Table of Contents
February 01, 2025; Volume 117,Issue 1
Articles
- You have accessRestricted accessSpecters of Probability: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler and Glitching Visions of DataDaniel LangeMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 1-17; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.1Daniel LangeIndependent Scholar
- You have accessRestricted accessShijing und seine europäischen Übersetzungen bis Friedrich RückertChing-Ching ChiuMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 18-45; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.18Ching-Ching ChiuRuprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg Schiffgasse 9, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- You have accessRestricted accessThe Storykeeper: Observations on an Encounter between Walter Benjamin and Anna SeghersTherese Ahern AugstMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 46-66; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.46Therese Ahern AugstLewis & Clark College, Department of World Languages and Literatures, 615 S Palatine Hill Road, Portland, Oregon 97219, USA
- You have accessRestricted accessReclaiming Bildung: Else Lasker-Schüler’s Counter-NarrativeRebekah SlodounikMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 67-87; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.67Rebekah SlodounikBucknell University, One Dent Drive, Lewisburg, PA 17837 USA
- You have accessRestricted accessHerder’s Concept of CultureCarl NiekerkMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 88-108; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.88Carl NiekerkUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 2090 Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building, 707 South Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- You have accessRestricted accessObstacles and Optimism: Interviews with German Studies Journal and Book Review EditorsHester Baer, Necia Chronister, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge, Katharina Gerstenberger, S.E. Jackson, Gundela Hachmann, Christina Kraenzle, Michael (Mac) Mackenzie, Maria Mayr, Elliott Schreiber, Karin Schutjer, Melissa Sheedy, Martin Wagner, Beverly Weber and Qingyang Freya ZhouMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 109-122; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.109Hester BaerUniversity of MarylandNecia ChronisterKansas State UniversityHannah Vandegrift EldridgeUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonKatharina GerstenbergerThe University of UtahS.E. JacksonUniversity of Massachussets AmherstGundela HachmannLouisiana State UniversityChristina KraenzleYork UniversityMichael (Mac) MackenzieGrinnell CollegeMaria MayrMemorial University of NewfoundlandElliott SchreiberVassar CollegeKarin SchutjerUniversity of OklahomaMelissa SheedyUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonMartin WagnerUniversity of CalgaryBeverly WeberUniversity of Colorado BoulderQingyang Freya ZhouUniversity of California, Berkeley
Book Reviews
- You have accessRestricted accessMagus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa. By Anthony Grafton. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023. 304 pages. $39.95 hardcover or eBook; Hexenangst und Hexenverfolgung in Goethes ,Faust’. Die Deutung verschwiegener Spuren in der Literatur. Von Anne Uhrmacher. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. ix + 519 Seiten + 22 s/w und 18 farbige Abbildungen. €119,95 gebunden oder eBook.Frank BaronMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 123-126; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.123Frank BaronUniversity of Kansas
- You have accessRestricted accessThe Green Middle Ages: The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600–1600. Edited by Claudine Chavannes-Mazel and Linda IJpelaar. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 344 pages + 215 colored images. €54,95 hardcover, open access eBook.Clara Marie KahnMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 126-128; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.126Clara Marie KahnFreie Universität Berlin, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
- You have accessRestricted accessWomen and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition. By Hilary Brown. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 314 pages + 5 images. $100.00 hardcover or eBook.Chantal WrightMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 129-131; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.129Chantal WrightZurich University of Applied Sciences
- You have accessRestricted accessGlanz und Elend der Aufklärung in Wien. Voraussetzungen—Institutionen— Texte. Von Norbert Christian Wolf. Wien: Böhlau, 2023. 456 Seiten + 33 farbige Abbildungen. €50,00 gebunden, open access eBook.Katherine ArensMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 131-133; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.131Katherine ArensThe University of Texas at Austin
- You have accessRestricted accessDramatiker, Dichter, Philosoph? Schillers philosophisches Schaffen im zeitgenössischen Urteil. Von Maria Koch. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2023. 247 Seiten. €40,00 broschiert oder eBook.Peter HöyngMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 133-135; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.133Peter HöyngEmory University
- You have accessRestricted accessLiterary Conclusions: The Poetics of Ending in Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist. By Oliver Simons. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022. 240 pages. $99.95 hardcover, $38.00 paperback or eBook.Johannes LehmannMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 135-137; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.135Johannes LehmannUniversität Bonn
- You have accessRestricted accessAdel im Vormärz. Begegnungen mit einer umstrittenen Sozialformation. Herausgegeben von Urte Stobbe und Claude D. Conter. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2023. 296 pages + einige Abbildungen. €40,00 broschiert oder eBook.Dirk GöttscheMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 137-139; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.137Dirk GöttscheUniversity of Nottingham
- You have accessRestricted accessKellers Welten. Territorien—Ordnungen—Zirkulationen. Herausgegeben von Sebastian Meixner. Gottfried Kellers Moderne, Band 3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. xi + 282 Seiten + 1 Abbildung. €89,95 gebunden, open access eBook; Kellers Wissen. Dinge—Diskurse—Praktiken. Herausgegeben von Cornelia Pierstorff. Gottfried Kellers Moderne, Band 4. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. x + 292 Seiten +1 farbige +1 s/w Abbildung. € 89,95 gebunden, open access eBook.Hans J. RindisbacherMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 139-145; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.139Hans J. RindisbacherPomona College
