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This study aims to better understand the authorial figure of Vladislav Vančura by reconstructing the critical and literary-historical image conveyed to us by the reception of the writer during his lifetime, starting with the writer’s first short story collections and finishing with his Obrazy z dějin národa českého (‘Images from the history of the Czech nation’). Loosely following on the theoretical bases of previous discussions, which in various ways conceptualize the effect of the ‘name of the author’ in relation to his work (Foucault, Bourdieu, Russian formalism, Mukařovský), this study examines Vančura’s literary output through the lens of its author (as a constructed figure and category), especially in terms of the author function as it serves to form this output into a unified whole. It deals with changes in the name of the author mainly in relation to Vančura’s reception. During the interwar period the critical reception captured the creative phenomenon of the writer in the course of his development, at a moment when his extreme style and language caused numerous controversies which grew into open polemics. While these revolved primarily around the issue of aesthetics (in the case of Pole orná a válečná and Poslední soud), they involved broader worldview and ideological issues (as with the novel Tři řeky). Vančura’s persistent search for a narrative form repeatedly compelled critics and interpreters of his time to reassess the criteria and critical standards for literature. This study traces the transformations of the author’s image in this context all through his life as it assumed countless ‘faces’, subverting the traditional assumption of coherence in Vančura’s literary output that the concept of the author was meant to guarantee, and thus demonstrating — given the failure of this concept to bring about such coherence — how it is necessary to look instead for those places of incoherence, contradiction, and disparity. To this end, the study does not seek to cover the history of Vančura’s reception in all its facets but to trace those significant moments when the image of the author and his work was transformed, challenging unequivocal interpretations and defying the interpretative stereotypes and schemes into which it has so often been confined.

This study aims to better understand the authorial figure of Vladislav Vančura by reconstructing the critical and literary-historical image conveyed to us by the reception of the writer during his lifetime, starting with the writer's first short story collections and finishing with his Obrazy z dějin národa českého ('Images from the history of the Czech nation'). Loosely following on the theoretical bases of previous discussions, which in various ways conceptualize the effect of the 'name of the author' in relation to his work (Foucault, Bourdieu, Russian formalism, Mukařovský), this study examines Vančura's literary output through the lens of its author (as a constructed figure and category), especially in terms of the author function as it serves to form this output into a unified whole. It deals with changes in the name of the author mainly in relation to Vančura's reception. During the interwar period the critical reception captured the creative phenomenon of the writer in the course of his development, at a moment when his extreme style and language caused numerous controversies which grew into open polemics. While these revolved primarily around the issue of aesthetics (in the case of Pole orná a válečná and Poslední soud), they involved broader worldview and ideological issues (as with the novel Tři řeky). Vančura's persistent search for a narrative form repeatedly compelled critics and interpreters of his time to reassess the criteria and critical standards for literature. This study traces the transformations of the author's image in this context all through his life as it assumed countless 'faces', subverting the traditional assumption of coherence in Vančura's literary output that the concept of the author was meant to guarantee, and thus demonstrating -- given the failure of this concept to bring about such coherence -- how it is necessary to look instead for those places of incoherence, contradiction, and disparity. To this end, the study does not seek to cover the history of Vančura's reception in all its facets but to trace those significant moments when the image of the author and his work was transformed, challenging unequivocal interpretations and defying the interpretative stereotypes and schemes into which it has so often been confined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Davon ausgehend, dass der digitale Wandel folgenreich für Subjekte und ihre Lebenswelten ist, untersucht der Beitrag aus einer intersektionalen und biografieanalytischen Perspektive die biografische Bedeutung von Selbstpräsentationen in sozialen Medien für den Widerstand gegen erfahrenen Sexismus und Rassismus. Soziale Medien werden dabei als Kontext der (Re-)Produktion und Irritation von Macht- und Ungleichheitsverhältnissen betrachtet. Entlang der Biografien junger Frauen of Color und ihrer Instagram-Posts wird am Beispiel zweier Fallstudien empirisch gezeigt, wie die digitalen Selbstpräsentationen in Biografien eingeflochten sind und welche Möglichkeiten für Selbstkonstruktionen und Widerstand, aber auch, welche Risiken und Begrenzungen mit ihnen verbunden sind.

