Birgit Lang

Psychoanalysts through translation? Julien (Johan) Varendonck (1879-1924) and Anna Freud (1895-1982)

Birgit Lang

Book Chapter  |  2022

This co-edited volume offers new insights into the complex relations between Brussels and Vienna in the turn-of-the-century period..

An Ethics of Attentiveness. Photographic Portraits and Deviant Dwelling in German Queer and Trans Archives

Birgit Lang, Katie SUTTON

Journal article  |  2022  |  Monatshefte: für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur

From Archival Find to Public Domain: Otto Rank’s Homosexual Tendencies in Mythology and Literature

Birgit Lang, Nick Thieberger, Brigid Grigg, Robert Turnbull, Daniel Russo-Batterham, Edoardo Tescari

Presentation  |  2021

Australasian Association for Digital Humanities

Sex Murder, Photographic Evidence, and the Weimar Cultural Imagination

Birgit Lang

Book Chapter  |  2021

This chapter examines a specific moment in the early Weimar Republic when the phenomenon of Lustmord, i.e. sexually motivated murd..

Normal enough? Krafft-Ebing, Freud, and homosexuality

Birgit Lang

Journal article  |  2021  |  History of the Human Sciences

This article analyses the slippery notions of the normal and normality in select works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902) and..

Divisive Emanations. Ernst Jünger’s "A German Officer in Occupied Paris"

Birgit Lang

Journal article  |  2021  |  Index Journal

Patterns of Global Exile: Exploring Identity Through Art

Birgit Lang

Book Chapter  |  2020

Austrian émigré artist Louis Kahan (1905-2002) was a transnational subject: the child of Russian refugees, he grew up in fin-de-si..

Collecting Stefan Zweig? Wes Anderson's Present-Day Habsburg Tale The Grand Budapest Hotel

undefined Lang

Journal article  |  2020  |  Austrian Studies

The cinematic success of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel relies on a range of factors: the creation of an appealing, fairy..

Violent Women: Photographic Evidence, Gender and Sexology in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany

Birgit Lang

Journal article  |  2019  |  Gender and History

This article provides the first analysis of constructions of female criminality in sexological photography in Wilhelmine and Weima..

What is Translation History? A Trust-Based Approach

Andrea Rizzi, Birgit Lang, Anthony PYM

Book  |  2019

This book presents a dynamic history of the ways in which translators are trusted and distrusted. Working from this premise, the a..