Dr Ute Wölfel
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+44 (0) 118 378 8422
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Associate Professor, German
Year Abroad Co-ordinator for the Department
Year Abroad Co-ordinator for German
Office
Miller G15Building location
Miller buildingAreas of interest
- History of German Cinema,
- War Film,
- 20th Century German Literature,
- Exile Literature,
- GDR Studies
Postgraduate supervision
I am happy to supervise research students in any of my areas of interest or related areas.
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).
Teaching
I teach nineteenth- and twentieth-century German cinema from the Weimar Republic to the present.Research centres and groups
East German Studies ArchivePublications
- Woelfel, U. (2023) Humanism in the face of national socialism: Friedrich Wolf’s 'Professor Mamlock' (1933). The Heritage of Humanism and Enlightenment in Exile Literature. Schriftenreihe des Stefan Zweig Zentrum Salzburg Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg.
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2019.1615188
- Purse, L. and Wölfel, U. , eds. (2020) Mediating War and Identity: Figures of Transgression in 20th- and 21st-century War Representation. Mediating war and identity: figures of transgression in 20th- and 21st-centuries 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
- Wolfel, U. (2018) Kinder Europas: kinderfiguren im nachkriegsfilm. In: Weil, F. , Postert, A. , Kenkmann, A. , (eds.) Kindheiten im Zweiten Weltkrieg. mitteldeutscher verlag , Halle (Saale), Germany. pp. 549-565. ISBN: 9783954629763 (http://d-nb.info/1150422920)
- Müller, B. , Pinfold, D. , 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://dx.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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/glal.12133
- 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://dx.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://dx.doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.3.0739
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/glal.12019
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1386/seci.9.1.23_1
- Clarke, D. and Wolfel, U. , eds. (2011) Remembering the German Democratic Republic: divided memory in a united Germany. Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke. pp 308. 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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2011.01554.x
- Hughes, H. and Wolfel, U. (2009) Women in the workplace and the development of DEFA documentary style . Glossen , 29 ISSN: 1093-6025
- 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
- Wolfel, U. (2007) Rede-Welten: zur Erzählung von Geschlecht und Sozialismus in der Prosa Irmtraud Morgners. Schriftenreihe Literaturwissenschaft , 77. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag , Trier. pp 289. ISBN: 9783884769348
- 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. (2005) Die autonome Produktion: Arbeitswelt in der Literatur um Beispiel von Angela Krauß' Das Vergnügen. In: Wolfel, U. , (eds.) 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. pp 232. ISBN: 9783826031038
- Siebenpfeiffer, H. and Wolfel, U. , eds. (2004) Krieg und Nachkrieg: Konfigurationen der deutschsprachigen Literatur (1940-65). Erich Schmidt Verlag , Berlin. pp 227. 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