Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Christiane SCHÖNFELD: Introduction
Osman DURRANI: Filmed Fausts: Cardboard Cut-Outs or Blueprints of the Soul?
Ricarda SCHMIDT: The Swan and the Moped. Shifts in the Presentation of Violence from Kleist’s “Die Marquise von O...” to Christoph Stark’s Julietta
Siobhán DONOVAN: “Inspired by Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle”: The Intersemiotic Representation of Figural Consciousness in Eyes Wide Shut
Hugh RIDLEY: Reflections on the Literary Antecedents of Murnau’s Tabu
Gerald BÄR: Perceptions of the Self as the Other: Double-Visions in Literature and Film
Gilbert CARR: “Mit einem kleinen Ruck, wie beim Kinematographen”. From the Unmaking of Professor Unrat to an Unmade Der blaue Engel
Yahya ELSAGHE: German Film Adaptations of Jewish Characters in Thomas Mann
Birgit MAIER-KATKIN: Literary and Cinematographic Reflections on the Human Condition by Anna Seghers and Fred Zinnemann
Eoin BOURKE: Two Foxes of Glenarvon
Thomas MARTINEC: Perspective and Reality: Cinematic Transformation of the Narrative Perspective in Schlöndorff ’s Die Blechtrommel
Carrie SMITH-PREI: “Their Adam’s Apple Put Them on Screen”: Hansjürgen Pohland’s Cat and Mouse and the Narrative of the Male Body
Gisela HOLFTER: From Bestseller to Failure? Heinrich Böll’s Irisches Tagebuch (Irish Journal) to Irland und seine Kinder (Children of Eire)
Jan RÖHNERT: A German Poet at the Movies: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Alasdair KING: “Literatur und Linse”: Enzensberger Goes to the Movies
Muriel CORMICAN: Thomas Brussig’s Ostalgie in Print and on Celluloid
Claudia GREMLER: “But Somehow it Was Only Television”: West German Narratives of the Fall of the Wall in Recent Novels and their Screen Adaptations
Juliet WIGMORE: Sex, Violence and Schubert. Michael Haneke’s La Pianiste and Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin
Susan TEBBUTT: Intermediality and the Intercultural Dimension in Karin Brandauer’s Film Sidonie based on Erich Hackl’s Abschied von Sidonie
Markus Oliver SPITZ: Robert Schneider’s Novel Schlafes Bruder in the Light of its Screen Version by Joseph Vilsmaier
Paul M. MALONE: Transposition or Translation? Fiction to Film in Doris Dörrie’s Nobody Loves Me and Am I Beautiful?
Peter M. MCISAAC: Taking Doris Dörrie Seriously: Literature, Film, Gender
Patrice DJOUFACK: Adaptation as a Process of Interpretation: Nowhere in Africa – From Stefanie Zweig to Caroline Link
Rod STONEMAN: Alexander Kluge: Utopian Cinema

Reviews

"…these essays provide insight into intermedial interactions and transpositions […] another helpful resource to the growing body of recent edited volumes in Germanic Studies that contain case studies of filmic genres or processes…" - in: Germanistik in Ireland, Vol. 3 (2008)