Giorgione in Sankt Petersburg Beitrag Zu einem Gedicht von Rainer Maria Rilke Erich Unglaub Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, Jahrgang 68 (2019), Ausgabe 3, Seite 333 - 352 The poem ‚Portrait of the Renaissance‘, published from Rilke’s estate, has so far received little attention. Its enigmatic imagery creates resistance for every interpretation. But the resistance dissolves when one brings the poem in connection with Giorgione’s ‚Giuditta‘, which Rilke has seen during a visit to the collections of Saint Petersburg. The elucidation of these connections does not only throw a new light on Rilke’s poetry around 1900, but also on art-historical disputes about the attribution of the image, which is one of the highlights of the Hermitage today.
Ein langes Gespräch. Carl Jacob Burckhardts Erzählung ‚Ein Vormittag beim Buchhändler‘ Beitrag Erich Unglaub Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, Jahrgang 65 (2016), Ausgabe 4, Seite 495 - 506 This essay analyses Carl J. Burckhardt’s ‘Ein Vormittag beim Buchhändler’ (1943), which tells the story of a gathering in Paris of the poet Rilke, the historian Burckhardt, the Paris bookseller Augustin, and the librarian Lucien Herr. Up to the present, Burckhardt’s finely told and densely woven narration has been regarded as a factual story – albeit its novellalike structure and its wealth of literary symbols. By comparing Rilke’s and Burckhardt’s letters, my interpretation focuses on the fictional aspects of the text, which is – as I argue – rather a novella on art and artists than a story from ‘real life’
„Village Property“, kulturelle Hybridität und Grenzen literarischer Übersetzung: Toni Morrisons <em>Tar Baby</em> Marion Kraft
