Library News for German Studies

German Wikipedia to Appear in Print

From the Scholar's Space: German Wikipedia to Appear in Print

http://blogs.tdl.org/scholarly/2008/04/23/german-wikipedia-to-appear-in-print/

In what definitely seems at least a partial  rejection of the conventional wisdom,  articles from the German version of Wikipedia  will appear as a printed volume.  WPauf Deutsch is said to be the second largest portion of the total WP effort, after the English language section.  About  25,000 items will appear in the printed version,  out of more than 750, 000, covering the topics WPaD  searchers have been looking up in the online resource.  Some people have noted that the publisher, Bertelsmann, had been making unflattering comments about the low quality of WP articles over the last years. But, presumable there is nothing like the prospect of profit to soothe old frictions.  Germany has a very large book industry, and the publication of informative works of reference on all sorts of topics has always been healthy. In fact, I have such a thing on my book shelf, not even one foot away from me. It’s an old Knauer’s Lexikon, held together by slabs of green tape over the spine. A team of editors has been reworking the WPaD material into abbreviated form with each entry to be about a paragraph or so in length. About 1000 photos are to be included as well.   I think the WPaD in print will resembe the almanacs that are familar to us over here: a place to get information  on a specific topic, quickly, without firing up the laptop or PC and logging in. We were at a conference recently, and one of the presenters noted that Cambridge University Press has a policy of posting materials online, and this has lead to increased sales of the printed version in almost every case.  As long as real reading on screens, as opposed to consulting or dipping, is so trying physically, decent printing on good paper will be with us. The WP One Volume Encyclopedia will go on sale in September for 19.95 Euros, and the WP Foundation will get 1 Euro on each sale. If the 2008 version succeeds commercially, there could be others. We shall see.

New Features in WU Libraries' Catalog

You may have noticed some recent changes to the Catalog. Through Library Thing, some records for books include: "Recommended reads", a listing of other editions and translations, and descriptive tags from LibraryThing users.

In the future, you'll be able to rate books and add your own tags to catalog records. More info

German Dialects--Intenet Gateway

Deutsche Dialekte - Linkverzeichnis

A gateway to websites on nature, status and development of German dialects, including German in non-German speaking countries, published by the University of Portsmouth. Also include a wider range of languages such as Dutch; Frisian; Letzeburgish; Sorbian; Afrikaans; Yiddish. The links refer to online text resources and sound files.

New Books, April 1-15, 2008 (partial listing)

Beyond tradition and modernity : Aby Warburg and the public purposes of art in Hamburg, 1896-1918 / Mark A. Russell. New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

Billigkeit : Literatur und Sozialethik in der deutschen Aufklärung / ein Essay von Wolfram Mauser. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2007.

Contesting the German Empire, 1871-1918 / Matthew Jefferies. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

European sexualities, 1400-1800 / Katherine Crawford. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Everyday subversion : from joking to revolting in the German Democratic Republic / Kerry Kathleen Riley. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2008.

Good neighbors, bad times : echoes of my father's German village / Mimi Schwartz. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Homecoming / Bernhard Schlink ; translated from the German by Michael Henry Heim. Original German title: Die Heimkehr. New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.

Klassische Endspiele : das Theater Goethes und Schillers / Peter-André Alt. [München] : Beck, c2008.

Lexikon der "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" in Deutschland : Debatten- und Diskursgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus nach 1945 / Torben Fischer, Matthias N. Lorenz (Hg.). Bielefeld : Transcript, 2007.

Lost paradise / Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by Susan Massotty. Original Dutch title: Paradijs verloren. London : Harvill Secker, 2007.

Meine Liebe zu Büchern : Sophie von La Roche als professionelle Schriftstellerin / Barbara Becker-Cantarino. Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, c2008.

Positionen der Jelinek-Forschung : Beiträge zur Polnisch-Deuschen Elfriede Jelinek-Konferenz, Olsztyn 2005 / herausgegeben von Claus Zittel und Marian Holona. Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, c2008.

