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Schreber’s Double Process: Legal and Literary transformations in the Memoirs of my Nervous IllnessIn Katrin Truestedt & Peter Goodrich (eds.), Laws of Transgression: The Return of Judge Schreber, Toronto University Press. 2021.Conceiving of law as procedure bases the legitimacy of its results on the very openness of the outcome of proceedings and its responsiveness to the singularity and heterogeneity of the material entering the proceedings. On the other hand, the legal process imposes a selective legal form reducing this very singularity, and aims at a repeatability and a finality of its results that effectively removes the procedural openness. The reality of the modern law thus consists in the reduction of its own …Read more
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2Laws of Transgression: The Return of Judge Schreber (edited book)Toronto University Press. 2021.Laws of Transgression offers multiple perspectives on the story of Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911), a chamber president of the German Supreme Court who was institutionalized after claiming God had communicated with him, desiring to make him into a woman. Schreber was not only a successful judge, but was also to become the author of one of the most commented upon texts in psychiatric literature, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Published in 1903, this remarkable work documented Schreber’s visions,…Read more
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19Stellvertretung: Zur Szene der PersonKonstanz University Press. 2021.Current crises give new urgency to the question of speaking and acting for others. How does one advocate for those whose voices are not heard? For stateless people, future generations, non-human actors, environments? The question of the possibilities and limits of representation arises anew against this backdrop and can be turned differently through the technique of "representation by proxy" (Stellvertretung) that steps in here. This technique does not prove to be a mere exception for supposed b…Read more
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12Externalization on Stage: The Exil Ensemble’s HamletmaschineIn Martin Jörg Schäfer & Karin Nissen-Rizvani (eds.), TogetherText: Prozessual erzeugte Texte im Gegenwartstheater. 2020.
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14The Fruit Fly, the Vermin, and the Prokurist: Operations of Appearing in Kafka’s MetamorphosisIn Jörg Dünne, Kathrin Fehringer, Kristina Kuhn & Wolfgang Struck (eds.), Cultural Techniques: Assembling Spaces, Texts & Collectives, De Gruyter. pp. 295-315. 2020.
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24Representing Agency: An IntroductionLaw and Literature 32 (2). 2020.This introduction examines the main premises and terms of the special issue: person, agency, and representation. It argues that representation and agency stand in an internal relation: There is no agent without its personification and no agency without its possible vicarious representation. Yet, personification and representation enable agency only by at the same time complicating the integrity, authority, and presence of the agent. The introduction elucidates the inherent and conflictual relati…Read more
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Pure Joke: An IntroductionBrecht Yearbook 44. 2019.This special section on comedy since Brecht argues that the rise of performativity and theatricality that we have experienced over the past century was largely enabled by a comic dispositif. This comic dispositif - forged beyond the illusionistic dramatical and cultural forms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - has greatly shaped the performative strategies of modern theater.
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Alienation and Affirmation: The Comedy of Heiner Müller’s HamletmaschineBrecht Yearbook 44 102-121. 2019.Against the tendency to regard Müller as a tragedian and his Hamletmaschine as a tragedy, I will read his play as an experiment on the possibility of comedic theater after Brecht. Hamletmaschine can thus be understood as an attempt to affirm the possibilities of theater and its own forms of estrangement without abstracting from tragedy, alienation, and negativity. The play contains three such models internally connecting alienation and affirmation: while “Hamlet” in his commitment to the negati…Read more
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Secondary Satire and the Sea-Change of RomanceLaw and Literature 17. 2005.In a classical understanding of satire, its secondary status—giving in to literary distortions of an underlying reality—leads to a paradoxical trap. Satire seeks to reinstate a nonliterary norm by literary means. Shakespearean romance shares the paradoxical character of the satirical, but opens up an alternative response. Instead of attempting to eliminate the violation of norms, romance confronts an underlying tragic subplot of violence and crime with a decisively theatrical solution that ackno…Read more
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402Derrida's Shylock: The Letter and the Life of LawIn Peter Goodrich & Michel Rosenfeld (eds.), Administering Interpretation: Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law, Fordham University Press. 2019.This contribution addresses issues of interpretation and translation in Derrida’s reading of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice in relation to the supposed opposition of the letter and the spirit of the law. Rather than supporting a supersession of the law’s letter in favor of its spirit and advocating a sublation of the law by means of mercy, as a traditional reading suggests, this essay’s reading of Shakespeare’s play suggests that it deconstructs the underlying opposition. By linking the insist…Read more
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Double Plot. Zum latenten Mechanismus eines ‚coming to know what we cannot just not know‘In Thomas Khurana & Stefanie Diekmann (eds.), Latenz. 40 Annäherungen an einen Begriff, Kadmos. pp. 56-61. 2007.
