Pandaemonium Germanicum
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description: The journal Pandaemonium Germanicum, published since 1997 by the German Area of the Department of Modern Letters of the FFLCH/USP and the Post-Graduate Program in German Language and Literature, comprehends itself as a forum of academic discussion in the Germanistic field covering: German language literature, compared literature and cultural studies related to German-speaking countries, German linguistics, applied and contrastive linguistics (Portuguese/German), teaching of German as a foreign/additional language, and studies on translation logic. Pandaemonium seeks not only to disseminate studies by Germanists from Brazil and abroad, but also to contribute to the dialogue between German studies, other languages and literatures as well as further fields of knowledge. Pandaemonium is an open access journal published semi-annually until 2015 and three times a year from 2016 on. The manuscripts are submitted to double blind peer review. In case of divergent opinions, a third opinion is sought for. Accepted articles are throroughly edited before publishing.
publisher: Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
language: en
publication name: Pandaemonium Germanicum
issn: 1414-1906
copyright: A Pandaemonium Germanicum adota a política de acesso aberto, conforme a licença BY-NC da Creative Commons.
items: Walter Benjamin Decolonial: Exploding the Continuum of Coloniality
items: Flows and networks between Brazil and Germany 200 years after the first German colonies in Brazil
items: Migration of Brazilian Health Care Workers to Germany: New Horizons and Challenges for the area of German Studies in Brazil
items: Other misplaced ideas: the political meaning in the narrative structure of Doctor Faustus
items: Of Walking Chalices: The Expression of Events in the German Lutheran Bible (2017). A Typological Analysis Based on Talmy
items: Poetry in Shards: Expressionism and testimony in August Stramm
items: Speaking with an Accent: Identity and Otherness in the Migratory Contexts of Brazilians in Germany
items: Female Migrant Entrepreneurship and Brazilian Culture as a CompetitiveAsset: Trajectories of Brazilian Women Entrepreneurs in Germany
items: Cooperation as a resource and research space in German as a Foreign and Additional Language in Latin America
items: "Que tal a Alemanha?" Migração familiar e projetos de educação da prole: o que os números nos permitem imaginar?
items: German language in Europe today: plurality of norms and forms
items: Teacher training programme for German as a foreign language at theUniversity of Córdoba:From learning and teaching experience in university to practice in school
items: German (as an additional language) in Brazilian law: reports andreflections
items: Chiasmus as a Poetic-Existential Issue in Rilke’s Work
items: Soft Power under Pressure: A Critical Analysis of German Foreign Culturaland Educational Policy through the Lens of the Brazilian Skilled LaborDiscourse
items: From Europe to the 'Land of Sugar': Germans as Migrants in ElfriedeJelinek’s Strahlende Verfolger
items: The Zeitgeist project: building a collaborative network for thedevelopment of local teaching material for the academic context
items: O Rio de Janeiro continua wunderschön: elaboração local de material didático para um ensino decolonial e intercultural de alemão
items: Writing with the body:Embodied singularity in The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
items: Joining Forces: International Cooperation Projects in the Training ofGerman Teacher-Researchers
items: Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) and Critical Virtual Exchange (CVE) in the Education of Teachers of Additional Languages – Theoretical Background and Practical Experiences
items: Beyond the white board: the new digital technologies by Germanteaching at public schools
items: Podcasts and Plurilingual Approaches in German Language Teaching asTools for Fostering Mediation, Empowerment, and Participation
items: Aporia of the classical: metrical forms, their acceptance and refusal inBrecht’s Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe
items: The Scarlet Rope and Other Figural Motifs
items: Promoção de políticas de purismo linguístico em contextos de diversidade cultural
items: Sobre a Interdição do Uso da Língua Alemã no Período do Estado Novo
items: Representations of leisure and its political implications in the Cinema of theWeimar Republic: Metropolis and Menschen am Sonntag
items: Female voices in translation: a historical analysis of German-speaking territories
items: An analysis of vowel productions by a female Brazilian speaker ofGerman: analyzing vowel quality

Walter Benjamin Decolonial: Exploding the Continuum of Coloniality
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description: This article reinterprets some central theorems of Walter Benjamin’s work, reconsidering them from a decolonial/postcolonial perspective. In this sense, the article revisits Benjamin’s Copernican shifts in historical knowledge, namely, his conception of the now-time from which history should be written (exploding the false triumphal narratives of modernity) and the thesis that the authors of history must be part of subalternized classes and groups. It also demonstrates the complicity between Benjamin’s theory of images, his theory of dreams, and his theory of awakening as categories that, by directly opposing Western logocentric thought, present themselves as a threshold, a site of communication with de- and postcolonial knowledge. Without being a post- or decolonial theorist in the strict sense, the Berlin thinker has served as an inspiration to authors in these traditions. His relational ecology aligns with epistemologies of the South that link decolonial thought with ecology. In short, Benjamin’s work is updated to reinforce the struggle for pluriversal epistemologies, constructing dialectical images that forge an ethical future of collective emancipation.
subject: Articles
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subject: decolonial
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subject: Walter Benjamin
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subject: southern epistemologies
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creator: Márcio Seligmann-Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-04-28
publication date: 2026-04-28
starting page: e260032
ending page: e260032
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e%x

