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New essays exploring the tension between the versions of the past
in secret police files and the subjects' own personal memories-and
creative workings-through-of events. The communist secret police
services of Central and Eastern Europe kept detailed records not
only of their victims but also of the vast networks of informants
and collaborators upon whom their totalitarian systems depended.
Theserecords, now open to the public in many former Eastern Bloc
countries, reflect a textually mediated reality that has defined
and shaped the lives of former victims and informers, creating a
tension between official records and personal memories. Exploring
this tension between a textually and technically mediated past and
the subject/victim's reclaiming and retrospective interpretation of
that past in biography is the goal of this volume. While victims'
secret police files have often been examined as a type of
unauthorized archival life writing, the contributors to this volume
are among the first to analyze the fragmentary and sometimes
remedial nature of these biographies and to examine the
subject/victims' rewriting and remediation of them in various
creative forms. Essays focus, variously, on the files of the East
German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate (in relation to Transylvanian
Germans in Romania), andthe Hungarian State Security Agency.
Contributors: Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Ulrike Garde, Valentina
Glajar, Yuliya Komska, Alison Lewis, Corina L. Petrescu, Annie
Ring, Aniko Szucs. Valentina Glajar is Professor of German at Texas
State University, San Marcos. Alison Lewis is Professor of German
in the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of
Melbourne, Australia. Corina L. Petrescu is Associate Professor of
Germanat the University of Mississippi.
New essays by leading scholars examining today's vibrant and
innovative German crime fiction, along with its historical
background. Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans
lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is
a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned
itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920s, German-language
writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on
criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until
after 1945, by which time Germany had gone on to produce
antidetective novels that were similarly ahead of their time.
German crime fiction has thus always been a curious case; rather
than follow the established rules of the genre, it has always been
interested in examining, breaking, and ultimately rewriting those
rules. This book assembles leading international scholars to
examine today's German crime fiction. It features innovative
scholarly work that matches the innovativeness of the genre, taking
up the Regionalkrimi;crime fiction's reimagining and transforming
of traditional identities; historical crime fiction that examines
Germany's and Austria's conflicted twentieth-century past; and how
the newly vibrant Austrian crime fiction ties in with and
differentiates itself from its German counterpart. Contributors:
Angelika Baier, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Kyle Frackman, Sascha
Gerhards, Heike Henderson, Susanne C. Knittel, Anita McChesney,
Traci S. O'Brien,Jon Sherman, Faye Stewart, Magdalena Waligorska.
Lynn M. Kutch is Professor of German at Kutztown University of
Pennsylvania. Todd Herzog is Professor and Head of the Department
of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati.
The sudden fall of the Berlin Wall is one of the defining images of
the late twentieth century. The subsequent unification of Germany
and the decision to return Berlin to its status as capital has made
the constant changes within the city a matter of public interest.
It also offered Berlin the opportunity to create a new image for
itself, one that can serve as a counterbalance to the politically
charged recent history of Berlin as the capital of Nazi Germany and
former East Berlin as the capital of the German Democratic
Republic. Poised between capitalist Western Europe and the former
communist powers in Eastern Europe, Berlin occupies a fascinating
geopolitical space. This anthology presents a unique glimpse into
the various constituencies that make up Berlin and that impact the
city's challenges and promises.
New essays by leading scholars examining today's vibrant and
innovative German crime fiction, along with its historical
background. Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans
lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is
a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned
itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920s, German-language
writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on
criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until
after 1945, by which time Germany had gone on to produce
antidetective novels that were similarly ahead of their time.
German crime fiction has thus always been a curious case; rather
than follow the established rules of the genre, it has always been
interested in examining, breaking, and ultimately rewriting those
rules. This book assembles leading international scholars to
examine today's German crime fiction. It features innovative
scholarly work that matches the innovativeness of the genre, taking
up the Regionalkrimi;crime fiction's reimagining and transforming
of traditional identities; historical crime fiction that examines
Germany's and Austria's conflicted twentieth-century past; and how
the newly vibrant Austrian crime fiction ties in with and
differentiates itself from its German counterpart. Contributors:
Angelika Baier, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Kyle Frackman, Sascha
Gerhards, Heike Henderson, Susanne C. Knittel, Anita McChesney,
Traci S. O'Brien,Jon Sherman, Faye Stewart, Magdalena Waligorska.
Lynn M. Kutch is Professor of German at Kutztown University of
Pennsylvania. Todd Herzog is Professor and Head of the Department
of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati.
Examines the challenges facing German-language study in the new
millennium and highlights how creative, innovative, inspired
approaches have allowed it to weather many of them. In the last
decade, cuts have been made to foreign-language programs in the
United States across all levels of education, German programs among
them. Despite this, enrollments in German programs have increased
modestly. The importance of Germany and its language on the world
stage is undeniable: it has demonstrated its strength as a major
world economic power, and Germany continues to invest heavily
throughout the world. Inspired by the leadership of Helene
Zimmer-Loew, longtime Executive Director of the American
Association of Teachers of German, the contributors to this volume
examine the factors shaping German-language study in the new
millennium. They highlight how innovative curricular design,
creative applied research, inspirational leadership, inventive
professional development, and entrepreneurial approaches have
allowed German to weather many of its challenges. This volume will
be of interest to scholars, teachers, and students of German who
are committed to invigorating its study in the United States.
Contributors: Teresa R. Bell, Regina Braker, Kurt Buhanan and Glenn
S. Levine, Albrecht Classen, Kathleen Condray, Rachel J. Halverson,
Martin Kagel and William Collins Donahue, Lynn Marie Kutch,
Aleidine J. Moeller and Sheri Hurlbut, Traci S. O'Brien, Lynne
Tatlock, Frank Trommler, Gregory H. Wolf. Rachel J. Halverson is
Marianna Merritt and Donald S. Matteson Distinguished Professor in
Foreign Languages and Cultures at Washington State University.
Carol Anne Costabile-Heming is Professor of German in the
Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the
University of North Texas.
The unification of the two German states changed the geo-political,
economic, social, and cultural borders of Germany and Europe. This
volume in three parts researches how East German and West German
authors and directors reacted to these radical changes. The basis
of this research are fictional, autobiographical, journalistic, and
cinematic texts. The authors and directors presented in this volume
not only comment on the changes which they themselves experienced
but also voice their changing attitudes to their own past within
the divided Germany.
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