Aesthetics and Politics in Modern German Culture

The Editors: Brigid Haines is Reader in German at Swansea University.Stephen Parker is Henry Simon Professor of German at the University of Manchester.Colin Riordan is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex and was Professor of German at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

• Contents: Mererid Hopwood: Cywydd Ffarwelio Rhys – David Basker: Professor Rhys W. Williams: An Appreciation – Duncan Large: Carl Einstein, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and the Aesthetics of Cubism – Jon Hughes: The (Re)generation Game: Discourses of Age and Renewal between Expressionism and the Neue Sachlichkeit – Christiane Schönfeld: Lion Feuchtwanger, Jud Süß and the Nazis – Moray McGowan: Prodigal Parturition? Walter Bauer’s Poem ‘Ich bin dein Sohn, Europa’ – Paul Cooke: The Limits of Consensual Film-Making? Representing National Socialism on the Screen and German ‘Normalisation’ – Ian Roberts: Tinker, Tailor, Nazi, Sailor: Generic Stereotypes of German Combatants in Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot – Stuart Taberner: The Art of Delay: Protest and Prose in F. C. Delius’s Mein Jahr als Mörder – Neil H. Donahue: Suchbilder: Looking for Christoph Meckel – Frank Finlay: Thomas Weiss’s ‘Polyphonic’ Novel Tod eines Trüffelschweins – David Clarke: The Industrial World in the Literary Topography of the GDR – Colin Riordan: Authenticity and Violence in Nicolas Born’s Die Fälschung – Brigid Haines: Sport, Identity and War in Saša Stanišić’s Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert – Jim Jordan: Identity, Irony and Denial: Navid Kermani’s Kurzmitteilung – Allyson Fiddler: A Political ‘Brief ’: Performativity and Politicians in Short Works of Austrian Satire – Owen Evans: ‘Bloody Germans! They can’t take a joke, can they?’ The Impact of Humour in Recent German Film – Elizabeth Boa: Snowy Worlds: Kafka’s Das Schloß and Pamuk’s Snow – Margaret Littler: Cramped Creativity: The Politics of a Minor German Literature – Julian Preece: Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem: On the Theory and Practice of Friendship in Letters – Stephen Parker: The Young Brecht’s Predicament in Tagebuch No 10.