Alexandra Ludewig
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 644795 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alexandra Ludewig |
| PRENOMES | Alexandra |
| SOBRENOME | Ludewig |
| ASSINATURA | LUDEWIG A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7060-2814 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Rehabilitation on a Friendly Frontier
Tracing the trajectory of indentured labourer John McKail, who arrived on the first ship bringing settler colonists to the Swan River Colony in 1829, this paper challenges the binary between peaceful and conflictual frontiers and demonstrates their structural interconnection. Indeed, McKail characterises well how settler colonialism absorbs, masks, and rehabilitates violent actors. McKail’s trajectory from frontier violence in Perth to respectabi…
Vom Mythos der Schrift als Trägerin der Kultur
The mysterious Dr Ferdinand von Sommer (~1800–49)
Dr Ferdinand von Sommer (~1800–49) was the first government geologist appointed in Western Australia, a state that today owes its prosperity largely to the discovery and development of its rich mineral deposits. During his relatively short life, Ferdinand left a trail of incredible and diverse achievements, exploits and mystery that extended across the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania during the first half of the nineteenth century.…
John Staer (1850–1933)
Millennia of evolutionary ecology have seen Australia become one of the driest and flattest continents on Earth—and in the process, home to more than 700 species of Eucalyptus. Colonial scientists named them using a binomial system, thereby overwriting local vernaculars that had persisted for tens of thousands of years. This paper traces the man commemorated in the Albany Blackbutt, Eucalyptus staeri, a tree unique to the Great Southern region of…
Westlessness? Challenges for the EU’s Soft Power Approach
The West claims to be an economic and political power. However, its moral authority seems increasingly pilloried in many places. Some political scientists even speak of “Westlessness”: populism, nationalism, right-wing extremism, terrorism and democratic fatigue are some of the symptoms. This disunity of many people in Western industrialised nations is nowhere more evident than in relation to the contested topic of immigration. It polarises socie…
A Homage to Civil Society? Literary Responses to Germany’s Refugee Crisis by Jenny Erpenbeck and Bodo Kirchhoff
Although Angela Merkel refused to close Germany’s borders in 2015 when faced with thousands of migrants, her response to this humanitarian crisis made shortfalls in EU policies abundantly apparent. It became obvious that the Schengen Agreement, and the Dublin Regulations were no longer workable in view of a global movement of people that had not been experienced on such a scale since the end of World War Two. Literary greats, Jenny Erpenbeck and …
Anti-Heimat Cinema. The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape
Because so many books have been written by different authors about Heimat in film, starting with Lotte Eisner’s or Siegfried Kracauer's, one could be forgiven for thinking that there is nothing more to be said. And as for all the books written by and about Jewish intellectuals in relation to the German Heimat discourse, one would be tempted to assume that the academic study of the subject is already rich and well-advanced. Yet Ofer Ashkenazi’s an…
Utopian colonial settlers
During the 1930s, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonisation was searching for a ‘new’ home for the persecuted Jews of Europe. The League’s secretary, Dr Isaac Steinberg, favoured Australia, particularly a parcel of land in the Kimberley region of Western and Northern Australia. But his proposal had unexpected and potentially destructive implications, both for its European advocates and Australian communities who were dealing with th…
The Missing “Confessions of a Plagiarist”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s works have long been recognized as including borrowings and intermedial references. While Dürrenmatt revealed various sources himself throughout his lifetime, not least in the provokingly entitled “Bekenntnisse eines Plagiators” (1952), the cinema of his time remained one notable omission. A contemporaneous American western, the Oscar-nominated Bad Day at Black Rock (directed by John Sturges; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, USA, 1955)…
Visualising a Community in Incarceration
This article analyses wartime images created by civilian internees during their incarceration in 1914/1915. Their paintings, sketches and photographs are used to create a sense of a civil community and challenge stories about relentless hostility. As the juxtaposed images from the Ruhleben Camp near Berlin and the Rottnest Island Internment Camp in Australia show, cross-cultural encounters between Germans and Australians were experienced and depi…
