Studia theodisca
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Universita degli Studi di Milano (IT) |
| ISSN | 1593-2478 / 2385-2917 |
| Scopus | 21100967058 |
| OpenAlex | S4210197685 |
| MAG | 4210197685 |
| Website | http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaTheodisca |
| Total publications | 48 |
| Coverage period | 2021 - 2025 |
| Country | IT |
| Language | EN |
| Access | Open Access • Diamond OA |
| Indexing | DOAJ indexed • Scopus indexed |
| Impact factor | 0.029 |
| SJR | 0.102 (Q3) |
| CiteScore | 0.1 |
| Female authorship share | 42.9% |
Studia Theodisca is a journal focused on German language and literature. While linguistic anthropology exists, this journal's primary focus is on literary and philological studies, which have only occasional and loose intersections with social anthropology. It is not a core or closely cognate field, thus receiving a score of 2
Literature and Literary Theory · Cultural Studies · Arts, Culture, and Music Studies · Central European national history · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies · Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies · Educational Robotics and Engineering · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · German Colonialism and Identity Studies
Hölderlin
This article aims to show how and why a poet who is not classified as a Romantic in literary historical terms, but as one who stands between Classicism and Romanticism and who himself spoke out against Romanticism, was romanticised or became a Romantic in the course of the 20th century. After an introduction to the state of research on Hölderlin and Romanticism and the poet’s relationships with the Romantics of his time, the essay concentrates on…
Ilse Aichinger e Ingeborg Bachmann protagoniste della (ri)nascita del radiodramma dopo il 1945
This article aims to explore the pivotal role of radio drama within the German and Austrian cultural landscape, especially after World War II. Through a comparative and (inter)textual analysis of two central works – Knöpfe (1953) by Ilse Aichinger and Ein Geschäft mit Träumen (1952) by Ingeborg Bachmann – the study traces the origin, development, and impact of this literary genre on the cultural discourse of the post-war context. Additionally, it…
Premessa / Vorwort
The fourth volume of “Studia Hölderliniana”, edited by Marco Castellari and Elena Polledri with the collaboration of Stefano Apostolo, is, as usual, published as a special issue of the international journal “Studia theodisca”. It brings together articles and reviews in both German and Italian on the works and reception of the great German poet Friedrich Hölderlin. This issue, in particular, documents the international conference “Wir sind nichts;…
From Beethoven to Schoenberg
A misreading of Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus as a simple allegory lies at the heart of the controversy surrounding Mann’s use of Arnold Schoenberg’s music as a demonically inspired fascist aesthetic. If we look upon Schoenberg’s music as a micro-myth, intersecting and interacting with a counterpart myth, namely Viennese Classicism, then a different picture emerges. This article will take a closer look at the construction and interplay between the…
Natura, poesia e filosofia in Hölderlin e in Hegel
The study addresses essential aspects of the works of Hölderlin and Hegel, highlighting the affinities and differences between the two with regard to their approach to pantheism, the question of beauty and the concept of ‘truth as a whole’. The essay also investigates differences and similarities in their interpretation of Heraclitus and the One-All, their conception of the tragic, their approach to the relationship between man and nature, and th…
Zarte Fügung. Hölderlins Rhythmen der Erinnerung
After 1801, Hölderlin’s poetry changed considerably through the reworking of earlier poems and the development of a major new project which would, however, remain fragmentary. Hölderlin experienced the political and military failure of revolution in his time . From his perspective, the spirit is filled with what most people ‘hope for’, but also what they do not expect: «Nicht daß irgend eine Form, irgend eine Meinung und Behauptung siegen wird [.…
O Natur!» Hölderlins erste Liebe oder Was Ökologie bedeuten könnte
