Newsletter – Summer 2010 – Issue 115

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Newsletter – Summer 2010 – Issue 115
In this Issue:
2010 Conference Program
Announcements
Personal News
Books by Members
Filmography
…and More!
Women in German Newsletter 115 (Summer 2010): 1
Women in German Newsletter
Summer 2010
~~~~~ Table of Contents ~~~~~
About WiG
3
About the WiG Newsletter
4
Dear Readers!
5
2010 Conference Program
6
Conference Registration Info
12
WiG Announcements
13
Zantop Travel Award for Graduate Students
17
Zantop Endowment Campaign
18
Books by Members
20
Filmography
20
WiG Book Reviews
29
Personal News
34
Summer 2010
~~~~About WiG~~~~
The Coalition of Women in German is an allied organization of the MLA. Students, teachers,
and all others interested in feminism and German studies are welcome! Membership information
is available on the Internet at: http://womeningerman.roundtablelive.org/
Mission Statement of the Coalition of Women in German
Women in German (WiG) provides a democratic forum for all people interested in feminist
approaches to German literature and culture or in the intersection of gender with other categories
of analysis such as sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity. Through its annual conference, panels at
national professional meetings, and the publication of the Women in German Yearbook, the
organization promotes feminist scholarship of outstanding quality. Women in German is
committed to making school and college curricula inclusive and seeks to create bridges, cross
boundaries, nurture aspirations, and challenge assumptions while exercising critical self–
awareness. Women in German is dedicated to eradicating discrimination in the classroom and in
the teaching profession at all levels.
Women in German President: Nora M. Alter, Temple University,
president(AT)womeningerman.org
Vice-President and President-Elect: Barbara Kosta, University of Arizona,
president(AT)womeningerman.org
Treasurer: Waltraud Maierhofer, University of Iowa, treasurer(AT)womeningerman.org
Membership Coordinator: Helga Thorson, University of Victoria,
membership(AT)womeningerman.org
Women in German Steering Committee: steering(AT)womeningerman.org
Sonja Klocke, Knox College (2010- 2012) [email protected]
Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan, Dearborn (2010-2012),
[email protected]
Lisa Hock, Wayne State University (2009-2011), [email protected]
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, Lafayette College (2009-2011), [email protected]
Rick McCormick, University of Minnesota (2008-2010), [email protected]
Denise Della Rossa, University of Notre Dame (2008-2010), [email protected]
Yearbook Editors: yearbook(AT)womeningerman.org
Katharina Gerstenberger, University of Cincinnati
Patricia Simpson, Montana State University – Bozeman
Webeditor: Kyle Frackman, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
webeditor(AT)womeningerman.org
Conference Organizers (2006-2008): conference(AT)womeningerman.org
Liz Mittman, Michigan State University (lead organizer, site and transportation)
Denise Della Rossa, Notre Dame University (online conference registration)
Jennifer Redmann, Kalamazoo College (conference program)
Summer 2010
~~~About the WiG Newsletter ~~~
The WiG Newsletter, published online three times a year, contains information about the
organization, announcements of upcoming conferences, plans for conferences, news from
abroad, personal news about members, conference reports, a bibliography and filmography,
reviews of online resources, book reviews, and selected items culled from the WiG-L list.
Reviews and other materials from past issues of the WiG Newsletter are available on the Women
in German Website, www.womeningerman.org
Subscription: The WiG Newsletter is automatically part of WiG membership. All issues are epublications and each new issue is available on a password-protected area of the Women in
German website. Members receive notification by email (which includes access information and
passwords) when a new issue is out.
Submissions: Students, teachers, and all others interested in feminism and German studies are
encouraged to submit relevant material to the WiG Newsletter. Please email your submission to
the appropriate section editor (see list below). General questions should be addressed to the coeditors.
Submission Deadlines: for the Winter (January) issue, December 15; for the Spring (March)
issue, February 15; for the Summer (June) issue, May 30.
Co-Editors: [email protected]
Rachel Freudenburg, Boston College
Maria Stehle, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Section Editors:
Conference Reports: Michelle Stott James, Brigham Young University,
[email protected]
News and Calls: Carrie Smith-Prei, University of Alberta, [email protected] and
Corinna Kahnke, California Polytechnic State University, [email protected]
Personal News: Karen R. Achberger, St. Olaf College, [email protected]
Fascinating Clicks: Jennifer Askey, Kansas State University, [email protected]
Bibliography: Jennifer Hosek, Queens University, [email protected], and Sarah
McGaughey, Dickinson College, [email protected], and Carrie Smith-Prei,
University of Alberta, [email protected]
Book Reviews: Laurie Taylor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
[email protected]
Newsletter Editorial Assistants:
Zsuzsanna Rothne Zadori, University of Tennessee Knoxville, [email protected]
Hanna O’Neill, Michigan State University, [email protected]
Note: Rachel Freudenburg and Maria Stehle are the co-editors for the WiG Newsletter. Do not
send them texts or materials which should be sent to a section editor as listed above.
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Summer 2010
~~~~ Dear Readers! ~~~~
Welcome to the Summer Issue of the WiG Newsletter!
This issue starts off with a look toward the 35th annual WiG Conference, which will take place
on the third weekend in October at the Yarrow Golf and Conference Resort. Thanks to Nora
Alter’s efforts, we will welcome German film director Ulrike Ottinger as our guest, which is sure
to make this conference an exciting and memorable one! In addition to engaging papers on
Ottinger, film, feminism, and literature from all imaginable eras, we will pay plenty of attention
to relevant—even urgent—issues that challenge us in our work every day: The Thursday night
session, which traditionally combines the personal and the professional, looks at “Marketing
German Studies.” The professional praxis slot is filled with workshops on “the Changing Job
Market.” And the last formal panel of the conference, “Mission, Position, Identity,” allows us to
step back and reevaluate WiG’s mission in 2010, and to appreciate how the organization has (or
has not) changed from its beginnings over 35 years ago.
We have begun to move some of the columns previously contained in the Newsletter to the
website. The International News is now located at www.womeningerman.org, where it will be
updated periodically. We extend many thanks to Carrie Smith-Prei and Corinna Kahnke for their
work on this feature.
There is a wonderful filmography (written by Carrie Smith-Prei) and three book reviews in this
Newsletter, as well as a list of books by WiG members. Don’t forget to send us your book or
bring it to the conference so that we can solicit a reviewer for it. (Send books to: Rachel
Freudenburg, German Studies, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467).
Sadly, Laurie Taylor will be stepping down as book review editor. She helped to get the WiG
Book Reviews off the ground and we owe her a debt of gratitude for that important service to our
organization. We are, therefore, looking for a new book review editor, so if you are interested in
the position, or would like more information, or would like to suggest someone, please contact
either of us, Rachel or Maria, at the email address below.
Finally, it is essential that we find a Web Editor to help maintain and update WiG’s website.
More and more of our professional business is conducted online, and it is crucial to the
functioning of WiG that we have two Web Editors. Even though we are all very busy, website
management is a valuable skill, even in academia. So please consider applying for this position.
Rachel Freudenburg, Boston College
Maria Stehle, University of Tennessee Knoxville
[email protected]
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Summer 2010
~~~ 2010 Conference Program ~~~
COALITION OF WOMEN IN GERMAN (WIG) 35TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Yarrow Golf and Conference Resort
Augusta, MI
October 21-24, 2010
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
All panel and workshop sessions will be held in Dogwood Hall (main lodge).
