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Wenn man an die Stelle des Titels "Georg Büchner und seine Zeit" "Georg Büchner in seiner Zeit" setzt, hat man den Unterschied der Lebenszeit Büchners (1813-1837) und seiner Wirkung über einen umfassenderen Zeitraum im Blick. Diese doppelte Perspektive versucht der Essay durchzuhalten: Er fragt zunächst, wie es möglich wurde, dass ein junger Mann, der mit 24 Jahren starb, nicht nur als Schriftsteller, sondern auch als Wissenschaftler und Revolutionär eine herausragende Rolle spielen konnte. Anschließend werden zwei avantgardistische Alternativen zu den von Büchner gewählten Dramenstoffen Danton und Woyzeck fiktiv vorgeführt.
Wechselseitige Infiltration von Grenzregion und Interieur in Joseph Roths "Das falsche Gewicht"
(2012)
Es existieren viele Leitworte in der Erzählung "Das falsche Gewicht". Dominant und führend ist das Wort 'Zuhause'. [...] Die Geschichte "Das falsche Gewicht" stellt einen Auszug von 'Zuhause' dar, einen Weggang von 'Zuhause' in Etappen und dem Versuch ein oder zwei oder drei 'Ersatzzuhause' zu finden.
This paper gives a critical view to the collective volume Etudes à la loupe… Optikinstrumente und Literatur, edited at the Stefan cel Mare University publishing house Suceava. The contributors propose an ample incursion into optics as a literary motif, opening a multitude of points of view, which serve as guiding cues for interdisciplinary research.
The following paper deals with the volume of studies Stadt-Land-Fluss. Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Deutschlandreise (Ed. Flegel, Silke, Hoffmann, Frank). The book offers a journey through the history and present time of Germany focusing on such national heritage areas as: literature, language, industrial and structural change, environmental protection, federalism, as well as remembering “the past”. The 216-page volume includes twelve essays on German cultural areas and sites of memory: Leipzig, Halle, Munich, Berlin and Frankfurt - as well as regions like the Ruhr and Sachsen-Anhalt. Major streams, such as the Rhine or the Elbe, are also taken into consideration.
This article deals with the difficulty of translating institution names. The translation of institution names from one language into another plays an important role at the translation of official documents. Institution names are stronger conventionalised than other proper names, because the judicial system is determined by the appropriate public institutions. The names of institutions arose in each speech community related to the judicial tradition and the legal history, which must be taken into account at translating them from one language into another and thus from one legal system into another. This article points out the difficulties that arise at different levels when translating institution names, it presents the advantages and disadvantages of the solutions offered so far in the specialized literature and proposes a surrogate solution.
This paper discusses and analyses the importance of oral history in offering a true image of reality. Referring to the tragic destiny of the German ethnic group in Romania after the second world war – their deportation in the Soviet Union – it presents an excerpt of the narration of contemporary witnesses.
At the beginning of the 1970s, the literature in German language from Romania went through a radical process of change that transformed a largely epigonic and obedient literature into a dynamic, original and subversive one. The following paper analyses the context, the causes, and the mechanisms of this innovative period.
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 aim of the present paper is to describe the geographic diffusion of the family name Pfaff in Germany, starting from the telephone directory of 2005 and retracing the historic linguistic phenomena that led to the formation of this name. Pfaff (mhd. phaffe, md. paffe, nd. pape, southern German Pfaffe “priest” or “churchman”) is explained both as an agnomen and as the name of a profession. Our map represents an addition to the maps that have already appeared in dtv – Atlas Namenkunde (1999), Duden-Familiennamen (2005) and Deutscher Familiennamenatlas (2011), for it additionally and thoroughly renders not? only the geographic diffusion of the family name Pfaff in Germany but also in Transylvania, where the name also exists. [this surname also exists in Transylvania]. The type Pfaff (5056 telephone addresses) is spread all over Germany, but we notice two areas of high frequency: one, according to our expectations, in the southern part of the Benrath Line and on the right of the Germersheim Line, but also on the left of the latter, especially in the rectangle Koblenz – Kassel – Hof – Frankfurt and also in south-western Germany (in Schwarzwald –The Black Forest). The northern version Pape, approximately twice more frequent than Pfaff(e), did not adapt to standard German, due to the negative connotations of the appellative Pfaffe, Pfaffen, which appeared at the same time as the Church Reform in the 16th century. In some places in Transylvania, the surname Pfaff was replaced with the version Prediger. The appellative Pfaffe and the family name Pfaff (in the Saxon language – the Romanian “limba sãseascã”: faf, pfaf ) contributed to the formation of different rural toponyms in Transylvania. The surname Pfaff is spread not only in the German linguistic space, but also in areas where ethnic Germans live (France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Poland, Romania, USA, Canada, Argentina). In Romania, there are very few Pfaff surnames in telephone books for the 2008-2009 period, due to the massive migration of the German ethnics to Germany after 1990.
This study indicates research areas from the perspective of the German and Romanian language phraseology, areas that are exemplified within the phraseosemantic field of „communication”. The analysis of the current state of research indicates the partial or complete lack of preoccupation, on the one hand, with the metaphorization process and the predominance of the conceptual metaphors in the two languages or the dominance of some components and their analysis from a cultural-specific point of view, and, on the other hand, with the systematization of morphosyntactic or semantic restrictions.
Translation exercises have always played an important role in teaching/learning foreign languages, ever since the Grammar-Translation method was developed. However, with the emergence of the communicative language teaching in the 70s which focussed on communicative competence as the ultimate goal of language learning, they were considered to be obsolete and inefficient. The present article suggests that the utility of translation – not only where teaching foreign languages is concerned, but also within the field of German studies – should be reassessed, showing that both ”pedagogical” as well as ”communicative” translation can support and improve the study of German language, literature and culture, increase students‘ awareness of both German language and their mother tongue and furthermore contribute to the enrichment of their general knowledge.
The current article deals with the feedback issue in the study of foreign languages, both from the perspective of traditional learning, as well as from the perspective of computer assisted learning. The possibilities and limits, advantages and disadvantages of each case are presented and compared, and the new demands and opportunities on the educational - and job market are being mentioned.
The present study researches the literary materializations of the Heimat visions as they emerge from Herta Müller’s Atemschaukel and Aglaja Veteranyi’s Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht. The Heimat concepts are narratologically constructed both as Erinnerungsräume and as imaginary geographies. Usage of these notions will be made according to the definitions of Aleida Assmann respectively Doris Bachmann-Medick. Heimat is seen as a space from the past, which is projected with the force of the memories in the present having an imaginary geography, that can be articulated on three aspects associated with this concept: shelter, food and possessions.
The present interview is rooted in the diverse aspects of interculturalism and of Romanian-German literary convergence – landmarks of both the works of fiction and non-fiction of the German author hailing from Sibiu. Special emphasis is placed upon the collection of essays Einen Halt suchen (En. In search of stability) and upon its translations from the Romanian into German, the main scope of the interview being to highlight the author’s opinions about the aforementioned aspects.
This paper proposes to analyse contrastively the phraseological expressions which include proper names in German and Romanian languages and also, to interpret them as cultural elements that generate problems when trying to translate them. It is intended to establish equivalence relations between the onimical expressions of the two languages, suggesting, where it will be the case, the translation strategies.
German language in Romania is being strongly influenced by Romanian, the majority language. In the field of secondary and higher education linguistic interferences that come from Romanian touch types or names of educational institutions, types of didactic activities, types of assessment and examination.