German Woman Research Articles

‘Welch eine Lage für die armen Frauen!’: Emilie von Berlepsch’s Travelogue Caledonia (1802–04) as a Medium of Reflection on the Role of Women

ABSTRACT Emilie von Berlepsch was the first German woman to travel to Scotland and write a travelogue about it. From 1799 to 1800 she toured the country and published her experiences and thoughts in her travel book Caledonia (1802–04). This article illustrates von Berlepsch’s endeavour to spread knowledge of British culture in her home country by means of the travelogue, with a particular focus on women. It argues that Caledonia can be considered a further example of von Berlepsch’s advocacy of women’s rights. Using the account of her voyage as a tool to reflect on the role of women both in Britain and Germany, von Berlepsch encourages her fellow countrywomen to increase their independence from men through intellectual pursuits such as writing.

Echocardiographic monitoring of myocardial function in a female patient with right heart Loeffler endocarditis at thrombotic stage after Epstein-Barr-virus infection

BackgroundTransthoracic echocardiography is usually the first non-invasive imaging modality for the detection of Loeffler endocarditis at thrombotic stage. In the recent decade 3D echocardiography and deformation imaging already proved as a helpful tool for the monitoring of left and right ventricular heart disease.Case presentationThe present case illustrates the diagnostic role of 3D echocardiography and deformation imaging in the acute stage of right sided Loeffler endocarditis in a 70-year-old Western European (German) woman. This case proves that myocardial involvement due to inflammation can be detected at subclinical stages by speckle tracking echocardiography. Acute deterioration of left and right ventricular function and the early response to prednisolone therapy can objectively be monitored. In addition, alterations of effective stroke volume can quantitatively be assessed by 3D right ventricular volumetry with exclusion of thrombus formation in the volume measurements.ConclusionThis case underlines the importance of 3D echocardiography and deformation imaging as a helpful diagnostic tool in disease management in the acute phase of Loeffler endocarditis at thrombotic stage.

The Kids Are All Right: Futurity and Black German Childhood in SchwarzRund’s Biskaya (2017)

SchwarzRund’s Biskaya (2017) is an “Afroqueer” novel that follows the travails of Tue, a queer Black German woman whose life is marked by the quotidian struggles of queer Black folx in Germany. However, Biskaya is also a work of fantasy, since SchwarzRund created an island (Biskaya) in the Bay of Biscay along the southern coast of Spain and France. In the novel Biskaya is home to African-descended people who have both voluntarily and involuntarily migrated to Europe as part of the labour market for centuries. In this article I examine the role of children in the novel’s discussions about Black German futurity. I argue that in Biskaya, SchwarzRund combines Afrofuturist aesthetics, Black feminist thought, and queer futurity to present us with a utopia that is not perfect but is in a state of becoming thanks to people like Tue, who realize the importance of being hopeful and working towards a better future. I focus on the role that kinship plays in this Black, queer futurity, because Tue’s relationships, both biological and non-biological, both with peers and with elders and juniors, are a key part of her transformation into being more hopeful about the future. While it is the importance of non-biological kinship ties in the novel that helps make it so queer, it is the intergenerational relationships that make the novel Afrofuturist. I look at how children in the novel allow SchwarzRund to pose several questions about futurity that can help unite Black Germans across genders, sexualities, and generations and empower all Black German folx to see themselves as agents of change.

