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Companions to Contemporary German Culture

Herausgegeben von: Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder und Christopher Young

ISSN: 2193-9659

e-ISSN 2193-9667

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The De Gruyter Companions to Contemporary German Culture offer lively, comprehensive accounts of contemporary German culture written by experts and designed for student readers and those who teach them. The series brings new German writing, cinema and thought to the attention of an English-speaking academic readership, providing cutting-edge research by leading scholars in a thought-provoking but accessible format. It aims to introduce major authors, thinkers, filmmakers, literary topics, genres and landmark individual works, both in monographs and closely-defined edited collections. The focus will be on the period since 1989 but the series also reaches back into the vital hinterland of the 1970s onwards. In doing this, it aims to respond to vital questions in contemporary German studies, broadly defined, but also to shape the future direction of the subject, providing an impetus for research as well as guiding university teachers in the structuring of curricula. Companions aim to mediate between the latest trends in the German academic and cultural scene and a broadly-based English-language readership: providing invaluable, up-to-date resources for academics and students, and for the interested general reader. While edited volumes introduce single important cultural figures, general themes, genres or landmark individual works, monographs address topics of broad academic appeal in a cogent and lively way. Contributors from around the English-speaking world reflect global developments in the study of contemporary German culture and make the volumes indispensible wherever German is studied at a higher level.

All volumes are peer reviewed by an international editorial team consisting of Michael Eskin (New York), Karen Leeder (Oxford) and Christopher Young (Cambridge), as well as by further experts. Each year 2-4 volumes are published.

Information zu Autoren / Herausgebern

Michael Eskin, Columbia University, USA; Karen Leeder, University of Oxford, UK; Christopher Young, University of Cambridge, UK.

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Buch 2021

Paul Celan Today

A Companion

Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder, Marko Pajević

Band 10 in dieser Reihe

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Marking Paul Celan's 100th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his death, this volume endeavours to answer the following question: why does Celan still matter today – more than ever perhaps? And why should he continue to matter tomorrow? In other words, the volume explores and assesses the enduring significance of Celan's life and œuvre in and for the 21st century. Boasting cutting-edge research by international scholars together with original contributions by contemporary artists and writers, this book attests to, on the one hand, the extent to which large swathes of contemporary philosophy, poetics, literary scholarship, and aesthetics have been indebted to Celan's legacy and are simply unthinkable without it, and, on the other hand, to the malleability, adaptability, breadth and depth of Celan's poetics, which, like the music of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, or Queen, is reborn and rediscovered with every new generation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110658330
ISBN:: 9783110658330
ISBN:: 9783110653403
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Lyrik
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

Ulrike Draesner

A Companion

Karen Jane Leeder, Lyn Marven

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

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Ulrike Draesner is a prize-winning writer of novels, short stories, critical essays and poetry, and one of the foremost authors in Germany today. While a number of volumes have been published in German on her work, the current Companion offers the first volume on Draesner in English, capitalising on the interest in her work in Germany and further afield.

Introducing Draesner’s major novels and short stories, poetry collections and essays, as well as giving an overview of existing research focusing on migration, memory, science, gender and bodily experience, chapters by international scholars in this volume also break new ground by focussing on visual culture, poetology, nature, the posthuman and Draesner’s reception of English literature and medieval culture. A comprehensive bibliography, commissioned interview and original writing by Draesner make the volume a valuable research tool for scholars and students.

This will become essential reading for all those interested in Draesner, women’s writing, literature and history, and contemporary German prose and poetry.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110495942
ISBN:: 9783110495942
ISBN:: 9783110493382
ISBN:: 9783110478952
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: 21. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2018

