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A secret thing: Forgetting the author in Annette von Droste‐Hülshoff's “Das erste Gedicht”

The German Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 4, Page 498-515, Fall 2023., 2023
Abstract This article examines the notion of secrecy in Annette von Droste‐Hülshoff's poem “Das erste Gedicht” (1846), pursuing its inquiry through a critical analysis of the gendering of space and authorship in Walter Benjamin's commentary on her poetics in Deutsche Menschen. Eine Folge von Briefen (1936).
Julia Gutterman
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Galileis Verbrechen: Kepler, Galilei und das crimen laesae humanitatis

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 325-329, September 2021., 2021
Abstract Johannes Kepler is often cited as a witness to scholars’ resistance to the shift from Latin to vernacular languages in the scientific literature in the early 17th century. Allegedly he was unable to read Italian, and reacted to Galileo's transition from Latin to Italian by accusing him of committing a crimen laesae humanitatis, with the double
Andreas Kleinert
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„Sieben Plagen auf einmal schlagen“ – Theatrale Hygienepropaganda und Infektionskrankheiten in der Sowjetunion der 1920 er–40 er Jahre**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 44-73, March 2021., 2021
Abstract This paper explores the role and impact of the official Soviet hygiene propaganda during the first three decades after the October Revolution, taking as an example theatrical performances about infectious diseases. In the Bolshevik Great Experiment of the 1920s–30s, the creation of a “Soviet body” optimized according to aesthetic and medical ...
Igor J. Polianski, Maria Tutorskaya, Oxana Kosenko   +2 more
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MÜSSIGGANG IST ALLER LASTER ANFANG? LITERARISCHE UND FILMISCHE TYPEN DER VERWEIGERUNG IM MILIEU DER DEUTSCHEN GEGENKULTUR DER 1960ER/70ER JAHRE

German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 109-129, January 2021., 2021
Abstract The article focuses on specific forms, characters and types of ‘primary rejection’ or refusal that emerged in German subculture and deviant counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, rejecting the cultural norms of mainstream society. Beginning with socially distinctive figures such as the layabout and the commune‐dweller, the article examines ...
Sara Bangert
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Plagiieren als wissenschaftliche Innovation? Kritik und Akzeptanz eines vor drei Jahrhunderten skandalisierten Plagiats im Zeitalter der Exzerpierkunst

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 218-238, June 2020., 2020
Abstract The paper reconstructs the tension between the then emerging approach of emphasising authorial innovation and the traditional learned practice of adapting and reusing existing texts, which was cultivated in the early modern ars excerpendi. In 1717, a case of plagiarism occurred in the midst of a new historiographical genre (Reichshistorie) and
Daniel Fulda
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Sociolinguistics going ‘wild’: The construction of auratic fields

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 23, Issue 5, Page 505-520, November 2019., 2019
Abstract This paper sets out to focus the “linguistic construction of publics” (Gal & Woolard, 2014 [2001]: 1) in a sense of the word that is often excluded from sociolinguistic discussion of linguistic action in the public sphere: it discusses how the public is constructed as an indexical (‘auratic’) arena, and a field for positioning, in ...
Jürgen Spitzmüller
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FROM MILAN TO WEST BERLIN: SPATIAL ALIENATION AND THE POST‐1945 ANXIOGENIC CITYSCAPE IN ANNA MARIA ORTESE'S SILENZIO A MILANO AND INGEBORG BACHMANN'S ‘EIN ORT FÜR ZUFÄLLE’

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 544-566, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines Anna Maria Ortese's collection of journalistic reportages and short stories, Silenzio a Milano (Silence in Milan, 1958), and Ingeborg Bachmann's speech ‘Ein Ort für Zufälle’ (17 October 1964). It focuses on their topophobic images of Milan and West Berlin, the anxious representations of these post‐1945 urban landscapes ...
Roberto Interdonato
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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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DIE ARBEIT DES ÜBERSETZENS: RILKE UND MICHELANGELO („SE ’L MIE ROZZO MARTELLO‘‘)

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 194-216, April 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay examines Rainer Maria Rilke's reception of the sculptor and poet Michelangelo in the context of interest in the Renaissance around 1900, focusing first on the Stundenbuch, the Florenzer Tagebuch and the story ʻVon einem, der die Steine belauschtʼ (from the prose collection: Geschichten vom lieben Gott).
Astrid Dröse, Jörg Robert
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Salto y cesura del pensar. En medio de la «parada» dialéctica benjaminiana

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica
En Das Passagen-Werk Benjamin vuelve sobre el concepto de Ursprung, esta vez como salto genuino de lo que ha sido, como vuelco dialéctico en el instante del Jetztzeit del materialista histórico, instante de legibilidad, pero también como parada e ...
Eduardo Hernández Gutiérrez
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