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Papers by Clemens Räthel
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia, Dec 29, 2023
AUC PHILOLOGICA, 2021
The article focuses on the Swedish documentary theatre play Kurage (2020) in which three protagon... more The article focuses on the Swedish documentary theatre play Kurage (2020) in which three protagonists look back on how Sweden handled the “AIDS crisis” in the 1980s. In doing so, the play challenges the narrative of exceptional social conditions in Sweden and delivers a queer perspective on welfare state politics. Specifically, in the aesthetic conception of the play, the complex relation between welfare state and illness comes to the fore. I argue that Kurage not only builds on persistent metaphors of illness in literature but also expands epidemic narratives and thus exposes mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization in the welfare state. Finally, the article investigates in what ways pathology, medical institutions, or in a more general way: the understanding of medicine as a “neutral” science play a part in eliminating bodies, writing them out of the body politic and thus allowing for suffering and disappearing.
Die »Liebesbeziehung« zwischen Theater und dem (späten) 18. Jahrhundert ist auch in Skandinavien ... more Die »Liebesbeziehung« zwischen Theater und dem (späten) 18. Jahrhundert ist auch in Skandinavien eine leidenschaftliche. Die Bühne fungiert in Dänemark und Schweden als Leitmedium sowie öffentliche und Öffentlichkeit produzierende Institution. Dieses leidenschaftliche Verhältnis ist bisher jedoch wenig untersucht worden, und so ist für die bisher doch recht überschaubare Forschung in der Literaturund Theaterwissenschaft der Sammelband Kosmopolitismus und Körperlichkeit im europäischen Theater des 18. Jahrhunderts ein Glücksfall. Das von Katharina Müller und Stephan Michael Schröder gemeinsam herausgegebene Buch umfasst neben der Einleitung insgesamt elf Beiträge, die auf vielfältige Weise Körperlichkeit und Kosmopolitismus in der Dramatik des 18. Jahrhunderts betrachten. Das große Verdienst des Bandes ist es, heute wenig bekannten Stücken und Autor_innen Raum zu geben und so der Theaterwirklichkeit des 18. Jahrhunderts nahezukommen, handelt es sich doch um Künstler_innen und Werke, ...
Die (Literatur-)Geschichte geht vermeintlich so: Henrik/Heinrich/Henrich Steffens und der junge A... more Die (Literatur-)Geschichte geht vermeintlich so: Henrik/Heinrich/Henrich Steffens und der junge Adam Oehlenschläger sitzen 16 Stunden zusammen, am Ende dieses Marathons ist der Schriftsteller Oehlenschläger zum Romantiker mutiert und prägt nachfolgend nicht nur die literarische Welt Dänemarks entscheidend mit-Steffens sei Dank. Diese nachhaltig wirkende, »mythische« Erzählung zeigt zum einen das Bestreben, den Transfer von Ideen und Strömungen an Personen nachvollziehbar zu machen, verstellt zum anderen aber häufig den Blick für Steffens' deutlich vielfältigeres Wirken.
Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia, 2018
Henri Nathansen’s highly successful bildungsroman Af Hugo Davids Liv, first published in 1917, te... more Henri Nathansen’s highly successful bildungsroman Af Hugo Davids Liv, first published in 1917, tells the story of its Jewish protagonist from cradle to grave – with obstacles, adventures and challenges. But much more so, Nathansen offers a multi-layered narration of what it could mean to be a “noble” Jew. Providing a multitude of answers to that question, Af Hugo Davids Liv refuses any definition and thus opens a “third space” in which ambiguous and grained narrations of migration can take place, flourish and be understood in their own right. The article focuses on exploring these narrative interstices and spaces of in-betweenness and in doing so also (re-)discovers Nathansen’s unique way of telling migration as socially always imminent.