The poster session and film screenings will take place in Larkspur Hall.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21
5:30-6:30 pm
DINNER
6:45-8:00 pm
THURSDAY EVENING SESSION
MARKETING GERMAN STUDIES: VISIBILITY, STUDENTS, JOBS
Organizers: Britt Abel, Macalester College
Karen R. Achberger, St. Olaf College
1. Helene Zimmer-Loew, AATG: A National View of the Status of
German
2. Lynn Kutch, Kutztown University: Building and Sustaining
German Studies at Today’s Universities
3. Astrid Weigert, Georgetown University: Visibility through
Campus Events – Rewards and Challenges
4. Katrin Völkner, Northwestern University: What Do Students
Want? Insights from a Student-Conducted Survey
5. Deb Roney, Juniata College: Juniata College’s Language in
Motion - Another Vehicle for Exciting Interest in German
9:00 pm -
RECEPTION HOSTED BY THE COLLEGE
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
OF
ARTS & LETTERS,
Invited Guests:
Karin A. Wurst, Dean of the College
Thomas Lovik, Chair of the Dept. of Linguistics and Germanic,
Slavic, Asian and African Languages
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Lisa Fine and Anne Ferguson, Co-Directors of the Center for Gender
in Global Context
Norm Graham, Director of the Center for European, Russian and
Eurasian Studies
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22
7:30-8:30 am
BREAKFAST
9:00-10:45 am
PRE-20TH CENTURY PANEL
MOODS AND GENDER
Organizers: Lisabeth Hock, Wayne State University
May Mergenthaler, Ohio State University
Moderator: Pauline Ebert, Wayne State University
1. Bethany Van Camp, Ohio State University: Nature through
Philosophy’s Lens – Caroline Fouqués “Magie der Natur” and the
Kantian Sublime
2. Lisabeth Hock, Wayne State University: Bettine, Günderode, and
a Debate about Mood States
3. Katrin Pahl, Johns Hopkins University: “Kleist’s Queer Feelings”
11:00–12:45 pm
WOMEN WRITERS IN GERMAN: RETHINKING SPACE AND PLACE
Organizers: Carola Daffner, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Beth Ann Muellner, College of Wooster
1. Sabine Noellgen, University of Washington: Space and
Environmentality in Bettina von Arnim’s Die Günderode
2. Sofie Decock, Georgetown University: Alternative Places of
Peace and Gender Transgression in Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s
Asian and African Travel Writings
3. Monika Shafi, University of Delaware: Heimat, Buildings and
Bodies in Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Heimsuchung
1:00-2:00 pm
LUNCH
2:15-4:00 pm
PRAXIS WORKSHOPS: THE CHANGING JOB MARKET
Organizers: Ulrike Brisson, Worchester Polytechnic Institute
Alexandra Merley Hill, University of Portland
Summer 2010
1. Laurie McLary, University of Portland: Rethinking Relevancy in
Undergraduate German Programs
2. Nancy Richardson, Mary Institute, Saint Louis Country Day
School & University of Missouri, St. Louis: “You’re teaching
what???” – High School as an Alternative to Academe
3. Pat Herminghouse, University of Rochester: “And then what?” –
Wiggies Contemplate Retirement
4. Elizabeth Bridges, Rhodes College: Settling in for the Long Haul
-Strategies for Sanity on the Multi-Year Job Search
5. Ulrike Brisson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Sabine von
Mering, Brandeis University, and Monika Fischer, University of
Missouri: Turning a Dead-End Street into a Highway – Pros and
Cons of Promotional Lines for NTTs
4:00-5:45 pm
POSTER SESSION (LARKSPUR HALL)
Organizers: Marjanne Goozé, University of Georgia
Astrid Weigert, Georgetown University
1. Katra Byram, Ohio State University: Perspective in Language
Learning – Combining Cultural Instruction and Diversity
Awareness with (!) Grammar
2. Imke Brust, Haverford College: The “Othering” of Women
Through the Male Gaze in Das Leben der Anderen
3. Beate Brunow, Pennsylvania State University: The Theory and
Praxis of Student Portfolios
4. Pauline Ebert, Wayne State University: The Cultural Memory of
German Victimhood in Post-1990 Popular German Literature and
Television
5. Habiba Hadziavdic, University of St. Thomas: German Sinti and
Roma: Representation, Imagination, and Persecution
Summer 2010
6. Alexandra Hill, University of Portland: Women’s Work –
Knitting in Germany at the Intersection of the Political and the
Social
7. Britta Kallin, Georgia Institute of Technology: Intertextualities in
Jelinek’s Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) – Luis Buñuel, T.S. Eliot,
and the Bible
8. Ashley Lackovich-Van Gorp, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst: Sorbian Identity through Poetry
9. Ashley Olstad, University of Minnesota: Seeing the National
Body – Migrant Challenges to National Identity, Citizenship and
Belonging in Germany
10. Ariana Orozco, University of Michigan: Pop, Feminism and
Mädchen: Contemporary German Women’s Writing
11. Katelyn Petersen, University of Alberta: Literary Geography as a
Factor in Plot and Character Development in Maria Cecelia
Barbetta’s Änderungsschneiderei Los Milagros
12.
Cecilia Pick, Minnesota State University, Mankato: The U.S. tour
of the Freiburg Passion Play in the late 1920s and early 1930s
13. Ekaterina Pirozhenko, University of Illinois at Chicago:
Özdamar’s Berlin as Collage
14. Anne Rothe, Wayne State University: Constructing German
Identities in Israel/Palestine 1946-2010 – An Oral History Project
6:00-7:00 pm
DINNER
7:00-7:15 pm
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dissertation Prize (Presenter: Jennifer Askey)
Best Article Prize (Presenter: Katrin Pahl)
7:15-9:00 pm
Summer 2010
MISSION, POSITION, IDENTITY: WIG AND INTERSECTIONALITY
Organizers: Maureen Gallagher,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Rick McCormick, University of Minnesota
1. Judith Martin, Missouri State University: Race and Gender in
German Studies
2. Sara Lennox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Beverly
Weber, University of Colorado: Race, Intersectionality, and WiG
– Difficult Conversations
9:00 pm -
CASH BAR
ULRIKE OTTINGER FILM SCREENING (Larkspur Hall) – TBA
Summer 2010
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23
7:30-8:30 am
BREAKFAST (YEARBOOK EDITORIAL BOARD MEETING)
9:00-10:45 am
CINEMATIC JOURNEYS
Organizers: Sonja Klocke, Knox College
Barbara Kosta, University of Arizona
1. Hester Baer, University of Oklahoma: The Cinematic Mobility of
Wolfgang Petersen’s “Das Boot”
2. Alice Kuzniar, University of Waterloo: Uncanny Doublings and
Asian Rituals in Recent Films by Ottinger, Treut, and Dörrie
3. Nora Alter, Temple University: Riding the Last Machine –
Ottinger’s “Prater”
11:00am-1:15pm
BUSINESS MEETING
1:15-2:15 pm
LUNCH
2:15-6:00 pm
FREE TIME
Weather permitting, optional events include a trip to a local winery or
the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary. There are also opportunities for golf,
hiking, jogging, etc.
ULRIKE OTTINGER FILM SCREENING (Larkspur Hall) – TBA
6:00-7:00 pm
DINNER
7:00-8:45 pm
SPECIAL GUEST: ULRIKE OTTINGER
9:00 pm
CABARET AND CASH BAR
Summer 2010
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24
7:30-9:00 am
BREAKFAST
9:00-10:30 am
SPEAKOUT
Open discussion of issues and ideas raised during the conference.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:
Elizabeth Mittman, Michigan State University
Denise M. Della Rossa, University of Notre Dame
Jennifer Redmann, Franklin & Marshall College / Kalamazoo College
CONFERENCE SPONSORS:
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Michigan State University:
• College of Arts & Letters
• Dept. of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages
• Center for Gender in Global Context
• Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
~~~ Conference Registration Info ~~~
The co-organizers of the 35th Annual Women in German Conference (October 21-24) are pleased
to announce that on-line registration is now open at the following URL through the University of
Notre Dame: http://cce.nd.edu/attend.shtml
After you click to register, you will need to scroll down to October events to find the WiG
Conference. Here you will find all information relevant to conference fees, housing, and
transportation to the new conference site, Yarrow Golf and Conference Resort in Augusta,
Michigan. You will make your own room reservations separate from conference registration.
