Library News for German Studies

Zotero & Mendeley classes for Spring Semester 2012

The Libraries are offering classes in Zotero and Mendeley througout the Spring 2012 term. Please see the links below for dates and registration. Registration beforehand is strongly encouraged

Zotero 101  and 102

Mendeley 101 and 102

Questions about citation managers can be directed to Brian ((bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 5-4824 ; IM/chat) or wu-libcite@wumail.wustl.edu 

As a gentle reminder, the Libraries' subscription to RefWorks will cease June 30, 2012.

 

 

Brian away--1/19/12-1/24/12

I will be out of the office from Thursday, Jan. 19-Tues. Jan. 24. For immediate reference assistance during this time, please contact the Olin Help Desk: (314) 935-5410; ref@wumail.wustl.edu or via chat.

Feel free to continue to email me and I'll respond upon my return. 

Thanks,

Brian Vetruba (bvetruba@wustl.edu)
Catalog Librarian/Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, European Studies Librarian

Brian's office hrs. for Spring 2012-Thursdays, 12-1pm in German Dept Lounge/Library (Ridgley 319)

My drop-in office hours this summer will be THURSDAYS, 12:00-1:00 in the German Dept. Lounge/Library (Ridgley 319).  As always, I am more than happy to meet with anyone outside my scheduled hours too. Please contact me to set up an appointment.

Note, my office hours won't begin until January 26th.

Also, feel free to approach me with questions or concerns any time you see me in the Dept., at Kaffeestunde, or in Olin.

Brian Vetruba (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 5-4824 ; IM/chat)

German periodical Die Dame will be available from Center for Research Libraries

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is in the process of acquiring microfilm of the German women's magazine: Die Dame. As the Libraries are a member of CRL, WU faculty, students, and staff can request microfilm reels via Inter-Library Loan.

Die Dame, July 1922–December 1941

• 35 reels; $5,250
• Originally published by Ullstein, Die Dame was a glossy sophisticated magazine for the German New Woman. Die Dame provided topical commentaries on fashion; detailed discussions of the latest trends in clothing, accessories, and hairstyles; and elaborate coverage of the film world.

Questions? Ask Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 5-4824 ; IM/chat)

Access to +2.7 million full text volumes via HathiTrust

As of January 1, 2012, the WU Libraries joined the HathiTrust Digital Library, whose goal is to digitize, preserve, and increase online access to library collections. The trust derives its name from hathi (pronounced "HAH-tee"), the Hindi word for elephant.

HathiTrust began in 2008 and has grown to over 10 million volumes. Content covers subjects and disciplines in the Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences in over 425 languages.  There are over 175,000 vols in German.

WU faculty, students, and staff can:

• Download 2.7 million+ volumes in the public domain

• Search the full text of 10 million+ volumes

• Create personalized collections of items in HathiTrust

You can search for HathiTrust items directly from the WU Libraries' website using the eBooks tab. To limit to full text volumes, check "full view only". 

You can also search directly from the HathiTrust catalog. For more information and advanced search options, visit the Libraries' guide: http://libguides.wustl.edu/hathitrust

 For questions, contact Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 5-4824 ; IM/chat)

New DVDs (Germanic Studies), Dec. 2011

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

Is there a DVD you want the Libraries to get? Contact Brian

Rückenwind [videorecording]= Light gradient / Strand Releasing ; written and directed by Jan Krüger ; producer, Björn Koll ; a Salzgeber and Co. Medien Gmbh production. Originally released as a motion picture in 2009. German dialogue; English subtitles. DVD.

Storm [videorecording] / en Breidablick Film produktion ; regi, Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein ; manu Måns Mårlind. Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. In Swedish with optional Danish, Finnish, English, Norwegian, Swedish subtitles. DVD-Region 2.

Toxi [videorecording] / Fono-Film GmbH zeigt den R.A. Stemmle Film nach einer Idee von Peter Franke, Maria Osten-Sacken ; Regie, R.A. Stemml. Amherst, Mass. : DEFA Film Library, c2011. Originally released as a motion picture in 1952 by DEFA. In German with English subtitles. DVD.

Shorter Olin Library Hours for Intersession--Dec. 21, 2011-Jan. 16, 2012

Olin Library is open these hours until the Spring semester starts: 

Wednesday, December 21                                    7:30a - 8:00p
Thursday - Friday, December 22 - 23                    8:30a - 5:00p
Saturday - Monday, December 24 - 26                   Closed
Tuesday - Friday, December 27 - 30                      8:30a - 5:00p
Saturday - Monday, December 31 - January 2        Closed
Tuesday - Friday, January 3 - 6                            8:30a - 6:00p
Saturday, January 7                                             9:00a - 5:00p
Sunday, January 8                                               Closed
Monday - Friday, January 9 - 13                            8:30a - 6:00p
Saturday, January 14                                           9:00a - 5:00p
Sunday, January 15                                             Closed
MLK Day, Monday, January 16                              Closed
        *Some units have reduced hours.

