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The Banat Swabians represent in the years 1867-1918 one of the most exciting parts of regional history, and we tried to contribute to a more detailed knowledge of the multicultural and cross-cultural and multi-confessional physiognomy of the region Banat. Our research intends to provide more information on the past of this cultural-linguistic and confessional group. Its presence from the eighteenth century in the region between Mures, Tisa and the Danube is correlated with the Habsburg policy of modernization and with the ethnonational identities structured in the romantic era.
The study seeks to enrich the history of regional history through a so-called marginal component, which has always played a key role in defining the specifics of a region as the Banat. We focused on the Austro-Hungarian period, highlighting the relevant passages in the life of this important community, namely, its social expression, economic and cultural development. Throughout the paper, our intention was to highlight the active participation of the Swabians at the modernization process. We chose the years 1867-1918 – those that coincide with the existence of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy – because at that time, the Banat Swabians had a spectacular economic development and an ambivalent cultural creation, between German and Hungarian.
The archives in Sibiu hold a large number of German documents of the town council with a great historical and cultural significance for the Romanian reading public. This is the reason why the selective translation of these records is more than welcome. This study deals with the difficulties encountered in the act of translation of some civil, administrative and criminal lawrecords of the town council in Sibiu between 1556 and 1705. The analyzed corpus consists of 20 texts from different periods translated into Romanian by the authors of this study. The registered difficulties are engendered on one side by the language particularities – old or worn out idioms, judicial language, dialectal influences, Latin words and phrases, an intricate structure of the sentences, the defective punctuation, abbreviations and graphic peculiarities of the actuary – and on the other side by the historical and cultural background of Transylvania in those times.
By focusing human factors by the phraseological nomination, it becomes possible to expose obvious cases as reflections of everyday collective observations, experiences and evaluations considering a certain behavior or action. The subject of this investigation is differently molded phraseological units that permit to be listed under the hypernym ‘THE END OF LIFE BY HUMAN BEINGS’. The execution follows up the role of the linguistic image by the constitution of a slice of reality and gives representative examples of the metaphorization of the concept ‚DECEASE‘ in German, Romanian and Swedish. Productive source domains for the conceptualization of this notion will be considered; this due to the insight that conceptual spheres give keys to thought models, values and ideals anchored in the language.
With the ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRM) the Romanian state guarantees all members of national minorities the right to preserve, develop and express their ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious identity.
The charter offers a catalogue of more than 100 activities; at least 35 should be chosen and put into practice by the member states, as is stated in the Declaration of Commitment.
The article analyses, using the example of “education”, which activities Romania has chosen in its first report on the implementation of ECRM (2010) and how the international commission of experts evaluate the application of the Charter in Romania in their inspection report (2012).
The present paper focuses on the importance of urban space within cultural and literary studies. The review presents one of the newest studies in the field – METROPOLEN ALS ORTE DER BEGEGNUNG UND ISOLATION: INTERKULTURELLE PERSPEKTIVEN AUF DEN URBANEN RAUM ALS SUJET IN LITERATUR UND FILM that analyses in its 726 pages the concept of space related to important world metropolises from a literary, cultural, social point of view. Most of the research stresses the importance the multi- and cross-cultural relations that are a constitutive element for spaces of big cities.
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.
Goethes Begegnung mit Hafis
(2013)
The starting point of the present article is the symbolism of Oriental literature and the one present in the work of the Persian poet Hafis, indicating its importance for the work Westöstlicher Divan (West-Eastern Divan) by J. W. Goethe. The author of the article explains Goethe’s fascination with poetic images and symbols found in the works of Hafis, showing the importance of his work in understanding the broadest cycle of poems within German literature, West-Eastern Divan.
In the paper, all German surnames (63 different names) and also the Romanian ones (45 different names) are analyzed from a semantic and statistic perspective. These family names belong to the inhabitants of Petreºti/Sebeº who were the victims of the First World War, of the Second World War and of the communist régime. The names of these 216 people were taken from the commemorative plaques from the Lutheran Protestant Church and on the Heroes’ Monument placed in the yard of the city’s Orthodox Church.
The integration of Sibiu German Language and Literature Studies in European contexts. Lecture during the International Colloquium: Effective Speech in Early New High German: Syntactic and text stylistic aspects (6th of September 2013). The Colloquium was dedicated to Prof. Dr. Monika Hager-Rössing on her 80th birthday.
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.