The international research on Hölderlin has certainly not overlooked how much Hölderlin’s entire poetry and thinking revolves around nature. Therefore, his efforts, so diverse in themselves, to understand what ‘nature’ actually means to us, appear highly relevant in the face of the currently emerging ecological crisis. This article aims to present a specific interpretive framework using the model of permeable concentric circles in which the vario…
Pannwitz, Hofmannsthal und Österreich
This study deals with the relation of the German poet and philosopher Rudolf Pannwitz to Austria in the period 1917-1922, as he was witnessing the dissolution of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire while living in Austria himself. His reflections on Austria’s present and possible future can be traced back in his correspondence with Hugo von Hofmannsthal, an outstanding representative of the Austrian culture at that time, but also in some of the essays …
Das ABC der Teutschen Misere!». Drei Misere-Figuren im ‘Hofmeister’ von Bertolt Brecht und die Klassenfrage
In his adaptation of J. M. R. Lenz’s Der Hofmeister oder Vorteile der Privaterziehung [The Tutor or The Benefits of a Private Education], Bertolt Brecht foregrounds the theme of what Marx and Engels, among others, defined as ‘German misery’. This study asks how he succeeds in capturing such a complex phenomenon on stage. It argues that Brecht does so by personifying its facets through key characters: Läuffer, the eternal lackey; Pätus, the philis…
Studia theodisca – Hölderliniana IV (2025)
Studia theodisca – Hölderliniana IV (2025). The entire volume
Das Passfoto. Fotografie als Identitätsbeweis in Herta Müllers Werk – Identität und Repräsentation
Herta Müller’s work explores the role of photography, particularly passport photos, as a symbol of identity and a tool of state control. In The Passport and Traveling on One Leg, passport photos reveal the fragmentation and alienation of the characters under oppressive regimes. Through photography, Müller highlights the gap between self-perception and state-imposed identity. The photos, meant to confirm identity, instead reflect its complexity, r…
Zwischen Romantik-Kritik und «Horen»-Kontinuität. Hölderlins «Iduna»-Projekt im Spektrum zeitgenössischer Zeitschriften
In the summer of 1799 Friedrich Hölderlin worked intensively on the «Iduna»-project, a «humanistic journal» which was intended to earn him prestige and a steady income. As the difficulties increased and important authors declined his invitation to contribute, the enterprise was abandoned. Based on Hölderlin’s letters and drafts, this essay focuses on the program of «Iduna» with the aim of embedding it within the context of contemporary journals a…
Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen, ist alles»
The aim of this essay is to explain the motto «Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen, ist alles» (We are nothing; what we search for is everything). This sentence can be shown to be essentially neoplatonic and central to Hölderlin’s thought in the areas of ontology, theology, politics and poetics. Thus, Hölderlin joins his neoplatonic contemporaries Hamann, Lessing, Herder, Goethe, Novalis, and Schleiermacher
Surreale Schreibweisen gestern und heute. Das Beispiel von Peter Weiss im kontrastierenden Vergleich zu Tendenzen der Gegenwartsliteratur
Vor der Erzählung. Schreiben als gewalttätige Praxis in Peter Weiss’ »Abschied von den Eltern«
Peter Weiss
In the introductory essay, the volume’s editors trace the project that gave rise to this collection of contributions on Peter Weiss, his work, and his fortunes back to the events celebrating the centenary of his birth in 2016. The reflections start from Milo Rau, as an example of a contemporary author and director who finds in the mastery of Peter Weiss a point of reference for an art combining formal experimentalism with political engagement. Th…
Wir sitzen ein jeder für sich unter einer Glasglocke und schreiben aus Langweile«. Der Essayist Peter Weiss
Marquis de Sade als medialer Wendepunkt. Peter Weiss und Pier Paolo Pasolini
Weiss’ Dichterdrama »Hölderlin«. Von Empedokles zu Scardanelli
Brecht-Trialog. Zur Peter-Weiss-Rezeption bei George Tabori
Die Unverständlichkeit der Lyrik
In this essay, I examine the connection between poetry and the incomprehensibility of some of its exemplars. In particular, I examine the rise of incomprehensible poetry to being the epitome of modern poetry in the history of poetry, and I develop explanations for the significance of incomprehensible poetry in global modernity