The Socio-Political Faces of Clara Schumann on German Film

Filmic portrayals of Clara Schumann from World War II to the present provide a fascinating insight into changing conceptions of her professional and domestic roles. Just as fictional reshapings of her biography from the late-nineteenth century to the present can be understood to relate to changing social and political contexts, filmic portrayals of this great musical figure over the past 80 years speak to both constancy and change. The image that remains constant, the depiction of a loyal wife in the service of her husband's art, takes on different guises as it is reflected in the mirror of each film's historical, social, and political moment. In Träumerei (1943/44) Clara Schumann provides an idealized depiction of the German woman in the context of war, one who sacrifices her performance career for love of husband, children and domesticity. Song of Love (1947) reflects the revered role of the mother of a large family in post-war America. Limiting its narrative frame to the years leading up to Robert Schumann's death, Frühlingssinfonie (1974) casts a new light on the domestic strands explored in Träumerei, reflecting then recent developments in research in the Neue Schumann-Gesamtausgabe. In Geliebte Clara (2008), whereas the titular focus shifts explicitly to Clara herself, this passionate retelling is based on the familiar narrative that informs all four films. Building on the historiographical work of Beatrix Borchard, Matthias Wendt, and Yael Braunschweig, this article provides a rich cultural context for each film, and explores how that context relates to source materials including letters and diaries. Reaching beyond that scholarship, this article challenges the familiar narrative found in these movies by re-reading passages of Clara's letters and diaries that can be understood to express regret and frustration at the limitations that her domestic life imposed on her artistic career.

The Magic of the Margins: Rethinking Healing from the Perspective of Queer Exile

The Magic of the Margins: Rethinking Healing from the Perspective of Queer Exile

Ulceroglandular form of tularemia after squirrel bite: a case report

BackgroundThe diagnosis of tularemia is not often considered in Germany as the disease is still rare in this country. Nonetheless, Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia, can infect numerous animal species and should, therefore, not be neglected as a dangerous pathogen. Tularemia can lead to massively swollen lymph nodes and might even be fatal without antibiotic treatment. To our knowledge, the case described here is the first report of the disease caused by a squirrel bite in Germany.Case presentationA 59-year-old German woman with a past medical history of hypothyroidism and cutaneous lupus erythematosus presented at the emergency room at St. Katharinen Hospital with ongoing symptoms and a swollen right elbow persisting despite antibiotic therapy with cefuroxime for 7 days after she had been bitten (right hand) by a wild squirrel (Eurasian red squirrel). After another 7 days of therapy with piperacillin/tazobactam, laboratory analysis using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) confirmed the suspected diagnosis of tularemia on day 14. After starting the recommended antibiotic treatment with ciprofloxacin, the patient recovered rapidly.ConclusionThis is the first report of a case of tularemia caused by a squirrel bite in Germany. A naturally infected squirrel has recently been reported in Switzerland for the first time. The number of human cases of tularemia has been increasing over the last years and, therefore, tularemia should be taken into consideration as a diagnosis, especially in a patient bitten by an animal who also presents with headache, increasing pain, lymphadenitis, and fever, as well as impaired wound healing. The pathogen can easily be identified by a specific real-time PCR assay of wound swabs and/or by antibody detection, for example by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), if the incident dates back longer than 2 weeks.

A STUDY OF PSYCHIATRIC CO-MORBIDITY, PERSONALITY PROFILE AND FAMILY ENVIRONMENT IN DISSOCIATIVE (CONVERSION) DISORDER

The study of hysteria and dissociation begins at the end of the 18th century with shift of interest in these phenomena from the religious to the medical realm.In 1791, Eberhardt Gmelin described a German woman who alternately exchanged her peasant personality for that of an aristocratic French lady, each amnesic for the other's exist.

Conversations with the Dead

Conversations with the Dead

The ‘beautiful enigma’

Abstract Through an analysis of the art collection and patronage of Margherita Traube Mengarini (1856–1912), a German scientist and woman activist of Jewish origin in Rome, this article explores the dynamics of German–Jewish art collectors’ networks active in Italy from the 1880s to the early 1910s, with a particular focus on women. The collection assembled by Margherita and her husband Guglielmo Mengarini included both antique pieces – discovered during the excavations for the couple’s houses in Rome and in Anzio – and paintings of the family, commissioned from contemporary artists. The article discusses the Traube Mengarini collection in context, by focusing on the artists, collectors and intellectuals in their salon, and by comparing both their collection and networks with those of other Jews of German origin in Rome, both men and women.

