Marc Silberman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1106653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Silberman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Silberman |
| SIGNATURE | SILBERMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0334-3864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Barbara Mennel. Mädchen in Uniform
Brecht, O Experimentador: Diálogo com Marc Silberman
A atualidade do teatro de Bertolt Brecht e sua relação com o pensamento dialético são os temas centrais desse diálogo realizado com Marc Silberman, um dos mais importantes estudiosos do teatro épico, pela pesquisadora Maria Eduarda Castro e pelo dramaturgo Sérgio de Carvalho
Introduction Walls, Borders, Boundaries
Back to the Future: Tradition and Innovation in German Studies
The centenary of the publication of Ernst Bloch’s first book, Geist der Utopie [The Spirit of Utopia] (1918), marks the occasion of looking back at the role it played in the past century and ahead at what its existentialist utopian philosophy offers in the present time. The phenomenology of the spirit of anticipation addressed the hopelessness of the generation that had grown up during the First World War. Today we are confronted with a different…
Walls, borders, boundaries: Spatial and cultural practices in Europe
Till, and Janet Ward PART I: CITY WALLS Chapter 1. The Dialectics of Urban Form in Absolutist France Yair Mintzker Chapter 2. The Camp in the City, the City as Camp: Berlin's Other Guarded Walls Olaf Briese Chapter 3. Threshold Resistance: Dani Karavan's Berlin Installation Grundgesetz Eric Jarosinski Chapter 4. Did Walls Really Come Down? Contemporary B/ordering Walls in Europe Daniela Vicherat Mattar PART II: BORDER ZONES Chapter 5. Border Guar…
Bertolt Brecht, Politics, and Comedy
While German dramatist Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is well known for his biting satires, grotesque parodies, and sharp irony, his use of the comic goes far beyond notions of comedy in the technical sense of plays with happy endings that express a utopian desire for social harmony. For him, the comic is a structural principle underlying the conflict between desire and reality. Constructing these situations became his method for demonstrating the in…
The German Wall
This interdisciplinary volume addresses the consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the revitalizing effect it had on Germany to the new challenges of integrating socially and politically ol
Introduction: Where Is Germany?
When the Berlin Wall opened unexpectedly on November 9, 1989, it marked a rupture of global significance in the history of the twentieth century. For Germany’s national history, the event has become—next to the defeat of 1945—the most significant date in collective memory, advancing very quickly to the status of a foundational myth of postwar German identity. An improvised barrier when the East German Central Committee first decided to install it…
German Wall: Fallout in Europe
Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering
Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath.
Rethinking Peter Weiss
Eight essays, two in German, revised from presentations at a November 1998 workshop at the University of Wisconsin consider whether the nearly total neglect of German painter, filmmaker, essays, novelist, and dramatist Weiss (1916-ca.1982) since the end of the Cold War can be and should be reversed. He was a committed socialist who burst on the scene in 1964 with his film Marat/Sade and dealt with many social and political themes during his caree…
The Brecht Yearbook 24
Contentious Memories: Looking Back at the GDR
Silberman, Marc, and Jost Hermand, eds. Contentious Memories: Looking Back at the GDR. New York: Lang, 1998. 251 pp. $47.95 hardcover. Germanists aware of the importance of the University of Wisconsin German department for GDR studies in the US will find this volume of particular interest. As a record of the 1996 Wisconsin Workshop, it brings together former and present faculty and students of that department in a post-unification reevaluation of…
Contentious Memories: Looking Back at the GDR
German Cinema: Texts in Context
German Cinema: Texts in Contexts
The Politics of Culture in Soviet-Occupied Germany: 1945-1949
Preface Part I. Doctrinal Adjustments and Cultural Corollaries (1945-1946): 1. Sovietization or democracy? 2. organization and bureaucracy 3. Seizing the initiative 4. Theory and practice 5. The origins of socialist realism Part II. Two Camps (1947): 6. Ideological offensives 7. SED and intelligentsia 8. Censorship and controversy Part III. Ideological Reversion and Cultural Conformity (1948): 9. Nationalist deviations 10. Cultural coordination 1…
Post-Wall Documentaries: New Images from a New Germany
For most of the world the peaceful revolution and mass demonstrations in East Germany that toppled the ossified socialist leadership and ultimately the state in October/November 1989 was a spectacle. A series of images flickered across television screens and remain unforgettable owing to their spontaneity in live transmission: the crowds of refugees in the West German embassies in Prague and Budapest, the trains transporting them through Dresden,…
Revolution 1989: Whither Brecht? The Brecht Yearbook 16
A Postmodernized Brecht
