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Openness and intensity : Petrarch's becoming laurel in "Rerum vulgarium fragmenta" 23 and 228
(2022)
Our paper offers a comparative reading of Rvf 23 and 228, which describe the poetic subject's transformation into (23), or implantation with (228), the laurel tree that normally represents the poet's beloved, Laura. Bringing Petrarch's poems into dialogue with philosophical works that consider the nature of plant existence as a form of interconnectedness and porosity to the outside, we argue that the becoming tree these poems stage is a form of desire to be understood not as lack but as intensity.
This essay interprets Dante's "Commedia" as an 'open work' (Eco). It grounds its open-endedness in its representations of interruption: from fictional obstacles in the protagonist's path in the "Inferno" to the narrator's anxiety over unfinishedness in the "Paradiso". Taking its cue from Boccaccio's creative rewriting of Dante's life, the essay resists the pressure of 'total coherence' embedded in (and often projected onto) the "Commedia", in order to reclaim the material vulnerability of the text and of its author.
Ambiguitäten der futuristischen Wortkunst zielen im Kern selbst auf die Aporien der avantgardistischen Programmatik, die durch die Aufhebung der Trennung von Kunst und Leben einmal mehr ihre Bezugsgrößen verunklart. Im Zentrum der folgenden Überlegungen stehen die rhetorischen Voraussetzungen, die ein derartiges entdifferenzierendes Kommunikationspostulat des Futurismus überhaupt erst ermöglichen. Dem revolutionären Sprachkonzept der 'parole in libertà' ('befreiten Worte) geht die Idee einer verkürzten und intensivierten Sprache voraus, die es auf ihre Kürze-Verfahren zu untersuchen gilt. Die 'römische Kraftform', für die insbesondere Sallust als stilprägend gelten kann, eröffnet einen subtilen Bezugspunkt für ein Paradigma viriler Performanz, deren Wirkungsästhetik sich aus der kurzen, prägnanten, aber auch obskuren Form speist. Ausgehend von den antiken Figurationen der 'brevitas' sowie deren verstärkter Rezeption im späten 19. Jahrhundert befasst sich der vorliegende Beitrag mit den futuristischen Dynamisierungsutopien. Dabei wird die These vertreten, dass die frühen Manifeste des Futurismus vor dem Hintergrund der beschleunigten Zeiterfahrung als dynamische Kraftformen konzipiert sind. Eine detaillierte Lektüre soll hierbei eine spezifische Produktionsästhetik der Kürze freilegen. Sie zeigt sich am Analogiestil, der eine Verschmelzung differenter Gegenstände zum Ziel hat und vermittels seiner vitalisierten Komprimierungen, so zumindest lautet das häufig formulierte Anliegen der Manifeste, zum 'Wesen' der technischen Materie vorzudringen vermag. Die rasche Zirkulation der sprachlichen Ausdrücke wiederum orientiert sich konzeptuell an einer telegrammatischen Codierung der verkürzten Kraftformen. Abschließend gilt es die Möglichkeit dunkler Kürze ('obscura brevitas'), welche die semantischen Nuancierungen des Textes im hermeneutischen "Dämmerlicht" belässt, in Bezug auf den Adressatenkreis von Marinettis Lebenskunst zu betrachten. Durch die Dekontextualisierung der Analogien läuft die vitalisierte Sprache nämlich selbst ständig Gefahr, unverständlich zu sein. Es wird sich zeigen, dass der futuristische Dichter auf seine symbolistische Herkunft verwiesen bleibt, aus der heraus die Unverständlichkeit für das Publikum gerade als Indiz für das Gelingen einer hermetischen Literaturkonzeption gewertet wird. Im Sinne dieser asymmetrischen Kommunikationssituation ist schließlich auch der performative Handlungsimpuls des Künstler-'Souveräns' zu bedenken, der die kurzen Formen ins Zentrum einer Taten-Rhetorik rückt, deren eigenlogische Chiffrierung nur dem futuristischen Genius verständlich ist.