Iatrogenic ischiofemoral impingement due to high tibial osteotomy with overvalgization: a case report

BackgroundOpen wedge high tibial osteotomy is a standard procedure for frontal realignment. It is indicated in varus knee with reduced mechanical medial proximal tibia angle. Overcorrection producing a mechanical medial proximal tibia angle out of the normal range (85–90°) is not recommended because this would lead to unphysiological joint-line orientation. Osteotomies around the knee also influence the adjacent ankle and hip joints. For the hip, it is known that frontal alignment of the leg influences the ischiofemoral space. A decreased ischiofemoral space can lead to painful impingement between the ischial bone and the lesser trochanter.Case presentationA 53-year-old German woman presented with severe ischiofemoral impingement symptoms and valgus malalignment of the left leg after open wedge high tibial osteotomy, which was indicated and performed by an orthopedic surgeon with intention to treat medial knee pain due to degenerative arthritis of the medial compartment years after medial meniscectomy. The mechanical medial proximal tibia angle was 100.5°. We performed closed wedge high tibial osteotomy producing a mechanical medial proximal tibia angle of 90.0° and normal joint-line orientation. The hip pain was gone immediately after the surgery, and the patient had no signs of ischiofemoral impingement or hip pain at last follow-up 12 months after closed wedge high tibial osteotomy.ConclusionsFrontal realignment osteotomy around the knee can create problems at adjacent joints. Overvalgization of the proximal tibia made the patient compensate by hyperadduction of the hip to enable full foot sole contact with the floor. Hyperadduction of the hip decreased the ischiofemoral space, leading to severe impingement. Therefore, meticulous planning of osteotomies is important not to produce unphysiological situations or unwanted negative effects at the level of an adjacent joint.

Ablation of typical atrial flutter as therapeutic component in carcinoid heart disease: a case report

BackgroundCarcinoid heart disease is the cardiac manifestation of carcinoid syndrome. There is limited research on rhythm management in patients with carcinoid heart disease. The association of typical atrial flutter and carcinoid heart disease in particular is poorly described.Case presentationHere we present a case of a 77-year-old German woman with carcinoid heart disease and recurrent typical atrial flutter complicating the postoperative course after tricuspid valve replacement and its successful long-term rhythm control by ablation therapy.ConclusionThere is limited evidence on rhythm management in patients with the rare diagnosis of carcinoid heart disease. Typical atrial flutter repeatedly complicated the postoperative course of our patient with carcinoid heart disease and could finally be treated curatively by ablation. Radiofrequency ablation should be considered as a valuable therapeutic component in the challenging therapy of this disease.

"Kuća rutine", kompleks nadmoći i intelektualni despotizam u pripovetkama A.P. Čehova i Laze Lazarevića

The subject of this article is the analysis of characters of deformed intellectuals and the problem of spiritual crisis in stories of A.P. Cehov and Laza Lazarević. By reviewing of attitudes of Cehov's and Lazarević's heroes researchers, in the introduction of the article the term of "the house of the routine", introduced by Russian critics of Cehov's work, Kamcatnov and Smirnov and which can be also applied in interpretation of Lazarević's characters, is explained. In the main part of the article there were analyzed characters from the stories of A.P. Cehov Gooseberry, Jonic, House with mezzanine and of Laza Lazarević The wind, Verter and German woman. One can conclude that emotion alstates of the heroes, between the other things, direct the complex of supremacy. In the conclusion it was pointed on similarities and peculiarities of the heroes and all the time actuality of the problem of spiritual crisis of intellectual's.

