Heidi Schlipphacke
University of Illinois at Chicago, Germanic Studies, Faculty Member
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Angela Steidele’s 2015 epistolary novel Rosenstengel: Ein Manuskript aus dem Umfeld Ludwigs II presents a queer archive via partially fictional letters from and about Ludwig II and the cross-dressing lesbian Catharina Margaretha Linck,... more
Angela Steidele’s 2015 epistolary novel Rosenstengel: Ein Manuskript aus dem Umfeld Ludwigs II presents a queer archive via partially fictional letters from and about Ludwig II and the cross-dressing lesbian Catharina Margaretha Linck, who lived more than 100 years before the Bavarian king. Steidele’s novel highlights the marriage of materiality and fantasy within the queer archive, engaging a mode of Camp aesthetics that always points to the gap between the material/real and fantasy. What is more, it is lesbian Camp, an undertheorized concept, that shapes and structures Steidele’s novel, even those portions concerned with the homosexually-inclined King Ludwig. The unrepresentability of lesbian desire surfaces in the novel as textual gaps that connote both a joke and loss, underscoring the affective complexity of the queer archive.
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... The Sissi films were thus being screened to two audience groups who were trying to reconstruct ... beyond the discourse of 'camp' most famously begun by Susan Sontag in her 'Notes on camp ... In all three films... more
... The Sissi films were thus being screened to two audience groups who were trying to reconstruct ... beyond the discourse of 'camp' most famously begun by Susan Sontag in her 'Notes on camp ... In all three films combined, the nuclear family appears as a unit only twice: once for a ...
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: "Sissi": The Convergence of Memory and Myth Maura E. Hametz (Old Dominion University, USA) and Heidi Schlipphacke (University of Illinois Chicago, USA) I. Memory 2.... more
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: "Sissi": The Convergence of Memory and Myth Maura E. Hametz (Old Dominion University, USA) and Heidi Schlipphacke (University of Illinois Chicago, USA) I. Memory 2. Encounters: Ulrike Truger, Elisabeth - Zwang - Flucht - Freiheit, 1998/99 Christiane Hertel (Bryn Mawr College, USA) 3. The Remains of the Stay: The Corporeal Archive of Empress Elisabeth in the Hofburg Beth Ann Muellner (College of Wooster, USA) 4. Sisi Redux: The Empress Elisabeth and Her Cult in Post-Communist Hungary Judith Szapor (McGill University, Canada) and Andras Lenart (National Szechenyi Library, Hungary) 5. A Place for Sissi in Trieste Maura E. Hametz (Old Dominion University, USA) and Borut Klabjan (European University Institute in Florence, Italy) 6. Empress Elisabeth and the Painting of Modern Life Olivia Gruber Florek (Delaware County Community College, USA) 7. Karl Lagerfeld and the Elisabeth Myth Carolin Maikler (Independent Scholar, Swit...
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... In calling nostalgia a ''historical emotion,'' Svetlana Boym em-phasizes the simultaneously abstract and immediate nature of nos-talgia's pull.10 The affect that... more
... In calling nostalgia a ''historical emotion,'' Svetlana Boym em-phasizes the simultaneously abstract and immediate nature of nos-talgia's pull.10 The affect that accompanies the encounter with the past is visceral and immediate, yet nostalgia also gains its power by reminding ...
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... In The Princess and the Warrior, Bodo's brother Walter, a bank clerk played by Joachim Król, and the security worker at the bank (Sebastian Schipper) share a moment of recognition that is best explained through an... more
... In The Princess and the Warrior, Bodo's brother Walter, a bank clerk played by Joachim Król, and the security worker at the bank (Sebastian Schipper) share a moment of recognition that is best explained through an intertextual reference to Run Lola Run. ...