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The article shows that Heinrich Rückert is one of the most interesting voices within the corpus of texts showing German encounters with Islam in the 19th century. While actual reflections on the European and American relation to Islam are largely influenced by a point of view stressing a “Clash of Civilisations” (Samuel Huntington), especially after 9/11, Rückert's occupation with the texts and poems of Mevlana Rumi shows that the humanistic and poetic implications of Rumi’s work helped Rückert to find a poetic language that placed itself in the tradition of Goethes’s “West-östlicher Divan” and a German pantheism that is to be seen in the context of the “Spinoza renaissance” at the beginning of the 19th century. Islamic culture is in Rückert’s work a part of the heritage of mankind and of a humanism that goes far beyond the limits of eurocentrism.
During 1933 and 1939, the Swiss author, journalist and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach visited the so-called »Orient« four times. In the intellectual history of the West this part of the world was considered the topography of the »Other«. So the model of dichotomy between the two sexes, predominating the society of the 19th century, got an equivalent outside. A male and strong Europe was opposed to a female and weak East so that the »Orient« became the embodiment of challenging sexuality and devoted feminity. First Schwarzenbach regarded Turkey just as one station of the first and last journey on her way to Persia and Afghanistan, but in her texts it turns out to be a country, which is characterized by a male force („eine männliche Kraft“). Turkey’s female inhabitants get a specific role: They are the standard according to which women from other countries are described. For the European protagonists Turkey is the starting point of their search to a border („Schwelle“) to cross. This process also shifts the established borders of hegemonic discourses. Categories like »me« versus »the other« or »own« versus »strange« become deconstructed for the benefit of polyphonic concepts of identity, which in turn include breaks and contradictions. Thus the literary subject moves between finding and dissolving itself. The article demonstrates that Schwarzenbach´s texts about Turkey include writing techniques that evolve different processes regarding the identity of gender and culture.
The argument that worldwide globalization will lead to a cultural homogenization is rarely acceptable for literary translation. German authors are still translated into Turkish, and the classics are retranslated. In view of Translation Studies, retranslations are very interesting because for being justified they are required to be superior to previous translation(s). This challenge is especially immense if it is the translation of an author like Heinrich von Kleist, whose narrative language is not only well-known but also exceptional. The aim of this study is to analyze the individual strategies of the Turkish translators and to demonstrate on examples whether they had been successful on their aim to satisfy Kleist’s specific literary style. The study is done on the example of the novella “Die Marquise von O...” (1808). For the analysis, the translations of Melâhat Togar (1952), Alev Yalnız (1992) and Ayalp Talun İnce (2004) are examined with regard to their distinctive strengths and weaknesses.
The main theme in the three scenes and one stage theatre play called "Lawyers" which was written by Rolf Hochhuth in 1980 is "death". The date in the play goes back to May 1978 when the body of the Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was found. In the play, the minister Heilmeyer is a lawyer like his daughter Tina and his prospective son-in-law Dieter. However, Heilmeyer worked as a judge at the times of Hitler's Germany. It is seen that lawyers from two different generations encounter topics like death, death sentence, suicide, right to kill and survive. Hochhuth not only questions his own society with a critical attitude and but also he keeps on becoming the conscience of the society with the chronological narrative and the play in which the ideas are associated. The play is analyzed in the light of the perspectives of social reality and readers.
In den letzten Jahren hat es sich durch die Globalisierung bemerkbar gemacht, dass heute die Grenzen zwischen verschiedenen Wissenschaftszweigen sowie Literatur, Kultur und Politik aufgehoben wurden. Die Globalisierung verursachte daher eine unaufhörliche Ausweitung der zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen. Unter dem Lichte des oben angeführten verdichteten sozialen Beeinflussungsprozesses erreicht der Zeitmensch eine neue d.h. zeitgemäße Wahrnehmungswelt, die zur Globalisierung parallel lief. In diesem Zusammenhang habe ich die inhaltlichen Gemeinsamkeiten der problematischen Seelenzustände in Bezug auf Individualproblematik der betreffenden Texte „Ist Es Eine Komödie Ist Es Eine Tragödie?“ von Th. Bernhard (1931-1989) und „Die Oper Auf Der Strasse“ von S.K. Aksal (1920-1993) in die Hand genommen. Das Ziel des Beitrags ist es, die sinnlosen und problematischen Lebensabschnitte in den oben genannten Kurzgeschichten aus der Sicht des fähigen und talentierten Lesers zustande zu bringen und erst durch die interkulturellen Zusammenhänge die gemeinsamen Menschen- und Zeitfragen durch die kritische Lektüre der Texte dem Leser nahe zu bringen. Meine Arbeitsmethode ist eben deswegen Leserorientierte, psychoanalytische Annäherung und Komparatistik als Untersuchungsform.
