Dagmar C G Lorenz

Biographic Data

ID1154037
NAMEDagmar C G Lorenz
GIVEN NAMESDagmar C G
FAMILY NAMELorenz
SIGNATURELORENZ D C G
AFFILIATIONSThe Ohio State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS72
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT69
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX1

  • The Anatomist of Power: Franz Kafka and the Critique of Authority by Costas Despiniadis

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2020

    Reviewed by: The Anatomist of Power: Franz Kafka and the Critique of Authority by Costas Despiniadis Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Costas Despiniadis, The Anatomist of Power: Franz Kafka and the Critique of Authority. Translated by Stelios Kapsomenos. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2019. 165 pp. In this compelling study Costas Despiniadis focuses on Kafka's affinity with anarchist concepts and thinkers such as Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Pierre-Joseph Prou…

  • Deserto: Zwischen den Welten by Luis S. Krausz

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2020

    Reviewed by: Deserto: Zwischen den Welten by Luis S. Krausz Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Luis S. Krausz, Deserto: Zwischen den Welten. Vienna: Sonderzahl, 2017. 132 pp. Luis Krausz's Deserto offers a highly personal introduction to the Brazilian post-Shoah Austrian-German-Jewish community, and it challenges genre boundaries. This intriguing prose work examines ways in which an extended family copes with the trials of exile and uncovers effects of the Shoa…

  • Ruth Beckermann's Journey to Czernowitz: Displacement and Postmemory in Die papierene Brücke

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2020

    Die papierene Brücke (1987, The Paper Bridge) by Ruth Beckermann is a path-breaking documentary that has retained its relevance for twenty-first-century audiences. The second one of the filmmaker's "Vienna films," which were produced over a span of eighteen years, Die papierene Brücke examines post-Shoah Jewish memory in a unique, subjective representational mode. This article explores themes and strategies employed by Beckermann to communicate t…

  • Kafkas Ungeschriebene Ästhetik by Gerhard Oberlin

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2019

    Reviewed by: Kafkas Ungeschriebene Ästhetik by Gerhard Oberlin Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Gerhard Oberlin, Kafk as Ungeschriebene Ästhetik. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2018. 177 S. Das in vier Kapitel und eine Einführung gegliederte Buch versucht eine Neubetrachtung der oft gestellten Problematik um die aesthetischen Impulse und Konzepte, welche Kafk as Texten zugrundeliegen und ihre unvergleichliche, verstörende Wirkung ausmachen. An Kafk as Spät…

  • Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology

    Dagmar C G LorenzCHAPTERPolin: Studies in Polish Jewry…2018

  • Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews by Cathy S. Gelbin and Sander L. Gilman

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2018

    Reviewed by: Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews by Cathy S. Gelbin and Sander L. Gilman Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Cathy S. Gelbin and Sander L. Gilman, Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews. Ann Arbor: U Michigan P, 2017. 352 pp. As the authors of this study, two prominent cultural historians and scholars of literature, Cathy Gelbin and Sander Gilman, maintain, the uses and assessments of the term cosmopolitanism have undergone significant changes over time in the …

  • Arthur Schnitzler: Anatom des Fin de Siècle by Max Haberich

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2018

    Reviewed by: Arthur Schnitzler: Anatom des Fin de Siècle by Max Haberich Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Max Haberich, Arthur Schnitzler: Anatom des Fin de Siècle. Vienna: Kremayr & Scheriau, 2017. 320 pp. If every generation requires a new history of literature, then, too, new studies on the life and work of noted authors are always in order. Max Haberich provides a study on Schnitzler and his times under the subtitle Anatom des Fin de Siècle, which integra…

  • Nazi Characters in German Propaganda and Literature

    Open AccessDagmar C G LorenzBOOKNazi Characters in German…2018Cited by: 1References: 4

    Winner of the 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Stereotypical characters that promoted the Nazi worldview were repurposed by antifascist authors in Weimar Germany, argues Dagmar C.G. Lorenz. This is the first book to trace Nazi characters through the German and Austrian literature. Until the defeat of the Third Reich, pro-Nazi literature was widely distributed. However, after the war, Nazi publications were suppressed or even banned, and new…

  • Poetik und Linguistik: Die literarische Sprache Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer by Martina Wörgötter

