Papers by Patrick Ploschnitzki
Unterrichtspraxis, 2021
Because of their presumably familiar plot lines and character tropes, the Grimm Brothers' fairy t... more Because of their presumably familiar plot lines and character tropes, the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales are often included as one of the earliest literary selections in German language and culture curricula. However, for learners to engage more critically and interpretively with fairy-tale genres, it is exactly their assumed familiarity with the classical versions that needs to be challenged. At the same time-and as multiliteracies approaches to language teaching can help explicate-, 19 th-century narrative conventions are linguistically and stylistically quite removed from the communicative and literacy practices typically encountered in the beginning levels of instruction, and the leap in discursive complexity from more everyday genres to even more familiar fairy tales requires pedagogical support. This article reports on a global simulation unit that was developed and implemented in a fourth-semester German course focused on fairy tales to address these pedagogical concerns. Students were asked to not only read about but to live out the fairytale worlds and personas depicted in the Grimms' tales by engaging in perspective taking and world building activities, as they adopted a character from a Grimms' fairy tale.
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Monatshefte, 2019
Blankenship and Twark (2017) have shown that Jan-Ole Gerster’s 2012 Oh Boy (or “A Coffee in Berli... more Blankenship and Twark (2017) have shown that Jan-Ole Gerster’s 2012 Oh Boy (or “A Coffee in Berlin” in the subtitled English version)—welcomed with mixed reviews, but to critical acclaim—addresses Vergangenheitsbewältigung to varying degrees of overtness and intensity. However, the movie refuses an interpretation of being entirely about this ubiquitous topic in German Studies and culture. Rather, it also raises questions of identity, much like Max Frisch’s 1954 Stiller does most obviously in the novel’s opening sentence that famously claims “Ich bin nicht Stiller!”, a claim that is even more urgent in the role of the title of Michael Bullock’s English translation. The movie and the novel share interpretations by scholars that involve Vergangenheitsbewältigung, and they both include prominent female victims named Julika. In this article, we argue that the parallels don’t stop there, and that Oh Boy is in fact a contemporary restaging of Stiller—just shy of a remake, and just short of being overtly about Vergangenheitsbewältigung—and that both works are deeply embedded in the context of this issue as well as Nachkriegsliteratur, with Oh Boy heavily drawing from Stiller in a submerged literary intertextuality as a tool to comment on Germany’s collective dealing with the past at the time of its release.
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mTm, 2018
The scholarship on collaborative translation has considered an ever-increasing number of methods ... more The scholarship on collaborative translation has considered an ever-increasing number of methods by which we might alleviate some of the inveterate predicaments of solo translation, most often relating to online crowdsourcing and digital and socio-digital affordances in the translation process (Alfer 2017; Cerezo 2017; Cole et al. 2016; Cordingley and Frigau Manning 2017; David 2017; Jiménez-Crespo 2017; Park 2015; Puzio et al. 2013; Puzio, Keyes and and Jiménez 2016). This article, however, is dedicated to various aspects of the micro-sociology of collaborative translation in a primarily offline community, a form of sociality that involves its own built-in affordances and particular obstacles. Bringing these to light in an auto-ethnographic way, it draws from the author’s participant observations of a collaborative translation into English of the German-language novel In deinen Worten (In Your Words) by Zafer Şenocak. As is the case in any signature literary aesthetics, Şenocak’s writing comprises manifold idiosyncratic phrases and neologisms, as well as archaic terms, which in this case reference his own transnational, multilingual background in complex symbolic, political, and practical ways. An analysis of the experience highlights the role of certain translation-resistant moments, dubbed ‘Zaferisms’ by the translation team, which provoked challenges in the process and as a result were a primary means by which the team became a truly “collaborative” community of practice. This article will focus on the multilingual, social negotiation that took place around these terms and based on this will propose a general method for bilingual team translation, one which faces up to the problems of literary translation in a collaborative and socially hermeneutic way.
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The paper investigates the attitudes of the German speaking audience towards dubbing, particularl... more The paper investigates the attitudes of the German speaking audience towards dubbing, particularly in light of the newly emerged "modern TV show".
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The titles of "Thüringen revisited" and "Thüringen wiedersehen" are in the wrong order. The origi... more The titles of "Thüringen revisited" and "Thüringen wiedersehen" are in the wrong order. The original title of the German poem was "Thüringen revisited".
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Call for Papers by Patrick Ploschnitzki
OCEANS AND DESERTS 2016: CHARTING TRANSDISCIPLINARY CURRENTS IN ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE
The gr... more OCEANS AND DESERTS 2016: CHARTING TRANSDISCIPLINARY CURRENTS IN ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their third annual interdisciplinary conference in the Environmental Humanities for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) on April 1-2, 2016 in Tucson, Arizona.
Environmental questions have been driving interdisciplinary research in many Humanities disciplines in recent years. The intersection of culture and environment has invigorated classrooms and inspired publications, and conversations about environmental issues have extended beyond traditional disciplinary divisions. This conference will be a space to explore specific contributions of the Humanities to environmental issues of the present and their potential for the future. We are looking to discuss a wide range of questions that ask how particular Humanities approaches respond to environmental concerns and how interdisciplinary work in this area can be made productive. How, for instance, might the attitude of the Romantics vis-à-vis nature be a model for behavior in the 21st century? How does recycling figure into artistic production or the art classroom? Which cultural or historical conceptions of trash influence current public debates? What kind of philosophy or ethics drive preservation efforts or environmentalism? What are the outcomes of queering the environment or ecology? What is the language or the aesthetics of climate change? How do the future of the human and the Humanities relate in a posthuman age? What shape would an environmental grammar, psychology, or pedagogy take?