As always, you can access many of our online resources 24/7 -- even when the physical building is closed: http://library.wustl.edu/

Regular hours will resume Tuesday, Jan. 17.

 For questions, contact Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 5-4824 ; IM/chat)

New Books (Germanic Studies), Dec. 1-15, 2011

A selected list of new books relevant to Germanistik/German Studies.

For Comparative Literature/Literature (General) titles or books on European Literature in general, see Library News for Comparative Literature: New Print . For a list of all new books, see the New Title Feature Lists.

If you're having trouble find a book, please ask at the Olin Help Desk or contact Brian.

Constructing cultural memories of trauma in popular Holocaust films / Xueling Huang. Trier : WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, c2010.

The continental connection : German-speaking émigrés and British cinema, 1927-1945 / Tobias Hochscherf. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2011.

Debating German cultural identity since 1989 / edited by Anne Fuchs, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, and Linda Shortt. Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2011.

Die deutsche Gegenwartsliteratur : eine Einführung / Michael Braun. Köln : Böhlau, 2010.

Europa in den europäischen Literaturen der Gegenwart / Wulf Segebrecht ... [et al.] (Hrsg). Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c2003.

Georg Trakl : poems / translated by Stephen Tapscott. Oberlin, Ohio : Oberlin College Press, c2011.

Gesammelte Werke / Gustav Sack ; Walter Gödden, Steffen Stadthaus (Hg.) ; unter Mitarbeit von Nele Bargmann und Christina Grams. Bielefeld : Aisthesis, 2011.

Franz Kafka : the ghosts in the machine / Stanley Corngold & Benno Wagner. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2011.

Liber Amicorum : Katharina Mommsen zum 85. Geburtstag / herausgegeben von Andreas Remmel, Paul Remmel. Bonn : Bernstein, 2010, ©2010.

Memorializing the Holocaust : gender, genocide and collective memory / Janet Jacobs. London : I. B. Tauris, 2010.

The metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka / editor, James Whitlark. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2012.

The nutcracker ; and, The strange child / E.T.A. Hoffmann ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell. London : Pushkin Press, 2010.

Orte der Grausamkeit : die neuen Kriege in der Literatur / Christa Karpenstein-Essbach. München : Wilhelm Fink, 2011.

Poetik der Oberfläche : die deutschsprachige Popliteratur der 1990er Jahre / herausgegeben von Olaf Grabienski, Till Huber, Jan-Noël Thon. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2011.

  The Routledge concise history of world literature / Theo D'haen. London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Schicksal : sieben mal sieben unhintergehbare Dinge / [Redaktion: Dietmar Jaegle]. Marbach am Neckar : Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, 2011.

Ein Schreibtisch in Montparnasse : ein Gespräch / Paul Nizon, Dieter Bachmann. Göttingen : Wallstein, 2011.

Tropen und Metaphern im Gelehrtendiskurs des 18. Jahrhunderts / herausgegeben von Elena Agazzi ; in Zusammenarbeit mit Ulrike Zeuch ; unter Mitwirkung von Guglielmo Gabbiadini. Hamburg : Meiner, 2011.

Die Unsterblichkeit der Sterne : von Francisco de Goya über Walter Benjamin zu Vaclav Havel : eine Ausstellung von Jürgen Kaumkötter und Jürgen Serke : Gemälde und Grafiken von Francisco de Goya : die rekonstruierte Bibliothek Walter Benjamins : Vaclav Havel und die deutschsprachige Literatur Böhmens : Antworten zeitgenössischer Kunst auf Goya : Maja Bejevic, Jacques Callot, Francisco de Goya, Vaclav Havel, Dani Karavan, Mieczyslaw Koscielniak, Otto Pankok, Daniel Pesta, Cornelia Renz, Eugenio Lucas y Velazquez, Tina Winkhaus, Yongbo Zhao / [Herausgeber: Rolf Jessewitsch]. Solingen : Kunstmuseum Solingen - Zentrum der verfolgten Künste, [2010].

Weltliteratur : die Lust am Übersetzen im Jahrhundert Goethes : eine Ausstellung des Deutschen Literaturarchivs im Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach am Neckar / [Austellung und Katalog Reinhard Tgahrt, in Zusammenarbeit mit Ingrid Belke ... [et al.]. Marbach : Deutsche Schillergesellschaft ; München : In Kommission bei Kösel, c1982.

