Library News for German Studies

Contemplating Violence & GeschlechterSpielRäume--NEW E-BOOKs

Many titles part of the Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik titles are available as e-books. Listed below are some recently published ones.

 Contemplating violence : critical studies in modern German culture / edited by Stefani Engelstein and Carl Niekerk. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.

 GeschlechterSpielRäume : Dramatik, Theater, Performance und Gender / herausgegeben von Gaby Pailer und Franziska Schössler. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011. 

All e-books from this series. In addition, the Libraries subscribe to the print versions of Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik.

New books (Germanic Studies), March 16-31, 2011

 Bei näherem Hinsehen : Beobachtungen zu Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs Sudelbüchern / Horst Gravenkamp. Göttingen : Wallstein, 2011.

 Beyssig sein ist nutz und not : Flugschriften zur Lutherzeit : ein kurzweiliger Begleiter durch den "Blätterwald" der Sonderausstellung vom 6. August bis zum 31. Oktober 2010 auf der Wartburg / [Herausgeberin, Redaktion, Jutta Krauss]. Regensburg : Schnell & Steiner ; Eisenach : Wartburg Stiftung, c2010.

 The collapse of the conventional : German film and its politics at the turn of the twenty-first century / edited by Jaimey Fisher and Brad Prager. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2010.

 GeschlechterSpielRäume : Dramatik, Theater, Performance und Gender / herausgegeben von Gaby Pailer und Franziska Schössler. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011. Also available as an E-BOOK.

 Hans Magnus Enzensberger und die Ideengeschichte der Bundesrepublik / herausgegeben von Dirk von Petersdorff ; mit einem Essay von Lars Gustafsson. Heidelberg : Winter, c2010.

 Harte Lyrik : zur Psychologie und Rhetorik lakonischer Dichtung in Texten von Günter Eich, Erich Fried und Reiner Kunze / Laura Cheie. Innsbruck : StudienVerlag, c2010.

 Hölderlin und die Psychiatrie / Uwe Gonther und Jann E. Schlimme (Hg.). Bonn : Psychiatrie-Verlag, c2010.

Intertextuality, reception, and performance : interpretations and texts of Medieval German literature : Kalamazoo papers, 2007-2009 / edited by Sibylle Jefferis. Göppingen : Kümmerle, 2010.

 Können sie nicht alle dichten, wollen sie doch alle richten : Ernst Ortlepp im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Meinung und Kritik : für Rüdiger Ziemann zum 80. Geburtstag / Manfred Neuhaus ; herausgegeben von Roland Rittig. Halle (Saale) : Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2010.

 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch : ein Wegbereiter des 20. Jahrhunderts / herausgegeben von Marion Kobelt-Groch und Michael Salewski. Hildesheim Olms, Georg 2010.

 Lou Andreas-Salome : der bittersüsse Funke Ich / Kerstin Decker. Berlin : Propyläen, 2010.

 Nach-Wende-Narrationen : das wiedervereinigte Deutschland im Spiegel von Literatur und Film / Gerhard Jens Lüdeker, Dominik Orth (Hg.). Göttingen : V&R Unipress, c2010.

Novel translations : the European novel and the German book, 1680-1730 / Bethany Wiggin. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2011.

 Der weibliche Blick auf den Orient : Reisebeschreibungen europäischer Frauen im Vergleich / herausgegeben von Mirosława Czarnecka, Christa Ebert & Grażyna Barbara Szewczyk. Bern ; New York : Lang, c2011.

 West-östlicher Divan / Johann Wolfgang Goethe ; herausgegeben von Hendrik Birus. Berlin : Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 2010.

 

LibX Toolbar Updated for Firefox 4

LibX Toolbar Updated for Firefox 4

The LibX toolbar has been updated so that it will still work if you update Firefox to version 4, which was released recently.  None of the options within the toolbar have changed, but the underlying code had to be updated to be compatible with Firefox 4.  Not sure what the toolbar is or why you might want it?  Take a look at the info page!

Workshop--Paperless Reference Management with Mendeley, 4/6, 3:30-4:30--SIGN UP!

 

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April 06, 2011

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New DVDs (Germanic Studies), March 2011

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

 Broderskab [videorecording] = Brotherhood / en film af Nicolo Donato. Originally released as a motion picture in 2009. Danish dialogue; English subtitles. DVD. 

  
 European short films [videorecording] / a Cinema16 release ; produced by Luke Morris ; co-produced by Ben Lederman. Optional English subtitles. DVD.

 Hôtel Terminus [videorecording] : Klaus Barbie, sa vie et son temps = Hotel Terminus : the life and times of Klaus Barbie / une pesentation de John S. Friedman avec Hamilton Fish; un film de Marcel Ophuls. Originally released as a documentary film in 1988.Original English language version (includes French, German and Spanish footage subtitled in English). DVD.

 Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick [videorecording] /  ein film av Jan Troell ; manus, Niklas Radström ; producent, Thomas Stenderup ; regi, Jan Troell. Originally released as a motion picture in 2008. Swedish dialogue with optional English subtitles. DVD.

 

 Moloch [videorecording] /  ein Film von Aleksandr Sokurov  Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. German dialogue with optional English subtitles. DVD. 

 Patrik 1,5 [videorecording] /  producers, Tomas Michaelsson & Lars Blomgren ; written and directed by Ella Lemhagen. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008. Swedish dialogue; English subtitles.

 Soul kitchen [videorecording] / produced by Faith Akin, Klaus Maeck ; screenplay by Faith Akin, Adam Bousdoukos ; directed by Fatih Akin. DVD release of the 2009 motion picture. In German, with optional subtitles in English or Spanish. DVD.

 Swastika [videorecording] / directed by Philippe Mora ; produced by Sanford Lieberson and David Puttnam ; written by Philippe Mora and Lutz Becker. Originally produced in 1973 as motion picture. In German with English subtitles. DVD.

 Sterne [videorecording] / Progress Film-Vertrieb zeigt eine Gemeinschaftsproduktion des DEFA-Studios für Spielfilme und des Studios für Spielfilme Sofia ; Buch, Angel Wagenstein ; Produktionsleitung, Vyltscho Draganov, Siegfried Nürnberger ; Regie, Konrad Wolf. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959. In German with optional English subtitles. DVD.