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Die drei Bäume ANNY SEGHERS (Odmiany lęku)
Get PDFAls ANNA SEGHERS 1940 mit ihrer Familie versuchte, aus dem von der deutschen Wehrmacht besetzten Teil Frankreichs zu fliehen, schrieb sie Die drei Bäume, drei kurze Texte, die sich mit Angstgefühlen auseinandersetzen – es sind die Angst vor Verfolgung, vor Führungslosigkeit und vor Entfremdung. In der SEGHERS-Forschung haben diese kurzen Geschichten kaum Beachtung gefunden – sehr zu Unrecht, wie die Verfasserin anhand ihrer jahrzehntelangen Erfahrungen im Umgang mit den kurzen Geschichten darstellt.In 1940, when ANNA SEGHERS and her family tried to flee the part of France occupied by the German Wehrmacht, she wrote Die drei Bäume; three short texts dealing with feelings of fear – that is, the fear of persecution, of lack of leadership, and of alienation. In research into SEGHERS, these short stories have received little attention – unjustifiably so, as the author shows, based on her decades of experience in dealing with the short stories.Gdy ANNA SEGHERS razem ze swoją rodziną próbowała w 1940 r. uciec z zajętych przez niemiecki Wehrmacht terenów Francji, napisała trzy krótkie teksty Die drei Bäume (Trzy drzewa). Teksty te zajmują się lękiem i pytają, w jaki sposób można sobie z nim radzić – chodzi o lęk przed prześladowaniem, lęk przed brakiem osoby, której można zaufać i lęk przed wyobcowaniem. Literatura naukowa o SEGHERS nie zwróciła uwagi na te teksty – niesłusznie. Autorka artykułu przywraca je pamięci opierając się na kilkudziesięcioletnich badaniach poświęconych krótkim opowiadaniom
Die Umerziehung in Anna Seghers\u27 Der Ausflug der toten Mädchen
No full textThis thesis analyzes the story Der Ausflug der toten Mädchen by Anna Seghers (1900-1983) through an examination of Seghers\u27s ideas on reeducating the German people after the Second World War.
This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter includes an introduction, a biography of Anna Seghers and a summary of Der Ausflug der toten Mädchen. The second chapter discusses the guilt of the Germans for the crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War. Anna Seghers does not see the German people as a homogeneous whole, but rather she distinguishes in her verdict of guilty between the groups of active Nazis, passive conformists, and the non-conformistsThe third chapter analyzes Seghers\u27s models for the reeducation of the German people after the war. Seghers considers the non-conformists to be the most capable for the task of conveying values such as worth and dignity of every individual to the former Nazis and passive conformists. The final chapter focuses on the stylistic techniques Seghers uses as the weapons of an author in the struggle to reeducate the German people
Anna Seghers: from the Exile of Herself to the Proper Name
No full textThis dissertation intends, throught a study of the novel Transit and the short story The Excursion of the Dead Girls, by the german writer Anna Seghers, to investigate totalitarianism and its consequences, more especifically, the exile. Hospitality, hostility, the perception of the foreigner as an intruder and his isolation in himself are relevant themes in the context of exile. The biographical space is also explored in Seghers’ narratives, since the autobiographical elements are characteristic in the author’s literature, which serves as testimony and as archive of an important period of the 20th century. Anna Seghers inserts facts of her life and even her name in her texts. When a name is signed someone may be held accountable. The author signs her name and this way she resists. Anna Seghers’ literature serves a greater purpose than just the telling of her individual experience. It serves to strenghten moral conscience of the entire society.Sem bolsaEsta dissertação pretende, por meio de um estudo do romance Em Trânsito e do conto O Passeio das Meninas Mortas, da escritora alemã Anna Seghers, investigar o totalitarismo e as suas consequências, mais especificamente, o exílio. Hospitalidade, hostilidade, a percepção do estrangeiro como intruso e o seu isolamento em si próprio são temas relevantes no contexto de exílio. O espaço biográfico também é explorado nas narrativas de Seghers, uma vez que elementos autobiográficos são característicos da literatura da autora, a qual serve como testemunho e como arquivo de um período importante do século XX. Anna Seghers insere fatos de sua vida e até o seu nome em seus textos. Quando um nome é assinado alguém pode ser responsabilizado. A autora assina o nome e assim ela resiste. A literatura de Anna Seghers serve a um propósito maior do que somente o de contar as suas experiências individuais. Ela serve para fortalecer a consciência moral de toda a sociedade
La nascita dell’autore e la resurrezione letteraria dei morti “Die Toten auf der Insel Djal. Eine Sage aus dem Holländischen nacherzählt von Antje Seghers”
Get PDFThis article deals with the issue of authorship in Anna Seghers’ oeuvre. Starting from her first short story “Die Toten auf der Insel Djal. Eine Sage nacherzahlt von Antje Seghers”, which was published anonymously in 1924, the issue of authorship proves to be one of the most important in Seghers’ poetics. The narrator of this uncanny story about death and resurrection bears the name which a few years later was to be the pseudonym adopted by Netty Reiling, i.e. Anna Seghers. By means of this literary device the future “Anna Seghers” seems to arise from her own fiction, as though the author was produced by the text itself. In other words, the question posed by Michel Foucault in his famous essay “What is an author?” can find an interesting literary prefiguration in Anna Seghers’ writings
