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
Articles
Mendelssohn’s Stutter and the Collisions of Modern Thought pp. 223–240 James Rasmussen
It’s Not Easy Being Green: The Failure of Abstract Art in Gottfried Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich pp. 241–258 Andrea Meyertholen
Elective Paternities: White Germans and Black Americans in Hugo Bettauer’s Das blaue Mal (1922) pp. 259–277 Nancy P. Nenno
Reconciling the Opposites: Max Brod and Nationalism in Prague pp. 279–296 Zohar Maor
Renewal in the Shadow of the Catastrophe: Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan in Germany pp. 297–314 Amir Engel
Anti-Black Racism in West German Living Rooms: The ZDF Television Film Adaptation of Willi Heinrich’s Gottes zweite Garnitur pp. 315–334 Michelle René Eley
“Schwarz ist in”: Racial Fetishism, Sexuality, and Black Masculinity in Lothar Lambert’s 1 Berlin-Harlem pp. 335–352 Priscilla Layne
Review Essay
Authorship and Ownership pp. 353–363 Jakob Norberg
Reviews
Sovereign Feminine: Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany by Matthew Head (review) pp. 365–367 Tanya Kevorkian
Androids in the Enlightenment by Adelheid Voskuhl (review) pp. 367–369 Celia Applegate
Lesen. Kopieren. Schreiben. Lese- und Exzerpierkunst in der europäischen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts ed. by Elisabeth Décultot, and: Book Was There. Reading in Electronic Times by Andrew Piper, and: Wissensräume. Bibliotheken in der Literatur ed. by Mirko Gemmel and Margrit Vogt (review) pp. 369–373 Sabine Gross
Absolute Music: The History of an Idea by Mark Evan Bonds (review) pp. 373–376 Brendan Fay
Herder on Humanity and Cultural Difference: Enlightened Relativism by Sonia Sikka (review) pp. 376–378 Chunjie Zhang
Der ganze Mensch—die ganze Menschheit. Völkerkundliche Anthropologie, Literatur und Ästhetik um 1800 ed. by Stefan Hermes and Sebastian Kaufmann (review) pp. 378–381 Demetrius L. Eudell
Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 by Matt Erlin (review) pp. 381–383 Lena Heilmann
Heinrich von Kleist’s Novelle Die Verlobung in St. Domingo. Literatur und Politik im globalen Kontext um 1800 ed. by Reinhard Blänker (review) pp. 383–385 Sebastian Weirauch
Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms’ Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes (review) pp. 386–387 Renata T. Fuchs
Für Ruhe und Ordnung. Einsätze des Militärs im Innern (1820–1918). Preußen—Westfalen—Rheinprovinz by Michael P. Vollert (review) pp. 387–388 Christoph Nübel
The Philosophy of Life and Death: Ludwig Klages and the Rise of Nazi Biopolitics by Nitzan Lebovic (review) pp. 389–390 Martin Shuster
Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture: On the Threshold of German Modernism by Marsha Morton (review) pp. 391–392 Andrew I. Cavin
Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan by Hoi-Eun Kim (review) pp. 393–395 Adam T. Rosenbaum
An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality, and German Soldiers in the First World War by Jason Crouthamel (review) pp. 395–396 Barbara Hales
The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka by Carolin Duttlinger (review) pp. 397–398 Kata Gellen
Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Cinema by Steve Choe (review) pp. 398–400 Nancy P. Nenno
The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger’s “Being and Time.” ed. by Mark A. Wrathall (review) pp. 401–402 Richard Polt
Revolutionary Beauty: The Radical Photomontages of John Heartfield by Sabine T. Kriebel (review) pp. 403–405 Megan R. Luke
“Ich liebte Frankreich wie eine zweite Heimat.” Neue Studien zu Stefan Zweig / “J’aimais la France comme ma seconde patrie.” Actualité(s) de Stefan Zweig ed. by Régine Battiston and Klemens Renoldner, and: Zweigs England ed. by Rüdiger Görner and Klemens Renoldner (review) pp. 405–409 Marleen Rensen
Selling Under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany by Pamela E. Swett (review) pp. 409–411 Anne Berg
Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery by Benjamin Hett (review) pp. 411–412 Richard Lutjens
The Allied Occupation of Germany: The Refugee Crisis, Denazification and the Path to Reconstruction by Francis Graham-Dixon (review) pp. 413–414 Thomas W. Maulucci Jr.
How Could This Happen: Explaining the Holocaust by Dan McMillan (review) pp. 415–416 Alon Confino
The Body of the People: East German Dance since 1945 by Jens Richard Giersdorf (review) pp. 416–419 Alexandra Kolb
A History of the Berliner Ensemble by David Barnett (review) pp. 419–422 Hunter Bivens
The People’s Own Landscape: Nature, Tourism, and Dictatorship by Scott Moranda (review) pp. 422–424 Mark Keck-Szajbel
Verfolgte Schüler. Ursachen und Folgen von Diskriminierung im Schulwesen der DDR by Tina Kwiatkowski-Celofiga (review) pp. 424–426 Leonard Schmieding
“Das ist unsere Party.” HipHop in der DDR by Leonard Schmieding (review) pp. 426–428 J. Griffith Rollefson
How to Accept German Reparations by Susan Slyomovics (review) pp. 428–430 Steve Ostovich
United Germany: Debating Processes and Prospects ed. by Konrad H. Jarausch (review) pp. 430–432 Donna Harsch
Rekonstruktion und Entheroisierung. Paradigmen des “Generationenromans” in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur by Julian Reidy (review) pp. 432–435 Helmut Schmitz
Klang—Bild—Sprache. Musikalisch-akustische Konfigurationen in der Literatur und im Film der Gegenwart by Ulrich Schönherr (review) pp. 435–437 Mirko M. Hall
Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past by Amir Eshel (review) pp. 437–439 Abigail Gillman
Contributors p. 441