Simon Richter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3885867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Richter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Richter |
| SIGNATURE | RICHTER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1908-8690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters
Populist parties are held to be the drivers of unprecedented emotionalisation in electoral politics. Advancing theories of realignment and detachment, this article studies the temporal development in the affective alignments between voters and parties. In particular, it analyses the relationship between social structure, voters’ affective orientations towards political parties, and vote choice over time by drawing on 625 representative population…
When climate policy bogs down, humanities and the arts can move things forward
At least since the publication of Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement (2016), it has become commonplace to say that the climate crisis is also a crisis of the imagination. Policymakers and their publics find it difficult to imagine how things could be otherwise. For scholars dedicated to the study of German culture and works of imagination, this would seem to be our moment. But many of us are not quite sure how to seize it. We understand the urg…
Learning about the unknown Spitzenkandidaten
The Spitzenkandidaten were meant to personalize European Parliament elections. This paper asks whether and through which channels the lead candidates were actually able to make themselves known among voters – a necessary precondition for any electoral effect. Combining panel surveys and online tracking data, the study explores candidate learning during the German 2019 European Parliament election campaign and relates learning to different types o…
Penelope and the Suitors
The Translation of Polder
Polder is a Dutch word that occurs in many world languages. As sea level rises and coastal cities subside, the polder is a preferred way to protect land from flooding. Because polder combines infrastructure with governance and social resilience, the translation of polder involves more than finding a linguistic equivalent. Successful translation of polder as both a term and an approach to water management depends on the openness of the translation…
Practicing Critical Theory
Based on extensive archival research, this article explores William (Wilhelm) Dieterle’s 1941 film “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” an American adaptation of Goethe’s
Goethe Yearbook 15
New, interdisciplinary essays on an array of topics ranging from Goethe and mineralogy to theories of masculinity around 1800. The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe Scholarship. It aims above all to encourage and publish original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welc…
The Return of the Queen of the Night
After decades of scholarly inattention, the musical complexity of Joseph von Sternberg's Der Blaue Engel (1930) and Friedrich Hollaender's score is beginning to be recognised. In this article, I argue that Sternberg in fact conceived Der Blaue Engel not only in quasi‐operatic terms, but also as a response to the gender politics of Mozart and Schikaneder's Zauberflöte . The Zauberflöte famously lulls its audience into initial sympathy with the Que…
Goethe Yearbook 13
Unwrapping Goethe's Weimar
Wieland And The Phallic Breast
In recent years the cultural history of the female breast has become a focus of attention. Scholars of the eighteenth century have explored the construction of motherhood and the anti‐wet‐nursing debates that followed the European reception of Rousseau’s Émile . The present article proceeds under the assumption that powerful cultural fantasies relating to the breast are at work in the late eighteenth century. By investigating the works of one of …
The Ins and Outs of Intimacy
Laocoon's Body and the Aesthetics of Pain
Reading the Oedipal/Edible
The utopic body is nothing other than the text, the text as a living body. [...] the utopic is not to be sought in the representation that the discourse recounts and describes, but rather in the sites of intense pleasure where the discourse spreads itself thin, becomes punctuated with empty spaces, and as a result, is constituted as a text of happiness. It is precisely this allegory [...] of the body of the text that we must now explore in an att…
Laocoon's Body and the Aesthetics of Pain
Under the Sign of Venus
The "Rauschen" of the Waves
Learning about the unknown Spitzenkandidaten
The Spitzenkandidaten were meant to personalize European Parliament elections. This paper asks whether and through which channels the lead candidates were actually able to make themselves known among voters – a necessary precondition for any electoral effect. Combining panel surveys and online tracking data, the study explores candidate learning during the German 2019 European Parliament election campaign and relates learning to different types o…
The "Rauschen" of the Waves
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters
Populist parties are held to be the drivers of unprecedented emotionalisation in electoral politics. Advancing theories of realignment and detachment, this article studies the temporal development in the affective alignments between voters and parties. In particular, it analyses the relationship between social structure, voters’ affective orientations towards political parties, and vote choice over time by drawing on 625 representative population…