- You have accessRestricted accessWilhelm von Humboldt and Transcultural Communication in a Multicultural World: Translating Humanity. By John Walker. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2022. 288 pages. $110.00/£80.00 hardcover, $29.95/£19.99 eBook; The Origins of German Self-Cultivation: Bildung and the Future of the Humanities. Edited by Jennifer Ham, Ulrich Kinzel, and David Tse-Chien Pan. New York– Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2023. 168 pages + 6 images. $120.00/£89.00; Beyond Posthumanism: The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities. By Alexander Mathäs. New York: Berghahn, 2020. 314 + 11 illustrations. $135.00/£99.00 hardcover, $34.95 eBook.Liisa SteinbyMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 145-151; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.145Liisa SteinbyUniversity of Turku
- You have accessRestricted accessAnders als die Andern. By Ervin Malakaj. Montreal: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2023. 176 pages + 34 photos, 3 illustrations. $95.00 hardcover, $19.95 paperback or eBook.Zach Ramon FitzpatrickMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 151-153; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.151Zach Ramon FitzpatrickUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
- You have accessRestricted accessVon Hesiod bis Brecht. Eine Literaturgeschichte der Widmung. Von Walter Kühn. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021. 420 Seiten + 7 Abbildungen. €45,00 broschiert.Andrew CusackMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 153-154; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.153Andrew CusackUniversity of St Andrews
- You have accessRestricted accessModeling Motherhood in Weimar Germany: Political and Psychological Discourses in Women’s Writing. By Katherine E. Calvert. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2023. 188 pages. $110.00 hardcover, $29.95 eBook.Alexandra M. StewartMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 155-157; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.155Alexandra M. StewartUniversity of Portland
- You have accessRestricted accessWriting and Rewriting the Reich: Women Journalists in the Nazi and Post-War Press. By Deborah Barton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. 384 pages + 14 b/w images. $85.00 hardcover or eBook.Frauke Meyer-GosauMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 157-160; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.157Frauke Meyer-GosauLiterary Editor & Independent Scholar
- You have accessRestricted accessGerman-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Beyond Testimony. By Helen Finch, Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2023. 230 pages. $110.00/€80.00 hardcover, $29.95/€19.99 eBook.Agnes MuellerMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 160-162; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.160Agnes MuellerUniversity of South Carolina
- You have accessRestricted accessBarbara Honigmann. Edited by Robert Gillett and Godela Weiss-Sussex. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, New York, Vienna: Peter Lang, 2023. 254 pages. $48.00 paperback or eBook.Ian W. WilsonMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 162-163; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.162Ian W. WilsonCentre College
- You have accessRestricted accessCompressed Utterances: Collage in a Germanic Context after 1912. Edited by Cole Collins. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, New York, Vienna: Peter Lang, 2022. 316 pages + 32 b/w and 20 color images. $89.60 hardcover or eBook.Susan FunkensteinMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 163-165; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.163Susan FunkensteinUniversity of Michigan
- You have accessRestricted accessSpuren lesen und Zeichen deuten. 11 Versuche zum Kriminalroman. Von Thomas W. Kniesche. Heidelberg: Winter, 2023. 294 Seiten. €48,00 gebunden oder eBook.Julia Karolle-BergMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 165-168; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.165Julia Karolle-BergJohn Carroll University
- You have accessRestricted accessGegen Mauern anschreiben. Max von der Grün als Kinder- und Jugendbuchautor. Herausgegeben von Jan-Pieter Barbian und Erhard Schütz, mit Iuditha Balint. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2023. 173 Seiten. €25,00 broschiert oder eBook.Rüdiger ScholzMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 168-170; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.168Rüdiger ScholzUniversität Freiburg
- You have accessRestricted accessZeiterfahrung und gesellschaftlicher Umbruch in Fiktionen der Post-DDR-Literatur. Literarische Figurationen von Zeitwahrnehmung im Werk von Lutz Seiler, Julia Schoch und Jenny Erpenbeck. Von Carola Hähnel-Mesnard. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2022. 293 Seiten. €45,00 gebunden oder eBook.Heike PolsterMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 170-172; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.170Heike PolsterThe University of Memphis
- You have accessRestricted accessA Companion to Sound in German-Speaking Cultures. Edited by Rolf J. Goebel. Rochester, MI: Camden House, 2023. 312 pages + 7 b/w illustrations + 2 musical examples. $130.00 hardcover, $29.95 eBook.Jonathan WipplingerMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 172-173; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.172Jonathan WipplingerUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- You have accessRestricted accessDas narrative Gehirn. Was unsere Neuronen erzählen. Von Fritz Breithaupt. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2022. 368 Seiten + mehrere Diagramme. €28,00 hardcover, €23,99 eBook, €20,00 broschiert. (Broschierte Ausgabe in Vorbereitung, Feb 2025)Sabine GrossMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 174-177; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.174Sabine GrossUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
- You have accessRestricted accessDie komische Differenz. Zur Dialektik des Lächerlichen in Theater und Gesellschaft. Von Hans Roth. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2022. 433 Seiten. €40.00 broschiert, open access eBook.Jill E. TwarkMonatshefte, February 2025, 117 (1) 177-179; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/m.117.1.177Jill E. TwarkEast Carolina University
