scholarly journals Between Postdramatic Text and Dramatic Drama: Recent German-Language Playwriting by Lukas Bärfuss and Katja Brunner

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Richard McClelland
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
German Language ◽  
Creative Tension ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The One

Since 2000 there has been a boom in playwriting in the German-speaking world. This is shaped by a creative tension between two forms of theatre-texts. On the one hand the postdramatic text that exists in a theatre marked by a parataxis of all theatrical elements, as outlined by Hans-Thies Lehmann and Gerda Poschmann; on the other, the ‘dramatic drama’ as identified by Birgit Haas that engages with dramatic representation whilst still questioning the reality being represented on the stage. In this contribution I explore these strands of contemporary playwriting in two texts written since 2000: Lukas Bärfuss’ Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (2003) and Katja Brunner’s von den beinen zu kurz (2012). My analysis examines how both playwrights question dramatic conventions of form and character and the implications this has for audience efforts to discern meaning in the plays.

Deutschsprachige Reiseberichte über Korea um 1900

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihee Hong
Keyword(s):  
Travel Literature ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The Other ◽  
German Language ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Korean Culture ◽  
South Korean ◽  
German Speaking

The period around 1900 marks the threshold from “not knowing” to “knowing” about Korea. During this time the first German-language travelogue appeared. The study is based on four selected travelogues written between 1880 and 1915 and analyzes the representational strategies of the text and pictures on their “knowledge of Korea”. The material has hardly been explored to date. It is examined against the background of the complex relationship between travel literature and the generation and transfer of knowledge about the “other culture”, as well as the cultural practices and power structures associated with it. The perspective of the South Korean Germanist on the writings of “the others”, the German-speaking Europeans, about her “own” heritage, the Korean Culture, is extraordinarily revealing.

scholarly journals Mehr als Dialekt-Relikte: Regionale Variation im Gegenwartsdeutschen

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Robert Möller ◽  
Stephan Elspaß
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Online Surveys ◽  
Standard Language ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
Regional Diversity ◽  
Lexical Variation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The One

<p>Although dialect use has declined massively over the past 100 years in large parts of the German-speaking countries, there is still a considerable areal diversity overall. Even the written standard language is characterised by diatopic heterogeneity on various levels – pronunciation, lexis, grammar, pragmatics. This is even more true for spoken everyday language, which, depending on the country and area, may be more dialectal, regiolectal, or near-standard in the German-speaking countries. This paper focuses on lexical variation and presents data from the <em>Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache </em>(AdA) from online surveys conducted over the last 17 years; some of these data is compared with older data from the <em>Wortatlas der deutschen Umgangssprachen</em> (WDU) collected in the 1970s. The approx. 600 maps of the AdA produced so far document, on the one hand, a surprisingly clear preservation of older regional contrasts in the distribution of diatopic variants, as already known from earlier dialect atlases. On the other hand, the AdA maps show a multitude of newer cases of regional diversity, which were hardly or not at all known before and which are thus not listed in codices or studies on the lexis of contemporary German. The paper shows that even variants for modern concepts are often not uniform across regions but can have distinct regional emphases. Finally, the question of dominant areal structures in present-day lexical variation of German will be addressed.</p>

Ein wortnetzbasierter Ansatz für die korpusgestützte Modellierung von Fachterminologie. Ein Beitrag zur digitalen Fachlexikographie

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Beisswenger
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
German Language ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
The One ◽  
Princeton Wordnet ◽  
Technical Terms ◽  
Modelling Approach

AbstractThis article describes an approach for modelling domain-specific terminology in a wordnet-style representation. It uses the fundamental entities and relations introduced for the Princeton WordNet (Fellbaum 1998) and expands upon these in a way that fits for the representation of technical terms that are given in a corpus with scientific texts.The article starts with an overview on some essential semantic and lexical features of technical terms and terminological systems from the perspective of LSP research and formulates a set of requirements that derive from these characteristics for a modelling of domain-specific terminology which also aims to include terminological diversity (i.e. the existence of several terminological systems competing within the same special-field domain).Subsequently, the modelling approach with its fundamental modelling units will be introduced and the essential modelling decisions made with regard to the previously formulated requirements will be illuminated.In closing, two applications based on the modelling approach will be introduced: on the one hand a hypertext glossary of the domains “hypermedia research and text technology” which has been built in the context of the DFG-funded project “Text-grammatical foundations of text-to-hypertext conversion” at TU Dortmund University, and on the other hand the component “Grammatische Ontologie” of the grammatical online information system “Grammis” at the Institute for German Language (IDS), Mannheim.