Christa Wolf

A Companion

Sonja E. Klocke, Jennifer R. Hosek

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

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Interest in Christa Wolf continues to grow. Her classics are being reprinted and new titles are appearing posthumously, becoming bestsellers, and being translated. Energetic scholarly debates engage well-known aesthetic and political issues that the public intellectual herself fore-fronted. This broad-ranging introduction to the author, her work and times builds upon and moves beyond such foundational interpretative frameworks by articulating the global relevance of Wolf’s oeuvre today, also for non-German readers. Thus, it brings East German culture alive to students, teachers, scholars and the general public by connecting the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the lived experiences of its citizens to nations and cultures around the world. The collection focuses on topical matters including the search for authenticity, agency, race, cosmopolitanism, gender, environmentalism, geopolitics, war, and memory debates, as well as movie adaptations and Wolf’s film work with DEFA, marketing, and international reception. Our contributions – by senior and emerging scholars from across the globe – emphasize Wolf’s position as an author of world literature and an important critical voice in the 21st century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110496000
ISBN:: 9783110496000
ISBN:: 9783110493450
ISBN:: 9783110491999
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: 21. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2019

Contemporary German Crime Fiction

A Companion

Thomas W. Kniesche

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

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A companion to contemporary German crime fiction for English-speaking audiences is overdue. Starting with the earlier Swiss “classics” Glauser and Dürrenmatt and including a number of important Austrian authors, such as Wolf Haas and Heinrich Steinfest, this volume will cover the essential writers, genres, and themes of crime fiction written in German. Where necessary and appropriate, crime fiction in media other than writing (TV-series, movies) will be included. Contemporary social and political developments, such as gender issues, life in a multicultural society, and the afterlife of German fascism today, play a crucial role in much of recent German crime fiction. A number of contributions to this volume will comment on the literary reflection of these issues in the texts. The goal of the volume is to make available to English-speaking audiences, to students, teachers and to a wider circle of interested readers, a series of articles on genres, topics, authors, and texts that will help them understand the scope and depth of German crime fiction, its ties to international traditions and also the specificity of the German context, its historical development and contemporary situation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110426601
ISBN:: 9783110426601
ISBN:: 9783110422252
ISBN:: 9783110426557
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Film
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2017

German Pop Music

A Companion

Uwe Schütte

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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The development of German pop music represents a fascinating cultural mirror to the history of post-war Germany, reflecting sociological changes and political developments. While film studies is an already established discipline, German pop music is currently emerging as a new and exciting field of academic study.
This pioneering companion is the first volume to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject, charting the development of German pop music from the post-war period 'Schlager' to the present 'Diskursrock'. Written by acknowledged experts from Germany, the UK and the US, the various chapters provide overviews of pertinent genres as well as focusing on major bands such as CAN, Kraftwerk or Rammstein. While these acts have shaped the international profile of German pop music, the volume also undertakes in-depth examinations of the specific German contributions to genres such as punk, industrial, rap and techno.
The survey is concluded by an interview with the leading German pop theorist Diedrich Diederichsen. The volume constitutes an indispensible companion for any student, teacher and scholar in the area of German studies interested in contemporary popular culture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110425727
ISBN:: 9783110425727
ISBN:: 9783110425710
ISBN:: 9783110423549
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Andere Gattungen
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2015

German Pop Literature

A Companion

Margaret McCarthy

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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Pop literature of the 1990s enjoyed bestselling success, as well as an extensive and sometimes bluntly derogatory reception in the press. Since then, less censorious scholarship on pop has emerged to challenge its flash-in-the-pan status by situating the genre within a longer history of aesthetic practices. This volume draws on recent work and its attempts to define the genre, locate historical antecedents and assess pop’s ability to challenge the status quo. Significantly, it questions the ‘official story’ of pop literature by looking beyond Ralf Dieter Brinkmann’s works as origin to those of Jürgen Ploog, Jörg Fauser and Hadayatullah Hübsch. It also remedies the lack of attention to questions of gender in previous pop lit scholarship and demonstrates how the genre has evolved in the new millennium via expanded thematic concerns and new aesthetic approaches. Essays in the volume examine the writing of well-known, established pop authors – such as Christian Kracht, Andreas Neumeister, Joachim Lottman, Benjamin Lebert, Florian Illies, Feridun Zaimoğlu and Sven Regener – as well as more recent works by Jana Hensel, Charlotte Roche, Kerstin Grether, Helene Hegemann and songwriter/poet PeterLicht.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110275766
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027575-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027576-6
ISBN:: 9783110381306
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: 21. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2014

