Dr. Regina Ianozi, University of Maryland
Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) is known for her significant influence on writers, poets, philosophers, and psychoanalysts in the German-speaking world at the end of the 19th and in the 20th centuries, and for her progressive thoughts on social issues in Europe. Her literary, philosophical, and biographical work is as complexly unique as her own life story. From the beginning of her life in St. Petersburg, Russia in the nineteenth century until her death in Göttingen, Germany in 1937, Salomé continuously crossed and lived within social and cultural boundaries. Her dual identification with the German (Western) and Russian (Eastern) culture enforced her nihilistically-revolutionary view on societal norms, religion, and the emancipation of women in both societies. Salomé’s literary work following her journeys to Russia at the turn of the 20th century reveals a critical point in her life which was instrumental in shaping her position on various socio-cultural issues. This lecture offers a glimpse into Salomé’s views on Russia and Germany in her fictional and autobiographical work, including the novella
Fenitschka (1898), the journal
Russland mit Rilke (1900), and in the novel
Rodinka.
Eine russische Erinnerung (1923).
Regina Ianozi is Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland in College Park.
Organized by the American Goethe Society.
Please RSVP by November 22 to Dr. Meghan O’Dea, AGS President:
meo71@georgetown.edu
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