Dem Theater der Vergangenheit auf die Spur zu kommen, den Schleier zu lüften, um auf die Bühnen e... more Dem Theater der Vergangenheit auf die Spur zu kommen, den Schleier zu lüften, um auf die Bühnen einstiger Jahrhunderte ein Stück weit zu spähen, ist ein mitunter unmögliches, allemal jedoch komplexes Unterfangen. Die performativen Künste sind widerspenstig, im besten Sinne des Wortes. Was auf den Brettern, die die Welt bedeuten, geschieht, lässt sich nicht festhalten. Es ist jeden Abend anders, jeden Abend neu – und besteht aus weit mehr als nur dem überlieferten Dramentext. Dass eine notwendigerweise lückenhafte, aber ausnehmend fruchtbare Auseinandersetzung mit Theatergeschichte dennoch möglich ist, zeigt Bent Holm in seinem Holberg-Buch. Darin widmet er sich, am Beispiel der Ikone der dänisch-norwegischen Literatur dem (europäischen) Theater des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts.
Nordlit
Artikkelen tar for seg den svenske forfatteren Klas Östergrens roman Hilde (2019), som tar opp og... more Artikkelen tar for seg den svenske forfatteren Klas Östergrens roman Hilde (2019), som tar opp og utvider historien om Henrik Ibsens karakter Hilde Wangel. Dette bestillingsverket ble til som en del av det skandinaviske litteraturprosjektet Ibsen NOR, som så langt har fått lite oppmerksomhet innen litteraturvitenskap. Målet med denne artikkelen er å se på både fortellinger om sykdom og det flerlagsforhold mellom hovedpersonen og medisinen i romanen. Fokus er på en psykoanalytisk scene som dukker opp tre ganger i Hilde. Innenfor denne betraktningen utforskes romanens forhold til de underliggende dramaene og andre litterære intertekster samt til medisinsk og (litteratur)vitenskapelig teori og praksis.
Aaron Isaac is considered to be the first Jew who was allowed to settle and work in Sweden withou... more Aaron Isaac is considered to be the first Jew who was allowed to settle and work in Sweden without being forced to convert to Christianity. After having arrived in Stockholm in 1774, he founded the first Jewish congregation and was involved in reforming the legal status of Jews. The Jewish minority was eventually given the right to live (in selected cities) and work (as merchants or craftsmen not organized by the guild system) in Sweden. Furthermore, Aaron Isaac became an author: his 'memoirs' are the topic of this article, in which I read his autobiographic book as a form of transgressive literature. The book describes Aaron's long and eventful journey across many borders from his German hometown to Stockholm. The book itself crosses many borders: written in a form of Yiddish-Swedish using Hebrew letters, it becomes almost impossible to decipher the text "correctly". Rather, the text demands that the reader copes with a literary no-man's-land.
Antisemitism in the North, Dec 2, 2019
This article casts light on the imageof"the Jew" in the performingarts and literatureinDenmark, S... more This article casts light on the imageof"the Jew" in the performingarts and literatureinDenmark, Sweden, and Norway as well as on the latest academic works dealing with the topic. All three countries have al ong tradition of Jewish characters bothintheatre and in literature which indeed differ from one another and also, at least partly, from tested European traditions. Dealing with the Northernpart of Europe highlights once more that depictions of Jews in fictional works are not necessarilylinked to their actual presence. With these perspectives this article focuses on the complex interactions between aesthetic, performative, and political dimensions of antisemitism in the performing arts and literature and discusses the (lack of)a cademic discoursest oa pproach the topic.
AUC Philologica, 2021
The article focuses on the Swedish documentary theatre play Kurage (2020) in which three protagon... more The article focuses on the Swedish documentary theatre play Kurage (2020) in which three protagonists look back on how Sweden handled the "AIDS crisis" in the 1980s. In doing so, the play challenges the narrative of exceptional social conditions in Sweden and delivers a queer perspective on welfare state politics. Specifically, in the aesthetic conception of the play, the complex relation between welfare state and illness comes to the fore. I argue that Kurage not only builds on persistent metaphors of illness in literature but also expands epidemic narratives and thus exposes mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization in the welfare state. Finally, the article investigates in what ways pathology, medical institutions, or in a more general way: the understanding of medicine as a "neutral" science play a part in eliminating bodies, writing them out of the body politic and thus allowing for suffering and disappearing.
