Library News for German Studies

Need a course guide for Spring Semester 2010?

Spring Semester is right around the corner. If you're interested in having me develop a course guide for your Spring Semester undergraduate or graduate courses, please let me know: bvetruba@wustl.edu

To create a guide, all I need to have is a general outline of the course, the works you're covering, assignments. Once your syllabus is finalized, we can fine tune the guide to meet your and your students' needs.

Why course guides? They provide students with starting points for research, including reference articles, links to catalog searches, and more.

Here are some examples from past semesters:

• GER 529 Weimar Cinema
• GER 410 Buddenbrooks

Brian's office hours, Dec. 17, 2009-Jan. 4, 2010

With the end of the semester in sight, I will not be holding scheduled office hours starting Dec. 17th.

However, I'm still available to meet with anyone who has questions or needs assistance. Please contact me for an appointment: bvetruba@wustl.edu Note though, I will be out of the office from Dec. 25, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010.

My office hours for Spring Semester 2010 are still be determined.

Happy Holidays!

Brian

WU Libraries closed 12/25-1/3 & intersession hrs.

As this is a change from previous years, I wanted to be sure that you’re aware that ALL WU LIBRARIES WILL BE CLOSED DEC. 25, 2009-JAN. 3, 2010. Library staff (myself included) will be off during this time. But please feel free to email me (bvetruba@wustl.edu ) though with questions or issues and I’ll respond upon my return the first week of Jan.

 

But access to online library resources is 24/7 and never closes! You’ll still be able to access the WU Catalog and other catalogs, databases such as the MLA, the BDSL, electronic journals, and much more from the convenience of your home. See the Germanic Studies Research Guide  for more.

 

For  a complete list of the Libraries’ hours during the intersession (Dec. 18, 2009-Jan.18, 2010), see: http://library.wustl.edu/about/olinhours2009-2010.html#holi or the attached PDF file. Download IntersessionHours09~final

 

Please let me know if you have any questions about this or anything else as the semester winds down.

 

Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu )

New Books, Nov. 16-30, 2009

 Anomalien, Autonomien und das Unbewusste : Selbstmord in Wissenschaft und Literatur von 1700 bis 1800 / Harald Neumeyer. Göttingen : Wallstein, c2009.

  Belonging and exclusion : case studies in recent Australian and German literature, film and theatre / edited by Ulrike Garde and Anne-Rose Meyer.Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

Chris Marker : a farewell to movies : Abschied vom Kino / Andres Janser, editor. Zurich : Museum für Gestaltung, 2008.

 A companion to the works of Arthur Schnitzler / edited by Dagmar C.G. Lorenz. Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2003.

 The concise Cinegraph : encyclopaedia of German cinema / general editor, Hans-Michael Bock ; associate editor, Tim Bergfelder ; with a foreword by Kevin Brownlow. New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Ein deutsches Bilderbuch 1870-1918 : die Gesellschaft einer Epoche in alten Photographien / Hermann Glaser und Walther Pützstück. Frankfurt am Main : Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1982.

 Eichendorff heute lesen / Grażyna Barbara Szewczyk, Renata Dampc-Jarosz [sic] (Hgg.). Bielefeld : Aisthesis, 2009.

Das einfache Leben : Roman / Ernst Wiechert. [München?] : Im Bertelsmann Lesering, 1956.

 Film narratology / Peter Verstraten ; translated by Stefan van der Lecq. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2009.

Filmverlag der Autoren Edition / Arthaus ; [Konzept und Redaktion, Marek Bringezu]. Leipzig : Kinowelt, 2009.

 Gender and laughter : comic affirmation and subversion in traditional and modern media / edited by Gaby Pailer ... [et al.]. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009.

 "Generation ohne Abschied" : Heimat und Heimkehr in der "jungen Generation" der Nachkriegsliteratur / im Auftrag der Internationalen Wolfgang-Borchert-Gesellschaft herausgegeben von Gordon Burgess und Hans-Gerd Winter. [Dresden] : Thelem, c2008.