Flows and networks between Brazil and Germany 200 years after the first German colonies in Brazil
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description: Este dossiê temático se insere no contexto das comemorações do bicentenário da chegada das primeiras levas de imigrantes de língua alemã no Brasil a partir da segunda década do século XIX. A efeméride ensejou uma série de iniciativas e festividades dos dois lados do Atlântico e inspirou uma quantidade relevante de eventos e publicações que iluminariam a migração alemã para o Brasil a partir da perspectiva histórica, econômica, política e social e linguística.
subject: Dossier: Relations between Brazil and German speaking countries at the beginning of the 21st century
  topic: section
creator: Anelise Gondar
creator: Ebal Bolacio
creator: Glauco Feijó
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-04-27
publication date: 2026-04-27
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e%x

Migration of Brazilian Health Care Workers to Germany: New Horizons and Challenges for the area of German Studies in Brazil
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description: Considering the recent labor migration waves from Brazil to Germany, this article aims to identify research directions for the area of German Studies in Brazil, especially with regards to teachers' training of German as a Foreign Language (GFL). The first part of the article briefly discusses the history of migration between Brazil and Germany, highlighting that economic issues that were once the driving force behind German mobility to Brazil are now fueling the opposite trend and are reflected in the attraction of Brazilian migrants to work in the health sector. We argue that labor migration is underpinned by the narrative of overcoming the perspective that prevailed in the 1950s and 1960s, with an emphasis on temporary migration (Rotationsprinzip), and the current right to professional self-fulfillment made possible by brain circulation. Finally, we present an overview of the discussions currently underway, which reveal a research agenda based on this reorientation of German foreign migration policy, with a focus on the language training of migrant communities and its effects on the training of German language teachers.
subject: Dossier: Relations between Brazil and German speaking countries at the beginning of the 21st century
  topic: section
subject: migration studies
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subject: brazilian migration to Germany
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subject: teachers´ training in German as a foreign language (GFL)
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creator: Anelise Gondar
creator: Ebal Bolacio Filho
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-04-13
publication date: 2026-04-13
starting page: e260030
ending page: e260030
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e%x

Other misplaced ideas: the political meaning in the narrative structure of Doctor Faustus
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description: The present article investigates how the formal and discursive contradictions in Serenus Zeitblom’s narrative in Doctor Faustus (1947) constitute the core through which the novel articulates its political dimension. Beginning with the debate on narrative reliability, we seek to understand what Serenus’s interpretation of Adrian Leverkühn’s life reveals about the narrator himself. To this end, we first situate Serenus within the lineage of self-conscious narrators exemplified by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759–1767) and E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Tomcat Murr (1819). We then bring this tradition into dialogue with Roberto Schwarz’s reading of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1881) in A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism (1990). In this way, we demonstrate how Serenus’ narrative not only operates as a mechanism of involuntary self-exposure similar to that of these narrators but also carries an inherently political meaning. Thus, the contrast between humanist discourse and political inaction in the face of the rise of Nazism becomes legible in the narrative structure itself, so that the biography Serenus composes simultaneously stages a process of political learning and a critique of the intellectual bourgeoisie (Bildungsbürgertum) to which he belongs.
subject: Articles
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subject: Thomas Mann
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subject: Machado de Assis
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subject: Roberto Schwarz
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subject: narrative reliability
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subject: Doctor Faustus
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creator: Luísa Coquemala
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-03-19
publication date: 2026-03-19
starting page: e260041
ending page: e260041
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e260041

Of Walking Chalices: The Expression of Events in the German Lutheran Bible (2017). A Typological Analysis Based on Talmy
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description: This paper examines the expression of events in the German 2017 edition of the Luther Bible based on Leonard Talmy’s typology. Talmy distinguishes languages according to how motion is lexicalized. The dominant categories are ‘manner’ and ‘path’, with German classified as a satellite-framed language. Path is therefore expressed outside of the verb. A detailed analysis of Matthew chapters 26 and 27 shows that, even in the biblical context, German predominantly expresses manner in verbs, while path is mainly represented through prepositions, particles and prefixes. Moreover, a large number of verb stems including possession-change verbs, encode both path and manner. The results support Talmy’s typology and demonstrate that the semantic encoding of motion events is preserved in both literary and translated texts, and does not correspond to a universally valid concept.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: motion events
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subject: typology
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subject: cognitive linguistics
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subject: Bible translation
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subject: satellite- vs. verb-framed
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creator: Elisabeth Nielsen
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-03-17
publication date: 2026-03-17
starting page: e260037
ending page: e260037
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e260037

Poetry in Shards: Expressionism and testimony in August Stramm
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description: This paper investigates a possible articulation between Expressionism and testimony in the lyrical work of the German poet August Stramm (1874–1915). The inquiry is justified by the deep marks left by the experience of war in Stramm’s writings, which come to dominate his poetry thematically while also furthering his formal experimentation – a dimension examined in detail throughout this study. The aim, therefore, is to understand Stramm’s Expressionist lyricism in his final work, Tropfblut (1919), as a poetic testimony to the horrors of the First World War. To this end, the article proposes an analysis of three poems from the book that bear witness through brief yet intense war scenes: Kampfflur (“Battlefield” or “Zona de combate”), Krieggrab (“War Grave” or “Túmulo de guerra”), and Schrapnell (“Shrapnel” or “Projétil”).
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: poetry
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subject: Expressionism
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subject: testimony
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subject: August Stramm
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subject: First World War
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creator: Samuel Pereira
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-03-11
publication date: 2026-03-11
starting page: e260025
ending page: e260025
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e260025