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia, Dec 29, 2023
AUC PHILOLOGICA, 2021
The article focuses on the Swedish documentary theatre play Kurage (2020) in which three protagon... more The article focuses on the Swedish documentary theatre play Kurage (2020) in which three protagonists look back on how Sweden handled the “AIDS crisis” in the 1980s. In doing so, the play challenges the narrative of exceptional social conditions in Sweden and delivers a queer perspective on welfare state politics. Specifically, in the aesthetic conception of the play, the complex relation between welfare state and illness comes to the fore. I argue that Kurage not only builds on persistent metaphors of illness in literature but also expands epidemic narratives and thus exposes mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization in the welfare state. Finally, the article investigates in what ways pathology, medical institutions, or in a more general way: the understanding of medicine as a “neutral” science play a part in eliminating bodies, writing them out of the body politic and thus allowing for suffering and disappearing.
Die »Liebesbeziehung« zwischen Theater und dem (späten) 18. Jahrhundert ist auch in Skandinavien ... more Die »Liebesbeziehung« zwischen Theater und dem (späten) 18. Jahrhundert ist auch in Skandinavien eine leidenschaftliche. Die Bühne fungiert in Dänemark und Schweden als Leitmedium sowie öffentliche und Öffentlichkeit produzierende Institution. Dieses leidenschaftliche Verhältnis ist bisher jedoch wenig untersucht worden, und so ist für die bisher doch recht überschaubare Forschung in der Literaturund Theaterwissenschaft der Sammelband Kosmopolitismus und Körperlichkeit im europäischen Theater des 18. Jahrhunderts ein Glücksfall. Das von Katharina Müller und Stephan Michael Schröder gemeinsam herausgegebene Buch umfasst neben der Einleitung insgesamt elf Beiträge, die auf vielfältige Weise Körperlichkeit und Kosmopolitismus in der Dramatik des 18. Jahrhunderts betrachten. Das große Verdienst des Bandes ist es, heute wenig bekannten Stücken und Autor_innen Raum zu geben und so der Theaterwirklichkeit des 18. Jahrhunderts nahezukommen, handelt es sich doch um Künstler_innen und Werke, ...
Die (Literatur-)Geschichte geht vermeintlich so: Henrik/Heinrich/Henrich Steffens und der junge A... more Die (Literatur-)Geschichte geht vermeintlich so: Henrik/Heinrich/Henrich Steffens und der junge Adam Oehlenschläger sitzen 16 Stunden zusammen, am Ende dieses Marathons ist der Schriftsteller Oehlenschläger zum Romantiker mutiert und prägt nachfolgend nicht nur die literarische Welt Dänemarks entscheidend mit-Steffens sei Dank. Diese nachhaltig wirkende, »mythische« Erzählung zeigt zum einen das Bestreben, den Transfer von Ideen und Strömungen an Personen nachvollziehbar zu machen, verstellt zum anderen aber häufig den Blick für Steffens' deutlich vielfältigeres Wirken.
Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia, 2018
Henri Nathansen’s highly successful bildungsroman Af Hugo Davids Liv, first published in 1917, te... more Henri Nathansen’s highly successful bildungsroman Af Hugo Davids Liv, first published in 1917, tells the story of its Jewish protagonist from cradle to grave – with obstacles, adventures and challenges. But much more so, Nathansen offers a multi-layered narration of what it could mean to be a “noble” Jew. Providing a multitude of answers to that question, Af Hugo Davids Liv refuses any definition and thus opens a “third space” in which ambiguous and grained narrations of migration can take place, flourish and be understood in their own right. The article focuses on exploring these narrative interstices and spaces of in-betweenness and in doing so also (re-)discovers Nathansen’s unique way of telling migration as socially always imminent.