In den im Folgenden vorgestellten Romanen werden Uhrensammlungen beschrieben, die nicht nur auf der Ebene der Handlung von Bedeutung sind, sondern auch als Reflexionsmodelle der Romanwelten, in denen sie ihren Ort haben. Von ihrer Konzeption und Darstellung her erschließt sich auch die Poetik dieser Romane, insbesondere mit Blick auf deren implizite Konzeptualisierung von Zeit, Geschichte und Erinnerung. Und auf jeweils spezifische Weise gleicht sich die Darstellungsweise der Romanerzähler gerade anlässlich der beschriebenen Uhrensammlungen dem eigenen Gegenstand an.
Dantes Weltengedicht, das die Jenseitsreise des menschlichen Protagonisten Dante durch die drei Reiche Inferno, Purgatorium und Paradies schildert, verfügt offenbar über eine gewaltige visionäre Faszination und Ausstrahlung, die dazu tendiert, bildkünstlerische Arbeiten sowie Aneignungen in vielfältigen visuellen Medien zu stimulieren. Nicht zufällig partizipieren zahlreiche berühmte europäische Maler, Zeichner und Bildhauer an der unabschließbaren Aufgabe, die Stationen jener Jenseitsreise der Danteschen Projektionsfigur zu illustrieren oder im Medium der bildenden Kunst zu interpretieren. Vor diesem Hintergrund verwundert es außerdem kaum, dass auch die Zeichner und Autoren von Comics, Mangas und Graphic Novels im ausgehenden 20. und 21. Jahrhundert Dantes Werke und besonders die "Commedia" als geeignetes Sujet für sich entdeckt und sie in teils komplexen Text-Bild-Gestaltungen adaptiert haben. Der japanische Mangakünstler Gô Nagai schreibt sich mit "Dante Shinkyoku" (1994–1995) in den Kontext einer globalen und transmedialen Danterezeption ein und bedient sich dabei vielfältiger Referenzen auf die europäische Geschichte der Dante-Illustration.
Dantes Weltengedicht, das die Jenseitsreise des menschlichen Protagonisten Dante durch die drei Reiche Inferno, Purgatorium und Paradies schildert, verfügt offenbar über eine gewaltige visionäre Faszination und Ausstrahlung, die dazu tendiert, bildkünstlerische Arbeiten sowie Aneignungen in vielfältigen visuellen Medien zu stimulieren. Nicht zufällig partizipieren zahlreiche berühmte europäische Maler, Zeichner und Bildhauer an der unabschließbaren Aufgabe, die Stationen jener Jenseitsreise der Danteschen Projektionsfigur zu illustrieren oder im Medium der bildenden Kunst zu interpretieren. Vor diesem Hintergrund verwundert es außerdem kaum, dass auch die Zeichner und Autoren von Comics, Mangas und Graphic Novels im ausgehenden 20. und 21. Jahrhundert Dantes Werke und besonders die "Commedia" als geeignetes Sujet für sich entdeckt und sie in teils komplexen Text-Bild-Gestaltungen adaptiert haben. Der japanische Mangakünstler Gô Nagai schreibt sich mit "Dante Shinkyoku" (1994–1995) in den Kontext einer globalen und transmedialen Danterezeption ein und bedient sich dabei vielfältiger Referenzen auf die europäische Geschichte der Dante-Illustration.
The Romanian folk poetry, especially the Romanian folk ballad raised the interest of German translators in the 19th century, who proved the size of their talent by translating the ballads in German and by popularizing them among the German readers in the country and abroad. The paper focuses on aspects of translation motifs of five German authors (W. von Kotzebue, C.F.W. Rudow, A. Franken, A. Forstenheim, Carmen Sylva) taking into account their life experiences, professional commitments and friendship for the Romanians. The study aims to highlight the principles and difficulties of translation as a result of the authors’ wish to translate the original text as accurately as possible and as close as possible to the spirit of the Romanian folk poetry.