Anna Seghers: from the Exile of Herself to the Proper Name
No full textThis dissertation intends, throught a study of the novel Transit and the short story The Excursion of the Dead Girls, by the german writer Anna Seghers, to investigate totalitarianism and its consequences, more especifically, the exile. Hospitality, hostility, the perception of the foreigner as an intruder and his isolation in himself are relevant themes in the context of exile. The biographical space is also explored in Seghers’ narratives, since the autobiographical elements are characteristic in the author’s literature, which serves as testimony and as archive of an important period of the 20th century. Anna Seghers inserts facts of her life and even her name in her texts. When a name is signed someone may be held accountable. The author signs her name and this way she resists. Anna Seghers’ literature serves a greater purpose than just the telling of her individual experience. It serves to strenghten moral conscience of the entire society.Sem bolsaEsta dissertação pretende, por meio de um estudo do romance Em Trânsito e do conto O Passeio das Meninas Mortas, da escritora alemã Anna Seghers, investigar o totalitarismo e as suas consequências, mais especificamente, o exílio. Hospitalidade, hostilidade, a percepção do estrangeiro como intruso e o seu isolamento em si próprio são temas relevantes no contexto de exílio. O espaço biográfico também é explorado nas narrativas de Seghers, uma vez que elementos autobiográficos são característicos da literatura da autora, a qual serve como testemunho e como arquivo de um período importante do século XX. Anna Seghers insere fatos de sua vida e até o seu nome em seus textos. Quando um nome é assinado alguém pode ser responsabilizado. A autora assina o nome e assim ela resiste. A literatura de Anna Seghers serve a um propósito maior do que somente o de contar as suas experiências individuais. Ela serve para fortalecer a consciência moral de toda a sociedade
Kontroverses Erbe und Innovation : die Novelle Die Reisebegegnung von Anna Seghers im literaturpolitischen Kontext der DDR der siebziger Jahre
No full textBibliography: pages 201-210.The dissertation attempts to analyse the novella Die Reisebegegnung by Anna Seghers not as an isolated "work" by an isolated "author" but as a symptom of the possibilities and limits of innovative writing in the German Democratic Republic in the seventies. While it therefore situates the novella within the context of literary politics, it also tries to show how Anna Seghers expanded the boundaries of literary political debates, which focused on the concepts of cultural heritage and social realism, by using the form of fiction instead of a critical essay. The first chapter deals with the historical context of the novella. It tries to show Anna Seghers' allegorical depiction of the literary figures of "Nikolai Gogol", "E. T. A. Hoffmann" and "Franz Kafka" as representations of the aesthetics of realism, romanticism and modernism respectively. The use of allegory marks a significant breakaway from the method of social realism. The chapter also tries to show the intertextuality of the novella. The second chapter focuses on the debate on cultural heritage in the GDR. It retraces Anna Seghers' changing attitudes to the controversial cultural heritage of romanticism and modernism in the Marxist debate on realism from the thirties up to the publication of the novella Die Reisebegegn.ung in 1973. The third chapter deals with the theory of socialist realism as developed by Georg Lukacs and simplified by the Stalinist cultural functionary Andrei Zhdanov. It attempts to define the position taken by Anna Seghers in the Marxist debate on realism in which she argued on the same side as Ernst Bloch and Bertolt Brecht against the concept of realism upheld by Lukacs. The fourth chapter deals with the depiction of the three literary figures in the novella. It attempts to show in how far this figuration deviates from the orthodox Marxist reception of the three authors on the one hand and from that of alternative Marxist and non-Marxist interpretations on the other. The fifth chapter analyses Anna Seghers' literary representation of time. She lets the three authors travel freely through "objective" historical time, which constitutes the most significant deviation from the theory of socialist realism in the novella. The chapter discusses the implications this has for innovative writing in the GDR. While Anna Seghers tries to incorporate the divergent concepts of realism of the three authors - each situated within his own literary historical framework - into her variety of socialist realism in the GDR in the seventies, she adapts and changes the complexity and specificity of their representations of reality. The unresolved contradictions of the novella, however, constantly subvert the claim to an extraliterary reality, which the literary figures and the novella make. The limits of this novella in its literary historical context were in turn expanded by writers in the GDR in the seventies who saw in it a legitimisation for their own literary experiments
Messenger Writers: Anna Seghers and Alejo Carpentier in the Cold War