Speaking with an Accent: Identity and Otherness in the Migratory Contexts of Brazilians in Germany
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description: This article presents an ongoing investigation about how Brazilian migrants perceive the reception of their accents when speaking German, focusing on nursing professionals who have moved to Germany over the past decade. Drawing on sociolinguistics of contact and glottopolitical studies, the research examines accent as a social and symbolic phenomenon that intertwines language, identity, and power. Methodologically, the study adopts a qualitative and interpretive approach, based on semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis of personal narratives. Building on authors such as Selinker, Labov, Bourdieu, Revuz, Blanchet, and Paviani, it discusses how phonetic difference is socially perceived and evaluated, exposing the ambivalence between stigmatization and recognition. The findings indicate that accent functions simultaneously as a marker of belonging and a potential source of discrimination, influencing processes of integration and self-perception among speakers. By conceiving accent as a site of listening and recognition, the study advances an ethical reflection on the act of listening in intercultural interactions, arguing that the appreciation of linguistic diversity is essential for a more just and inclusive language education.
subject: Dossier: Relations between Brazil and German speaking countries at the beginning of the 21st century
  topic: section
subject: accent
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subject: identity
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subject: migration
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subject: glottopolitics
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subject: language perception
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creator: Diogo Brum
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-02-20
publication date: 2026-02-20
starting page: e260035
ending page: e260035
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e260035

Female Migrant Entrepreneurship and Brazilian Culture as a CompetitiveAsset: Trajectories of Brazilian Women Entrepreneurs in Germany
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description: This article examines the entrepreneurial trajectories of Brazilian women in Germany, outlining their profiles, migratory and business motivations, the incorporation of Brazilian cultural elements into market strategies, and the institutional obstacles they face. To operationalize the research, data were drawn from a survey completed by 652 Brazilian immigrants residing in Germany, recruited through Facebook groups dedicated to the Brazilian community in the country, as well as from semi-structured interviews with 14 entrepreneurs. Anchored in the mixed embeddedness framework, the study discusses how these women entrepreneurs build their businesses by mobilizing aspects of Brazilian culture, thereby contributing to contemporary Brazil–Germany relations. The findings reveal that Brazilian cultural identity is transformed into a competitive asset, although constrained by barriers related to bureaucracy, financing, and social capital. These results suggest the need for targeted public policies and support networks tailored to this group.
subject: Dossier: Relations between Brazil and German speaking countries at the beginning of the 21st century
  topic: section
subject: migrant entrepreneurship
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subject: brazilian women
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subject: mixed embeddedness
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subject: Germany
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subject: brazilian cultural identity
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creator: Eduardo Cruz
creator: Roberto Falcão
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-02-10
publication date: 2026-02-10
starting page: e260027
ending page: e260027
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e260027

Cooperation as a resource and research space in German as a Foreign and Additional Language in Latin America
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description: This article opens and conceptually frames the thematic dossier on German as a Foreign and Additional Language (GFL/GAL) in Latin America, with the aim of giving visibility to cooperation cooperation not only as an organisational perspective, but also as a didactic and epistemic resource for innovation, knowledge circulation and professionalisation. Situated within multilingual and historically shaped educational landscapes, the contributions bring together theoretical reflections and empirical studies from diverse institutional and disciplinary contexts. The articles engage with cooperative models of teacher education, the integration of theory, teaching and research practice, the development of locally situated teaching materials, and the critical use of digital technologies. Taken together, the dossier goes beyond a descriptive overview of individual projects and opens up a research space in which German as an Additional Language in Latin America can be understood as a collaboratively produced field of practice and knowledge, decoupled from exclusively centre-oriented transfer models.
subject: Dossier: Cooperation and Innovative Approaches in the Teaching and Training of German as a Foreign/Additional Language Teachers in Latin America
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subject: German as an Additional Language (GAL) and Foreign Language (GFL)
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subject: educational cooperation
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subject: teacher education
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subject: professionalisation
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subject: Latin America
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creator: Roberta C. Sol Fernandes Stanke
creator: Mergenfel Ferreira
creator: Stefan Baumbach
creator: Rabea Erradi
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-01-31
publication date: 2026-01-31
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e244830

"Que tal a Alemanha?" Migração familiar e projetos de educação da prole: o que os números nos permitem imaginar?
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description: O artigo se debruça sobre algumas características do perfil demográfico da população brasileira na Alemanha, que vem passando por alterações em direção a um perfil de migração laboral altamente qualificada. Examino indícios estatísticos de que tais alterações possam estar parcialmente fundadas em projetos de migração familiar e em estratégias de formação escolar da prole, aspectos ainda pouco conhecidos desse contexto migratório. Interpreto dados demográficos dessa população relativos à sua composição de gênero, ao estado civil e às entradas anuais divididas por idades. Interpreto ainda a evolução no número de matrículas de crianças brasileiras nos diferentes tipos de escola do sistema escolar alemão. As variáveis observadas indicam: 1) constante diminuição da taxa de feminização; 2) diminuição abrupta do percentual de mulheres casadas com pessoas de nacionalidade alemã; 3) diminuição percentual de homens solteiros; 4) aumento de entradas nas faixas etárias de 0-15 anos e de 31-45 anos e diminuição das entradas na faixa de 16-30 anos; e 5) aumento de matrículas em tipos escolas com capital simbólico superior. Argumento que a interpretação conjunta dos dados permite imaginar o incremento de projetos de migração familiar associado a estratégias de educação da prole no contexto da imigração brasileira na Alemanha.
subject: Dossier: Relations between Brazil and German speaking countries at the beginning of the 21st century
  topic: section
subject: whole family migration
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subject: school education strategies
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subject: Germany
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subject: Brazil
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creator: Glauco Feijó
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-01-30
publication date: 2026-01-30
starting page: e26003
ending page: e26003
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e260033

