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Das Warenhaus war uber Deutschland hinaus bis in die 1930er-Jahre
einer der kulturgeschichtlich bedeutendsten Ansatzpunkte fur die
Auseinandersetzung mit der Moderne und der Konsumkultur. Die
Autoren und Autorinnen dieses Bandes zeigen sowohl den
Facettenreichtum des Warenhaus-Diskurses in der Literatur, dem
Feuilleton, in Musicals und im Film als auch die Bandbreite der
teils sozial-und kulturkritischen, teils fortschrittsorientierten
Thematisierungen auf. Dabei kommen Romane von Zola, Brecht und
Fallada sowie Schriften weniger bekannter Autoren zur Sprache. Das
emanzipatorische Potenzial des Warenhausthemas findet ebenso
Beachtung wie waren- und konsumasthetische Strategien, die in
Literatur, Film und anderen Medien reflektiert werden. Until the
1930s department stores provided, in Germany as elsewhere, one of
the focal points of cultural and critical engagement with modernity
and consumer culture. The authors of this volume explore the
diversity of the discourse on department stores in literature, the
feuilleton, musicals and film. They demonstrate the scope of the
discourse from cultural criticism to more progress-oriented
examinations of the theme. Novels by Zola, Brecht and Fallada are
discussed, as well as writings by lesser known authors. Attention
is paid to the emancipatory potential of department stores as well
as to the aesthetics of consumption as reflected in literature,
film and other media.
Dieser Band widmet sich dem Berliner Warenhaus des spaten 19. und
fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts. Die interdisziplinaren Beitrage behandeln
das Thema im Rahmen der OEkonomiegeschichte, der Frauen- und
Antisemitismusforschung, sowie im Hinblick auf Aspekte der Werbung,
Stadtplanung und Architektur. Im Zentrum steht die Analyse
zeitgenoessischer Diskurse und Debatten um das Warenhaus als Symbol
der Moderne. This interdisciplinary volume explores the history of
Berlin department stores in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The contributions consider aspects of economic history,
gender-related and Jewish studies, advertising, town-planning,
design and architecture. All articles focus on contemporary
discourses and debates on the department store as a symbol of
modernity.
This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary
orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises
research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source
texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in
particular from the period covering the 18th to 20th centuries. The
closer definition of the term German-Jewish applied to literature
and culture is an integral part of its historical development.
Primarily, the decisive factor is that from the middle of the 18th
century German gradually became the language of choice for Jews,
and Jewish authors started writing in German, rather than Yiddish
or Hebrew, even when they were articulating Jewish themes. This
process is directly connected an historical change in mentality and
social factors which led to a gradual opening towards a non-Jewish
environment, which in its turn was becoming more open. In the
Enlightenment, German society becomes the standard of reference -
initially for an intellectual elite. Against this background, the
term German-Jewish literature refers to the literary work of Jewish
authors writing in German to the extent that explicit or implicit
Jewish themes, motifs, modes of thought or models can be identified
in them.From the beginning of the 19th century at the latest,
however, the image of Jews in the work of non-Jewish writers,
determined mainly by anti-Semitism, becomes a factor in
German-Jewish literature. There is a tension between Jewish
writers' authentic reference to Jewish traditions or existence and
the anti-Semitic marking and discrimination against everything
Jewish which determines the overall development of the history of
German-Jewish literature and culture. This series provides an
appropriate forum for research into the whole problematic area.
New essays on the works and themes of Hesse, one of the most
perennially relevant and widely-read German authors. Today, forty
years after Timothy Leary's suggestion that hippies read Hermann
Hesse while "turning on," Hesse is once again receiving attention:
faced with ubiquitous materialism, war, and ecological disaster, we
discover that these problems have found universal expression in the
works of this master storyteller. Hesse explores perennial themes,
from the simple to the transcendental. Because he knows of the
awkwardness of adolescence and the pressures exerted on us to
conform, his books hold special appeal for young readers and are
taught widely. Yet he is equally relevant for older readers,
writing about the torment of a psyche in despair, or our fear of
the unknown. All these experiences are explored from the
perspective of the individual self, for Hesse the repository of the
divine and the sole entity to which we are accountable. This volume
of new essays sheds light on his major works, including Siddhartha,
Der Steppenwolf, and Das Glasperlenspiel, as well as Rosshalde,
Klingsors letzter Sommer, Klein und Wagner, and the poetry. Another
six essays explore Hesse's interest in psychoanalysis, music, and
easternphilosophy, the development of his political views, the
influence of his painting on his writing, and the relationship
between Hesse and Goethe. Contributors: Jefford Vahlbusch, Osman
Durrani, Andreas Solbach, Ralph Freedman, Adrian Hsia, Stefan
Hoeppner, Martin Swales, Frederick Lubich, Paul Bishop, Olaf
Berwald, Kamakshi Murti, Marco Schickling, Volker Michels, Godela
Weiss-Sussex, C. Immo Schneider, Hans-Joachim Hahn. Ingo Cornilsis
Professor of German at the University of Leeds.
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