Wissenschaft ohne Universität, Forschung ohne Staat : die Berliner Gesellschaft für Deutsche Literatur (1888-1938) / von Hans-Harald Müller und Mirko Nottscheid. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2011.

Women and clothes / Brigitte Kronauer ; translated from the German by Jutta Ittner. Austin, TX : Host Publications, 2011.

Oxford Bibliographies Online--Renaissance and Reformation

Oxford Bibliographies Online--Renaissance and Reformation covers the period of the Renaissance and Reformation, which spans roughly from the 14th through 17th centuries.

Entries include overview articles of topics, annotated listings of primary sources, reference articles, bibliographies, journal articles,  and more. All entries and annotations are written by scholars in the field. All citations are linked to GetIt! so you can quickly get these.

Sample entries:

German Art

Astrology, Alchemy, and Magic

 For questions, contact Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 5-4824 ; IM/chat)

New Books (Germanic Studies), Nov. 16-30, 2011

A selected list of new books relevant to Germanistik/German Studies.

For Comparative Literature/Literature (General) titles or books on European Literature in general, see Library News for Comparative Literature: New Print . For a list of all new books, see the New Title Feature Lists.

If you're having trouble find a book, please ask at the Olin Help Desk or contact Brian.

"Baustelle Kultur" : Diskurslagen in der österreichischen Literatur 1918-1933/38 / Primus-Heinz Kucher, Julia Bertschik (Hgg.). Bielefeld : Aisthesis Verlag, 2011.

  Es ward als ein Wochenblatt zum Scherze angefangen : das Journal von Tiefurt / herausgegeben von Jutta Heinz und Jochen Golz ; unter Mitarbeit von Cornelia Ilbrig, Nicole Kabisius und Matthias Löwe. Göttingen, Niedersachs : Wallstein, c2011.

Hovezuht : literarische Hofkultur und höfisches Lebensideal um Herzog Albrecht III. von Österreich und Erzbischof Pilgrim II. von Salzburg, 1365-1396 / Christian Schneider. Heidelberg : Winter, c2008.

"Ich glaube, wir verstehn uns" : Klaus Mann und Kurt Hiller, Weggefährten im Exil : Briefwechsel 1933-1948 / herausgegeben von Rüdiger Schütt. München : ET+K, Edition Text + Kritik, 2011.

Karl Kraus -- Franz Werfel : eine Dokumentation / zusammengestellt und kommentiert von Christian Wagenknecht und Eva Willms. Göttingen : Wallstein, 2011.

Kleist : Krise und Experiment : die Doppelausstellung im Kleist-Jahr 2011, Berlin und Frankfurt (Oder) / herausgegeben von Günter Blamberger und Stefan Iglhaut. Bielefeld : Kerber, [2011], ⁺2011.

Magie der Geschichten : Weltverkehr, Literatur und Anthropologie in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts / Michael Neumann, Kerstin Stüssel (Hg.). Paderborn : Konstanz University Press, c2011.

"Die Natur ist ein ernster Gegenstand" : Stifter, Haushofer, Bernhard / Petra-Maria Dallinger ... [et al.] (Hg.). Linz : StifterHaus, [2011].

Das Populäre : Untersuchungen zu Interaktionen und Differenzierungsstrategien in Literatur, Kultur und Sprache / Olivier Agard, Christian Helmreich, Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (Hg.). Göttingen : V&R Unipress, [2011], ©2011.

Requiem für einen Hund : ein Gespräch / Daniel Kehlmann, Sebastian Kleinschmidt. Reinbeck bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 2010, c2008.

"Sprache, die so tröstlich zu mir kam" : Thomas Valentin in Briefen von und an Hermann Hesse / herausgegeben und bearbeitet von Norbert Otto Eke und Dagmar Olasz-Eke. Bielefeld : Aisthesis, 2011.

Strategies of humor in post-unification German literature, film, and other media / edited by Jill E. Twark. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

Three Germanies : West Germany, East Germany and the Berlin Republic / Michael Gehler ; translated by Anthony Mathews. London : Reaktion Books, 2011.

Three plays : Philoctetes, The Horatian, Mauser / Heiner Müller ; translated by Nathaniel McBride ; with an introduction by Uwe Schütte. London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2011.

The truth of realism : a reassessment of the German novel, 1830-1900 / John Walker. London : Legenda, 2011.

"Und was er sang, es ist noch nicht verklungen" : Paul Gerhardt im Spiegel der Literatur / Günter Balders, Christian Bunners (Hg.). Berlin : Frank & Timme, [2011], ©2011.

Versnetze / herausgegeben von Axel Kutsch. Weilerswist : Ralf Liebe, 2008-