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Adorno's Symphonic Space-Time and Beethoven's Time Travel in Space

Daniel K. L. Chua
New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 113–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3625397
Published: 01 November 2016
... meaning of the music. The arguments are based on a peculiar configuration of space and time in the symphonies in which the temporal dimensions are so compressed that they form a spatial moment—an Augenblick that engulfs the listener in its metaphysical enclosures. Why should anyone believe such a peculiar...
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The Concert Hall as Agonistic Public Space: The Gewandhaus in Leipzig

Juliane Schicker
New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 77–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9734819
Published: 01 August 2022
...Juliane Schicker This article deals with questions of the sociopolitical involvement of classical music performance spaces. During the last twenty years of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Gewandhaus in Leipzig provided opportunities for its users to emancipate themselves from Socialist...
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Ephemeral Spaces and Pneumatic Architecture: The Films of Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Fatima Naqvi
New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 125–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7727455
Published: 01 November 2019
... inner Euclid about the way we tend to conceptualize space—and with it politics, society, and culture. In our complicated era, thinking inside the literal box promises clarity, measurability, and, perhaps most important, facticity. We remain uncomfortable with spatial imbrications and topological...
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Critical Approaches to Heimat and the “Spatial Turn”

Friederike Eigler
New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 27–48.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1434497
Published: 01 February 2012
... life but also in cultural and literary discourses, critical engagement with recent studies of spatiality is potentially highly productive. Yet studies of Heimat rarely consider these new discourses on space, while studies on literary representations of space seldom include approaches to Heimat...
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Mabuse Returns: Fritz Lang, 1950s Berlin, and the Afterlife of Nazi Television

Brook Henkel
New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 161–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9734861
Published: 01 August 2022
...Brook Henkel Fritz Lang’s film The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) stands out among West German cinema of the Adenauer years for its attention to urban space and the afterlife of Nazism in the postwar era. This article rereads the film as an incisive representation of the new mobilities...
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Heimat as Nonplace and Terrain Vague in Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung and Julia Schoch's Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Sommers

Mary Cosgrove
New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 63–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1550863
Published: 01 August 2012
...Mary Cosgrove This article examines the troubling image of postunification Germany as a terrain vague —a potentially unbounded, hostile space continually exposed to the vicissitudes of history—in Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung ( Haunted by Home , 2008) and Julia Schoch's Mit der Geschwindigkeit des...
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Wall and Tunnel: The Spatial Metaphorics of Cold War Berlin

David L. Pike
New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 73–94.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-005
Published: 01 August 2010
... or symbolic way with this infrastructure. Rather than based in a physical feature of its subterranean space, the reigning image of subterranean Berlin was metaphorical: the underworld of decadent Weimar culture, a subversive image reinforced during the 1920s by the political identity das rote Berlin...
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An Other Unspeakability: Levi and Lagerszpracha

David Gramling
New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 165–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1677318
Published: 01 November 2012
..., the irreproducible “other space” of linguistic estrangement that the Third Reich and its concentration camp system engineered. © 2012 by New German Critique, Inc. 2012 An Other Unspeakability: Levi and Lagerszpracha David Gramling What drew...
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Adorno on Kafka: Interpreting the Grimace on the Face of Truth

Roger Foster
New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 175–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1812613
Published: 01 February 2013
... (1958–59) to explain the gnostic self-dissolution that is crucial to Adorno's view of aesthetic experience. In the final section Foster shows how this interpretive scheme makes possible a reading of the importance of literary autonomy in Kafka and the need to open up a space of reflection...
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Past Lessons: Holocaust Conservation and Education in Robert Thalheim's And Along Come Tourists

Jennifer M. Kapczynski
New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 9–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2753552
Published: 01 November 2014
... argues that Thalheim offers an alternative approach to the Holocaust through an innovative aesthetic treatment of the space of Auschwitz as both a historical and a contemporary site. Yet in his zeal to avoid duplicating iconic images of the camp, Thalheim fails to generate a new representational scheme...
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Encountering Lateness in Postunification Berlin