ion by shifting attention away from the individuals who exercised it and the mentality that tolerated it, in the West the Stasi has become a fetish that implicates every GDR citizen in a web of culpability. The Stasi's power as the instrument of the State's bureaucratic terror is slowly being revealed as the systematic functionalization of personal and social trust for political ends, best described from the perspective of an East German perhaps …
On with the Show? The Transition to Post-Socialist Theatre in Eastern Germany
As with so much in the GDR [German Democratic Republic or East Germany], the theatre too is especially German: a subsidized enterprise with strong culturalpolitical claims, a disguised 'moral institution,' an audience-oriented masquerade.' This was the opinion of Cologne theatre students who in 1987 traveled around the GDR hinterland. At least in this sphere one might expect in 1992, then, the unity that inspired the slogan Germany united fatherl…
Deutsche Spielfilme von den Anfangen bis 1933. Ein Filmfuhrer
Narrating Gender in the GDR: Hermann Zschoche's Bürgschaft für ein Jahr (1981)
After the 'Death' of Literature. West German Writing of the 1970s
Introduction - from the 1960s to the 1970s - the changing contexts of German literature, D. Roberts the republic of letters and the state - permutations of Geist and Macht in the Federal Republic since the early 1970s, W. van der Will political realism of the 1970s, K. Bullivant neue subjektivitat, M. McGowan recent German writing and the influence of popular culture, A. Waine feminist writing in West Germany, J. Wigmore West German poetry of the…
Remembering History: The Filmmaker Konrad Wolf
1944. A young Red Army soldier German by birth but whose parents had emigrated with their young children to the Soviet Union for political reasons returns to Germany. He comes with the triumphant Soviet Army, as a conqueror in his defeated homeland. Now begins the process of self-discovery and self-questioning: What does home mean in this unknown, native country? This is the background to the film Ich war neunzehn, Konrad Wolf s contribution to t…
Critical Theory, Public Sphere and Culture. Jurgen Habermas and His Critics
Bourgeois theory tends to separate carefully the domains of culture and politics. Its notion of the autonomy of art is particularly indispensible for countering arguments which conceive the relation between culture and politics as historically changing. One of the essential achievements of Critical Theory has been to dissolve this seeming opposition and make visible the objective link between the two. The category of the culture industry, introdu…
Bertolt Brecht, Politics, and Comedy
While German dramatist Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is well known for his biting satires, grotesque parodies, and sharp irony, his use of the comic goes far beyond notions of comedy in the technical sense of plays with happy endings that express a utopian desire for social harmony. For him, the comic is a structural principle underlying the conflict between desire and reality. Constructing these situations became his method for demonstrating the in…
Post-Wall Documentaries: New Images from a New Germany
For most of the world the peaceful revolution and mass demonstrations in East Germany that toppled the ossified socialist leadership and ultimately the state in October/November 1989 was a spectacle. A series of images flickered across television screens and remain unforgettable owing to their spontaneity in live transmission: the crowds of refugees in the West German embassies in Prague and Budapest, the trains transporting them through Dresden,…
Remembering History: The Filmmaker Konrad Wolf
1944. A young Red Army soldier German by birth but whose parents had emigrated with their young children to the Soviet Union for political reasons returns to Germany. He comes with the triumphant Soviet Army, as a conqueror in his defeated homeland. Now begins the process of self-discovery and self-questioning: What does home mean in this unknown, native country? This is the background to the film Ich war neunzehn, Konrad Wolf s contribution to t…
The Theatre of the Weimar Republic
The Politics of Representation: Brecht and the Media
The thrust of this sarcastic sketch was aimed in part at Brecht's disappointments associated with the June 1953 workers' strikes in East Berlin against the government policies of forced socialization.2 It also reflects Brecht's exasperation at the occasionally bitter dispute concerning the role of his theatre practice in Socialist Realism and the attendant suspicion that he was a formalist in disguise.3
Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction
A critical introduction to an important, yet relatively little understood corpus of literary theory. Although free of jargon, it aims not to oversimplify difficult issues
Women Filmmakers in West Germany: A Catalog
Introduction to Reception Aesthetics
and idealistic models in favor of an analysis of communicative processes, despite the fact that he had no theoretical model of communication at his disposal. Although he was not blind the psychological aspects of reading, Schiicking stressed the social basis of the projected history of taste. This means that he demanded the localization of those social strata and groups which, as vehicles of taste, sustain and steer the literary process. Of cours…
Threats to Constitutional Freedoms in West Germany
Introduction: Fear and Opportunism on the Rise Even the attentive observer who might grasp the significance of isolated circumstances would not be able to give a clear picture after a visit to the Federal Republic today. If he were to compare the contemporary scene and atmosphere with that of the late 1960s and early 1970s, he would almost have to conclude that the country was totally different then. There has been an apparent return to normalcy.…
