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in German Studies:
Fractured Biographies
Edited by Ian Wallace
Amsterdam, New York, NY 2003. VIII, 249 pp.(German Monitor 57)
ISBN: 90-420-0966-7 Bound € 60,-/ US$ 67.-
ISBN: 90-420-0956-X Paper € 30,-/US$ 33.-
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik. Band 58 – 2003.
Herausgegeben von Erika Langbroek, Arend Quak, Annelies Roeleveld und Paula
Vermeyden. V, 292 pp.
ISBN: 90-420-0838-5 Paper € 70,-/US$ 83.-
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Fractured Biographies; Edited by Ian Wallace
Amsterdam, New York, NY 2003. VIII, 249 pp. (German Monitor 57)
ISBN: 90-420-0966-7 Bound € 60,-/ US$ 67.-; ISBN: 90-420-0956-X Paper €
30,-/US$ 33.-
A physical chemist (Fritz Haber), a photographer (Josef Breitenbach), a
cabaret artist (Georg Kreisler), two writers (Otto Alscher and Albin
Stuebs), a pioneering scholar in Irish-German studies (John Hennig) and a
Celtic philologist (Julius Pokorny) are the focus of this volume. What they
have in common is a biography fractured by the Nazis’ rise to power in 1933.
Six were forced into exile; the life of the seventh, the Romanian-German
writer Otto Alscher, shows that even the biography of a Nazi sympathiser
could be dislocated by the years of dictatorship. As the previously
unpublished letters which are reproduced here show, Fritz Haber, a Nobel
prize winner, spent ‘his last lonely months’ seeking a dignified way to
leave the country to which he had once felt the deepest attachment. Although
a prominent member of Germany’s academic élite, Julius Pokorny had to retire
because of his Jewish ancestry in December 1935 and yet was allowed to
continue publishing on ethnic themes until his exile in 1943. Albin Stuebs
was forced to seek refuge in Prague and later England when his left-wing
political convictions made him a certain target for the Nazis. Because of
his marriage into a liberal Jewish family, John Hennig had to renounce all
hope of an academic career in Nazi Germany and, after his exile to Ireland,
struggled in straitened circumstances to support his family while at the
same time developing into an unusually prolific scholar. Proof that exile
may stimulate creative energy is provided by Josef Breitenbach, whose
remarkable biography appears to show that loss and uprootedness may release
otherwise undeveloped creative potential. Similarly, the flight of Georg
Kreisler from Vienna in 1938 was the start of ‘a remarkable voyage of
discovery’ which saw him grow into a major, if consistently undervalued
figure in the world of post-war German cabaret.
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Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik. Band 58 – 2003.
Herausgegeben von Erika Langbroek, Arend Quak, Annelies Roeleveld und Paula
Vermeyden. V, 292 pp.
ISBN: 90-420-0838-5 € 70,-/US$ 83.-
Inhalt:
In Memoriam Prof. dr. J.A. Huisman
Frederik KORTLANDT: Glottalization, Preaspiration and Gemination in English
and Scandinavian
Dirk BOUTKAN † : On Gothic magaþs ~ Old Frisian megith and the Form of Some
North European Substratum Words in Germanic
Marc Pierce: Zur Etymologie von germ. rûna
Petra HÖRNER: Imitatio Christi die Anfänge in der deutschen Literatur des
Mittelalters
Andrea de LEEUW VAN WEENEN: Rock or Rubble Old Icelandic Material in
Indoeuropean Studies: A Critical Evaluation of the Old Icelandic Material in
Dirk Boutkan’s The Germanic ‘Auslautgesetze’
Laura AUTERI: Dichotomien über den Tod in Gottfrieds Tristan
Maurice SPRAGUE: Manifestations of Love. De amore and the Middle High German
Poetic Environment
Albrecht CLASSEN: Jewish-Christian Relations in the German Middle Ages - the
Exploration of Alternative Voices? The Deconstruction of a Myth or Factual
History? Literary-historical Investigations
Gary C. SHOCKEY: “Und ist denn nicht das ganze christentum aufs judentum
gebaut?”: Christenmensch unde iude: zur Frage der Parallelität in der
‘Erlösung’
Erika LANGBROEK: Ein merkwürdiges Ende oder eine doppelte Erzählung ?
Probleme beim Aufbau der Versdichtung ‘Van dren konyngen’ im Hartebok
Michael BÄRMANN: Johannes Pauli in Freiburg: zu einem Rats protokolleintrag
des Jahres 1495
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