englischWith around 3000 watercolours and drawings, Hermann Hesse did not only leave behind his literary work but also an extensive visual oeuvre, which is comprehensively analysed in this study and put into a biographical, contemporary and art history context. Unlike literary studies’ previous [...]

englischHow can Nazi camp experiences be communicated and analysed? For Primo Levi, who was imprisoned in Auschwitz, ›a new language‹ had to be invented as the experiences were too indescribable and unimaginable. Does this pessimism also apply to videotaped oral history interviews? This linguistic [...]

englischWilhelm Scherer (26.4.1841–6.8.1886) is the most important and effective linguist and especially literary scholar of his time and far beyond. He can be considered the reformer of German studies and was also a brilliant essayist and feuilletonist. His intellectuality is marked by the [...]

englischFestivals and games are important cultural and social factors in Greek-Roman antiquity that are often not considered in the classroom. This volume, which contains the lectures held at the 30th Summer Academy of the Ministry of Education of the State of Baden-Württemberg, illuminates the [...]

englischThe paradigm of disturbance is a powerful and, to date, unexplored mode of literary modernism. Through individual analyses of selected German-language prose from the Romantic period to the present (Tieck, Droste-Hülshoff, Büchner, Kafka, Aichinger, Kracht, and others), this study examines [...]