Writing was to be processed for Christa Wolf always important impulse of conflicts and crises and be argued with experiences. The reunification of Germany and the fast agreement process belong to their most important experiences. In its novel “Medea.Stimmen” refers it in the mythischen garb to the socio-political change, which is realized by the two countries Colchis and Corinth. The present work points first the personal experiences out of the author shortly before and after the reunification and it examines the two countries Kolchis and Korinth under the aspect of their radical change phase, represented in the novel, in order to then light up their effect on the literary figures.
Recent critical discussions of German migrant and post-migrant literature has repeatedly focussed on the phenomenon of the exotic: where some writers seem consciously to exoticise their writing, exaggerating myths about Oriental culture and thus highlighting differences between East and West, perhaps with the aim of making foreigners exciting, likeable or deserving of sympathy, others react against this, rejecting clichés and highlighting continuities, apparently with the aim of making cultural boundaries traversable. Both are understandable strategies tor dealing with displacement. ln this context l should like to adopt a term from quite a different discipline. Bultmanns concept of demythologising. ln theology, demythologising means dissectting the "myth" - the sacred but implausible narrative - to distil from it a kerygmatic truth. If we regard the exotic as being, in this technical sense, the "myth", then it is not entirely devoid of a relationship to reality, but it cannot simply be read as "teal". Thus demythologising is the opposite process to exoticising. Drawing on satirical texts by four Turkish-German writers and cabaretts, this paper looks at ways in which this ethnic minority can use ironic self-depiction to capture and defuse the stereotypes with which it is confronted. Under the rubric "cold turkey", that is, Turkishness without the psychedelics, it shows how the satirists transpose clichés into everyday situations, where they become absurd. The paper’s conclusion is likely to be that hybrid communities are inevitably torn between a desire to highlight demarcation lines (exoticism) and a need to accentuate the potential for assimilation (demythologising). Humour, which in any case has a tendency either to underline or to debunk stereotypes, serves as a highly effective tool for working out this dichotomy, and as all four satirists have successfully reached main-stream German audiences, it would also appear to be a key mechanism in achieving intet-cultural understanding.
»Wie ist der Spazirgang durch Europa bekommen?« Mit dieser ungewöhnlichen Frage beschließt Johann Wolfgang Goethe seinen Brief, den er am 8. März 1803 an den Dichterfreund Friedrich Schiller richtet. Ungewöhnlich erscheint die Frage deshalb, weil Schiller bekanntermaßen nicht sonderlich viel reiste und die Grenzen des deutschen Territoriums zeitlebens nicht überschritt. Eine Italienische Reise, auf die sich Goethe Ende der 1780er Jahre begibt, oder ein Spaziergang nach Syrakus, wie ihn Johann Gottfried Seume im Jahr 1802 unternimmt, fehlen in Schillers Biographie. Doch in Goethes Brief ist auch von keiner Reise, sondern schlicht von Friedrich Schlegels neuer Zeitschrift Europa die Rede, deren erstes Heft im Februar 1803 erschienen war. Auskunft darüber, wie ihm dieser »Spazirgang […] bekommen« sei, gibt Schiller zwar nicht, aber es ist zu vermuten, dass er ihm sicher nicht missfallen hat. Denn im Beitrag »Literatur« erwähnt Schlegel unter anderem die »Schillerschen Trauerspiele«, die er zu »eine[r] Reihe von Versuchen poetischer Darstellungen auf dem Theater« rechnet, die »hoffen lassen, daß bald ein hinlängliches Fundament vorhanden seyn werde, um unter einer Direction, die der des Weimarischen ähnlich wäre, ein Theater zu gründen, das durchaus nur im Gebiete der schönen Kunst seine Existenz hätte […].« Dass um 1800 eine Zeitschrift gegründet wird, die programmatisch den Namen ›Europa‹ trägt, spricht für die Popularität des europäischen Gedankens, dessen Bedeutungshorizont kultur-, sozial- und ideengeschichtliche Perspektiven vereint.
Since the late 1950's Paul Celan has been deeply interested in scientific questions in regard to history and society as well as in the terminology of scientific language. Therefore, since the publication of “Sprachgitter” up to “Schneepart”, many of his poems include terms out of texts that deal with topics as different as geology, biology, astronomy, nuclear physics, and medicine. This essay addresses the problem of this form of adaptation by a close reading of Celan's poem »In der Blasenkammer« (published in 1970). Celan's poems turn against any notion of ›communicative functionality‹ of language; especially the languages of the sciences are here a prominent challenge because of their claim to be semantically objective. So the mentioned adaptation is a serious problem indeed, because the turning of scientific terms into words of poetry does not imply that these terms are simply transferred from one determined semantic context into another. It is rather the question of semantics itself that is at stake. So it has to be stressed that Celan does neither intend to equip scientific terms with ›poetical connotations‹ nor does he turn them into simple metaphors nor poetic or metapoetic concepts. His poems rather deal with the dispensation of semantics and metaphoricity – the language of these poems is a language of abundance and privation at the same time.