Germanistische Beiträge 37.2015
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This study offers in its first part a brief description of the text genre, analysing the specific lexical and formal features as well as the specific text composition means. As wedding announcements haven’t been examined from a contrastive (German/Romanian)/intercultural point of view yet, it is relevant to mention some research directions and methods.
The paper presents Horst Samson’s volume of poetry Kein Schweigen bleibt ungehört -No silence stays unheard (2013). The review focuses on the main themes dealt with: emigration / exile, absurd existence within the Romanian society during the communist period and national socialist past of the former generation of the German ethnics in Romania. Although the themes may seem disparate one from another, the analysis shows eventually similarities in the stances of the lyrical self.
The article is a scholary review of the Stefan Kühtz's handbook „Wissenschaftlich formulieren. Tipps und Textbausteine für Studium und Schule” (Scientific express. Tip and text block for studies and school). The book contains the information about, how to write a scientific paper and many of examples of right and wrong sentences. Such tips can be useful not only for students of German as a foreign language, but also for native speakers of german language.
The present study intends to analyze the literary personality of the German-language writer and translator Alfred Margul-Sperber and his approach to Romanian folk poetry and Romanian folk ballads. Alfred Margul-Sperber is known as a classical German-language poet from Romania, as a discoverer and supporter of literary talent, but also as a brilliant translator. Impressions from his childhood and life experiences contributed to Alfred MargulSperber’s interest for Romanian poets and especially for Romanian folk poetry, which left its own mark on Sperber’s literary creation. The author was fascinated by its plurality of forms, its richness of rhymes, images and sounds. The masterpiece of Romanian folk poetry, “Mioriţa/The little Ewe”-ballad raised the interest of the multilingual translator who proved his outstanding talent by translating the original text into German as accurately as possible and remarkably close to the spirit of the Romanian folk poetry, thus popularizing it among the German readers at home and abroad.
The article discusses recent history developments in Central and Eastern Europe more than a quarter century after the political change of 1989 on the development of programs at former traditional departments of German studies, the training of teachers for German as a foreign language and the growing importance of German for specific purposes.
The historical events during 1918, which marked the dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy, along with the violent acts of World War II were for the majority of the “Austrian-Bukovina” Jews the catalyst leading to profound identity disruption and disorientation. The destruction of the old “foundation” and the loss of the existential centre of reference were perceived by a large number of Bukovina Jews as extremely painful. The most of them continued to cultivate the old “Austrian” values. The experience during the war and the Holocaust shattered the survivors in an irremediable way. In this paper, I rely deliberately on the short story „In fartogikn groy” written by the Yiddish writer Alexander Spiegelblatt in order to illustrate the traumatic transition from a multinational to a “national(-istic)” construction, marked by severe and irreconcilable conflict between “old” and “new” values.
In his novel How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, the author Saša Stanišić shows the complex relationship of the narrator (Aleksandar) to his native Bosnia and Herzegovina on the one hand and Germany on the other hand, which becomes (because of the Civil War in Bosnia and Herzegovina) the new random home of Aleksandar’s family. The resulting problems such as loss of home, integration, construction and reconstruction of „auto-image“ and „hetero-image“ are treated from a unique perspective - of a growing child. In this work, using the example of the novel How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone will be examine, what specific child perspective as a narrator in the construction of „auto-image“ and „hetero-image“ and what is a difference in a perspective between the child and the adult narrator.
The Romanian National Archives in Sibiu keep a wide range of documents concerning the history of the Transylvanian Saxons and the every day life of the city of Sibiu. Although of major interest for historians, linguists and translators, these documents have not been fully studied so far. They represent valuable evidence of the evolution of the former German language spoken on the Transylvanian territory and, if translated into Romanian, could offer to the Romanian reader a new perspective on the Transylvanian Saxons’ history. This paper analyses, in the historic context of the time, the depositions of witnesses in a civil trial during the Austrian billeting in Sibiu in the 17th century and discusses the contents by observing the main structural characteristics of the text.
This paper intends to briefly analyze the features of the popular writers of the 19th century. This is a period, in which the literary manifestations may be regarded under extremes: the interest lies primarily on the syncretism of literary currents and movements, among which worth mentioning is the “other” Romanticism, i.e. a decorative form of Romanticism. A short presentation of some successful writers of the 19th century, who could be considered mass literature authors, allows one to sketch the portrait of the typical mass literature author and subsequently of the typical mass literature reader, which should be understood under the cultural and social circumstances of that specific period. The stylistic and thematic similarities among these authors may be extrapolated to such an extent that one may conclude the Romantic mood (here one should understand this “other” Romanticism) is indeed a characteristic of the mass literature authors of the 19th century.
Die synästhetische Darstellung der Welt als erotische Reise in Gheorghe Crăciuns "Femei albastre"
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The novel Femei albastre, published in an unfinished version six years after the death of its author, the Braşov born writer Gheorghe Crăciun, registers a complex symptomatology of losing and finding oneself on the background of the Romanian post-communist transition. The main theme is the narrative depiction of the senses‘ polyphony, the daily drama of the body, whose fundamental loneliness can be observed both in the pain, as in the Eros. The main aim of this article is to present the narrative filtering of various synaesthetic aspects, the written transfiguration of the nformation received through the senses. This is done through a series of experimental techniques, such as photographic reproduction, camera perspective and commuting between the real and the imaginary. Just like one of Crӑciuns earlier novels, Pupa russa, Femei albastre is also not an entirely epic novel, the story is replaced also in this case by a detailed observation and a profound introspection, by a sensory exploration of the world, including its internal transformations and the physical perception. The author himself claims that this novel is to be understood as a conglomerate of eroticism, sensuality and somatic investigation: „Şi acest roman este focalizat asupra erosului, cu nu puţine deschideri spre erotism, senzualitate şi explorare somatică“.