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...Jakob Norberg Abstract In his writings on satire, the Marxist literary critic Georg Lukács argued that hatred could function as an anticapitalist affect. Hatred, he believed, equips the committed author with a set of traits—certainty, lucidity, endurance, and pitilessness—that are eminently useful...

...Misa Nikolic Apart from the work of Eduard Fuchs, there has been little Marxist scholarship on caricature and satire. This is a glaring omission, especially in light of the work of John Heartfield, whose photomontages were viewed across the political spectrum as well as across class boundaries...

...Kurt Beals The Dada movement's employment of advertising, though readily apparent and frequently noted, is often seen as a simple satire of bourgeois consumer culture, a parody that targets advertising itself. This article presents a more historically informed account of the use of advertising...

... amount of time required to sit through one of his works. © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 2016 opera Richard Wagner humor culture industry satire critique References Adorno Theodor W. 1929 . “Berliner Opernmemorial.” In Gesammelte Schriften , edited by Tiedemann...

... . 1913 . Sören Kierkegaard und die Philosophie der Innerlichkeit . Munich : Schreiber . Haecker Theodor , trans. 1920 . “ Der vierte Ecloge des Vergil .” Der Brenner 6 : 401 – 3 . Haecker Theodor . 1921 . Satire und Polemik . Munich : Kösel . Haecker Theodor , trans...

... politische Struwwelpeter, an 1849 political satire based on the original book of tales (fi g. 1).43 The satire’s most famous plate featured a fi gure sporting 43. Henry Ritter, Der politische Struwwelpeter: Ein Versuch zur Einigung Deutschlands (Düs- seldorf: Buddaeus, 1849). 18 John Heartfi eld’s...

... became ever more politicized after joining the Commu- nist Party in 1919, both his themes and his style grew in important respects simpler, but he thereby rose to be one of the Weimar Republic’s leading leftist satirical artists. Repeated trials and censorship throughout the 1920s and early 1930s...

... on.27 Of course, opponents like the Jewish caricaturist Thomas Theodor Heine of the weekly magazine Simplicissimus used visual satire as a highly effective weapon against him from May 1923 on. Various venomous carica- tures, both verbal and visual, followed Hitler throughout his life...

... the signifi cant task of fulfi lling his Internationale Arbeiterhilfe (Inter- national Workers’ Aid; IAH) mandate to found an international membership for the Comintern.7 Münzenberg’s decision to use montage as the satirical motif in the AIZ proved, in the end, to have assured the magazine’s international...

... figures in a danse macabre. These poems, originally part of a Leipzig project with five other authors, match the political and satirical tradition of the medieval danse macabre with newly commissioned woodcuts by Karl-Georg Hirsch.25 The motif of the danse macabre belongs to a late medieval...

... stream operating a power station that will feed into the conduits of “a comfortable new Babel.” Benjamin’s text has all the trappings of a polemical satire—one might even discern in it a disenchantment with the Soviet experiment, since Benjamin wrote it on his trip to Moscow—and yet, of course...

...-circulation photographic magazine and invented against the pictorial strategies of photojournalism, redeploy the organic language of photographic seamlessness while using cognitive dissonance, parody, and satire to produce an active viewer. Although Heartfi eld’s later pictorial strategies insistently...

... in contemporary Berlin and to the historical constellations that arise from them: as Gela and two colleagues, wearing their city-issued yellow vests, pick up garbage on the meadow in front of the Reichstag, Mayakovsky vehemently declaims his famous satirical poem: Eat your pineapples, Bourgeois your chicken...

... readership. But Flanner’s extended circumvention of a pronounced moral posi- tion is a vital part of this story. While she looks to decenter Hitler’s iconic image, she deploys satire, apologia, subtle irony, and mild invective where explo rations of moral meaning might be expected. Though clearly...

... bourgeois vision of orderly life (DT, 108–9). Tellkamp’s various satirical descriptions of this locale denounce Ostrom’s inhabitants as members of an uninspired petite bourgeoisie, whose lack of 124  Psychotopography and Ethnopoetic Realism style symbolizes their lack of political imagination...

...- fect,” which appropriately became the title of a Wilder biography and finally even his epitaph.16 Whereas Wilder may have started out to make a propaganda film through entertainment, the end result is a wonderfully outlandish com- bination of rubble film, romantic comedy, and biting social satire...

.... Recently there has been renewed interest in Brueghel among art historians. Clark, “Brueghel in Paradise” ; Koerner, Bosch and Bruegel . 8. Gibson, Bruegel , 102 ; Graziani, “Pieter Bruegel’s Dulle Griet ,” 210, 215 . It is also interpreted as a misogynist satire on the disorder supposedly...

.... To undermine such uncritical confl ation, Friedländer sought to combine his philosophical diagnosis of the problem of the “insidious ideology of subjective identity main- tenance” with an artistic solution. He focused on short, satirical, sometimes absurd tales to produce experiences for the subject...

... as Fassbinder’s director of photography in fi lms such as his “spa- ghetti western” homage, Whity (1971); the marital drama Martha (1974); and his glacial thriller–cum–biting social satire, Chinesisches Roulette (Chinese Roulette, 1976), as well as the fi nal, luminous images of Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, der...

... as the uncompromising director of the satirical short film La ricotta ( The Cheese ) about the “passion” of a starving proletarian extra during the production of an adaptation of the Easter story. The film was initially banned in 1963 because of accusations of blasphemy. Andersch considers the debate...