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...
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...
"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.
Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known...
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...
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...
Der radikale Zivilisationsbruch, die Zukunft und Verteidigung der Demokratie, der Kampf gegen Totalitarismus und Massenwahn, der Einsatz für Menschenrechte sowie das utopische Potential einer Literatur, die antike und...
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...
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....
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...