If you have registered for the conference in the past on-line, you will already have created a
password. There will be a prompt to retrieve your password if you do not remember it. Please
contact Denise Della Rossa at [email protected] with any questions regarding registration.
We wish you a restful summer and look forward to seeing you all in Michigan in October.
Liz Mittman, Denise Della Rossa, Jennifer Redman
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Summer 2010
~~~ WiG Announcements ~~~
New Coeditor sought for Women in German Yearbook
Once again we announce a search for a new coeditor of the WiG Yearbook, as Katharina
Gerstenberger will be stepping down this fall after the WiG annual conference. She has brought
energy, wisdom and great commitment to her work as coeditor, and we will miss her effective
participation in this important WiG enterprise. We all thank her for her efforts and wish her all
the best!
A search committee has been appointed to find a new coeditor. The members of the search
committee are Nora Alter, Claudia Breger, Barbara Kosta, and Katharina Gerstenberger as
former co-editor. WiG President Nora Alter will chair the committee as a non-voting member.
If you would like to be a candidate for this position or would like to nominate another WiG
member, please consider the following information: The new coeditor will serve a three-year
term, working with Patricia Simpson, who is beginning her second year as WiG Yearbook
Coeditor. The three-year term as coeditor may be renewed once. Coeditors share responsibilities
and work collaboratively in close contact with each other. Some adjustment of the coeditor’s
teaching load, or/and funding for a graduate or undergraduate assistant, is also desirable.
Over the years, discussions of the editorship have consistently stressed the advantages of having
both coeditors tenured. The substantial time commitment can place undue pressure on an
untenured faculty member just when her own publication is of utmost importance. Tenured
applicants are also likely to have had greater experience and wider professional contacts. It is
therefore preferable for both coeditors to hold the rank of full professor.
If you wish to apply, please send a letter citing your experience and qualifications, a statement of
your vision of what the WiG Yearbook is/should be, and what you hope to contribute to the
editorship. Your letter should be accompanied by a CV and a statement from your department
chair or dean confirming institutional support. Please send materials by July 1 to me as Search
Committee Chair, Nora Alter. presidentATwomeningerman.org
Summer 2010
Women in German seeks a second Web Editor for a three-year term
Responsibilities of the Web Editor include, but are not limited to, the following: creating,
maintaining, updating the WiG website; assisting with the administration of the WiG
membership service, Wild Apricot, as necessary; and creating and administering online polls.
Web Editors must be members of Women in German. Possible areas of knowledge and
experience might include, e.g., CSS, HTML, web programming, and graphic editing as well as
software like Dreamweaver, FTP applications, Flash, Acrobat, etc.
Applicants with institutional support are welcomed. This could include, e.g., campus IT support,
a student-worker, etc.
Please send a brief application letter to the Web Editor, Kyle Frackman, at
webeditor[at]womeningerman.org. Review of applications will continue until a second Web
Editor has been selected. Include information about your experience with technology and web
design as well as links to websites you have created, if available. Ideally, the new web editor
will be able to confer with the continuing web editor at this year’s WiG conference.
Women in German Newsletter Book Review Editor Needed
The editor will work in collaboration with the co-editors of the Newsletter to solicit reviewers, to
edit book reviews for both style and content and prepare them for annual publication in the
Newsletter’s spring edition. Additionally, the editor will collaborate with WiG’s web designers
to publish the reviews on the organization’s website and make them available to H-German
subscribers.
Duties:
• Solicit and accept books for review that have been written or edited by WiG members.
• Have books transported or shipped to the annual WiG Conference.
• Attend the WiG Conference.
• Find suitable reviewers for the books at the annual WiG Conference in October.
• Collect and edit reviews in late January/early February.
• Maintain regular e-mail communication (reminders, confirmations, etc.) with reviewers.
• Institutional support for shipping and conference travel is desirable.
To Apply:
Please send a letter indicating your interest in the position and relevant experience to Newsletter
co-editors Maria Stehle ([email protected]) and Rachel Freudenburg ([email protected]).
WiG Yearbook joins JSTOR
The Women in German Yearbook has been invited to join JSTOR, the on-line provider
for the most significant journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Once it is in the
JSTOR archive, researchers will have access to the full text of Women in German Yearbook
beginning with its first issue. Only issues from the five most recent years are excluded from the
archive. This service will begin in 2011.
In addition, JSTOR is building upon its archive program by launching a new initiative in
2011, the Current Scholarship Program (CSP). With CSP, libraries will also be able to subscribe
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to the current volumes of scholarly journals, giving them the ability to provide access to the
complete run of a journal through one source. Women in German Yearbook will be part of this
initiative as well. Women in German Yearbook will also still be available through Project MUSE.
Yearbook co-editor Katharina Gerstenberger comments, “I think that those are positive
developments and I thank our contact people at Nebraska for helping us enter the on-line world.”
Obituary. Christine E. Groeppner, Dedicated Student and Teacher of Language and
Literature, Dies at 51
Christine E. Groeppner, a devoted teacher and student of language and literature, died in New
York on March 15. She was fifty-one.
Her academic career included posts teaching German language and literature at several
academic institutions: the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1985-89), the University of
Minnesota at Mankato (1984), Hamilton College (1990-95), New York University (1996-2000),
and Fordham University (1997-2002); and Swedish language at New York University (1996-98).
She also taught German, English, mathematics, and history at Pindl Private School (for boys), in
Regensburg, Germany, in1980.
Ms. Groeppner was known for her zeal for language learning and studied many languages
over the years. A native of Bavaria, she spoke standard German and was also fluent in English
and Swedish. In Sweden, she passed the Rikstest (i.e., the most advanced Swedish language
certificate) at the University of Stockholm in 1990. In addition, she had advanced proficiency in
French, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, and Yiddish as well as reading knowledge in Latin, Middle
High German, Old High German, Middle English, and basic reading skills in Afrikaans, Frisian,
Italian, and Spanish.
Christine Groeppner was born on June 23, 1958, in the town of Kindlbach, then in West
Germany. She is the daughter of Josef Scheuerecker and Elisabeth Lutter.
In Germany, she wrote an M.A. thesis in English and completed course work for the Dr.
phil, M.A., and Staatsexamen in German and English philology, and Law at the University of
Regensburg, where she was granted a B.A. equivalent in English language and literature in 1980
and a B.A. equivalent in German language and literature in 1981. She received her third
teacher’s training certificate (theory and practice including teaching a semester in a Gymnasium)
in 1984 and two teacher’s training certificates (secondary and junior college level) in 1979
She studied English culture privately in Brighton, England, in 1978. She earned her
junior college degree in Germany in science and modern languages in 1978.
As an Exchange Service Fellow at the University of Virginia-Charlottesville (1981-1982)
she did graduate study in English as a German Academic.
Ms. Groeppner was awarded a Master of Arts degree in German in June 1986 by the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she passed the Preliminary Examination and was
conducting dissertation research during doctoral studies, when serious medical problems obliged
her to withdraw.
In the Department of Germanic Languages of Columbia University in New York City,
she served as Visiting Scholar from 1995-1998 and took courses in Yiddish and Dutch.
The title of her doctoral dissertation at UW-Madison was “Peter Weiss in Sweden: His
Aesthetic, Political, and Literary Development from the 1940s to the 1980s.” Her adviser there
was Professor Jost Hermand. At the University of Regensburg in 1985 she wrote an M.A. Thesis
entitled “Kate Chopin: From Regionalism to Realism.”