Die Geschäfte des Herrn Julius Caesar : Romanfragment / Bertolt Brecht. Gütersloh : Bertelsmann Lesering, [1957?].

 Illuminated manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe in the J. Paul Getty Museum / Thomas Kren. Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2009.

 Integration und Ausgrenzung : Studien zur deutsch-jüdischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart ; Festschrift für Hans Otto Horch zum 65. Geburtstag / herausgegeben von Mark H. Gelber, Jakob Hessing und Robert [sic] Jütte ; in Verbindung mit Dominic Bitzer, Doris Vogel und Michaela Wirtz. Tübingen : Niemeyer, 2009.

Die Jeromin-Kinder : Roman / Ernst Wiechert. München : Im Bertelsmann Lesering, 1960.

 Medea unter den Deutschen : Wandlungen einer literarischen Figur / Yixu Lü. Freiburg im Breisgau : Rombach, c2009.

 Mythos Germania : shadows and traces of the Reich capital / [editors, Gavin Hodge, Reinhard Markner ; translators, Gavin Hodge ... [et al.]. Berlin : Lehmanns ; Edition Berliner Unterwelten, 2008.

 Respekt vor den Poeten : Studien zum Status des freien Schriftstellers / Eberhard Lämmert. Göttingen : Wallstein, 2009.

 The tin drum / Günter Grass ; a new translation by Breon Mitchell. Original German title: Die Blechtrommel. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
 
 

 Ulrike Meinhof and West German terrorism : language, violence, and identity / Sarah Colvin. Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2009.

 Die ungeheure Gewalt der Musik : Goethe und seine Komponisten / Norbert Miller. München : Hanser, 2009.

For Comparative Literature/Literature (General) titles, see Library News for Comparative Literature: New Print

New DVDs, Nov. 2009

For a complete listing of new videos and DVDs, consult the Catalog or the DVD list.

Bagdad Cafe [videorecording] / by Percy Adlon. German title: Out of Rosenheim. Originally released as a motion picture in 1987. DVD, region 2.

Ediths Tagebuch [videorecording] / nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Patricia Highsmith ; Produktion, Buch und Regie: Hans W. Geissendörfer. Originally released as a motion picture in 1983. DVD, region 2.

Fitzcarraldo [videorecording] / Buch und Regie, Werner Herzog. Originally released as a motion picture in 1981. DVD, region 2.

Gathering of old men. German Title: Ein Aufstand alter Männer [videorecording] /  [Regie, Volker Schlöndorff ; Buch, Charles Fuller]. Originally broadcast as a made-for-TV movie in 1987. DVD, region 2. 

Gegenschuss [videorecording] : Aufbruch der Filmemacher / Regie, Dominik Wessely ; Co-Regie, Laurens Straub ; Buch und Interviews, Rainer Kölmel, Laurens Straub, Dominik Wessely. Originally released in as a motion picture in 2008. SUMMARY: Recounts the history of the German film production company Filmverlag der Autoren, from its inception in the mid-1960s as an artists' collective, through its closure in 1977. Includes interviews with German filmmakers as well as clips from various New German cinema films. DVD, region 2.

Das Geheimnis [videorecording] / Produktion, Buch und Regie, Rudolf Thome ; eine Moana Filmproduktion. Originally released as a motion picture in 1994. DVD, region 2.

Der geteilte Himmel [videorecording] / Icestorm International ; Progress Film-Verleih GmbH ; directed by Konrad Wolf. Based on the novel by Christa Wolf. Originally released in the GDR as a motion picture in 1964. DVD.

Der Kandidat [videorecording] / Arthaus ; [Regie und Buch, Stefan Aust, Alexander von Eschwege, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff]. Originally released as a motion picture in 1980. DVD, region 2.

Krieg und Frieden [videorecording] / [Regie, Stefan Aust, Axel Engstfeld, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff ; Buch Stefan Aust, Heinrich Böll, Axel Engstfeld, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff]. Originally released as a motion picture in 1982. DVD, region 2.

Lulu [videorecording] : opera in two acts / by Alban Berg ; based on Der Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora by Frank Wedekind. Recorded at the Opernhaus Zürich, Nov. 2002. DVD.

