Paul Michael Lützeler - Böcker

Studies of one of the foremost 20c Austrian writers, as a critic and as a novelist and dramatist.The Austrian novelist Hermann Broch ranks with Kafka and Musil among the three greatest 20th-century Austrian novelists and belongs to the century's most gifted novelists in German from whatever country. He established his reputation with The Sleepwalkers, a trilogy of political and philosophical novels. His best-known work is The Death of Virgil, a long, challenging work in a lyrical, exuberant, and sometimes nearly incomprehensible style, akind of cerebral stream-of-consciousness of the dying Virgil. Broch also wrote extensively about modern art and architecture, Hofmannsthal, and mass psychology. He has a special connection to Yale, as he lived the last years of his life there after having escaped Austria in 1938. The participants in the Yale Symposium of April 2001 are among the world's most prominent Broch scholars. Fourteen of their presentations have been extensively revised for this volume, which focuses on Broch as critic and as novelist and dramatist. Topics include Broch's views on kitsch and art, and on drama; his cultural criticism; his cooperation with Borgese and Arendt; his theory of mass psychology; history in his works, Ernst Kretschmer's influence on him; Virgil and Celan's Atemwende; Jean Starr Untermeyer's translation of Virgil; guilt and the fall in Those without Guilt; and Broch reception in Japan.Paul Michael Lützeler is Distinguished University Professor of German at Washington University St. Louis and editor of Broch's collected works. MATTHIAS KONZETT is associate professor of German at Yale; WILLY RIEMER is associate professor of German at the University of Delaware, and CHRISTA SAMMONS is curator of the German collections of the Beinecke Library at Yale.

During the era following the Second World War world peace was largely assured through American-European cooperation on the political, military, and economic level. This status quo was upset by the ratification of the Treaty on the European Union (Maastricht Treaty) which will, whatever obstacles still remain, inevitably lead to closer cooperation among (west)European countries and to a shift in Europe's position within world politics. This raises a number of questions that are discussed in this volume by an international team of experts from Europe (east and west), Russia and the United States.

The prominent scholar-contributors to this volume share their experiences developing the field of US German Studies and their thoughts on literature and interdisciplinarity, pluralism and diversity, and transatlantic dialogue.The decisive contribution of the exile generation of the 1930s and '40s to German Studies in the United States is well known. The present volume carries the story forward to the next generation(s), giving voice to scholars from the US and overseas, many of them mentored by the exile generation. The exiles knew vividly the value of the Humanities; the following generations, though spared the experience of historical catastrophe, have found formidable challenges in building and maintaining the field in a time increasingly dismissive of that value. The scholar-contributors to this volume, prominent members of the profession, share their experiences of finding their way in the field and helping to develop it to its present state as well as their thoughts on its present challenges, including the question of the role of literature and of interdisciplinarity, pluralism, and diversity. Of particular interest is therole of transatlantic dialogue.Contributors: Leslie A. Adelson, Hans Adler, Russell A. Berman, Jane K. Brown, Walter Hinderer, Robert C. Holub, Leroy Hopkins, Andreas Huyssen, Claire Kramsch, Wilhelm Krull, Paul Michael Lützeler, Mark W. Roche, Judith Ryan, Azade Seyhan, Lynne Tatlock, Liliane Weissberg.Paul Michael Lützeler is Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University, St. Louis. PeterHöyng is Associate Professor of German at Emory University.

Hermann Broch (1886-1951) war als Romancier ein poeta doctus, der sich auch als philosophischer Essayist, Menschenrechtstheoretiker, Massenpsychologe und Literaturkritiker einen Namen gemacht hat. Gleichzeitig beschäftigte er sich mit Kunst, Architektur, Musik und Film. Mit seinem Drehbuch Das Unbekannte X versuchte Broch, ein breites Publikum für neue wissenschaftliche Themen zu interessieren. Wenn er auch selbst mit den Ideen zur Verfilmung seiner Romane nicht durchdrang, war er doch davon überzeugt, dass dem Film als Massenmedium die Zukunft gehöre. Brochs letzter Roman, Die Schuldlosen, mit der darin enthaltenen und von Hannah Arendt so hoch geschätzten Erzählung der Magd Zerline lebt nicht zuletzt von den Anspielungen auf Mozarts Don Giovanni. Es überrascht nicht, dass einer der bedeutendsten französischen Vertreter der musikalischen Moderne, Jean Barraqué, sich ganz der Vertonung von Brochs Exilroman Der Tod des Vergil widmete. In seiner späten kulturhistorischen Studie Hofmannsthal und seine Zeit lässt Broch noch einmal die Entwicklung der Moderne in den verschiedenen Künsten Revue passieren, wobei er in der Malerei die Stationen von Paul Cézanne über Vincent van Gogh bis Pablo Picasso markiert und in der Literatur zwei Richtungen – die ästhetische und die ethische – profiliert, die sich mit den Namen Hugo von Hofmannsthal und Karl Kraus verbinden. Kraus’ Satire ist in Brochs Augen paradigmatisch für die Literatur und Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. Im vorliegenden Band, Ergebnis eines internationalen Broch-Symposiums in Prag, wird das Interesse des Autors an den Künsten erstmals herausgestellt und ihr vielfältiger Einfluss auf sein Werk untersucht. Die Beiträge zeigen, wie stark die Künste gerade in Werken der klassischen modernen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts im Sinne von Intertextualität, Ekphrasis und Verflechtung aufeinander gewirkt haben.

The series "QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR LITERATUR- UND KULTURGESCHICHTE" (Sources and Research in the History of Literature and Culture), with a rich tradition stretching back to 1874, is an established feature among the renowned publications for German Literary Studies. Edited by Mark-Georg Dehrmann and Christiane Witthöft, the series presents examples of high-quality scholarship examining literary texts in conjunction with historical cultural phenomena, particularly with the other arts. There is an explicit demand for literary studies with a transdisciplinary approach. German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day forms the main focus of the series.As the historical cultural thrust of the series includes aspects of intercultural experience and national perceptions of the other, Quellen und Forschungen is also open to occasional comparative studies. The publications of the series include monographs, doctoral and professorial theses. Works presented for acceptance in the series are required to display scholarly relevance and excellence in method and presentation.

Hermann Broch wird in den 1930er Jahren in der Konfrontation mit der Versklavungsideologie der totalitären Staaten zum Verteidiger von Menschenrecht und Demokratie. Seine politischen Essays sind Dokumente des Widerstands. Sie werden im Kontext des Menschenrechtsdiskurses mit Bezug auf Jacques Maritain, Hannah Arendt, Hans Joas und Samuel Moyn analysiert. Auch seine Romane sind Beiträge zur Human Rights Culture.