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I ‘nuovi cittadini tedeschi’ e il dibattito sulla singolarità dell’Olocausto. Su «Adas Raum» di Sharon Dodua Otoo
This paper aims to investigate the relevance of Sharon Dodua Otoo’s debut novel Adas Raum in the ongoing Historikerstreit 2.0. Relevant to this new historical dispute is the possible connection between colonialism and the memory of the Holocaust. As I will show, Adas Raum seems to respond artistically to critical suggestions proposed by Michael Rothberg who interprets the link between memory and identity in a complex way, which results in non-com…
Studia theodisca XXXI (2024)
Studia theodisca XXXI (2024) - The Entire Volume
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Freilich ist Freundschaft wahre Heimat». Il carteggio di Stefan Zweig e Joseph Roth come patria spirituale
This article attempts to explore the intimate yet complicated friendship between Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth through their exchange of letters. Their personal correspondence has always been regarded as a valuable resource for interpreting their works and for documenting the life of intellectuals during the National Socialist period. However, the relevance of their correspondence does not lie only in its literary and historical testimony, since i…
Studia theodisca XXVIII (2021)
Studia theodisca XXVIII (2021) - The Entire Volume
Abenteuer Männlichkeit. Adoleszenz in Wolfgang Herrndorfs Roman «Tschick»
This article deals with literary constructions of masculinity in Wolfgang Herrndorf’s novel Tschick. The focus is on male adolescence as represented by the characters in the text. The study is guided by the question of how the male socialisation of adolescents is narrated in the novel. Themes such as the search for identity, friendship, sexuality and being an outsider are addressed. The analysis is based on theoretical perspectives offered by mas…
Con un colpo di spugna e sapone “Gallseife”. La rielaborazione del passato nazionalsocialista in «Heimat» di Nora Krug
This paper intends to show how and to what extent the practices of postmemory (Hirsch) and “cumulative heroization” (Welzer), which are typical of the so-called generation of grandchildren in Germany, are embedded in Nora Krug’s graphic novel Heimat. Ein deutsches Familienalbum [Heimat. A German Family Album] (2018). It will be shown how these practices contribute to creating a work that in the end idealizes the German and family (Nazi) past rath…
Kunst als (botanisches) Studium der Natur? Bemerkungen zu Goethes Schrift «Einfache Nachahmung der Natur, Manier, Stil»
Goethe’s essay Einfache Nachahmung der Natur, Manier, Stil is steeped in an analogy: The life science of botany serves as an aesthetic foil, botany and art are set in parallel – to show how Goethe develops this, and what it implies, is the aim of this paper
Un malinconico nella commedia gottschediana. «Der Hypochondrist» di Theodor Johann Quistorp
Theodor Johann Quistorp was among the regular contributors to Gottsched’s Deutsche Schaubühne (1741-1745). In addition to his published works as a playwright, he tried his hand at writing non-fiction, taking a stand against Baumgarten’s theories, and engaging in a heated debate with Georg Friedrich Meier. Quistorp’s comedies are actually based on a conception of the comic effect that is far removed from Gottschedian rationalism. In his Hypochondr…
Studia theodisca XXIX (2022)
Studia theodisca XXIX (2022) - The Entire Volume
Jenseits von Textbeziehungen. Paul Celan bei Yoko Tawada
This article aims at highlighting the metatextual relationships between the works of Yoko Tawada and Paul Celan. The analysis concentrates on Das Tor des Übersetzers oder Celan liest Japanisch and Paul Celan und der chinesische Engel and is carried out in the light of transtextual practices, starting from theoretical premises related to the act of reading (symptomatic reading – surface reading) and including the dimension of transculturality. The…
Stefan Zweig’s Narratives of Migration and Emigration
Stefan Zweig’s relation to the phenomenon of migration is indeed a complicated issue, which can be approached from at least three perspectives. Firstly, there is the biographic aspect: as one of the major representatives of the German exile literature (Exilliteratur), Zweig has one of the most dramatic biographies among the German authors in the 20th century, including his emigration from Austria to England and New York, then to South America, wh…