Dem Theater der Vergangenheit auf die Spur zu kommen, den Schleier zu lüften, um auf die Bühnen e... more Dem Theater der Vergangenheit auf die Spur zu kommen, den Schleier zu lüften, um auf die Bühnen einstiger Jahrhunderte ein Stück weit zu spähen, ist ein mitunter unmögliches, allemal jedoch komplexes Unterfangen. Die performativen Künste sind widerspenstig, im besten Sinne des Wortes. Was auf den Brettern, die die Welt bedeuten, geschieht, lässt sich nicht festhalten. Es ist jeden Abend anders, jeden Abend neu – und besteht aus weit mehr als nur dem überlieferten Dramentext. Dass eine notwendigerweise lückenhafte, aber ausnehmend fruchtbare Auseinandersetzung mit Theatergeschichte dennoch möglich ist, zeigt Bent Holm in seinem Holberg-Buch. Darin widmet er sich, am Beispiel der Ikone der dänisch-norwegischen Literatur dem (europäischen) Theater des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts.
Nordlit
Artikkelen tar for seg den svenske forfatteren Klas Östergrens roman Hilde (2019), som tar opp og... more Artikkelen tar for seg den svenske forfatteren Klas Östergrens roman Hilde (2019), som tar opp og utvider historien om Henrik Ibsens karakter Hilde Wangel. Dette bestillingsverket ble til som en del av det skandinaviske litteraturprosjektet Ibsen NOR, som så langt har fått lite oppmerksomhet innen litteraturvitenskap. Målet med denne artikkelen er å se på både fortellinger om sykdom og det flerlagsforhold mellom hovedpersonen og medisinen i romanen. Fokus er på en psykoanalytisk scene som dukker opp tre ganger i Hilde. Innenfor denne betraktningen utforskes romanens forhold til de underliggende dramaene og andre litterære intertekster samt til medisinsk og (litteratur)vitenskapelig teori og praksis.
Aaron Isaac is considered to be the first Jew who was allowed to settle and work in Sweden withou... more Aaron Isaac is considered to be the first Jew who was allowed to settle and work in Sweden without being forced to convert to Christianity. After having arrived in Stockholm in 1774, he founded the first Jewish congregation and was involved in reforming the legal status of Jews. The Jewish minority was eventually given the right to live (in selected cities) and work (as merchants or craftsmen not organized by the guild system) in Sweden. Furthermore, Aaron Isaac became an author: his 'memoirs' are the topic of this article, in which I read his autobiographic book as a form of transgressive literature. The book describes Aaron's long and eventful journey across many borders from his German hometown to Stockholm. The book itself crosses many borders: written in a form of Yiddish-Swedish using Hebrew letters, it becomes almost impossible to decipher the text "correctly". Rather, the text demands that the reader copes with a literary no-man's-land.
Antisemitism in the North, Dec 2, 2019
This article casts light on the imageof"the Jew" in the performingarts and literatureinDenmark, S... more This article casts light on the imageof"the Jew" in the performingarts and literatureinDenmark, Sweden, and Norway as well as on the latest academic works dealing with the topic. All three countries have al ong tradition of Jewish characters bothintheatre and in literature which indeed differ from one another and also, at least partly, from tested European traditions. Dealing with the Northernpart of Europe highlights once more that depictions of Jews in fictional works are not necessarilylinked to their actual presence. With these perspectives this article focuses on the complex interactions between aesthetic, performative, and political dimensions of antisemitism in the performing arts and literature and discusses the (lack of)a cademic discoursest oa pproach the topic.
AUC Philologica, 2021
The article focuses on the Swedish documentary theatre play Kurage (2020) in which three protagon... more The article focuses on the Swedish documentary theatre play Kurage (2020) in which three protagonists look back on how Sweden handled the "AIDS crisis" in the 1980s. In doing so, the play challenges the narrative of exceptional social conditions in Sweden and delivers a queer perspective on welfare state politics. Specifically, in the aesthetic conception of the play, the complex relation between welfare state and illness comes to the fore. I argue that Kurage not only builds on persistent metaphors of illness in literature but also expands epidemic narratives and thus exposes mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization in the welfare state. Finally, the article investigates in what ways pathology, medical institutions, or in a more general way: the understanding of medicine as a "neutral" science play a part in eliminating bodies, writing them out of the body politic and thus allowing for suffering and disappearing.