Politics and Culture in Germany and Austria Today: Edinburgh German Yearbook 14 ISBN: 9781787449466 Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Examines the heightened role of politics in contemporary German and Austrian cultural productions and institutions and what it means for German Studies.
As debates about Europe, migration, resurgent nationalism, and neoliberalism intensify in Germany and Austria, politics has gained particular prominence in cultural production and cultural institutions. How does this development affect German Studies as a discipline and a practice? Volume 14 of Edinburgh German Yearbook examines political or politicized aspects of contemporary life that have become increasingly significant for culture today. The contributions gathered here offer engaging readings of contemporary literary texts (including work by Sasa Stanisić, Anke Stelling, and Timur Vermes), films (by Fatih Akın, Ruth Beckermann, and Andreas Dresen), and other forms of cultural intervention (the polemics of Max Czollek and Oliver Polak, and the activism of the left-feminist group Burschenschaft Hysteria). These encourage us to consider how communities are being (re)shaped by current political and social crises, antagonisms around memory cultures, questions of European identity, as well as challenges to the status of an assumed Leitkultur and the discourse of integration.
Matthes Frauke :
FRAUKE MATTHES is a Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh.Osborne Dora :
DORA OSBORNE is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews.Krylova Katya :
KATYA KRYLOVA is Lecturer in German, Film, and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen.Aspioti Myrto :
MYRTO ASPIOTI is acquisitions editor for De Gruyter in Berlin, where she is in charge of the English-language portfolio in Literary and Cultural Studies.Ludden Teresa :
Teresa Ludden is Senior Lecturer in German Studies at Newcastle University. She researches philosophy and contemporary Germanlanguage literature and film, focusing on the interface between politics, aesthetics, and ethics in texts. She has published on a range of topics including narratives of trauma, eating disorders, prostitution, memory and identity, and experimental poetry. She is currently working on radical re-workings of the uncanny in contemporary cultures and new materialisms for literary criticism of texts addressing the anthropocene.Shortt Linda :
Kinda Shortt is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on concepts of place, belonging, and attachment in twentieth- and twenty-first-century German-language literature and film. Significant publications in this area include: "Borders, Bordering, and Irregular Migration in Novels by Dorothee Elmiger and Olga Grjasnowa," MLR 116, no. 1 (2021): 134-52; and German Narratives of Belonging: Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford: Legenda, 2015).Cosgrove Mary :
Mary Cosgrove is Professor in German at Trinity College Dublin. Her research and teaching foci include Holocaust memory and representation in literature and culture; German Jewish writing; the cultural history and theory of melancholia and boredom in European letters; and literary and narrative economics. Key publications include Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (Camden House, 2014); German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 (Camden House, 2006; paperback 2010).Roca-Lizarazu Maria :
MARIA ROCA LIZARAZU is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK.Gleißner Stephanie :
Stephanie Gleißner is currently a research assistant at the PhilippsUniversität Marburg. Together with other members of the DFG Research Unit "Journal Literature" she co-authored a book on the optical appearance of literature and its implications and functions within the broad spectrum of nineteenth-century media formats (Optische Auftritte: Marktszenen in der medialen Konkurrenz von Journal-, Almanachs- und Bücherliteratur, Wehrhahn, 2019). Stephanie also published the novel Einen solchen Himmel im Kopf (Aufbau, 2012). At present she is working on her PhD project, which explores 1920s short prose within the context of contemporary newspapers and magazines.Hawthorne Katie :
Katie Hawthorne recently submitted her PhD in European Theater at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the Wolfson Foundation. Her thesis argues that "liveness" in the theater is culturally and contextually contingent, using the cities of Edinburgh and Berlin for comparison. This year she holds a fellowship at the Dortmund Academy of Theater and Digitality.Stewart Elizabeth :
Lizzie Stewart is Lecturer in Modern Languages, Culture, and Society at King''s College, London. Lizzie''s work operates primarily at the intersection of Migration Studies, Modern Languages, and Theater and Performance, and has focused on the relationship between labor migration and cultural production. She has published extensively on 254 n otes on the Contributors postmigrant theater, but has also published on literature and film, and was co-editor of the Oxford German Studies special issue on Emine Sevgi Özdamar in 2016. Lizzie''s first book, Performing New German Realities: Turkish-German Scripts of Postmigration, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan in 2021.Preuss Evelyn :
Evelyn Preuss is finishing her dissertation on East German cinema at Yale University. In addition, she is pursuing a project on neoliberalism and globalization(s) that examines the political effects of globalized media and culture and asks to what extent art can provide alternative, inclusive platforms for building political and social consensus. Currently, she is coediting a volume, Through the Wall(s), examining the GDR''s transnationalism in relation to informal networking and Eigensinn. She has published on East German Cinema, the intersection of media, architecture and politics, as well as on the disparity between Eastern and Western perspectives in a number of journals and anthologies.Moser Joseph W. :
Joseph W. Moser is Associate Professor of German at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and serves as the book review editor for the Journal of Austrian Studies. He has published on Thomas Bernhard, Lilian Faschinger, Franz Kafka, Robert Schindel, Andreas Pittler, Czernowitz writers, the Austrian Contemporary Novel, and Franz Antel''s Bockerer film series.Klimpfinger Regine :
Regine Klimpfinger teaches German language, Austrian Studies, and Medieval literature at the University of Reading. Her current research interest is Austrian literature and art as activism, with a focus on feminist and queer activism and protest movements. Further fields of interest include Memory Studies, the role of popular culture and cinema in the formation of the Austrian Heimat, and anti-Heimat literature and film.Koenigshofer Elisabeth :
Elisabeth Koenigshofer is OeAD-Lektorin (Teaching Fellow for the Austrian Exchange Service) at the University of Reading. Her research interests are political dissent in Austrian popular culture, identity studies, and accessibility of cultural heritage through digital tools.
