The Editors: Nigel Harris is Reader in German at the University of Birmingham. His publications include monographs on the Latin and German Etymachia (1994 and 1995), and an edition of the Lumen anime C and Ulrich Putsch’s Das Liecht der sel (2007). He has also written numerous articles, principally on high- and late-medieval literature.Joanne Sayner is Lecturer in Cultural Theory in the Department of German Studies at the University of Birmingham. Her publications include Women without a Past? German Autobiographical Writings and Fascism (2007) and articles on Melita Maschmann, Elfriede Brüning, Grete Weil, and Elisabeth Langgässer.

• Contents: Rosemary Ashton: Thomas Mann, Thomas Carlyle, and Frederick the Great – Alan Bance: ‘Use Well the Interval’: Thomas Mann’s Essay ‘Der alte Fontane’ and the Topos of Old Age – Michael Butler: Literature and the Politics of Exile: The Case of Bernard von Brentano – Helen Chambers: The Child Bride: Engagements 1890s-style in Fontane, Böhlau, Ebner-Eschenbach, and Huch – Bill Dodd: ‘... dem Kaiser gegeben was des Kaisers ist’: Walter Benjamin’s Reading of Dolf Sternberger’s ‘Tempel der Kunst’ (1937) – Elystan Griffiths/David Hill: Drafting the Self: The Poet as Reformer and Performer in J. M. R. Lenz’s Berkaer Projekt – Hans H. Hiebel: Zweistimmige Sätze: Büchners Danton’s Tod – Martin Kane: ‘Er spielt ein so verwickeltes Spiel’ (Wilhelm Liebknecht). Literary Representations of the Association between Ferdinand Lassalle and Otto von Bismarck – John Klapper: Encouragement for the ‘Other Germany’? Stefan Andres’s Publications in the Krakauer Zeitung 1940-1943 – Tom Kuhn: Three Models of the Poem–Picture Relationship in the Work of Bertolt Brecht – Richard Littlejohns: In the No-man’s-land beyond Biography: Dr Cake, Mozart, and Other Cases – Nicholas Martin: Thomas Mann’s Mario und der Zauberer: ‘Simply a Story of Human Affairs’ – Jochen Meyer: ‘Man zerlegt den Elefanten, aber man sieht ihn nicht’. Hans Henny Jahnn, Oskar Loerke und ein Debüt – John Osborne: Equivalence, Parallelism, Reflection: Burckhardt, Hodler, and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer between Historicism and Modernism – Rolf Parr: Soziale und naturale Grenzziehungen in Eduard von Keyserlings Roman Wellen (1911) – Philip Payne/Malcolm Spencer: Approaches to Robert Musil’s Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß – J. M. Ritchie: Max Zimmering’s Unfreiwillige Weltreise – Beatrice Sandberg: Schweizer Autoren im Abseits? – Mary E. Stewart: Seeing with New Eyes: Vision and the Short Story in German Naturalism – Martin Swales: Brecht and the Onslaught on Tragedy – Dennis Tate: Böhme[n] am Meer, ‘Bohemien mit Heimweh’: Franz Fühmann’s Competing Identities and his Tribute to Tonio Kröger – Wilfried van der Will: Nietzsche and Wagner: The Fate of a Friendship and the Project of Cultural Renewal – Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly: Representations of the Heroic Maiden. Eleonore Prochaska in Nineteenth-Century German Literature – John White/Ann White: Mi-en-leh’s Progeny: Some of Brecht’s Early Theatrical Parables and their Political Contexts.

The Editors: Nigel Harris is Reader in German at the University of Birmingham. His publications include monographs on the Latin and German Etymachia (1994 and 1995), and an edition of the Lumen anime C and Ulrich Putsch’s Das Liecht der sel (2007). He has also written numerous articles, principally on high- and late-medieval literature.Joanne Sayner is Lecturer in Cultural Theory in the Department of German Studies at the University of Birmingham. Her publications include Women without a Past? German Autobiographical Writings and Fascism (2007) and articles on Melita Maschmann, Elfriede Brüning, Grete Weil, and Elisabeth Langgässer.

