German #MeToo

ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Lisa Wille, is research associate at the Department of Modern German Literature at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Melissa Sheedy is a Lecturer in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Deborah Janson is an associate professor of German at West Virginia University Sonja Boos, was Associate Professor of German at the University of Oregon, where she was also affiliated with European Studies. Jessica Davis is a PhD candidate majoring in modern/contemporary art with minors in African art and eighteenth/nineteenth century European art MAUREEN BURDOCK is a graphic storyteller, writer, and illustrator with dual master's degrees from the California School of the Arts and a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of California, Davis. KATHERINE BRUCE is an Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick. Niklas Straetker is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University Anna Sator is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Freiburg Lisa Haegele is assistant professor of German at Texas State University Aylin Bademsoy is a PhD candidate in the German Department at UC Davis. Daniele Vecchiato is Assistant Professor of German and Translation Studies at the University of Padua, Italy. Sascha Andreas Gerhards is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH Florian Gassner received his PhD in Germanic Studies from the University of British Columbia; followed by lectureship at Mount Allison University, postdoctoral fellowship at the New Europe College in Bucharest, and DAAD-Lektorat at the Donetsk National University. He is Associate Professor of Teaching at the University of British Columbia. Kathrin Breuer is an Associate Professor of Practice of German at Brandeis University where she also serves as the Director of the German Language Program.

• Introduction - Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne SimpsonPart I. Histories1: Eighteenth-Century #MeToo: Rape Culture and Victim Blaming in Heinrich Leopold Wagner's Die Kindermörderin (1776) - Lisa Wille2: #MeToo: Prostitution and the Syntax of Sexuality around 1800 - Patricia Anne SimpsonPart II. Dialogues across Time3: "Immaculate Conception," the "Romance of Rape," and #MeToo: Kleistian Echoes in Kerstin Hensel and Julia Franck - Melissa Ann Sheedy4: Female Sacrifice, Sexual Assault, and Dehumanization: Bourgeois Tragedy, Horror, and the Making of Jud Süß - Deborah Janson5: "Na, wenn du mich erst fragst?": Reconsidering Affirmative Consent with Schnitzler, Schnitt, Habermas, and Rancière - Sonja BoosPart III. Sexual Violence, Warfare, and Genocide6: War of the Vulva: The Women of Otto Dix's Lustmord Series - Jessica Davis7: Death to the Patriarchal Theater! Charlotte Salomon's Graphic Testimony - Maureen Burdock8: #MeToo and Wartime Rape: Looking Back and Moving Forward - Katherine StonePart IV. The Institutions of #MeToo9: Boarding-School Novels around 1900: The Relation of Male Fear of Women to Male-Male Seduction and Sexual Abuse in Hesse, Musil, and Walser - Niklas Straetker10: Breaking the Silence about Sexualized Violence in Lilly Axtser's and Beate Teresa Hanika's Young Adult Fiction (YAF) - Anna Sator11: "Eine gigantische Vergewaltigung": Rape as Subject in Roger Fritz's Mädchen mit Gewalt (1970) - Lisa Haegele12: Elfriede Jelinek and Ingeborg Bachmann: Transformations of the Capitalist Patriarchy and Narrating Sexual Violence in the Twentieth Century - Aylin Bademsoy13: Staging Consent and Threatened Masculinity: The Debate on #MeToo in Contemporary German Theater - Daniele VecchiatoPart V. #MeToo Across Cultural and National Borders14: Patriarchy, Male Violence, and Disadvantaged Women: Representations of Muslims in the Crime Television Series Tatort - Sascha Gerhards15: Fatih Akin's Head On: Challenging Mythologies of German Social Work in Gegen die Wand (2004) - Florian Gassner16: Is a Prostitute Rapeable? Teresa Ruiz Rosas's Novel Nada que declarar in Dialogue with #MeToo - Kathrin Breuer Notes on the ContributorsIndex

German #MeToo provides an impressive range of scholarship that echoes a formidable social movement's impact. We all see things differently in its wake, and the volume's essays arm themselves with knowledge that can no longer be unseen or unheard.