Im Schmerz Geboren (2014) Von Florian Schwarz Und Michael Proehl
This article examines the ARD Tatort episode Im Schmerz geboren (2014) by Florian Schwarz and Michael Proehl, highlighting typical genre characteristics and the way they are parodied, as well as other intermedial and intertextual references. These, in turn, quite deliberately – and methodologically akin to Bakhtin's concept of dialogism – provoke a sensory overload, which is diagnosed as Stendhal Syndrome in the Tatort programme itself. Director …
Leni Riefenstahl's Encounter With the Nuba
Leni Riefenstahl, a legend recently deceased at more than 100 years of age, is perhaps best known for her association with Hitler in the form of her films Olympia and Triumph of the Will, and she has provoked controversy ever since. This paper will focus on the lesser-known African travel books which Riefenstahl published in Germany between 1972 and 1976. Therein she presents images of Nubian people taken in the Sudanese mountains which seem to e…
Screening the East, Probing the Past
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, unification, and the subsequent reinventionof the nation, German filmmakers have revisited theircountry's cinematic traditions with a view to placing themselves creativelyin the tradition of its intellectual and artistic heritage. One ofthe legacies that has served as a point of a new departure has beenthe Heimatfilm, or homeland film. As a genre it is renowned for itsrestorative stance, as it often features dia…
Heimat, City and Frontier in German National Cinema
Heimat- und Anti-Heimatliteratur in Österreich
In diesem Aufsatz soll anhand von Beispieltexten wie Thomas Bernhards Frost, Franz Innerhofers Schone Tage, Josef Winklers Menschenkind und Robert Schneiders Schlafes Bruder die Dialektik von Heimatund Anti-Heimatliteratur der zeitgenossischen osterreichischen Literatur untersucht werden. Der Vergleich, der chronologisch vorgeht, soll dabei einen Ausblick auf Qualitat und Aktualitat der einzelnen Autoren bieten. Sie alle sind Nachfolger von Hans …
Leni Riefenstahl's Encounter With the Nuba
Leni Riefenstahl, a legend recently deceased at more than 100 years of age, is perhaps best known for her association with Hitler in the form of her films Olympia and Triumph of the Will, and she has provoked controversy ever since. This paper will focus on the lesser-known African travel books which Riefenstahl published in Germany between 1972 and 1976. Therein she presents images of Nubian people taken in the Sudanese mountains which seem to e…
Heimat- und Anti-Heimatliteratur in Österreich
In diesem Aufsatz soll anhand von Beispieltexten wie Thomas Bernhards Frost, Franz Innerhofers Schone Tage, Josef Winklers Menschenkind und Robert Schneiders Schlafes Bruder die Dialektik von Heimatund Anti-Heimatliteratur der zeitgenossischen osterreichischen Literatur untersucht werden. Der Vergleich, der chronologisch vorgeht, soll dabei einen Ausblick auf Qualitat und Aktualitat der einzelnen Autoren bieten. Sie alle sind Nachfolger von Hans …
Heimat, City and Frontier in German National Cinema
Screening the East, Probing the Past
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, unification, and the subsequent reinventionof the nation, German filmmakers have revisited theircountry's cinematic traditions with a view to placing themselves creativelyin the tradition of its intellectual and artistic heritage. One ofthe legacies that has served as a point of a new departure has beenthe Heimatfilm, or homeland film. As a genre it is renowned for itsrestorative stance, as it often features dia…
Leni Riefenstahl's Encounter With the Nuba
Leni Riefenstahl, a legend recently deceased at more than 100 years of age, is perhaps best known for her association with Hitler in the form of her films Olympia and Triumph of the Will, and she has provoked controversy ever since. This paper will focus on the lesser-known African travel books which Riefenstahl published in Germany between 1972 and 1976. Therein she presents images of Nubian people taken in the Sudanese mountains which seem to e…
Im Schmerz Geboren (2014) Von Florian Schwarz Und Michael Proehl
This article examines the ARD Tatort episode Im Schmerz geboren (2014) by Florian Schwarz and Michael Proehl, highlighting typical genre characteristics and the way they are parodied, as well as other intermedial and intertextual references. These, in turn, quite deliberately – and methodologically akin to Bakhtin's concept of dialogism – provoke a sensory overload, which is diagnosed as Stendhal Syndrome in the Tatort programme itself. Director …
