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  1. Joseph Roths feuilletons in his understanding, it’s development phases and Roths cooperation with the exile press.Marcin Gołaszewski - 2023 - Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Germanica 17:67-86.
    Joseph Roth (1984–1939) belonged to a generation that was affected by two world wars, the collapse of the old world order, emerging nationalism and forced emigration. Columns, journalistic activity and literary works were an expressions of growing frustration, escape from the world, resignation and one’s own helplessness. The columns are a perfect mirror of the changes that have occured in the writer over the decades. At the same time, they became an expression of emotions and experiences and manifested them in (...)
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  2. Freudian psychoanalysis in the work of Arthur Schnitzler Eyes Wide Shut.Aleksandra Janowska - 2023 - Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Germanica 17:125-134.
    Interpreting dreams was an important aspect of Sigmund Freud’s life. In his statements and works, he repeated multiple times that a dream is the fulfilment of a wish. Dream analysis had a huge impact on his subsequent research, including psychoanalysis and the theory of the subconscious. Through his work he contributed to people starting to analyze their dreams, and they continue to do so to this day. However, the difficulty in analyzing the dreams was their transience and length. This meant (...)
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  3. The theme of power in the performance Bum based on the drama of Marius von Mayenburg.Aleksandra Janowska - 2023 - Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Germanica 17:119-124.
    Power is the main theme of the play _Bang_, which polish premiered in 2019 and took place at the New Theater of Kazimierz Dejmek in Łódź. The play was directed based on the drama of the same title, written by the contemporary German author and playwright Marius von Mayenburg. The aim of the article is to analyze and describe the means by which the viewer has the opportunity to understand why the theme of power is highlighted against the background of (...)
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  4. The Haskalah community of Zgierz based on Sefer Zgierz, Mazkeretnetsach Le-Kehilayehudit Be-Polin.Monika Kucner & Marcin Gołaszewski - 2023 - Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Germanica 17:87-103.
    The Haskalah, as an intellectual movement among Jews, was a reformist trend of the late 18th century. In Zgierz, it only emerged in the 1860s. Its goal was to promote a new cultural ideal of the Jew as someone well-versed in the Torah while simultaneously integrating into the local community. Education, combating Jewish separatism, preserving identity, culture, and the Hebrew language, as well as the languages of local communities, were key tasks undertaken by the maskilim. Jewish Enlightenment was also manifested (...)
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  5. Aphorisms by Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742–1799) and André Brie (*1950) on the slide of (meta)language.Witold Sadziński - 2023 - Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Germanica 17:7-20.
    This article confronts aphorisms by two authors who are far apart in the time continuum. What they – the aphorisms – have in common is that they focus on a critical examination of language as a means of communication. The conclusion of the analysis can be summarised as follows. In the first case, we are dealing with a scholar and exact scientist – a university professor of experimental physics in Göttingen in the Age of Enlightenment. The other, on the other (...)
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  6. The coronavirus pandemic in a crooked mirror of the Polish newspaper joke.Katarzyna Sikorska-Bujnowicz - 2023 - Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Germanica 17:35-53.
    The analysis of the “Tygodniówka” column published on the last page of a weekly magazine “Angora” for the years 2020–2021 made it possible to evaluate the way of presenting an individual and his everyday life during the COVID-19 pandemic in a crooked mirror of cartoon jokes. During one year there is an evident change in attitudes and behaviour of people who have already got used to the pandemic to some extent. Due to the length of the material collected and the (...)
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  7. The subjects and the forms of the German black jokes in the book “Da bleibt kein Auge trocken” by Willy Millowitsch (1980).Katarzyna Sikorska-Bujnowicz - 2023 - Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Germanica 17:21-33.
    This article shows which subject matter is to be found in the German black joke. The material analysis includes 30 jokes taken from the book “Da bleibt kein Auge trocken” by Willy Millowitsch (1980). Besides the subjects to be found (violence, suffering and death) the form of the jokes and the sentence types appearing in the black jokes mentioned by Millowitsch are also important.
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  8. Małgośka and Damą być, on the German translation of selected texts by Agnieszka Osiecka.Magdalena Tomecka - 2023 - Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Germanica 17:55-65.
    The article discusses translation strategies for the lyrics of Agnieszka Osiecka’s songs, highlighting the challenges associated with transferring verbal-musical content into another language. The article emphasizes that literal translations may not always preserve the original function of the song, and the key decision for the translator becomes the choice between a formal and dynamic approach. The author points out two levels of impact that songs have on the listener: a sensory level, related to sound and melody, and a cognitive level, (...)
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  9. The role of time in the context of Nazi terror: An analysis of Stefan Zweig’s The Royal Game.Anna Wilk - 2023 - Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Germanica 17:105-118.
    Stefan Zweig, an outstanding Austrian writer of the 20th century, referring to Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s theory of the novella, depicts in his _The Royal Game_ an unheard story: the meeting of two talented chess players. It is a collision of two extremes, personifying barbarism and humanism. This article traces how Zweig employs time in his work on two levels: historical and psychological. A detailed analysis explores how Zweig portrays the realities of National Socialist terror and its impact on the human (...)
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