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Daughters (Paperback)
Lucy Fricke; Translated by Sinead Crowe
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R404
R328
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German Jewish judge and prosecutor Fritz Bauer (1903-1968) played a
key role in the arrest of Adolf Eichmann and the initiation of the
Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. Author Ronen Steinke tells this
remarkable story while sensitively exploring the many contributions
Bauer made to the postwar German justice system. As it sheds light
on Bauer's Jewish identity and the role it played in these trials
and his later career, Steinke's deft narrative contributes to the
larger story of Jewishness in postwar Germany. Examining latent
antisemitism during this period as well as Jewish responses to
renewed German cultural identity and politics, Steinke also
explores Bauer's personal and family life and private struggles,
including his participation in debates against the criminalization
of homosexuality-a fact that only came to light after his death in
1968. This new biography reveals how one individual's
determination, religion, and dedication to the rule of law formed
an important foundation for German post war society.
German Jewish judge and prosecutor Fritz Bauer (1903–1968) played
a key role in the arrest of Adolf Eichmann and the initiation of
the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. Author Ronen Steinke tells this
remarkable story while sensitively exploring the many contributions
Bauer made to the postwar German justice system. As it sheds light
on Bauer's Jewish identity and the role it played in these trials
and his later career, Steinke's deft narrative contributes to the
larger story of Jewishness in postwar Germany. Examining latent
antisemitism during this period as well as Jewish responses to
renewed German cultural identity and politics, Steinke also
explores Bauer's personal and family life and private struggles,
including his participation in debates against the criminalization
of homosexuality—a fact that only came to light after his death
in 1968. This new biography reveals how one individual's
determination, religion, and dedication to the rule of law formed
an important foundation for German post war society.
Investigates German religious drama since the 1970s, asking the
question whether it develops religious themes or only exploits
religious motifs, and exploring how it reflects the changing place
of religion and spirituality in theworld. Critics often claim that
the twenty-first century has seen a sudden "return" of religion to
the German stage. But although drama scholarship has largely
focused on politics, postmodernity, gender, ethnicity, and
"postdramatic" performance, religious themes, forms, and motifs
have been a topic and a source of inspiration for German dramatists
for several decades, as this study shows. Focusing on works by four
major dramatists - Botho Strauss, George Tabori,Werner Fritsch, and
Lukas Barfuss - this book examines how, why, and to what effect
religion is invoked in German drama since the late 1970s. It asks
whether contemporary German drama succeeds in developing religious
insights or is at most quasi-religious, exploiting religious signs
for aesthetic, theatrical, or dramaturgical ends. It considers the
performative and historical intersections between drama and
religion, contextualizing the playwrights' treatments of religion
by exploring how they lean on or repudiate the traditions of modern
European drama, especially that of Strindberg, the Expressionists,
Artaud, Grotowski, and Beckett. It also draws on the sociology,
anthropology,and psychology of religion, exploring how these works
reflect the changing place of religion and spirituality in the
world, from secularization to the "alternative" modes of
religiosity that have proliferated in Western society since the
1960s. Sinead Crowe is a Teaching Assistant at the University of
Limerick, Ireland.
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The Storyteller (Paperback)
Pierre Jarawan; Translated by Sinead Crowe, Rachel McNicholl
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R401
R334
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Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family's adopted home in
Germany for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing
father. His only clues are an old photo and the bedtime stories his
father used to tell him. The Storyteller follows Samir's search for
Brahim, the father whose heart was always yearning for his
homeland, Lebanon. In this moving and gripping novel about family
secrets, love, and friendship, Pierre Jarawan does for Lebanon what
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan. He pulls
away the curtain of grim facts and figures to reveal the intimate
story of an exiled family torn apart by civil war and guilt. In
this rich and skillful account, Jarawan proves that he too is a
masterful storyteller.
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