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Matt Groening, der bekannte Schöpfer der Animationsserien „Die Simpsons“ und „Futurama“, hat sich mit „Disenchantment“ nun der Geschichte zugewandt. Die Serie (2018ff.) besteht bislang aus zwei Staffeln, von denen zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt dreißig von vierzig Folgen auf Netflix veröffentlicht wurden. Am 9. Februar 2022 sollen die letzten zehn Folgen der zweiten Staffel veröffentlicht werden. Die Serie spielt in einer vormodernen Welt. Vielfach werden zwar Elemente genutzt, die eher der Frühen Neuzeit (oder auch der Antike) zuzuordnen wären, aber es ist eindeutig erkennbar, dass die Zuschauenden hier vor allem in ihren Vorstellungen vom europäischen Mittelalter angesprochen werden sollen. Es überrascht daher kaum, dass Fantasy-Elemente, wie Drachen und Elfen etc., prominent einbezogen werden. Hauptfiguren sind die trunksüchtige Prinzessin Bean mit dem Halbelfen Elfo und dem Dämon Luci im Königreich Dreamland.
By using a 60s workplace as its setting, Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men (2007-2015) does not merely provide insight into historical gender and sex relations in the workplace of the 60s. It also reflects current sex and gender relations in the workplace of 21st century America (e.g. the #MeToo Movement). As Sara Rogers, leaning on Horace Newcomb and Paul Hirsch, argues, tv shows’ strength lies in their raising questions, rather than answering them. This is precisely what Mad Men, with its representation of 1960s sex and gender dynamics does. In the following blogpost I will show that Weiner’s hit show is very aware of – among others – Helen Gurley Brown’s influence on the American workplace of the 60s and that it uses its nostalgic effect for reflecting contemporary sex and gender relations in the workplace.
This article builds on the writing of former asylum inmates in the United States to analyze life on asylum wards between 1890 and 1950. Although published accounts of inmates’ experiences in American asylums have their own limitations as primary sources, they are nevertheless very revealing not only of the day-to-day life of institution inmates, but also of the ways in which former asylum inmates made sense of their experiences. The article relies upon insights from Disability Studies and Mad Studies to analyze life on the wards, work and socialization, relations among inmates, clandestine communication channels, and the formation of informal support groups, such as ›suicide clubs‹ in institutions. ›Mad writers‹ were almost equally women and men. They were white, and often well educated. They used the social and economic advantages that many of them had to create a public space from which they could critique the United States’ burgeoning asylum system. These accounts also laid the groundwork for later twentieth-century mad people’s movements.
Urban Eyes. Deutschsprachige Fotograf:innen im New Yorker Exil in den 1930er und 1940er Jahren
(2023)
New York: Faszinosum – Freiheit – Vielfältigkeit – Überwältigung – Chaos – Orientierungslosigkeit. So in etwa erging es in den 1930er und 1940er Jahren auch jenen deutschsprachigen Fotograf:innen, die sich nach der Passage in die Emigration auf den Straßen in der US-amerikanischen Metropole wiederfanden. Die Großstadt war einigen von ihnen durch Medien der Weimarer Republik bekannt. Ihre Ankunft fand jedoch nicht im Kontext einer Reise statt, in der Sightseeing an erster Stelle stand.
Few of Hannah Arendt’s declarations have had as enduringly a controversial legacy as the one she gave in her famous 1964 West German television conversation with Günter Gaus, proclaiming uncompromised loyalty to her first language – German – despite Hitler. The statement was misconstrued as a privileging of the language of the perpetrators and expressing a bias against Eastern European Jews. In conversation with the recent ›Taytsh turn‹ (Saul Zaritt) in Yiddish Studies, this article focuses instead on two Yiddish newspaper articles published by Arendt in 1942 and 1944 and explores what I call a ›Taytsh move‹ in Arendtʼs language politics. Taytsh, an alternative name for the Yiddish language meaning, literally, German, foregrounds (Jewish) cultures’ inherent translational mode and interconnectivity with the world that makes and sustains these cultures. Arendt reactivated the inherent unbordered nature of languages – with an awareness of the dangers of monolingualism; for the sake of overcoming reductive constructions of Jewishness and modern identity; against the atomizing forces of fascism.