Realismus (1850-1890) : Zugänge zu einer literarischen Epoche / Marianne Wünsch ; mit Beiträgen von Jan-Oliver Decker ... [et al.]. Kiel : Ludwig, 2007.

The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film / edited by Marc Lee Raphael ; with an introductory essay by Stephen J. Whitfield. Williamsburg, Va. : Department of Religion of the College of William and Mary, 2003-2006.

The Routledge companion to Nazi Germany / Roderick Stackelberg. New York ; London : Routledge, 2007.

Screening modernism : European art cinema, 1950-1980 / András Bálint Kovács. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Shifting voices : feminist thought and women's writing in fin-de-siècle Austria and Hungary / Agatha Schwartz. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008.

Der Struwwelpeter : oder, lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder für Kinder von 3 bis 6 jahren / von Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann. Frankfurter Originalausgabe. Stuttgart : Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl [19--?].

Walter Benjamins "Deutsche Menschen" / herausgegeben von Barbara Hahn und Erdmut Wizisla. Göttingen : Wallstein, 2008.

New DVDs/Videos, March 2008 (partial listing)

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

Berlin Alexanderplatz [videorecording] / Bavaria Film International presents a cooperation of Bavaia Media and Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation ; [produced by] Peter Märthesheimer... [et al.] ; [written and directed] von Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979. Later shown as a 14-episode television program. DVD.

Berlin--Ecke Schönhauser [videorecording] / Progress Film-Vertrieb zeigt ein DEFA-Film ; Buch, Wolfgang Kohlhaas [i.e. Kohlhaase] ; Regie, Gerhard Klein. Originally released as a motion picture in 1957. DVD.

Die 3groschenoper [videorecording] = The 3 penny opera / [Warner Bros. Pictures ; in association with Tobis Filmkunst] ; Thomas J. Brandon presents ; produced by S. Nebenzahl ; screenplay by Léo Lania, Ladislaus Vajda and Béla Balázs ; directed by G. W. Pabst. Originally released as a motion picture in 1931. DVD.

The fifth rider is fear [videorecording] = A pátý Jezdec je Strach / Filmové Studio Barrandov uvádi Ceskoslovenský Filmexport ; produced by Carlo Ponti for Sigma III and Barrandov Studio ; written by Hana Belohradska, Zbynek Brynych, Ota Koval and Ester Krumbachova ; directed by Zbynek Brynych. Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. On the Holocaust. Czech dialogue, English subtitles. DVD. 

Kaspar Hauser [videorecording] : Verbrechen am Seelenleben eines Menschen / [a Leisure Time Features release ] ; Producer, Andreas Meyer ; Buch und Regie, Peter Sehr. Originally released as a motion picture in 1993. DVD.

Obchod na korze [videorecording] / Ceskoslovenský filmový ústav ; Barrandov Films Studios ; directors, Jan Kadar, Elmar Klos ; screenplay, Ladislav Grosman, J. Kadár, E. Klos. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1965. On the Holocaust. Czech/Slovak with optional English subtitles. DVD.

Prinzessinnenbad [videorecording] / Reverse Angle Factory Pictures präsentiert eine Reverse Angle Factory Produktion in Koproduktion mit RBB/ARTE und Reverse Angle Production ; Buch und Regie, Betinna Blümner. Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. DVD, REGION 2.

Stealing Klimt [videorecording]. [Germany] : Stardust Home Entertainment, c2007. DVD, REGION 2.

Strafsache 4 Ks 2/63 [videorecording] : Auschwitz vor dem Frankfurter Schwurgericht / Dokumentation von Rolf Bickel und Dietrich Wagner ; Produktionsleitung, Fred Steinbach ; Redaktion, Wolfgang Vogel ; Hessischer Rundfunk. Originally released for television in 1993. DVD.