scholarly journals A language that forgot itself (Essay on the curious non-existence of German as a recognized minority language in today’s Poland)

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Tomasz Kamusella
Keyword(s):  
Minority Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
German Language ◽  
Upper Silesia ◽  
Region I ◽  
History Of ◽  
German Minority ◽  
The One ◽  
Everyday Communication ◽  
Official Recognition

A language that forgot itself  (Essay on the curious non-existence of German as a recognized minority language in today’s Poland)This essay draws on my almost three decades worth of research on the multiethnic and multilingual history of Upper Silesia during the last two centuries, when various ethnolinguistic nationalisms have radically altered the ethnic, political, demographic and linguistic shape of the region. I focus on the German minority that was recognized in Poland in the early 1990s. This recognition was extended to the German language. However, though in official statistics there are hundreds of schools with German, and bilingual signage amply dots the Upper Silesian landscape, neither in the region nor elsewhere in Poland is there a single, however small, locality where German would be the language of everyday communication. With this essay I attempt to explicate this irony of official recognition on the one hand, and the tacitly enforced non-existence on the ground, on the other hand.

scholarly journals АВСТРІАЦИЗМИ У МОВІ СУЧАСНОЇ АВСТРІЙСЬКОЇ ПРЕСИ

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Карпік М. ◽  
Павличко О.
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
German Language ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Development Trends ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Phonemic Similarity ◽  
Newspaper Articles

The proposed study is aimed at confirming the hypothesis that there exist two opposing trends in media discourse. On the one hand, there is a tendency to globalization; on the other hand, linguocultural communities are quite determined to preserve their culture and identity. To prove this hypothesis we analyzed a corpus of newspaper texts published over several years. Namely, we studied 1483 Austriacisms recorded by the dictionary Variantenwörterbuch des Deutschen. The objective was to discover the frequency in the use of certain Austriacisms and their Teutonic equivalents in Austrian newspaper Die Presse to identify convergent or divergent processes in the development trends of the German language in Austrian media discourse. The research showed that only 453 lexical units dominated in newspaper articles; it made 30% of 1483 codified Austriacisms. We found that 71 lexemes showed tendency to the parallel use in forms of Austriacisms and Teutonisms which makes less than 5 % of the total number of the lexical units. Such terms have predominantly similar pronunciation hence we can draw a conclusion that such phonemic similarity facilitates equal use of these Austriacisms and Teutonisms in newspapers and stipulates their convergence. These lexical units are not marked by any particular ethnocultural specificity. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the word stock denoting Austrian culture, traditions, and realia of daily life.

scholarly journals Die Schweizer Wenkersätze

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadja Kakhro
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
German Language ◽  
German Studies ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Long Time

Georg Wenker, a librarian and a specialist in German Studies of the Marburg University initiated the Linguistic Atlas of the German Language, having started a distribution of a questionnaire composed of sentences with the most striking phonetic and grammar features of the German language. He sent it to elementary teachers who were to translate Wenker's sentences to the dialects they spoke. As a result of responses, dialect borders of the German language were defined - first within Germany, then in the other German-speaking states. In the 1930s those questionnaires, after some changes, got to Switzerland. Having doubts about the method chosen by the researcher and the reliability of the materials received, Wenker's questionnaires were subjected to strong criticism and set aside for a long time. However, Wenker's material is of great interest for researchers, including the Syntax of dialects. Syntactic phenomena are defined in this paper, the study of which became possible due to the questionnaires (by comparison with other sources). Also preliminary results of the analysis of the Swiss questionnaires were presented from the syntactic point of view.

Editorial: „Special Focus on Holm Tetens’s ‚Thinking God‘ (‚Gott denken‘)“

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Godehard Brüntrup
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Young Scholar ◽  
Knock Down ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Analytic Philosopher ◽  
The One ◽  
Philosophical Community

