Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film

Sophie Duvernoy holds a PhD in German from Yale University, USA, and is a translator in Berlin, Germany. Karsten Olson is Lecturer of German Studies at the University of North Carolina Asheville, USA. Ulrich Plass is Professor of Letters and German Studies at Wesleyan University, USA.

List of FIgures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
(Ulrich Plass, Wesleyan University, USA)

1. Literature and the History of Precarity: Interview with Patrick Eiden-Offe (ZfL Berlin)
(Karsten Olson, University of North Carolina, Asheville, USA)
2. Precarious Property: Adam Müller’s Theory of Poetic Possession
(Jörg Kreienbrock, Northwestern University, USA)
3. Die Judenbuche and the Rights of the Poor
(Karsten Olson, University of North Carolina, Asheville, USA)
4. We Poor People: The Personal Experience of Precariousness in Dantons Tod and Woyzeck
(Michael Swellander, University of Iowa, USA)
5. Hilfe von Mensch zu Mensch: Social Precarity and the Elberfeld System
(Rebekah O. McMillan, Angelo State University, USA)
6. Precarity and Form: Lu Märten’s Intervention in the Worker’s Autobiography
(Mari Jarris, Princeton University, USA)
7. In Search of a Divine Calling, or Lunch: Unproductive Labor in Emmy Hennings’ Das Brandmal
(Sophie Duvernoy, Yale University, USA)
8. Typists as ‘billige Ware’: White-Collar Women’s Work in Weimar Literature
(Mary Hennessy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
9. Unemployment, Organization, and Reproductive Self-Determination in Kuhle Wampe
(Ulrich Plass, Wesleyan University, USA)
10. "Hidden Stockpiles of Words and Images": An Interview with Thomas Heise
(Matthias Rothe, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA)
11. Biopolitics and Superstition in Barbara Albert’s Böse Zellen
(Lena Trüper, UCLA, USA)
12. Precarious Lives and Social Decline in Marlene Streeruwitz’ Jessica, 30. and Kristine Bilkaus Die Glücklichen
(Lisa Wille, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
13. Linguistic Precarity in Contemporary German Film
(Lindsay Preseau, University of Cincinnati, USA)

Index