Dr Ute Wolfel
Responsibilities
I teach 19th- and 20th-century German literature as well as courses on the films of the Weimar Republic and the GDR.
I am the Year Abroad Co-ordinator for German and the Department.
Areas of Interest
My main areas of interest are German war film, GDR feature and documentary film, GDR literature and representations of everyday life in print media.
Postgraduate Supervision
I am happy to supervise research students in any of my areas of interest or related areas.
Current supervisions:
- Assya Belahmar Louazani (Department of Languages and Cultures): The ‘Hammam’ as Anti-Exotic Locus of Emancipation in Post-Colonial Algerian Women’s Writing and Film-making.
Completed supervisions:
- Richard McKenzie (Department of Languages and Cultures): The Misogyny of the Trümmerfilm - Space and Gender in Post-War German Film (2017).
- Caroline Rowan-Olive (Department of Languages and Cultures): Cultural Memory and Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung in Christa Wolf’s Prose Works (2020).
Research groups / Centres
Publications
2021
- Wӧlfel, U. (2021) The 'lost child' as figure of trauma and recovery in early post-war cinema: Fred Zinnemann's The Search (1948) and Natan Gross's Unzere Kinder (1948). Studies in European Cinema, 18 (2). pp. 159-175. ISSN 2040-0594 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2019.1615188
2020
- Purse, L. and Wölfel, U., eds. (2020) Mediating War and Identity: Figures of Transgression in 20th- and 21st-century War Representation. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9781474446266
- Wölfel, U. (2020) The end of transgression: Fritz Bauer as traitor on the German screen. In: Purse, L. and Wölfel, U. (eds.) Mediating War and Identity: Figures of Transgression in 20th- and 21st-Centuries War Representation. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 75-96. ISBN 9781474446266
2018
- Wolfel, U. (2018) Kinder Europas: kinderfiguren im nachkriegsfilm. In: Weil, F., Postert, A. and Kenkmann, A. (eds.) Kindheiten im Zweiten Weltkrieg. mitteldeutscher verlag, Halle (Saale), Germany, pp. 549-565. ISBN 9783954629763 (http://d-nb.info/1150422920)
2016
- Müller, B., Pinfold, D. and Wolfel, U. (2016) Cradle and crucible of 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung': representations of the war child in the occupation period (1945-49). An introduction. German Life and Letters, 69 (4). pp. 417-436. ISSN 1468-0483 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12128
- Wolfel, U. (2016) Not just death and ruins: the young and new beginnings in German 'rubble films'. German Life and Letters, 69 (4). pp. 503-518. ISSN 1468-0483 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12133
2015
- Wölfel, U. (2015) 'All in one stroke': Grimms' fairy tales and the TV-production of a new Germany. Oxford German Studies, 44 (3). pp. 271-288. ISSN 0078-7191 doi: https://doi.org/10.1179/0078719115Z.00000000087
- Wölfel, U. (2015) At the Front: common traitors in West German war films of the 1950s. Modern Language Review, 110 (3). pp. 739-758. ISSN 0026-7937 doi: https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.3.0739
2013
- Wolfel, U. (2013) Children of the revolution: fathers and sons in antifascist DEFA films. German Life and Letters, 66 (3). pp. 326-346. ISSN 1468-0483 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12019
2012
- Wolfel, U. (2012) Between the lines: Konrad Wolf's 'Mama, ich lebe' and the dilemmas of betrayal. Studies in European Cinema, 9 (1). pp. 23-33. ISSN 2040-0594 doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/seci.9.1.23_1
2011
- Clarke, D. and Wolfel, U., eds. (2011) Remembering the German Democratic Republic: divided memory in a united Germany. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp308. ISBN 9780230275508
- Wolfel, U. (2011) Inverting the lives of 'others': retelling the Nazi past in 'Ehe im Schatten' and 'Das Leben der Anderen'. German Life and Letters, 64 (4). pp. 601-618. ISSN 1468-0483 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2011.01554.x
2009
- Wolfel, U. (2009) Paradise regained: topographies of the self in the prose fiction of Angela Krauß. In: Clarke, D. and Rechtien, R. (eds.) The politics of place in post-war Germany: essays in literary criticism. Mellen Press, Lampeter, pp. 149-170. ISBN 9780773447363
