The Gastarbeter and the subsequent Turkish-German community in Germany have prompted scholarly debate over the challenges such a settlement has posed to larger German society. Yet few among those involved in such discussions approach these issues from the perspective of the Turk…
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Prince Ludwig of Anhalt wrote his Book of Job (Hiob ) during the seventeenth century, when the movement known as Christian Hebraism was at its peak. Renowned as the director of the first German language society, the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, Prince Ludwig's endeavors in the …
This dissertation examines aspects of the Jewish encounter with modern discourses of subjectivity. The project follows three interventions into discourses of Jewish subjectivity, two by Jewish authors who grapple with the question of how to speak as Jews in the modern German con…
Goethe's West-östlicher Divan often elicits contradictory responses - for some, it is a beacon of tolerance and engagement, and for others, an appropriating Orientalist discourse. In this essay I argue that both definitions apply to different portions of the work: the voice of d…
This dissertation is a study of four novels that document the complexity of Turkish-German cultural interactions. It start out by criticizing the practice of categorizing literature primarily according to the ethnicity of its authors. In doing so, it attempts to redefine Turkish…
Against the background of the young Martin Buber's discovery of a communal orientation in the Zionist movement, his retellings of Hasidic stories in his two early books reveal a struggle for a new Jewish self-understanding driven by an experience of alienation. The books offer b…
This thesis focuses on the writings of Anant Kumar, an Indian author living in Germany and writing in German. It includes an introduction that examines the long history of literary interaction between Germany and the East. Particular attention is then devoted to two of Kumar's r…
In the following work, I deal with the relationship of faith to superstition, and their reflection in German literature based on religious studies in a literary work. First, there will be an introduction to this work and the topic and then the subject of superstition will be gen…
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a challenging yet accessible survey of this versatile figure, not only one of the world's greatest writers but also a theatre director and art critic, a natural scientist and state administrator. The volume places Goethe in the context …
Body Language: Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Language in Johann Georg Hamann addresses the centrality of sensual perception to the constitution of subjectivity and the resulting relationship between subjectivity and language in the work of Johann Georg Hamann. In positing the …
Herta Müller: politics and aesthetics
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