German Studies Review (GSR) is the scholarly journal of the German Studies Association (GSA), the world’s largest academic association devoted to the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary study of the German-speaking countries. Recent issues have covered topics from Alexander von Humboldt and postcolonial theory to Krupp housing estates in the Ruhr valley to the popularity of German gangsta rap. A peer-reviewed journal, GSR includes articles and book reviews on the history, literature, culture, and politics of the German-speaking areas of Europe encompassing primarily, but not exclusively, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Table of Contents
In Memoriam: Diethelm Prove (1941–2015) p. x Sabine Hake
GSA Conference Snapshots The Great War and the Classical World: GSA Presidential Address, Kansas City, 2014 pp. 239–261 Suzanne Marchand
Special Issue
Surveillance and German Studies: Introduction pp. 263–269 S. Jonathan Wiesen, Andrew Zimmerman
Articles
Attack on Freedom: The Surveillance State, Security Obsession, and the Dismantling of Civil Rights pp. 271–284 Ilija Trojanow, Juli Zeh, Josh Alvizu, Marc Petersdorff
“Thought Is in Itself a Dangerous Operation”: The Campaign Against “Revolutionary Machinations” in Germany, 1819–1828 pp. 285–306 George S. Williamson
Datenschutz, the Defense of Law, and the Debate over Precautionary Surveillance: The Reform of Police Law and the Changing Parameters of State Action in West Germany pp. 307–327 Larry Frohman
“Cinematography of Devices”: Harun Farocki’s Eye/Machine Trilogy pp. 329–351 Martin Blumenthal-Barby
“There is power in looking”: Surveying the Ambivalence of Surveillance Power in the Tatort Television Series pp. 353–371 Vanessa D. Plumly
Return to Premodern Times?—: Contemporary Security Studies, the Early Modern Holy Roman Empire, and Coping with Achronies pp. 373–392 Cornel Zwierlein
Review Essay
The Opaque State: Surveillance and Deportation in the Bundesrepublik pp. 393–405 Quinn Slobodian
Reviews
The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry by Judith Ryan (review) pp. 407–408 Charlotte Melin
Deploying Orientalism in Culture and History: From Germany to Central and Eastern Europe ed. by James Hodkinson and John Walker with Shaswati Mazumdar and Johannes Feichtinger (review) pp. 409–411 Qinna Shen
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: His Life, Works, and Thought by H. B. Nisbet (review) pp. 411–414 Seth Berk
Kant’s Observations and Remarks: A Critical Guide ed. by Susan Meld Shell and Richard Velkley (review) pp. 414–416 Lara Denis
Goethe’s Visual World by Pamela Currie (review) pp. 416–418 Franz R. Kempf
Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians since 1800 by H. Glenn Penny (review) pp. 418–420 Petra Watzke
Nietzsche, Wagner, Europe by Martine Prange (review) pp. 421–423 Zoë Lang
Image in Outline: Reading Lou Andreas-Salomé by Gisela Brinker-Gabler (review) pp. 423–425 Laura Deiulio
Der George-Kreis und die Theosophie. Mit einem Exkurs zum Swastika-Zeichen bei Helena Blavatsky, Alfred Schuler und Stefan George by Jan Stottmeister (review) pp. 425–427 Rolf J. Goebel
Eine Familie im Krieg. Leben, Sterben und Schreiben 1914–1918 by Dorothee Wierling (review) pp. 428–430 Peter Beicken
To Crown the Waves: The Great Navies of the First World War ed. by Vincent P. O’Hara, W. David Dickson, and Richard Worth (review) pp. 430–432 Dirk Bönker
Prelude to Blitzkrieg: The 1916 Austro-German Campaign in Romania by Michael B. Barrett (review) pp. 432–434 Jason Johnson
A Short History of the Weimar Republic by Colin Storer (review) pp. 434–436 Brendan Fay
American Big Business in Britain and Germany: A Comparative History of Two “Special Relationships” in the 20th Century by Volker R. Berghahn (review) pp. 436–437 Mark D. Kuss
The Notion of Authority (A Brief Presentation) by Alexandre Kojève (review) pp. 438–439 Eric Brandom
No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnányi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State by Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern (review) pp. 440–441 John K. Downey
Hunting Nazis in Franco’s Spain by David A. Messenger (review) pp. 442–443 Sandra Ott
The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945–1970 by Andrew Demshuk (review) pp. 444–445 R.M. Douglas
Vor der Mauer. Berlin in der Ost-West-Konkurrenz 1948 bis 1961 by Michael Lemke (review) pp. 445–447 William Glenn Gray
Encounters with Modernity: The Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945–1975 by Benjamin Ziemann (review) pp. 447–449 Maria Mitchell
East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History by Sebastian Heiduschke (review) pp. 449–451 Sonja Fritzsche
Complicity, Censorship and Criticism: Negotiating Space in the GDR Literary Sphere by Sara Jones (review) pp. 451–454 Elizabeth Mittman
Demokratie erschreiben. Bürgerbriefe und Petitionen als Medien politischer Kultur 1950–1974 by Michaela Fenske (review) pp. 454–456 Susanne Kranz
Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties by Carrie Smith-Prei (review) pp. 456–459 Jennifer Ruth Hosek
Orte für Amerika. Deutsch-Amerikanische Institute und Amerikahäuser in der Bundesrepublik seit den 1960er Jahren by Reinhild Kreis (review) pp. 459–461 Frank Trommler
Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog by Eric Ames (review) pp. 461–463 Christina Gerhardt
Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium: Sites, Sounds, and Screens ed. by Sabine Hake and Barbara Mennel (review) pp. 463–465 Barbara Kosta
Transatlantische Germanistik. Kontakt, Transfer, Dialogik by Paul Michael Lützeler (review) pp. 466–467 Mary Bricker
Der “Ostfaktor.” Die österreichische Wirtschaft 1989–2009 by Dieter Stiefel (review) pp. 468–470 Michael Gehler
Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy & Urban Space by Annika Marlen Hinze (review) pp. 470–472 Ina Dietzsch
Scheitert Europa? by Joschka Fischer (review) pp. 472–474 Edgar Wolfrum
Holding the Shop Together: German Industrial Relations in the Postwar Era by Stephen J. Silvia (review) pp. 474–476 Adam T. Rosenbaum
In the World Interior of Capital: For a Philosophical Theory of Globalization by Peter Sloterdijk (review) pp. 476–478 Eleanor Courtemanche
Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis (review) pp. 478–480 David A. Meir