German language in Europe today: plurality of norms and forms
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description: Revier of DEUTSCHE AKADEMIE FÜR SPRACHE UND DICHTUNG; UNION DER DEUTSCHEN AKADEMIEN DER WISSENSCHAFTEN. Deutsch in Europa: Vielfalt, Sprachnormen und Sprachgebrauch. Vierter Bericht zur Lage der deutschen Sprache. Tübingen: Narr Francke, 2025. Ebook baixável em https://doi.org/10.24053/9783381135226
subject: Review
  topic: section
creator: Daniel Martineschen
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-01-16
publication date: 2026-01-16
starting page: e260040
ending page: e260040
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e260040

Teacher training programme for German as a foreign language at theUniversity of Córdoba:From learning and teaching experience in university to practice in school
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description: Our paper examines the interaction between teacher training at the Faculty of Languages of the National University of Córdoba and the German School of Córdoba Argentina.The focus is on the transition from university theory and practice training to teaching practice in schools. Based on observation reports, teaching trials, and student reflections, the study analyses how theoretical and practical knowledge is applied in school settings, how students’ selfperception evolves during this transition, and which challenges emerge in the process. The paper describes the structure of German as a Foreign Language (DaF) teacher education program and the teaching and learning methods used in the course Unterrichtspraktikum II. It highlights the main challenges in planning and implementation as well as new projects that have broadened the course profile. Furthermore, it shows how university seminars are linked with school practice and how lecturers and mentor teachers support this process. The findings emphasize the importance of systematic interinstitutional cooperation between university and schools in order to foster students’ professional development and provide insights for further improvement of teacher education. Finally, the paper suggests approaches to enhance collaboration and the induction of new teachers in both institutions.
subject: Dossier: Cooperation and Innovative Approaches in the Teaching and Training of German as a Foreign/Additional Language Teachers in Latin America
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subject: teacher-training
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subject: German as a foreign language
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subject: teaching profession
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subject: institutional cooperation
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subject: reflection
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creator: Katharina Götze
creator: María Roattino
creator: Valeria Wilke
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-01-16
publication date: 2026-01-16
starting page: e250017
ending page: e250017
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250017

German (as an additional language) in Brazilian law: reports andreflections
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description: This article aims to examine the influence of German law on the Brazilian legal system, both as a means of enhancing dogmatic understanding and as a catalyst for academic cooperation. To that end, it highlights the importance of proficiency in the German language and the translational process — often marked by conceptual challenges — as essential tools for qualified access to the German legal tradition. Specific objectives include reflections on the reception of German legal doctrine and normative structures in Brazil; legal translation studies and the transfer of legal concepts between distinct systems; as well as the teaching of German for specific purposes, understood as a language of specialization. In this context, the course “Introduction to German Language and Culture for Law,” offered by the University of São Paulo in 2025, is presented as an example of a transversal initiative addressing both legal education and the training of future German language instructors. Finally, it is argued that mastery of the German language is a necessary condition for the critical appropriation of the German legal model in Brazil, and that identifying areas of law deeply influenced by this tradition is essential for designing targeted curricular proposals for teaching German for legal purposes.
subject: Dossier: Cooperation and Innovative Approaches in the Teaching and Training of German as a Foreign/Additional Language Teachers in Latin America
  topic: section
subject: German for specific purposes
  topic: keywords
subject: specialized language
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subject: legal translation
  topic: keywords
subject: comparative law
  topic: keywords
subject: German as an additional language
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creator: Anderson Fernandes
creator: Noemí Andrade
creator: Sibele Paulino
creator: Valéria Porto
creator: Vinicius Ormelesi
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-01-13
publication date: 2026-01-13
starting page: e250015
ending page: e250015
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250015

Chiasmus as a Poetic-Existential Issue in Rilke’s Work
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description: This paper proposes an interpretation of chiasmus in Rilke’s work in contrast with Paul de Man’s reading – the first scholar to analyze chiasmus as a determining figure in Rilkean poetry. Starting with a reassessment of the Belgian critic’s interpretation, I first highlight his precision in describing Rilke’s poetic construction, then question his argument that the figure of chiasmus explicitly situates Rilke’s poetry within the realm of falsehood. In doing so, de Man not only denies Rilke’s poetry the messianic claim often emphasized by general readers and scholars but also dismisses its deeper existential concerns, reducing it to mere linguistic play. By contrast, I argue that Rilke’s poetic inversion, indeed frequently structured as chiasmus, constitutes a borderline poetic-existential effort to affirm and value finitude. In this text, I seek to clarify this effort primarily through the lens of what I term a “poetics of ‘singeleza’ (Portuguese word here understood as a poetic simplicity/tenderness)”, which moves toward valuing the small, the fragile, and the fleeting.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: inversion
  topic: keywords
subject: Rilke
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subject: finitude
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subject: "singeleza"
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creator: Laura Moosburger
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2026-01-12
publication date: 2026-01-12
starting page: e260024
ending page: e260024
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e260024

