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Text Kritik
''Text+Kritik'' (stylized ''text+kritik'') is a quarterly German journal for literature, music, film, and cultural studies. It was founded in 1963 by Heinz Ludwig Arnold who edited it until his death in 2011. Each publication of ''text+kritik'' covers the works of a German-speaking writer, which is presented and analyzed by other writers and experts in literary research and criticism. History The first edition appeared in 1963 and was dedicated to Günter Grass. The founding editorial team consisted of Lothar Baier, Gerd Hemmerich, Jochen Meyer, Wolf Wondratschek and Heinz Ludwig Arnold. In 2013 ''Text+Kritik'' celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with a special volume, ''Zukunft der Literatur'' (Future of Literature). Description Each edition is focused on a different theme, which usually means it deals with one specific German-language writer. Featured writers included Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Arno Schmidt, Paul Celan, Daniel Kehlmann, Herta Müller, Yoko Tawad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Ludwig Arnold
Heinz Ludwig Arnold (29 March 1940 – 1 November 2011) was a German literary journalist and publisher. He was also a leading advocate for contemporary literature. Early years Heinz Ludwig Arnold attended schools in Bochum and, subsequently Karlsruhe. He then studied Law at Göttingen for two terms before switching, for the next ten terms, to literary science, romance studies and philosophy. During his university vacations he worked between 1961 and 1964 as a private secretary to the soldier-turned-philosopher Ernst Jünger. Arnold's doctoral dissertation was never completed. Career In 1963, while still a student, he founded the literary newspaper Text+Kritik: the first edition was dedicated to Günter Grass. From 1978 Arnold also produced the (''Critical lexicon of contemporary German-language literature'') published by , to which between 1983 and 2008 he added the (KLfG) ''(Critical lexicon of contemporary non-German literature"''). From 1995 Arnold was an honorary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emine Sevgi Özdamar
Emine Sevgi Özdamar (born 10 August 1946) is a writer, director, and actress of Turkish origin who has lived and worked in Germany since 1976. Özdamar's art is distinctive in that it is influenced by her life experiences, which straddle the countries of Germany and Turkey throughout times of turmoil in both. One of her most notable accomplishments is winning the 1991 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. Özdamar's literary work has received much recognition and scholarly attention. A lover of poetry, she found great inspiration in the works of Heinrich Heine and Bertolt Brecht, especially from an album of the latter's songs which she had bought in the 1960s in Berlin. She later decided to study with Brecht's disciple Benno Besson in Berlin, where she resides. Personal life Emine Sevgi Özdamar was born 10 August 1946 in Malatya, Turkey. She grew up with her grandparents and lived in the Turkish cities of Istanbul and Bursa. In 1965, she travelled to Berlin for the first time and got a job ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Magazines Published In Germany
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all human societies. Definitions of music vary widely in substance and approach. While scholars agree that music is defined by a small number of specific elements, there is no consensus as to what these necessary elements are. Music is often characterized as a highly versatile medium for expressing human creativity. Diverse activities are involved in the creation of music, and are often divided into categories of composition, improvisation, and performance. Music may be performed using a wide variety of musical instruments, including the human voice. It can also be composed, sequenced, or otherwise produced to be indirectly played mechanically or electronically, such as via a music box, barrel organ, or digital audio workstation software on a computer. Music often plays a key r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Magazines Published In Germany
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems. It includes both print and digital writing. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed.; see also Homer. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment. It can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literary criticism is one of the oldest academic disciplines, and is concerned with the literary merit or intellectual significance of specific texts. The study of books and other texts as artifacts or traditions is instead encompassed by textual criticism or the history of the book. "Literature", as an art form, is sometimes used synonymously with literary fiction, fiction written with the goal of artistic merit, but can also include works in various non-fiction genres, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German-language Journals
German (, ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western Europe, Western and Central Europe. It is the majority and Official language, official (or co-official) language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It is also an official language of Luxembourg, German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium and the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol, as well as a recognized national language in Namibia. There are also notable German-speaking communities in other parts of Europe, including: Poland (Upper Silesia), the Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Denmark (South Jutland County, North Schleswig), Slovakia (Krahule), Germans of Romania, Romania, Hungary (Sopron), and France (European Collectivity of Alsace, Alsace). Overseas, sizeable communities of German-speakers are found in the Americas. German is one of the global language system, major languages of the world, with nearly 80 million native speakers and over 130 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quarterly Journals
A magazine is a periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content forms. Magazines are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. They are categorised by their frequency of publication (i.e., as weeklies, monthlies, quarterlies, etc.), their target audiences (e.g., women's and trade magazines), their subjects of focus (e.g., popular science and religious), and their tones or approach (e.g., works of satire or humor). Appearance on the cover of print magazines has historically been understood to convey a place of honor or distinction to an individual or event. Term origin and definition Origin The etymology of the word "magazine" suggests derivation from the Arabic (), the broken plural of () meaning "depot, storehouse" (originally military storehouse); that comes to English via Middle French and Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Scheffel
Michael Scheffel (born 27 February 1958, Frankfurt) is a professor for the history of modern German literature and more generally of Literary sciences at Wuppertal University. He is also a co-editor of Text+Kritik. Life After successful completion of his school career in Frankfurt Scheffel studied German Literature and linguistics, Romance studies and Art history at Tübingen, Tours and Göttingen. He obtained his Doctorate in 1988 at Göttingen. His thesis was published in 1990 under the title "Magischer Realismus. Die Geschichte eines Begriffes und ein Versuch seiner Bestimmung"."Magischer Realismus. Die Geschichte eines Begriffes und ein Versuch seiner Bestimmung"/ ''"Magic Realism. The history of a concept and an attempt at its confirmation"'' He remained at Göttingen as a research assistant, obtaining a Habilitation (promotion/qualification) in 1995 in German studies. Internationally he has been a guest lecturer at universities in Birmingham, Coimbra, Dublin, Frank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steffen Martus
Steffen Martus (born Karlsruhe, 1968) is a German literary scholar and Professor of Modern German Literature at Humboldt University in Berlin. Life Between 1989 and 1994 Steffen Martus studied German Philology (language, linguistics and literature), Social studies, Philosophy and Sociology at Ratisbon. In 1998 he obtained his doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin, where he stayed for post-doctoral studies. At the DFG Graduate school he worked on a "Codification of violence in the changing media" (''"Codierung von Gewalt im medialen Wandel"''), and was an academic researcher at the Institute for German Literature (''"Institut für deutsche Literatur"''). In 2002 he became Humboldt University's first Junior Professor for Modern German Literature, to be succeeded in 2006 by . In 2006 he was invited to accept a professorship for Modern German literature at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 2007 he succeeded Heinrich Detering as professor for Modern Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Korte
Hermann Korte (11 January 1949 - 21 January 2020) was a German academic specialising in German literature, language and linguistics.Seite von Hermann Korte an der Uni Siegen ''(Hermann Korte webpage at Siegen University)'' , accessed on 19 September 2014 Early years Korte was born in , where he successfully concluded his schooling and his in 1968 before moving on to[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norbert Hummelt
Norbert Hummelt (born 30 December 1962 in Neuss) is a German poet, essayist and translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''trans .... in: ''Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender 2016/2017''. vol. II: P–Z. Walter De Gruyter, 2016, , p. 438. Hummelt studied German studies and English studies in Cologne until 1990. He worked together with Marcel Beyer and like him he started as a rather Experimental literature, experimental writer, following Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Thomas Kling. From 1988 to 1992 he was head of the Kölner Autorenwerkstatt; an authors group in Cologne. With his second colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
