Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur

Published by De Gruyter

Volume 45 Issue 2

Issue of Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur

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Publicly Available November 21, 2020

Themenschwerpunkt: Vergleichen – Interdisziplinär

November 21, 2020

Editorial

Walter Erhart

Page range: 229-230

November 21, 2020

Alexander von Humboldts globale Komparatistik

Oliver Lubrich

Page range: 231-245

Abstract

Alexander von Humboldt’s method is comparative in nature – on a global scale. In his Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l’Amérique (1810–1813), Humboldt compares the indigenous civilisations of the Americas with those of European antiquity. In Asie centrale (1843), he perceives Russia and Siberia against the backdrop of his experience in the ʻNew Worldʼ. As a natural scientist, he correlates global data, for example in his plant geography and mountain studies, as a vulcanologist or climatologist. After the Berne edition of his Complete Writings (2019), we can discuss Humboldt’s comparativist practices on a new material basis.

November 21, 2020

Gesteinsschichten, Tasthaare, Damenmoden: Epistemologie des Vergleichens zwischen Natur und Kultur – um und nach 1800

Martina King

Page range: 246-266

Abstract

This paper investigates comparison as a fundamental practice within the early life sciences. Four episodes are selected that show how comparing species works in the early 19 th century and how it builds bridges between scientific and literary culture: comparing living organisms in pre-Darwinian natural history (Lacépède, Treviranus), comparing species distribution in actualistic geology (Lyell), comparing organs in comparative anatomy (Müller), and – last but not least – comparing social classes in new literary genres such as sketch, ‘Paris physiology’, or travel feuilleton.

November 21, 2020

„Do monkeys compare themselves to others?“

Zwischenbericht für eine Akademie

Walter Erhart

Page range: 267-289

Abstract

After briefly reconstructing the history of comparison both as a method of ‘comparing sciences’ in the 18 th and 19 th centuries and as an every-day phenomenon, the essay sets out to explore the historic and on-going debate on anthropological origins and features of comparing. By referring to different academic cultures – natural sciences, social sciences, humanities – the paper confronts insights and results of scientific experiments that test comparing practices of primates with Franz Kafka’s Report to an Academy . While the anthropological question still remains unresolved, the different cultures of science and literature reveal different aspects by laying bare the foundations of comparing processes.

Themenschwerpunkt: Literarisch-kulturelle Vereine im 19. Jahrhundert

November 21, 2020

Editorial

Philip Ajouri, Jesko Reiling

Page range: 290-299

November 21, 2020

Jeremias Gotthelf und der Verein für die Armenerziehungsanstalt Trachselwald

Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer

Page range: 300-320

Abstract

Albert Bitzius (Jeremias Gotthelf), reformed parson in Lützelflüh, founded, together with colleagues, a local children’s poorhouse in Sumiswald in 1835 that moved to a larger place in Trachselwald in 1839. Bitzius managed to convince the government in Berne that financial support of the Trachselwald poorhouse would be a good investment with regard to sustainability. He and his fellow members strove for economic independence and self-sufficiency, which implied that the pupils had to work hard and get used to parsimony and modesty as far as food, bedding, clothing and spare time were concerned. On this basis the school turned out to be more successful than competing endeavours.

November 21, 2020

Der bürgerliche Konzertkosmos

Zum Gleichklang und Wettstreit von Musikvereinen in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts

Sebastian Hansen

Page range: 321-333

Abstract

Numerous music societies that were the driving forces for opening and establishing an institutionalized concert scene were founded after 1800. This essay studies the core topics these societies had to deal with while asserting themselves in a music scene that gradually became bigger and more complex. Furthermore, this essay examines the extent to which music societies competed against each other by considering the examples of Leipzig and Vienna.

November 21, 2020

Konkurrenzbeziehungen: Allgemeine und konfessionelle Kunstvereine im Kunstfeld des 19. Jahrhunderts

Uta Karstein

Page range: 334-344

Abstract

The article compares secular and faith-based art societies in the 19 th century. Of special interest are the societies’ missions and purposes, as well as their activities and organizational structures. The main thesis is based on the work of German sociologist Georg Simmel and his conflict theory. I argue that the competition of these societies had invigorating effects on the field of art and its institutionalization in the course of the 19 th century.