Mauser
Aspects of the Reception of Heinrich Boll
Bitterfeld: Arbeiterliteratur und Literatur der Arbeitswelt in der DDR
Introduction to Reception Aesthetics
and idealistic models in favor of an analysis of communicative processes, despite the fact that he had no theoretical model of communication at his disposal. Although he was not blind the psychological aspects of reading, Schiicking stressed the social basis of the projected history of taste. This means that he demanded the localization of those social strata and groups which, as vehicles of taste, sustain and steer the literary process. Of cours…
Postwar German Culture. An Anthology
Critical Theory, Public Sphere and Culture. Jurgen Habermas and His Critics
Bourgeois theory tends to separate carefully the domains of culture and politics. Its notion of the autonomy of art is particularly indispensible for countering arguments which conceive the relation between culture and politics as historically changing. One of the essential achievements of Critical Theory has been to dissolve this seeming opposition and make visible the objective link between the two. The category of the culture industry, introdu…
Women Filmmakers in West Germany: A Catalog
Recent Brecht Reception in East Germany (GDR)
in the has become an increasingly popular topic among Western critics, for it offers a ready opportunity to voice-as the case may be-either scornful or nostalgic pronouncements on the master's fate. Yet elegant verbal attempts to ascertain Brecht's demise in the German Democratic Republic generally reflect a curious reluctance or inability to come to terms with a body of critical thought and theatre practice that has been evolving since Brecht's …
Women Filmmakers in West Germany: A Catalog (Part 2)
Research Article| September 01 1983 Women Filmmakers in West Germany: A Catalog (Part 2) Marc Silberman Marc Silberman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 132–145. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-4-2_11-132 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Marc Silberman; Women Filmmakers in West Germany: A Catalog (Part 2). Camera Obscura 1 September 1983; 4 (2 (11)…
Veit Harlan. Analysen und Materialien zur Auseinandersetzung mit einem Film-Regisseur des deutschen Faschismus
Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction
A critical introduction to an important, yet relatively little understood corpus of literary theory. Although free of jargon, it aims not to oversimplify difficult issues
The Theater of Confinement. Language and Survival in the Milieu Plays of Marieluise Fleisser and Franz Xaver Kroetz
Hitler and the Final Solution
Writing What- for Whom? "Vergangenheitsbewaltigung" in GDR Literature
The Politics of Representation: Brecht and the Media
The thrust of this sarcastic sketch was aimed in part at Brecht's disappointments associated with the June 1953 workers' strikes in East Berlin against the government policies of forced socialization.2 It also reflects Brecht's exasperation at the occasionally bitter dispute concerning the role of his theatre practice in Socialist Realism and the attendant suspicion that he was a formalist in disguise.3
The Political Language of the Avant-Garde
Selected Papers from the Thirteenth New Hampshire Symposium on the German Democratic Republic
Heide Schlupmann
Research Article| December 01 1989 Heide Schlüpmann Marc Silberman Marc Silberman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 279–282. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-2-3_20-21-279 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Marc…
Gertrud Koch
Research Article| December 01 1989 Gertrud Koch Marc Silberman Marc Silberman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 209–212. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-2-3_20-21-209 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Marc Silberman; Gertrud Koch. Camera Obscura 1 December 1989; 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 209–212. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-2-3_20-21-209 D…
The Theatre of the Weimar Republic
After the 'Death' of Literature. West German Writing of the 1970s
Introduction - from the 1960s to the 1970s - the changing contexts of German literature, D. Roberts the republic of letters and the state - permutations of Geist and Macht in the Federal Republic since the early 1970s, W. van der Will political realism of the 1970s, K. Bullivant neue subjektivitat, M. McGowan recent German writing and the influence of popular culture, A. Waine feminist writing in West Germany, J. Wigmore West German poetry of the…
Remembering History: The Filmmaker Konrad Wolf
1944. A young Red Army soldier German by birth but whose parents had emigrated with their young children to the Soviet Union for political reasons returns to Germany. He comes with the triumphant Soviet Army, as a conqueror in his defeated homeland. Now begins the process of self-discovery and self-questioning: What does home mean in this unknown, native country? This is the background to the film Ich war neunzehn, Konrad Wolf s contribution to t…
Deutsche Spielfilme von den Anfangen bis 1933. Ein Filmfuhrer
Narrating Gender in the GDR: Hermann Zschoche's Bürgschaft für ein Jahr (1981)
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