Library News for German Studies

Dictionary of Literary Biography--AVAILABLE ONLINE

 Dictionary of Literary Biography is now available online. It includes biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. Besides the biographies, each entry includes bibliographies of primary and secondary literature.

This is an excellent resource for undergraduates and others beginning research on an author. See the sample entry below.

Elfriede Jelinek

Volumes are published on topics, genres, or groups of authors from a specific period (e.g. Writers of the French Enlightenment) . Besides searching, you can also browse by volume or browse by author. You can link to specific articles or specific volumes.

Questions? Contact Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu; IM; 5-4824)

 

 

Trial of F.A.Z. Online (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

The Libraries are conducting  a trial of the online version of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Specifically, there are two products:

• BiblioNet Suche ab 1993 -- which allows searching of issues from 1993 onwards (and includes the current issues)
• F.A.Z. Suche 49-92  -- which allows searching of issues from 1949 through 1992

You can browse through issues from the previous week under the Aktuell-Bereich

NOTE: The trial is limited to on-campus (Danforth campus) only. So you won't be able to access this from home via the proxy.

We would like to hear your feedback about this product. Please send comments to Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ). Note, if we decide to subscribe to the online version, we would most likely cancel our print subscription to F.A.Z.

Don't sweat research problems or library questions! Ask Brian!

If you have research questions, library-related questions, or any book/DVD purchase suggestions, please contat me. I'm around for most of the summer. As always, I'm happy to meet with you in-person as well.

Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 935-4824 ; IM)

NOTE: I'll be gone from June 23-July 4. For immediate reference assistance during that 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. 

Zotero 101 class--Thursday, June 16, 2011, 12noon-1pm--REGISTER NOW

This class meets Thursday, June 16th from 12noon-1pm in the Arc on level A in Olin Library. Registration required. Sign up here.

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself. We will cover account creation, installation, gathering references, organizing your references, creating citations and sharing or working collaboratively. For more info, see http://www.zotero.org/

Questions, ask Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 935-4824 ; IM)

Work on WUSTL Connect-Sat. 6/11--6-10pm will affect access to library systems

On Saturday, June 11, maintenance will be done on the WUSTL Connect service by the WU Information Services and Technology staff.  WUSTL Connect is the service which lets you use your WUSTL Key to log in to various Library services (as well as WebSTAC and other University services).  From 6pm to 10pm you may reach various login pages, such as for the proxy server, My Catalog, ILLiad, Ares, and Find it!, but not be able to log in.  Our apologies for the inconvenience.

New Books (Germanic Studies), May 16-31, 2011

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

For Comparative Literature/Literature (General) titles, 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.

 Achim von Arnim und sein Kreis / herausgegeben von Steffen Dietzsch und Ariane Ludwig. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2010.

 Die Bildlichkeit des lyrischen Textes : Studien zu Hölderlin, Brentano, Eichendorff, Heine, Mörike, George und Rilke / Ralf Simon. München : Wilhelm Fink, c2011.

 Das Bohren harter Bretter : 133 politische Geschichten / Alexander Kluge ; mit einem Gastbeitrag von Reinhard Jirgl ; [Mitarbeit und Redaktion: Thomas Combrink]. Berlin : Suhrkamp, 2011.

 "Denken heisst nicht vertauben" : Aufsätze zur neueren deutschen Literatur / Anette Horn. Oberhausen : Athena, 2011.

 "Die Entzauberung des Ostens" : zur Wahrnehmung und Darstellung des Orients bei Hermann Hesse, Armin T. Wegner und Annemarie Schwarzenbach / Behrang Samsami. Bielefeld : Aisthesis Verlag, 2011.

 Erica Lillegg-Jené (1907-1988) : Kinderliteratur auf dem Weg zur Moderne / Ernst Seibert & Vera Nowak (Hg.). Wien : Praesens Verlag, [2011], ©2011.

