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This article focusses on the question of howfar thenew figure of the continuum can capture the categories gender, migration and spaceand how intra- and intercategorial shifts, variabilities, polypolarities can be specified. Also the article will be discussed to what extend the figure of the continuum can meet the challenges of pluralities existing in realities of the lived lifes of human beings as well as in literary texts dealing with gender, migration and/or space.
Ota Filip was a German writer with Czech roots. He was born in Ostrava in 1930, and he died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2018. He grew up in Czechoslovakia but was forcibly expatriated in 1974 after repeated problems with the communist regime, and he settled in the Federal Republic of Germany. There he worked as a freelance writer and political journalist. With his novel 'Café Slavia' (1985) he made his debut in world literature. Drawing on the theoretical approaches associated with the "spatial turn" (Soja 1991, Bachmann-Medick 2009) and other spatial-theoretical approaches, this paper seeks to examine how Filip's novel 'Café Slavia' (1985) is constructed, which literary spaces are constituted, how they change and which functions they perform.
Ein Schtetl in der Stadt – Jüdische Identitätsräume in Texten von Martin Beradt und Sammy Gronemann
(2010)
The concern of this thesis is a discussion of the way German-Jewish identity manifests itself in two literary texts before and after 1933. Using the examples of Sammy Gronemann’s novel Tohuwabohu and Martin Beradt’s Die Straße der kleinen Ewigkeit, it offers a textual analysis of two works which share close connections in terms of subject matter, style, and their respective authors’ background, but are historically divided by the fundamental experience of the rise of National Socialism in Germany.
I argue that space is a crucial factor through which identity is constituted in each text, both of which use and partially subvert the romanticized image of the Eastern European shtetl brought to Germany by authors such as Arnold Zweig in the aftermath of World War I. Space in this context always has a twofold quality to it. It functions as a space of identity, but also as a space of identification through which a group of people label others as either belonging or not belonging to a specific space. Furthermore, both texts reject monolithic definitions of Jewish identity, emphasizing instead the diversity of Jewish life in Europe before the Rise of National Socialism.
Vor rund 60 Jahren ist das Buch Mensch und Raum von Otto Friedrich Bollnow erstmals erschienen. Der folgende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, inwieweit die Überlegungen des Philosophen (unter bestimmten Aspekten) noch heute aktuell sind. Bollnows Raum-Verständnis weicht in seiner phänomenologischen Orientierung geradezu grundlegend vom heute vorherrschenden sozialwissenschaftlichen Raumdenken ab. Umso mehr regt Bollnow dazu an, die Lehren des wissenschaftlichen Mainstream kritisch gegen den Strich zu lesen. Ins Zentrum der Suche nach heute möglicherweise bedeutsamen Themen und Methoden des Denkens rückt das Wohnen. Wie denkt Bollnow das Wohnen, und was sagt uns dies in einer Zeit, in der die Menschen ganz anders wohnen als in den 1950er Jahren? Brücken zu methodologisch benachbarten Theorien und Philosophen werden ebenso geschlagen (z. B. Heidegger, Dürckheim, Müller-Freienfels) wie zu anderen thematisch relevanten Arbeiten von Bollnow.
Language teaching through the medium of film may prove very rewarding in that it moves the focus away from language and its general markers (grammar, vocabulary) alone and casts it onto culture, cultural boundaries and rules. Among them, space plays a very important role. It defines who we are, where we come from. Especially the fine line between what is considered public or private space is worth being analyzed. With examples from two movies, students of German as a Foreign Language are meant to discover this fine line, look beyond it and restore an equilibrium between the public and the private in order to be prepared for intercultural experiences.