Sánta-Jakabházi highlights the interaction between writing strategy, genre selection and censorship, and creates a complete image of the understanding of identity by Franz Hodjak. She presents Hodjak as an author who has a distanced and ironic attitude towards the idea of home, for whom the strange, the new and the detachment of all known represent identity-forming factors and who understands freedom, as the choice not to belong to a certain group.
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.
Der literarische Mythos des Dr. Faust – Ansätze und Eckpunkte einer Phänomenologie im Überblick
(2013)
Due to its multidimensional model of identity, the literary myth of Dr. Faustus is suitable for a phenomenological analysis. This paper investigates this identity model as well as the most important aspects that must taken into account in this respect: its modulations, interpretations and variations, the instances of relevant expression that the literary myth of Dr. Faustus has adopted in its transformations across cultures and time.
The main theme “Identity and Alterity” requires a comprehensive view over the literary personages who are characterized by their backgrounds, their language and their food culture as well. Therefore, an interdisciplinary extending of perspectives should enhance the mere literary analysis. For this purpose the fields of study Sociolinguistics and Gastrosophy (a still insufficiently acknowledged humane discipline) are advisable. The sociolinguistic perspective illustrates the acquired or renegotiated spiritual home and identity of the personages within their language, whereas the gastrosophic perspective investigates their identity considering specific eating habits. The migration background of the reviewed author functions as a mirror which reflects and conveys these aspects in an inventive way. The paper intends to demonstrate to what extend the suggested approaches are suitable for analyzing a transcultural text.
Erinnerungsdiskurs und Identitätskonstruktion in Carmen Elisabeth Puchianus Roman "Patula lacht"
(2013)
The novel of Romanian-born German author Carmen Elizabeth Puchianu Patula lacht, was published in 2012 by the Karl Stutz Passau publishing house in Germany. The novel is hybrid in nature, with discourse oscillating constantly between the factual and the fictional, many of the events being autobiographical and rendered in the form of recollections. The present article sets out to analyse Carmen Elizabeth Puchianu’s above-mentioned novel in terms of the recollection techniques used. This study is based on research in literary and cultural theory issued over the past several years. The interference between recollection and identity – which is not regarded as an entity proper but rather as one that is built and enriched with multiple facets throughout the narrative – is also investigated.
The author starts from a study by Maria Fanache and Ilse Fels about Sibiu writers in the years of the „people’s democracy,” i.e. the period around 1960. The outlook and the stylistic structure were typical of socialist realism, while the criteria for the selection of the Romanian and German writers discussed were those of belles-letters adapted to propaganda purposes. The present paper rounds off the convenient aspects of the literature of the time with a series of aspects that had been kept silent or ignored for the sake of avoiding confrontation with certain factual contradictions which the socio-political changes of the „people’s democratic” dictatorship had brought about. In the summer of 1956, the state authorities considered a private literary meeting of over twenty persons an action meant to subvert the official ideology, an attempt to commit a conspiracy, and, later, some of those present came under investigation and served severe prison sentences.
Regine Ziegler was a Transylvanian Saxon poet and writer, who by the turn of the century lived for some years in Berlin, where her brother Karl Ziegler (1866–1945) was a successful portrait painter. In 1913 she assessed that in her writings she aimed to present the Saxons in their whole complexity, wishing that in the future all Germans should know Transylvania and its German inhabitants. Contiguous to the Saxons she presented the „sultry and passionate” Romanians, the „primitive and impulsive” Gypsies and the „nationalistic” Hungarians, she all had known from her multiethnic village Arkeden/Archita. Regine Ziegler’s approach, although characteristic for the epoch of fierce nationalism, breathes great sympathy for all Transylvanian ethnic groups.
The North Transylvanian linguist Friedrich Krauss has dealt with the Northern Transylvanian plant inventory in his work “Noesnerlaendish Plant Names” (1943) referring to the town of Bistritz and surroundings. The referenced popular names of the plants are rendered phonetically, the way the linguist heard (understood) them. I have selected 68 descriptive case samples of popular plantnames for my study and have grouped them according to certain criteria. These samples exemplify the fact that the cohabitation of Saxons, Romanians and Hungarians is reflected as well in the ethnographic plant naming phenomenon. They belong to the old Transylvanian vernacular names which the linguist and plantlover, Friedrich Krauss, has saved from oblivion.
