Von der international boomenden Forschung zu Weltliteratur bisher weitestgehend unbeachtet entstand zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik eine internationalistische Weltliteratur der Arbeiterbewegung. Diese stellt den historisch ersten Versuch dar, eine Weltliteratur als Teil einer politischen Massenbewegung zu erzeugen. Auf der Basis der Analyse von u.a. Zeitschriften, Buchgemeinschaften und Autoren wie Franz Jung, Anna Seghers und Egon Erwin Kisch zeichnet die Studie literatur-, kultur- und mediengeschichtliche Aspekte der Vorstellungen, Theorien und Praktiken dieser Form der Weltliteratur nach. Insbesondere beschäftigt sie sich mit transnationalen literarischen Gegenöffentlichkeiten sowie mit einem literarischen Wissen vom globalen Proletariat und alternativen Vorstellungen von Globalisierung, die in den untersuchten Texten erzeugt werden. Die Studie leistet einen Beitrag zur Theorie der Weltliteratur, stärkt die intersektionale Kategorie der Klasse für Analysen von Repräsentationen einer geteilten Moderne und eröffnet neue poetologische, literatur- und kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven auf die Literatur der Arbeiterbewegung.

Proletarische Welten: Internationalistische Weltliteratur in der Weimarer Republik (Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur, 150) (German Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Schaub, Christoph

History & Criticism

de Gruyter

On the slope of a hill in northern Italy’s Po Basin stands Casa Girasole. Built in the early 1930s by the Italian architects Angelo Invernizzi and Ettore Fagiuoli, this villa exemplifies the Italian style Futurismo in architecture. But what makes Casa Girasole truly extraordinary is its ability to follow the sun across the sky, rotating using an electric motor and providing its occupants with a panoramic view of the surrounding landscape.The award-winning documentary film Il Girasole. A House Near Verona offers an inside look into Casa Girasole, guiding audiences across the grounds and through the various rooms of the villa, which has been entirely preserved in its original state. Filmmaker Christoph Schaub and architect Marcel Meili provide not just a history of this architectural feat but also a survey of the period in which it was conceived.The DVD is complemented by a booklet with introductory essays and illustrations and will appeal to anyone interested in twentieth-century architecture.

Il Girasole. A House Near Verona

Arts & Photography

Meili, Marcel

Architecture

Scheidegger and Spiess

A controversial Spanish engineer-architect journeys to building sites around the world. A renowned structural engineer attempts to defy gravity. Two architects search for the best―and sometimes unusual―solutions in urban planning and development. And celebrated Swiss architects design an iconic Olympic Stadium for the Beijing games. Christoph Schaub’s documentaries tell these stories and more in this collection of ten of his films. From his first, award-winning documentary Il Girasole―A House Near Verona, about an experimental rotating house in Italy to Brasilia―A Utopia Modernity, which explores the exhilarating experience of building Brazil’s capital city, Schaub’s documentaries prove that architecture can actually be captured on film. Through his moving images, as well as his way of looking at and showing architecture, he captivates viewers instantly as he tells fascinating stories about internationally renowned architects―including Santiago Calatrava, Herzog &amp; de Meuron, Oscar Niemeyer, and Peter Zumthor―and the buildings they create. The three DVDs offer each film in its original version with subtitles in English, French, and German, and the accompanying booklet presents a short essay on Schaub’s work and brief introductions to the ten films.

Christoph Schaub - Films on Architecture

Humor & Entertainment

Walder, Martin

Movies

Over the past thirty years, world-renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has opened up on his work in numerous interviews, conversations, lectures, and other talks, offering copious insights into the contexts of his work and his self-conception as an artist. Many of these interviews and talks have been recorded, yet most have also been to this point unreleased. Peter Zumthor Talks About His Work pairs the renowned architect with celebrated film director and documentarian Christoph Schaub for a lavish biographic film collage that draws from the interviews and talks. It spans all of Zumthor’s career, from the 1980s to the present, and explores his entire body of award-winning work. It also introduces viewers to Zumthor the person, showing how he has evolved over three decades yet remains much the same man. Characterized by consistency and authenticity, his comments show him following his inner compass and ideals. In addition to archival material, the film also features wholly new conversations between Zumthor and Schaub, recorded especially for this compilation. Produced to coincide with Dear to Me, an exhibition curated by Zumthor for the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Peter Zumthor Talks About His Work is a richly produced and visually stunning portrait of the acclaimed architect, a sincere tribute to its subject and a work of art in its own right.

Peter Zumthor Talks About His Work: A Biographic Collage

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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