November 21, 2020

Volksschriften für Volk und Bürger

Die Publizistik der Volksschriftenvereine in den 1840er-Jahren

Jesko Reiling

Page range: 345-359

Abstract

In the 1840 s, a new type of educational association ( Bildungsverein ) emerged in the form of the secular Volksschriftenvereine . The publications of these societies clearly show their heterogeneity in terms of content and program. At the same time, the publications ensured the integration of the genre of folk-literature ( Volksliteratur ) into the existing traditional literary and literary-critical discourse, establishing it in the literary field.

November 21, 2020

Kapital und Krone

Die Gründung des Schwäbischen Schillervereins im Kontext

Jan Eike Dunkhase

Page range: 360-369

Abstract

The article focuses on the founding of the Swabian Schiller Association (renamed German Schiller Society in 1947) within the context of other literary institutions at the end of the 19th century. It argues that the success of the owner of what is today called ‚German Literature Archive Marbach‘ can be traced back to a unique collaboration of capital, kingship, and small-town politics in the late Kingdom of Württemberg.

November 21, 2020

Dilthey und einige Folgen

Die Berliner Literaturarchiv-Gesellschaft und die Idee archivalischer Sammlungen im Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts

Hans-Harald Müller, Mirko Nottscheid

Page range: 370-385

Abstract

The first part of our text analyzes Dilthey’s seminal lecture and essay Archives of Literature in the context of his endeavors to form a philosophically founded empirical research program for the humanities. The second part describes the structure, aims, history, and activities of the Berliner Literatur-Archiv-Gesellschaft (LAG, 1891–1944) which was founded following Diltheyʼs essay. The third part compares the LAG with contemporary archives and archival endeavors by libraries and private collectors.

November 21, 2020

Shakespeare-Ausgaben der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft: 1867 bis zur Jahrhundertwende

Philip Ajouri, Christa Jansohn

Page range: 386-396

Abstract

The article discusses the various German Shakespeare editions produced by the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (German Shakespeare Society) between its foundation in April 1864 and the end of the 19th century. The society’s eclectic editorial output ranged from a critical edition in 12 volumes (1867–1871), through multi-volume editions for the theatre and for German families (1870–1878), to a cheap one-volume edition (1891). All these editions were based on the Shakespeare translations of August Wilhelm Schlegel and Ludwig Tieck and his circle (Dorothea Tieck and Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl Graf von Baudissin), published by the Reimer Publishing House in Leipzig. The editors corrected, revised, expurgated, or even replaced these versions with their own new translations in order to meet the various needs and requirements of their consumers.

November 21, 2020

Zivilisierte Konkurrenz: Die Entstehung der English Goethe Society und ihr Verhältnis zur Goethe-Gesellschaft Weimar

Fabienne Schopf, Angus Nicholls

Page range: 397-412

Abstract

The English Goethe Society (EGS) is the third oldest Goethe society in the world. Although it was founded solely as a literary society “to promote and extend Goethe’s work and thought,” at certain points in the Society’s history, speakers such as Friedrich Max Müller and Thomas Mann emphasized its political dimensions. This article demonstrates that from its founding in 1886 to the beginning of the First World War, the EGS experienced various crises, not least in its relations with other Goethe societies in Britain and with the Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar.

Themenschwerpunkt: Beiträge zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenforschung (II)

November 21, 2020

Editorial

Anke Jaspers, Moritz Neuffer, Barbara Picht

Page range: 413-416

November 21, 2020

Modell Zeitschrift

Rezeption als Produktion im französisch-deutschen Theorietransfer, 1964–1969

Moritz Neuffer

Page range: 417-438

Abstract

In journals, the reception and production of knowledge coincide. Using the example of French structuralism and its reception in the Federal Republic of Germany around 1966, the article shows that magazines did not simply depict or discuss theoretical “models” and “movements”, but actively formed them. Journalistic forms such as the editorial and the interview, and also text collages typical of magazines played an important role in this process. The specific materiality, publicity, and periodicity of journals thus became decisive factors in theoretical developments and intellectual upheavals.

