Heidi Schlipphacke
Biographic Data
| ID | 1485265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi Schlipphacke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlipphacke |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLIPPHACKE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Diva Time, Diva Space
This article explores the aesthetics and ethics of the diva by offering a comparative analysis of Fassbinder’s penultimate film, Veronika Voss (1982), and the filmmaker’s self-presentation as a diva. Veronika Voss offers a unique mode of engagement with the past in the form of its central female figure, the outsized Nazi-era actress Voss. Voss is not only, like Fassbinder, a drug addict; she is also unlike the divas who came before her in Fassbin…
Lesbian Desire and the Jump Cut in Monika Treut’s Von Mädchen und Pferden
This essay argues that Monika Treut’s use of the non-conventional editing device of the jump cut in Von Mädchen und Pferden (Of Girls and Horses, 2014) points to the temporality and representational limits of lesbian desire in film. The jump cut calls our attention to time, offering the spectator a (brief) experience of absence. If gazing, as represented by repeated shot/reverse shots, is slow, the jump cut ejects us out of linear temporality alt…
Forum
The Temporalities of Habsburg Nostalgia
This introductory essay reflects on the temporal and spatial displacements that characterize nostalgia for the Habsburg Empire around the time of its demise and into the current age. Theories of nationalism and the modern nation have taken into account the affective pull of the nation, its ability to inspire a deep sentiment resembling religious feeling in its citizens. But how do we understand the emotional pull of empire? If patriotic sentiment…
Melancholy Empress
This essay highlights the convergences between ‘queer’ and ‘straight’ affective responses to Ernst Marischka's popular Sissi trilogy. Sissi (1955), Sissi: the Young Empress (1956), and The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957) detail the young adult life of Elisabeth of Bavaria, who married the Habsburg Emperor, Franz Joseph, in 1854. ‘Sissi’ is both a cherished queer icon and a beloved heroine to mainstream German and Austrian film audiences. While…
Melodrama's Other
Heidi Schlipphacke is an assistant professor of German and European studies at Old Dominion University. She has published essays on critical theory, as well as on issues of gender, aesthetics, and cultural translation in the European Enlightenment and in contemporary German and Austrian literature and film
Eros and Community
The Temporalities of Habsburg Nostalgia
This introductory essay reflects on the temporal and spatial displacements that characterize nostalgia for the Habsburg Empire around the time of its demise and into the current age. Theories of nationalism and the modern nation have taken into account the affective pull of the nation, its ability to inspire a deep sentiment resembling religious feeling in its citizens. But how do we understand the emotional pull of empire? If patriotic sentiment…
Melancholy Empress
This essay highlights the convergences between ‘queer’ and ‘straight’ affective responses to Ernst Marischka's popular Sissi trilogy. Sissi (1955), Sissi: the Young Empress (1956), and The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957) detail the young adult life of Elisabeth of Bavaria, who married the Habsburg Emperor, Franz Joseph, in 1854. ‘Sissi’ is both a cherished queer icon and a beloved heroine to mainstream German and Austrian film audiences. While…
Melodrama's Other
Heidi Schlipphacke is an assistant professor of German and European studies at Old Dominion University. She has published essays on critical theory, as well as on issues of gender, aesthetics, and cultural translation in the European Enlightenment and in contemporary German and Austrian literature and film
Eros and Community
Melodrama's Other
Heidi Schlipphacke is an assistant professor of German and European studies at Old Dominion University. She has published essays on critical theory, as well as on issues of gender, aesthetics, and cultural translation in the European Enlightenment and in contemporary German and Austrian literature and film
Melancholy Empress
This essay highlights the convergences between ‘queer’ and ‘straight’ affective responses to Ernst Marischka's popular Sissi trilogy. Sissi (1955), Sissi: the Young Empress (1956), and The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957) detail the young adult life of Elisabeth of Bavaria, who married the Habsburg Emperor, Franz Joseph, in 1854. ‘Sissi’ is both a cherished queer icon and a beloved heroine to mainstream German and Austrian film audiences. While…
The Temporalities of Habsburg Nostalgia
This introductory essay reflects on the temporal and spatial displacements that characterize nostalgia for the Habsburg Empire around the time of its demise and into the current age. Theories of nationalism and the modern nation have taken into account the affective pull of the nation, its ability to inspire a deep sentiment resembling religious feeling in its citizens. But how do we understand the emotional pull of empire? If patriotic sentiment…
Forum
Lesbian Desire and the Jump Cut in Monika Treut’s Von Mädchen und Pferden
This essay argues that Monika Treut’s use of the non-conventional editing device of the jump cut in Von Mädchen und Pferden (Of Girls and Horses, 2014) points to the temporality and representational limits of lesbian desire in film. The jump cut calls our attention to time, offering the spectator a (brief) experience of absence. If gazing, as represented by repeated shot/reverse shots, is slow, the jump cut ejects us out of linear temporality alt…
Diva Time, Diva Space
This article explores the aesthetics and ethics of the diva by offering a comparative analysis of Fassbinder’s penultimate film, Veronika Voss (1982), and the filmmaker’s self-presentation as a diva. Veronika Voss offers a unique mode of engagement with the past in the form of its central female figure, the outsized Nazi-era actress Voss. Voss is not only, like Fassbinder, a drug addict; she is also unlike the divas who came before her in Fassbin…
Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · European history and politics (3 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)