When Hermann Broch began the work of completing and publishing his first major literary work, the trilogy Die Schlafwandler, in the early 1930s, French and English were the two languages into which he wanted his work to be...
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...
Covers the major modernist literary works of Broch and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to his political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings.
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...
In the third volume of Hermann Broch's trilogy, Die Schlafwandler , a woman walks barefoot through her house and garden as World War I ends. The woman, Hanna Wendling, is dressed in a white nightgown illuminated by the fires...
Auf den ersten Blick lässt die langjährige Beziehung zwischen Hermann Broch und Ea von Allesch (1875-1953) weniger auf eine literarische Freundschaft als auf eine ungestüme Liebesaffäre schließen. Als Broch von Allesch 1917...
Seit der 1986 veröffentlichten Broch-Bibliographie von Klaus W. Jonas in dem von Paul Michael Lützeler herausgegebenen Suhrkamp-Band Hermann Broch gab es in der Forschung zwar weitere Einblicke in die Literatur zu Broch und...
In the years 1930-32, as totalitarian regimes and movements were tightening their grip on much of Europe, the Munich- and Zurich-based Rhein-Verlag published the three successive parts of Die Schlafwandler (The Sleepwalkers,...
In his unfinished novel Amerika or The Man who Disappeared, Franz Kafka describes the futility of accomplishing a task, as he so often does in his literary work. Here, though, failure occurs in an unusual place - an...
On December 22, 1931, after writing often to Edwin and Willa Muir over the course of that year about their translation of his first major literary accomplishment, Die Schlafwandler (The Sleepwalkers), Broch writes Willa about...
The radical rupture in civilization, the future and defense of democracy, the fight against totalitarianism and mass hysteria, the commitment to human rights, and the utopian potential of literature – these were the topics that...
Ornament as Crisis explores the ways in which the novels of Hermann Broch’s Sleepwalkers (Schlafwandler) trilogy participate in and employ the history of architecture, architectural theory, and contemporary architectural...
Im Herbstsemester 1950, etwa ein halbes Jahr vor seinem Tod, hielt Broch an der Yale University einen Vortrag über das Kitschproblem. Dort stellte er dem ‚Germanic Club‘ seine Kitschtheorie mit Beispielen aus der Romantik vor....
In Brochs Werken und Romanen steht die Erkenntnis im Mittelpunkt. Dies betont Broch selbst in seinen Schriften und Briefen; auch die Sekundärliteratur macht dies nachdrücklich geltend. Im Kontext seiner Kulturtheorie jedoch...
Hermann Broch was a prolific letter writer and spent much of his life explaining and promoting his thoughts and ideas in letters. These letters show his belief that his work was worth communicating to others and that he was...
After publishing his first major literary work between 1930 and 1932, the momentous trilogy Die Schlafwandler, Hermann Broch found himself a critically acclaimed author but not a wealthy one. The modest sales expectations of...