The Wisconsin Workshops

A Tradition of the Department of German at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Published proceedings of the Wisconsin Workshops from 1969 until 1991 are available through the open access UW Digital Library Collections.

(1969) Die sogenannten zwanziger Jahre
Die sogenannten Zwanziger Jahre. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Bad Hamburg v.d.H: Gehlen, 1970.

(1970) Die Klassik-Legende
Die Klassik-Legende. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Frankfurt/Main: Athenäum, 1971.

(1971) Exil und innere Emigration
Exil und innere Emigration. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Frankfurt/Main: Athenäum, 1972.

(1972) Populärität und Trivialität
Popularität und Trivialität. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Frankfurt/Main: Athenäum, 1974.

(1973) German Utopian Thinking in the 20th Century
Deutsches utopisches Denken im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1974.

(1974) Realismus-Theorien: Literatur, Musik, Malerei, Politik
Realismustheorien in Literatur, Musik, Malerei, und Politik. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1975.

(1975) Geschichte im Gegenwartsdrama
Geschichte im Gegenwartsdrama. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1976.

(1976) Deutsche Feiern
Deutsche Feiern. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Wiesbaden: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1977.

(1977) Marx and Nietzsche
Karl Marx und Friedrich Nietzsche. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Königstein/Ts: Athenäum, 1978.

(1978) Literature and Work
Arbeit als Thema in der deutschen Literatur. Reinhold Grimm Jost Hermand, eds. Königstein/Ts: Athenäum, 1979.

(1979) Fascism and the Avant-garde
Faschismus und Avantgarde. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Königstein/Ts: Athenäum, 1980.

(1980) The Cry of Nature: Its Resonance in German Literature
Natur und Natürlichkeit: Stationen des Grünen in der deutschen Literatur. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Königstein/Ts: Athenäum, 1981.

(1981) The Other and the Self
Vom Anderen und vom Selbst: Beiträge zu Fragen der Biographie und Autobiographie. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Königstein/Ts: Athenäum, 1982.

(1982) Recent Trends in Literary Criticism

(1984) Blacks in German Culture, Art, and Literature
Blacks and German Culture: Essays. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.

(1985) Our “Faust”: Interdisciplinary Roots and Ramifications of the Faust Theme
Our Faust? Roots and Ramifications of a German Myth. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

(1986) From Ode to Anthem: Problems of Lyric Poetry
From Ode to Anthem: Problems of Lyric Poetry. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

(1987) Images of the Simple Life
From the Greeks to the Greens: Images of the Simple Life. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

(1988) Laughter Unlimited: Changing Forms of Humor, Satire and the Comic
Laughter Unlimited: Essays on Humor, Satire and the Comic. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.

(1989) 1914/1939: German Reflections of the Two World Wars
1914/1939: German Reflections of the Two World Wars. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

(1990) Reading Wagner
Re-reading Wagner. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.

(1991) High and Low Culture: German Attempts at Mediation
High and Low Cultures: German Attempts at Mediation. Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.

(1992) Crossing Borders: Contemporary Women Artists in Germany
Other Germanies: Questioning Identity in Women’s Literature and Art. Karen Jankowsky and Carla Love, eds. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1997.

(1993) Postmodern Concepts of Totality
Postmodern Pluralism and Concepts of Totality. Jost Hermand, ed. New York: Peter Lang, 1995.

(1994) Günter Grass
Günter Grass: Ästhetik des Engagements. Hans Adler and Jost Hermand, eds. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.

(Spring 1995) Responsibility and Commitment: The Ethics of Cultural Mediation
Responsibility and Commitment: Festschrift für Jost Hermand. K. Berghahn, R. Holub and K. Scherpe, eds. Frankfurt/Main and New York: Peter Lang, 1996.

(Fall 1995) Heimat, Fatherland, Nation
Heimat, Nation, Fatherland: The German Sense of Belonging. Jost Hermand and James Steakley, eds. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

(1996) Contentious Memories: Looking Back at the GDR
Contentious Memories: Looking Back at the GDR. Jost Hermand and Marc Silberman, eds. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.

(1997) Concepts of Culture
Concepts of Culture. Hans Adler and Jost Hermand, eds. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.

(1998) Peter Weiss
Rethinking Peter Weiss. Jost Hermand and Marc Silberman, eds. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.

(1999) Goethe and German-Jewish Discourse
Goethe in German-Jewish Culture. Klaus Berghahn and Jost Hermand, eds. Rochester: Camden House, 2001.

(Spring 2000) Heroes and Heroines in German Culture
Heroes and Heroines in German Culture: Essays in Honor of Jost Hermand. Stephen Brockmann and James Steakley, eds. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001.

(Fall 2000) Aesthetics and Aisthesis: Sensate Cognition, Art, and Literature
Aesthetics and Aisthesis. New Perspectives and (Re)Discoveries. Hans Adler, ed. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

(2001) Fascism and Its Legacies (co-sponsored by the Centers for German and European Studies at the Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota)
Fascism and Neofascism: Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe. Eric Weitz and Angelika Fenner, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

(2002) Cultural Representations of Hitler from the Weimarer Republic to the Present
Unmasking Hitler: Cultureal Representations of Hitler from the Weimarer Republic to the Present. Klaus Berghahn and Jost Hermand, eds. Oxford: Lang, 2005.

(2003) Music and Philosophy
Sound Figures of Modernity: German Music and Philosphy. Jost Hermand and Gerhard Richter, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.

(2004) Prejudice and Enlightenment

(2005) Writing (in) Images / In Bildern Schreiben
Special issue of Monatshefte 102 / 3 (2010), Sabine Gross and Sabine Mödersheim, eds.

(Spring 2007) Masculinities

(Fall 2007) Cultures of Democracy? Germany and the USA at Home and Abroad (co-sponsored with the Center for German and European Studies)

(2008) Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering
Screening War: Perspective on German Suffering. Paul Cooke and Marc Silberman, eds. Rochester: Camden House, 2010.

(2009) The Wall Came Down: On the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
The German Wall: Fallout in Europe. Marc Silberman, ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

(2010) The Temptation of Hope: Utopias from Thomas More to Ernst Bloch
The Temptation of Hope. Utopian Thinking and Imagination from Thomas More to Ernst Bloch – and Beyond. Klaus Berghahn, ed. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2011.

(2011) Aisthesis and Noesis
Aisthesis und Noesis: Zwei Erkenntnisformen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Hans Adler und Lynn Wolff, Hrsg. Paderborn: Fink, 2013.

(2012) After the Violence: Memory (co-sponsored with the Center for German and European Studies)
Memory and Postwar Memorials: Confronting the Violence of the Past. Marc Silberman and Florence Vatan, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

(2013) Anschauung und Anschaulichkeit / Vision and Intuition – Visibility and Vividness
Anschauung und Anschaulichkeit: Visualisierung im Wahrnehmen, Lesen und Denken. Hans Adler und Sabine Gross, Hrsg. Paderborn: Fink, 2016.

(2014) Measuring the World: Formation, Transformation and Transmission of the ‘National’ and the ‘Universal’ from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
“Measuring the World,” Special issue of Monatshefte, 108 / 3 (Fall 2016), B. Venkat Mani and Pamela Potter, eds.

(2015) Outside the Kaiserreich: The German Diaspora in the World War I Era
(2016) Littérature Engagée: Macht & Wissen(schaft) & Literatur seit 1989 / Power & Science/Knowledge & Literature since 1989

(2017) Back to the Future: Tradition and Innovation in German Studies
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