We invite papers based on concrete examples or case studies from emerging scholars in all areas of the Humanities, for instance literature, visual arts, history, cultural studies, philosophy, gender studies, pedagogy, area/regional studies, linguistics, public policy/political theory, religion and ethics. The conference language will be English, but we particularly welcome our colleagues in German Studies. Possible topic areas and keywords include but are not limited to the following:
animal studies
anthropocene
biopolitics
climate change
critical plant studies
eco-criticism
eco-feminism
eco-systems
eco-terrorism
ecology
environmental catastrophes
environmentalism
extinction
"green"
horticulture
landscapes
life forms
nature/culture
organic ("bio", "öko")
posthumanism
preservation
recycling
trash
Umwelt
water
"the wild"
Please submit a proposal of no more than 350 words for a 15-20-minute paper (including your name and institutional/departmental affiliation, paper title and A/V needs) together with a short description of your current position and research by December 21, 2015 to OceansAndDesertsUA@gmail.com. Proposals for full panels are also welcome.
Graduate students might have the opportunity to stay with a local graduate student (please indicate your interest when sending your proposal). There will be opportunities to visit Biosphere 2 and see an installation by the University of Arizona Poetry Center at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
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The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their third annual interdisciplinary conference in the Environmental Humanities for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) on April 1-2, 2016 in Tucson, Arizona.
Environmental questions have been driving interdisciplinary research in many Humanities disciplines in recent years. The intersection of culture and environment has invigorated classrooms and inspired publications, and conversations about environmental issues have extended beyond traditional disciplinary divisions. This conference will be a space to explore specific contributions of the Humanities to environmental issues of the present and their potential for the future. We are looking to discuss a wide range of questions that ask how particular Humanities approaches respond to environmental concerns and how interdisciplinary work in this area can be made productive. How, for instance, might the attitude of the Romantics vis-à-vis nature be a model for behavior in the 21st century? How does recycling figure into artistic production or the art classroom? Which cultural or historical conceptions of trash influence current public debates? What kind of philosophy or ethics drive preservation efforts or environmentalism? What are the outcomes of queering the environment or ecology? What is the language or the aesthetics of climate change? How do the future of the human and the Humanities relate in a posthuman age? What shape would an environmental grammar, psychology, or pedagogy take?
We invite papers based on concrete examples or case studies from emerging scholars in all areas of the Humanities, for instance literature, visual arts, history, cultural studies, philosophy, gender studies, pedagogy, area/regional studies, linguistics, public policy/political theory, religion and ethics. The conference language will be English, but we particularly welcome our colleagues in German Studies. Possible topic areas and keywords include but are not limited to the following:
animal studies
anthropocene
biopolitics
climate change
critical plant studies
eco-criticism
eco-feminism
eco-systems
eco-terrorism
ecology
environmental catastrophes
environmentalism
extinction
"green"
horticulture
landscapes
life forms
nature/culture
organic ("bio", "öko")
posthumanism
preservation
recycling
trash
Umwelt
water
"the wild"
Please submit a proposal of no more than 350 words for a 15-20-minute paper (including your name and institutional/departmental affiliation, paper title and A/V needs) together with a short description of your current position and research by December 21, 2015 to OceansAndDesertsUA@gmail.com. Proposals for full panels are also welcome.
Graduate students might have the opportunity to stay with a local graduate student (please indicate your interest when sending your proposal). There will be opportunities to visit Biosphere 2 and see an installation by the University of Arizona Poetry Center at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their third annual interdisciplinary conference in the Environmental Humanities for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) on April 1-2, 2016 in Tucson, Arizona.
Environmental questions have been driving interdisciplinary research in many Humanities disciplines in recent years. The intersection of culture and environment has invigorated classrooms and inspired publications, and conversations about environmental issues have extended beyond traditional disciplinary divisions. This conference will be a space to explore specific contributions of the Humanities to environmental issues of the present and their potential for the future. We are looking to discuss a wide range of questions that ask how particular Humanities approaches respond to environmental concerns and how interdisciplinary work in this area can be made productive. How, for instance, might the attitude of the Romantics vis-à-vis nature be a model for behavior in the 21st century? How does recycling figure into artistic production or the art classroom? Which cultural or historical conceptions of trash influence current public debates? What kind of philosophy or ethics drive preservation efforts or environmentalism? What are the outcomes of queering the environment or ecology? What is the language or the aesthetics of climate change? How do the future of the human and the Humanities relate in a posthuman age? What shape would an environmental grammar, psychology, or pedagogy take?
We invite papers based on concrete examples or case studies from emerging scholars in all areas of the Humanities, for instance literature, visual arts, history, cultural studies, philosophy, gender studies, pedagogy, area/regional studies, linguistics, public policy/political theory, religion and ethics. The conference language will be English, but we particularly welcome our colleagues in German Studies. Possible topic areas and keywords include but are not limited to the following:
animal studies
anthropocene
biopolitics
climate change
critical plant studies
eco-criticism
eco-feminism
eco-systems
eco-terrorism
ecology
environmental catastrophes
environmentalism
extinction
"green"
horticulture
landscapes
life forms
nature/culture
organic ("bio", "öko")
posthumanism
preservation
recycling
trash
Umwelt
water
"the wild"
Please submit a proposal of no more than 350 words for a 15-20-minute paper (including your name and institutional/departmental affiliation, paper title and A/V needs) together with a short description of your current position and research by December 21, 2015 to OceansAndDesertsUA@gmail.com. Proposals for full panels are also welcome.
Graduate students might have the opportunity to stay with a local graduate student (please indicate your interest when sending your proposal). There will be opportunities to visit Biosphere 2 and see an installation by the University of Arizona Poetry Center at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.