groomer” has emerged as a political weapon against the LGBTQ+ community to conflate queerness with child abuse and “recruitment.” Although this particular iteration is new, the sentiment behind it has deep historical roots that can be traced to nineteenth-century Germany. Groomer Rumor is a podcast and experimental master’s thesis that explores the history and functions of this ongoing moral panic that labels queer people as sexual predators. The podcast uses historical examples from Germany and the United States to critically analyze the weaponization of this trope against the LGBTQ+ community. Incorporating archival audio footage, interviews with scholars, and original narration, Groomer Rumor traces a transnational genealogy of the “groomer” trope over the course of more than a century to emphasize the deeply entangled queer histories of Germany and the United States, while highlighting the distinct characteristics and implications of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in unique political, cultural, and temporal contexts.Arts, Faculty ofCentral, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, Department ofGraduat
"What a Satisfying Task for a Composer!":Paul Dessau's Music for The German Story (... Du und mancher Kamerad)
No full textReview: Tina Campt: Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich.
No full textIn lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the review:
In Other Germans, Tina Campt offers a significant and timely contribution to German Studies, Holocaust scholarship, and research into the function of memory within a greater historical and cultural context. In the author\u27s own words, her work "examines the historical discourses that preceded and enabled the emergence of a Black German subject"; further, she "analyzes how the processes of racial and gender formation designed by National Socialism to purge non-Aryans from the landscape of German society contributed in paradoxical ways to the production of some of the subjects it sought to expunge" (2). In order to set herself apart from other research into Germany\u27s National Socialist past, Campt writes that, "this work examines the generative effects of this totalitarian government and the processes of racialization and gendering that constituted its fundamental organizing techniques and practices" (1-2). Thus, Campt begins to make the case for the value of her scholarship, observing that the era of National Socialist control is most often considered only or at least primarily for its "destructive capacity" (1-2)
Coming Out
Full text linkExamines the creation, context, and significance of the first and only East German feature film about homosexuality. It took forty years for East Germany's state-run studios, DEFA, to produce a feature film about homosexuality: Coming Out. The film's story seems radically ordinary today: a young teacher, Philipp, is gay but cannot accept the truth about his sexuality. He starts a relationship with a fellow teacher, Tanja, but falls in love with a man he meets, Matthias, whose confidence in his own self-understanding is alluring for him as well as a challenge. Acclaimed director Heiner Carow created a film that shows the difficulties, both internalized and external, that queer people faced in East Germany. In a quirk of history, Coming Out premiered in German theaters on November 9, 1989, the very night on which the Berlin Wall was opened, which meant the film was initially overshadowed, to say the least, by the earthshaking political events. Yet it remains a popular film and is regularly screened around the world, including prominently at queer film festivals. Kyle Frackman's book examines the film in both the late East German context of its creation and the international context of its reception. This book is openly available in digital formats under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC
Richard von Krafft-Ebing [Encyclopedia article]
No full textThe Greenwood
Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality through History: The Nineteenth Century. Vol. 5
by Susan Mumm. Copyright (c) 2008. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of ABCCLIO,
LLC, Santa Barbara, CA.Arts, Faculty ofCentral, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, Department ofUnreviewedFacult
Book review: Cinema and social change in Germany and Austria edited by Gabrielle Mueller and James M. Skidmore
No full textThis item is a critical review of Mueller, Gabrielle, and James M. Skidmore, eds. Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012. 302 pages. ISBN 978-1-55458-225-9.Arts, Faculty ofCentral, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, Department ofUnreviewedFacult
Book review: Von Kraftmenschen und Schwächlingen: Literarische Männlichkeitsentwürfe bei Lessing, Goethe, Schiller und Mozart by Martin Blawid.
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