 Ernst Meister : eine Chronik / aus dem Nachlass erarbeitet von Karin Herrmann und Stephanie Jordans ; unter Mitarbeit von Dominik Loogen. Göttingen : Wallstein, 2011.

 Goethes Moderne : Essays / Leo Kreutzer. Hannover : Wehrhahn, 2011.

Holocaust lite : Bernhard Schlinks "NS-Romane" und ihre Verfilmungen / William Collins Donahue. "An expanded German language version of the monograph Holocaust as Fiction: Bernhard Schlink's Nazi Novels and their Films"--Author's website, May 20, 2011. Bielefeld : Aisthesis, 2011.

 Humor, Leichtsinn der Schwermut : Zugänge zum Werk von Elazar Benyoëtz / Michael Bongardt (Hg.). Bochum : Universitätsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer, 2010.

 Identität und Ordnung : Entwürfe des "Eigenen" und "Fremden" in deutschen Kolonial- und Afrikaromanen von 1889 bis 1952 / Daniel Schneider. Bielefeld : Aisthesis, 2011.

 Kleist : Dichter, Krieger, Seelensucher : Biographie / Peter Michalzik. Berlin : Propyläen, 2011.

 Krisenkino : Filmanalyse als Kulturanalyse : zur Konstruktion von Normalität und Abweichung im Spielfilm / Waltraud "Wara" Wende, Lars Koch (Hg.). Bielefeld : transcript, c2010.

 Das kurze Glück der Gegenwart : deutschsprachige Literatur seit '89 / Richard Kämmerlings. Stuttgart : Klett-Cotta, c2011.

 Metafiktion : Analysen zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur / J. Alexander Bareis, Frank Thomas Grub (Hg.). Berlin : Kulturverlag Kadmos, c2010.

 Paths crossing : essays in German-American studies / Cora Lee Kluge (ed.).Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2011.

 Rezeptionsgeschichte als Zeitgeschichte : Goethe, Schiller, Hölderlin und Heine im literaturgeschichtlichen Kontext des 20. Jahrhunderts / Klaus Schuhmann. Leipzig : Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2010.

 Science Fiction unter der Nazi-Zensur : der Zukunftsroman Ein Stern fiel vom Himmel von Hans Dominik 1934-1937 / Detlef Münch. Dortmund : Synergen Verlag, 2010.

 Schräg gegens Licht : Treffen Junger Autoren 2009 / herausgegeben von Peter Grosz und Christina Schulz ; Berliner Festspiele. Frankfurt am Main : Brandes & Apsel, 2010.

 "So sage denn, wie sprech' ich auch so schön?" : zur Macht der Poesie bei Goethe / Young-Ae Chon. Göttingen : Wallstein Verlag, [2011], ©2011.

 Oh Mann, oh Manns : Exilerfahrungen einer berühmten deutschen Schriftstellerfamilie / Dieter Strauss. Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang c2011.

 Die verfolgende Unschuld : zur Geschichte des autoritären Charakters in der Darstellung von Karl Kraus / Irina Djassemy ; mit einem Vorwort versehen und für die Herausgabe vorbereitet von Stefan Gandler, Joachim Rauscher und Stephan Bundschuh. Wien : Böhlau, 2011.

 Wilhelm Heinse und der so genannte Sturm und Drang : künstliche Paradiese der Natur zwischen Rokoko und Klassik / Björn Vedder. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, c2011.

 Zwischen uns die Mauer : DEFA-Filme auf der Berlinale / Jürgen Haase (Hrsg.). Berlin : Berlin Edition im Be.bra Verlag, c2010.

New Books (Germanic Studies), May 1-15, 2011

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

For Comparative Literature/Literature (General) titles, 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.

 Die Ethik der Literatur : deutsche Autoren der Gegenwart / herausgegeben von Paul Michael Lützeler und Jennifer M. Kapczynski. Göttingen : Wallstein, c2011.

 Der Grosse Fall : Erzählung / Peter Handke. Berlin : Suhrkamp, 2011.