SummaryIn Germany, Holm Tetens is an influential analytic philosopher of science, mind, and logic. For many years he had been arguing within the widely accepted framework of naturalism and atheism. It came, to put it mildly, as a surprise to the entire philosophical community in Germany when he published a book defending theism in 2015. In this book “Thinking God” he claims that physicalism is an incomplete account of reality, because the mental and ideal realm cannot be reduced to the physical realm. As an alternative, he develops a version of theistic idealism which stands in the tradition of “panentheism”. Human subjectivity is fully embedded into the all-encompassing divine subjectivity. In dealing with the problem of theodicy, he then argues that the hope for eternal life and salvation by a supremely good being makes life more meaningful, esp. because it offers a prospect for justice to the countless victims of history. To Tetens, the worldview of naturalism and the worldview of theistic idealism are on the one hand both equally rational and defensible. On the other hand, both cannot be defeated by knock-down arguments. In closing, he urges his peers in philosophy to take the question of God seriously again. Shortly after the publication of the book, the Catholic Academy of Bavaria and the Munich School of Philosophy jointly organized an international master class on Tetens’s views which was taught by himself. The papers published in this issue grew out of this master class. For each paper by a young scholar there is also a reply by Tetens. The following editorial addresses specifically the German-speaking audience. It was thus not translated into English. All original papers discussing Tetens’s views and his replies to these, however, were written in English for the sake of reaching a larger worldwide readership.

Zur Rezeption der Oratorien Haydns in Paris zwischen 1800 und 1850: Institutionelle und ästhetische aspekte

2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 201-213
Author(s):  
Martin Loeser
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
The Other ◽  
Music Festivals ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Choral Societies ◽  
The One ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Concert Life

In German speaking countries Haydn’s oratorios, and particularly TheCreation , have played an important role in the repertoire of choral societies and music festivals since the 1810s. However, in France, and also in Paris — “the capital of the 19th century” —, Haydn’s oratorios were performed only on rare occasions, and then they were given mostly in parts. The reasons for these circumstances can be seen in the institutional and esthetical context of the Parisian concert life. With respect to professional concert societies, like the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire , rigid obstacles were on the one hand the enormous financial risk of a complete oratorio performance. On the other hand the established type of concert programmes with its varied mixture of vocal and instrumental pieces functioned as a barrier. Most important was a lack of mixed amateur choral societies, which developed in Paris quite late, primary in the 1840s, and then only little by little. Since oratorio performances lasted to be mostly a private affaire in the first half of the 19th century, it is not surprising, that Haydn’s oratorios were studied in aristocratic salons of Princesse de Belgiojoso and Baron Delmar with the intention of both education and entertainment.

scholarly journals Si isch grösser weder ig! Zum Komparativanschluss im Schweizerdeutschen

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Friedli
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
The Other ◽  
Variant Selection ◽  
Small Areas ◽  
Swiss German ◽  
The Third ◽  
German Dialects ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Comparative Constructions ◽  
The One

Whereas in Standard High German (SHG) there is only one comparative particle, in Swiss German Dialects (SGD) different lexemes may fulfill the function of a comparative particle: (1) SHG: Sie ist grösser als ich SGD: Si isch grösser als / as / weder / wan / wie ig 'She is bigger than me' The present paper describes the geographical distribution of the comparative particles in the Swiss German area in contexts such as (1). Whereas in some small areas only one comparative particle is found, in the rest of the Swiss German speaking area several competing variants coexist. The data are taken from the third questionnaire of the Syntactic Atlas of Swiss German Dialects, where three different comparative constructions have been investigated. A sociolinguistic analysis of the data reveals differences in the use of the particles: On the one hand, older people tend to use only one comparative particle, whereas younger people show a higher degree of variation. Moreover, older people tend to use the particle weder, in contrast to younger people who tend to use the particle wie. On the other hand, higher educated people use more than one comparative particle, whereas less educated people tend to use one variant only. The analysis of two other constructions also shortly mentioned in the paper shows that syntactic factors have an impact on variant selection, too.

scholarly journals Auch das Beständigste war nicht mehr von Dauer!1 Die Darstellung des Eigenen und des Gegenübers in Andreas Birkners Roma Die Tatarenpredigt

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-139
Author(s):  
Maria Sass
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
German Language ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mental Images ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The One

Abstract The present study focuses on imagology. Starting from the theoretical aspects of the concepts self-image and hetero-image, the analysis ponders upon the imagological constructs of two ethnical groups in the novel of the Romanian German-language author Andreas Birkner. In this analysis, the self image identifies with the one of the Transylvanian, and the image of the other is that of the Roma. The analysis of Birkner's novel leads to the conclusion that there have been certain mental images deeply rooted in historical reality and which can be, partly, explained by means of collective memory parameters. Stereotypes and prejudices should be considered in this context.

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