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NBN Episodes hosted by Julia:
German Studies
June 4, 2018
Post-Katastrophische Poetik
Zu W. G. Sebald und Walter Benjamin
Luisa Banki
Hosted by
Julia Stetter
W. G. Sebald, one of the most prominent German-speaking authors of the late 20th century, has been discussed in German literary studies again and again. Nonetheless, many questions about him …
German Studies
April 25, 2018
Turkish Women Writers in German Cities
Jannica Budde
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Julia Stetter
In Germany, beginning in the 1960s, a major population shift took place. The reason for it was the German guest worker program. Due to the German 'economic miracle,' the country …
German Studies
April 12, 2018
Autopoiesis and Literature
The Short History of an Endless Process
Marcel Schmid
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Julia Stetter
In his new book Autopoiesis and Literature: The Short History of an Endless Process (Autopoiesis und Literatur: Die kurze Geschichte eines endlosen Verfahrens [transcript, 2016]), Marcel Schmid, a visiting postdoc …
German Studies
April 2, 2018
Man, the Ape
Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900
Hanna Engelmeier
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Julia Stetter
The relationship between humans and apes has been discussed for centuries. That discussion took a new turn with the publication and reception of Darwin's On the Origin of Species by …
German Studies
March 23, 2018
Theater of the Maimed
Fictional Characters between Deformation und Destruction in Theatrical Works of the Twentieth and early Twenty-First Centuries
Till Nitschmann
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Julia Stetter
In his new book Theater of the Maimed: Fictional Characters between Deformation und Destruction in Theatrical Works of the Twentieth and early Twenty-First Centuries (Knigshausen and Neumann, 2015) (Theater der …
German Studies
March 14, 2018
Wissen um Stimmung
Diskurs und Poetik in Robert Musils Die Verwirrungen des Zoglings Torless und Vereinigungen
Sergej Rickenbacher
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Julia Stetter
In his new book, Wissen um Stimmung (Knowledge of Mood), Sergej Rickenbacher, a post-doc at the University of Aachen, examines two works of Robert Musil from the perspective of knowledge …
German Studies
February 28, 2018
Autodidacticism, Artistry, Media Practice
Representations of Dilettantism in the Works of Philipp Moritz, Carl Einstein und Thomas Bernhard
Julia Kerscher
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Julia Stetter
In her new book, Autodidacticism, Artistry, Media Practice (Autodidaktik, Artistik, Medienpraktik [Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2016]), Julia Kerscher, postdoc at the University of Tubingen examines the historical development of appearances of …
German Studies
January 22, 2018
The Moving View
The Gaze in the Modern German Literature
Margarete Fuchs
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Julia Stetter
In her new book Der bewegende Blick: Literarische Blickinszenierungen der Moderne (Rombach Verlag, 2014)---The Moving View: The Gaze in the Modern German Literature---Margarete Fuchs, a postdoc at the Philipps University …
German Studies
January 16, 2018
Europe Narrated, Contextualized and Remembered
The Discourse of 'Europe' in Contemporary German Literature
Lena Wetenkamp
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Julia Stetter
Lena Wetenkamp's Europe Narrated, Contextualized and Remembered: The Discourse of 'Europe' in Contemporary German Literature (Europa erzhalt, verortet, erinnert: Europa-Diskurse in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (Koenigshausen and Neumann, 2017)) is an …
German Studies
December 24, 2017
Sehnsucht nach dem Guten
Tanja Angela Kunz
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Julia Stetter
In her new book Longing for the Good. The Relationship between Literature and Ethics in the Work of Peter Handke (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2017), Tanja Angela Kunz, a postdoc at …
German Studies
December 1, 2017
Morality and Literature
A Historical Typology
Christian Kirchmeier
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Julia Stetter
In his new book Morality and Literature: A Historical Typology (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013)---in German: Moral und Literatur. Eine historische Typologie---Christian Kirchmeier, post doc at the University of Munich who …
German Studies
November 24, 2017
Thieves
Stealing in Literature, Philosophy, and Myth
Andreas Gehrlach
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Julia Stetter
In his new book Thieves: Stealing in Literature, Philosophy, and Myth (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2016)---in German: Diebe: Die heimliche Aneignung als Ursprungserzahlung in Literatur, Philosophie und Mythos---Andreas Gehrlach, post doc …