Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
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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.
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Luther on authority : law and order
(2010)
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Herbert Deinert
- This is a version of an often revised lecture first given at Cornell University in 1983 during a symposium commemorating Luther's birth five hundred years earlier and is based on six major writings dating from 1522 to 1531.
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Music
(2010)
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Herbert Deinert
- The musical ending [of Goethe's Novelle] recalls the fascination with "music as metaphor", "the power of music", among recent and contemporary poets from Pope and Dryden and Collins to E.T.A. Hoffmann and Kleist and, of course to Goethe himself. Music saves Faust's life on Easter morning at the end of a dreadful night, and we'll encounter a similar role of music in his Trilogie der Leidenschaft which we'll read in this context.
