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Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy,
film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first
century. Mountains have always stirred the human imagination,
playing a crucial role in the cultural evolution of peoples around
the globe and becoming infused with meaning in the process. Beyond
their geographical-geological significance,mountains affect the
topography of the mind, whether as objects of peril or attraction,
of spiritual enlightenment or existential fulfillment, of
philosophical contemplation or aesthetic inspiration. This volume
challenges the oversimplified assumption that human interaction
with mountains is a distinctly modern development, one that began
with the empowerment of the individual in the wake of Enlightenment
rationalism and Romantic subjectivity. These essays by European and
North American scholars examine the lure of mountains in German
literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle
Ages to the present, with a focus on the interaction between humans
and the alpineenvironment. The contributors consider mountains not
as mere symbolic tropes or literary metaphors, but as constituting
a tangible reality that informs the experiences and ideas of
writers, naturalists, philosophers, filmmakers,and composers.
Overall, this volume seeks to provide multiple answers to questions
regarding the cultural significance of mountains as well as the
physical practice of climbing them. Contributors: Peter Arnds, Olaf
Berwald, Albrecht Classen, Roger Cook, Scott Denham, Sean Franzel,
Christof Hamann, Harald Hoebusch, Dan Hooley, Peter Hoeyng, Sean
Ireton, Oliver Lubrich, Anthony Ozturk, Caroline Schaumann, Heather
I. Sullivan, Johannes Turk, Sabine Wilke, Wilfried Wilms. Sean
Ireton is Associate Professor of German at the University of
Missouri. Caroline Schaumann is Associate Professor of German
Studies at Emory University.
A study of how Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest peak on earth,
became the German "mountain of the mind." Never has a mountain
occupied the German imagination longer and more thoroughly than
Nanga Parbat (8,125m), the world's ninth-highest peak, located in
the extreme western part of the Himalaya chain in present-day
Pakistan. Repeatedly referred to in the 1930s as the German
"mountain of destiny," over a period of roughly two decades from
1932 to 1953 Nanga Parbat became not only the destination of six
German mountaineering expeditions, but also the quintessential
German "mountain of the mind" onto whose slopes German
mountaineers, mountaineering officials, politicians, writers, and
filmmakers projected some of the most pressing social, political,
and cultural concerns of their times.This book is a detailed study
of that process: of the initial motivations of post-First World War
mountaineers for attempting to scale one of the tallest mountains
in the world, of the appropriation of this epic mountaineering
challenge by National Socialism, of the reappropriation of the
Nanga Parbat project during the early years of the German Federal
Republic. And most important - since to date such an approach is
almost completely absent from existingstudies of Himalaya
mountaineering of this era - it is a study of the means and
mechanisms, the texts and contexts employed for communicating these
high-altitude mountaineering exploits to the German public and
thereby inscribingNanga Parbat into the German imagination. Harald
Hoebusch is Associate Professor of German and Associate Chair of
the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and
Cultures at the University of Kentucky.
Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy,
film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first
century. Mountains have always stirred the human imagination,
playing a crucial role in the cultural evolution of peoples around
the globe and becoming infused with meaning in the process. Beyond
their geographical-geological significance,mountains affect the
topography of the mind, whether as objects of peril or attraction,
of spiritual enlightenment or existential fulfillment, of
philosophical contemplation or aesthetic inspiration. This volume
challenges the oversimplified assumption that human interaction
with mountains is a distinctly modern development, one that began
with the empowerment of the individual in the wake of Enlightenment
rationalism and Romantic subjectivity. These essays by European and
North American scholars examine the lure of mountains in German
literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle
Ages to the present, with a focus on the interaction between humans
and the alpineenvironment. The contributors consider mountains not
as mere symbolic tropes or literary metaphors, but as constituting
a tangible reality that informs the experiences and ideas of
writers, naturalists, philosophers, filmmakers,and composers.
Overall, this volume seeks to provide multiple answers to questions
regarding the cultural significance of mountains as well as the
physical practice of climbing them. Contributors: Peter Arnds, Olaf
Berwald, Albrecht Classen, Roger Cook, Scott Denham, Sean Franzel,
Christof Hamann, Harald Hoebusch, Dan Hooley, Peter Hoeyng, Sean
Ireton, Oliver Lubrich, Anthony Ozturk, Caroline Schaumann, Heather
I. Sullivan, Johannes Turk, Sabine Wilke, Wilfried Wilms. SEAN
IRETON is Associate Professor of German at the University of
Missouri. CAROLINE SCHAUMANN is Professor of German Studies at
Emory University.
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