Tanja Nusser

Svea Bräunert

Special Issue: Annemarie Schwarzenbach's Photographic Practice

Iuditha Balint

Rolf Parr

Kathrin Röggla (*1971 in Salzburg) gehört zu den meistrezipierten deutschsprachigen AutorInnen der Gegenwart. Sie ist Vizepräsidentin der AdK sowie Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt. Ihr Werk ist breit gefächert und umfasst sowohl Prosa als auch Texte für Radio, Fernsehen und Theater. Die ästhetischen Dimensionen der Texte Kathrin Rögglas und die in ihnen problematisierten Diskurse, Themen und Phänomene werden in der Forschung häufig als repräsentativ für einen neuen Realismus gesehen, der dem Anspruch auf Dokumentarizität und Authentizität gerecht zu werden sucht, dabei aber gleichzeitig die Fiktionalitätstauglichkeit und den Konstruktionscharakter der tangierten Bereiche hervorhebt. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge nehmen literarische, essayistische, filmische, dramatische und akustische Werke Rögglas in den Blick. Sie gehen literarischen Traditionslinien nach, untersuchen poetologische Eigenheiten der Werke und legen in ihnen verhandelte Diskurse offen.

Kathrin Röggla

Todd Herzog

Anna Senuysal

25 Years Berlin Republic takes stock of the state of German unification a quarter of a century into the ongoing project that is the Berlin Republic. Thirteen scholars, artists, and public figures from diverse backgrounds document the changing hopes and fears, successes and challenges, that face the republic as it negotiates its way through the 21st century. Taking up a broad assessment of German culture ranging from sports to religion, painting to map-making, film to foreign policy, these studies combine personal experiences with critical analysis in order to understand the Berlin Republic today. The resulting portrait reveals a complex, diverse, and constantly-developing Republic that continues to ask the same essential question that has been at the center of discussions since the dramatic events that gave birth to the Republic: "Sind wir ein Volk?"

Reflections on / of German Unification (1990-2015)

25 Years Berlin Republic

Katharina Gerstenberger

Destroying human habitat and taking human lives, disasters, be they natural, man-made, or a combination, threaten large populations, even entire nations and societies. They also disrupt the existing order and cause discontinuity in our sense of self and our perceptions of the world. To restore order, not only must human beings be rescued and affected areas rebuilt, but the reality of the catastrophe must also be transformed into narrative. The essays in this collection examine representations of disaster in literature, film, and mass media in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include the Lisbon earthquake, the Paris Commune, the Hamburg and Dresden fire-bombings in the Second World War, nuclear disasters in Alexander Kluge's films, the filmic aesthetics of catastrophe, Yoko Tawada's lectures on the Fukushima disaster and Christa Wolf's novel Störfall in light of that same disaster, Joseph Haslinger and the tsunami of 2004, traditions regarding avalanche disaster in the Tyrol, and the problems and implications of defining disaster. Contributors: Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Yasemin Dayioglu-Yücel, Janine Hartman, Jan Hinrichsen, Claudia Jerzak, Lars Koch, Franz Mauelshagen, Tanja Nusser, Torsten Pflugmacher, Christoph Weber. Katharina Gerstenberger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Utah. Tanja Nusser is DAAD Visiting Associate Professor of German at the University of Cincinnati.

Perspectives on Disaster and Redemption in German Culture and Beyond

Catastrophe and Catharsis

Tanja Nusser

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