Library News for German Studies

New Books, Sept. 1-15, 2009

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

 After nature / [editor, Sarah Valdez]. Brochure describing the art exhibition is wrapped around a copy of: After nature / W.G. Sebald ; translated from the German by Michael Hamburger. New York : Modern Library, 2003. Twenty-five plates from the exhibition are inserted between the pages of the book. New York : New Museum, [2008]

Alles in Butter : wie Walter Kempowski, Bernhard Schlink und Martin Walser den Zivilisationsbruch unter den Teppich kehren / Klaus Köhler Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, c2009.

 Beyond the subtitle : remapping European art cinema / Mark Betz. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Corpus Paracelsisticum : Dokumente frühneuzeitlicher Naturphilosophie in Deutschland / herausgegeben und erläutert von Wilhelm Kühlmann und Joachim Telle. Tübingen : Niemeyer, 2001-

Deutsche Schwankliteratur des 16. Jahrhunderts : Studien zu Martin Montanus, Hans Wilhelm Kirchhhof und Michael Lindener / Albrecht Classen. Trier : Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, c2009.

 Kleine Schriften zum Film / Siegfried Kracauer ; herausgegeben von Inka Mülder-Bach ; unter Mitarbeit von Mirjam Wenzel und Sabine Biebl. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 2004.

 Kuno Francke's edition of the German classics (1913-15) : a historical and critical overview / Jeffrey L. Sammons. New York : Peter Lang, c2009.

  Religion und Gegenwartsliteratur : Spielarten einer Liaison / herausgegeben von Albrecht Grözinger, Andreas Mauz, Adrian Portmann. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, c2009.

 Romance and love in late medieval and early modern Iceland : essays in honor of Marianne Kalinke / edited by Kirsten Wolf and Johanna Denzin. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Library : [Distributed by Cornell University Press], 2008.

"Eine unbeschreibliche, fast magische Anziehungskraft" : Goethes "Wahlverwandtschaften" / herausgegeben von Ernst-Gerhard Güse ... [et al.]. Weimar : Klassik Stiftung Weimar, c2008.

Unterwegs verloren : Erinnerungen / Ruth Klüger. Wien : Zsolnay, c2008.

Visiones de Don Quevedo : wunderl. u. wahrhafftige Gesichte Philanders von Sittewalt / J.M. Moscherosch. Nachdr. d. Ausg. Strassburg 1642-1643.  Hildesheim ; New York : Olms, 1974.

We are the machine : the computer, the Internet, and information in contemporary German literature / Paul A. Youngman. Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2009.

 Wilhelm von Humboldt and German liberalism : a reassessment / John Roberts. Oakville, Ont. ; Niagara Falls, NY : Mosaic Press, c2009.

Women against Napoleon : historical and fictional responses to his rise and legacy / Waltraud Maierhofer, Gertrud M. Roesch, Caroline Bland (eds.). Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, 2007.

Brian's Office Hours NOW in Ridgley 426, Weds, 1:30-2:30; Thurs, 11:30am-12:30pm

Please note the location of my office hours has changed. I will now have office hours on the 4th floor of Ridgley, rm. 426.

My office hours are Wednesdays, 1:30-2:30pm and Thursdays, 11:30am-12:30pm. Please contact me if you would like an appointment outside these times.

Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 5-4824 ; chat, see: http://libguides.wustl.edu/profile.php?uid=2787)

New DVDs, Aug. 2009

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

40 m² Deutschland [videorecording] / Filmverlag der Autoren ; Buch und Regie, Tevik Başer. In Turkish with optional German subtitles; credits in German. Originally released in 1986. The tale of a young Turkish woman who, after an arranged marriage, follows her much older husband to Hamburg. DVD; Region 2.

Die bleierne Zeit [videorecording] / Arthaus ; eine Produktion der Bioskop-Film München ; Buch und Regie, Margarethe von Trotta. Original motion picture release, 1981. DVD; Region 2

David [videorecording] / von Peter Lilienthal ; Regie, Peter Lilienthal ; Drehbuch, Peter Lilienthal, Jurek Becker, Ulla Ziemann. Originally released as a motion picture in 1979. DVD; Region 2.

Deutschland bleiche Mutter [videorecording] / Arthaus ; ein Film von Helma Sanders-Brahms ; [Buch und Regie, Helma Sanders-Brahms ; Produktion, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Westdeutscher Rundfunk]. Originally released as a motion picture in 1980. DVD; Region 2.

