@article{braunbeck_2023, title={Animal Bodysuit. Animal Images in German-language Literature}, volume={115}, ISSN={["1934-2810"]}, DOI={10.3368/m.115.4.672}, abstractNote={Animal Body. Tier-Bilder in der deutschsprachigen Literatur . Herausgegeben von Małgorzata Kubisiak und Joanna Firaza. Paderborn: Brill | Fink, 2022. xx + 239 Seiten + 6 s/w und 2 farbige Abbildungen. €69,00/$79.00 gebunden oder eBook. Der Titel des Sammelbandes von Kubisiak und Firaza}, number={4}, journal={MONATSHEFTE}, author={Braunbeck, Helga G.}, year={2023}, month={Dec}, pages={672–675} }
 @article{braunbeck_2023, title={Kafka's Zoopoetics: Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier}, volume={115}, ISSN={["1934-2810"]}, DOI={10.3368/m.115.2.300}, abstractNote={is to demonstrate the constructed nature of scientific narratives, including Koch’s Ätiologie der Tuberkulose [1884]. With her focus on origin stories and the beginnings of the detective story in the nineteenth century, Seidel’s prose is stylistically in keeping with the sweeping narratives of the period under consideration. Her writing is engaging, and the author excels at providing detailed analyses of countless intersections between literature and science that are consistently well researched and argued. Nevertheless, the work would have benefited from more embedded synthesis and signposting, where the larger implications of Seidel’s findings for the detective-story genre or individual scientific disciplines emerged more prominently. On more than one occasion, this reviewer stumbled over what seemed to be abrupt shifts in focus, when the author—without providing an explicit synthesis of preceding material or a rationale for subsequent content—moved to an excursus, a new text, or a new section. To be sure, each subsection of the case studies indicates a theme (with respect to evolutionary biology, “Missing Links”), yet the ultimate organizing principle in this section is a close reading of individual works to highlight the existence of common discourses across science and literature. In her conclusion, Seidel touches on the rationale for the selection of works included in her study (439); a brief treatment of these criteria would have been a welcome addition to the disciplinary subsections, as would a consideration of the patterns or development that the works present within a given subsection. Alternately, a more explicitly thematic organization in the third section might have facilitated subsequent reference to Seidel’s analyses. These points do not significantly impinge on the manifold contributions to intellectual and cultural history of the long nineteenth century of Seidel’s study. Her close readings of detective stories, among them Perutz’s and Huch’s texts, are in and of themselves meaningful contributions to the discipline. Yet more significantly, the author successfully weaves crime and detective fiction into the intellectual fabric of the nineteenth century, offers an innovative and productive definition of the subgenre of the detective story, and illuminates the constructed nature of scientific writings. As such, Dem Anfang auf der Spur promises to be of interest to scholars in interdisciplinary fields, including comparative literature, narrative theory, and literature and science studies.}, number={2}, journal={MONATSHEFTE}, author={Braunbeck, Helga G.}, year={2023} }
 @article{braunbeck_2022, title={Contested Selves: Life Writing and German Culture ed by Katja Herges and Elisabeth Krimmer (review)}, volume={114}, ISSN={["1934-2810"]}, DOI={10.3368/m.114.3.517}, number={3}, journal={MONATSHEFTE}, author={Braunbeck, Helga G.}, year={2022}, pages={517–519} }
 @article{braunbeck_2021, title={The Past Erased, the Future Stolen: Lignite Extractivism as Germany's Trope for the Anthropocene}, volume={10}, ISSN={["2076-0787"]}, DOI={10.3390/h10010010}, abstractNote={Coal, and even more so, brown coal or lignite, is currently under-researched in the energy humanities. Lignite still provides approximately 25% of “green” Germany’s energy; its extraction obliterates human settlements and vibrant ecosystems, and its incineration produces more CO2 than any other fossil fuel, contributing massively to climate change. After discussing German mining history, the genres of the energy narrative, the bioregional novel, and ecopoetry, and earlier literary treatments of lignite mining, I analyze recent lignite novels by Anja Wedershoven, Andreas Apelt, Bernhard Sinkel, and Ingrid Bachér, and ecopoems by Max Czollek and Marion Poschmann. I discuss socioenvironmental issues such as “slow violence” and “environmental injustice” enacted upon rural communities that are being resettled in “sacrifice zones” for national energy needs; political–economic entanglements, and activism against this complete devastation of the naturalcultural landscape; differences in representation in narrative and lyrical texts; and how the authors frame local perceptions of the mining operations and the resulting “moonscape” within the larger temporal and spatial scales of the Anthropocene. I argue that these literary texts prefigure where the Earth may be headed in the Anthropocene, and that Germany’s lignite extractivism can be considered a trope for the Anthropocene.}, number={1}, journal={HUMANITIES-BASEL}, author={Braunbeck, Helga G.}, year={2021}, month={Mar} }
