Library News for German Studies

In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth--NY Times article

Article from the New York Times, Feb. 24, 2009

In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth

Philosophy and German literature, 1700-1990--NEW E-BOOK

WU Libraries have acquired this electronic book.

Philosophy and German literature, 1700-1990 [electronic resource] / edited by Nicholas Saul. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Trials for MLA Int'l Bibliography--which interface do you prefer?

MLA International Bibliography is currently provided to you on the OCLC FirstSearch interface. OCLC has announced that FirstSearch databases will made available through WorldCat.org as of July, 2009. Unfortunately, they cannot yet show us what that would look like, or how it would work. They have not said how long the databases will continue to be available on FirstSearch, but it is not likely to be more than another year or two.

Therefore, we are considering switching our interface provider. We have set up trials so that you can compare them. The trials expire around March 14, 2009.  Please take a look and comment which interface you prefer. Send comments to Brian.

Let your voice be heard!

WU Libraries' MLA Database Trials

German Studies titles in Cambridge Companion Collections Online

Below is a list of links to German Studies titles in Cambridge Collections Online . For all titles, check Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics and Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion, and Culture series. 

Besides browsing, you can search individual titles or accross all titles. You can bookmark individual titles, email citations, as well as print individual sections.

• The Cambridge Companion to Brecht: Second Edition
• The Cambridge Companion to Goethe
• The Cambridge Companion to Kafka
• The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann  
• The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin
• The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism
• The Cambridge Companion to Habermas
• The Cambridge Companion to Hegel
• The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger: Second Edition
• The Cambridge Companion to Kant
• The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz  
• The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther
• The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture
• The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche  

Cambridge Collections Online--E-BOOKS AVAILABLE

The Libraries have subscribed to online access to Cambridge Collections Online, which includes the Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics and Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion, and Culture series.  The Literature and Classics series offers 'over 1,500 comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, while the Philosophy, Religion, and Culture series offers over 1,100 essays addressing 'topics and figures ranging from Plato through Kant to Habermas, and philosophical movements such as the Scottish Enlightenment and German Idealism.' 

You can search by keyword across all the essays, or browse within each collection by author or title.

New Books, Feb. 1-15, 2009

Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen : Thomas Mann / Albert von Schirnding. München : C.H. Beck, 2008.

After the avant-garde : contemporary German and Austrian experimental film / edited by Randall Halle and Reinhild Steingröver. Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2008.

Amerika : the missing person : a new translation, based on the restored text / Franz Kafka ; translated and with a preface by Mark Harman. Original title: Amerika. New York : Schocken Books, c2008.

Apropos Doktor Faustus : Briefwechsel Arnold Schönberg - Thomas Mann, Tagebücher und Aufsätze 1930-1951 / E. Randol Schoenberg (Hg.) ; Übersetzungen von Susanne Müller und Elisabeth Schwagerle. Wien : Czernin, c2009.

The Battle of Herrmann : a drama / Heinrich von Kleist ; [translation and critical apparatus by] Rachel MagShamhrain. Original German title: Hermannschlacht. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2008.

Bildersprache, Klangfiguren : Spielformen der Intermedialität bei Robert Walser / Anna Fattori, Margit Gigerl (Hrsg.). München : W. Fink, c2008.

Bunter Staub : Ernst Jünger im Gegenlicht / herausgegeben von Alexander Pschera. Berlin : Matthes & Seitz, 2008.

The dark side of literacy : literature and learning not to read / Benjamin Bennett. New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.

Eigentlich ganz normal? : lesbische Mädchen und Frauen in zeitgenössischer Kinder- und Jugendliteratur / Sabine Gries. Berlin : Lit, 2008.

European film theory / edited by Temenuga Trifonova. New York : Routledge, 2009.

German literature in a new century : trends, traditions, transitions, transformations / edited by Katharina Gerstenberger and Patricia Herminghouse. New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

The human family = Menschenkinder / Lou Andreas-Salomé ; translated and with an introduction by Raleigh Whitinger. Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, c2005.

Jurek Becker / von Olaf Kutzmutz. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 2008.