Die Entdeckung der Currywurst [videorecording] / Tag/Traum Filmproduktion zeigt in Co-Produktion mit Kãnguruh Film in Zusammenarbiet mit Norddeutscher Rundfunk ; einen Film von Ulla Wagner ; nach der Novelle von Uwe Timm. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008. DVD; Region 2.

Escape from Sobibor [videorecording] : true life escape from a Nazi death camp / directed by Jack Gold, screenplay by Reginald Rose. True story of the mass escape of Jewish prisoners from the Nazi death camp at Sobibor, Poland. DVD.

Der Fangschuss [videorecording] / Arthaus ; Filmverlag der Autoren zeigt eine deutsche-französische Gemeinschaftsproduktion der Bioskop-Film München und Argos Films Paris ; nach dem Roman von Marguerite Yourcenar ; Drehbuch, Genevieve Dorman, Margarethe von Trotta, Jutta Brückner ; Regie, Volker Schlöndorff. DVD; Region 2.

Die Hamburger Krankheit [videorecording] / Arthaus ; Regie, Peter Fleischmann; Buch, Peter Fleischmann, Roland Topor, Otto Jägersberg. Originally released as a motion picture in 1979. DVD; Region 2.

Die linkshändige Frau [videorecording] / Arthaus ; Reverse Angle ; [Regie und Buch, Peter Handke]. Originally released as a motion picture in 1978.  DVD; Region 2.

Nordsee ist Mordsee [videorecording] / Arthaus ; Buch und Regie, Hark Bohm. Originally released as a motion picture in 1976. "Two wildly different children from the slums of Hamburg become friends and attempt to find freedom in a raft out on the North Sea..." DVD, Region 2.

Die ortliebschen Frauen [videorecording] / Arthaus ; Filmverlag der Autoren ; eine Solaris-von Vietinghoff-Frankenberg-WDR Produktion ; Regie, Luc Bondy ; [Buch, Luc Bondy, Libgart Schwarz, Ellen Hammer]. Based loosely on the novel by Franz Nabl, Grab des Lebendigen. Originally released as a motion picture in 1980. DVD, Region 2.

Der Schneider von Ulm [videorecording] / Arthaus ; Drehbuch, Petra Kiener, Edgar Reitz ; Regie, Edgar Reitz. Produced by Zweites Deutsches Fernsehn for television in 1978. DVD; Region 2

Stunde Null [videorecording] / Arthaus ; [Regie Edgar Reitz; Buch, Peter Steinbach ... et al. ]. Originally released as a motion picture in 1977. DVD, Region 2.

Der Verwandlung der Welt in Musik [videorecording] / ein Film von Werner Herzog ; ein Werner Herzog Filmproduktion im Auftrag von ARTE/Unitel und ZDF = The transformation of the world into music / a film by Werner Herzog ; a Werner Herzog film production for ARTE/Unitel and ZDF. Werner Herzog's The transformation of the world into music is an elegant and adroitly executed documentary which captures the cultural excitement inherent in the annual Bayreuth Festival. DVD.

 

For Grad Students, Session on new Library Tools, 9/15, 12-1pm in DUC

Bring your lunch to the Liberman Graduate Center in the DUC on Tuesday, September 15th from 12-1pm to find out about some new and exciting tools the Library offers, as well as new services you should know about. Friendly and helpful library staff will be on hand to talk about RefWorks, the Library's new catalog, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).  Sign up now!  http://bit.ly/8iY65

New Books, Aug. 16-31, 2009

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

60 Jahre Bundesrepublik im Spiegel der Zeit : sechzig prägende Kontroversen / [Theo Sommer, Herausgeber]. Hamburg : Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius ; Gütersloh : Wissenmedia c2009. 

 Berlin tales : stories / translated by Lyn Marven ; edited by Helen Constantine. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

 Cinema Panopticum / Thomas Ott ; [Redaktion: David Basler, Anja Luginbühl]. GRAPHIC NOVEL. Zürich : Edition Moderne, 2005.

 Conquest of the useless : reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo / Werner Herzog ; translated from the German by Krishna Winston. Original German title: Eroberung des Nutzlosen. New York : Ecco, c2009.

 Die deutsche Komödie : Metamorphosen des Harlekin / Andrea Bartl. Stuttgart : P. Reclam, c2009.

Felix Austria - Dekonstruktion eines Mythos? : das österreichische Drama und Theater seit Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts / Małgorzata Leyko, Artur Pełka, Karolina Prykowska-Michalak, Hrsg. [Fernwald] : Litblockin, 2009.