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In 2005 she was awarded an EB-1 status as an “Alien of Extraordinary Ability” by the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, granting her a green card as a permanent resident of the
United States.
Christine Groeppner presented many academic papers and reports at conferences and
received numerous scholarships and awards. She was a member of the American Association of
Teachers of German—NY Chapter; the Modern Language Association; Women in German, and
the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. She was also active in the women’s
movement at several universities.
For two decades preceding her death she was plagued with serious medical conditions,
including diabetes, heart trouble, vision, nerve, muscle, and renal problems. In the fall of 2000
she suffered a heart attack and continued to struggle with complications of heart disease. Several
first-rate specialists at New York Presbyterian Medical Center helped her to cope. During the
past four years, she also received hemodialysis 3-4 times a week at the out-patient dialysis unit
of Terence Cardinal Cooke Medical Center in New York.
Christine Groeppner is survived by her life companion and registered partner Verne
Moberg, whom she met at a women’s studies conference at the University of Virginia’s Rotunda
building, designed by Thomas Jefferson. Ms. Groeppner’s surviving family in Germany
includes her mother, Elisabeth Lutter and her sister Regina Gröppner and brother Josef
Gröppner, all of Kindlbach, her sister Helga Wittmann of Munich, and her brother Paul Lutter of
Bayerbach, plus four nieces and two nephews.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Scholarship Fund, Department of
Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University, 319 Hamilton Hall, 1180
Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027. Tel.: 212-854-5983.
<http://christineremembered.squarespace.com/>
Endowment
Long-time WiG member Dinah Dodds was recognized at her retirement in August 2008 with the
establishment of an endowed fund in her name, the Dinah Dodds Endowment for International
Education. The Endowment supports Lewis & Clark students who wish to study overseas as well
as overseas programs themselves. Contributions of any size may be sent to:
The Dinah Dodds Endowment for International Education
Attn. Christine Atchison
MSC 57
Lewis & Clark College
0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR 97219
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Summer 2010
~~ Zantop Travel Award for Graduate Students ~~
New Procedures and Award Amounts
Inspired by the work of Susanne Zantop, Women in German established an award in her honor to
help nurture and sustain research and publication in feminist cultural studies. The Zantop Travel
Award has supported work on more than a dozen dissertations since it was established in 2002.
We are happy to announce that progress on WiG’s current campaign to endow this fund makes it
possible to establish new award amounts, beginning in 2009: Each year WiG will now grant up
to two awards, each in the amount of $1500.
Eligibility:
Graduate students who have not yet completed the Ph.D. Applicants must be WiG members with
a dissertation project approved by a faculty advisor for research on a topic in feminist German
cultural studies that requires travel to consult specific archives, libraries, cultural centers, or
authors.
Criteria:
1. We seek proposals that address a significant topic with demonstrated relevance to German
Studies from an approach informed by feminist cultural studies, that is, an approach that engages
the intersections of gender with other relevant categories such as sexuality, class, race,
citizenship, and ethnicity. In addition, we encourage proposals that further the project of
rethinking German Studies along transnational lines.
2. The proposed research travel must be for the purpose of obtaining access to materials or
information not accessible by other means.
3. The materials or information sought must be central to the success of the dissertation project.
4. The research plan must be feasible within the proposed time period.
5. The request for funding must be supported by a letter from a major professor (dissertation
advisor or committee member).
Proposal Guidelines:
To the student: In a statement of no more than 750 words, describe your dissertation project and
explain why travel to the specified site(s) is necessary. In addition, please include the following
information (required):
• a timetable
• contact information for the people or institutions you will be working with
• a one-page budget statement listing the projected cost of travel to the site
• the amount requested from WiG, and support anticipated from other sources (if any).
To the faculty member: Please address the quality and significance of the project, the
importance of the research travel, and the applicant’s ability to see the project the project through
to completion.
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Deadline: April 9th of each year. The Zantop Award Committee, consisting of the WiG
president and two other WiG members, will consider applications and send notifications in
March.
Recipient Responsibility: As soon as is feasible after implementing the award, recipients are to
present a report on research results at the poster session of the WiG annual conference.
Acknowledgment of the award in the dissertation would be appreciated.
Submit all materials electronically to: Nora Alter, WiG President,
president(AT)womeningerman(DOT)org
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~~~Zantop Endowment Campaign~~~
For the second year in a row, we have exceeded our fundraising goal for the Zantop Travel
Endowment Campaign.
For 2008-09, our fundraising goal was $10,000. We took in $11,585 in contributions from 22
individuals and one institution.
For 2009-10, our fundraising goal was $7,500. We took in $7,606 in contributions from 41
individuals..
That is a total of $19,191 toward our goal of $25,000 to be matched by a private donor. We will
raise the balance during the next academic year.
The donor has already matched $10,000 in 2009 and $7,500 in 2010. The Zantop Travel Award
has been increased to $1,500 (maximum of two awards per year).
I will prepare a more detailed report to launch the third phase of the fundraising in the fall of
2010. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed so far!
Sincerely,
Jeanette Clausen
ZTEC coordinator
May 20, 2010
Questions? Contact the fundraising coordinator, Jeanette Clausen ([email protected]).
Summer 2010
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Summer 2010
~~~ Books by Members ~~~
“Books by Members” is a list of recent publications edited or authored by WiG members. Books
on this list are eligible for review by fellow WiG member. Please submit your title with MLA
bibliographic information to Sarah McGaughey ([email protected]) to be included
in the next Newsletter.
Horsley, Joey and Luise F. Pusch, eds. Frauengeschichten: Berühmte Frauen und ihre
Freundinnen. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010.
Mancini, Elena. Magnus Hirschfeld and the Quest for Sexual Freedom: A History of the First
International Sexual Freedom Movement. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Novero, Cecilia. Antidiets of the Avant-Garde: From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Schwartz, Agatha, ed. Gender and Modernity in Central Europe: The Austro-Hungarian
Monarchy and its Legacy. Ottawa: U of Ottawa Press, 2010.
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~~~ WiG Filmography 2009-2010~~~
This is a list of Austrian, German, and Swiss films produced and/or released from 2009 to date.
The films include fiction films and documentaries as well as feature-length films and shorts, the
majority of which are German or multi-language productions. Some films produced and released
in 2009 are not included here, because they were in the previous list of films in the Spring 2009
WiG Newsletter. The films are listed alphabetically by German-language title as they appear in
the databases (most often without umlauts) and include director(s) and country of
origin/production. Where available, the English International Title is also listed. Each title is
linked to its database entry. To generate this filmography, I used three sources:
http://www.afc.at/
http://www.german-films.de/
http://www.swissfilms.ch/
I compiled this list, and the omissions, repetitions, and mistakes are my own. Jennifer Hosek
remains responsible for the bibliography on secondary literature in subjects of importance to
members. My thanks to many WiGgies, most notably to Sarah McGaughey, whose help was
instrumental in the compilation of this bibliography, as well as to Beverly Weber, Lisabeth
Hock, and our fearless instigator, Sara Lennox.
Carrie Smith-Prei, University of Alberta
TITLE
4. Revolution, Die - Energy Autonomy (4th
Revolution, The - Energy Autonomy)
180°
510 Meter über dem Meer
À l'ombre de la montagne
Abnegation
Albaner, Der
Alias
Alles fuer Lila
Alles Umsonst! (All for Nothing!)
