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Brecht - Galileo
(2010)
This is the age of doubt, says Brecht's Galileo, the 17th century scientist. "It ain't necessarily so," says Gershwin's Sportin' Life of the 1930ies. "De t'ings dat yo li'ble / to read in de Bible / it ain't necessarily so. / Now I takes dat gospel / whenever it's pos'ble / but wid a grain of salt."
Germans against Hitler
(2010)
"The sun shines, and Hitler is master of this city. The sun shines, and dozens of my friends are in prison, possibly dead. Thousands of people like Frl. Schroeder are acclimatizing themselves, like an animal which changes its coat for the winter. After all, whatever government is in power, they are doomed to live in this town." These are among the final entries in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Diaries. Hitler has legally assumed power and Isherwood, who "can't altogether believe that any of this has really happened," will leave the city he has come to love and return to England. The Nazi Movement that began a decade ago in seedy Bavarian beer halls has now conquered its very antithesis, Prussia. It seems unstoppable. The people, as always, will adapt or perish.
A single mother and her grown children. A team now. The fathers have come and gone and are barely remembered. These are her children. By contrast, Matthew (27; 56) identifies an anonymous woman as "the mother of Zebedee's children." We'll talk about it, for what it may mean. More important is the fact that this group is headed by a dominant female. Let's see if it makes a difference. Demian, as you'll remember, was the product of matriarchy, as it were, and seemed to be none the worse for it. It wasn't even worth mentioning. Fifty years later, Edgar Wibeau of Plenzdorf's The New Sorrows of Young W. (1972), a modern version of Goethe's bestselling novel Werther written 200 years earlier, and one of the most brilliant pieces of theatre post-Brecht, does find it worth mentioning. He is "sick & tired" of being paraded as living proof that "a single mother can successfully raise a male."
At the beginning of The Judgment, we find Georg Bendemann, who has just finished a letter to his friend in Russia, reliving once more the agonizing decision to write the letter in the first place. The decision had not been easy. Like many of Kafka's characters, Georg Bendemann is obsessed with the idea of analysis, with the painstaking exploration of all sides of a given issue. "What could one write to such a man without hurting him?" had been the question. "On the other hand, by writing only casual gossip or not at all one would doubtless increase the friends isolation" had been the counter-argument. What follows now is an exercise in looking at alternatives that spawn new alternatives that leaves the reader dazzled. Each conclusion is in turn explored to its possible opposite implications, which are in turn qualified, which leads to more questions followed by more partial conclusions plus qualifications thereof. The process could continue ad infinitum, in fact, has gone on for years--we are merely presented with a condensed version of it.
Islamophobia has arisen following to the event on 11 of September 2001 in Christian world. Remembering first reaction, all “Muslim” world was accused and new “Crusades” were on agenda. Concept and concept pairs of “Muslim Radicalism” “Muslim Terror” “Radical/Extreme Islam” “Radicalism” “Islamic” in pressor media after September 11 attacks and first shock. The aim was to differentiate “Islam” and terrorist who lost their identity via İslam. Representatives of the muslim world declared that these terrorist never represented Islam in any manner. The declaration was mutual and right. Despite mutual constructive efforts, due to discussion appeared after attacks, disintergration and polarization occured among believers of two monotheistic religions. In my opinion, regardless of place of birth, poets and writers who are philosopher, have specific issues national and local or world issues which they share, communicate and have information exchange on. Two main means of communication are philosophy and literature. The aim of the current paper is to discuss philosophic information included in “Avicenna and the Aristotelic Left” (Suhrkamp Verl.) by Ernst Bloch who lived in Tübingen released in 1963 and philosophic foundations of literature theory by Bertolt Brecht. My aim is to hope to declare that (Far) East and West have more in common compared to differences within limits of time and place given.
Rezension zu Petra Renneke: Poesie und Wissen. Poetologie des Wissens der Moderne. Heidelberg (Winter) 2008 (= Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte, Bd. 261). 382 S.
Die Germanistin Petra Renneke legt mit ihrer Monographie 'Poesie und Wissen. Poetologie des Wissens der Moderne' die Buchfassung ihrer an der Universität Paderborn eingereichten Habilitation vor.
Dieser Beitrag sucht einen bescheidenen Anfang zu machen, indem er in diplomatischer Transkription jene Briefe dokumentiert, die Vollmoeller und Hofmannsthal austauschten, und welche heute vornehmlich in der Bibliothek des Freien Deutschen Hochstifts in Frankfurt (FDH) aufbewahrt werden. Die sieben Briefe Vollmoellers stammen aus den Jahren 1903 bis 1925, drei Briefe Hofmannsthals an Vollmoeller aus dem Jahr 1927 liegen in Abschriften vor. Hinzu kommt noch ein Kondolenzschreiben Vollmoellers an Christiane von Hofmannsthal-Zimmer, datiert auf den 19. Juli 1929.
Die Parallelen zwischen Cortázars 'Rayuela' und Musils 'Mann ohne Eigenschaften' wurden von wissenschaftlicher Seite schon mehrfach untersucht. Die Frage, ob und inwieweit sich die Berührungspunkte der Romane auf einen direkten Einfluss Musils zurückführen lassen, ist dabei weitgehend ausgeklammert geblieben. Einen ersten Schritt dahingehend soll hier durch die Aufarbeitung von Umständen und Umfang von Cortázars Musil-Rezeption, die bisher ebenso wenig beachtet wurde, getan werden. Ein weiterer Schritt ist die Analyse von Kontext und Funktion, die den Nennungen Musils in 'Rayuela' zukommt. Die im Zuge der Rezeptionsaufarbeitung durch die Durchsicht von Cortázars Exemplaren der Musilschen Werke gewonnenen Kenntnisse über jene Passagen, die ihm bedeutend erschienen sein dürften, erleichtern es außerdem, Musilsche Intertexte in 'Rayuela' aufzuspüren, die als Indiz eines Einflusses gewertet werden können. Dass es davon mehr gibt, als bisher angenommen, soll an einer exemplarischen Analyse des 71. Kapitels von 'Rayuela' verdeutlicht werden.