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
In Memoriam
Some Reflections on the Passing of Günter Grass (1927–2015) pp. 483–489 Stuart Taberner
Articles
Following in the Tracks of a Dog: “The Beggarwoman of Locarno” Revisited pp. 491–508 Cecilia Novero
Performing German Women’s Professional Identity: The Correspondence of Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Auguste Brede pp. 509–529 Laura Deiulio
Zwischen Romantik und Orientalismus. Ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte in der Weimarer Republik am Beispiel von Karl With und Alfred Salmony pp. 531–554 Weijia Li
Castle Studies and the Idea of Europe: Medievalism in German-Speaking Europe between Politics and Scientific Research, 1918–1945 pp. 555–572 Fabian Link
Austrian Trümmerfilm?: What a Genre’s Absence Reveals about National Postwar Cinema and Film Studies pp. 573–595 Amanda Z. Randall
East German Art and the Permeability of the Berlin Wall pp. 597–616 April A. Eisman
Shadowland: Swiss Identity and Urs Faes’s Ombra pp. 617–633 Thyra E. Knapp
Review Essay
German Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities pp. 635–652 Sabine Wilke
Reviews
Der Mann aus Babadag: Wie ein türkischer Janitschar 1683 nach München verschleppt und dort fürstlicher Sänftenträger wurde by Markus Krischer (review) pp. 653–654 Gerhild Scholz Williams
German Literature as World Literature ed. by Thomas Oliver Beebee (review) pp. 654–657 John Pizer
Goethe’s Allegories of Identity by Jane K. Brown (review) pp. 657–659 Anna Guillemin
Verliebt, Verlobt, Verheiratet. Eine Geschichte der Ehe seit der Romantik by Monika Wienfort (review) pp. 659–661 Adrian Daub
Visualizing the Past: The Power of the Image in German Historicism by Kathrin Maurer (review) pp. 661–664 Nicholas Rennie
Jewish Pasts, German Fictions: History, Memory and Minority Culture in Germany, 1824–1955 by Jonathan Skolnik (review) pp. 664–666 Gabriel S. Cooper
Wagner’s Melodies: Aesthetics and Materialism in German Musical Identity by David Trippett (review) pp. 667–668 Andrew J. Mitchell
The Legacy of Johann Strauss by Zoë Alexis Lang (review) pp. 668–671 Celia Applegate
The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France by Ari Joskowicz (review) pp. 671–673 Barbara Thériault
Arthur Richard Weber. Ein norddeutscher Kaufmann in Japan zur Zeit der Meiji-Restauration by Peter Janocha and Masatoshi Aoyagi (review) pp. 673–675 Aaron D. Horton
Japanische Unternehmen in Deutschland. Ein Aufeinandertreffen verschiedener Kulturen by Meike Michele Albers (review) pp. 675–677 Ruprecht Mattig
Kulturmacht ohne Kompass. Deutsche auswärtige Kulturbeziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert by Frank Trommler (review) pp. 678–680 Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht
Geschichte Deutschlands im 20. Jahrhundert by Ulrich Herbert (review) pp. 680–682 Matthew Stibbe
Generic Histories of German Cinema: Genre and Its Deviations ed. by Jaimey Fisher (review) pp. 682–684 Roger F. Cook
Women in the Weimar Republic by Helen Boak (review) pp. 685–686 Barbara Hales
Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus by Waitman W. Beorn (review) pp. 686–688 Leonid Rein
Deutsche Exilliteratur im niederländisch-deutschen Beziehungsgeflecht. Eine Geschichte der Kommunikation und Rezeption 1933–2013 by Els Andringa (review) pp. 688–692 Johannes F. Evelein
Stefan Wolpe and the Avant-Garde Diaspora by Brigid Cohen (review) pp. 692–694 Alexandra Monchick
Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933–1951 by Gerd Gemünden (review) pp. 694–697 Regina Range
Death in East Germany, 1945–1990 by Felix Robin Schulz (review) pp. 697–699 Erika Quinn
Envisioning Socialism: Television and the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic by Heather Gumbert (review) pp. 699–701 Stewart Anderson
The Allied Air War and Urban Memory: The Legacy of Strategic Bombing in Germany by Jörg Arnold (review) pp. 702–703 Julia Torrie
Herta Müller: Politics and Aesthetics ed. by Bettina Brandt and Valentina Glajar (review) pp. 704–706 Gabriela Stoicea
Was wird, wenn die Zeitbombe hochgeht? Eine sozialgeschichtliche Analyse der fremdenfeindlichen Ausschreitungen in Hoyerswerda im September 1991 by Christoph Wowtscherk (review) pp. 707–708 Peter Thaler
Hypersexuality and Headscarves: Race, Sex, and Citizenship in the New Germany by Damani J. Partridge (review) pp. 709–710 Mayanthi L. Fernando
Philologie und Mehrsprachigkeit ed. by Till Dembeck and Georg Mein (review) pp. 711–713 Spencer Hawkins
Contributors pp. 715–716