Outputs (9)

Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes: The Burden of History (2016)
Book Chapter
Osborne, D. (2016). Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes: The Burden of History. In P. M. Lützeler, E. McGlothlin, & J. Kapczynski (Eds.), Schwerpunkt : Christoph Ransmayr. = Focus : Christoph Ransmayr (125-146). Stauffenburg

While Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes develops Christoph Ransmayr’s long-term interest in the relationship between travel and narrative, it suggests links to a non-cartographic project, namely Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas. Using Georges Didi-Huberman... Read More about Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes: The Burden of History.

Archive and Memory in German Literature and Visual Culture (2015)
Book
Osborne, D. (Ed.). (2015). Archive and Memory in German Literature and Visual Culture. Boydell & Brewer

In recent years, the discourse of memory - and of German memory culture in particular - has become increasingly concerned with questions of the archive. An archive can refer to a physical place, the material found there, or the system that orders thi... Read More about Archive and Memory in German Literature and Visual Culture.

Thomas Demand's Nationalgalerie: Reconstructing a German Archive (2015)
Book Chapter
Osborne, D. (2015). Thomas Demand's Nationalgalerie: Reconstructing a German Archive. In D. Osborne (Ed.), Archive and memory in German literature and visual culture (85-104). Camden House

In 2009 Germany celebrated sixty years since the founding of the Federal Republic and twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. That double-anniversary year two exhibitions opened in Berlin: the high-profile, popular show60 Jahre—60 Werkeat the... Read More about Thomas Demand's Nationalgalerie: Reconstructing a German Archive.

Negotiating (In)visibilities in German Memory Culture (2015)
Book Chapter
Osborne, D. (2015). Negotiating (In)visibilities in German Memory Culture. In H. Steiner, & K. Veel (Eds.), Invisibility studies : surveillance, transparency and the hidden in contemporary culture (159-180). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0671-2

Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace how these changes make their marks on various cultural fields and in... Read More about Negotiating (In)visibilities in German Memory Culture.

Mal d'archive: On the Growth of Gunter Demnig's Stolperstein-Project (2014)
Journal Article
Osborne, D. (2014). Mal d'archive: On the Growth of Gunter Demnig's Stolperstein-Project. Paragraph, 37(3), 372-386. https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2014.0135

In Archive Fever, Derrida opens a critical perspective on the status of the trace as that which remains with his reading of Gradiva, the Pompeian fantasy woman who is supposed to have left her singular toe-print in the ash of Vesuvius. This article r... Read More about Mal d'archive: On the Growth of Gunter Demnig's Stolperstein-Project.

The Power of Language and Silence: Reinhard Jirgl’s Die Stille (2014)
Book Chapter
Osborne, D. (2014). The Power of Language and Silence: Reinhard Jirgl’s Die Stille. In P. Davies, & A. Hammel (Eds.), New literary and linguistic perspectives on the German language, National Socialism, and the Shoah (159-174). Camden House

Reinhard Jirgl (1953–) is an emphatically German author. He insists that German is “die Sprache in der ich denke, spreche und schreibe,”¹ and the award of several prestigious prizes (including the Büchner Prize in 2010) has confirmed his place in the... Read More about The Power of Language and Silence: Reinhard Jirgl’s Die Stille.

"Alas, alas. House, oh house!": The Collapse of the Cologne City Archive (2014)
Journal Article
Osborne, D. (2014). "Alas, alas. House, oh house!": The Collapse of the Cologne City Archive. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 1(3), 395-416. https://doi.org/10.1386/jucs.1.3.395_1

When the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (known as Cologne’s City Archive) collapsed in 2009, a municipal institution became visible in quite unintended ways. The incident and its consequences tell us about the structure, constitution and r... Read More about "Alas, alas. House, oh house!": The Collapse of the Cologne City Archive.

Memory, Witness and the (Holocaust) Museum in H.G. Adler and W. G. Sebald (2014)
Book Chapter
Osborne, D. (2014). Memory, Witness and the (Holocaust) Museum in H.G. Adler and W. G. Sebald. In H. Finch, & L. Wolff (Eds.), Witnessing, memory, poetics : H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald (159-179). Camden House

“Diese heiklen Formen” : destruction and desire in Durs Grünbein's Porzellan (2014)
Journal Article
Osborne, D. (2014). “Diese heiklen Formen” : destruction and desire in Durs Grünbein's Porzellan. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 89(1), 20-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/00168890.2014.875429

This article considers Durs Grünbein's use of porcelain in his 2005 collection, Porzellan. Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt as a symbol for both Dresden's Baroque splendor and its destruction in the firestorm of February 1945. Moving between beautiful... Read More about “Diese heiklen Formen” : destruction and desire in Durs Grünbein's Porzellan.