Tom Bibliographic, Disability, Gender, German Outside Germany, Post-1945, Primary, Queer

Stefan, Verena. Fremdschläfer (Munich: Ammann, 2007)

Verena Stefan’s breast cancer narrative, written 32 years after her cult feminist book Häutungen (1975), for which she is mainly known in Germanist circles. Written by a mature woman, this is an atypical illness narrative worth including in investigations of the genre (which is dominated by white, middle-class, heterosexual writers). Challenging for students in that it … Continue reading Stefan, Verena. Fremdschläfer (Munich: Ammann, 2007)

Tom Bibliographic, Disability, Gender, German Outside Germany, Post-1945, Queer, Secondary

Schmidt, Nina. The Wounded Self: Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018)

In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes this writing seriously as literature, examining how the authors of such personal narratives come to write of their experiences between the poles of cliché and … Continue reading Schmidt, Nina. The Wounded Self: Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018)

Nicola Bibliographic, Disability, Post-1945, Secondary

Anders, Petra-Andelka, Behinderung und psychische Krankheit im zeitgenössischen deutschen Spielfilm. Eine vergleichende Filmanalyse. (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014)

Eine umfangreiche und detaillierte Studie, die 2017 in De Gruyters "Germanistik. Internationales Referenzorgan mit bibliographischen Hinweisen" (Band 587, Heft 1-2) aufgenommen wurde. In dieser in Deutsch verfassten Monografie wird die These vertreten, dass das Spektrum der deutschen Spielfilme zum Thema sowohl bei „comic relief“ als auch bei extrem unwürdigem Darstellungen vielfältige Leerstellen aufweist. Spannend ist, … Continue reading Anders, Petra-Andelka, Behinderung und psychische Krankheit im zeitgenössischen deutschen Spielfilm. Eine vergleichende Filmanalyse. (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014)

Nicola Bibliographic, Disability, Post-1945, Secondary

Anders, Petra. ‘More than the ‘Other’?: On Four Tendencies Regarding the Representation of Disability in Contemporary German Film (2005-2010), in Benjamin Fraser (ed.), Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Film Contexts (Wallflower Press, 2016), pp. 141–156

This contribution to Benjamin Fraser's book 'Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Film Contexts' gives an informed overview on certain tendencies of the representation of disability in contemporary German feature film. The representation of disability in German feature film is a topic which will become important in the future. This text can be used to … Continue reading Anders, Petra. ‘More than the ‘Other’?: On Four Tendencies Regarding the Representation of Disability in Contemporary German Film (2005-2010), in Benjamin Fraser (ed.), Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Film Contexts (Wallflower Press, 2016), pp. 141–156