Helga Kraft

Biographic Data

ID5951777
NAMEHelga Kraft
GIVEN NAMESHelga
FAMILY NAMEKraft
SIGNATUREKRAFT H
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Die Macht der Überwachung

    Helga KraftARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2022

    This article examines factual, literary, and metaphorical representations of powerful security systems in Marlene Streeruwitz's novel Die Schmerzmacherin. Her surprising and frequent references to aspects of Kafka's work show how both authors illuminate various oppressive systems hidden to the individual protagonists by securitized and secretive methods or by their blindness to habit and tradition, respectively. Both authors question obscure gove…

  • Denkverläufe im Vergleich. Goethe und Kleist, Kafka und Brecht by Falk Strehlow

    Helga Kraft, Helga W KraftARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2018

    Reviewed by: Denkverläufe im Vergleich. Goethe und Kleist, Kafka und Brecht by Falk Strehlow Helga W. Kraft Falk Strehlow, Denkverläufe im Vergleich. Goethe und Kleist, Kafk a und Brecht. Würzburg: Königshauses & Neumann, 2016. 688 S. Strehlows fast 700seitige Studie vergleicht zum einen Denkabläufe in Texten von Goethe und Kleist—Schriftsteller des späten 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts—und zum anderen in Werken von Kafka und Brecht— [End Page 9…

  • Heimat/Front. Geschlechtergeschichte/n des Ersten Weltkriegs in Österreich-Ungarn by Christa Hämmerle

    Helga Kraft, Helga W KraftARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2016

    Reviewed by: Heimat/Front. Geschlechtergeschichte/n des Ersten Weltkriegs in Österreich-Ungarn by Christa Hämmerle Helga W. Kraft Christa Hämmerle, Heimat/Front. Geschlechtergeschichte/n des Ersten Weltkriegs in Österreich-Ungarn. Wien: Böhlau, 2014. 279 S. Die Studie von Christa Hämmerle erscheint zeitgerecht zum hundertsten Jahrestag des Ersten Weltkriegs, dem mehr als neun Millionen Soldaten und weit mehr als sieben Millionen Zivilisten zum Op…

  • Kafkas Zeichnungen by Friederike Fellner

    Helga Kraft, Helga W KraftARTICLEJournal of Austrian Studies2016

    Reviewed by: Kafkas Zeichnungen by Friederike Fellner Helga W. Kraft Friederike Fellner, Kafkas Zeichnungen. Paderborn: Fink, 2014, 320 pp. Six cartoon-like sketches by Franz Kafka are well-known. They are drawn minimally in thick black lines and probably depict his novel’s protagonists, the Ks. The Fischer Verlag placed them on the cover of some of their paperback editions. These sketches exude significant meaning. One of them visualizes the utt…

  • Writing against Boundaries

    Kathleen Condray, Barbara Kosta et al.ARTICLEGerman Studies Review2004

  • Schriftsteller in der zweiten Republik Osterreichs

    Marlene Streeruwitz, Dagmar C G Lorenz et al.ARTICLEThe German Quarterly2002

    Marlene Streeruwitz, Dagmar Lorenz, Helga Kraft, Schriftsteller in der zweiten Republik Österreichs: Interview mit Marlene Streeruwitz, 13. Dezember 2000, The German Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 3 (Summer, 2002), pp. 227-234

  • Post-Shoah Jewish Culture in Germany and Austria

    Helga KraftARTICLEThe German Quarterly2000

    This issue of The German Quarterly features articles that grew out of an international symposium entitled Politics, Memory and Representation. Post-Shoah Culture in German-speaking Countries, held at the University of Illinois at Chicago in November 1998. The purpose ofthe event was to bring together an interdisciplinary panel of experts from German Studies, Studies, History, Anthropology, Art, Political Science, and the Berlin community. As a re…

  • Interview with Jeannette Lander

    Helga Kraft, Dagmar C G Lorenz et al.ARTICLEThe German Quarterly2000

    This interview was conducted on October 22, 1998, at the University of Illinois at Chicago with Helga Kraft and Dagmar Lorenz. Development of Lender's Writing Career Q: Your career as a writer took unusual turns. You grew up in a Yiddish-speaking family in the United States-Atlanta-in the 1930s and 1940s, but later decided to write in German for a German-speaking audience. How did these particular circumstances come about? JL: The circumstances c…

  • Mutter

    Caroline Molina, Helga Kraft et al.ARTICLEThe German Quarterly1995

  • Mother-Daughter Relationships

    Helga Kraft, Helga W Kraft et al.ARTICLEThe German Quarterly1983

    Until recently, most mother-daughter relationships in German literature reflected the traditional family hierarchy in which women's lives revolved around the male. Mothers searched for suitable partners for their daughters, watched over their virginity, and taught them virtues and social graces. Daughters obeyed. If conflicts arose between the two at all, they very often stemmed from the mother's naive misguidance.' Literature has shown how mothe…