Manöver [videorecording] / Arthaus ; Helma Sanders Filmproduktion ; [Buch und Regie, Helma Sanders-Brahms]. Originally released as a motion picture in 1988. DVD, region 2.

Martha [videorecording]. Director/writer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Originally produced in 1974. DVD.

Paris, Texas [videorecording] / [Regie, Wim Wenders ; Buch, Sam Shepard]. Originally released as a motion picture in 1984. DVD, region 2.

Das schreckliche Mädchen [videorecording] / Buch und Regie, Michael Verhoeven. Originally released as a motion picture in 1989. DVD, region 2.

Tausend Augen [videorecording] / Arthaus ; Buch und Regie, Hans-Christoph Blumenberg. Originally released as a motion picture in 1984. DVD, region 2.

Theo gegen den Rest der Welt [videorecording] / Buch, Matthias Seeling ; ein Film von Peter F. Bringmann ; [Regie, Peter F. Bringmann]. Originally released as a motion picture in 1980. DVD; Region 2.

Die weisse Rose [videorecording] / Drehbuch, Michael Verhoeven, Mario Krebs ; ein Film von Michael Verhoeven. Originally released as a motion picture in 1982. DVD, region 2.

50 DVDs of New German Cinema NOW AVAILABLE--update

The Libraries acquired a set of 50 DVDs of New German Cinema from Filmverlag der Autoren in May 2009. This is an excellent collection; many of the films have never been released before on DVD!

List of titles in collection: http://www.filmverlagderautoren.de/filme

All of the titles have now been cataloged and are ready to be checked out and viewed. Note: all of these are region 2 DVDs which means they may not play on DVD players coded for only US-region DVDs.

List of titles in WU Catalog: http://catalog.wustl.edu/search/t?filmverlag+der+autoren+(series)

There is also an accompanying book which discusses the films and Filmverlag der Autoren.  

Frankfurter Zeitung und Handelsblatt issues from 1914-1918 available

Bound issues of the newspaper Frankfurt Zeitung und Handelsblatt are now available at the West Campus library. Issues cover 1914-1918. Due to the brittle nature of the issues, they can't be checked out but you can use use them in-house at the West Campus library or in Special Collections at Olin. 

WU German Dept. 2008 symposium proceedings "Consuming News" available

The proceedings from the "Consuming News Newspapers and Print Culture in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800)" symposium held at WU in 2008 are now available online and in print.

The proceedings were edited by Gerhild Williams and William Layher and published as vol. 37, issue 1-2 of Daphnis : Zeitschrift für Mittlere Deutsche Literatur.

• Print version in Current Journals area on level 1 under Daphnis. Bd. 37, 1-2.
• Online version

DIE ZEIT in LEXIS-NEXIS news database

Articles from DIE ZEIT are now available in the LEXIS-NEXIS news database. To search for German news, click on the the News tab, and then under Select Sources, select "Deutsche Presse" to limit to German-language news sources.

LEXIS-NEXIS is only good for searching on specific topics; you can't browse. To browse through current and historical issues of DIE ZEIT, go to DIE ZEIT's archive.

The Libraries also subscribe to paper version of Die Zeit which is located in the current newspaper stands on level 1 in Olin.

Words without Borders, Nov. 2009 issue on Fall of Berlin Wall

WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS : THE ONLINE MAGAZINE FOR INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE

NOVEMBER 2009: TWENTY YEARS AFTER: GERMANY THEN AND NOW

On the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this month’s contributors address the events and aftermath of that transformative time in Germany. Whether witnessing the collapse of Communism firsthand or growing up in its shadow, natives and more recent arrivals explore life before and after reunification. See how Kathrin Aehnlich, Stefan Heym, Yadé Kara, Uwe Kolbe, Günter Kunert, Robert Menasse, Uwe Mengel, Thomas Pletzinger, and Feridun Zaimoglu produce a nuanced portrait of a country coming to terms with its history. We also salute Herta Müller’s Nobel with an extract from her new novel Atemschaukel.