W II Rzeczypospolitej funkcjonowało sześć uniwersytetów, wydziały teologiczne utworzono na pięciu z nich: Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim, Uniwersytecie Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie, Uniwersytecie Stefana Batorego w Wilnie, Uniwersytecie Warszawskim i Katolickim Uniwersytecie Lubelskim. Na wydziałach teologicznych w okresie międzywojennym zatrudnionych było w sumie 80 profesorów. Baza źródłowa, którą dysponujemy, badając kadrę profesorską wydziałów teologicznych, jest bogata. Duże znaczenie mają szczególnie akta personalne. Materiały takie znajdujemy w Archiwum Akt Nowych w zespole Ministerstwo Wyznań Religijnych i Oświecenia Publicznego. Taką dokumentację przechowują także: Litewskie Centralne Archiwum Państwowe w Wilnie, Lwowskie Państwowe Archiwum Obwodowe, Archiwum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego i Archiwum Uniwersyteckie Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego. Dokumenty, które można znaleźć w aktach personalnych najczęściej dotyczą: spraw zatrudnienia profesorów, aktywności naukowej, realizacji obowiązków dydaktycznych, spraw socjalnych. Prawie w każdej teczce znajduje się życiorys profesora i wykaz jego dorobku naukowego.

Kristina Höch arbeitet in ihrer Monografie lückenlos die filmischen Arbeiten des als Theaterschauspieler reüssierenden Gustaf Gründgens heraus, der auch eine vier Jahrzehnte umfassende Karriere als Filmschauspieler und -regisseur vorweisen kann. Dabei reflektiert die Filmwissenschaftlerin auch stets den gesellschaftspolitischen Hintergrund der Produktion und Rezeption mit.

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The main aim of the paper is to present the private and professional biography of Bolesława Kopelówna -- a female translator from English active in the interwar period (1918--1939) in Poland. Unusually prolific as a translator, criticized by her contemporaries and then forgotten, Kopelówna authored dozens of translations from various genres: including fiction, children's literature, and romance novels. She was also an interpreter and worked in the field of specialized translation. She traveled often and was engaged in the socialist movement in Poland. As an official archive of Kopelówna does not exist, I would like to re/deconstruct her biography through Zygmunt Żuławski's -- her friend and colleague -- personal papers: letters to Kopelówna, diaries and some enigmatic traces of her own presence in his archive. By applying tools from translation history, especially contemporary findings on archives of female writers, I attempt to answer the question why Kopelówna was so intensely criticized. Microhistorical study on female translator, through the extension of the notion of an archive takes part in the discussion on the potential of translation history in literary history and cultural studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

„Hat die Sklaverei jemals wirklich geendet?“ ist, so konstatierte Judith Butler, die zentrale Frage, die Saidiya Hartman umtreibt. Auch in ihrem 2022 von Anna Jäger ins Deutsche übersetzte Aufsässige Leben, schöne Experimente. Von rebellischen schwarzen Mädchen, schwierigen Frauen und radikalen Queers ist diese Frage bestimmend. Hier rekonstruiert und imaginiert Hartman Biografien von Schwarzen Frauen und queeren Personen und erschließt ihnen so mithilfe von „Critical Fabulation“ einen widerständigen Möglichkeitsraum.

In the fourth decade of the last century, the most important synthesis studies about Eminescu appeared: Tudor Vianu - Eminescu's Poetry (1930), G. Călinescu - Mihai Eminescu's Life (1932) and Mihai Eminescu's Opera (1934-1936). After Călinescu's biography and E. Lovinescu's novels - Mite (1934) and Bălăuca (1935), the true Eminescu biographical image is born, "the true myth of the poet's life" (Simuţ). How was the epic image of Eminescu's biography formed in the narratives of the two literary critics and historians? How did they manage to mix fiction and documentary in the writings about Eminescu? What does the epic image of the Eminescu biography look like, as it emerges from the novels of the two critical authorities?. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In meinem Beitrag setze ich mich mit der Frage auseinander, wie sich soziale Mobilitätsprozesse im Kontext von Migrationsfamilien gestalten. Ich frage, inwieweit Migration mit einem sozialen Mobilitätsprozess einhergeht und in welchem Zusammenhang dieser mit den familialen Generations- und Geschlechterverhältnissen steht. Dabei diskutiere ich familiale, soziale Mobilitätserfahrungen unter der Berücksichtigung von intergenerationalen Binnendynamiken sowie deren mögliche vergeschlechtlichte Ausprägungen anhand von zwei biografischen Fallvignetten. Ich beziehe mich dabei auf empirisches Material aus meiner Forschung zu Bildungsbiografien von Studierenden mit Migrationsgeschichte. Es handelt sich um eine qualitativrekonstruktive Studie, die sich aus einer biografieanalytischen, habitussensiblen Perspektive mit den Erzählungen von Universitätsstudierenden auseinandersetzt. Theoretisch verknüpfe ich in meiner Diskussion intersektionale und biografische Perspektiven mit sozialer Mobilität und Migration, Adoleszenz und Generationenverhältnissen.