Soft Power under Pressure: A Critical Analysis of German Foreign Culturaland Educational Policy through the Lens of the Brazilian Skilled LaborDiscourse
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description: Germany’s Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy (AKBP) has long been regarded as a central element of German soft power. Through cultural, linguistic, and educational programs, it is intended to promote international understanding, foster trust, and position Germany as an attractive partner. But how “soft” can this form of power actually be considered? This article examines the Brazilian context and asks whether this policy can still be understood as soft power or whether it has already been shaped by strategic national interests. The focus is on the interlinkage of cultural appeal with migration and labor market objectives, particularly within the discourse on skilled labor. Language promotion, mobility programs, and educational cooperation appear less as neutral instruments of understanding than as structured measures that, through epistemic framing, normatively define how education, language, and migration are to be conceptualized, while simultaneously aiming at the recruitment of qualified workers and the safeguarding of geopolitical interests. This creates tensions between the rhetoric of partnership-based cooperation and the realities of asymmetrical influence. The aim of the article is to make these ambivalences visible and thereby stimulate a critical reassessment of the AKBP.
subject: Dossier: Relations between Brazil and German speaking countries at the beginning of the 21st century
  topic: section
subject: foreign cultural and educational policy
  topic: keywords
subject: language policy;
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subject: soft power
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subject: skilled workers
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subject: power
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creator: Jenny Fischer
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-09
publication date: 2025-12-09
starting page: e260029
ending page: e260029
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250029

From Europe to the 'Land of Sugar': Germans as Migrants in ElfriedeJelinek’s Strahlende Verfolger
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description: Strahlende Verfolger (2014) is the only text in which Elfriede Jelinek explicitly addresses Brazil, more specifically, the immigration of Germans who settled in the country over the past 200 years. The article introduces this theatrical text within the framework of the reception of Jelinek's work in Brazil, exploring its context of creation, some of its stage productions, and offering an overview of the themes it addresses. Furthermore, it proposes a partially divergent interpretation from that put forward by Evelyn Annuß in the updated edition of the Jelinek Handbuch (2025), which classifies Strahlende Verfolger as a “post-postscript” to another text by Jelinek, Wolken.Heim., but overlooks its thematic connection to the migratory movement of Germans and its potential relevance to current debates on migration in Europe. The analysis presented here focuses particularly on the enunciative voices in the text and on the playful intertextuality Jelinek employs in relation to the philosophical production of the German tradition.
subject: Dossier: Relations between Brazil and German speaking countries at the beginning of the 21st century
  topic: section
subject: Elfriede Jelinek
  topic: keywords
subject: German migration
  topic: keywords
subject: Brazil
  topic: keywords
subject: contemporary theatre
  topic: keywords
subject: national identity
  topic: keywords
creator: Ruth Bohunovsky
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: e260026
ending page: e260026
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e260026

The Zeitgeist project: building a collaborative network for thedevelopment of local teaching material for the academic context
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description: The present article aims to report on the constitution and working methods adopted by the Zeitgeist project, initiated in 2019 with the principal objective of developing teaching materials for the teaching and learning of German as an Additional Language in the Brazilian academic context, from a critical and decolonial perspective. Consequently, the focus is shifted from the product to the process of establishing a network for collaborative work, and to the difficulties, challenges and possibilities inherent in working within a large inter-institutional context. The division of labour, contact between members remotely and in person, as well as experiences with piloting the material will be addressed. Furthermore, aspects related to the production of a German textbook in a local context will be discussed, such as the selection of sources, layout and the revision process. It aspires to encourage the creation of further networks and projects involving German teaching materials in Brazil.
subject: Dossier: Cooperation and Innovative Approaches in the Teaching and Training of German as a Foreign/Additional Language Teachers in Latin America
  topic: section
subject: teaching materials
  topic: keywords
subject: critical teaching
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subject: inter-institutional collaboration
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creator: Elaine Nunes
creator: Mariana Andrade e Silva
creator: Norma Wucherpfennig
creator: Rogéria Pereira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-26
publication date: 2025-11-26
starting page: e250014
ending page: e250014
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250014

O Rio de Janeiro continua wunderschön: elaboração local de material didático para um ensino decolonial e intercultural de alemão
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description: No Rio de Janeiro, assim como em todo o país, o ensino de alemão como língua adicional costuma ser mediado por livros didáticos internacionais, ao redor dos quais se organizam currículos, métodos e avaliações (Uphoff 2009). Contudo, uma vez que se dirigem a um público-alvo europeu, estes materiais impõem severas limitações ao ignorar demandas particulares do contexto local. Diante disso, este artigo baseia-se na prática reflexiva (Schön 2000) e propõe investigar a elaboração local de materiais didáticos com base nas perspectivas decoloniais (Kumaravadivelu 2016) e interculturais (Walsh 2009, Candau 2016). Propomos um diálogo com a língua alemã que se inicia no contexto carioca e aproxima a língua-alvo ao aluno. Concluímos que dificuldades de conexão com o livro didático internacional reportadas por alunos podem ser superadas por meio de materiais sensíveis ao contexto cultural e local.
subject: Dossier: Cooperation and Innovative Approaches in the Teaching and Training of German as a Foreign/Additional Language Teachers in Latin America
  topic: section
subject: German as an Additional Language
  topic: keywords
subject: decoloniality
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subject: intercultural teaching
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subject: language teaching materials
  topic: keywords
creator: Laura Maia
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-26
publication date: 2025-11-26
starting page: e250009
ending page: e250009
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250009