Almanya
Am Galgen
Amoklove
Am Anfang war das Licht (In the Beginning There
Was Light)
Andere Seite des Lebens, Die - Zwei Brueder im
Township (On the Other Side of Life)
Anne Perry - Interiors
Annette Schmucki: Hagel und Haut
Ansichtssache 2 (Matter of Opinion 2, A)
Article 43
Bad Boy Kummer
bachab
Barfuss nach Timbuktu
Barriere (Boundaries)
Bastard
Bergblut
Bergig
Berlin '36
Besten Beerdigungen der Welt, Die (Best Funerals
in the World)
Betty B. & The The's
Bild in mir, Das (Image Inside, The)
Bis aufs Blut - Brueder auf Bewaehrung
Black Forest
Blaue vom Himmel, Das
Blumenzimmer
Blutsfreundschaft (Initiation)
Summer 2010
DIRECTOR
Carl-A. Fechner
COUNTRY
Germany
Cihan Inan
Kerstin Polte
Anina Gmür
Danielle Jaeggi
Elias Amari
Johannes Naber
Jens Junker
Marc Rothemund
Jan Peters
Yasemin Samdereli
Pascal Bergamin
Julia C. Kaiser
P.A. Straubinger
Switzerland
Switzerland
Stefanie Brockhaus, Andy
Wolff
Dana Linkiewicz
Urs Graf
Justyna Tafel, Piotr
Litwin, Bartosz
Warwas, Mark Wegner,
Matej
Bobrik, Igor Chojna
Germany
Switzerland
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Swirzerland
Germany
Austria
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Miklós Gimes
Ulrich Schaffner
Martina Egi
Andreas Kleinert
Carsten Unger
Philipp J. Pamer
Julia Daschner
Kaspar Heidelbach
Ute Wegmann
Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Felix Stienz
Wolfgang Scholz
Oliver Kienle
Gert Steinheimer
Hans Steinbichler
Sarah Derendinger
Peter Kern
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
Bock for President
böse Onkel, Der
Boule
Boxhagener Platz (Berlin, Boxhagener Platz)
Brandstifter
Cargo
Champions
Choreograf Heinz Spoerli, Der
Cindy liebt mich nicht
Colour Of Your Socks, The
Completition
Connie
Contact High
Dachkantine
David & Lea
David Wants To Fly
Denk mal Berlin
Detroit - Zwischen Utopie und Wirklichkeit
(Detroit - Between Utopia and Perdition)
Deutschland 09 (Germany 09)
Dharavi, Slum For Sale
Dirty Days
Dr. Ketel
Draussen am See (Losing Balance)
Drehpunkt
Drei (Three)
Dschungelkind
Summer 2010
Houchang & Tom Dariusch
Allahyari
Urs Odermatt
Bjoern Ullrich
Matti Geschonneck
Felix von Muralt
Ivan Engler
Ralph Etter
Riccardo Signorell
Werner Zeindler
Hannah Schweier
Michael Hegglin
Ari Zehnder
Janos Menberg
Judith Kurmann
Michael Glawogger
Nicole Biermaier
Ravi Vaid
Dion Merz
Jyri Pasanen
David Sieveking
Angelo Scudeletti
Gabriela Neuhaus
Roland May
Nicolette Krebitz, Angela
Schanelec, Wolfgang
Becker, Tom Tykwer,
Hans Weingartner,
Dominik Graf,
Romuald Karmakar,
Dani Levy,
Fatih Akin, Hans
Steinbichler, Isabelle
Stever, Christoph
Hochhaeusler,
Sylke Enders
Lutz Konermann
Helmut Berger
Linus de Paoli
Felix Fuchssteiner
Kristian Trafelet
Tom Tykwer
Roland Suso Richter
Austria
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland
Germany
Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland
Austrian
Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland/
Austria
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Du gehoerst zu uns
Egodyston
Eine Geschichte mit Hummer
Ende ist mein Anfang, Das
Endsieg – Everything Changes In One Shot
Engel mit schmutzigen Fluegeln (Angels with Dirty
Wings)
Engel und die Fibonacci-Zahlen, Der
Entbehrlichen, Die (Dispensables, The)
Erinnere Dich (Remember)
Es sind noch Berge draussen (There Are Still
Mountains Outside)
Eternal Nymphets
Faktor 8
Fall des Lemming / Lemming's First Case, Der
Falscher Hase
Fine Art Games
Fliegen (Fly)
Fliegende Fische
Flug in die Nacht
Fürsorger, Der
Frau mit den 5 Elefanten, Die (Woman with the 5
Elephants, The)
Freche Maedchen 2 (Cheeky Girls 2)
Fremde, Die (When We Leave)
Friedensschlag - Das Jahr der Entscheidung (To
Fight For - The Year of Decision)
Friseuse, Die (Hairdresser, The)
Fritz Bauer - Tod auf Raten (Fritz Bauer - Death by
Instalments)
Frühling im Herbst
Fruehlings Erwachen
Geburt
Gehrig kommt!
Geliebte (Mistress)
Gerhard Richter
Gesicht zur Wand (Face the Wall)
Gestern ist nirgendwo
Geysir, Der
Ghosted
Giulias Verschwinden
Glueckliche Fuegung
Summer 2010
Hella Wenders
Xenia Lesniewski
Simon Nagel
Jo Baier
Niccolò Castelli
Daniel Casparis
Roland Reber
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Switzerland
Samir
Andreas Arnstedt
Christoph-Philipp
Schneider
Janina Herhoffer
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Steff Gruber
Rainer Matsutani
Nikolaus Leytner
Hans Hofer
Anton Gonopolski
Piotr J. Lewandowski
Güzin Kar
Till Endemann
Lutz Konermann
Vadim Jendreyko
Switzerland
Germany
Austria
Austria
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland
Germany
Ute Wieland
Feo Aladag
Gerardo Milsztein
Germany
Germany
Germany
Doris Doerrie
Ilona Ziok
Germany
Germany
Petra Volpe
Nuran David Calis
Silvia Haselbeck
Erich Langjahr
Marc Schippert
Ingo J. Biermann
Corinna Belz
Stefan Weinert
Elke Hauck
Alexander J. Seiler
Monika Treut
Christoph Schaub
Isabelle Stever
Switzerland
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Gluecksritterinnen (Ladies of Fortune)
Goethe!
Grenzgänge mit Andrea Vogel
grosse Kater, Der
GURU
Habermann
Heimweh
Herbstgold - Wettlauf gegen die Zeit
Herrenkinder (Children of the Master Race)
Hexe Lilli - Der Drache und das Magische Buch
(Lilly the Witch - The Dragon and the Magic Book)
Hexe Lilli - Die Reise nach Mandolan
Hidden
Hier kommt Lola! (Here Comes Lola!)