No full textIn the early 1960s, the East German Anna Seghers and the Cuban Alejo Carpentier published historical narratives of the slave uprisings that had rocked French and British colonies in the Caribbean during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In both Seghers's “Das Licht auf dem Galgen” (“Light on the Gallows”) and Carpentier's El siglo de las luces (Explosion in a Cathedral), revolutionary agents of the French government face the question of whether to prioritize official policy or solidarity with the oppressed in their work to advance emancipatory ideas. In light of the historical situation of Seghers and Carpentier as authors aligned with new, revolutionary states in the middle of the twentieth century, these stories about revolutionary messengers can be understood as contemporaneous, critical reflections on the particular author position of being a “messenger writer.” In contrast with prior studies that evaluate the historical realism of these works, I draw on Walter Benjamin's notions of revolutionary historiography in order to show how both the content and circumstances of publication of Seghers's and Carpentier's fiction illuminate their struggles with the role of messenger writer. This in turn contributes to a more thorough historicization of the texts and the concerns of iconic leftist writers in the Cold War.</jats:p
Stalin, der alte Schurke, der Teufel, der Zar, der Greis und die Trauer Anna Seghers um seinen Tod
No full textIt is not in the passionate articles that were published after the death of Stalin in March 1953, but in her second novel with a GDR subject, Das Vertrauen (Trust), that the communist author Anna Seghers dares to expose her own view of the Soviet dictator. Well aware of the difficulties ¿and political dangers¿ of offering a too realistic approach to the circumstances of his death, which include the false accusation and the unjust imprisonment of the doctors who attended him in his last days, the writer committed herself to a vision through the experiences of such characters as the old, unhappy worker Janausch, the much younger Thomas Helger, who...No es en los emocionados artículos publicados después de la muerte de Stalin en Marzo de 1953, sino en su segunda novela con una temática de la RDA, Das Vertrauen (La confianza), donde la escritora comunista Anna Seghers osa exponer su propia visión del dictador soviético. Muy consciente de las dificultades ¿y represalias políticas¿ de una aproximación demasiado realista a las circunstancias de su muerte, la cual necesariamente debería incluir la falsa acusación y el encarcelamiento injusto de los médicos que le atendieron en sus últimos días, la escritora opta por una exposición centrada en las distintas reacciones de personajes como el descontento..
The All-Knowing Narrator's Mental Sanctuary
No full textIn the year 1946, German author Anna Seghers wrote her semi-autobiographical novella The Outing of the Dead Schoolgirls during her exile in Mexico (during 1941 to 1947). She had suffered from both physical and emotional traumas, having met with a car accident and having lost her mother while still in exile. This essay explores how Seghers’ use of childhood memory as a trope to work through trauma allows the protagonist a mental space that acts as a sanctuary to recover from trauma. The essay argues that Seghers attempts to reunite the protagonist with her mother but the plot disallows this anticipated trajectory. The protagonist’s failure to meet her mother demonstrates that a survivor (like Seghers) is unable to obtain closure, therefore causing them to repeatedly revisit the traumatic memory. The essay utilises the explanation of Dominick LaCapra, a trauma theorist and Holocaust historian, that the desire for a connection with the “dead intimates” causes trauma survivors to “invest” in the trauma memory by reliving and prolonging the experience as a “necessary commemoration or memorial” that the dead did not receive (23). These survivors are often provoked by their experiences of the war leaving the individual with recurring reminders of the dead and their memories of them. The desire to return to these memories and to commune with the dead complicates the process of working through the trauma that would enable victims to recover from their emotional and mental scars
Severe COPD: Multidisciplinary Consultation to Get the Right Care at the Right Place
No full textPieter-Paul Hekking,1 Monique van Meggelen,1 W Johan Lie,2 Rogier Arnaud Sebastiaan Hoek,3,4 Dirk van Ranst,5 Stephan Cornelis Johan van der Kleij,6 Leonard Seghers,4 Jasper Kappen,1,7 Gert-Jan Braunstahl,1,8 Johannes In ’t Veen1 On behalf of Severe Asthma & COPD Network South West Netherlands1Centre of Excellence for Asthma, COPD & Respiratory Allergy, Franciscus Gasthuis & Vlietland, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 2Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 3Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Bravis Hospital, Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands; 4Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus MC Transplant Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 5Revant, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Breda, the Netherlands; 6Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Home Mechanical Ventilation, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 7Department of National Heart and Lung Institute, Immunomodulation and Tolerance Group, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Imperial College London, London, UK; 8Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Rotterdam, the NetherlandsCorrespondence: Pieter-Paul Hekking, Franciscus Gasthuis & Vlietland, Centre of excellence for asthma, COPD & Respiratory allergy, Kleiweg, 500, Rotterdam, 3045 PM, the Netherlands, Email [email protected]
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