Simon Ward
New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 115–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2889296
Published: 01 August 2015
... by Christian Boltanski, Shimon Attie, Arwed Messmer, and Lars Ramberg interrogate the dynamics of urban memory, viewing acts of memory as technologies in themselves. These works undermine “touristic itineraries” predicated on conventional engagements with urban space and time, enabling an encounter...
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The Concrete: Grasping the Austerity of Modernist Architecture

Parker Everett
New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 1–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-6977777
Published: 01 November 2018
... in character, nonetheless pointed beyond capitalism. Despite their differences, all three offer versions of the same line of reasoning, an understanding about architectural space as a critique of those parts of society that appear to be constituted abstractly and a celebration of those parts of society...
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German New Lefts: Postwar Socialists between Past and Future

Terence Renaud
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 117–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7546206
Published: 01 August 2019
... foundation for the sixties New Left. Recent studies of the “global sixties” have shown the transnational connections between new lefts across space; this article explains their continuity across time. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 Wolfgang Abendroth Ossip K. Flechtheim...
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Contaminated Soulscapes and Landscapes in Maja Haderlap’s Engel des Vergessens/Angel of Oblivion

Barbara Siller
New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 197–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7908448
Published: 01 February 2020
... during World War II and thus resisted the Nazis, it is a highly contaminated space, where local battles took place and hidden graves are ubiquitous. The article examines the representation of these tainted landscapes in Haderlap’s novel. It emphasizes the contaminated soulscapes of the portrayed...
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Alexander Kluge’s Installations

Tara Hottman
New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 57–80.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7908378
Published: 01 February 2020
... to continue developing but also revise practices he first engaged in other media. The so-called white-cube exhibition space presents Kluge’s earlier works in terms of remediation and provides him with an opportunity to employ and reconceptualize his approach to montage techniques and reception aesthetics...
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Trash and Transformation: The Search for Identity in Wolfgang Hilbig's Die Kunde von den Bäumen and Alte Abdeckerei

Gillian Pye
New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 87–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1550872
Published: 01 August 2012
... the literary portrayal of trashy, ruinous spaces, Hilbig invokes the power of disgust as a form of resistance and of protest against both the legacy of the German Democratic Republic and the consumer capitalist environment of unified Germany. Trash and Transformation: The Search for Identity in Wolfgang...
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Psychotopography and Ethnopoetic Realism in Uwe Tellkamp's Der Turm

Anne Fuchs
New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 119–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1550890
Published: 01 August 2012
... identification with both the symbolic and the intertextual models of culture. The interplay of these modes produces a new ethnographic form of poetic realism that accentuates the performative and symbolic construction of space. © 2012 by New German Critique, Inc. 2012 Psychotopography and Ethnopoetic...
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Reconfiguring Postwar Antifascism: Reflections on the History of Ideology

Clara M. Oberle
New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 135–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1677300
Published: 01 November 2012
... in shaping them and about the subsequent transformations of the narratives. The evidence points to the importance of both Allies and Germans as actors, to a powerful dialectic of the rubbled space where myth formulation and claims to legitimacy could be found in areas such as housing allocation...
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Of Mice and Men and Aquatic Flows: Distributed Agency in Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter

Kate Rigby
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 153–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511919
Published: 01 August 2016
... tale foreground the ineluctable force of viewpoint in any narrative performance of ecocatastrophe. As such, it exemplifies how narrative fiction can provide an imaginative space of reflection to investigate both the complex causality of hybrid natural-cultural disasters and different modalities...
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On “Amorbach”

Susan H. Gillespie
New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 215–226.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3329271
Published: 01 February 2016
... of utopia. Adorno's recollection of childhood moments of self-absorbed play preserves the lived experience in a way that forever links present and past and that also holds open a space for the experience of utopia: u-topia, no-place—a realm of imagined borderless freedom. Resonances with Amorbach...
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