The Translation of Polder
Polder is a Dutch word that occurs in many world languages. As sea level rises and coastal cities subside, the polder is a preferred way to protect land from flooding. Because polder combines infrastructure with governance and social resilience, the translation of polder involves more than finding a linguistic equivalent. Successful translation of polder as both a term and an approach to water management depends on the openness of the translation…
The Return of the Queen of the Night
After decades of scholarly inattention, the musical complexity of Joseph von Sternberg's Der Blaue Engel (1930) and Friedrich Hollaender's score is beginning to be recognised. In this article, I argue that Sternberg in fact conceived Der Blaue Engel not only in quasi‐operatic terms, but also as a response to the gender politics of Mozart and Schikaneder's Zauberflöte . The Zauberflöte famously lulls its audience into initial sympathy with the Que…
The "Rauschen" of the Waves
Under the Sign of Venus
Laocoon's Body and the Aesthetics of Pain
Reading the Oedipal/Edible
The utopic body is nothing other than the text, the text as a living body. [...] the utopic is not to be sought in the representation that the discourse recounts and describes, but rather in the sites of intense pleasure where the discourse spreads itself thin, becomes punctuated with empty spaces, and as a result, is constituted as a text of happiness. It is precisely this allegory [...] of the body of the text that we must now explore in an att…
Laocoon's Body and the Aesthetics of Pain
The Ins and Outs of Intimacy
Wieland And The Phallic Breast
In recent years the cultural history of the female breast has become a focus of attention. Scholars of the eighteenth century have explored the construction of motherhood and the anti‐wet‐nursing debates that followed the European reception of Rousseau’s Émile . The present article proceeds under the assumption that powerful cultural fantasies relating to the breast are at work in the late eighteenth century. By investigating the works of one of …
Unwrapping Goethe's Weimar
Goethe Yearbook 13
Goethe Yearbook 15
New, interdisciplinary essays on an array of topics ranging from Goethe and mineralogy to theories of masculinity around 1800. The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe Scholarship. It aims above all to encourage and publish original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welc…
The Return of the Queen of the Night
After decades of scholarly inattention, the musical complexity of Joseph von Sternberg's Der Blaue Engel (1930) and Friedrich Hollaender's score is beginning to be recognised. In this article, I argue that Sternberg in fact conceived Der Blaue Engel not only in quasi‐operatic terms, but also as a response to the gender politics of Mozart and Schikaneder's Zauberflöte . The Zauberflöte famously lulls its audience into initial sympathy with the Que…
Practicing Critical Theory
Based on extensive archival research, this article explores William (Wilhelm) Dieterle’s 1941 film “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” an American adaptation of Goethe’s
Penelope and the Suitors
The Translation of Polder
Polder is a Dutch word that occurs in many world languages. As sea level rises and coastal cities subside, the polder is a preferred way to protect land from flooding. Because polder combines infrastructure with governance and social resilience, the translation of polder involves more than finding a linguistic equivalent. Successful translation of polder as both a term and an approach to water management depends on the openness of the translation…
Learning about the unknown Spitzenkandidaten
The Spitzenkandidaten were meant to personalize European Parliament elections. This paper asks whether and through which channels the lead candidates were actually able to make themselves known among voters – a necessary precondition for any electoral effect. Combining panel surveys and online tracking data, the study explores candidate learning during the German 2019 European Parliament election campaign and relates learning to different types o…
When climate policy bogs down, humanities and the arts can move things forward
At least since the publication of Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement (2016), it has become commonplace to say that the climate crisis is also a crisis of the imagination. Policymakers and their publics find it difficult to imagine how things could be otherwise. For scholars dedicated to the study of German culture and works of imagination, this would seem to be our moment. But many of us are not quite sure how to seize it. We understand the urg…
Changing affective alignments between parties and voters
Populist parties are held to be the drivers of unprecedented emotionalisation in electoral politics. Advancing theories of realignment and detachment, this article studies the temporal development in the affective alignments between voters and parties. In particular, it analyses the relationship between social structure, voters’ affective orientations towards political parties, and vote choice over time by drawing on 625 representative population…
Art (9 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Art history (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works)