...Joe Paul Kroll This article explores the difficulties involved in theory transfer in the humanities from Germany to the English-speaking countries as they appear from the perspective of the publishing industry. Drawing on interviews with publishing professionals in Germany, the United States...

...Maria Gough Drawing on archival and recently published documents, this essay examines the historical encounter of two major communist photomonteurs in Moscow in 1931—John Heartfield, visiting from Weimar Germany under the auspices of the Comintern, and Gustavs Klucis, a Latvian resident of the city...

... what its unusual form of dissemination implied: here was a collection of fragments, incomplete and perhaps even contradic- tory, with an identity rather different from more conventional products of the publishing industry,” an industry that “churned out products that, as Adorno later observed...

... photography”—has been of negligible interest to writers concerned with post-Wende transformations of cultural identity.3 This is surprising in light of the fact that books of urban landmarks have long been highly popular products of the German publishing industry, from the so-called Blaue Bücher...

.... Big mergers in the publishing industry shrink the 26. Here it might be useful to distinguish historically and theoretically between very different notions of the hybrid, say, between Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994), and the earlier work by Canclini...

... which did attempt to depict modern industrial Germany alongside its small-town past, Martin Hürlimann’s updated Deutschland: Baukunst und Landschaft volume for the Orbis Terrarum series (1931), 74 was criticized in the press for doing just that. In a review published in the Münchener Zeitung...

..., however, it is equally an act of resis- tance and of protest by the writer against a market-driven literature industry and the capitalist society that produces it. For Hilbig, the conditions in the West German literature industry, under which he wrote and published most of his works, were not so...

... world. As Flusser formulates it in the above- cited lecture published in the Volkszeitung after the dramatic events of 1990: “We are gathered here today to try to understand what happened during the Romanian revolution. If the consider- ations presented here hold, then we can state that the media...

... Schoenberg's approach to music itself. But it was more than a purely aesthetic issue. Each of these intellectuals claims that the Bilderverbot was central to the contemporary political struggles. In Adorno's mind, not only had the Nazis violated the ban against graven images, but Hollywood's “culture industry...

... both expressionist artists who struck a noncommercial pose and cultural reformers who argued for a synthesis of art and industry. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Tristan Tzara Richard Huelsenbeck Raoul Hausmann marketing publicity References Anonymous . 1919...

... as photogravure— intervened in a mass visual culture that hinged on the photographic image. Refi nements in photogravure technology, which enabled text and image to be printed simultaneously and at high speed, spurred a new publishing industry in the 1920s that centered on the mass-replicated photograph...

... at his death at the age of seventy in 2014 Harun Farocki had gained worldwide recognition as an artist of such video installations as War at a Distance , shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and elsewhere, his filmmaking is less well known. Like his volumes of published writing, his hundred films...

... contribution made by the editors of the journal, which has uncompromisingly, intelligently, and critically argued for a more balanced and refined under - standing of Adorno. On the important distinctions between “popular culture,” “mass culture,” and the “culture industry” in Adorno (and Horkheimer), see...

... the joint project, and he envisaged that the book he was planning would soon be published. In his essay “Traditionelle und kritische Theorie” (“Traditional and Critical Theory”) two years before, Horkheimer had spoken of a society “dominated by . . . cliques of industrial and political leaders.” 45...

... being the existentialist philosopher Karl Jaspers. In his three-volume magnum opus Philosophy , first published in 1932, Jaspers places “liebender Kampf,” the loving struggle between equals, at the heart of the search for truth through communication, thus rendering love a foundational component...

..., review. 70. Cramer, “What Is Urgent Publishing?” References Adorno Theodor W. “ Culture Industry Reconsidered.” Translated by Anson G. Rabinbach . New German Critique , no. 6 ( 1975 ): 12 – 19 . Adorno Theodor W. “ Transparencies on Film .” Translated by Levin...

... the prevalent but misleading translation “alienation” with the fi rst English translation of Brechtʼs essay “Verfremdungseffekte in der chinesischen Schauspielkunst,” published in 1936 as “The Fourth Wall of China: An Essay on the Effects of Disillusion in Chinese Acting.” Translating Verfremdung...

... Identität, 1876–1998, ed. Clau- dia Rückert und Sven Kuhrau (Amsterdam: Overseas Publishers Association, 1998), 44–60. 12. “Hier können vorbildliche Museen, Institute, Kasernen wachsen, die Industrie kann blühen, aber der schaffende Geist sucht vergeblich in diesem Lande Quellen für seinen Durst...

... Nerdinger and published by the Bauhaus Archive definitively exploded the myth of universal Bauhaus opposition to the Third Reich, not least through its well-chosen illus- trations of drawings from the offices of both Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, the first and third directors of the Bauhaus...

... in the industry, to vote. The German Film Critics Association awards film prizes without any financial recognition. In 2007 the producer and former Filmkritik contributor Günter Rohrbach published a polemic in Der Spiegel decrying German film criticism. 14 He expressed dismay that Valeska Grisebach’s...