Роман Каті Петровської „Мабуть Естер”: художня топографія роду

The literary debut, the novel “Maybe Esther” by Katja Petrowskaja, was published in 2014 in the Berlin publishing house “Suhrkamp” in German and immediately fell into the bestseller category. The work caused a considerable resonance in the German-speaking cultural environment. Even before the appearance of a full-fledged novel, the author received one of the most prestigious literary awards – the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for reading of a fragment from a future book, which would later appear in a work called “Babi Yar”. However, the laureate wasn’t an ethnic German woman, but an immigrant – Ukrainian by origin, born in Kyiv. The young author tells the story of his multicultural family (Ukrainian / Polish / Jewish / Russian) going deeper up to the 19th century. Through specific events of a small family such significant phenomena as revolution, war, ghetto, concentration camp, Holocaust, Babi Yar, occupation, various kinds of persecution etc. are seen. Therefore, a mosaic of small self-sufficient stories emerges, which create a large historical panel. The author is the bearer of a multifaceted and complex genetic memory.

Female Physicians in American Literature: Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture

Female Physicians in American Literature: Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture

Cascading Activation Revisited: How Audiences Contribute to News Agendas Using Social Media

Social media have become conduits through which audiences can challenge elites in media and politics. Recent updates to cascading activation, originally developed to explain how frames flowing from powerful figures gain public dominance, give greater theoretical scope for audiences to exert influence. Yet empirical understanding of how and in what circumstances this happens with respect to agenda-setting—another core media effect—is not well-developed, especially given the affordances of digital technologies. We address this gap by connecting theorization on cascades to developments in intermedia agenda-setting. Specifically, we analyze the dynamics surrounding the perceived reluctance by ARD-aktuell, the newsroom of Germany’s public broadcasting consortium, to use its prime-time broadcast “Tagesschau” to report the arrest of a refugee accused of murdering a German woman in December 2016. By presenting finely grained timelines linking content analysis of 5,409 Facebook comments with Tagesschau editorial responses and parallel media coverage of this event, we contribute further conditions under which audience-informed cascades may occur: notably, when publicly funded news organizations are involved, and the issue at stake invokes both domestic and international aspects which sustain disagreement.

Writing the Self, Creating Community: German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750–1850 ed. by Elisabeth Krimmer and Lauren Nossett