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2017

    Reviewed by: Poetik und Linguistik: Die literarische Sprache Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer by Martina Wörgötter Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Martina Wörgötter, Poetik und Linguistik: Die literarische Sprache Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer. Freiburg: Rombach, 2016. 445 pp. Shaped by her transcultural background, her childhood in Tyrol, her linguistics studies in Vienna, and her association with the Austrian avant-garde, novelist and poet Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaume…

  • Theaterdramaturgien von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart by Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2017

    Reviewed by: Theaterdramaturgien von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart by Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner, Theaterdramaturgien von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart. Vienna: Böhlau, 2016. 351 pp. The Graz-based theater scholar Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner offers, in her study Theaterdramaturgien von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart, an incisive, innovative approach to the history and practice of German-speaking the…

  • Ilse Aichingers Lyrik: Das gedruckte Werk und die Handschriften by Hannah Markus

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2017

    Reviewed by: Ilse Aichingers Lyrik: Das gedruckte Werk und die Handschriften by Hannah Markus Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Hannah Markus, Ilse Aichingers Lyrik: Das gedruckte Werk und die Handschriften. Edited by Beate Kellner and Claudia Stockinger. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. 336 pp. Until the publication of Hannah Markus's study, Ilse Aichinger's poetic work had not been critically assessed and explored in its entirety. Compared to the author's postwar n…

  • Things Could’ve Been a Lot Worse: The Experiences of a German American Bellybutton Jew of Berlin Origins by Gerd K. Schneider

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2017

    Reviewed by: Things Could’ve Been a Lot Worse: The Experiences of a German American Bellybutton Jew of Berlin Origins by Gerd K. Schneider Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Gerd K. Schneider, Things Could’ve Been a Lot Worse: The Experiences of a German American Bellybutton Jew of Berlin Origins. Translation by Dennis McCort. Saarbrücken: Haddassa World Press, 2016. 247 pp. Gerd K. Schneider made a name for himself as a scholar of Austrian literature, in case …

  • Verdrängte Moderne—vergessene Avantgarde: Diskurskonstellationen zwischen Literatur, Theater, Kunst und Musik in Ősterreich 1918–1938 ed. by Primus-Heinz Kucher

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2017

    Reviewed by: Verdrängte Moderne—vergessene Avantgarde: Diskurskonstellationen zwischen Literatur, Theater, Kunst und Musik in Ősterreich 1918–1938 ed. by Primus-Heinz Kucher Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Primus-Heinz Kucher, ed., Verdrängte Moderne—vergessene Avantgarde: Diskurskonstellationen zwischen Literatur, Theater, Kunst und Musik in Ősterreich 1918–1938. Gött ingen: V & R unipress, 2016. 296 pp. Primus-Heinz Kucher's collection of articles explores…

  • Vertieftes Sein: Wahrnehmung und Körperlichkeit bei Paul Celan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty by Frank König

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2016

    Reviewed by: Vertieftes Sein: Wahrnehmung und Körperlichkeit bei Paul Celan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty by Frank König Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Frank König, Vertieftes Sein: Wahrnehmung und Körperlichkeit bei Paul Celan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Heidelberg: Winter, 2014. 628 pp. Chernivtsi-born German-language poet Paul Celan and French phenomenologist philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, born in the maritime town of Rochefort on the Atlantic Ocean, came…

  • Izanagi und Izanami: Ein Spiel für Sprechstimmen, Gesang und Musik by Erich Fried (review)

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2015

    Reviewed by: Izanagi und Izanami: Ein Spiel für Sprechstimmen, Gesang und Musik by Erich Fried Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Erich Fried, Izanagi und Izanami: Ein Spiel für Sprechstimmen, Gesang und Musik. Edited by Christine Ivanovic. Munich: Iudicium, 2014. 140 pp. Vienna-born poet and prose writer engagé Erich Fried, who survived the Nazi era in England in exile and spent his later years between the U.K. and Germany, is less well known for his musical p…

  • Contemporary Jewish Writing: Austria After Waldheim by Andrea Reiter (review)

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2015

    Reviewed by: Contemporary Jewish Writing: Austria After Waldheim by Andrea Reiter Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Andrea Reiter, Contemporary Jewish Writing: Austria After Waldheim. New York: Routledge, 2013. 243 pp. Andrea Reiter has devoted much of her career to the study of literature about the Shoah and Jewish writing and culture, especially in Austria and Germany. The recent publication of Contemporary Jewish Writing: Austria After Waldheim confirms the…