Writing with the body:Embodied singularity in The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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description: This article investigates how language policies informed by purist ideologies operate as symbolic technologies of cultural exclusion in contexts marked by diversity. Drawing on a qualitative and interpretive-analytical approach grounded in critical applied linguistics and glottopolitics (SPOLSKY, 2016; GUESPIN & MARCELLESI, 2021), the study discusses how certain language varieties are promoted as legitimate in the name of national cohesion, while others are silenced or delegitimized. The theoretical framework brings together contributions from authors such as Haugen (1966), Calvet (2007), Pinto (2018), Silva & Alves (2025), and Galli & Lagares (2024), among others, enabling a critical analysis of four case studies: language planning in Norway and Germany, and two recent Brazilian legislative proposals (Bill No. 211/2021 and Municipal Law No. 3843/2024). The findings indicate that, although often justified as efforts to valorize the language, such policies tend to reinforce hegemonic norms and produce symbolic exclusions of speakers whose linguistic practices diverge from the standardized variety. The study concludes by emphasizing the need for inclusive language policies that recognize plurality as a core value and a condition for social and cultural justice.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Rainer Maria Rilke,
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subject: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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subject: Modern German Literature
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subject: embodiment
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subject: autofiction
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creator: Pedro Pennycook
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-17
publication date: 2025-11-17
starting page: e250012
ending page: e250012
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250012

Joining Forces: International Cooperation Projects in the Training ofGerman Teacher-Researchers
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description: There are many initiatives aimed at addressing the challenges of initial teacher education for German language teachers in Brazil, taking into account, among other aspects, the official documents and guidelines that govern it. This article focuses on the joining of forces among different actors and institutions to carry out this task: students from the Bachelor's degree program in Languages – Portuguese/German at Brazilian universities, as well as students from German as a Foreign and Second Language (DaF/DaZ) courses in Germany, in addition to teachers acting in schools and universities in both countries. In this sense, the article emphasizes the creation and development of inter-institutional projects (including an international one) as a powerful practice for the exchange of experiences and the construction of new knowledge. As an example, it presents the international cooperation project FLinKUS, whose main pillars are the integration of theory and practice in teacher education, the strengthening of dialogue between university and school, and the initial training of German teacher-researchers. The article thus highlights the main activities carried out within the scope of the mentioned project, as well as defends its potential impact on teacher education, based on the perception of its participants.
subject: Dossier: Cooperation and Innovative Approaches in the Teaching and Training of German as a Foreign/Additional Language Teachers in Latin America
  topic: section
subject: German teacher education
  topic: keywords
subject: international cooperation projects
  topic: keywords
subject: university-school relationship
  topic: keywords
subject: research-based learning
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subject: teacher-researcher
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creator: Mergenfel Ferreira
creator: Roberta Stanke
creator: Cristiane Kilian
creator: Stefan Baumbach Baumbach
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-12
publication date: 2025-11-12
starting page: e250023
ending page: e250023
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250023

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) and Critical Virtual Exchange (CVE) in the Education of Teachers of Additional Languages – Theoretical Background and Practical Experiences
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description: This article offers a reflection on the role of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) and Virtual Exchange (VE) as potential avenues for enhancing the education of additional language teachers. To ground this reflection, we review the literature on approaches to additional language teaching, with particular attention to the emergence of the Communicative Approach and other frameworks that emphasize social interaction, critical thinking, and learner agency. Furthermore, we provide an overview of COIL, VE, and Critical Virtual Exchange (CVE), as well as of Critical Decolonial Theory and its relationship to the concept of Global Education for Sustainability. Finally, we present concrete examples from a partnership between a Brazilian and a German institution – not as prescriptive models, but as possible pathways for collaborative practice.
subject: Dossier: Cooperation and Innovative Approaches in the Teaching and Training of German as a Foreign/Additional Language Teachers in Latin America
  topic: section
subject: COIL
  topic: keywords
subject: Virtual Exchange
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subject: Critical Decolonial Theory
  topic: keywords
subject: Additional Language
  topic: keywords
subject: Teacher Education
  topic: keywords
creator: Markus Weininger
creator: Elaine Nunes
creator: Rosane Silveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-08
publication date: 2025-11-08
starting page: e250018
ending page: e250018
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250018

Beyond the white board: the new digital technologies by Germanteaching at public schools
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description: Nowadays, different Technologies have become such a part of people's life that many of them seem to be not even noticed in every day’s landscape – known as a state of normalization. This invisibility is a reflection of the constant and massive incorporation of tools in the Society and of the changes it caused on people’s behavior. In the past, we experienced a revolution with Technologies of Information and Communication (TICs), when devices became a source of information. Gradually, Digital Technologies of Information and Communication (TDICs) emerged and nowadays new possibilities have led to major transformations, so they are now considered Technologies for Empowerment and Participation (TEP). The present paper aims to explore recent researches about the use of digital technologies by German Teaching in public schools in Brazil, considering the importance of a multilanguage education in schools as well as of pedagogical practices aligned with contemporary teaching perspectives. Therefore, a bibliographic research was carried out in four major online databases, where it was possible to identify the topics that have been researched in the past 10 years, as well as those with potential to be explored. The results point out a gap on studies about the use of Technologies by German teaching at public schools.
subject: Dossier: Cooperation and Innovative Approaches in the Teaching and Training of German as a Foreign/Additional Language Teachers in Latin America
  topic: section
subject: digital technologies for information and communication
  topic: keywords
subject: TDIC
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subject: technologies for empowerment and participation
  topic: keywords
subject: TEP
  topic: keywords
subject: German as additional language
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creator: Marcos Araújo Filho
creator: Cibele Rozenfeld
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-10-31
publication date: 2025-10-31
starting page: e250013
ending page: e250013
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250013

