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Gilles Deleuze, borrowing from Maurice Blanchot's distinctive vocabulary in "The Space of Literature", offers death as the ultimate example of the event. In this paper, I propose reversing the current of concept-metaphor against a certain performance theory of sovereignty and ask, not what the concept-metaphor death does for the thought of the event, but what the concept-metaphor event does for the thought of death on the hunger strike in order to explore the divide between the space of dying and the space of politics, which are incompatibly distinct and yet inextricably linked. Revealing an irreducible anachrony between two deaths - the passage of time that separates dying as pure potentiality from death as a radically contingent event that comes either too early or too late - I argue that the political efficacy of hunger striking depends less on the consummation of death in the immediacy of an ecstatic moment than on the prolongation of this interval of time by potentially endless repetitive enactments, which imply both finality and incompletion.
What is the relationship between reenactment and repetition compulsion? By shedding light upon the different levels of reenactment at stake in "Yella" by Christian Petzold, I analyse the 'transitional spaces' where the German filmmaker places his wandering characters who have 'slipped out of history'. In "Yella" Petzold mixes up past, present, future, and oneiric re-elaboration to question the memory of the past of GDR, which in his view has never really been constituted as history. The characters that populate this movie move in a setting constructed at the crossroad between a protected environment where the reenacted events are sheltered by the time and the space of the plot and a place weathered by the unpredictable atmospheric agents of the present. How and to which extent can the clash between different temporalities produce a minimal variation?
Golo Maurer thematisiert in seinem Beitrag als einflussreiche Vorbilder der Italienbeschreibung Goethes "Italienische Reise" und Eichendorffs Novelle "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts" und setzt diese in Beziehung zu unbekannteren Autoren. So greifen der Kulturhistoriker Viktor Hehn, der Jurist Friedrich Johann Meyer und die Maler Joseph Führich und Ludwig Richter in ihren Italiendarstellungen auf Topoi der Italiendarstellung zurück, lassen aber auch individuelle Akzente in der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Land erkennen. Ausgehend von der These, dass die Hinwendung nach Italien immer mit der Abwendung vom Politischen, v. a. von der Situation in der Heimat, einherging, deutet Maurer die Auseinandersetzung mit der südlichen Wahlheimat als Form eines auf einen neuen Gegenstand verschobenen Patriotismus.