<p>Hubert Fichte was an active presence in contemporary German letters. "The Gay Critic" offers a microcosm of Fichte's prolific and controversial writings. He uses contemporary points or reference to focus concerns are focused with sexualities and their expression or repression.</p>

The Gay Critic (Body, in Theory : Histories of Cultural Materialism)

Literature & Fiction

Fichte, Hubert

History & Criticism

Univ of Michigan Pr

Before his death from AIDS at age fifty-one, Hubert Fichte was an active presence in contemporary German letters. Novelist, anthropologist, playwright, and polemicist, he was prolific and controversial, an outsider and auto-didact--a powerful public voice who was broadcast on German radio, heard at public lectures, and read in academic and popular literary journals.The Gay Critic--originally published in Germany as Homosexualität und Literatur--offers, both in content and form, a microcosm of Fichte's writings. The overarching concerns are with sexualities and their expression or repression, as evidenced in literary contexts by the producers and the receivers of marginalized, often reviled texts and textual scenes in Western European literature. Fichte uses contemporary points of reference--AIDS, literary mores, the gay voice, the ousted minor traditions--to discuss a wide range of literature.Fichte's perspective is fresh, unexpected, and uncommonly original as he champions literary untouchables such as the homosexualities conveyed by the Iliad; the now- obscure lyric poet von Platen, a polygraphic, homosexual contemporary of Goethe's and the prototype for Aschenbach in Mann's Death in Venice; and Jean Genet, on the question of French national socialism. Fichte contends that writing and its reception, its institutionalization and its repressions, are inseparable, even continuous. And, he argues, one's sexualities, libidinal and cultural, are inevitably engaged in either act.The first volume also considers Sophocles, Petronius, Nizami, Villon, Rabelais, Quevedo, Marlowe, Defoe, Casanova, Stendhal, Flaubert, Strindberg, Lagerlöf, Proust, Euclides de Cunha, and Borges. Fichte's prose style defies categorization, comprising a postmodern pastiche that mixes spontaneous criticism and free-form commentary with quotation, academic writing, and dialogue laced with historical and critical reflection. Most of the essays were first read over German radio, and even after revision for publication have remained highly entertaining, accessible and compelling texts.The Gay Critic will appeal to students and scholars in German studies and comparative literature, cultural studies, and gay and lesbian studies. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in provocative, engaging reading."Hubert Fichte was a writer quietly and intensely at odds with contemporary German society and literature--as "Half Jew" (according to Nazi law), as Protestant growing up in a Catholic orphanage, and a gay intellectual living in middle-class Hamburg. He wanted to be an outsider but instead of being sentimental about what others would call a life of the margins he made it a central place from which he observed others and his own consciousness, critically and with the highest perception." --Peter Demetz, Yale University

Self-Help

Germany in 1942. Detlev has been placed by his mother in a Catholic orphanage. Here, he tries to make sense of the incomprehensible and inclement world outside. What is an orphan? Who was his father? What became of him? What do the dead look like? The dead killed in battle? The dead after an air raid? Why does God not stretch out a net to stop the bombs from falling? How did Christ suffer on the cross? What is a Jew? The Orphanage is the first of Hubert Fichte's works to be published in English.

The Orphanage (Mask Noir Series)

Contemporary

Serpent's Tail

A companion to the award-winning novel The Orphanage, Detlev's Imitations is an investigation of the limits of language; an ethnography of sexual cultures; a novel of Hamburg--and a poetic documentation of postwar German history . "Fichte is a major literary voice, distinctive and challenging."--Publishers Weekly

Detlev's Imitations (Masks)

Das Haus der Mina in São Luiz de Maranhão: Materialien zum Studium des religiösen Verhaltens (Die Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit. Paralipomena / Hubert Fichte) (German Edition)

S.Fischer

Die Palette

Literary

Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH

Das Waisenhaus

FISCHER Taschenbuch

Versuch über die Pubertät (Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe)

Detlevs Imitationen "Grünspan" (Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe)

Object Atlas presents objects from the Weltkulturen Museum’s ethnographic collection alongside new works produced by eight artists who lived and worked in the museum’s laboratory during 2011: Alf Bayrle, Helke Bayrle, Thomas Bayrle, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Sunah Choi, Antje Majewski, Otobong Nkanga, Simon Popper and Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs.

Object Atlas: Fieldwork in the Museum

Arts & Photography

Baumgarten, Lothar

Esterhazy, Mathis

von Gliszczynski, Vanessa

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Kerber

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