Library News for German Studies

"Gay literature's new wrinkle"--Review of H. Müller's Hunger Angel (Atemschaukel)

Gay literature’s new wrinkle

By Jason Farago

April 24, 2012 at Salon.com

Nobel-winner Herta Müller has written a dazzling new gay novel. Does it matter that she's heterosexual?

"This week sees the publication of “The Hunger Angel,” by the Romanian-born German author Herta Müller. It’s her first novel to appear in English since she won the Nobel Prize three years ago, and the book, set in a Soviet labor camp in the years after World War II, arrives in America trailing behind it a passel of rave reviews in the European press: a masterpiece, they say, to be put next to Solzhenitsyn or Primo Levi"

FULL ARTICLE at Salon

The hunger angel : a novel / Herta Müller ; translated by Philip Boehm. Original title: Atemschaukel. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

We also have the original:

Atemschaukel : Roman / Herta Müller. München : Hanser, c2009. (PT2673.U2925 A92 2009)

 

Brian out of office--April 26-27-back Monday, April 30th

Just a quick note that I will be out April 26-27. Due to this, I won't have office hours on Thursday, April 26. Feel free to continue to email me. I’ll be back to work on Monday, April 30^th.

For immediate reference assistance during my absence, please contact Olin Reference--email: ref@wumail.wustl.edu; phone: 935-5410; IM/Chat: http://library.wustl.edu/askus.html). 

 

Thanks, Brian

"Storm over Young Goethe"--NYRB's review of latest translation of Werther

"Storm Over Young Goethe" byJ. M. Coetzee New York Review of Books, April 26, 2012

Article about Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers and review of 2012 translation by Stanley Corngold.

Corngold's translation at WU Libraries:

The sufferings of young Werther / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; a new translation by Stanley Corngold. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.

Articles about Günter Grass's Controversial Poem about Iran, Israel & War

A selection of article surrounding Gunter Grass's recent controversial poem about Israel and Iran.

• In The Atlantic, April 6, 2012 (includes English translation of the poem)
• From Deutsche Welle, April 4, 2012
• From Die Zeit
• From Der Spiegel

Sources for additional articles

• German-language Press via Lexis Nexis
• Press Display

For questions, contact Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 5-4824 ; IM/chat)

Friend and editor of Bishop to speak April 11

Poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Lloyd Schwartz, a friend of renowned poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) during the last decade of her life, will give a talk at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in Olin Library (Ginkgo Reading Room, Level 1).

In his lecture, entitled "'Friending' and Editing Elizabeth Bishop," Schwartz will discuss what makes Bishop a great writer, how he got to know her and work with her, and the various problems that arose in editing her work. The event is sponsored by the University Libraries and the Department of English.

Schwartz is the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Classical Music Editor of The Boston Phoenix, and a regular commentator on NPR's Fresh Air. His most recent book of poems is Cairo Traffic, and his poems and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere. In 2994 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. He is co-editor of Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters and editor the new centennial edition of Bishop's Prose (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011).

The Department of Special Collections at Washington University Libraries includes some 250 letters between Bishop and poet May Swenson, as well as 40 letters between Bishop and poet Anne Stevenson, in the Libraries' Modern Literature Collection.

Books will be available for purchase through the University Campus Store at the event, which is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow Schartz's talk.

"Open Scholarship" Repository Launched

On Monday, March 26, 2012, Washington University Libraries announced the launch of Open Scholarship, an institutional repository providing access to the scholarly output of faculty, staff, and students from Washington University in St. Louis.

The purpose of Open Scholarship is to enhance access to the academic work of WUSTL scholars, gathering items in a single digital place. Developed following the Faculty Senate’s passage of an Open Access Resolution in May of 2011, Open Scholarship is a further step in the university’s commitment to make scholarship and creative works freely and easily available to the world community.

"Our Open Scholarship site enables us to highlight intellectual achievements of our students and faculty," says Shirley K. Baker, vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of University Libraries. "While initially we are featuring recently completed theses and dissertations, we will also add to the site publications that faculty and students would like to have made freely available on the Internet."

Even prior to the official launch of the service, the public site tallied more than 1,200 downloads of papers—roughly two downloads per item. Currently the site contains all of the electronic theses and dissertations completed at Washington University in St. Louis since 2009, as well as undergraduate honors theses and the winning essays from the Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition back to 2003. More collections are soon to follow.

Open Scholarship is available at http://openscholarship.wustl.edu. Those interested in submitting scholarly works to the repository will find helpful information in the Author Corner section of the site, which includes frequently asked questions. For more information, contact Tim Lepczyk, digital repository-metadata librarian, at tlepczyk@wustl.edu, or Digital Library Services at 314-935-6349.

New DVDs (Germanic Studies), March 2012

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

Is there a DVD you want the Libraries to get? Contact Brian

  Homo Faber [videorecording] / eine deutsch-französische Co-Production Bioskop Film, München und Action Films, Paris ; in Zusammenarbeit mit Stefi2 / Home Video, Hellas Athens. Originally released as a motion picture in 1991, based on the novel Homo Faber by Max Frisch. Dialogue in English.

Im Himmel, unter der Erde [videorecording] : der Jüdische Friedhof Weissensee/ Britzka Film in Koproduktion mit Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenberg, Saarländischer Rundfunk in Zusammenarbeit mit Arte ; ein Film von Britta Wauer. Tells the story of Weissensee Jewish Cemetery, the oldest Jewish cemetary still in use in Europe. In German, English, Russian and Hebrew with English subtitles.