DEFA at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture

A Companion

Marc Silberman, Henning Wrage

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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Motion picture production, distribution, exhibition and reception has always been a transnational phenomenon, yet East Germany, situated at the edge of the post-war Iron Curtain, separated by a boundary that became materialized in the Berlin Wall in 1961, resembles nothing if not an island, a protected space where film production developed under the protection of government subsidy and ideological purity. This volume proposes on the contrary that the GDR cinema was never just a monologue. Rather, its media landscape was characterized by constant dialogue, if not competition, with both the capitalist West and socialist East. These thirteen essays reshape DEFA cinema studies by exploring international networks, identifying lines of influence beyond national boundaries and recognizing genre qualities that surpass the temporal and spatial confines. The international team of film specialists present detailed analyses of over fifty films, including fiction features, adaptations of literary classics, children's films, documentaries, and examples from genres such as music, sci-fi, Westerns and crime films.

With contributions by Seán Allan, Hunter Bivens, Benita Blessing, Barton Byg, Jaimey Fisher, Sabine Hake, Nick Hodgin, Manuel Köppen, Anke Pinkert, Larson Powell, Brad Prager, Marc Silberman, Stefan Soldovieri, and Henning Wrage.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110273458
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027344-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027345-8
ISBN:: 9783110368055
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Medienwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Mediengeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Film
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Kulturgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2013

"The Lives of Others" and Contemporary German Film

A Companion

Paul Cooke

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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This volume offers the first book-length academic investigation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others (2006). The aim of this edited collection is twofold. On the one hand, it offers new insight into one of the most successful German films of the past two decades, placing The Lives of Others within its wider historical, political, aesthetic and industrial context. On the other, it offers this group of scholars, which includes many of the leading international figures in the field, opportunity to make a series of interventions on the state of contemporary German film and German film studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110268478
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026810-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026847-8
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Film
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen und Medien
Fachgebiet:: Drama, Theater
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2013

Durs Grünbein

A Companion

Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder, Christopher Young

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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Durs Grünbein is the most significant poet and essayist in German today. No other modern German poet has written from such an emphatically European and global perspective, and this volume seeks to present the poet and his work to the English-speaking world in all their significance and breadth. Written by a line-up of international scholars and critics, the volume offers highly readable and wide-ranging essays on Grünbein’s substantial œuvre, complemented by specially commissioned material and an interview with the poet. It covers the German and European traditions, and engages with Grünbein’s works in the context of a number of relevant topics, such as ‘memory’, ‘urban life’, ‘mortality’, ‘love’, and ‘presence’; it also probes Grünbein’s sustained dialogue with the natural sciences and the visual arts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110227956
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022794-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022795-6
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2012

Wolfgang Iser

A Companion

Ben De Bruyn

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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Although Wolfgang Iser is one of the most influential literary theorists of the twentieth century, there is no authoritative study about his oeuvre. The present work remedies that problem by analysing Iser’s German and English writings in detail. Apart from being the first comprehensive account of his work, this study also modifies the established view of Iser’s theory. In contrast to the idea that his only contribution to literary studies is the reception theory of the 1970s, this account demonstrates the importance of Iser’s work on history and anthropology from the 1950s and 1990s. Instead of exclusively focusing on familiar terms such as ‘indeterminacy’, this analysis also discusses Iser’s view of modernity, fiction and culture. As this discussion shows, his writings develop a consistent theory of the novel and the way in which it allows its readers to articulate new views of reality. To situate this theory, Iser’s institutional and intellectual background is described as well, paying special attention to the Poetik und Hermeneutik-circle and thinkers like Blumenberg and Kermode. The continued relevance of his theory is demonstrated via comparisons with recent research on the novel and memory as well as examples from contemporary novelists like Juli Zeh and Hilary Mantel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110245523
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024551-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024552-3
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 20. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Literaturtheorie
Verlag:: De Gruyter