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- Publications
- Influence
Frogs and Salamanders as Agents of Romanticisms
- Dorothee Ostmeier
- Philosophy
- 2014
In his lectures at Johns Hopkins Rainer Nägele always astounded me with associations that linked, for example, dogs to melancholy. Of course, this association was not new, but Nägele filtered it out… Expand
Poetische Dialoge zu Liebe, Gender und Sex im frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhundert : Else Lasker-Schüler, Peter Hille und Gottfried Benn, Lou Andreas-Salomé und Rainer Maria Rilke, Bertolt Brecht und…
- Dorothee Ostmeier
- History
- 2014
Magic Realities Reconsidered: Ever After
- Dorothee Ostmeier
- Art
- 1 December 2009
By contextualizing the film Ever After in terms of its revisions of the classic versions of the Cinderella story and of Renaissance ideas of social reform, this study presents the contemporary… Expand
Migration’s Alienations: Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage
- Dorothee Ostmeier, M. Najjar
- Sociology
- 9 December 2020
Brecht’s so-called anti-war drama Mother Courage and her Children (1939) will be read as a migration drama that demystifies rhetorical cynicism as a coping device for the traumatic torments of… Expand
The Feminine Beast: Anti-moral Morality in Early 20th-Century Literature
- Dorothee Ostmeier
- Sociology
- 16 September 2014
Texts of the early Twentieth Century link animalism, gender struggles, and issues of identity in their stark critique of bourgeois gender ideology. This essay places selected texts by Bertolt Brecht… Expand
Rafik Schami’s Tales about Fairy Tales
- Dorothee Ostmeier
- Art
- 2013
Rafik Schami’s Tales about Fairy Tales Walter Benjamin mourns the loss of storytelling, especially of the teller of fairy tales, in his essay „Der Erzahler” from 1936. Rafik Schami, however, promotes… Expand