 @misc{braunbeck_2019, title={Recent German Ecocriticism in Interdisciplinary Context}, volume={111}, ISSN={["1934-2810"]}, DOI={10.3368/m.111.1.117}, abstractNote={Abstract:Schmitt, Claudia und Christiane Solte-Gresser, Hrsg., Literatur und Ökologie. Neue literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven, 2017.–Grimm, Sieglinde und Berbeli Wanning, Hrsg., Kulturökologie und Literaturdidaktik. Beiträge zur ökologischen Herausforderung in Literatur und Unterricht, 2016.–Zemanek, Evi, Hrsg., Ökologische Genres. Naturästhetik–Umweltethik–Wissenspoetik, 2018.–Dürbeck, Gabriele, Urte Stobbe, Hubert Zapf, and Evi Zemanek, eds., Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture, 2018.–Schaumann, Caroline and Heather I. Sullivan, eds., German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene, 2017.–Wilke, Sabine and Japhet Johnstone, eds., Readings in the Anthropocene: The Environmental Humanities, German Studies, and Beyond, 2017.–Heidenreich, Sybille, Das ökologische Auge: Landschaftsmalerei im Spiegel nachhaltiger Entwicklung, 2018.}, number={1}, journal={MONATSHEFTE}, author={Braunbeck, Helga G.}, year={2019}, pages={117–135} }
 @book{braunbeck_2018, title={Figurationen von kunst, musik, film und tanz: Intermedialit{uml}at bei Libu{caron}se Mon{acute}ikov{acute}a}, publisher={Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag}, author={Braunbeck, H.G.}, year={2018} }
 @misc{braunbeck_2018, title={Floriography. The Languages of the Flowers}, volume={110}, number={1}, journal={Monatshefte (Madison, Wis. : 1946)}, author={Braunbeck, H. G.}, year={2018}, pages={117-} }
 @article{braunbeck_2017, title={Taking Stock of German Studies in the United States: The New Millennium}, volume={109}, ISSN={["1934-2810"]}, DOI={10.3368/m.109.1.177}, abstractNote={supermodernity. Certainly this is a dimension of belonging that requires greater study. Still, I would argue that the narrow focus of the book allows Shortt to dig deep in her analyses, to puzzle open ambiguities, and to allow contradictions to exist in her reading of the texts. The book went to print before Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany’s doors to over one million refugees. Surely in light of this, questions of migration, nomadism, globalization, home, and belonging are more pressing than ever.}, number={1}, journal={MONATSHEFTE}, author={Braunbeck, Helga G.}, year={2017}, pages={177–179} }
 @inbook{braunbeck_2000, title={Libuse Monikova}, booktitle={Encyclopedia of German literature (Rev. ed.)}, publisher={Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn}, author={Braunbeck, H. G.}, year={2000}, pages={712–714} }
 @inbook{braunbeck_2000, title={Prague}, booktitle={Encyclopedia of German literature (Rev. ed.)}, publisher={Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn}, author={Braunbeck, H. G.}, year={2000} }
 @inbook{braunbeck_1997, title={Biographical fiction}, booktitle={The Feminist encyclopedia of German literature / edited by Friederike Eigler and Susanne Kord. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.}, publisher={Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press}, author={Braunbeck, H. G.}, year={1997} }
 @article{braunbeck_1997, title={Gesprache mit Libuse Monikova}, volume={89}, number={4}, journal={Monatshefte (Madison, Wis. : 1946)}, author={Braunbeck, H. G.}, year={1997} }
 @inbook{braunbeck_1997, title={Libuse Monikova}, volume={2}, booktitle={The Feminist encyclopedia of German literature}, publisher={Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press}, author={Braunbeck, H. G.}, editor={F. Eigler and Kord, S.Editors}, year={1997}, pages={324–326} }
 @inbook{braunbeck_1997, title={Sister}, booktitle={The Feminist encyclopedia of German literature / edited by Friederike Eigler and Susanne Kord. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.}, publisher={Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press}, author={Braunbeck, H. G.}, year={1997} }
 @misc{braunbeck_1997, title={Subjektive Authentizitat: Zur Poetik Christa Wolfs zwischen 1964 und 1975 by Barbara Droscher}, number={1997 Spring}, journal={Monatshefte (Madison, Wis. : 1946)}, author={Braunbeck, H. G.}, year={1997} }
 @article{braunbeck_1997, title={The body of the nation: The texts of Libuse Monikova}, volume={89}, number={4}, journal={Monatshefte (Madison, Wis. : 1946)}, author={Braunbeck, H. G.}, year={1997} }
 @book{braunbeck_1992, title={Autorschaft und Subjektgenese: Christa Wolfs Kein Ort, nirgends}, ISBN={3851650042}, publisher={Wien: Passagen}, author={Braunbeck, H. G.}, year={1992} }