“The German Literature Archive is one of the most eminent literary institutions worldwide. On the basis of its collections it arranges and explores important records pertaining to the history of literature, ideas, and scholarship from the 19th up to the 21st century. Regionally, it acts as a centre of literary …read more
Since Walter Benjamin’s influential study on Baroque tragedy, the term „allegory“ has been tightly associated with melancholic readers who despair of the unreadability of signs. This approach, however, tends to obscure the fact that allegorical illustration of abstract and complex circumstances was a prominent means of producing knowledge and evidence …read more
In the 17th-century, the Thirty Years’ War and wars with the Turks, recurring at multiple fronts across Eastern and Central Europe, were formative forces. Military battles went along with the drawing of ideological and confessional boundaries, which continue to take effect in today’s Europe. Against this backdrop, the seminar aims …read more
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In the 17th-century, the Thirty Years’ War and wars with the Turks, recurring at multiple fronts across Eastern and Central Europe, were formative forces. Military battles went along with the drawing of ideological and confessional boundaries, which continue to take effect in today’s Europe. Against this backdrop, the seminar aims …read more
In August 2014, the world will mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. It was the beginning of the end of what the Austrian Jewish author Stefan Zweig would later call Die Welt von Gestern (The World of Yesterday). In commemoration of this watershed moment …read more
In the 17th-century, the Thirty Years’ War and wars with the Turks, recurring at multiple fronts across Eastern and Central Europe, were formative forces. Military battles went along with the drawing of ideological and confessional boundaries, which continue to take effect in today’s Europe. Against this backdrop, the seminar aims …read more
A striking number of twentieth century dictators were writers, and many founded their regimes in their books’ cult followings. Hitler, with his manifesto Mein Kampf, was among the first. The lecture will consider primarily the work’s introductory chapters and analyze how its author communicates on two levels. For uninitiated readers, …read more
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