Oliver Lubrich

Yahya A. Elsaghe

Luca Liechti

W. G. Sebald

Shakespeares Selbstdekonstruktion

Peter Klein

Trudi Aeschlimann-Müller

Udo von der Burg

Kurt Fluri

Karl Lubomirski

Peter Nenniger

Ursula Renold

Ulrich Schmidt-Denter

Silke Siebrecht-Grabig

Ulrich Stottmeister

Bemerkenswerte Interpretationen komplexer Zusammenhänge

Rex Clark

Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was a world traveler, bestselling writer, and versatile researcher, a European salon sensation, and global celebrity. Yet the enormous literary echo he generated has remained largely unexplored. Humboldt inspired generations of authors, from Goethe and Byron to Enzensberger and Garcia Marquez, to reflect on cultural difference, colonial ideology, and the relation between aesthetics and science. This collection of one-hundred texts features tales of adventure, travel reports, novellas, memoirs, letters, poetry, drama, screenplays, and even comics-many for the first time in English. The selection covers the foundational myths and magical realism of Latin America, the intellectual independence of Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, and Whitman in the United States, discourses in Imperial, Weimar, Nazi, East, and West Germany, as well as recent films and fiction. This documented source book addresses scholars in cultural and postcolonial studies as well as readers in history and comparative literature.

Alexander Von Humboldt in World Literature

Transatlantic Echoes

Through the eyes of foreign authors, this collection offers a new perspective on the horrifying details of German life under Nazism, in accounts as gripping and well-written as a novel, but bearing all the weight of historical witness.

Foreign Authors Report from Germany

Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945

Hans Jürgen Balmes

Stadt erzählen

Berlin Hüttenweg

Reto Sorg

Geschichten von Lukas Bärfuss (Schweiz), Joanna Bator (Polen), Hans Christoph Buch (Deutschland), Louis-Philippe Dalembert (Haiti), Lizzie Doron (Israel), Mathias Énard (Frankreich), Xiaolu Guo (China), Nedim Gürsel (Türkei), Josefine Klougart (Dänemark), Wendy Law-Yone (Burma), Wilfried N’Sondé (Kongo), Fernando Pérez (Kuba), Peter Stamm (Schweiz), Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Kolumbien), David Wagner (Deutschland).

Eine Hommage an Friedrich Dürrenmatt in Geschichten von Lukas Bärfuss, Joanna Ba

Vom Dorf um die Welt und zurück

Alexander von Humboldt explored the Spanish Empire on the verge of its collapse (1799–1804). He is the most significant German travel writer and the most important mediator between Europe and the Americas of the nineteenth century. His works integrated knowledge from two dozen domains. Today, he is at the center of debates on imperial discourse, postcolonialism, and globalization. This collection of fifty essays brings together a range of responses, many presented here for the first time in English. Authors from Schiller, Chateaubriand, Sarmiento, and Nietzsche, to Robert Musil, Kurt Tucholsky, Ernst Bloch, and Alejo Carpentier paint the historical background. Essays by contemporary travel writers and recent critics outline the current controversies on Humboldt. The source materials collected here will be indispensable to scholars of German, French, and Latin and North American literature as well as cultural and postcolonial studies, history, art history, and the history of science.

Alexander Von Humboldt in Cultural Criticism

Cosmos and Colonialism

Katja Liebal

Thomas Stodulka

Wie verarbeitet ein Dokumentarfilmer die Geschichten von Siebzigjährigen, die damit prahlen, Tausende von »Kommunisten« erdrosselt und deren Blut getrunken zu haben? Wie verhandelt ein Wissenschaftler Abscheu oder Begeisterung für Menschen anderer Kulturen, über die er als teilnehmender Beobachter nüchtern zu schreiben hat? Und was empfindet eine Primatologin nach jahrzehntelangen Kämpfen für das Überleben von Menschenaffen, deren Lebensraum zunehmend zerstört wird? Diesen und weiteren Fragen geht der Band in einer Reihe von Gesprächen mit Wissenschaftler_innen nach - u.a. mit Jane Goodall, Nigel Barley, Joshua Oppenheimer und Hans Christoph Buch.

Gespräche zur Ethnografie, Primatografie und Reiseliteratur

Emotionen im Feld

Oliver Lubrich

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