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Mapping Spaces. Reimagining East German society in 1960s fiction
No full textIn the process of establishing the social and political reality of the German Democratic Republic, writers played a crucial role. The specific feature of GDR literary texts of the 1960s lies in their attempt at imagining and representing the emergence of a community that had previously not existed. A new sense of common belonging was being promoted. This study focuses on the ways in which Werner Bräunig and Erik Neutsch negotiated this tension in their novels by analysing the spatial and topographical dimensions of the texts. If literary texts map power structures by rewriting cartographies, then the analysis of the latter will shed light on the socio-political models that are being advocated. Neutsch’s Spur der Steine (1964) and Bräunig’s fragment Rummelplatz (2007) were both written in the 1960s but enjoyed a very different reception: while the former became a bestseller, the latter was censored and published posthumously in 2007. Yet they both speak to GDR society of the 1960s, highlighting the evocative power of literature within the East German context – and beyond
"Kunst ist Arbeit": Erik Neutsch's "Spur der Steine"(1964) through the lens of its references to aesthetic debates and Italian realist painting
No full textThis article intends to show that Erik Neutsch’s novel ‘Spur der Steine’, which has
mainly been studied in terms of its political partisanship, entails a very rich subtext
of contested debates about realist aesthetics. Starting from Werner Bra ̈ unig’s
juxtaposition of the novel’s main character Hannes Balla to the Italian futurist
painter Giacomo Balla the argument can be made that scholarly criticism so far
(both before and after the fall of the Wall) overlooked one of the crucial elements
of the text. The numerous references to the Italian realist painters Renato Guttuso,
Gabriele Mucchi and Ernesto Treccani, as well as the discussion of Paul Klee’s
painting ‘Zwitschermaschine’ suggest that the ‘Kunstdiskussionen’ in the text
occupy a crucial role within the narration. This article intends to shed light on the
text’s focus on aesthetics emphasising, once again, the close relationship between
literature and visual arts
Introduction [a: Networks. The Reception of Kafka in the GDR. Special issue di Oxford german studies]
No full textOn the Epic of the Collective: Erik Reger's Union der festen Hand (1931)
Full text linkThe present contribution intends to investigate Erik Reger’s positions on the relationship between culture, literature, and the industry – including its technological advancements and its influence on workers as individuals – by scrutinizing several different sources. Reger, a journalist and later editor and director of the Berlin-based newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, has written numerous articles on the subject, and his archive is kept at the Akademie der Künste (AdK) in Berlin. By drawing on reviews, archival materials, and writings, this article will highlight Reger’s specific position and relate it to Sergey Tretyakov’s pamphlet “The Biography of the Object” (1929).
 
[Recensione a:] Achim Aurnhammer – Mario Zanucchi (hrsg. v.), Ariost in Deutschland. Seine Wirkung in Literatur, Kunst und Musik, De Gruyter, Berlin-Boston 2020, pp. 639
No full textZur Hinterfragung der Liebeserklärung: der galante Liebescode in Melissos Roman "Die galante und liebeswürdige Salinde" (1718)
No full text[Recensione a:] Marcello Anselmo, Il consumatore realsocialista. Dispositivi, pratiche e immaginario del consumo di massa in DDR (1950-1989), Le Monnier, Firenze 2020, pp. 226
No full text‘Ich liebe Kafka, weil er Realist ist’. Die Realismus Debatten um das Werk Franz Kafkas
No full textDer vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich mit der Kafka Rezeption in der DDR auseinander, mit besonderem Augenmerk auf die ästhetisch-politischen Debatten, die das Werk Kafkas Anfang der 1960er Jahre in der DDR — und darüber hinaus — entfacht hat. Ausgehend von den zahlreichen Aufzeichnungen und Korrespondenzen aus dem Alfred Kurella-Archiv (Akademie der Künste), besonders zwischen Alfred Kurella und Roger Garaudy, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Aragon, Carlo Salinari und Ernst Fischer, sollen die unterschiedlichen ästhetischen Positionen in Bezug auf den Realismus Begriff beleuchtet werden. Vor dem Hintergrund der ersten wissenschaftlichen Publikationen zu Kafka in der DDR, besonders in der Zeitschrift Sinn und Form, der Forschung von Klaus Hermsdorf, sowie der Kafka-Konferenz in Liblice im Mai 1963, der Person von Eduard Goldstücker und dem Prager Frühling 1968, sollen die ästhetischen, historischen und politischen Zusammenhänge rekonstruiert werden
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