  • Intersection Vienna: Crime and Transnationalism in Post-Shoah Austrian Fiction and Films

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2014

    Against the background of the rich tradition of Austrian crime literature, this article discusses novels by Anna Mitgutsch, Doron Rabinovici, and Vladimir Vertlib as paradigmatic of post-Shoah crime fiction. Common features include international settings reminiscent of the exile routes of Jewish Austrians and the centrality of the Holocaust against which the transgressions committed by characters of the younger generations are measured. The crime…

  • Literatur aus Österreich—zum Problem der Norm und der Devianz: Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler in Memoriam by Rosa Marta Gómez Pato and Jaime Feijóo (review)

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2013

    Reviewed by: Literatur aus Österreich—zum Problem der Norm und der Devianz: Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler in Memoriam by Rosa Marta Gómez Pato and Jaime Feijóo Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Rosa Marta Gómez Pato and Jaime Feijóo, eds., Literatur aus Österreich—zum Problem der Norm und der Devianz: Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler in Memoriam. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2011. 182 pp. This remarkable volume reveals a fundamental change in criticism that has occurred since th…

  • “Viele Philosophen sind des Dichers Tod”: Elias Canettis Die Blendung und die abendländische Philosophie by Katrin Schneider (review)

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2012

    Reviewed by: “Viele Philosophen sind des Dichers Tod”: Elias Canettis Die Blendung und die abendländische Philosophie by Katrin Schneider Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Katrin Schneider, “Viele Philosophen sind des Dichers Tod”: Elias Canettis Die Blendung und die abendländische Philosophie. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. 310 pp. Obviously, Die Blendung is not a philosophical novel, but philosophy, or rather philosophies, play an important part as constitutive e…

  • The Meridian: Paul Celan by Pierre Joris (review)

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2012

    Reviewed by: The Meridian: Paul Celan by Pierre Joris Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Pierre Joris, The Meridian: Paul Celan. Ed. Bernhard Böschenstein and Heino Schnull. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2011. 281 pp. Paul Celan is one of relatively few German-language authors who have attained international prominence. The untranslatability of his opaque texts, notably his poetry, has been pointed out probably as often as these texts have been translated and taught i…

  • Journalismus

    Open AccessDagmar C G Lorenz, Dagmar LorenzBOOKJournalismus2009

    Auswahl, Bearbeitung und Vermittlung von Informationen in der Öffentlichkeit: Der Band vermittelt alle wichtigen Aspekte journalistischer Tätigkeit. Dazu gehören klassische journalistische Darstellungs- und Präsentationsformen im Printbereich, in Hörfunk und Fernsehen, Journalismus im Internet sowie Berufs- und Ausbildungsprofile. Die Autorin geht auf die unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsformen des Journalismus in der Geschichte ein und benennt Prob…

  • Wiener Moderne

    Open AccessDagmar C G Lorenz, Dagmar LorenzBOOKWiener Moderne2007

    Wien: die Literatur-Metropole. In der besonderen gesellschaftlich-kulturellen Atmosphäre Wiens an der Schwelle zum 20. Jahrhundert wirkten Autoren wie Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, Beer-Hofmann und Kraus, deren Schaffen die gesamte Moderne prägte. Die Neuauflage berücksichtigt Ergebnisse und Tendenzen der jüngsten Forschung u.a im Hinblick auf eine veränderte Interpretation zentraler Texte der Wiener Moderne (Hugo von Hofmannsthals Aufsatz über Gabri…

  • Reassessment of the Postcolonial Condition: Ruth Beckermann's Film Ein flüchtiger Zug nach dem Orient

    Dagmar C G LorenzARTICLESeminar A Journal of Germanic…2005

  • A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti

    Dagmar C G Lorenz, Anne Fuchs et al.BOOKCompanion to the Works of Elias…2004

    New essays providing a comprehensive scholarly introduction to the great writer and thinker Canetti. The Bulgarian-born scholar and author Elias Canetti was one of the most astute witnesses and analysts of the mass movements and wars of the first half of the 20th century. Born a Sephardic Jew and raised at first in the Bulgarianand Ladino languages, he chose to write in German. He was awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature for his oeuvre, whi…

  • Arthur Schnitzler: Zeitgenossenschaften/Contemporaneities

    Helmut F Pfanner, Idris Foster et al.ARTICLEGerman Studies Review2004