Podcasts and Plurilingual Approaches in German Language Teaching asTools for Fostering Mediation, Empowerment, and Participation
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description: This article explores the potential of podcasts and plurilingual approaches in German language teaching in Brazil to foster critical mediation, social participation, and linguistic-cultural empowerment. The article opens with a critique of imported, monolingually oriented teaching materials and presents alternative pathways that incorporate local realities, plurilingualism, and digital media as resources in the learning process. The central focus is the project Ohne Grenzen (“Without Borders”), which was implemented in the form of a workshop with students from Latin America during the DaF-Netzwerkkonferenz („German as a Foreign Language Network Conference”). From a theoretical perspective, the article is grounded in the concept of linguistic mediation and the model of technologies as tools for empowerment and participation (TEP). It reflects on the opportunities and challenges of podcasting as a collaborative learning format and illustrates how critical engagement with issues such as migration, power, and language can open new perspectives in language education.
subject: Dossier: Cooperation and Innovative Approaches in the Teaching and Training of German as a Foreign/Additional Language Teachers in Latin America
  topic: section
subject: mediation
  topic: keywords
subject: empowerment
  topic: keywords
subject: digital technologies
  topic: keywords
subject: educational podcasts
  topic: keywords
subject: critical and decolonial approaches
  topic: keywords
creator: Elaine Nunes
creator: Jenny Fischer
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-10-28
publication date: 2025-10-28
starting page: e25001
ending page: e25001
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250011

Aporia of the classical: metrical forms, their acceptance and refusal inBrecht’s Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe
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description: This article was written collaboratively within the framework of a DAAD-funded German Studies Institute Partnership (GIP) between the UFRJ and UERJ – state universities in Rio de Janeiro – and the Georg August University of Göttingen. As an international academic collaboration in literary studies, it focuses on metrics, a field of fundamental importance for both the academic and aesthetic exploration of poetic texts. Because of its specific characteristics in different languages, it is also particularly suitable for discussion in an international context. Based on an exemplary analysis of metrical variation in Bertolt Brecht's epic play Saint Joan of the Stockyards (1931), the article explores the considerable cognitive potential of verse use. The aesthetic activation of traditional verse techniques and the parodistic metrical recourse to distinctive elements in dramas of Goethe and Schiller lead to an elaboration of German verse drama in Brecht, which stages the aporias of the classical. Finally, we discuss the functions of verse, especially free verse, in the context of the social dimension proposed by the play. Against this background, aspects of metrics assert a key philological position.
subject: Dossier: Cooperation and Innovative Approaches in the Teaching and Training of German as a Foreign/Additional Language Teachers in Latin America
  topic: section
subject: metric
  topic: keywords
subject: vers drama
  topic: keywords
subject: free vers
  topic: keywords
subject: Brecht
  topic: keywords
creator: Danilo Serpa
creator: Jörg Wesche
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-10-20
publication date: 2025-10-20
starting page: e250022
ending page: e250022
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250022

The Scarlet Rope and Other Figural Motifs
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description: Review of Auerbach, Erich. Figura. São Paulo: Duas cidades; Editora 34, 2024, 312p. Organização e prefácio de Leopoldo Waizbort; tradução de Célia Euvaldo, Erica Castro, Leopoldo Waizbort e Milton Ohata.
subject: Resenhas
  topic: section
creator: Patrícia Marques
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-09-17
publication date: 2025-09-17
starting page: e250036
ending page: e250036
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250036

Promoção de políticas de purismo linguístico em contextos de diversidade cultural
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description: This article investigates how language policies informed by purist ideologies operate as symbolic technologies of cultural exclusion in contexts marked by diversity. Drawing on a qualitative and interpretive-analytical approach grounded in critical applied linguistics and glottopolitics (Spolsky, 2016; Guespin & Marcellesi, 2021), the study discusses how certain language varieties are promoted as legitimate in the name of national cohesion, while others are silenced or delegitimized. The theoretical framework brings together contributions from authors such as Haugen (1966), Calvet (2007), Pinto (2018), Silva & Alves (2025), and Galli & Lagares (2024), among others, enabling a critical analysis of four case studies: language planning in Norway and Germany, and two recent Brazilian legislative proposals (Bill No. 211/2021 and Municipal Law No. 3843/2024). The findings indicate that, although often justified as efforts to valorize the language, such policies tend to reinforce hegemonic norms and produce symbolic exclusions of speakers whose linguistic practices diverge from the standardized variety. The study concludes by emphasizing the need for inclusive language policies that recognize plurality as a core value and a condition for social and cultural justice.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: políticas linguísticas
  topic: keywords
subject: purismo linguístico
  topic: keywords
subject: identidade cultural
  topic: keywords
subject: exclusão simbólica
  topic: keywords
subject: glotopolítica
  topic: keywords
creator: Diogo Brum
creator: Ebal Bolacio Filho
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-09-17
publication date: 2025-09-17
starting page: e250004
ending page: e250004
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250004

