Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
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The Protestant Revolution or Wider die falsche Gelassenheit
(1993)
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Herbert Deinert
- This contribution was prompted by events in East Germany that ultimately led to German unification. Many forces contributed to the collapse of the GDR as a separate state, the final and most visible was the mass exodus via Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The Communist regime resisted change when change was taking place in most of East Germanys neighbors to the east and southeast. But an ever increasing number of increasingly restless citizens insisted on it and, not given a chance to change matters by improving the system, effected the most radical change of all: they swept away an unresponsive, cynical and calcified government.
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Martin Luther : 1483-1546
(1996)
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Herbert Deinert
- 450 years ago, in the early hours of February 18, the charismatic reformer and fearless combatant who had changed the face of Europe and of Christianity died in his home town of Eisleben while on a peace mission. The feuding Counts of Mansfeldt had asked him to mediate. Accompanied by his three sons, Luther, old at 62 and ailing, made the trip in mid-winter against the advice of friends and family. His body was returned to Wittenberg and buried there on February 22. It is impossible to overestimate his impact. The common priesthood of man, "everybody his own priest", this truly revolutionary notion at the core of his teaching, was immediately recognized for its (unintended) political, democratic implications. To him, all the faithful were one community, there was no room for separate casts. His zeal as a preacher of the "true faith", and his denunciation of those who would not accept it, earned him the reputation of intolerance, even anti-Semitism. The latter would surprise him, for he considered himself a prophet, though anointed against his will, like those of the Old Testament who also admonished, cajoled and condemned the "wayward children of Israel"'
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Paracelsus : (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim 1493-1541)
(1996)
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Herbert Deinert
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In memoriam Elizabeth M. Wilkinson (1909-2001)
(2001)
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Herbert Deinert
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Inta Ezergailis : 9/11/1932 - 1/1/2005
(2005)
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Herbert Deinert
- Words spoken at the Memorial Service on March 13, 2005, Sage Chapel, Cornell University
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An ode to joy : a season of grief
(2007)
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Herbert Deinert
- Beethoven's Ninth in Bailey Hall the other evening, April 20, ending in an instant standing ovation by a clearly enchanted audience, was an unforgettable experience. And, like all such truly extraordinary events that are marked not only by artistic merit, but draw their power from the circumstances surrounding their creation or performance, it recalled others and enhanced their significance. I was reminded of a stellar performance on Christmas Day of 1989, only weeks after the unexpected fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, that haunting date in German history. Few people believed it would ever happen. But now, suddenly, reunification in justice and freedom, as the truncated old national anthem phrases it, was within reach.
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Ludwig Tieck : Eckbert the fair
(2010)
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Herbert Deinert
- Eckbert the Fair. From Six German Romantic Tales, trans. Ronald Taylor. Dufour Editions. Here is my own more literal translation of the poems as they appear on pp. 21, 27 and 32.
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Brecht / Weill : The Three Penny Opera
(2010)
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Herbert Deinert
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Germans against Hitler
(2010)
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Herbert Deinert
- "The sun shines, and Hitler is master of this city. The sun shines, and dozens of my friends are in prison, possibly dead. Thousands of people like Frl. Schroeder are acclimatizing themselves, like an animal which changes its coat for the winter. After all, whatever government is in power, they are doomed to live in this town." These are among the final entries in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Diaries. Hitler has legally assumed power and Isherwood, who "can't altogether believe that any of this has really happened," will leave the city he has come to love and return to England. The Nazi Movement that began a decade ago in seedy Bavarian beer halls has now conquered its very antithesis, Prussia. It seems unstoppable. The people, as always, will adapt or perish.
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Murnau's Faust : eine deutsche Volkssage
(2010)
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Herbert Deinert
- The 1926 silent classic was directed by FW Murnau and stars Emil Jannings (Prof. Unrat in "The Blue Angel") as Mephisto. Goesta Ekman is Faust, the incomparable Camilla Horn an unforgettable Gretchen.