November 21, 2020

Der literarische Anschluss Siebenbürgens – Heinrich Zillich und Das Innere Reich (1934–1944): Eine Fallstudie

Michaela Nowotnick

Page range: 439-455

Abstract

In the journal Das Innere Reich , published from 1934 to 1944 by the Langen-Müller publishing house in Munich, there is an astonishing density of articles relating to Transylvania. The south-eastern border region of the former Habsburg Monarchy is the subject of publications of essayistic contributions and texts by authors from the region, with Heinrich Zillich in particular playing a central role. The integration of Transylvania followed two basic lines: On the one hand, a group of people who had been living outside the inner-German language area for centuries was established as an integral part of the ʻGerman ethnic groupʼ. On the other hand, Transylvania, which has always been inhabited by different ethnic groups, was presented as a model of a clearly hierarchical region in the sense of the national ideology.

November 21, 2020

Kritik der historischen Vernunft in Zeitschriftenform

Die Kulturtheorie der Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft und ihre medialen Bedingungen im mittleren 19. Jahrhundert

Stefan Reiners

Page range: 456-470

Abstract

This paper deals with Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal’s 19 th century journal Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft and its media-historical context. I will argue that the medial form of the journal enabled Völkerpsychologie’s founders to put their theory and methodology into practice by creating a forum for interdisciplinary collaboration and unification of the humanities as psychology and thus achieving their goal of a ʻcritique of historical reasonʼ, i. e., revealing the historical nature of reason, ethics, and culture in general.

November 21, 2020

Who Was Mrs. Benway?

A Form of Art Criticism and Critique as a Form of Art in Spex Magazine 1985–1991

Petra Sertic

Page range: 471-488

Abstract

From 1985 to 1991, the artist Jutta Koether contributed a column titled Mrs. Benway to the pop cultural magazine Spex , for which she developed a form of art criticism that would appeal to a mostly music interested readership. In the process, Koether advanced a form of critique as a practice with the ability to actively determine the conditions for one’s own life, connecting to contemporaneous evaluations of models of critique for their ability to initiate change. Spex not only provided a platform for evaluation and judgment, but functioned as a launch pad where the habit of responding and taking position to current events was routinely exercised in step with the magazine’s monthly publication rhythm and Cologne’s dynamic art calendar.

About this journal

Die Anfänge der Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur in den 1970er Jahren standen im Zeichen einer interdisziplinären Begegnung und eines veränderten Literaturbegriffs. Inzwischen haben sich die Diskurse und Methoden in den Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaften sehr stark gewandelt, gleichwohl ist die Hauptfrage einer sozialgeschichtlich orientierten Literaturgeschichte – die nach dem Verhältnis zwischen literarischen Texten und sozialhistorischen Kontexten – unverändert aktuell.

Diese Frage in all ihren Facetten und unter verschiedensten Aspekten untersuchen die Beiträge des Internationalen Archivs für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (IASL), das 1976 von Georg Jäger, Alberto Martino und Friedrich Sengle gegründet wurde. Sein Spektrum umfasst die gesamte deutsche Literaturgeschichte vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt dabei den literaturtheoretischen Grundlagen der Literaturgeschichte, insbesondere den methodischen und thematischen Berührungspunkten zwischen der Literaturwissenschaft und den Geschichts- und Sozialwissenschaften. Zu den Schwerpunkten einer erweiterten Sozialgeschichte der Literatur zählen deshalb nach wie vor Buch-, Verlags- und Kommunikationsgeschichte, Lese(r)forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte, Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte sowie die Konstellationen von Literatur und Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert.

IASL veröffentlicht Aufsätze und Beiträge zu aktuellen Forschungsfragen in deutscher und englischer Sprache. Gelegentlich erscheinen thematisch zusammenhängende Themenschwerpunkte; darüber hinaus werden in gesonderten Rubriken aktuelle Forschungsdiskussionen und in Planung befindliche Forschungsprojekte sowie neue Materialien und Dokumente zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur (Dokumentation) vorgestellt. Alle in IASL veröffentlichten Texte unterliegen einem strengen Begutachtungsverfahren (peer review).

Rezensionen erscheinen auf der von IASL unabhängigen Internet-Plattform von IASL online (www.iaslonline.de/), einer kooperierenden, aber selbstständigen elektronischen Zeitschrift, die auch intermediale Forschungsbeiträge veröffentlicht.

Editorial der neuen Herausgeber aus Bd. 28, H. 1 (2003): http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/iasl.2003.28.issue-1/iasl.2003.1.vii/iasl.2003.1.vii.xml