The East Pavilion of the Old Library houses the Fagel Collection - the books, pamphlets and maps ... more The East Pavilion of the Old Library houses the Fagel Collection - the books, pamphlets and maps amassed by a powerful Dutch family by the end of the 18th century. The Fagels having fallen on hard times as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, the entire library was to be auctioned by Christie\u27s of London in March 1802. Through "Acumen" and "Timely Intervention" Trinity College bought the entire collection before it went to auction. Despite the immense wealth of this resource, it has only ever been examind sporadically and unsystematically. Indeed, large sections of the collection have never even been properly catalogued. The Department of Germanic Studies is preparing applications to Dutch, Belgian and Irish sources for funding for two postgraduate students or post-doctoral fellows to study the Fagel collection. The persons appointed would be expected either to study the collection itself, say, from the point of view of the history of the book or social history, or to carry out research projects based on its holdings, in areas such as literature, history of science, political history, cartography, or history of ideas
The chapter reviews the prominent and diverse images of “Europa” in Aras Ören’s texts of the 1970... more The chapter reviews the prominent and diverse images of “Europa” in Aras Ören’s texts of the 1970s and 1980s. Ören locates the experience of labor and other migration as part of the “blutende Wunde” of European history, the continuum of class and ethnic exploitation (Ören, Berliner Trilogie 218). At the same time, though, the inequalities of labor migration generate economic, demographic and cultural dialectics which eventually transform the colonizing as well as colonized society. “Europa” is, moreover, a place of critical reflection on the complex relationship between Turkish, German, and Turkish-German experiences and histories. The apparent exhaustion of the political project within which Ören’s early work was predominantly seen has undoubtedly contributed to its recent relative neglect, despite the prominent role writing of migration, including Turkish-German writing, has assumed in contemporary German studies. Against this, the chapter seeks to demonstrate the continued import...
This study contextualizes the playwright Heiner Muller within the theatre. It analyzes Muller'... more This study contextualizes the playwright Heiner Muller within the theatre. It analyzes Muller's later output (including plays such as "Die Hamletmaschine" and "Der Auftrag") in terms of formal structure and real productions. Under the broad heading of "acting", "character" and "plot" the texts are examined to see in what way they challenge the institution of the theatre on paper. They are then compared with documented stagings by major German-speaking theatres to establish to what extent formal devices are able to frustrate the production process. The book uses the methods of both literary and theatre studies and should provide the reader with an interdisciplinary approach to Muller's work.
The East Pavilion of the Old Library houses the Fagel Collection - the books, pamphlets and maps ... more The East Pavilion of the Old Library houses the Fagel Collection - the books, pamphlets and maps amassed by a powerful Dutch family by the end of the 18th century. The Fagels having fallen on hard times as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, the entire library was to be auctioned by Christie\u27s of London in March 1802. Through "Acumen" and "Timely Intervention" Trinity College bought the entire collection before it went to auction. Despite the immense wealth of this resource, it has only ever been examind sporadically and unsystematically. Indeed, large sections of the collection have never even been properly catalogued. The Department of Germanic Studies is preparing applications to Dutch, Belgian and Irish sources for funding for two postgraduate students or post-doctoral fellows to study the Fagel collection. The persons appointed would be expected either to study the collection itself, say, from the point of view of the history of the book or social history, or to carry out research projects based on its holdings, in areas such as literature, history of science, political history, cartography, or history of ideas
The chapter reviews the prominent and diverse images of “Europa” in Aras Ören’s texts of the 1970... more The chapter reviews the prominent and diverse images of “Europa” in Aras Ören’s texts of the 1970s and 1980s. Ören locates the experience of labor and other migration as part of the “blutende Wunde” of European history, the continuum of class and ethnic exploitation (Ören, Berliner Trilogie 218). At the same time, though, the inequalities of labor migration generate economic, demographic and cultural dialectics which eventually transform the colonizing as well as colonized society. “Europa” is, moreover, a place of critical reflection on the complex relationship between Turkish, German, and Turkish-German experiences and histories. The apparent exhaustion of the political project within which Ören’s early work was predominantly seen has undoubtedly contributed to its recent relative neglect, despite the prominent role writing of migration, including Turkish-German writing, has assumed in contemporary German studies. Against this, the chapter seeks to demonstrate the continued import...
This study contextualizes the playwright Heiner Muller within the theatre. It analyzes Muller'... more This study contextualizes the playwright Heiner Muller within the theatre. It analyzes Muller's later output (including plays such as "Die Hamletmaschine" and "Der Auftrag") in terms of formal structure and real productions. Under the broad heading of "acting", "character" and "plot" the texts are examined to see in what way they challenge the institution of the theatre on paper. They are then compared with documented stagings by major German-speaking theatres to establish to what extent formal devices are able to frustrate the production process. The book uses the methods of both literary and theatre studies and should provide the reader with an interdisciplinary approach to Muller's work.
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