Germanistische Beiträge 35.2014
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„[I]m Fegefeuer von Diktaturen“. Die Darstellung arabischer Diktaturen im Prosawerk von Abbas Khider
(2014)
This article deals with the works of the Iraqi writer Abbas Khider who lives in Germany. His works revolve around a major topic, namely, the life of the ordinary Arab citizen under dictatorship. In all Arab countries, dictatorship has been able to set up and update a new cultural fashion based on oppression and persecution, looking man down and depriving him of his freedom.
Our writer has suffered so much from dictatorship which pushed him to live in delinquency from one country to the other. Building on this, the article is attempting through linking the author’s autobiography to the major events and characters of his works to point to the nature of the Arab dictatorship dominating in the Arab world before the Arab Spring which would contribute to understanding the works of Khider and identify their real content.
The aim of the present paper is to show how intertextuality and poetological reflection are interrelated in Josef Winkler’s later works (starting with the short novel Natura morta published in 2001). After a short presentation of the author, the main motifs of his novels and his specific prose style which draws on mannerist tropes in order to distance itself from mimetic, realistic narrative, the paper offers a brief overview of the different types of intertextuality Winkler makes use of in his writing. The last part of the paper focuses on a short chapter from the novel Leichnam, seine Familie belauernd (2003), analyzing the intertextual references to Jean Genet in both their (auto)biographical and narratological dimension.
The research objective of the present article is the book Der heilige Teufel [The Holy Devil], written in the field of cultural history by the Romanian German language author Renë Fülöp Miller, published in 1927 and very well received at the time. Important contemporary voices, for instance Th. Mann, ranked it next to fictional works. Taking into consideration postmodern viewpoints, according to which reality and fiction have become impossible to distinguish and interchangeable, it may be concluded that Miller’s work, in spite of its cultural-historical content, is a historical narrative, its style being subordinated to „documentary fiction”. The depiction of reality is a possible one; Russia’s image during Rasputin’s time is a probable one.
The Transylvanian-Saxon Dictionary (SSWB) documents the general thesaurus of the Transylvanian Saxons by means of meaningful idiomatic samples. In addition there are certified documents of Transylvanian sources of the German language from the mid 13th to mid 10th century, which are of relevance for the idiomatic influence upon the literary German written language in Transylvania or the history of the German language. From this point of view some lexemes are absorbed into the dictionary, which refer to established legal agreements and mandatory services pertaining to a specific time period. The case studies in the following article are documented sources, extracted from the SSWB and the Transylvanian vernacular literature.
The following article analys the perception of th famous character Till Eulenspiegel (Howleglas) in Romania, mostly focusing on „Întâmplãrile ºi faptele de pominã ale nãzdrãvanului Til Buhoglindã”, retold by Al. Alexianu. His fame was currently brought by the numerous translations, in 280 languages. The first complete Romanian translation was published in 1840, in Braºov. The book represented a major success towards the Romanian audience, following other editions being published (1848, 1856, 1858, etc.). The 43 tales chosen in the 1970s edition are focused on Till Eulenspiegels-character (translated in Romanian as Til Buhoglindã), revealing his complex personality, as well as his amuzing and educational side.
Mathilde Roth belongs to a small group of Transylvanian ladies who, by the end of the 19th century, benefitted by the relative opening of the Transylvanian Saxon society, which permitted women to embrace a profession. The gifted young woman followed her vocation and studied for several years painting in Vienna and Munich, being in the aftermath active for almost a decade in her native city, Sibiu/Hermannstadt, where she exhibited paintings, organized Christmas exhibitions and gave art lessons. After her marriage, Mathilde left Transylvania in 1910 and settled in Zurich. Being also a gifted writer, she contributed travel reports to different periodicals. The paper aims at presenting the almost forgotten artist both, as a painter and as a writer.
Der Beitrag widmet sich einem ausgewählten Bereich öffentlicher Pressesprache, wobei strukturelle, semantische und pragmatische Besonderheiten der sogenannten hölzernen Sprache in der deutschsprachigen Zeitung Neuer Weg (NW) aus Rumänien exemplarisch am Beispiel von Beileidstelegrammen zum Ableben der kommunistischen Führer Josef Wissarionowitsch Stalin und Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1953 bzw.1965) erfasst werden sollen. Mit der Darstellung von Formulierungspräferenzen in einer ausgewählten Textsorte der öffentlichen schriftlichen Kommunikationspraxis und der Analyse dieses soziokulturell geprägten Sprachgebrauchs hinaus sollen auch die sozial-historischen Bedingungen, die für das Auftauchen der Ausdrucksformen der hölzernen Sprache förderlich waren, eruiert werden.
The paper aims at the discussion of some major aspects of postmodern theatre from the vantage point of actual staging and performing. Theatre should be regarded as the result of varied cross-cultural, intermedial and intertextual elements merged into a hybrid art form. The paper illustrates my statements by referring to the theatrical activity of the German language players known as DUO BASTET from Braºov and some of their adaptations.
The title Grenzfall of this crime novel is based on a pun because it means in German both “borderline case” and “border incident”. The novel refers to an incident at the border between Poland and Germany, that really happened in 1992, when two Roma from Romania were shot in strange circumstances. Kröger continues in her fiction the film script that she had written for the documentary Revision, produced in 2012, 10 years after the incident. The crime novel tries to reveal the causes that led to the violent death of the two, to disclose why German police investigations were so superficial, to present what effects all this had on the families of the two dead men, and what regional and ethnic stereotypes dominate the thinking of those involved in the action.