Menschenfrauen [videorecording] / Regie und Produktion, Valie Export ; Drehbuch und Struktur, Peter Weibel unter Mitarbeit von Valie Export. Originally released as a motion picture in 1980. German dialogue; English subtitles.

Zotero & Mendeley Workshops in May

The Libraries will be offering workshops in May. Please see the dates and times below. Click on the links below to register.

If these classes don't fit your schedule, you can email Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu) or the Libraries' Citation Management Group to set up a  one-on-one session: wu-libcite@wumail.wustl.edu

Please keep in mind that our subscription to RefWorks ends June 30, 2012. We're recommending that you transfer your references to another citataion manager like Zotero or Mendeley.

Workshops:

• Zotero-- Wednesday, May 30; 4-5pm in Arc

• Mendeley -- Thursday, May 31; 4-5pm in Arc

New Books (Germanic Studies), March 2012

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

For Comparative Literature/Literature (General) titles or books on European Literature in general, 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.

Bertha von Suttner, "Die Waffen nieder!" / Johann Georg Lughofer (Hg.). Wien : EAS, Editionartscience, c2010.

Deutschland macht dicht : eine Mandelbaumiade / Dietmar Dath ; mit Bildern von Piwi. Berlin : Suhrkamp, 2010.

Doderer, das Kriminelle und der literarische Kriminalroman : zu Heimito von Doderers Ein Mord den jeder begeht / Gerald Sommer, Robert Walter (Hrsg.). Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, c2011.

Figuren des Messianischen in Schriften deutsch-jüdischer Intellektueller, 1900-1933 / Elke Dubbels. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2011.

Das Gellen der Tinte : zum Werk Thomas Klings / Frieder von Ammon, Peer Trilcke, Alena Scharfschwert (Hg.). Göttingen : V&R unipress, c2012.

Die Geschichte der Faust-Forschung : Weltanschauung, Wissenschaft und Goethes Drama / Rüdiger Scholz. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, [2011]

Die Geschichte des Diethelm von Buchenberg : aus dem 3. Band der Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten / Berthold Auerbach ; herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Virginia L. Lewis. Hannover : Wehrhahn, 2012.

Gewaltiges Schreiben gegen Gewalt : Erika Mann, Ulrike Meinhof, Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Wolf, Elfriede Jelinek, Helga Königsdorf / Sylvia Schmitz-Burgard. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, [2011], ©2011.

Holocaust images and picturing catastrophe : the cultural politics of seeing / Angi Buettner. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.

Der Insulanische Mandorell (1682) / Eberhard Werner Happel ; herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Stefanie Stockhorst. Berlin : Weidler, 2007.

Invitation to the bold of heart / Dorothee Elmiger ; translated by Katy Derbyshire. London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2011. Translation of: Einladung an die Waghalsigen.

"Jeder ist seines Unglücks Schmied" : Männer und Männlichkeiten in Werken Theodor Fontanes / Maja Razbojnikova-Frateva. Berlin : Frank & Timme, [2012], ©2012.

Kriegskindheiten und Erinnerungsarbeit : zur historischen und literarischen Verarbeitung von Krieg und Vertreibung / herausgegeben von Carsten Gansel und Paweł Zimniak. Berlin : Erich Schmidt, c2012.

Laurin / herausgegeben von Elisabeth Lienert, Sonja Kerth und Esther Vollmer-Eicken. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2011.

Maskeraden des (Post-)Kolonialismus : verschattete Repräsentationen "der Anderen" in der deutschsprachigen Literatur und im Film / Ortrud Gutjahr, Stefan Hermes (Hg.). Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, [2011], ©2011.

Mutterzunge : Erzählungen / Emine Sevgi Özdamar. Berlin : Rotbuch Verlag, 2010.

Die Narratologie der Liebe : Achim von Arnims "Gräfin Dolores" / Christian Metz. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2012.

Photographie, Malerei, und visuelle Wahrnehmung bei Theodor Fontane / Nora Hoffmann. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2011.

  Saturn's moons : W.G. Sebald : a handbook / edited by Jo Catling and Richard Hibbitt. London : Legenda, 2011.

Sport, Spiel und Leidenschaft : afrikanische und deutsche Perspektiven / Carlotta von Maltzan, David Simo (Hrsg.). München : Wilhelm Fink, 2012.

Through amateur eyes : film and photography in Nazi Germany / Frances Guerin. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.

Uwe Johnson und die DDR-Literatur : Beiträge des Uwe Johnson-Symposiums Klütz / herausgegeben von Lutz Hagestedt und Michael Hofmann. München : Belleville, [2011], ©2011.

Vom Erbe des literarischen Realismus des 19. Jahrhunderts : Tagung anlässlich des 200. Geburtstages von Fritz Reuter und des 100. Todestages von Wilhelm Raabe / mit Beiträgen von Heidi Beutin ... [et al.]. Berlin : Helle Panke, 2010.

Wolfgang Bauer Mediographie 1961-2011 : Bibliographie, Szenographie, Audiographie, Filmographie / Thomas Antonic. Wien : Praesens, [2011], ©2011.

The word unheard : legacies of anti-Semitism in German literature and culture / Martha B. Helfer. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2011.

Zensur im 19. Jahrhundert : das literarische Leben aus Sicht seiner Überwacher / Bernd Kortländer, Enno Stahl (Hgg.).