Il potere come dimensione politica e antropologica nel romanzo «Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit» (2016) di Christoph Ransmayr
The essay analyses the characterisation of power in Christoph Ransmayr’s novel Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit. Specifically, power is analysed on its political level, with the social implications that it necessarily entails on both the human and personal level, showing the individual in charge locked in the solitude of his distance from others; and on its gender level, which is expressed in the novel by the subjugation of the female to the male. In c…
Carducci e il mondo tedesco. Bilanci e prospettive
The essay takes a systematic look at some perspectives on the study of Giosue Carducci’s relations with German culture, offering a review of the research until today, examples of case studies, and a reflection on possible future research perspectives. Among the various areas addressed is that of the study of Carducci’s translations from German, with remarks on Carducci’s role in the transfer processes between Italy and Germany. Among other things…
Von deutscher Baukunst» di Goethe, agli albori della “Geniezeit” nel segno dell’architettura gotica tedesca
Through an analysis of Goethe’s essay «Von deutscher Baukunst» this study intends to highlight the programatic value of the same for the first authentically German cultural movement, i.e. the «Storm and Stress». The paradigmatic figure of Erwin von Steinbach, the ingenious architect of Strasbourg Cathedral, sympathetically overshadows that of the medieval architect Eudes de Montreuil, whose re-evaluation is due to André Thevet from a patriotic an…
The way to the head must be opened through the heart». Enlightenment and Herzensbildung in Schiller
The following paper discusses Schiller’s interpretation of the German concept of Bildung, which appears to be a central term in Germany’s culture, especially (but not limited to) the educational realm. As Bildung underwent massive transformations and has been re-interpreted multiple times throughout German history, this paper will start with a definitory exercise trying to organize the dynamics surrounding the term. Secondly, a two-fold historica…
Studia theodisca XXX (2023)
Studia theodisca XXX (2023) - The Entire Volume
Surreale Schreibweisen gestern und heute. Das Beispiel von Peter Weiss im kontrastierenden Vergleich zu Tendenzen der Gegenwartsliteratur
Vor der Erzählung. Schreiben als gewalttätige Praxis in Peter Weiss’ »Abschied von den Eltern«
Peter Weiss
In the introductory essay, the volume’s editors trace the project that gave rise to this collection of contributions on Peter Weiss, his work, and his fortunes back to the events celebrating the centenary of his birth in 2016. The reflections start from Milo Rau, as an example of a contemporary author and director who finds in the mastery of Peter Weiss a point of reference for an art combining formal experimentalism with political engagement. Th…
Wir sitzen ein jeder für sich unter einer Glasglocke und schreiben aus Langweile«. Der Essayist Peter Weiss
Marquis de Sade als medialer Wendepunkt. Peter Weiss und Pier Paolo Pasolini
Weiss’ Dichterdrama »Hölderlin«. Von Empedokles zu Scardanelli
Brecht-Trialog. Zur Peter-Weiss-Rezeption bei George Tabori
Die Unverständlichkeit der Lyrik
In this essay, I examine the connection between poetry and the incomprehensibility of some of its exemplars. In particular, I examine the rise of incomprehensible poetry to being the epitome of modern poetry in the history of poetry, and I develop explanations for the significance of incomprehensible poetry in global modernity
Teil I
Teil Ii
I ‘nuovi cittadini tedeschi’ e il dibattito sulla singolarità dell’Olocausto. Su «Adas Raum» di Sharon Dodua Otoo
This paper aims to investigate the relevance of Sharon Dodua Otoo’s debut novel Adas Raum in the ongoing Historikerstreit 2.0. Relevant to this new historical dispute is the possible connection between colonialism and the memory of the Holocaust. As I will show, Adas Raum seems to respond artistically to critical suggestions proposed by Michael Rothberg who interprets the link between memory and identity in a complex way, which results in non-com…