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

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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McGaughey, Sarah

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...

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McGaughey, Sarah

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...

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Haque, Kamaal

The geography teacher of the Imperial Russian Humanistic High School of Baku, Transcaucasia, poses a challenge that resonates throughout Ali and Nino: "It can therefore be said, my children, that it is partly your...

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Pfannkuchen, Antje

Novalis (1772-1801), poet and scientist of early German Romanitcism, opens his novel fragment Die Lehrlinge zu Sais [translated as The Apprentices or The Novices at Sais ], a meditation on the relationship of human knowledge...

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Bartram, Graham and McGaughey, Sarah

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,...

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McGaughey, Sarah

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...

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McGaughey, Sarah

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...

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