The motif of the „sun wedding“, which has its origin in ancient mythology, can also be found in the Romanian folk ballad The sun and the moon, where the action takes place around the conflict with etiological meaning of the love between brother and sister. So, the ballad tries to explain some natural phenomena and tries to answer the question, why the sun never meets the moon in its way across the sky. Masterpiece of Romanian folk poetry, the ballad of the sun wedding with the moon raised the interest of German translators, who proved the size of their talent by translating the ballad in German and by popularizing it among the German readers in the country and abroad. The present study analyses the variants of translation of five authors in different centuries (the 19th and the 20th century) and aims to highlight the difficulties, the solutions and the takeovers of the time, as a result of the authors’ wish to translate the original text as accurately as possible and as close as possible to the spirit of the Romanian folk poetry.
Fascinated by the exotic India, Mircea Eliade decided to explore closely the culture and its subtleties. In 1929 he received a scholarship for five years to study the culture and religions of India under the guidance of the illustrious scholar Surendranah Dasgupta. During the time spent in the master‘s house, Eliade gets to know his daughter Maitreyi, whom he falls in love with and they will experience a beautiful and exciting love affair. This relationship will subsequently be the subject of the novel with the same name. Unique case in the history of world literature, the novel Maitreyi will receive a reply over the years, still under the form of a fascinating narration, whose author is the main character Maitreyi Devi herself. It Does Not Die (Love never dies, in Romanian translation; Die Liebe stirbt nicht, in German translation) will become the platform that will host the narrative duel of Eliade the author become character, and Maitreyi Devi, the character, who became author. In our analytical approach we tried to render the ways in which this intercultural dialogue at a distance was perceived in the German linguistic area.
This study intends to analyze the barely known literary personality of Carmen Sylva, the first Romanian queen. Since Carmen Sylva was a German-born princess, yet lived almost her entire life in the Romanian cultural environment, the main point of this paper is to analyze the idea of writing while being split between two different cultures. Carmen Sylva’s self-assumed role of cultural mediator is in this respect obvisouly worth mentioning. However the main question of this study lies not necessarily in the role, but rather in the place of this writer with two homelands. Did she indeed manage to become a cultural mediator or was she her entire life nothing more than an outsider?
The lively debate about the biblical topics and motifs in search for words and „unwords” represents the subject of the present study, which treats the poetry of two authors: Nelly Sachs and Nichita Stănescu. Jacob’s Wrestling with the Angel (chapter 32 of Genesis) turns out to be, for the two poets, a motive, which describes their own writing, a wrestling with the insufficiency and commonplaceness of language, a wrestling for the word, because poetry is doubtless creation, but first of all mystical revelation.
This article is a critical presentation of the study Der Zauber des fernen Königreichs. Carmen Sylvas Pelesch-Märchen/Farmecul regatului îndepãrtat. Poveştile Peleşului, (The Magic of the Faraway Kingdom. Carmen Sylva’s Tales of the Pelesh), edited at the Ibidem publishing house in Frankfurt this year. The author proves that – contrary to some opinions in current literary criticism, according to which the works of the queen poet were but recorded and retold Romanian folk tales and legends – Carmen Sylva’s writings are personal works with intrinsic literary value, where themes and motifs from the folklore and mythology or from the Romanian and occidental literature are used only as pre-texts. Silvia Zimmermann’s merit is a significant one, namely that of rediscovering Carmen Sylva who has not only been a creator, but also an important mediator between the Romanian and the German culture.
The present text introduces the anthological volume of Queen-poetess Carmen Sylva Poveştile unei regine [The Stories of a Queen] and highlights the fact that both her prose – tales and stories – and her poems are representative not only of her favorite themes and motifs, but also of the specific stylistic features of the author.