Sobre a Interdição do Uso da Língua Alemã no Período do Estado Novo
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description: A Campanha de Nacionalização promovida pelo governo de Getúlio Vargas durante o Estado Novo consistiu em um conjunto de medidas voltadas ao fortalecimento da identidade nacional brasileira, buscando integrar os imigrantes estrangeiros à cultura do Brasil por meio da valorização da língua portuguesa, da centralização da educação e da promoção de símbolos nacionais. Esta campanha afetou o ensino das línguas minoritárias nas regiões de imigração alemã, italiana e japonesa no Brasil. Neste trabalho, pretende-se analisar os impactos da Campanha de Nacionalização sobre a educação nas comunidades de imigração alemã na região Sul do país. Este estudo baseia-se em obras das áreas de Linguística, História do Brasil e História da Educação. Para tal, discutem-se leis e decretos publicados no período denominado de Estado Novo (1937-1945). Esta é uma pesquisa documental. A abordagem metodológica utilizada neste trabalho é qualitativa. O estudo demonstra que a Campanha de Nacionalização teve sérias consequências para a memória cultural da comunidade de imigrantes germânicos, sendo a interdição do uso da língua alemã uma de suas principais consequências.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Estado Novo
  topic: keywords
subject: German language
  topic: keywords
subject: Portuguese language
  topic: keywords
subject: teaching
  topic: keywords
creator: Margarete Poll
creator: Evandro Fernandes
creator: Alexandre Pereira
creator: Eduardo Sarinho
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-08-18
publication date: 2025-08-18
starting page: e250010
ending page: e250010
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250010

Representations of leisure and its political implications in the Cinema of theWeimar Republic: Metropolis and Menschen am Sonntag
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description: This article aims to analyze the representations of leisure in two films from Weimar Republic German cinema: Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang and released in 1927, and Menschen am Sonntag (People on Sunday), directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer and released in 1930. To this end, we start from the premise that cinema is a privileged field of symbolic disputes, functioning as medium for the construction of social representations. In the context of interwar Germany ‒ marked by tensions and political, cultural, and social conflicts ‒ leisure became a contested theme, both in everyday life and on the screen. Through film analysis, focusing on selected film stills, we seek to achieve the stated objective. Functioning almost as an ethnography of everyday life, People on Sunday distances itself from Metropolis, following distinct aesthetic and political paths and reflecting the political tensions of the period.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Leisure
  topic: keywords
subject: German Cinema
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subject: Politics
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subject: Metropolis
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subject: Menschen am Sonntag
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creator: Verônica Saldanha
creator: Elcio Cornelsen
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-07-23
publication date: 2025-07-23
starting page: e250008
ending page: e250008
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250008

Female voices in translation: a historical analysis of German-speaking territories
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description: This paper identifies the intellectual work of women in the history of translation by discussing historical and cultural issues in German-speaking territories from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century. The research methodology is qualitative with an interpretive approach, drawing on works of critical literature review published between 1904 and 2024. The paper is divided into three parts, which seek to answer questions regarding the omission or exclusion of the names of women translators in the History of Translation and the intellectual contribution of women in the German context, emphasizing topics relevant to Translation Studies and Philosophy. The case of a group of five women, known as the Göttinger Universitätsmamsellen (the Misses from the University of Göttingen), is presented. They were part of prominent intellectual circles, carried out interlingual translations and had works published at a time when this was not yet common for their female contemporaries. They were an exceptional example. Among the results of the study, it was observed that the intellectual work of women contributed to the circulation of texts relevant to Enlightenment and Literature in pre-unified Germany. However, their names are not remembered as much as those of their male partners and family members.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: history of Translation
  topic: keywords
subject: Translation studies
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subject: German
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subject: 18th century
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subject: 19th century
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creator: Andressa Ferreira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-07-14
publication date: 2025-07-14
starting page: e250006
ending page: e250006
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e250006

An analysis of vowel productions by a female Brazilian speaker ofGerman: analyzing vowel quality
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description: In this study, we investigate the development of Standard German vowels, concerning their formants, namely F1, F2 and F3, by a young-adult Brazilian female speaker of German as a third language (L3). The methodology entails an acoustic analysis on Praat. We analyze the vowel sounds regarding their relative formant structure, in order to verify whether (or how) they changed along the evaluated sessions by means of a Monte Carlo analysis. As a result of the analysis, we observe that the speaker uses a formant compensation strategy for the production of her German vowels. According to the Speech-Learning Model (SLM-(r)), the speaker altered her formant acoustic cues, i.e. instead of relying on F3 to produce some phonological distinctions in her German vowels, the speaker made use of F2 to account for these distinctions.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: German vowels
  topic: keywords
subject: formant structure
  topic: keywords
subject: acoustic cues
  topic: keywords
subject: complex dynamic systems
  topic: keywords
creator: Mágat Junges
creator: Ubiratã Alves
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pandaemonium Germanicum https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-07-14
publication date: 2025-07-14
starting page: e240038
ending page: e240038
doi: 10.11606/1982-8837e240039