Homies
Hundeleben
Hunger
Hungerwinter 1946/47 (Winter of Starvation
1946/47)
Hunkeler und der Fall Livius
Ich bin's. Helmut (It's Me. Helmut)
Summer 2010
Katja Fedulova
Philipp Stoelzl
Dieter Gränicher
Wolfgang Panzer
Sabine Gisiger
Beat Häner
Juraj Herz
Andreas Kannengiesser
Jan Tenhaven
Eduard Erne & Christian
Schneider
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland
Harald Sicheritz
Agnieszka Holland
Franziska Buch
Adnan G. Koese
Mike Eschmann
Carolina Hellsgard
Gordian Maugg
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Stefan Jäger
Nicolas Steiner
Switzerland
Germany/
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Germany/
Switzerland
Austria
Germany/
Switzerland
Germany
Switzerland
Im Alter von Ellen
Im Anhang: Lebenslauf (CV Attached)
Im Haus meines Vaters sind viele Wohnungen
Pia Marais
Andrea Schorr
Hajo Schomerus
Im Keller
Im Sog der Nacht (Night Rush)
Ulrich Seidl
Markus Welter
In der Welt habt ihr Angst
Ja ja, nein nein
Hans W. Geissendoerfer
Peter Volkart
Ulrich Schaffner
Cyrill Boss, Philipp
Stennert
Angela Summereder
Andreas Rogenhagen
Michael Pfeifenberger
Jerry Cotton
Jobcenter
Johnny Kuehlkissen
Josef Winkler Der Kinoleinwandgeher (Josef
Winkler The Cinemascreenwalker)
Jud Suess - Film ohne Gewissen
Jung und Jenisch
Kaefig (Cage)
Oskar Roehler
Martina Rieder
Karoline Arn
Karl Kels
Germany
Germany
Germany
Austria
Germany
Germany
Austria
Germany
Austria
Germany/
Austria
Switzerland
Germany
Summer 2010
Kameramörder, Der
Robert Adrian Pejo
Keep Surfing
Keine Besonderen Vorkommnisse (No Special
Incidents)
Kenan
Kennedys Hirn
Kick Off
Kinder vom Friedrichshof, Die (Children of the
Commune, The)
Klang der Stille
Kleine Broetchen (Humble Pie)
Knotenpunkt
Kopfueber im Geaest (Hanging Upside Down in the
Branches)
Kokon (Cocoon)
kommenden Tage, Die
Bjoern Richie Lob
Lennart Ruff
Switzerland/
Austria
Germany
Germany
Eric Andreae
Urs Egger
Hüseyin Tabak
Juliane Grossheim
Switzerland
Germany
Austria
Germany
Friederike Jehn
Marcus Zilz
Kanwal Sethi
Ute Aurand
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Till Kleinert
Lars Kraume
Germany
Germany
Konferenz der Tiere (Animals United)
Reinhard Klooss, Holger
Tappe
Joseph Lippok
Lorenz Keiser
Jean-Luc Wey
Daniele Grieco
Germany
Simon Jaquemet
Dani Levy
Florian Schewe
Angela Steffen
Lola Randl
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Didi Danquar
Alexander Adolph
Olaf Held
Baran bo Odar
Marcus Morlinghaus
Franz Mueller
Simone Bader, Jo
Schmeiser
Peter Timm
Byambasuren Davaa
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Austria
Lars Buechel
Andreas Hykade
Ayse Polat
Germany
Germany
Germany
Kriegerstock
Länger leben
Last Giants, The - Wenn das Meer stirbt... (Last
Giants, The - Oceans in Danger)
Lauras Party
Leben ist zu lang, Das (Life Is Too Long)
Lebendkontrolle (Outside)
Lebensader
Leiden des Herrn Karpf, Die - Der Geburtstag
(Suffering of Mr. Karpf, The - The Birthday)
Lenas Liebe
letzte Angestelle, Der
letzte Rad, Das (The Last Wheel)
letzte Schweigen, Das (Silence, The)
Level 3D
Liebe der Kinder, Die (Wallace Line)
Liebe Geschichte (Love History)
Liebe Mauer (Beloved Berlin Wall)
Lied von den zwei Pferden, Das (Two Horses of
Genghis Khan, The)
Lippels Traum (Lippel's Dream)
Love & Theft
Luks Glueck
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Germany
Summer 2010
Madly In Love
Maennerherzen (Men in the City)
Mann, der nichts wollte, Der
Mann der ueber Autos sprang, Der
Mein Kampf
Anna Luif
Simon Verhoeven
Lorenz Suter
Nick Baker-Monteys
Urs Odermatt
Mit dem Bauch durch die Wand
Moby Dick
Mullewapp - Das grosse Kinoabenteuer der
Freunde (Friends Forever)
Nachglühen
Nagelprobe, Die
Nanga Parbat
Never Drive A Car When You're Dead
Nid hei cho
Oh wehe mir
Ohne Atem (Without Breath)
Orient Express Theatre Train
Paepstin, Die (Pope Joan)
Paradise Later
Pepperminta
Anka Schmid
Mike Barker
Tony Loeser, Jesper
Moeller
Lisa Blatter
Luke Gasser
Joseph Vilsmaier
Gregor Dashuber
Thaïs Odermatt
Sermin Kaynak
Fabio Stoll
Martin Andersson, Steffen
Duevel
Peter Scharf, Katja
Duregger
Daniel Howald
Chantal Millès
Soenke Wortmann
Ascan Breuer
Pipilotti Rist
Philipp
Pianomania
Fabian Moehrke
Robert Cibis, Lilian Franck
Picco
PiN2011 - Erinnerung an die Strasse (PiN2011 recollection of the street)
Pina
Pizza Bethlehem
Plastic Planet
Polar
Prinzessin Lillifee (Princess Lillifee)
Philip Koch
Torsten Koenigs
Oliviero Toscani - Bilderwut (Oliviero Toscani The Rage of Images)
Tod meiner Mutter, Der
Pulp Kitchen
Räuber, Der (Robber, The)
Räuberinnen
Reise nach Metropolis, Die (Journey to Metropolis,
The)
Renn, wenn Du kannst (Run If You Can)
Switzerland
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Germany/
Switzerland
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
/Austria
Germany
Germany/
Austria
Germany
Germany
Wim Wenders
Bruno Moll
Werner Boote
Michael Koch
Alan Simpson, Ansgar
Niebuhr
Fritz Muri
Benjamin Heisenberg
Carla Lia Monti
Artem Demenok
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Dietrich Brueggemann
Germany
Switzerland
Austrian
Switzerland
Germany
Rheingold
Rising Sun, The
Rock It!
Rosarot (Rose-Colored)
Summer 2010
Andreas Pieper
Fabian Kimoto
Mike Marzuk
Ines Christine Geisser,
Kirsten Carina Geisser
Samy Challah, Till
Nachtmann, Stefan Silies
Michael Hoffman
Detlev Buck
Jesper Moeller, Sinem
Sakaoglu, Helmut Fischer
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Sascha
Satte Farben vor Schwarz
Dennis Todorovic
Sophie Heldmann
Schein truegt, Der - Eine Expedition in die Raetsel
des Geldes (In What We Trust - An Expedition into
the Riddles of Money)
Schoenste Nebensache der Welt, Die (That Funny
Old Game)
Schonzeit
Sean Scully: Art Comes From Need
Sennentuntschi
Shahada (Shahada (Faith))
SMS From Shangri-La
Claus Strigel
Germany
Germany/
Switzerland
Germany
Tanja Bubbel
Germany
Irene Ledermann
Hans Andreas Guttner
Michael Steiner
Burhan Qurbani
Dieter Fahrer
Lisa Röösli
Tomasz Thomson
Dirk Regel
Peter Huemmeler
Paul Riniker
Jan Speckenbach
Katalin Gödrös
Sabine Boss
Micha Lewinsky
Hans Selikovsky
Olaf Saumer
Marc Bauder
Bettina Oberli
Rainer Hoffmann, Anne
Linsel
Mohammed Soudani
Joerg Wagner
Peter Gersina
Michael Pfeifenberger
Jessica Krummacher
Switzerland
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Switzerland
Rumpe & Tuli
Russischer Sommer, Ein (Last Station, The)
Same Same But Different
Sandmann und der verlorene Traumsand, Der
Snowmans Land
So ein Schlamassel
Soltau
Sommervögel
Spatzen (Sparrows)
Songs Of Love And Hate
Sonntagsvierer
Standesbeamtin, Die
Sturmfrei
Suicide Club
System, Das
Tannöd
Tanztraeume (Dancing Dreams - Teenagers
Perform "Kontakthof" by Pina Bausch)
Taxiphone
Terminal
Tiger-Team
Todespolka
Totem
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland
Austria
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Austria
Germany
Toter Mann
Unbelehrbar (Unteachable)
Unter Dir die Stadt (City Below, The)
Verhör des Harry Wind, Das
Verstrickt und zugenäht
Vincent will meer (Vincent Wants to Sea)
Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen
(Vision)
The Visual Language Of Herbert Matter
Von Haus zu Haus (From House to House)
Wagah
WAGs_wives and girlfriends
Was Du nicht siehst (What You Don't See)
Was wird bleiben... (What Will Remain...)