Literature is not only a refuge of good, beauty and truth, it is, at the same time, a place of radical and extreme aspects. It contains uncontrollable forces, which are contrary to the classical ideal of harmony. Extremist poetics do not appear in the context of the conformal biographies. Biography and aesthetic, literature and life are closely connected, their tendency are going into the identity of the author as an artist of the extremes. The present study will exemplify the concept of “extremist literature”, respective “aesthetically extremism” on the basis of the drama Pastor Ephraim Magnus (1919) written by Hans Henny Jahnn (1894-1959).
Essential for my study is to show the nature and status of gypsy women from Transylvania, which has to be necessarily considered in the context of its own culture. The pictures of these women are mostly shown in the work of Heinrich von Wlislocki, transylvanian gypsy researcher, translator and folklorist of the 19th century. The gypsy women can occupy positions of power, such as an old wise woman,as magic woman, as a mother and as a potential wife. In these cases she is highly valued by the tribe. The above criteria for a gypsy woman to be measured, can be seen only in the context of tribal laws and customs of traditional gypsy groups.
In der Forschung ist immer wieder darauf hingewiesen worden, dass dem Leser in Ludwig Tiecks "Der blonde Eckbert" (ED 1797) verschiedene Lesarten angeboten werden, die auf den ersten Blick streng voneinander getrennt scheinen, sich aber bei naherem Hinsehen als indifferent erweisen. In einem ersten Schritt soll in diesem Aufsatz eruiert werden, worin die verschiedenen Lesarten bestehen und wie sie miteinander verbunden sind, bevor eine besondere, nämlich die des (zeitgenössisch zu denkenden) Verfolgungswahns, herausgehoben und auf ihre hereditaren und kindheitsmemorialen Aspekte befragt wird; all dies unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der romantischen Allegorie, innerhalb deren die verschiedenen Lesarten angeboten werden.
On a close examination, the Romanian cultural space suggests the existance of a spiritual and cultural incompatibility between Romanian existential feeling and the Faustian man, endowed with the personality and character of Faustus. The Faustian character, Faustus and his literary myth have been imported in Romanian culture. Under the circumstances, this paper investigates the manner in which Faustian aspects and motives reflect in Romanian literature.
This article aims to trace different hypostases of alterity as they occur in the novel Vaterlandstage (Days at Home) by contemporary Romanian-born German author Dieter Schlesak. The paper draws on the distinction suggested by Volker Barth between the concepts “das Fremde” (i.e. “the stranger” that remains unknowable and impossible to control) and “das Andere” (i.e. “the other” which is excluded as a result of othering). The analysis of the way in which these two forms of alterity are represented in the novel shows that they go beyond the ethnic and cultural meaning of the terms and are closely linked to Schlesak’s antimimetic poetics, his identity concept based on estrangement and not-belonging as well as to his rejection of a materialist view of the world.
Zwei Thesen sollen in diesem Aufsatz entfaltet werden: Die erste besagt, dass im Poetischen Realismus von Stifter bis Fontane, Raabe und Storm – analog zur deutschen Wirtschaftslehre des 19. Jahrhunderts – die Smith zugeschriebene Position einer Präzedenz des ökonomischen
Egoismus bestritten und an dessen Stelle der Gesamtnutzen als wirtschaftliches Movens in den Vordergrund gestellt wird. Sozusagen in Umdrehung der smithschen These werden Geschäftsmänner geschildert, die das ökonomische Wagnis eingehen, sich vorderhand um die Gesamtverfassung der Gesellschaft zu kümmern und damit belohnt werden, dass sie selbst reich werden. Freilich halten, wie die zweite These besagt, diese Behauptungen einer zweiten Lektüre nicht unbedingt stand. Bei Stifter, so soll gezeigt werden, bleibt die vom Kopf auf die Füße gestellte These Smith' ein rein rhetorisches Phänomen, weil ihr zwar nicht widersprochen, sie jedoch, mangels Gegengewicht durch den Icherzähler, auch nicht verifziert wird. Diese Tendenz verstärkt sich in den heterodiegetisch erzählten Romanen/Erzählungen Storms, Fontanes und Raabes, die als Gegenmodell des moralischen Geschäftsmanns nicht mehr nur den Smithianer, sondern dessen Radikalisierung und historischer Nachfolger, den Spekulanten, notieren. Diese Texte gehen das narrative Risiko ein, gegen ihre eigene Argumentation eine innere Verwandtschaft zwischen moralischem Geschäftsmann und Spekulant zu insinuieren und damit Letzteren nachhaltig aufzuwerten.
