The first book to offer a cutting-edge discussion of contemporary travel writing in German, Anxious Journeys looks both at classical tropes of travel writing and its connection to current debates. The rich contemporary literature of travel has been the focus of numerous recent publications in English that seek to understand how travel narratives, with their distinctive representations of identities, places, and cultures, respond to today's globalized, high-speed world characterized by the dual mass movements of tourism and migration. Yet a corresponding cutting-edge discussion of twenty-first-century travel writing in German has until now been missing. The fourteen essays in Anxious Journeys redress this situation. They analyze texts by leading authors such as Felicitas Hoppe, Christoph Ransmayr, Julie Zeh, Navid Kermani, Judith Schalansky, Ilija Trojanow, and others, as well as topics such as Turkish-German travelogues and the relationship of comics to travel writing. The volume examines how writers engage with classic tropes of travel writing and how they react to the current sense of crisis and belatedness. It also links travel to ongoing debates about the role of the nation, mass migration, and the European project, as well as to Germany's place in the larger world order. Contributors: Karin Baumgartner, Heather Merle Benbow, Anke S. Biendarra, John Blair and Muriel Cormican, Nicole Coleman, Carola Daffner, Christina Gerhardt, Nicole Grewling, Gundela Hachmann, Andrew Wright Hurley, Christina Kraenzle, Magda Tarnawaska Senel, Monika Shafi, Sunka Simon. Karin Baumgartner is Professor of German at the University of Utah. Monika Shafi is Elias Ahuja Professor of German at the University of Delaware.

This book examines the possibilities of political theorizing in the writings of early nineteenth-century German women and develops a new theory of reading women's domestic fiction. Drawing on feminism, new historicism, and hermeneutics for its theoretical framework, the study suggests significant changes to Jurgen Habermas's concept of the public sphere and women's role within it. The book re-evaluates the genre of domestic fiction and traces its use by women writers for political symbolism. Through novels, educational treatises, conduct manuals, poetry, and history books for women and children Caroline Fouque, the principal voice in this study, and other authors of the period participated in the key debates of the early nineteenth century, among them the anguished discussions about the crisis in masculinity after the defeat of the Prussian army in 1806, the discourses of national identity, the construction of a national past, and the reorganization of the feudal state.

Kinder und Jugendliche in der stationaren Kinder- und Jugendhilfe haben oft schon viele Krisen und Bruche hinter sich, Phasen mit Ubergangen, Abschied und Neubeginn. Nicht selten fehlen ihnen wichtige Informationen in ihrer Lebensgeschichte und sie entwickeln ganz eigene Phantasien uber Lucken oder Ereignisse. Um sich positiv entwickeln zu konnen, ist es wichtig, ein Wissen uber die eigene Lebensgeschichte zu haben und Ereignisse integrieren und akzeptieren zu konnen. Biografiearbeit als konkrete Form der Begleitung, Unterstutzung und Gestaltung biografischer Prozesse ermoglicht es den Kindern und Jugendlichen, fruhere Erfahrungen, Fakten und Ereignisse zu erinnern, zu rekonstruieren, zu dokumentieren, zu bewaltigen und zu bewahren. Das Rekonstruieren von lebensgeschichtlichen Gesamtzusammenhangen erleichtert das Verstehen sich wiederholender Verhaltens- und Beziehungsmuster. Die Autorin beschreibt sowohl theoretische Grundlagen als auch Moglichkeiten der praktischen Umsetzung im Hilfeprozess und fuhrt dabei die beiden Themen Biografiearbeit und stationare Kinder- und Jugendhilfe auf Grundlage unterschiedlicher theoretischer Zugange zusammen.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Sozialpadagogik / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1,0, Katholische Universitat Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Kinder und Jugendliche in der stationare Kinder- und Jugendhilfe haben in ihrer Biografie etwas Besonderes: Das Leben und die Erziehung ausserhalb der Familie. Biografiearbeit als eine konkrete Form der Begleitung und Unterstutzung in der stationaren Kinder- und Jugendhilfe hat dabei das Ziel, die eigene Lebensgeschichte zu verstehen und die durchlebte Geschichte zu akzeptieren damit die aktive Gestaltung des gegenwartigen Lebens gelingen kann. Beginnend vom theoretischen Verstandins von Biografiearbeit uber die Funktion im Kontext der stationaren Kinder- und Jugendhilfe bis hin zu der Praxis und den darin enthalten Herausforderungen soll dieser Beitrag einen unfassenden Einblick in die Biografiearbeit in diesem Feld geben

From Multiculturalism to Hybridity: New Approaches to Teaching Switzerland places Switzerland within the context of transnational labor migration and examines how this German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-speaking nation is being transformed by the influx of migrants from all over the world who now constitute a fifth of the population. This dynamic mixture of cultures and races is embodied by a new generation of citizens who call themselves "Secondas and Secondos," the second generation. Today, Switzerland is leading all industrial nations in growth potential and economic benefits from migration (OECD). The articles in this volume analyze the challenges, successes, and ongoing struggles Switzerland experiences with migration, focusing specifically on what it means to shape a nation-state by political will rather than linguistic and cultural unity.From Multiculturalism to Hybridity also offers teaching suggestions for the French, German, and Italian language and literature classroom as well as for courses in Social, Cultural, and Political Studies. Articles address the hybrid literatures and cultures of Switzerland including films, pageants, smellscapes, and women's issues and place Switzerland in the context of a unifying European continent. Readers will find ideas and resources for critically investigating and teaching the concepts of cultural hybridity and transculturalism in the high school and college classroom.