Hamburg's warehouse district in Martin tom Dieck's "hundert Ansichten der Speicherstadt"

  • Most texts that deal with Martin tom Dieck’s black-and-white comic "hundert Ansichten der Speicherstadt" (Zürich: Arrache Cœur, 1997, French title: Vortex) claim that it depicts the eponymous warehouse district (Speicherstadt) in Hamburg. As this paper shows, this claim is inaccurate: although the architecture in tom Dieck’s drawings clearly refers to buildings in the warehouse district, the differences in the details are so obvious, that to speak of a straightforward depiction of the Speicherstadt is oversimplifying. After a brief comparison with Christoph Schäfer’s picture book "Die Stadt ist unsere Fabrik" (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2010), the paper concludes with a discussion of the depiction of urban environments in general and in tom Dieck's book in particular.

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Author:Martin de la Iglesia
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-233283
Parent Title (German):9th International Conference on Word and Image Studies, "L'imaginaire / The Imaginary", Université du Québec à Montreal, August 22-26, 2011
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2011/11/22
Year of first Publication:2011
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Contributing Corporation:9th International Conference on Word and Image Studies, "L'imaginaire / The Imaginary", Université du Québec à Montreal, August 22-26, 2011
Release Date:2011/11/22
Tag:hundert Ansichten der Speicherstadt
GND Keyword:Tom Dieck, Martin; Comic
Page Number:17
First Page:1
Last Page:17
HeBIS-PPN:425906469
Institutes:Extern
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur
Sammlungen:Germanistik / GiNDok
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
BDSL-Klassifikation:19.00.00 1990 bis zur Gegenwart / BDSL-Klassifikation: 19.00.00 1990 bis zur Gegenwart >19.13.00 Zu einzelnen Autoren
03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft > 03.15.00 Literatur und Medien
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht