OPUS documents https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/index/index/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:35:33 +0200 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:35:33 +0200 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2938 Antisemitismus als leidenschaftliche Welt(um-)deutung findet nicht erst seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 über den Kreis der „üblichen Verdächtigen“ im Rechtsextremismus hinaus Anklang. Der Band zeigt die Persistenz, Wandelbarkeit und globale Verbreitung judenfeindlicher Vorstellungen und Äußerungsformen auf und verfolgt sie von der Antike bis in die Telegram-Chats, Universitätshörsäle und Demonstrationen der Gegenwart. Der interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Band versammelt antisemitismuskritische Studien junger Antisemitismusforscher*innen, die neue Schlaglichter auf die Akteur*innen, sich wandelnden Kommunikationsmodi und milieu- und kontextabhängigen Spezifika eines zunehmend global vernetzten antisemitischen Diskurses werfen. Über die offenen Erscheinungsformen judenfeindlicher Ressentiments hinaus verweist er auf die Virulenz latenter, halb- und unbewusst tradierter sowie bewusst codierter Vorstellungen über „die Juden“, „das Jüdische“ oder den jüdischen Staat Israel. Letzterer ist nicht erst seit, aber gegenwärtig wieder verstärkt infolge des Hamas-Pogroms vom 7. Oktober 2023 Gegenstand antisemitischer Agitationen, wobei gefühlte Wahrheiten über den Staat und den arabisch-israelischen Konflikt den öffentlichen Diskurs prägen. Die Analysen des Bandes stellen die Gemeinsamkeiten dieser Vorstellungen und Äußerungen heraus, in denen „die Juden“ oder Israel als Projektionsflächen für die Ängste und Wünsche der antisemitisch denkenden Subjekte dienen, und verweisen auf die Notwendigkeit einer kritischen und hörbaren Antisemitismusforschung nach der Zäsur des 7. Oktober. book https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2938 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:35:33 +0200 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2926 Sterbende Dörfer, Verödung und Niedergang: In Wissenschaft und Medien stehen ländliche Räume häufig für Orte des Mangels und der Benachteiligung. Zugleich bringen utopisch anmutende Vorstellungen und Bilder des Lebens auf dem Land so viel Glanz mit sich, dass sie in Werbung und Kultur sowie in den Wünschen und Orientierungen vieler Menschen Anklang finden. Die Beiträger*innen gehen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven diesem utopischen Glanz nach. Sie fragen, inwiefern »Utopien des Ländlichen« ein Zugang sein können, um Vorstellungen eines gelingenden gesellschaftlichen Zusammenlebens zu entwickeln und zu erproben – und welche konkreten Forderungen für die Regionalentwicklung und -politik damit verbunden sind. book https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2926 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:04:28 +0200 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2758 The article discusses “SimStab” [Simulator of Stability], a poetic performance by a young Russian poet, Rostislav Amelin, as an effective hybrid of the innovative poetry, video game, and the cyberpunk genre models. The interaction of these components produces strong, yet not necessarily obvious political over-tones, testing the limits of the audience’s (or readers’, or players’) agency. Like many other cyberpunk texts, “SimStab” explores the conflict between the desire to resist colonization by the pervasive powers dominating contemporary society, and the absolute necessity of willingly colonizing your own body and subjectivity with the products of these powers. Both the poem, game and their shared text embody spaces of utopia reliant on repressed sites of formless abjection, which paradoxically become a source of anarchic freedom. Thus, in “SimStab” the ludic algorithmic with its procedural rhetoric (Ian Bogost) creates spaces of formlessness which repeats the liberatory promise of cyberpunk literature. Daniil Leiderman; Mark Lipovetsky article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2758 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:22:12 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2757 The Orbita multimedia and poetry collective, based in Riga, Latvia, has succeeded in making poetry written in Russian an integral part of the Latvian cultural and literary scene, despite the burden borne by Russian language and culture in this society as a result of still unsettled and contested histories of Russian and Soviet imperial domination and cultural imperialism. The article explains this achievement as resulting from the Orbita collective’s practices of “performative translation,” which make translation a highly visible and central element of various forms of artistic activity, including multimedia installations, book publishing, video poetry, public performance, proper, and more. In traditional cultural configurations, translation is thought to transfer the essential features or the spirit of a text from one literary language to another in a manner that makes possible the translation’s readers’ sense of unmediated contact with the original. Such a conception of translation supports the monolingual paradigm – the cultural ideology of separate and distinct national languages – and the political actualities to which it corresponds. Orbita’s practices of performative translation, in contrast, create a multilingual heterotopia in which the actuality of translation as mediation is rendered visible, the boundedness and distinctiveness of national literary languages is undermined, and the social necessity and ubiquity of acts of translation is brought to the fore. Kevin M. F. Platt article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2757 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:20:51 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2756 Rainer Grübel article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2756 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:20:23 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2755 The target of this essay is to open possible pathways to approach the phenomenon of a self-remodeling of classicist poetry in the 20th and early 21st century by focusing on the process from two different angles rarely perceived as related to each other: first, the remodeling of Chinese lyrical classicism through a strand of modern American poetry harking back to Ezra Pound and currently crystallized in the translations of David Hinton and, second, the transition that modern Chinese poetry written in classical language and conforming to prosodic rules of classical style poetry, sometimes referred to as “old style poetry” jiu ti shi, underwent after its rebirth as “unofficial” poetry online since the beginning of this century. Although there are obviously no direct links between the aforementioned tradition of modern American poetry and neoclassicist cyberpoets like Zeng Shaoli I argue that in both cases the classicist inspiration and poetic drive is motivated by concern with the increasing imbalance between natural, social, and individual resources, on the one hand, and an indomitable desire to accumulate economic and political power on the other. A permanent devaluation of language in the human realm, matched by a permanent devaluation of currencies in the economic sphere, provokes poetic responses in the very interest of humanity. The neoclassicist lyricisms that I draw into comparison display both subtle distinctions and common traits in this response to the starkly different environments of their respective contemporary literary scenes. Frank Kraushaar article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2755 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:19:36 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2754 This article considers the evolution of poetic performance on the basis of several Russian poets of the 2010s. The type of performance in question, which originally implied active absorption in the poetic text, occupied an important place in Russian art of the twentieth century – from the first experiments of the historical avant-garde to Moscow Conceptualism (above all, in the their “Collective Actions”). As such, it has always maintained a closeness to the poetic work and was most often practiced by poets who sought to extend their texts beyond the space of the page and into the “external” world. In the 2010s, however, with the development of social media, the opposite trend is noticeable – poets, while declaring their connection to the performative traditions of Moscow Conceptualism, transfer their performative activity into a textual space organized by social media platforms. The central hypothesis of this article is that all of these poets react differently to the methods of discursive organization provided (and enforced) by social networks and strive in different ways to liberate themselves from the censorship of the algorithm: some emphasize the discursive incoherence of the platform, while others, on the contrary, seek to develop a sustainable manner of uniting private discourses into a new totality. Kirill Korchagin article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2754 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:18:53 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2753 Dubravka Djurić; Aleksandar Bošković article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2753 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:17:36 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2815 Nina Barkovskaja article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2815 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:16:32 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2752 Ellen Rutten article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2752 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:56:54 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2751 Pawel Arsen‘ev article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2751 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:56:25 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2750 This volume brings together contributions addressing the intersections of political poetry, performativity, and the internet. The essays are based on presentations given at workshops and conferences organized by the DFG Centre for Advanced Studies “Russian-Language Poetry in Transition: Poetic Forms of Dealing with Boundaries of Genre, Language, Culture and Society between Europe, Asia and America” (2017-2023). The conferences took place in 2018-2019, at a time when neither the coronavirus pandemic nor Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine were foreseeable, and the contributions have not been updated in light of these catastrophes. The articles presented here deal with recent poetry and focus on the connection between politics, performativity, and the internet in multiple literatures and intercultural relations. Although the majority of these texts belong to the Russophone world, poetry from Serbia, Latvia, and China is also considered. The contributors demonstrate, on the one hand, how newer poetry softens genre distinctions and formally tends towards multimedia hybridization and, on the other, how it transcends or dissolves linguistic, cultural, and social boundaries. Dr. Ekaterina Friedrichs and Ms. Lena Rosalin Schwarz were involved in preparing this publication for printing. We would like to thank them both for their careful review and wonderful cooperation. Henrieke Stahl article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2750 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:55:45 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2749 periodicalpart https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2749 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:55:09 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2748 Henrike Fürstenberg article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2748 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:54:34 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2747 The essay compares Inger Christensen’s (1935-2009) poetry and poetics with the work of the Swedish writer Birgitta Trotzig (1929-2011). It tests the potential of comparison by asking what happens if we compare what might be the two most prominent women writers of Nordic post-war modernism, two writers whose paths have crossed over the years. The first half of the paper traces a shared constellation of motifs (eye/butterfly/death) within two books of poetry, Trotzig’s “Anima” (1982) and Christensen’s “Sommerfugledalen” (1991). The initial comparison of motifs leads to a shared poetics. It offers a trotzig’ian version of Inger Christensen’s version of the condition of secrecy and fundamental parallels in their philosophy of language and the subject. But it also points to a major difference between the real as a mystic category in Trotzig and Inger Christensen’s more seamless, lucid, and dreamlike style. Advancing further into a stylistic comparison the linguistic and visionary abundancy of Trotzig’s “Anima”-poems reveals an overlooked quality in Christensen’s: That Christensen’s poems are also luxurious, albeit, typically, with moderation. The balancing of sense and sensibility appears by comparison to be a key trait in her poetry, highlighting its classical inclination. The paper demonstrates how comparison makes its subject visible by way of the other, and how comparison points out new nuances or flavors in the texts as it opens a conversation between two major women writers of Nordic modernism. Dan Ringgaard article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2747 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:53:59 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2746 Jill Thielsen article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2746 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:53:31 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2745 Departing from Roland Barthes’ association of text and textile, and feminist theory on weaving as text production, this article analyzes the textile qualities of Inger Christensen’s “Letter in April” (1979) and Amalie Smith’s “Thread Ripper” (2020). In “Letter in April”, Christensen establishes a connection between writing and spinning or weaving through their shared temporality of varied repetition. In “Thread Ripper” Smith alludes to Christensen and makes of the continuity between text and textile not only the main theme of the book, but also its structuring principle. Through a materialist conception of the text, regarding it as a woven fabric, the article focuses on the textual patterns of the two works (stylistic figures in Christensen, graphic composition in Smith). The connection from Christensen to Smith leads to a further connection to ecocritical conceptions of weaving as no less than a cosmological principle. On a concluding note, the article argues that weaving is not only connecting, but also disconnecting, cutting. Lilian Munk Rösing article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2745 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:51:45 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2744 Stefanie Heine article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2744 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:51:14 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2743 Klaus Müller-Wille article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2743 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:50:34 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2742 This essay discusses the relationship between Inger Christensen’s work and contemporary Danish eco-literature. Christensen can seem like a towering predecessor. Yet, the relationship is more complex than a question of anxiety of influence. This essay argues that Christensen and contemporary Danish literature exhibit differing ecological imaginaries, and that this becomes clear when one examines Christensen’s utopian writing, her heliocentric utopianism, of the late seventies and early eighties, and when one examines how ecological threats are depicted in her work. For Christensen, the paradigmatic threat to the world is the nuclear bomb and its excessive use of energy, for today’s literature it is the feedback loops of pollution, exemplified in the threat of climate change. Tue Andersen Nexø article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2742 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:50:04 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2741 Yvonne Al-Taie article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2741 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:49:35 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2740 This article discusses the high regard for Danish poet Inger Christensen in Germany and her connection to the Künstlerhaus [Artists’ Residence] in Edenkoben, located in Rhineland-Palatinate. The Künstlerhaus serves as a cultural institution where international artists from various fields can reside and collaborate. Inger Christensen had strong connections with the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben and participated in its German-Danish poetry project. During her visits to Edenkoben, she wrote several poems. In an essay, the poet described Edenkoben’s landscape as paradise-like. This article, on the one hand, examines these texts in the context of Inger Christensen’s stay in Edenkoben. On the other, it sheds light on “Weg der Gedichte”, a project that stages Inger Christensen’s poem “Erinnerung an Edenkoben” in a public space around the Künstlerhaus, showcasing the role of poetry in rural settings and its ability to enhance the experience of nature and hiking. Franziska Bergmann article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2740 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:49:02 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2739 Inger Christensen muss vielleicht als die bedeutendste dänische Dichterin der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts gelten, die auch im deutschsprachigen Raum große Beachtung fand. Ihr Einfluss auf die gegenwärtige deutschsprachige und skandinavische Lyrik wird in diesem Band erstmalig untersucht. Die hier versammelten Beiträge folgen den Spuren Inger Christensens in den lyrischen und essayistischen Arbeiten von Thomas Kling, Nico Bleutge, Herta Müller, Oswald Egger, Pia Tafdrup, Mette Moestrup, Silke Scheuermann, Jan Wagner, Uljana Wolf, Amalie Smith, Birgitta Trotzig und anderen. Dabei widmen sich die Studien sowohl Christensens sprachtheoretischen Reflexionen und den formalen Einflüssen ihres Werks und deren Transformationen in der Gegenwartslyrik als auch den thematischen Gegenständen ihrer Dichtung, insbesondere ihrem Naturkonzept und dessen Adaption in neueren ökokritischen Ansätzen. Stefanie Heine; Yvonne Al-Taie article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2739 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:48:27 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2738 periodicalpart https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2738 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:47:35 +0100 https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2489 The cumulative and bidirectional groundwater-surface water (GW-SW) interaction along a stream is defined as hydrological turnover (HT) influencing solute transport and source water composition. However, HT proves to be highly variable, producing spatial exchange patterns influenced by local groundwater, geology, and topography. Hence, identifying factors controlling HT poses a challenge. We studied spatiotemporal HT variability at two reaches of a third order tributary of the river Mosel, Germany. Additionally, we sampled for silica concentrations in the stream and in the near-stream groundwater. Thus, creating snapshots of the boundary layer between ground- and surface water where HT occurs, driven by mixing processes in the hyporheic zone. We utilize an enhanced hydrograph separation method, unveiling reach differences in storage drainage based on aquifer dimension and connectivity. The data shows a site-specific negative correlation of HT with discharge, while hydraulic gradients correlate with HT only at the reach with faster catchment drainage behavior. Examining silica concentrations between stream and wells shows that silica variation increases significantly with the decrease of HT under low flow conditions at the slower draining reach. At the fast draining reach this relationship is seasonal. In Summary, our results show that stream discharge shapes the influence of HT on solute transport. Yet, reach drainage behavior shapes seasonal states of groundwater storages and can be an additional control of HT. Hence, concentration change of pollutants could be masked by HT. Thus, our findings contribute to the understanding of HT variability along streams and its ability of influencing physico-chemical stream water composition. Lars Bäthke; Tobias Schuetz article https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2489 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:32:48 +0200