PH Lesenswert : Online-Magazin des Zentrums für Literaturdidaktik Kinder Jugend Medien ; Nr. 1/2013
(2013)
Von Wissenschaft und Kunst lässt sich nicht mehr mühelos als Komplementärpaar sprechen. Die Bestimmung der aktuellen Kulturperiode wird so erschwert. Sie vollzieht sich zumindest vorerst 'ex negativo', als Abgrenzung zur abgelaufenen. Hierbei entsteht, so die These, eine veränderte Bezugslogik, die zu einer neuen Ästhetik herausfordert und Kunst und Wissenschaft entsprechend neu ins Verhältnis setzt, auch weil parallel hierzu die sich verzweigenden Naturwissenschaften den empirisch messbaren Untersuchungsobjekten einen in der zeitgenössischen idealistischen Naturphilosophie bis dato undenkbar hohen Stellenwert einräumen. Diese neue Ästhetik ist durchdrungen von den Termini und Vorstellungen der jetzt wirksamen Naturwissenschaften und setzt insofern einen Prozess der begrifflichen Diffusion und Infiltration in Gang. Sie versteht sich als Wissenschaft vom Schönen, das aber nicht nur die Kunst, sondern auch die Natur betrifft und nach begrifflicher Klärung verlangt. Für die wissenschaftliche wie für die literarische Prosa bedeutet die Entwicklung der Ästhetik auch eine Umstellung der Darstellungsverfahren auf die noch recht unbestimmte Situation. Der mikroskopische Blick der Naturwissenschaften führt zur Beobachtung kleinster Teile. Textlich wird darum ebenfalls auf Verknappung zu kleinster, aphoristischer Prosa gesetzt. Diese Entwicklung verläuft jedoch nicht einfach je für sich, sondern erweist sich als Explorationsphase des eigenen Selbstverständnisses unter den Bedingungen von Gegenteiligem.
Frank Hethey zeigt am Beispiel Harro Harrings, wie zwiespältig das Bild der Neugriechen bei aller Begeisterung für den Befreiungskrieg war: Ähnlich wie bei Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer ist auch Harrings positives Bild der griechischen Zeitgenossen zeitweise stark eingetrübt. Gleichwohl sind auch Harrings Lebens- und Denkwege ein Beispiel dafür, dass der Philhellenismus geistesgeschichtliche und politische Entwicklungen im Vormärz überaus stark geprägt hat.
Esther Kilchmann erläutert und diskutiert Motive und Motivationen Heinrich Heines, Bilder von Hellas in Gedichten zu reformulieren. Wendet sich die Literatur des Vormärz explizit von der Autonomieästhetik und ihrem prägenden Hellenismus-Bezug ab, so stellt sich die Frage, inwiefern sich der neue, politische Griechenlandbezug produktiv mit der Suche nach neuen Formen von Literatur nach dem "Ende der Kunst" verbinden kann. "Griechenland" ist hier als literarischer Schauplatz zu betrachten, an dem im Vormärz neue kunstphilosophische Paradigmen in Bezug zu überkommenen ästhetischen Normen verhandelt werden. Aktuelle politische Bestrebungen in Deutschland wie in Griechenland werden dabei mit dem Hellenismus der deutschen Klassik und antiken Topoi überblendet. Bezüge auf Hellas gewinnen in Abwendung von klassischer Ästhetik eine neue Funktion für den aktuellen politischen Kontext. Sie sind wesentlicher Teil der Diskussionen um Wirkkraft von Kunst und Literatur. Ebendieser Widerspruch zwischen Ablegung und Anknüpfung an die literarische Tradition als eines der Grundprobleme des Vormärz soll in der Folge mit Heinrich Heines Reflexionen zum Hellas-Bezug vor der Folie der Zeitkritik lesbar gemacht werden. Der Hellenismus-Bezug ist hier insofern zentral, als er zum Pegelstandmesser für die erfolgreiche - oder eben nicht erfolgreiche - Abgrenzung von der "Kunstperiode" und den überkommenen ästhetischen Paradigmen wird, was wiederum Voraussetzung für die Etablierung einer neuen, sich als politisch im umfassenden Sinne verstehenden Literatur des Vormärz ist. Im Zentrum steht dabei Heines Geste der Abwendung vom klassischen Hellenismus ebenso wie seine Thematisierungvon dessen Formen des Nachlebens jenseits der "Kunstperiode".