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Celem artykułu jest zobrazowanie różnych aspektów życia społecznego w przestrzeni powojennej Łodzi przy wykorzystaniu metody biograficznej (9 wywiadów biograficznych/osobistych narracji). Praca stanowi studium relacji społecznych uwzględniających punkt widzenia indywidualnego narratora, który pozwala przenieść się w minione lata, poznać wygląd miasta oraz sposoby spędzania czasu przez jego mieszkańców. Uzyskane wyniki pokazują różnorodny przebieg życia i różne warunki mieszkaniowe oraz codzienne czynności, jakimi zajmowali się w okresie swojego dzieciństwa i młodości badani mieszkańcy Łodzi.

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The varied and contradictory perception of the personality and work of Bohuslav of Lobkowicz and Hassenstein in the early modern period was symbolically crowned in the Enlightenment by Ignaz Cornova’s biography, which is still the most comprehensive work dedicated to Hassenstein. After a brief recapitulation of research and the state of knowledge before Cornova, the study examines his approach to the material and the main substantive and formal features of his biography. Older Latin literature dealing with humanism plays an important role, as do contemporary models from the European literatures of the Enlightenment. Cornova’s work partly follows the traditional chronological approach, but several timeless chapters emerge from it, driven both by an interest in Bohuslav as an individual and by a desire to make a purposeful pedagogical impact on the reader. His aim was to present a rounded and engaging picture of Hassenstein’s life and literary output, based on his surviving works, especially his poems and correspondence, tastefully and without distracting remarks and comments. Ludwig Schubart, for example, with his biography of the German humanist Ulrich von Hutten, could have been a model for him in this respect. Brief mention is also made of the critical reviews of Cornova’s work, which he himself deals with in the preface to Hassenstein’s biography. A separate section is devoted to a comparison of the selection of poems translated by Cornova and his contemporaries Thám, Vinařický and Budík. Although the biography was considered Cornova’s most important work in his lifetime, was cited and received positive feedback, it is not very useful for contemporary research, unlike the works of Josef Truhlář, who was a few decades younger. From a scholarly point of view it falls short of contemporary demands and as a literary work is even more outdated, although (or perhaps because) it reflected the literary trends of the time. ▨ Keywords: [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Nach dem umfangreichen Zuzug von Flüchtlingen nach Deutschland hat sich auch die Forschungslandschaft in diesem Feld diversifiziert. Einen bedeutsamen Aspekt innerhalb dieser Forschung bieten Ansätze, in denen die Lebenswelt der Betroffenen in den Fokus gestellt und versucht wird, deren Erfahrungsraum zu rekonstruieren. Hiervon ausgehend werden in diesem Beitrag folgende Fragen beantwortet: Welche Rolle spielten Gewalterfahrungen und besonders die Erfahrungen organisierter Gewalt vor und während der Flucht bei den in Deutschland vor etwa fünf Jahren aus Syrien angekommenen Menschen? Wie werden Erfahrungen mit (organisierter) Gewalt und Willkür von Schutzsuchenden biografisch verarbeitet? Wie verorten sich diese Menschen nach ihrem Ankommen in Deutschland zwischen Selbstwirksamkeit und Fremdkontrolle? Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen greifen wir auf biografietheoretische Annahmen, die dokumentarische Methode sowie das Konzept von Exit, Voice und Loyalty nach HIRSCHMAN (1970) zurück. Wir vergleichen auf dieser Grundlage zwei biografische Erzählungen junger Flüchtlinge aus Syrien, die von uns 2019 im Rahmen mehrerer Lehrforschungsprojekte als Teil von 19 narrativen Interviews zu Erfahrungen der Rolle organisierter Gewalt erhoben wurden. Die Auswertungen zeigen, dass sich biografische Orientierungsrahmen im Kontext erzwungener Migration nach dem Grad wahrgenommener Selbstwirksamkeit stark verändern können und die Exit-Option dabei eine Übergangsposition zwischen Protest und Anpassung repräsentiert.

Erkan Osmanović rezensiert Tito. Der ewige Partisan der deutschen Historikerin Marie-Janine Calic. Die Biografie zeichnet den Lebensweg von Josip Broz nach und zeigt ihn in all seinen Facetten – als Sohn, Ehemann, Pragmatiker und Staatsmann.

