German Studies Review (GSR) is the scholarly journal of the German Studies Association (GSA), the world’s largest academic association devoted to the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary study of the German-speaking countries. Recent issues have covered topics from Alexander von Humboldt and postcolonial theory to Krupp housing estates in the Ruhr valley to the popularity of German gangsta rap. A peer-reviewed journal, GSR includes articles and book reviews on the history, literature, culture, and politics of the German-speaking areas of Europe encompassing primarily, but not exclusively, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Table of Contents
Articles
August von Kotzebue’s Bruder Moritz, der Sonderling and German Transcultural Consciousness around 1800 1–16 Chunjie Zhang
Escape Artistry: Elisabeth Bergner and Jewish Disappearance in Der träumende Mund (Czinner, 1932) 17–34 Kerry Wallach
Rejuvenation and Regen(d)eration: Der Steinachfilm, Sex Glands, and Weimar-Era Visual and Literary Culture 35–62 Maria Makela
Late Socialism as a Narrative Problem: Christoph Hein and the Limits of the Novella 63–82 Jakob Norberg
“Staging Berlin: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde” 83–96 Ela Gezen
Soundscaping Berlin: Female Agency and Urban Performance in Till Hastreiter’s Status Yo! 97–115 Carola Daffner
Race, Guilt and Innocence: Facing Blackfacing in Contemporary German Theater 117–134 Katrin Sieg
Forum
The Legacies of Friedrich Kittler 135–150 Carl Niekerk
The Ecstasy of the Object: Friedrich Kittler and Rudolf Heinz’ Pathognostik 135–138 Helmut Muller-Sievers
Rewriting Romanticism, Again and Again 138–140 Antje Pfannkuchen
Digital Humanities and Aesthetic Autonomy: The Afterlife of Friedrich Kittler’s Discourse Networks 140–143 Purdy Daniel
Kittler’s German Media Histories 143–146 Sean Franzel
Superior Intelligence: On Friedrich Kittler’s Hardware 146–148 Peter Gilgen
Writing after Kittler 148–150 Lutz Koepnick
Reviews
A Courtier’s Mirror: Cultivating Elite Identity in Thomasin von Zerclaere’s Welscher Gast by Kathryn Starkey (review) 151–152 James A. Schultz
Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250–1914 ed. by Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, and Anne Kuhlmann (review) 153–155 Tiffany N. Florvil
Death and a Maiden: Infanticide and the Tragical History of Grethe Schmidt by William David Myers (review) 155–157 Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker (review) 157–159 Mary Lindemann
Von Kunstworten und -werten. Die Entstehung der deutschen Kunstkritik in Periodika der Aufklärung by Margrit Vogt (review) 159–161 Carl Niekerk
Kant’s Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy by Jennifer Mensch (review) 162–163 Jocelyn Holland
Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780–1830 by Peter K.J. Park (review) 164–165 Joseph D. O’Neil
Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe ed. by Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson (review) 166–168 Daniel DiMassa
Genius, Power and Magic: A Cultural History of Germany from Goethe to Wagner by Roderick Cavaliero (review) 168–170 Anthony J. Steinhoff
The Transatlantic World of Higher Education: Americans at German Universities, 1776–1914 by Anja Werner (review) 170–171 Karen Priestman
Realism and Romanticism in German Literature. Realismus und Romantik in der deutschsprachigen Literatur ed. by Dirk Göttsche and Nicholas Saul (review) 172–175 Helmut Illbruck
Metropole, Provinz und Welt. Raum und Mobilität in der Literatur des Realismus ed. by Roland Berbig and Dirk Göttsche (review) 175–177 Vance Byrd
Ein Feentempel der Mode oder Eine vergessene Familie, ein ausgelöschter Ort: Die Familie Freudenberg und das Modehaus “Herrmann Gerson” by Gesa Kessemeier (review) 177–179 Mila Ganeva
Die vielsprachige Seele Kakaniens: Übersetzen und Dolmetschen in der Habsburgermonarchie 1848 bis 1918 by Michaela Wolf (review) 179–181 David D. Kim
The Mind of the Nation: Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851–1955 by Egbert Klautke (review) 181–183 Amy Carney
German Visions of India, 1871–1918: Commandeering the Holy Ganges during the Kaiserreich by Perry Myers (review) 183–185 John Phillip Short
The Devil’s Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa by George Steinmetz (review) 185–187 Kristin Kopp
Heinrich Claß 1868–1953. Die politische Biographie eines Alldeutschen by Johannes Leicht (review) 187–189 Geoff Eley
Journeys into Madness: Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire by Ed. by Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber (review) 189–191 Paul Lerner
Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher (review) 192–193 Gary Schmidt
Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema by Christopher Morris (review) 194–196 Harald Höbusch
The Aesthetics of Loss: German Women’s Art of the First World War by Claudia Siebrecht (review) 196–198 Jay Winter
Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School by Emily J. Levine (review) 198–201 Doris McGonagill
Women, Pleasure, Film: What Lolas Want by Simon Richter (review) 201–204 Barbara Mennel
Becoming a Nazi Town: Culture and Politics in Göttingen between the Wars by David Imhoof (review) 204–206 Pamela E. Swett
The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle by Bernhard Rieger (review) 206–208 Andrew Denning
Verschleppt und Entwurzelt. Zwangsarbeit zwischen Soest, Werl, Wickede und Möhnetal by Mechtild Brand (review) 208–210 Paul Moore
From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965 by John Connelly (review) 210–212 Richard Steigmann-Gall
Süssen Is Now Free of Jews: World War II, the Holocaust, and Rural Judaism by Gilya Gerda Schmidt (review) 212–213 Martin Kalb
Screen Nazis: Cinema, History, and Democracy by Sabine Hake (review) 213–215 Rick McCormick
Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe by Laura Jockusch (review) 216–217 Richard E. Frankel
GIs in Germany: The Social, Economic, Cultural, and Political History of the American Military Presence Ed. by Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr. and Detlef Junker (review) 218–220 Kristen Dolan
The Origins of Christian Democracy: Politics and Confession in Modern Germany by Maria D. Mitchell (review) 220–222 Ronald J. Granieri
The Role of Business in the Development of the Welfare State and Labor Markets in Germany: Containing Social Reforms by Thomas Paster (review) 222–224 Michel Goyer
Fragmented Fatherland: Immigration and Cold War Conflict in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–1980 by Alexander Clarkson (review) 224–226 Patrice Poutrus
Aging and Old-Age Style in Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser. The Mannerism of a Late Period by Stuart Taberner (review) 226–228 Michelle Mattson
Postkoloniale Lektüren. Perspektivierungen deutschsprachiger Literatur ed. by Anna Babbka and Axel Dunker (review) 228–230 Mark W. Rectanus
“The Lives of Others” and Contemporary German Film ed. by Paul Cooke (review) 230–232 Antje Ascheid
Auditive Medienkulturen: Techniken des Hörens und Praktiken der Klanggestaltung ed. by Axel Volmar and Jens Schröter (review) 232–235 Rolf J. Goebel
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