Heinz Insu Fenkl on Exploring Memory, Identity

Heinz Insu Fenkl was born in South Korea to a Korean mother and a German father who was a GI in the U.S. Army. He grew up in Korea until age twelve, then in Germany and the U.S. His autobiographical first novel, Memories of My Ghost Brother, a 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, draws upon his childhood, as does this second novel, which is set in part across the North Han River from Sambong-ni, his mother’s native village. "Skull Water was initially a memoir, and I drew extensively from my lif...

1,000 Coils of Fear – Olivia Wenzel

Tr. from the German by Priscilla Layne[Catapult; 2022]Perhaps fittingly for a novel teeming with Q&A exchanges, Olivia Wenzel’s 1,000 Coils of Fearis haunted by departure, absence, loss. As the biracial daughter of an East German mother and an Angolan father, the narrator confronts both racist legacies and her own painful past. Throughout much of the novel, a disembodied voice interacts with the narrator, asking pointed questions or even unraveling her memories. Along with the artifacts t...

Battles of the Sexes - Duels between Women and Men in 1400s *Fechtbücher*

Collections / ImagesBattles of the Sexes: Duels between Women and Men in 1400s Fechtbücher Illustration from a 1467 manuscript of Hans Talhoffer's fight book. Around the year 1430, illustrated German-language manuscripts began to depict the art of Zweikampf: dueling, or, literally, a battle of two. Known as "fight books" (Fechtbücher), these manuals developed out of a tradition founded by the semi-mythic Johannes Liechtenauer, a fencing instructor whose biography remains almost completel...

Summary of some interesting entries from the online dictionary of Symbols from University of Michigan

Sulfur as hellSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/sulfur.html Sulfur According to Christian legend, sulfur is associated with HELL and the Devil (Cooper, 1978), and is often referred to as brimstone. Up one level Back to document index ShadowSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/shadow.html ShadowWith light, the shadow is the Chinese yin and yang; shadows are often identified with a person...

Symbols in Wagner's "Ring"

Symbols in Wagner's "Ring" Symbols in Richard Wagner's The Ring of the NibelungThe compilation of symbols below relies predominantly on information contained within William O. Cord's several volume set of phenomenally researched and concisely written books entitled The Teutonic Mythology of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung. Apple In Wagner's adaptation of Teutonic myths, the apple remains a symbol of youth, fertility and immortality. An "integral element" in Das Rheingold, the ...

Männer (thing) by Heisenberg - Everything2.com

Männer (thing) See all of Männer, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Heisenberg (2.2 mon) Rep: 17 ( +21 / -4 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Wed Sep 24 2003 at 8:27:24 Successful German comedy about the weaker sex: men "Männer" (Men) hit a few german cinemas in 1985 as just another independent movie by some obscure german female writer/director. At that time, nobody really went to see german productions although the audience eagerly lapped up British and American films, mainly du...

Surviving the Zam Zam

Last week I gave a talk at California State University Monterey Bay’s chapter of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. The talk is titled "Surviving the Zamzam." It’s a story about my Aunt Jamie and Uncle Fred Henderson and their getting captured by the German Navy while on their way to Africa to be medical missionaries. They were taken prisoner on April 17, 1941 and their ship, the Zam Zam, was sunk. I pieced it together based on 6 books on various aspects of the Zam Zam, some reminiscen...

Investigating German colonialism in the British Library’s collections

Content warning: This blog reproduces an image from a historical publication which is now considered racistLast week, the Zanzibari writer Abdulrazak Gurnah became the first black African author in 35 years to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Judges from the Swedish Academy highlighted his ‘uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism’ as a key reason for the distinction.Much of Gurnah’s writing is set in East Africa, and his latest novel, Afterlives, explores ...

First as Farce, Then as Tragedy? - The Philosophical Salon

 Debates First as Farce, Then as Tragedy? By Slavoj Žižek • 1 month ago ...

Kindly Ones - The

Review from The Guardian: One approaches the fictionalisation of any aspect of the Holocaust with suspicion. Art is always at some level entertainment, and the idea of being entertained, however skilfully, by this particular set of horrors seems inherently objectionable. Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones reprises the familiar atrocities, in graphic detail and at massive length, from the viewpoint of an SS officer intimately involved in their execution. The book, which has already won the P...

Oscar Raab of Munich in 1900 discovers toxicity in dye

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Till Eulenspiegel: Traveling Trickster of Medieval German Literature

Scene from the Ballet Till Eulenspiegel (1916) / Public Domain There is a suggestion that the name is in fact a veiled pun on a Low German phrase translating to "wipe-arse". Edited by Matthew A. McIntoshJournalist and HistorianBrewminate Editor-in-Chief Introduction Till Eulenspiegel is the protagonist of a German chapbook published in 1515 (a first edition of c. 1510/12 is preserved fragmenta...

porpoise etymology

I wonder if there is any connection (even just in Kubrick or others doing wordplay, NOT necessarily -- or at all -- because of an etymological connection, which I doubt) . But if the porpoise is a pig, the word "mereswyn" does remind me an awful lot of the word "Martian" which of course is about Mars, not the sea. But still . . . worth a query or two. -zas 7 entries found Related entries & more  Advertisement Related entries & more  Related entries & more  Related entries & more  Relate...

Spy Novel Meets The Twilight Zone - The standardization of demoralization procedures

ALCHEMICAL SYMBOLS AS SECRET CODE · Unveiling the Secrets: The Evolution of Modern Chemistry · Hay Exhibits

Skip to main content Search Hay Exhibits Browse Items Browse Collections Browse Exhibits About ALCHEMICAL SYMBOLS AS SECRET CODE Basil Valentine, Azoth, Ou Le Moyen de F...

Walpurgis Night - Ancient History Encyclopedia

Follow Us: Membership Walpurgis Night Definition by Joshua J. Markpublished on 01 May 2020 Send to Google Classroom: Walpurgis Night (30 April, annually) is a modern-day European and Scandinavian festival derived from the merging of the ancient pagan celebration of Beltane with the commemoration of the canonization of the Christian Saint Walpurga (l. c. 710 - c. 777 CE). The ancient Celtic Sabbat (religious festival) of Beltane, which ...

Hollywood creatives arriving from Germany during war - and other New Yorker clips 30 MAR 2020 edition

How Nazi hunters tracked down mass murders in the United States

How Nazi hunters tracked down mass murders in the United States

Blue Jeans and the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Levi Strauss

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Heinrich Hoffmann

Spartacus Educational British HistoryBritainAmerican HistoryUSAWW1WW2GermanyRussiaWomen's HistoryBlack History HomeLatest AdditionsIndexResourcesAuthorBlogNewsletterSupport Us Second World War  > Nazi Germany  > Heinrich Hoffmann ▼ Primary Sources ▼ Heinrich Hoffmann Heinrich Hoffmann, the son of a successful photographer, was born in Fürth, Germany on 12th September, 1885. After leaving school he worked in his father's...

Restorers discover shield fragment is 1,700 years old, making it the oldest German panel painting

A conservator works on the 1,700-year-old wooden shield, unearthed in a Roman tomb in central Germany Peter Endig/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/Alamy Restorers at the Landesmuseum in the city of Halle have determined that a fragment of a painted wooden shield excavated from a princely tomb near Magdeburg is 1,700 years old, making it the oldest known panel painting in Germany. Germanic warriors, according to the Roman historian Tacitus in his work Germania, eschewed splendid...

TLS clips - WWII focus - Aug 2019

The Fantastic in Literature - esp German literature