The present article focuses on the typological similarities and differences at Herta Müller and Gheorghe Crăciun. As a basis serves the work of the renowned Slovak comparatist Dionýz Ďurišin, “Comparative Literature. Attempt of a methodical-theoretical framework”(1972). Unlike the genetic relationships that relate to the contact within a nation or even the world literature, the typological relationships are linked to the structure of the compared works and their internal dynamics. In this regard three kinds of typological relationships can be found between Herta Müller and Gheorghe Crãciun: social, literary and psychological-typological similarities and differences.
The present article focuses on the preservation of identity in the works of three Romanian-born authors (two of them of German origin – Herta Müller and Hans Bergel and the third of Jewish origin – Norman Manea). Their existence has been highly influenced on the one hand by being born in Romania, by the interaction with Romanian people, on the other hand by the oppressive communist regime under Ceaușescu, having to undergo censorship, imprisonment and even deportation. Therefore, all three authors have chosen to leave Romania and emigrate to Germany or America. These experiences have added new dimensions to their concept of identity. At the same time, they act as intermediaries between cultures, and keepers of their own multi-layered and complex identity.
The Romanian poet and essayist Ion Pillat (1891-1945) ranks among the relatively often translated writers of his generation (authors who were active during the interwar period). His works have kept the attention of the German readership several times: Two volumes by Ion Pillat, which appeared in 1943 and 1976 (containing translations by Konrad Richter and Bernhard Capesius, respectively by Wolf von Aichelburg), as well as varied publications in anthologies and other publications have contributed to the spread of his work in Germany and Austria. The author offers an overview of the existing translations and, in the end, refers to his own attempts at translating Ion Pillat’s poetry into German.
This succint introduction to Radu Vancu, the young poet and university lecturer invited to the reading organized by the Department of German Studies as part of its annual scientific conference, offers some biographical and exegetical points of reference for the author’s literary and professional evolution. For instance, there is the apprenticeship (rather a “friendshipin-love”) with the venerated master: the poet, gifted translator and man of culture Mircea Ivãnescu, whom he praises in his doctoral thesis as ”the poet of absolute discretion”. Then there is his editing activity at the “Transilvania” Cultural Journal, a publication of original critical and essayistic writings. His forceful, resourceful and sensitive lyrical work shows two dominant themes: on the one hand, the traumatising early loss of his father, and on the other hand, the birth and growing-up of his son Sebastian, for whom the poet builds, with endless affection and humour, a magical livresque universe, populated by fabulous creatures.
This article deals with the representation of motherdaughter relationships in novels by Herta Müller, Aglaja Veteranyi, Carmen Francesca Banciu and Gabriela Adamesteanu, all of them born in Romania. Herta Müller and Aglaja Veterani constantly wrote in German, while Carmen Francesca Banciu changed her language after emigrating to Germany and Gabriela Adameºteanu’s language has always been Romanian. Mother-daughter relationships are analysed in regard of female genealogy, but also considering their complexity and ambiguity. It is shown that representations of mother-daughter-relationships are depending rather on individual and psychological criteria than the author’s cultural or ethnic affiliation. Maybe a larger study, which could not be made in this article, could reveal more detailed results.
Two Romanian authors, Nora Iuga and Carmen Francesca Banciu have published their impressions about the German capital Berlin. Nora Iuga stayed there twice for a limited period of time (in 2000 and in 2010), whereas Carmen Francesca Banciu decided to live in Berlin after her scholarship there ended in 1991. This is why Carmen Francesca Banciu’s writing changed together with the changing city, which was then under construction not only literally but also in a figurative way integrating new influences due to the opening of Eastern Europe after the end of its isolation during the Cold War. She is one of those new elements which reshape Berlin adding new and different perspectives to its cultural life. Banciu publishes her impressions in Berlin ist mein Paris. Nora Iuga, on the other hand, remains nothing but a visitor. Her ideas about the City and about the Germans in general change a lot during her stays in Berlin. In the end, she leaves for Bucharest with new impressions, which are released in Romania in her book Berlinul meu e un monolog.