Das Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns : Märchenroman / Bettina und Gisela von Arnim ; Nachwort von Rolf Vollmann. Zürich : Manesse, 2008.

Mystical love in the German Baroque : theology, poetry, music / Isabella van Elferen. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Notker latinus zu Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, Buch III / Notker der Deutsche ; herausgebeben von Petrus W. Tax. Tübingen : Niemeyer, 2008.

Parzifal / Wolfram von Eschenbach ; auf der Grundlage der Handschrift D herausgegeben von Joachim Bumke. Tübingen : M. Niemeyer, 2008.

The poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein : an English translation of the complete works (1376/77-1445) / Albrecht Classen. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Reden an die Lebenden und an die Toten : Erinnerungen an die Rote Armee Fraktion in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur / Sandra Beck. St. Ingbert : Röhrig, 2008.

Ruth : Erzählung / Lou Andreas-Salome ; herausgegeben von Michaela Wiesner-Bangard. Ungekürzte Ausg. nach der Erstausg. von 1895. Taching am See : MedienEdition Welsch, 2008.

<usus> trans-lation : dem Möglichkeitssinn Fläche, Raum und Stimme geben = lending surface, space and voice to the sense of possibility / Uta Schneider & Ulrike Stoltz ; mit Beiträgen von Stefan Soltek . . . [et al.]. Offenbach am Main : Uta Schneider & Ulrike Stoltz, 2007.

Vernunft, Freiheit, Humanität : über Johann Gottfried Herder und einige seiner Zeitgenossen : Festgabe für Günter Arnold zum 65. Geburtstag / herausgegeben von Claudia Taszus. Eutin : Lumpeter & Lasel, 2008.

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

A bold move to Berlin for the Suhrkamp publishing house

Welt am Sonntag - Germany | Sunday, February 8, 2009

A bold move to Berlin for the Suhrkamp publishing house

The Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag welcomes the plans of Germany's renowned Suhrkamp publishing house to move from Frankfurt on Main to Berlin, saying this will give the city an intellectual boost: "Berlin's rich historical past still exerts a magnetic attraction on culture lovers all over the world 20 years after reunification. The decision not to resist this trend and to sacrifice the hermetic exclusiveness of the publishing house was a courageous move by the frequently disliked publisher [Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz]. It is a step onto a highly varnished, over-popular stage that yearns for authentic players. Rumour has it that the publisher has sought out a location in battle-scarred Berlin that fits in well with the Suhrkamp tradition: The Nikolaihaus, built in 1670, was for centuries a meeting place for enlightened thinkers like Schadow and Schinkel. Next to it stands a rundown concrete pre-fab dating back to the GDR: a superb parcours for a house that publishes realist and deconstructionist works; bourgeois and ultra communist works alike."

Full German article in Die Welt

Enter the Student Book Collecting Contest!

The 22nd annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collecting Essay Competition is now under way. All full-time Washington University students (graduate and undergraduate) are eligible to compete for cash prizes. Submit a short essay, bibliography, and a few items from your personal book collection by 5 p.m. on Friday, March 27, 2009. Awards will be given in graduate and undergraduate categories, with the first-place winner receiving $1,000 and second-place receiving $500 in each category. See the competition website for more details.

Jahrbuch der Raabe Gesellschaft--NEW PRINT SUBSCRIPTION

The Libraries have begun subscribing to the Jahrbuch der Raabe Gesellschaft. Thus far, we have 2007 and 2008.

Deutsche Literatur von Luther bis Tucholsky--DVD ROM

Deutsche Literatur von Luther bis Tucholsky : Grossbibliothek / [Auswahl und Redaktion: Marie Endres, Martina Gödel, Thomas Hafki]. DVD-ROM. Berlin : Directmedia, 2005. A compilation of literary works in German from over 500 authors, containing over 2,900 works, from the earliest New High German poetry to early 20th-century authors such as Kurt Tucholsky and Erich Mühsam, including both "classic" and relatively unknown works and authors, in all genres. A brief biography of each author is included, and often a portrait. Some works are illustrated.