Sonja Fritzsche

Biographic Data

ID985646
NAMESonja Fritzsche
GIVEN NAMESSonja
FAMILY NAMEFritzsche
SIGNATUREFRITZSCHE S
AFFILIATIONSIllinois Wesleyan University
ORCID0000-0003-4907-1961
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • “Ableist Fragility” and Chronic Stress in a Non‐Autistic Parent Memoir from Germany1

    Open AccessSonja FritzscheARTICLEThe German Quarterly2025

    This essay defines “ableist fragility” in the context of non‐autistic parenting of autistic children through an analysis of Tessa Korber's memoir Ich liebe dich nicht, aber ich möchte es mal können (2012). Ableist fragility draws directly from the term fragility in Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility (2018). Informed by anti‐racist and disability justice critiques of systemic ableism, the essay explores the roles explicit and implicit bias and notio…

  • Lars Schmeink and Ingo Cornils, editors. New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction

    Sonja FritzscheARTICLESeminar A Journal of Germanic…2023

  • Im Bann der Utopie. Ernst Blochs Hoffnungsphilosophie in der DDR-Literatur

    Sonja FritzscheARTICLEUtopian Studies2017

    Unlike the man, Ernst Bloch's philosophy of hope continued to influence select East German cultural intellectuals significantly long after his departure in 1961. Bloch himself left for West Germany following the construction of the Berlin Wall. After the end of World War II, he had returned from his New York exile by invitation in 1948 to accept the chair of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. While in exile, this friend of Bertolt Brecht, W…

  • Speculating and the Spectacle

    Sonja Fritzsche, Sonja Fritzsche Sonja FritzscheARTICLEScience Fiction Studies2015

  • Petrified Utopia. Happiness Soviet Style

    Sonja FritzscheARTICLEUtopian Studies2013

    Life has become better, life has become merrier.—Stalin's 1935 slogan For those Soviet science fiction buffs out there, the title of Balina and Dobrenko's groundbreaking book, Petrified Utopia, might bring Yevgeny Zamyatin's dystopian masterpiece We (1921) to mind. Indeed Zamyatin used One State's attempt to bring about “mathematically infallible happiness” to critique policies implemented by Lenin's Communist Party after the revolution. Yet it i…

  • Keep the Home Fires Burning

    Sonja FritzscheARTICLEGerman Politics & Society2012

    The article argues that the films Das kalte Herz (The Cold Heart, 1950) and Der Teufel von Mühlenberg (The Devil of Mill Mountain, 1955) functioned in two ways-as fairy tales and also as new Heimat or "homeland" tale. Besides Wolfgang Staudte's The Story of Little Mook, these two films were the only two live action fairy tale films that appeared before East Germany's DEFA made its first Grimm feature adaptation in 1956, The Brave Little Tailor. Y…

  • Gender, Utopia, and Ostalgia

    Sonja FritzscheARTICLEUtopian Studies2006Cited by: 2References: 5

    Research Article| January 01 2006 Gender, Utopia, and Ostalgia: the Pre- and Post-Unification Visions of East German Science Fiction Writer Alexander Kröger Sonja Fritzsche Sonja Fritzsche Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2006) 17 (3): 441–464. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718853 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sonja Fritzsche; Gender, Utopia, and Ostalgia: the Pre- …

  • The Silent Star (Der schweigende Stern)

    Sonja Fritzsche, Kurt MaetzigARTICLEGerman Studies Review2004

  • The Triumph of the Ordinary

    Sonja Fritzsche, Joshua FeinsteinARTICLEThe German Quarterly2003

  • Women after Communism. The East German Experience

    Sonja Fritzsche, Helen H FrinkARTICLEGerman Studies Review2002