Reflexionskompetenz ist im Kontext universitärer Ausbildung von angehenden Lehrkräften mittlerweile eine zentrale Schlüsselkompetenz, die sich in zahlreichen Seminarbeschreibungen und Modulhandbüchern wiederfindet. Dabei stellen sowohl die Anleitung von Reflexionsprozessen als auch die Einlassung darauf voraussetzungsvolle Momente für Dozierende und Studierende dar. Eine besondere Anforderung ergibt sich dann, wenn es sich bei dem Reflexionsgegenstand um die eigene (Bildungs-)Biografie der Studierenden handelt. Im folgenden Artikel wird dargelegt, inwiefern eigene lebensgeschichtliche Erfahrungen in der Ausbildung angehender Lehrkräfte berücksichtigt werden können. Anhand eines Seminarkonzepts werden theoretische Grundlagen sowie anwendungsbezogene Durchführungshinweise geboten, die Hinweise für die Herstellung von geeigneten Rahmenbedingungen, beidseitige Anforderungen und die Besonderheiten des didaktischen Prinzips „Biografiearbeit“ liefern. Die Erfahrungen mit diesem Seminarkonzept führen notwendigerweise zu dem Schluss, dass die Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Biografie als Teil des Professionalisierungsprozesses zu begreifen ist.

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Alodia Gryczowa and Józef Grycz belong to the line of the most outstanding Polish librarians of the twentieth century. Their huge scientific and organizational achievement provides material for numerous works discussing the development of book history and library science in Poland. The article attempts to describe the curriculum vitae and the activities of both Alodia and Józef in relation to their papers kept at the Manuscript Department of the National Library. This archive encompasses personal materials, which reflect the line of their professional development and institutional careers, documents relative to their community service (concerning libraries, bibliophile activities, etc.), their publications, and an abundant correspondence (both professional and private). In conclusion the author acknowledges that further research is necessary to bring together the complete set of the Grycz papers. The article is supplemented with an appendix presenting a provisional list of contents of the ‘Grycz Papers’, a newly acquired fond at the Polish National Library in Warsaw.

Nach dem großen Erfolg des Romans Léon und Louise (2011) veröffentlichte Alex Capus das nur 77 Seiten umfassende Buch mit dem Titel Skidoo und dem Untertitel „Meine Reise durch die Geisterstädte des Wilden Westens“. Das Buch umfasst eine Sammlung kleiner, skurriler Geschichten aus der Vergangenheit dieser Städte. Der ironische Ton, der zwar alle Texte Capusʼ prägt, in diesem aber noch besonders bedeutungstragend ist, wird schon auf dem Buchumschlag angekündigt, auf dem die Bemerkung des Autors zitiert wird: „Wenn ein Mann einen Liebesroman geschrieben hat, muss er hernach zum Ausgleich etwas Ordentliches tun. Einen Western schreiben zum Beispiel. Man ist sich das einfach schuldig, nicht wahr?“

Thesis / Purpose: The aim of the article is to analyze the legends and biographies of saints for children published in Poland in the years 1945–1949. There are 19 items in the attached bibliography. Research method: The material was analyzed from autopsy on the basis of the copies preserved in the National Library (registered in the Polish bibliography of the Official Print List in Przewodnik Bibliograficzny). Results / Conclusions: Most of the items were published in Cracow and Warsaw in the years 1947–1948. Their authors were mostly well-known and respected secular writers, among whom Maria Kączkowska deserves special attention. Some texts had their pre-war editions. In legends and biographies, more than 50 people recognized by the Catholic Church as saints or dead were presented. Biographies, especially those of “holy children”, were to constitute a role model for the young reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In dem Review Essay wird eine Einordnung des Buches "Die Lebenserzählung" von Daniel BERTAUX (2018) in die Diskurswelt der deutschsprachigen bzw. im deutschsprachigen Raum verankerten Biografieforschung vorgenommen. Dazu werden die theoretischen Begriffe des ethnosoziologischen Forschungsansatzes Daniel BERTAUXs vorgestellt. Einige zentrale Begriffsverwendungen des Autors (z.B. "Objektivität" und "soziale Welten") werden der Kritik unterzogen. Für die im deutschsprachigen Raum verankerte Biografieforschung werden im Besonderen der symbolische Interaktionismus und Fritz SCHÜTZE sowie die Arbeiten von Gabriele ROSENTHAL, Ursula APITZSCH und Lena INOWLOCKI beachtet. BERTAUXs Verbindung von sozialen Welten und Lebenserzählungen wird in Rekurs auf Anja WILDHAGEN und Carsten DETKA diskutiert. Ich komme zu dem Schluss, dass wegen zentraler theoretischer Leerstellen in "Die Lebenserzählung" eine Verknüpfung zur theoretisch sehr differenziert arbeitenden deutschsprachigen Biografieforschung eher schwierig erscheint. Hinsichtlich konsequenter Hinwendung zu materialistischen Fragen kann "Die Lebenserzählung" aber durchaus mit Gewinn gelesen werden.