We Are the Roadcrew
Wenn der Vater mit den Soehnen
Wenn die Welt uns gehoert (When We Own the
World)
Was du nicht siehst (What you don't see)
Whisky mit Wodka (Whisky with Vodka)
wilden Huehner und das Leben, Die (Wild Chicks
and Life)
Wintervater
Zahn um Zahn
Zeiten aendern Dich (Electro Ghetto)
Zimmer 202
Zu zweit
Zugabe. Talentprobe - Ein Wiedersehen (Encore.
Talent Contest - A Reunion)
Zwei Projekte von Friedrich Kiesler (Two Projects
by Frederick Kiesler)
ZweiOhrKueken (Rabbit Without Ears 2)
Zwerge sprengen
Zwischen Himmel und Erde
Summer 2010
Hannes Baumgartner
Anke Hentschel
Christoph Hochhaeusler
Pascal Verdosci
Walter Weber
Ralf Huettner
Margarethe von Trotta
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Switzerland
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Reto Caduff
Friederike Guessefeld
Supriyo Sen
Evi Goldbrunner, Joachim
Dollhopf
Wolfgang Fischer
Knut Karger
Olaf Held
Wolfgang Ettlich
Judith Keil, Antje Kruska
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Germany
Wolfgang Fischer
Andreas Dresen
Vivian Naefe
Austria
Germany
Germany
Johannes Schmid
Ivana Lalovic
Uli Edel
Eric Bergkraut
Barbara Kulcsar
Manfred Behrens
Germany
Switzerland
Germany
Switzerland
Switzerland
Germany
Heinz Emigholz
Germany
Til Schweiger
Christof Schertenleib
Christian Labhart
Germany
Switzerland
Switzerland
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
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Summer 2010
~~~ WiG Book Reviews ~~~
Barbara Kosta. Willing Seduction. The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture.
New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009. Pp. xi, 208. Cloth $60.00
Willing Seduction fills a gap in film history about Weimar Cinema by focusing entirely
on The Blue Angel (1930), Marlene Dietrich’s first sound film collaboration with famous
Austrian-born Hollywood director Josef von Sternberg. As Barbara Kosta explains eloquently in
her introduction, Dietrich has been mystified and fetishized as a Hollywood star due to her acting
in this movie that fundamentally impacted her long career not only in Germany but
internationally. Little critical and scholarly attention has been paid to the production history, the
socio-political and cultural framework that led to the making of the film and to the actual
analysis of the visual text. Kosta provides an in-depth look at The Blue Angel, embedding her
analysis in astute critical film theory, feminist analysis, cultural studies and new historicism. This
is a mature book that seems to be based on years of scholarly attention to the topic and
specifically to German film history in a critical/feminist theoretical approach. It is also a pleasure
to read because Kosta finds just the right balance between being informative (with a new
interpretive framework and high-level analysis) and being entertaining to make this book an
excellent read for scholars as well as film interested non academics.
Kosta is critical of other film scholars who have studied The Blue Angel in previous
publications to generate further evidence for their own personal and particular theoretical
interests. Examples would be the gender specific reading of Sternberg’s film as being not only
symptomatic of Weimar culture and the New Woman, but of spectatorship theory,
psychoanalytic film criticism and more traditional analytic approaches, such as literary
adaptations to film. Siegfried Kracauer’s rather provocative analysis depicted the film as a
predecessor to fascist propaganda. The author states in the introduction that “Willing Seduction
sets out to address The Blue Angel within the larger context of the Weimar Republic as a German
film” (4). What makes her analysis particularly interesting to visual communication as well as
film studies at large is Kosta’s attention to the text-image relationship. She compares the bond
between the key protagonists of the film, the cabaret entertainer Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich)
and the prudish prep school teacher Immanuel Rath (Emil Jannings) as indicative for the “larger
issue of competing spheres of culture and, with it, notions of identity, which may be less
transparent at first glance“ (11). Kosta regards the film’s depiction of the key figures as relevant
for the study of gender and history but also for the interrelationship between literature (the word)
and film (the image). Finally, she sees the concepts of high art and mass culture reflected in The
Blue Angel.
This compelling analytical reading of The Blue Angel allows for various applications of
the text in an interdisciplinary context. It is a fascinating source of information for anybody
interested in the role of Weimar Cinema and its relevance for global film history. Barbara Kosta
provides a platform that would allow students, lay people and scholars alike to relate to a classic
of modern cinema by raising issues that go far beyond the actual historical text. The recent
revival of interest in Weimar Cinema surrounding the restoration of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis,
Summer 2010
where the new print was screened for thousands of viewers in Berlin and the Opera House in
Frankfurt, makes the timing of this publication even more relevant.
Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Central Connecticut State University
Baer, Hester. Dismantling the Dream Factory. Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar
Quest for New Film Language. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009. 336 pages. ISBN:
9781845456054. Hardcover, $95.00
In her study, Dismantling the Dream Factory, Hester Baer successfully challenges
traditional readings of popular German Cinema from the end of World War II through the early
1960s and convincingly proposes to “write postwar cinema back into German history” (8),
emphasizing continuities instead of breaks and ruptures in cinematic productions of the time.
The detailed introduction contextualizes the study historically as well as within the
theoretical discourse surrounding popular German Cinema in the ’40’s, ’50’s and ’60’s. In the
following, the author investigates exemplary films under three subheadings. In part I,
Relegitimating Cinema: Female Spectators and the Problem of Representation, Baer examines
Wolfgang Staudte’s The Murderers are among Us (1946) through the location of a female gaze
in the main character as well as in the audience. She then discusses authorship and stardom in
Rudolf Jugert’s Film without Title (1948), concluding that “spectatorship trumps authorship”
(70). In reading Wolfgang Liebeneiner’s Love ’47 (1949) as Frauenfilm and focusing on women
in form and content, she exposes the limitations of male narrative authority while also looking
forward to ’70’s/’80’s feminist re-writing of women’s film. In considering race, ethnicity, and
gender in Epilogue (1950) by Helmut Käutner, Baer identifies a dismantling of conventional
genres, yet locates repressed racism as well, thus illustrating difficulties in reconceptualizing
postwar film.
Part II, Art in Film: Representing Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema, employs
Willi Forst’s The Sinner (1951) to rehabilitate realism in film by inverting dominant discourses
and regendering representation through utilizing a “realist” female gaze, thereby linking it to
representations of democracy rather than equating realism to fascism. Baer expands Johannes
von Moltke’s reading of Heimatfilm with the addition of visual pleasure in her analysis of The
Forester of the Silver Wood by Alfons Stummer (1955). Beyond escapist pleasures, she locates a
defense of realism in metanarrative and active female spectatorship, which delivers both escape
and a new access to reality at the same time. In Veit Harlan’s Different From You and Me (§
175) (1957), the author traces a problematization of gender and sexuality, homophobic
representations of homosexuality, and the film’s alleged failure to create a clear appeal to women
spectators. Contrary to traditional interpretations, which assume a non-political (female)
audience, she convincingly argues that a shift took place in the postwar film industry and
audience toward a desire for a discourse of aesthetics and politics in cinematic productions.
In part III, Towards the New Wave: Gender and the Critique of Popular Cinema, Baer
takes issue with the reading that Helmut Käutner’s Engagement in Zurich (1957) imagines the
Schnulze as a product of female fantasy. In turn, she asserts that the film illustrates both the
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limits of the dominant narrative to cater to female desire as well as the decline of the West
German film industry, thereby offering a direct commentary on this crisis by focusing on gender
and sexuality. Her analysis of Rolf Thiele’s The Girl Rosemarie (1958) showcases sound as
spectacle and illustrates the transformation of scoring practice. The main character controls aural
codes, a convention which both appeals to female spectators and creates a new stage, prefiguring
feminist versions of Frauenfilm in the ’60’s/’70’s. Lastly, investigating gender and the New
Wave in Herbert Vesely’s The Bread of Those Early Years (1962), the author concludes that
even a fusion of German film with elements of avant-garde film cannot reinstate uncomplicated
modern masculinity, yet she commends “the effort to present an innovative vision of what a new
postwar film language might look like” (275).