Visualising a Community in Incarceration
This article analyses wartime images created by civilian internees during their incarceration in 1914/1915. Their paintings, sketches and photographs are used to create a sense of a civil community and challenge stories about relentless hostility. As the juxtaposed images from the Ruhleben Camp near Berlin and the Rottnest Island Internment Camp in Australia show, cross-cultural encounters between Germans and Australians were experienced and depi…
Utopian colonial settlers
During the 1930s, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonisation was searching for a ‘new’ home for the persecuted Jews of Europe. The League’s secretary, Dr Isaac Steinberg, favoured Australia, particularly a parcel of land in the Kimberley region of Western and Northern Australia. But his proposal had unexpected and potentially destructive implications, both for its European advocates and Australian communities who were dealing with th…
The Missing “Confessions of a Plagiarist”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s works have long been recognized as including borrowings and intermedial references. While Dürrenmatt revealed various sources himself throughout his lifetime, not least in the provokingly entitled “Bekenntnisse eines Plagiators” (1952), the cinema of his time remained one notable omission. A contemporaneous American western, the Oscar-nominated Bad Day at Black Rock (directed by John Sturges; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, USA, 1955)…
Westlessness? Challenges for the EU’s Soft Power Approach
The West claims to be an economic and political power. However, its moral authority seems increasingly pilloried in many places. Some political scientists even speak of “Westlessness”: populism, nationalism, right-wing extremism, terrorism and democratic fatigue are some of the symptoms. This disunity of many people in Western industrialised nations is nowhere more evident than in relation to the contested topic of immigration. It polarises socie…
A Homage to Civil Society? Literary Responses to Germany’s Refugee Crisis by Jenny Erpenbeck and Bodo Kirchhoff
Although Angela Merkel refused to close Germany’s borders in 2015 when faced with thousands of migrants, her response to this humanitarian crisis made shortfalls in EU policies abundantly apparent. It became obvious that the Schengen Agreement, and the Dublin Regulations were no longer workable in view of a global movement of people that had not been experienced on such a scale since the end of World War Two. Literary greats, Jenny Erpenbeck and …
Anti-Heimat Cinema. The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape
Because so many books have been written by different authors about Heimat in film, starting with Lotte Eisner’s or Siegfried Kracauer's, one could be forgiven for thinking that there is nothing more to be said. And as for all the books written by and about Jewish intellectuals in relation to the German Heimat discourse, one would be tempted to assume that the academic study of the subject is already rich and well-advanced. Yet Ofer Ashkenazi’s an…
John Staer (1850–1933)
Millennia of evolutionary ecology have seen Australia become one of the driest and flattest continents on Earth—and in the process, home to more than 700 species of Eucalyptus. Colonial scientists named them using a binomial system, thereby overwriting local vernaculars that had persisted for tens of thousands of years. This paper traces the man commemorated in the Albany Blackbutt, Eucalyptus staeri, a tree unique to the Great Southern region of…
The mysterious Dr Ferdinand von Sommer (~1800–49)
Dr Ferdinand von Sommer (~1800–49) was the first government geologist appointed in Western Australia, a state that today owes its prosperity largely to the discovery and development of its rich mineral deposits. During his relatively short life, Ferdinand left a trail of incredible and diverse achievements, exploits and mystery that extended across the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania during the first half of the nineteenth century.…
Rehabilitation on a Friendly Frontier
Tracing the trajectory of indentured labourer John McKail, who arrived on the first ship bringing settler colonists to the Swan River Colony in 1829, this paper challenges the binary between peaceful and conflictual frontiers and demonstrates their structural interconnection. Indeed, McKail characterises well how settler colonialism absorbs, masks, and rehabilitates violent actors. McKail’s trajectory from frontier violence in Perth to respectabi…
Vom Mythos der Schrift als Trägerin der Kultur
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