• Contents: Rosemary Ashton: Thomas Mann, Thomas Carlyle, and Frederick the Great – Alan Bance: ‘Use Well the Interval’: Thomas Mann’s Essay ‘Der alte Fontane’ and the Topos of Old Age – Michael Butler: Literature and the Politics of Exile: The Case of Bernard von Brentano – Helen Chambers: The Child Bride: Engagements 1890s-style in Fontane, Böhlau, Ebner-Eschenbach, and Huch – Bill Dodd: ‘... dem Kaiser gegeben was des Kaisers ist’: Walter Benjamin’s Reading of Dolf Sternberger’s ‘Tempel der Kunst’ (1937) – Elystan Griffiths/David Hill: Drafting the Self: The Poet as Reformer and Performer in J. M. R. Lenz’s Berkaer Projekt – Hans H. Hiebel: Zweistimmige Sätze: Büchners Danton’s Tod – Martin Kane: ‘Er spielt ein so verwickeltes Spiel’ (Wilhelm Liebknecht). Literary Representations of the Association between Ferdinand Lassalle and Otto von Bismarck – John Klapper: Encouragement for the ‘Other Germany’? Stefan Andres’s Publications in the Krakauer Zeitung 1940-1943 – Tom Kuhn: Three Models of the Poem–Picture Relationship in the Work of Bertolt Brecht – Richard Littlejohns: In the No-man’s-land beyond Biography: Dr Cake, Mozart, and Other Cases – Nicholas Martin: Thomas Mann’s Mario und der Zauberer: ‘Simply a Story of Human Affairs’ – Jochen Meyer: ‘Man zerlegt den Elefanten, aber man sieht ihn nicht’. Hans Henny Jahnn, Oskar Loerke und ein Debüt – John Osborne: Equivalence, Parallelism, Reflection: Burckhardt, Hodler, and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer between Historicism and Modernism – Rolf Parr: Soziale und naturale Grenzziehungen in Eduard von Keyserlings Roman Wellen (1911) – Philip Payne/Malcolm Spencer: Approaches to Robert Musil’s Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß – J. M. Ritchie: Max Zimmering’s Unfreiwillige Weltreise – Beatrice Sandberg: Schweizer Autoren im Abseits? – Mary E. Stewart: Seeing with New Eyes: Vision and the Short Story in German Naturalism – Martin Swales: Brecht and the Onslaught on Tragedy – Dennis Tate: Böhme[n] am Meer, ‘Bohemien mit Heimweh’: Franz Fühmann’s Competing Identities and his Tribute to Tonio Kröger – Wilfried van der Will: Nietzsche and Wagner: The Fate of a Friendship and the Project of Cultural Renewal – Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly: Representations of the Heroic Maiden. Eleonore Prochaska in Nineteenth-Century German Literature – John White/Ann White: Mi-en-leh’s Progeny: Some of Brecht’s Early Theatrical Parables and their Political Contexts.

The Editors: Nigel Harris is Reader in German at the University of Birmingham. His publications include monographs on the Latin and German Etymachia (1994 and 1995), and an edition of the Lumen anime C and Ulrich Putsch’s Das Liecht der sel (2007). He has also written numerous articles, principally on high- and late-medieval literature.Joanne Sayner is Lecturer in Cultural Theory in the Department of German Studies at the University of Birmingham. Her publications include Women without a Past? German Autobiographical Writings and Fascism (2007) and articles on Melita Maschmann, Elfriede Brüning, Grete Weil, and Elisabeth Langgässer.

• Contents: Rosemary Ashton: Thomas Mann, Thomas Carlyle, and Frederick the Great – Alan Bance: ‘Use Well the Interval’: Thomas Mann’s Essay ‘Der alte Fontane’ and the Topos of Old Age – Michael Butler: Literature and the Politics of Exile: The Case of Bernard von Brentano – Helen Chambers: The Child Bride: Engagements 1890s-style in Fontane, Böhlau, Ebner-Eschenbach, and Huch – Bill Dodd: ‘... dem Kaiser gegeben was des Kaisers ist’: Walter Benjamin’s Reading of Dolf Sternberger’s ‘Tempel der Kunst’ (1937) – Elystan Griffiths/David Hill: Drafting the Self: The Poet as Reformer and Performer in J. M. R. Lenz’s Berkaer Projekt – Hans H. Hiebel: Zweistimmige Sätze: Büchners Danton’s Tod – Martin Kane: ‘Er spielt ein so verwickeltes Spiel’ (Wilhelm Liebknecht). Literary Representations of the Association between Ferdinand Lassalle and Otto von Bismarck – John Klapper: Encouragement for the ‘Other Germany’? Stefan Andres’s Publications in the Krakauer Zeitung 1940-1943 – Tom Kuhn: Three Models of the Poem–Picture Relationship in the Work of Bertolt Brecht – Richard Littlejohns: In the No-man’s-land beyond Biography: Dr Cake, Mozart, and Other Cases – Nicholas Martin: Thomas Mann’s Mario und der Zauberer: ‘Simply a Story of Human Affairs’ – Jochen Meyer: ‘Man zerlegt den Elefanten, aber man sieht ihn nicht’. Hans Henny Jahnn, Oskar Loerke und ein Debüt – John Osborne: Equivalence, Parallelism, Reflection: Burckhardt, Hodler, and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer between Historicism and Modernism – Rolf Parr: Soziale und naturale Grenzziehungen in Eduard von Keyserlings Roman Wellen (1911) – Philip Payne/Malcolm Spencer: Approaches to Robert Musil’s Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß – J. M. Ritchie: Max Zimmering’s Unfreiwillige Weltreise – Beatrice Sandberg: Schweizer Autoren im Abseits? – Mary E. Stewart: Seeing with New Eyes: Vision and the Short Story in German Naturalism – Martin Swales: Brecht and the Onslaught on Tragedy – Dennis Tate: Böhme[n] am Meer, ‘Bohemien mit Heimweh’: Franz Fühmann’s Competing Identities and his Tribute to Tonio Kröger – Wilfried van der Will: Nietzsche and Wagner: The Fate of a Friendship and the Project of Cultural Renewal – Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly: Representations of the Heroic Maiden. Eleonore Prochaska in Nineteenth-Century German Literature – John White/Ann White: Mi-en-leh’s Progeny: Some of Brecht’s Early Theatrical Parables and their Political Contexts.