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The Boundedness of Private Property and Ecological Networks in Wilhelm Raabe’s Pfisters Mühle (2025)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2025). The Boundedness of Private Property and Ecological Networks in Wilhelm Raabe’s Pfisters Mühle. Oxford German Studies, 54(1), 72-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2025.2462459

Wilhelm Raabe’s Pfisters Mühle (1883–84) has extensively been discussed in relation to industrial pollution of which it offers one of the first literary appraisals. While the environmental question is central to the narrative, it is often overlooked... Read More about The Boundedness of Private Property and Ecological Networks in Wilhelm Raabe’s Pfisters Mühle.

Human Rights In A Global World: Racialisation And Religion In Rathlef's Die Mohrinn Zu Hamburg And Ziegler's Die Mohrinn (2024)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2025). Human Rights In A Global World: Racialisation And Religion In Rathlef's Die Mohrinn Zu Hamburg And Ziegler's Die Mohrinn. German Life and Letters, 78(1), 49-75. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12429

In Rathlef's and Ziegler's plays the need for human rights becomes tangible through the seemingly Other, disrupting the quotidian order of the (bourgeois) realm. The plays explore racial premises placed in close relationship with intertextual correla... Read More about Human Rights In A Global World: Racialisation And Religion In Rathlef's Die Mohrinn Zu Hamburg And Ziegler's Die Mohrinn.

The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Cao, Q., & Nitschke, C. (2023). The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree. Life Writing, 20(3), 563-581. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2022.2151847

This work examines Han Suyin’s representation of her Eurasian identity in relation to her maternal inheritance, focusing on her autobiography The Crippled Tree, the first volume in the series China: Autobiography, History. Drawing on Paul John Eakin’... Read More about The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree.

Settled and Unsettled Spaces: Property and Ecological Networks in Sophie von La Roche’s Erscheinungen am See Oneida (2022)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2022). Settled and Unsettled Spaces: Property and Ecological Networks in Sophie von La Roche’s Erscheinungen am See Oneida. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 97(2), 134-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/00168890.2022.2074269

In Sophie von La Roche’s novel Erscheinungen am See Oneida (1797/98), property not only functions as a category that assists the “imposition of the same system of exchange everywhere” (as G. C. Spivak postulates for the processes of globalization); L... Read More about Settled and Unsettled Spaces: Property and Ecological Networks in Sophie von La Roche’s Erscheinungen am See Oneida.

Metaphorical Contracts and Games: Goethe’s Götz von Berlichingen and Schiller’s Fiesco (2021)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2022). Metaphorical Contracts and Games: Goethe’s Götz von Berlichingen and Schiller’s Fiesco. Law & Literature, 34(2), 171-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685x.2021.1885158

The question of how to devise and justify political order for a secular age is still at the heart of political discourse today. Social contracts provided an early political and philosophical answer to these issues, but they also manifested themselves... Read More about Metaphorical Contracts and Games: Goethe’s Götz von Berlichingen and Schiller’s Fiesco.

The German Beast Unleashed: Kleist’s Hermannsschlacht and the Suspension of ‘Human Rights’ in the Era of Nationalism (2018)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2018). The German Beast Unleashed: Kleist’s Hermannsschlacht and the Suspension of ‘Human Rights’ in the Era of Nationalism. Publications of the English Goethe Society, 87(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2018.1433479

This article scrutinises the aporetic confrontation of different ultimate values in Kleist’s infamous Die Hermannsschlacht, namely nationalism and a basic notion of ‘human rights’. Kleist’s play does not settle for one of these priorities, but concep... Read More about The German Beast Unleashed: Kleist’s Hermannsschlacht and the Suspension of ‘Human Rights’ in the Era of Nationalism.

Pole Poppenspäler (2017)
Book Chapter
Nitschke, C. (2017). Pole Poppenspäler. In C. Demandt, & P. Theisohn (Eds.), Storm-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung. J. B. Metzler

Friendship (2017)
Book Chapter
Nitschke, C. (2017). Friendship. In C. Duttlinger (Ed.), Kafka in Kontext (18-25). CUP

Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson the Younger: Universal Moral Foundations and Intercultural Relations (2016)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2016). Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson the Younger: Universal Moral Foundations and Intercultural Relations. Humanities, 5(2), Article 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/h5020045

In his adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, Campe sets out to examine the legitimacy of his contemporary social reality (in Europe in the broadest sense) by tracing its origin back to the most basic roots conceivable. The experimental character of his book... Read More about Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson the Younger: Universal Moral Foundations and Intercultural Relations.

The free zone: Gang dynamics, de-differentiation, and pseudo-statehood in The Wire. (2016)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2016). The free zone: Gang dynamics, de-differentiation, and pseudo-statehood in The Wire. Cultural Dynamics, 28(1), 103-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374015623391

This article scrutinises concepts of deregulation against the backdrop of the ‘New Capitalism’ as presented in the episode ‘Hamsterdam’ in the American TV series, The Wire: when the major in charge of the Western District of Baltimore secretly decide... Read More about The free zone: Gang dynamics, de-differentiation, and pseudo-statehood in The Wire..

Bildlichkeit in Büchners 'Dantons Tod'. (2015)
Book Chapter
Nitschke, C. (2015). Bildlichkeit in Büchners 'Dantons Tod'. In S. Keppler, & W. G. Schmidt (Eds.), Funktionen von Medialität. Wert- und Identitätsbildungsprozesse zwischen 1815-1848 (77-95). De Gruyter