Vsichni moji blízcí [videorecording] = All my loved ones / In Film Praha koprodukce Ceská televize, TV Markiza, Kirch Media ... Agenja Produkcji Filmowej, Eurimages uvadiji ; producenti Jirí Bartoska, Rudolf Biermann ; scénár Jirí Hubac ; rezie Matej Minác. Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. On the Holocaust. Czech dialogue with optional English subtitles. DVD.

Vitus [videorecording] / A Sony Pictures Classics release ; FMM and Hugofilm present ; a production of Vitusfilm ; screenplay by Peter Lusi, Fredi M. Murer, Lukas B. Suter ; directed by Fredi M. Muer with the aid of Federal Office of Cultural and Zurich Film Foundation. In Swiss German with optional subtitles in English, French, and Spanish. DVD.

Vollmond [videorecording] = Full moon / T & C Film AG/Pandora Filmproduktion/Arena Films ; produced by Marcel Hoehn ; written and directed by Fredi M. Murer. Originally released as a motion picture in 1998. Swiss-German, French, Italian and Rhaeto-Romanic dialogue, English subtitles. DVD.

  SWEDISH FILMS

Gycklarnas afton [videorecording] = Sawdust and tinsel / Sandrew ; written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1953. Swedish dialogue with optional English subtitles. DVD.

Hamnstad [videorecording] / Svensk filmindustri visar ; regi och scenario, Ingmar Bergman. Originally released as a motion picture in 1948. In Swedish with optional English subtitles. DVD.

Till glädje [videorecording] / Svensk filmindustri visar ; en film av Ingmar Bergman ; produktionsledning, Allan Ekelund. Originally released as a motion picture in 1950; date on container: 1949. In Swedish with optional English subtitles. DVD.

Törst [videorecording] / Svensk filmindustri visar ; manuskript, Herbert Grevenius ; regi, Ingmar Bergman. Originally released as a motion picture in 1949. In Swedish with optional English subtitles. DVD.

USC Closes German Dept.

From Inside Higher Ed, April 11, 2008:

Das Ende for German at USC
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/11/german

Foreign Languages and Search Engines

From the blog Search Engine Showdown: http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/blog/2008/03/language_limit_showdown.shtml

Language Limit Showdown.

• Find out which search engines allow you to limit by language. And which languages.
• Which search engines provide translated search capabilities.
• Which ones provide online machine translations

But don't forget--you have access to Oxford Online Language Dictionaries.

New Books, March 16-31, 2008 (partial listing)

Daniel Kehlmann / [Markus Gasser ... et al.]. München : Edition Text + Kritik, 2008.

Dialektik der postkolonialen Hybridität : die intrakulturelle Überwindung des kolonialen Blicks in der Literatur / Jochen Dubiel. Bielefeld : Aisthesis, 2007.

Erzwungener Ausweg : Hermann Broch, Erwin Panofsky und Ernst Kantorowicz im Princetoner Exil / Barbara Picht. Darmstadt : WBG, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, c2008.

Geschichte der deutschen literatur / von Dr. phil. E. Max Bräm. Zweite durchgesehene Aufl. Bern : A. Francke ag., [1943]

Hitler's salon : the Grosse Deutsche Kuntstausstellung at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich 1937-1944 / Ines Schlenker. Bern ; Oxford : Peter Lang, 2007.

Humor, satire, and identity : eastern German literature in the 1990s / Jill E. Twark. Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, c2007.

Jahrgang 1926/27 : Erinnerungen an die Jahre unter dem Hakenkreuz / herausgegeben von Alfred Neven DuMont. Köln : DuMont, 2008.

Kultur als Text : die anthropologische Wende in der Literaturwissenschaft / Doris Bachmann-Medick (Hrsg.) ; mit Beiträgen von James Clifford ... [et al.]. 2. aktualisierte Aufl. Tübingen : A. Francke, 2004.

A past without shadow : constructing the past in German books for children / Zohar Shavit ; translated from the Hebrew by Aaron Jaffe and Atarah Jaffe. Original Hebrew title: 'Avar be-lo tsel. New York : Routledge, 2005.

