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With Nabokov in Berlin

Gastbeitrag von Prof. Zsuzsa Hetényi, Loránd-Eötvös-Universität Budapest After my arrival at the Stabi, I started by a thorough “obkhod” (going around) of the wonderful retro-modern building of the library for choosing and noting the coziest places for reading at different times of the day, for scanning, for taking photos of the pages, for eating, for […]

Sichtbar gemachte gedankliche Welten in der Buchgestaltung. Werkstattgespräch am 5.2.

„Wachgeküsst – Gemeinsame Perspektiven für die Kulturpolitik von Bund und Ländern“ am 28.1.

Buchvorstellung und Gespräch mit Wolfgang Huber am 21.2.

Anschließendes Gespräch mit Paul Nolte

Lesung mit Jürgen Neffe „Marx. Der Unvollendete“ am 27.2.

Title covers of the monthly colonialist youth magazine "Jambo", volume 6 (1930), issues 1, 8, and 5. - (Personal Collection)

Imagined Hegenomies: Colonialist Literature for German Youth during the Weimar Republic

Gastbeitrag von Prof. Luke Springman, Bloomsburg University A „flood“ of popular literature about Africa swept the book market in Germany after it had irretrievably forfeited all its colonial possessions at the end of World War I. From 1884 to 1914, Germany had become the world’s third or fourth largest colonial power (depending whether one referred to […]