Haque, Kamaal

Translator's Introduction Arnold Fanck (1889-1974), pioneer of the specifically German genre of the Bergfilm (mountain film), began life as a sickly child with breathing problems. As he recounts in his 1973 autobiography Er...

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McGaughey, Sarah

Are there really black Germans? Who are they? Such were the student questions after a screening of Oliver Hardt's (Hardt & Brunn, 2005) documentary on blacks living in Germany, Black Deutschland. Hardt's German-language...

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McGaughey, Sarah, Tihanov, Galin, and Bartram, Graham

Covers the major modernist literary works of Broch and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to his political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings.

Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known...

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Haque, Kamaal

Of those actors and directors who have come to be associated with the genre of the Heimatfilm, one name remains both curiously present and absent: Luis Trenker. On the one hand, Trenker continues to be present in the public...

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Kunert, Günter, Augustin, Michael, and Sagastume, Jorge R.G.

Günter Kunert nació en Berlin el 6 de marzo de 1929, y estudió en la Academia de Artes Aplicadas entre los años 1946 y 1949, contrayendo matrimonio en 1951 con Marianne Todten. En 1948 se une al Partido de Unidad Socialista...

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Pfannkuchen, Antje

This article studies how Johann Wilhelm Ritter proved that a specifically German Romantic approach turned a scientific impasse in the study of light into a new beginning. Ritter's thinking of polarity transcended a simple...

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McGaughey, Sarah

In the shadow of the Alpine mountain Kuppron, a country doctor decides to record the events in the two villages of Ober- and Uterkuppron (Upper and Lower Kuppron) of the previous year in an attempt "des Wissens und des...

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Haque, Kamaal

The days preceding the September 11, 1881 landslides in Elm, Switzerland form the basis for Franz Hohler’s historical novella Die Steinflut. Like many of Hohler’s other works, Die Steinflut focuses on environmental issues....

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