Paul Celans "Gespräch im Gebirg" : Erinnerung an eine "versäumte Begegnung" / Mirjam Sieber.
Tübingen : M. Niemeyer, 2007.

Politiken des Wahnsinns : weibliche Psychopathologie in Texten deutscher Autorinnen zwischen Spätaufklärung und Fin de siecle / Claudia Hauser. Hildesheim : Olms, 2007.

Die Quarantäne : deutsche und österreichische Literatur der fünfziger Jahre zwischen Kontinuität und Neubeginn / Edward Bialek, Leszek Zylinski (Hrsg.). 2., erw. Aufl. Dresden : Neisse Verlag ; Wroclaw : ATUT, 2006

Regionalität und Fremde : literarische Konstellationen, Visionen und Konzepte im deutschsprachigen Mitteleuropa / herausgegeben von András F. Balogh und Erhard Schütz in Verbindung mit Magdolna Orosz und László Tarnói. Berlin : Weidler, c2007.

Sankt Thomas : eine Erzählung / Wilhelm Raabe ; mit einem Nachwort und Anmerkungen herausgegeben von Florian Krobb. Hannover : Wehrhahn, 2008.

Sibilla Dalmar : Roman aus dem Ende unseres Jahrhunderts / Hedwig Dohm ; Nikola Müller, Isabel Rohner, Hg. Berlin : Trafo, c2006.

Die Souveränität der Literatur : zum Totalitären der klassischen Moderne 1900-1933 / Uwe Hebekus, Ingo Stöckmann, Hrsg. Paderborn : Wilhelm Fink, 2008.

Steinmauer und offene Fenster : Erzählungen deutscher und türkischer Autorinnen / Rita Rosen & Ayse Kulin (Hrsg.). Frankfurt : Literaturca-Verlag, 2007.

The swastika and the stage : German theatre and society, 1933-1945 / Gerwin Strobl. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Tausend und ein Zeichen : Else Lasker-Schülers Orient und die Berliner Alltags- und Populärkultur um 1900 / Sylke Kirschnick. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, c2007

Teaching Holocaust literature and film / edited by Robert Eaglestone, Barry Langford. Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Focus Groups: Reconfigure Space Use in Olin & Accomodate Changing Technology

Focus Groups: Reconfigure space use in Olin; accommodate changing technology

WU Libraries will host focus groups in April on how to reconfigure Olin Library and better meet student needs for space and for technology. Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to give feedback about how they currently use and would like to use Olin space. Do you need more quiet study space? More group study space? What are your software and hardware needs? Let us know what you think!

Undergraduate groups (start at 5pm):  Wed., April 2 or Tues., April 8
Graduate Students groups (start at 4pm):  Thurs., April 3 or Wed., April 9

Attendees receive a $10 gift card to the WU campus bookstore. All sessions are one hour, meet in Olin Library, and food is provided.

Register online to help us plan for food, chairs, & space (!). However, if you're unsure of your schedule, show up at the start time in Olin's lobby and we'll fit in as many participants as we can.

Questions: dkatz@wustl.edu (Debbie Katz)  314-935-4822

WU Libraries will host focus groups in April on how to reconfigure Olin Library and better meet student needs for space and for technology. Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to give feedback about how they currently use and would like to use Olin space. Do you need more quiet study space? More group study space? What are your software and hardware needs? Let us know what you think!

Undergraduate groups (start at 5pm):  Wed., April 2 or Tues., April 8
Graduate Students groups (start at 4pm):  Thurs., April 3 or Wed., April 9

Attendees receive a $10 gift card to the WU campus bookstore. All sessions are one hour, meet in Olin Library, and food is provided.

Register online to help us plan for food, chairs, & space (!). However, if you're unsure of your schedule, show up at the start time in Olin's lobby and we'll fit in as many participants as we can.

Questions: dkatz@wustl.edu (Debbie Katz)  314-935-4822