CURRENT ISSUE VOLUME XXXII, NUMBER 3 (Oct. 2009) ABSTRACTS Schiller’s "An die Freude" and the Question of Freedom 479 Gail K. Hart From Grids to Vanishing Points: W. G. Sebald’s Critique of Visual-Representational Orders in Die Ringe des Saturn 495 Richard T. Gray Mourning Comrades: Communist Funerary Rituals in Cologne during the Weimar Republic 527 Sara Ann Sewell Gustav Freytag’s Bilder aus der deutschen Vergangenheit and the Meaning of German History 549 Larry L. Ping Normativität und Transgression: Kleists Prinz Friedrich von Homburg und die obszöne Unterseite des Gesetzes 569 Dominik Finkelde Vom alternativen Laden zum Dienstleistungsbetrieb: the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt. A Case Study in Activist Memory Politics 590 Jenny Wüstenberg Leopold von Schroeder’s Imagined India: Buddhist Spirituality and Christian Politics During the Wilhelmine Era 619 Perry Myers “Originalnatur” in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre 637 Michael E. Auer Book and Film Reviews 653-719 ABSTRACTS UPCOMING ISSUE VOLUME XXXIII, NUMBER 1 (Feb. 2010) ABSTRACTS Staging Violence and Transcendence: Reading Christa Wolf through German Romanticism 1-22 John Pizer Reading Triangles in Fassbinder’s Fontane Effi Briest 23-44 John Blair Sex, Race and Empire: White Male Sexuality and the “Other” in Germany’s Colonies, 1894–1914 45-71 Daniel J. Walther „Wie so eine kleine Flaschenpost:“ die Flaschenpost-Metapher bei Bas Böttcher 73-92 Billy Badger Grassroots Propaganda in the Third Reich: The Reich Ring for National Socialist Propaganda and Public Enlightenment 933-118 Randall L. Bytwerk “Bizarre Epik des Augenblicks”: Gottfried Benn’s “Answer to the Literary Emigrants” in the Context of His Early Prose 119-140 Olga Solovieva The Politics of Collaboration: Composing for the Films and Its Publication History 141-160 Sally Bick Book and Film Reviews 161 ABSTRACTS PRECEDING ISSUE VOLUME XXXII, NUMBER 2 (May 2009) ABSTRACTS The Lusitania Effect: America’s Mobilization against Germany in World War I 241 Frank Trommler The Garden as Literature/Literary Gardens: Notes on Barbara Frischmuth’s Garden Diaries 267 Edith Toegel Der „Historikerstreit“ und die politische Deutungskultur der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 279 Steffen Kailitz Archeology as Spectacle: Heinrich Schliemann’s Media of Excavation 303 Kathrin Maurer Performativity and the Dialectic of Time in Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg 319 Joshua Kavaloski “Germany’s Eternal Son:” The Genesis of the Ernst Thälmann Myth, 1930–1950 343 Russel Lemmons The “Tragic Mulatto” in Three Nineteenth-Century German Antislavery Texts 357 Judith E. Martin Deserters from the Bundeswehr on Page and Screen: Shifting Cultural Meanings of an Act between Desertion from the Wehrmacht and Conscientious Objection 377 Andrew Plowman Book and Film Reviews 397-478 ABSTRACTS Previous Issues