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The Decomposition of Sound in William Shakespeare’s The TempestWissenschaftliches Seminar Online: Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft 5. 2007.
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Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer: Schmitt, Blumenberg und das Theater der ModerneShakespeare Jahrbuch 146. 2010.
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VerlegenheitIn Eva Horn & Michèle Lowrie (eds.), Denkfiguren/Figures of Thought. pp. 187-190. 2013.
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Die Person als StellvertreterIn Jörg Dünne, Martin Jörg Schäfer & Myriam Suchet (eds.), Les Intraduisibles/Unübersetzbarkeiten. 2013.
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Das Nach-leben auf der Bühne des GeistesIn Carolin Blumenberg, Alexandra Heimes, Erica Weitzman & Sophie Witt (eds.), Suspensionen: Über das Untote, Brill Fink. pp. 161-167. 2014.
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"[A] thing that was nothing had happened“: Hamlets (Un-)Dinge in Samuel Becketts WattIn K. Kröger & Armin Schäfer (eds.), Null, Nichts und Negation, Verlag. 2016.
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Anselm Haverkamp: Geschichte und LatenzIn Dirk Quadflieg & Stefan Moebius (eds.), Kultur. Theorien der Gegenwart. 2010.
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1Alienation und Affirmation. Die Komödie der Negativität in Heiner Müllers HamletmaschineIn Thomas Khurana, Dirk Quadflieg, Juliane Rebentisch, Dirk Setton & Francesca Raimondi (eds.), Negativität: Kunst - Recht - Politik, Suhrkamp. pp. 65-79. 2018.Entgegen der Tendenz, Heiner Müller als Tragiker und seine Hamletmaschine als Tragödie zu deuten, will ich diese im Folgenden als eine spezifische Form von Komödie lesen – eine Komödie, die dabei gleichzeitig eine bestimmte Gegenwart der Tragödie in sich enthält.
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"How came that widow in?" Entzogene Fluchtgeschichten auf der BühneIn Bettine Menke & Juliane Vogel (eds.), Flucht und Szene. 2018.
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47Execution Without Verdict: Kafka’s (Non-)PersonLaw and Critique 26 (2): 135-154. 2015.This contribution investigates the intimate relation and the tension between legal and literary procedures of personification and subjectivation. In order to do so, the contribution turns to Kafka’s The Trial and examines the proximity of the juridical procedure depicted in the novel, intending to establish Josef K. as a subject, to the narrative procedures of the novel itself that aims at bringing forth an accountable protagonist. The intimate relation of the legal procedures described in the n…Read more
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Der Buchstabe und das Leben des Gesetzes in Shakespeares Kaufmann von VenedigIn Karl-Heinz Ladeur & Ino Augsberg (eds.), Talmudische Tradition und moderne Rechtstheorie. Kontexte und Perspektiven einer Begegnung, Mohr Siebeck. 2013.
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20Novelle der Stellvertretung: Kleists Michael KohlhaasZeitschrift Für Deutsche Philologie 130. 2011.
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An Art Lawful as Eating: Cavell, King Lear und das Theater der KonventionIn Katrin Trüstedt & Kathrin Thiele (eds.), Happy Days. Lebenswissen nach Cavell, Fink Verlag. pp. 107-130. 2009.
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31Nomos and Narrative: Zu den Verfahren der OrestieIn Ladeur Karl-Heinz & Augsberg Ino (eds.), Die Innenwelt der Außenwelt der Innenwelt des Rechts, Fink. 2012.
Katrin Trüstedt
LEIBNIZ CENTER FOR LITERARY AND CULTURAL RESEARCH (ZFL BERLIN)
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LEIBNIZ CENTER FOR LITERARY AND CULTURAL RESEARCH (ZFL BERLIN)Regular Faculty