This thesis traces the setting of the hotel and its (im)possibilities in three German-language novels published between 1920 and 1930: "Menschen im Hotel" by Vicki …
This dissertation examines the central concept of the “image” in Walter Benjamin’s oeuvre, with particular attention to the recurrence of the figure of the cloud …
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary analysis of Heiner Müller’s dramatic work, focusing not only on the depiction of history in his texts and stage productions …
My dissertation is entitled “Nebeneinander, Miteinander, Querfeldein: Johann Peter Hebel—Walter Benjamin—W.G. Sebald.” and identifies the subversive and salvific potential in proliferating paratactic constructions in Johann …
This study investigates how practices of and poetic experiments with translation are fundamentally ingrained in the writings of Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt and Yoko Tawada who have …
German environmental activism and scholarship seems to interpret "environmental justice" differently than it is used in the US, where the term originated. Strikingly, German activists …
