830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur
In the concentration on his text, the author Franz Kafka is often reduced to the phantom of a deadly sick and Oedipus-struck inventor of abstract labyrinths in an absurd bureaucratic universe. This talk intends to reintegrate him into the landscape of various conterts of modernicy at the beginriing of the 20Ih century such as: the movement of life-reform, intellectual debates, academic research in the field of industrial accidents, changing erotic relations and the enthusiasm for new technical products. As a result, the author claims that Kafka could well be imagined as a member of the pre-war-society described by Thomas Mann in the "Magic Mountain".
This essay aimes to introduce the German-Jewish Poet Rose Ausländer (1901-1988) to the literary public of Brasil, where she has not been translated and is therefore nearly unknown. Proceeding from the translation of 12 paradigmatic poems, the crucial periods of her life, poetry and poetology are outlined: As her famous college Paul Celan, she was born in Czernovitch this multicultural town of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy. An important number of her poems are the result of the intimate relation with her country. The early death of her father and the resulting poverty led her to try to find a new home in New York, but she came back in the period of beginning National Socialism and suffered the persecution of Holocaust. After long years of travelling, she settled down in a Düsseldorf home for elderly Jewish people. The central themes in her poetry are: the loss of country, the Holocaust, and survival in a kind of spiritual country, that is: language and writing.
The object of this paper is to attempt a comparison between the perception of the big city by an author of German expressionism, Georg Heym, and the Brazilian modernist Mario de Andrade. The aim is to compare the poetic visions of two cities, Berlin and Sao Paulo, at the beginning of the twentieth century and highlight both, the coincidences and differences in the perception of urban life, based on the ideas of the German sociologist Georg Simmel on the life of man in modernity and the stimulations of nerve impulses.
Tiecks zweiter Roman, Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen, der 1798 erschien, widmet sich Themen, die um Kunst und Künstler kreisen. Schon die "Vorrede" verdeutlicht: "Am meisten habe ich bei diesem Werke meiner Laune an Euch, ihr Jünger der Kunst, gedacht, die Ihr Euch mit unermüdetem Streben zu den großen Meisterwerken hinandrängen wollet, die Ihr Euer wechselndes Gemüt und die wunderbaren Stimmungen, die Euch beherrschen, nicht begreift, die Ihr gern die Widerspruche lösen möchtet, die Euch in manchen Stunden ängstigen. Euch widme ich diese Blätter mit besonderer Liebe und mit herzlichen Wünschen, dass Euch hie und da vielleicht eine Wolke schwindet, die Eure Aussicht verdeckte."(S.9) Hier werden die Adressaten des Romans, die "Jünger der Kunst", und die zentralen Themenbereiche der Kunstproduktion und des Verhältnisses zur Tradition ("Streben zu den großen Meisterwerken") bereits angesprochen.