 Populäre Erscheinungen : der deutsche Schauerroman um 1800 / Barry Murnane, Andrew Cusack (Hrsg.). München : Wilhelm Fink, [2011], ©2011.

 Sanftes Monster Brüssel, oder, Die Entmündigung Europas / Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Berlin : Suhrkamp, 2011.

 Spielzeugland : ein Film von Jochen Alexander Freydank / [herausgegeben von Christian Bauer & Peter Meyer]. Merzig : Gollenstein, 2010.

 Trauer und Identität : Inszenierungen von Emotionen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters / Elke Koch. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2006.

 Vom Umhalsen der Sperlingswand, oder, 1 Schumannwahnsinn / Friederike Mayröcker. Berlin : Suhrkamp, 2011.

 "Wie anders wirkt dies Zitat auf mich ein!" : Johann Wolfgang von Goethes entflügelte Worte in Literatur, Medien und Karikaturen / Wolfgang Mieder. Wien : Praesens, c2011.

New DVDs (Germanic Studies), May 2011

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

 Alle Anderen [videorecording] / Produzenten, Janine Jackowski, Dirk Engelhardt, Maren Ade ; Drehbuch und Regie, Maren Ade. German dialogue with optional English subtitles. DVD.

 Das Boot ist voll [videorecording] = The boat is full /  ein Film von Markus Imhoof. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1981. Based on the novel by Alfred A. Haesler. German dialogue, English subtitles. DVD.

  Falco [videorecording] : verdammt, wir leben noch / a film by Thomas Roth ; a MR-Film production ; producers, Kurt J. Mrkwicka, Jan Mojto ; written and directed by Thomas Roth. Originally released as a motion picture in 2009. German dialogue with English subtitles. DVD.

 In den Tag hinein [videorecording] /  Buch & Regie, Maria Speth. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001. In German with optional subtitles in English, French, Italian, and Dutch. DVD.

 Jakob the liar [videorecording] /  screenplay by Peter Kassovitz, Didier Decoin ; directed by Peter Kassovitz. Based on the novel by Jurek Becker. DVD.

 Der Knochenmann / ein Film von Wolfgang Murnberger ; nach dem Roman von Wolf Haas ; Drehbuch, Wolfgang Murnberger , Josef Hader, Wolf Haas ; Regie, Wolf Haas. In German with optional English subtitles. DVD.

 Madonnen [videorecording] /  Buch & Regie, Maria Speth. Originally released in 2007 as a motion picture. German dialogue with optional English or French subtitles. DVD.

 Siddharta [videorecording] : un ballet / de Angelin Preljocaj ; musique, Bruno Mantovani. DVD.

 Short films by Werner Herzog [videorecording] / a New Yorker Films release. The first work is in German with optional English subtitles, the second is in English and the third is narrated in English by Herzog. DVD.

 Thomas Brasch [videorecording] : Filme : Engel aus Eisen, Domino, Mercedes, Der Passagier / Absolute Medien ; director, script, Thomas Brasch. DVD release of 1980-1990 motion pictures. In German or English with German subtitles (Der Passagier) or Dutch with German subtitles (Mercedes).

 Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen [videorecording] / Buch und Regie, Maren Ade. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2003. In German with optional English subtitles; closed captioned. DVD.

Guide for the Contemporary German Literature Collection in Olin

Check out the for the Contemporary German Literature Collection. This one of a kind collection was started by the WU German Dept in cooperation with the WU Libraries

The guide features a list of genres of contemporary literature, list of the main authors, and more. Great photos as well!

Shirley K. Baker, dean of WU Libraries, to retire June 30, 2012-- search committee formed

A search committee to identify candidates for the position of dean of University Libraries has been appointed by Provost Edward S. Macias, PhD, executive vice chancellor and the Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences.

Shirley K. Baker, vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of University Libraries, will retire after 23 years of service to WUSTL on June 30, 2012.

Full article in the Record.