Reviewed by: Writing the Self, Creating Community: German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750–1850 ed. by Elisabeth Krimmer and Lauren Nossett Beth Ann Muellner Elisabeth Krimmer and Lauren Nossett, editors. Writing the Self, Creating Community: German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750–1850. Camden House, 2020. 319 pp. Cloth, $99.00; E-book, $24.99. This fascinating collection shifts focus away from the tendency of eighteenth-century women writers to understate their own literary contributions and toward an emphasis on direct and indirect influences on their creative processes. The editors’ succinct and informative introduction summarizes women’s literary production as shaped by education, class, familial and sociocultural ideology and norms, genres, themes, and the book trade. The challenge that male intellectuals presented in acknowledging women’s abilities highlights women’s need to consistently and creatively negotiate the literary marketplace. The volume’s three sections, “Writing a Community,” “Writing the Self,” and “Writing toward Emancipation,” reveal such strategies but also suggest how profoundly eighteenth-century definitions of gender complicate our understanding of women’s authorship. Three of the four essays in the first section focus on Sophie von La Roche, the first professional German woman writer. Monika Nenon sees a pedagogical program laid out for young women of all social classes in La Roche’s nonfictional writing, specifically the journal Pomona für Teutschlands Töchter (1783–84; Pomona for Germany’s daughters) and the epistolary travel book Journal einer Reise nach Frankreich (1787; Journal of a journey through France). Beyond La Roche’s engagement of her own daughters as audience, Nossett investigates the writer’s cultivation of herself as a “maternal literary authority” (46) who encourages reading [End Page 119] despite “risk and conflict” (50) as central to education. Angela Sanmann brings to the “seemingly docile medium of translation” (69) an analysis that reveals progressive, “emancipatory thrusts” (77) in Marie-Elisabeth de La Fite’s 1773 translation of La Roche’s Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (1771; The history of Lady Sophia Sternheim) into French. The translation counters male editors’ attempted intrusions into the text and serves as a key source for the 1776 English translation. The odd chapter here, though thematically fitting, is Ruth Dawson’s consideration of Catherine II’s literary collaborations with poet Polyxene Dilthey Büsching and writer Johanna Charlotte Unzer. If not for Dawson’s literary sleuthing, Büsching’s work with the two women would have remained invisible, as Büsching’s husband’s 1777 biography of his wife intended. The essays in the second section consider individual authors’ pushback against patriarchal censorship and silencing. In similar ghost stories—one by Benedikte Naubert and one by Sophie Albrecht—Sara Luly considers how the “doubling of the self ” (120) reflects women’s authorship and where censorship and ambiguous endings neutralize previous vilifications of the “gelehrte Frau,” or learned woman (120). Amy Jones reads “reverse vampirism” in Günderrode’s poem “Die Bande der Liebe” (1804; The bonds of love) as a response to an 1802 letter from Clemens Brentano that Jones refers to as the “Vampire Letter” (142). Instead of sucking blood from life, Günderrode’s gender-fluid poetic I breathes life into death, an essential rebirth that rejects eighteenth-century discourses that pathologize female writers. Karin Baumgartner recounts the struggle of Helmina von Chézy, granddaughter of Anna Louisa Karsch, to establish a women’s literary journal and to find her own voice in the chorus of surrounding talented women. Finally, Julie L. J. Koehler considers connections between creativity and domesticity, spheres deemed incompatible by male fairy-tale gatekeepers. Three collections by Märchenomas (fairy-tale-telling women) reveal links to French author Madame d’Aulnoy and present a female tradition of community over competition. The final section emphasizes unique emancipatory efforts of writing women, beginning with Margaretmary Daley’s analysis of the anonymously published Bildungsroman Agnes von Lilien (1796). The novel tells of an illegitimate daughter’s search for her biological parents on the cusp of her own marriage, which Daley sees mirroring Caroline von Wolzogen’s process to claim ownership of the novel. Renata Fuchs’s essay on Louise Aston and Fanny Lewald reminds us that their...

ДЖАМАЛ БЕЙ АЛБОГАЧИЕВ: ОБЩЕСТВЕННО-ПОЛИТИЧЕСКАЯ ЖИЗНЬ В ЭМИГРАЦИ

The aim of this article is study social and political activities by ingush Jamal Albogachiev (1894–1949). This is the first study of this person. This article is based on the archives from France and Germany. Albogachiev was educated in Europe, knew European languages, and became a member of the Foreign Delegation of the Mountain Republic (Versailles, 1919). He married a German woman from Berlin. In 1921–1928 he and his family lived in Germany. In France (1929–1942) Albogaciev lived alone. He collaborated with many public figures: Ali Mardan Topchibashi, brothers Vassan-Girey and Mohammed-Girey Dzhabagiyev. At the same time he worked as a dancer in russian cabarets in Paris. In 1942–1945 Jamal was in Germany, where he became a member of the North Caucasian National Committee. After returning to France, the police investigated the reasons for his stay in Germany. As a result, Jamal was forced to leave for Morocco in 1948, where he died next year. The study of the life of Jamal Albogachiev, his socio-political views and activities showed that his fate was dramatic. Having received an excellent European education and knowledge of European languages, having got to Europe, he could not realize his intellectual potential, couldn’t make a career in Europe. He had the views of the creation of an independent state in the North Caucasus. However, he didn’t become an active member of the most famous and largest emigre movements of the North Caucasus. Despite the fact that he was part of the political North Caucasian elite, he was most often used in secondary or third roles.