Gemeinschafts- und Individualstruktur in der Artusdichtung : Interpretation und Typologie / Carola L. Gottzmann. Berlin : Weidler, 2009.

 Georg Kreisler, Grenzgänger : sieben Beiträge / mit einem Nachwort von Georg Kreisler ; Michael Custodis und Albrecht Riethmüller (Hg.). Freiburg i. Br. : Rombach, c2009.

 Georg Trakl und die literarische Moderne / [editor], Károly Csúri. Tübingen : Niemeyer, 2009.

 Irmgard Keun / Gastredaktion, Stefan Scherer. München [Munich] : Edition Text + Kritik, c2009.

 The impact of the Holocaust in America / Bruce Zuckerman, editor. West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, c2008.

 Metropolis Vienna : a novel / by Peter Rosei ; translated from the German by Geoffrey C. Howes. Original German title: Wien Metropolis. København ; Los Angeles : Green Integer, 2009.

National monuments and nationalism in 19th century Germany / Hans A. Pohlsander. Oxford ; New York : P. Lang, c2008.

  New Germans, new Dutch : literary interventions / Liesbeth Minnaard. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2008.

'Not an essence but a positioning' : German-Jewish women writers (1900-1938) / Andrea Hammel, Godela Weiss-Sussex (eds.). München : Martin Meidenbauer ; London : Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, c2009.

 Récits d'orient dans les littératures d'Europe : XVIe-XVIIe siècles / Anne Duprat & Emilie Picherot (dir.) Paris : PUPS, c2008.

The text and its context : studies in modern German literature and society : presented to Ronald Speirs on the occasion of his 65th birthday / Nigel Harris and Joanne Sayner (eds). Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2008.

 Theatermoral : moralische Argumentation und dramatische Kommunikation in der Tragödie der Aufklärung / Wolfgang Ranke. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2009.

 Die Zerstörung der deutschen Literatur und andere Essays / Walter Muschg ; herausgegeben von Julian Schütt und Winfried Stephan ; mit einem Nachwort von Julian Schütt. Zürich : Diogenes, c2009.

Medieval and Early Modern Studies--New Research Guide

There is a new Medieval and Early Modern Studies guide is now availabile. The guide is a great starting point for research on Medieval and Early Modern Studies. It features resources from a number of disciplines, including Literature, History, Art History, and more.

Please let Brian know if there is a resource you think should be included on this guide but isn't. bvetruba@wustl.edu

This guide is linked from the Germanic Studies guide on the Course and Related Guides tab.

Manage your Citations w/ RefWorks--1-hr. workshops-9/24 & 10/2

Brian will be offering one-hour workshops to get you started with using RefWorks, a citation manager. Remember,  RefWorks is available on- and off-campus.

What can you do with RefWorks?

• easily and quickly import citations from databases and catalogs
• manage citations in your personal database
• create bibliographies in citation styles (MLA, APA)
• cite as you write your articles and papers

Brian's workshops -- register NOW-SPACE IS LIMITED.

• Thursday, Sept. 24, 4:30-5:30pm (REGISTER ONLINE FOR THIS SESSION)
• Friday, Oct. 2, 2:30-3:30 (REGISTER ONLINE FOR THIS SESSION)

All workshops will be held in the ARC Lab. You will receive an email confirmation. If you can't make any of these times, Brian will set up individual sessions. Email if interested: bvetruba@wustl.edu

For questions about the workshops or about RefWorks, contact Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 5-4824; IM/Chat: http://libguides.wustl.edu/profile.php?uid=2787)

Course guides for Fall '09 Graduate and Undergrad Courses

Below is a listing of guides for Fall 2009 courses. All of the course guides can be accessed from the Germanic Studies Research Guide course and related guides page. The guides includes selected databases, e-books, articles, and much more.

Undergraduate

• GER 314A/HUM 313A The Legend of King Arthur in the Middle Ages
• GER 340: German Literature and the Modern Era
• GER408D German as a Language of Business 
• GER 4102 Buddenbrooks: Decadence and Decline at the Turn of the Century

Graduate

• GER 450 Methodology and Literary Theory
• GER 528 German-Jewish Literature from the Enlightenment to the Present   
• GER 529 Split Screens: Weimar Cinema and its Visions of Modernity

Guides for courses from past semesters are still available: http://libguides.wustl.edu/content.php?pid=9711&sid=390054

  

Lights out on bulbs in Germany--CNN Video report

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