Rather than reading this highly active time period of German film production for its
“marginalized male protagonists” (6), Baer investigates the newly emerging focus on women,
who not only function prominently in the form and content of the narratives, but also influence
filmmaking through the industry’s attempts to appeal to a mostly female audience. Convincingly,
she draws the picture of an active rather than a passive audience. In a detailed analysis of 10
films ranging from “canonical” works to Heimatfilm and Schnulze, the author demonstrates a
clear shift in the production and reception of popular film to the female experience, whilst never
neglecting the fact that these films nonetheless were neither feminist in intention nor effect. In
re-reading postwar West German Cinema as a women’s cinema, Baer delivers an innovative
perspective and simultaneously integrates the investigated material in a discourse beyond
national borders, making this volume a strong addition to the series Film Europa: German
Cinema in an International Context.
In her interdisciplinary project, Baer successfully draws upon theories of American and
German film studies, German cultural studies, and history. By employing reviews, fan
magazines, promotional materials and documents of censorship in addition to detailed analyses
of film narratives, language, musical scores and characters, she delivers a full cultural reading of
each film and its reception. In combination with her clear argumentation and accessible style of
writing, this study presents itself as a useful source for a wide range of courses to be successfully
employed in the German film and/or gender studies-oriented classroom, both on the
undergraduate and graduate levels.
Corinna Kahnke, California Polytechnic State University
Wisenberg, S.L. The Adventures of Cancer Bitch. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009.
161 pages. ISBN: 1587298023 Hardcover, $25.00
S.L. Wisenberg's The Adventures of Cancer Bitch takes a unique look into breast cancer
treatment. This memoir, which was originally published as a blog, shows us what life was like
for her while undergoing cancer treatment, not only as a patient but also as a scholar, teacher and
woman. As might be the case with nearly anyone afflicted with cancer, she describes how breast
cancer not only affects her life medically, but personally and professionally as well. S.L.
Wisenberg's The Adventures of Cancer Bitch answers the questions that might cross the mind of
any woman in academia potentially facing breast cancer: What if this were to happen to me?
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How would it affect my teaching and research? Would I be able to work? What about my
personal life?
Wisenberg's cancer diagnosis is quickly described as a series of steps that she says
involved long and cumbersome waiting periods. She then gives us the first glimpse of how her
diagnosis will affect her work life in an early entry entitled "How not to tell your class about
your breast cancer." With humor she recollects how she informed her students during the last
five minutes of class that she had recently learned of her breast cancer. “[T]hey [we]re standing
with their coats on" (12) as she shared the news with them in a cracking voice and almost in
tears. Having just found out about it herself, she had no details to share with them, and, unable to
answer their questions, she left them, alone and stunned. After realizing what she had done to her
class was irresponsible, she came to the conclusion that it was the instructor's job to protect her
students from her own craziness, as she saw it. After this event she refrained from discussing her
cancer with her class again.
Throughout the book she relates stories that explain how her work at a university, which
she refers to as "Smart U," is affected by her cancer. The first stories are about telling others that
she must miss meetings or class due to surgery and treatments. In "A nervous laughter," she
explains how nervous laughter is expected when telling others about her cancer. It’s confusing to
her that people laugh when they are discussing something tragic like cancer; she can’t seem to
understand why people use a nervous laugh to cover up their emotions. Further stories range
from barely being able to get up to teach to her explaining what it feels like to present in front of
a large group with just one breast.
What makes this book most interesting is how Wisenberg's position as a feminist scholar
affects her decisions regarding treatment. The most significant example of this is her decision not
to have breast reconstruction. Before going in for her mastectomy, Wisenberg's doctor
recommended that she have a reconstruction performed immediately after. When she said she
might not want reconstruction, the doctor referred her to a plastic surgeon anyway. She does not
see just one, but two plastic surgeons, all the while debating if reconstruction is the right path for
her. In the end, her choice to live life as a single-breasted woman, rather than giving in to the
societal image of how a woman should appear, clearly reflects her position as a feminist scholar.
Wisenberg's book offers further examples of how one’s personal life can be political,
such as when Wisenberg has "US out of Iraq" painted with henna on her bald head. She also
takes a very academic approach to politicizing the topic of her cancer. At first, Wisenberg writes
of articles and research she has read only on the topic of breast cancer, or of other cancer
memoirs, such as Cancer Vixen and Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person. These memoirs shape
her thoughts on cancer and who she is as a person with cancer. She frequently states which
people she most wants to resemble and is angered when those whom she has most admired, like
Miriam Engelberg, have passed away. She also writes on the topic of what she calls the "pink
ribbon people," those who buy and sell pink ribbon breast cancer products. She goes so far as to
comment on a bag of pink ribbon coffee beans by saying, "part of the price goes to Susan G.
Komen for the Cure, which goes for -- what? More pink ribbons?" (82). Her cynical approach to
organizations such as Susan G. Komen for the Cure can make the book hard to read at times. I
myself have benefited from the Susan G. Komen grant, which pays for cancer screenings for
low-income women who are uninsured. Without the Komen grant I would have been financially
unable to receive much-needed cancer screenings and therefore found it difficult as a reader to
relate to a woman who has had breast cancer herself publicly speaking out against an
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organization that is devoted to researching cures and treatments, as well as helping low-income
women receive testing.
As the book progresses, there is a greater separation between the writings that are
personal and those that are political; this trend continues in the online blog as well. As she
receives more treatment, the book loses its humorous tone and becomes more political and
cynical. The lack of humor as well as the frequent mental breakdowns show the reader how the
cancer treatments she is undergoing are clearly affecting her spirit. This is not a book meant for
anyone looking for a traditional, upbeat, sugar-coated cancer memoir. Instead, what the reader
gets is more real and raw, a memoir from a woman who is not trying to be anyone's hero or
inspiration. Rather, this is a memoir from a woman trying to do what most women do when
diagnosed with breast cancer—just make it through.
Kylia Kelley, Michigan State University
Book Reviews Editor: Laurie Taylor, University of Massachuestts Amherst, [email protected]
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~~~ Personal News ~~~
Tenure-Track, Tenure, Promotion, Grants
After a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Elizabeth G. Bridges has accepted a
tenure-track position in German at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN.
Jennifer L. Good has been awarded tenure at Baylor University beginning August 1, 2010. Like
so many of us, she credits her success in part to her associations with WIG and GSA, and the
wonderful women in our world of Germanistik.
Jennifer D Askey was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of German at Kansas
State University in Manhattan, Kansas.
Doris Kirchner has been promoted to full professor at the University of Rhode Island.
Laura McGee will serve as Interim Head of the Department of Modern Languages at Western
Kentucky University during the 2010-2011 academic year.
Mila Ganeva (Maimi U. Ohio) was awarded a three-month grant for Summer 2010 by the
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz to research in the Berlin State Libraries and work on a book
project "Film and Entertainment Among the Ruins: Berlin 1945-1949."
Babies
Jennifer Marston William (Purdue U.), along with husband Colin and big brother Aidan,
welcomed baby Kai Marston William into the family on March 27, 2010.
Maria Stehle (U. Tennessee Knoxville) and Matthew Brown are delighted to announce the birth
of their daughter, Rebecca Lillian Stehle-Brown, on the 23rd of February, 2010. She is very
happy and inquisitive and it is has been lot of fun to get to know her!
Submissions Policy: Personal News welcomes announcements that are of interest to WiG
members. Send your News to Karen R. Achberger, St. Olaf College, [email protected]
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