COVID-19 Pandemic in North Cyprus

When COVID -19, the novel coronavirus leading to severe acute respiratory syndrome, first identified in Wuhan China during December 2019, Northern Cyprus community would never imagine the virus could make its way to the less populated and mostly isolated part of the island. During the first week of March 2020, the uneasiness was in the minds of people and suspected coronavirus cases started to surface. However, until 10th of March 2020, the suspected cases were found COVID-19 negative. On 10th of March 2020, the first positive case of COVID -19 was reported who was a German woman tourist, arrived with a charter flight two days before. By 12th of April, North Cyprus had a total of 99 positive COVID -19 cases, 3 deaths and 57 recovered.

Editors' Page

Editors' Page Stephanie G'Schwind and Matthew Cooperman As in every fall issue since 2004, we are delighted to present the winner of the Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction. This year's winning story is "The German Woman," by Josie Sigler Sibara. Lori Ostlund, who selected it, writes that it is "a beautifully written story—at times stark, at others lyrical—a story that provides a truly powerful examination of survival and self-delusion, love and hate, all of them existing at the nexus of overwhelming guilt. The author's retrospective narrator, thinking years later about his actions at the end of the war when American forces entered Germany, is consumed by that guilt still. It is my favorite kind of story—a story with no easy answer, no answer at all really, to the question of how crimes committed by human beings during war can be lived with by the perpetrators later." This is a deeply moving story that will stay with readers for a very long time, and we're so proud to feature it. It's hard to recall a time in recent history when we've been so challenged in forming new or maintaining existing relationships. While so many of us are in varying degrees of isolation, it's difficult to make genuine connection. The stories and essays in this issue each wrestle with the ways in which people attempt to reach through to others. In "The German Woman," a wounded American soldier imagines a life with the title character, who has provided refuge and nursed him back to health. In Haley Crigger's "Not in Any Trouble," plain and sheltered Lacey befriends wealthy and beautiful Sydney as the two young girls navigate the perils of adolescence. In Mary Grimm's "The Weight You're Both With," a young man attempts to determine his relationship to the people in his circle—his roommate/sometime lover, his friends, his boss—and thus his identity. And in Cally Fiedorek's "Hometown Hero," a floundering has-been football star finds himself the guest of a former and unpopular classmate, who he hopes might redeem him. Clint McCown looks back on his time as the only white actor in a Puerto Rican theater troupe in "Noo Jall." Robin Cartwright considers the challenges of raising a feminist daughter amid the tensions between mothers and daughters, men and women, in "On Daughters and Direct Polluters." And Ania Spyra, in "Dog Years," recalls her father's struggle to adjust to post-Communist life in Poland, unable to relate to his coworkers or his family. Whether you're a new or longtime reader, we welcome you to the Fall/Winter issue and hope that you'll find connection and companionship here. Stephanie G’Schwind [End Page 1] ________ In Walter Benjamin's last major work, Thesis on the Philosophy of History, the ostensible witness—the angel of history—is flung into the future, looking back at the wreckage of time. A parallax of perspectives, it is a futurity cataloging a carnage Benjamin named "progress." The image of the angel Benjamin takes from a haunting painting by Paul Klee, Angelus Novus. I invoke this thinking, this image, as I consider where the world is headed going into election season. It's a reminder of Art's witness, and how all literatures are linked, as are all bodies, human and more-than-human. And it's a reminder of the pervasiveness of time: "Time is more fundamental than space / It is, indeed, the most pervasive / of all the categories / in other words / there's plenty of it" (Edward Dorn, Gunslinger). More than plenty, too much—too much in a day, a year. It's been such an exhausting run round the sun that I can't help thinking we're all tuckered out from such durational challenges as the covid-19 pandemic, the economy, the daily scandal, the unprecedented wildfires raging all over the American West (one just up the Poudre Canyon from Colorado Review's home!), the just-now-getting-started hurricane season. What in the world—always in the world—will happen? As much as I'd like to say the poetry in this...

The German Woman

A German woman shelters an injured American soldier during World War II. The two of them enter into a romantic relationship as he heals from his wounds.