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...A. Dirk Moses New German Critique, Inc. 2007 The Non-German German and the German German: Dilemmas of Identity after the Holocaust A. Dirk Moses Whoever thou art . . . by ceasing...

...” was guilty of the same crime. The industrial production of images was designed to pacify and control the masses. For both Mann and Schoenberg, a return to the Bible through modernist aesthetics could help recuperate myth from its misuse and thus restore a healthy polity. © 2013 by New German Critique, Inc...

...Mattias Frey The history of the Young German Film and the European New Waves is widely rehearsed as the story of rebels who sought new visual languages in the face of moribund film culture. Perhaps less consistently told is the contemporaneous debate in Western European film periodicals about...

...Amir Engel This article offers a critical reading of Gershom Scholem's memoir, From Berlin to Jerusalem , by contrasting it with the memoir of another German Jewish intellectual, Salomon Maimon. Ostensibly, these two memoirs tell opposite stories. Maimon (1753–1800) grew up in an orthodox...

...Lukas Kaelin The public sphere stands at the center of much of the philosophical, sociological, political science, and media theory discourse on the organization and legitimation of society. Although the latest German-speaking public sphere theories, in particular from Jürgen Habermas, Kurt Imhof...

..., it sets up the possibilities of lateness as an intervention and form of (also political) resistance in the twentieth century and beyond. Aside from the field of old-age style or “late style” in its various iterations, which has been a central part of German discourses for some time, lateness more broadly...

...Axel Bangert This article examines how documentary film in reunified Germany has engaged with the Nazi past of “ordinary Germans” and their descendants. It analyzes films produced since 1990 that portray personal views of the period, including those of World War II veterans, Hitler's secretary...

...Katharina Loew Focusing on the German discussion about film between 1907 and 1914, this article explores efforts to fathom film technology's ability to provide access to a spiritual dimension. Some commentators argued that film technology facilitated novel forms of creative expressivity...

... by, and mirrored in, developments in German literature, specifically in the family novel. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 2015 postmodern post-Holocaust Marcel Beyer Doron Rabinovici belatedness Beyond Lateness? “Postmemory” and the Late(st) German-Language Family Novel...

...Andrea Orzoff Abstract The poet and singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann was a member of the East German chapter of PEN International, a UNESCO-affiliated global literary association. Unlike other East German literary organizations, DDR PEN members and leaders tried at least occasionally to protect...

... of fiction—Ka-Tzetnik’s Salamandra , David Grossman’s See Under: Love , A. B. Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani —as well as more minor texts. Using theoretical work in narrative (E. M. Forster, James Phelan) and imagology (Manfred Beller and Joep Leerssen on German national character), this article formulates the recent...

.... In particular, Ossip K. Flechtheim’s science of futurology and Wolfgang Abendroth’s theory of antagonistic society translated antifascism’s legacies into a new paradigm of social protest. The left socialists’ support for the embattled Socialist German Student League laid the organizational and intellectual...

... situation. Their diagnosis is grim, for in their assessment the state of the nation’s film culture is altogether dire and depleted. Why, they wonder, are German films so unpopular? Why does Germany produce so few compelling genre films, and why do German films in general seem so averse to representing...

... for the early postwar years. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 2015 motion pictures Weimar Germany 1950s Germany genre Nazism In the Horror Mode? Weimar Flashbacks and Generic Hybridity in 1950s West German Cinema Jaimey Fisher In her...

...Ofer Ashkenazi Both during the Weimar years and in the early decades of the Cold War, in the wake of national catastrophes, Heimat imagery had played a vital role in the German identity discourse. This article analyzes how German Jewish filmmakers appropriated conventional Heimat imagery...

...Karen Leeder The German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded on the specter of communism; it now haunts contemporary capitalism as unrealized aspiration, trauma, or travesty. This article focuses on the representation of the after-life of the GDR in the work of Volker Braun. It examines...

..., mysticism, exoticism, eroticism—and identifying Judaism with Islam became a tool to de-Orientalize Judaism. © 2012 by New German Critique, Inc. 2012 German Jewish Scholarship on Islam as a Tool for De-Orientalizing Judaism Susannah Heschel During...

...Meike Hoffmann With the unexpected discovery of the “Munich Art Trove” in November 2013, the name of Hildebrand Gurlitt became famous overnight through media stories around the world. Spanning four periods of German history, Gurlitt started as an art historian in the late-period German Reich...

... by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 restitution provenance research Hildebrand Gurlitt Cornelius Gurlitt References Atlan Eva Gross Raphael Voss Julia Engelmann Herwig the Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt am Main , eds. 2013 . 1938—Kunst, Künstler, Politik . Göttingen...

... discussions in the Russian Federation and in many senses became a mirror reflecting Russian policy changes and predicting the transformation of the failed liberal democracy into an authoritarian state. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 restitution trophy art Vladimir Putin References...