2018 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
German Literature and American Film: Intercultural Media Relations 1912-2012
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16K02558
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
ケプラータサキ シュテファン 東京大学, 大学院人文社会系研究科(文学部), 准教授 (20765680)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | ドイツ文学 / German Literature / Comparative Literature / Film Studies / Intermedia Relations |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The third and the last fiscal year of the research project “German Literature and American Film: Intercultural Media Relations 1912-2012” began with planning the one-day workshop “German Literature and American Film”. By courtesy of OAG (公益社団法人オーアーゲー・ドイツ東洋文化研究協会) and DAAD Japan, PI was able to reshape and arrange the workshop on 10. November 2018 at the OAG-Haus (東京ドイツ文化会館) with Prof. Jaimey Fisher (University of California, Davis) and three additional guests; Prof. Cordula Lemke (Freie Universitaet Berlin), Prof. C.K. Neubert (Temple University, Japan Campus) and Dr. Marie Geraldine Rademacher (The University of Tokyo). It enabled the workshop to reach a wider audience and furthermore to create a broader sphere of discussion on intercultural dynamics in intermedia relations from the US-German perspective.
At the end of 2018 PI published the book “Alfred Doeblin. Massen, Medien, Metropolen” (Koenigshausen & Neumann) which mainly consists of research achievements of this project on the functionality of American films for German literature, focusing on the German-Jewish writer Alfred Doeblin (1878-1957) who later went into exile in Los Angeles during the Third Reich. This book deals with the nexus of urban life and mass media in the life and work of Doeblin and for the first time analyzes all of his film texts, putting them in the German exile’s strained social context in Los Angeles. On 27 March 2019 PI held a lecture also on this topic at the German Department of Fudan University, Shanghai.
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