- Hughes, H. and Wolfel, U. (2009) Women in the workplace and the development of DEFA documentary style. Glossen, 29. ISSN 1093-6025
2007
- Wolfel, U. (2007) Karl Mickel. In: Heukenkamp, U. and Geist, P. (eds.) Deutschsprachige Lyriker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, pp. 529-539. ISBN 9783503079995
- Wolfel, U. (2007) Rede-Welten: zur Erzählung von Geschlecht und Sozialismus in der Prosa Irmtraud Morgners. Schriftenreihe Literaturwissenschaft, 77. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier, pp289. ISBN 9783884769348
2005
- Wolfel, U. (2005) Die autonome Produktion: Arbeitswelt in der Literatur um Beispiel von Angela Krauß' Das Vergnügen. In: Wolfel, U. (ed.) Literarisches Feld DDR: Bedingungen und Formen literarischer Produktion in der DDR. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzberg, pp. 31-51. ISBN 9783826031038
- Wolfel, U. (2005) Literarisches Feld DDR: Bedingungen und Formen literarischer Produktion in der DDR. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzberg, pp232. ISBN 9783826031038
2004
- Siebenpfeiffer, H. and Wolfel, U., eds. (2004) Krieg und Nachkrieg: Konfigurationen der deutschsprachigen Literatur (1940-65). Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, pp227. ISBN 9783503079018
- Wolfel, U. (2004) Berlin - Bilder keiner Großstadt: zur Darstellung und Funktion der Stadt in der Nachkriegsprosa Elisabeth Langässers. In: Siebenpfeiffer, H. and Wolfel, U. (eds.) Krieg und Nachkrieg: Konfigurationen der deutschsprachigen Literatur (1940-1965). Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, pp. 123-148. ISBN 9783503079018
Articles
Ute Wölfel (2013), Children of the Revolution: Fathers and Sons in Antifascist DEFA Films, German Life and Letters, 66 (3). pp. 326-346. ISSN 1468-0483.
Ute Wölfel, (2012), 'Between the Lines: Konrad Wolf's Mama, ich lebe and the Dilemmas of Betrayal', Studies in European Cinema, vol 9 No 1, p.23-33.
Ute Wölfel (2011), 'Inverting the Lives of 'Others': Retelling the Nazi Past in Ehe im Schatten and Das Leben der Anderen ', German Life and Letters, vol. LXIV No. 4, October, p. 601-618.
Ute Wölfel (2009), 'Paradise Regained. Topographies of the Self in the Prose Fiction of Angela Krauss'. In: David Clarke, Rechtien (eds.) Politics of Place in Post-War Germany. Essays in Literary Criticism. Mellen Press, p. 149-70.
Ute Wölfel & Helen Hughes (2009), 'Women in the Workplace and the Development of DEFA Documentary Style'. In: Glossen. Journal on Literature and Art in the German-Speaking Countries, 29/ 2009 http://www2.dickinson.edu/glossen/
Ute Wölfel (2007), 'Karl Mickel'. In: Ursula Heukenkamp, Peter Geist (eds.), Deutschsprachige Lyriker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 529-39.
Ute Wölfel (2005), 'Die autonome Produktion: Arbeitswelt in der DDR-Prosa am Beispiel von Angela Krauß' Das Vergnügen'. In: Ute Wölfel (ed.) Literarisches Feld DDR. Bedingungen und Formen literarischer Produktion in der DDR. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, p. 31-51.
Ute Wölfel (2004), 'Berlin - Bilder keiner Großstadt. Zur Darstellung und Funktion der Stadt in der Nachkriegsprosa Elisabeth Langgässers'. In: Hania Siebenpfeiffer, Ute Wölfel (eds.) Krieg und Nachkrieg. Konfigurationen der deutschsprachigen Literatur (1940-1965). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 123-48.
Ute Wölfel (2002), '"Ich bin der Sieger der Geschichte". Zu Aspekten des DDR-Bildes in Arbeiten von Monika Maron nach 1989'. In: Marion George, Andrea Rudolph (eds.), Selbstfindung - Selbstkonfrontation: Frauen in gesellschaftlichen Umbrüchen. Dettelbach: Röll Verlag, p. 131-42.
Ute Wölfel (2004), '"Der weibliche Ketzer heißt Hexe"? Widerstand zwischen Mythos und Geschichte in irmtraud Morgners Amanda. Ein Hexenroman'. In Marion George, Andrea Rudolph (eds.), Hexen - Historische Faktizität und fiktive Bildlichkeit. Dettelbach: Röll Verlag, p. 351-63.
Postgraduate supervision:
I am happy to supervise research students in any area relating to my research interests.
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