Book Review of "Fremde Verwandtschaft: Eine Kulturpoetik der Bäume"

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https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2026.17.1.5987

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Book review of Fremde Verwandtschaft: Eine Kulturpoetik der Bäume.

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Helga Braunbeck, North Carolina State University

Helga G. Braunbeck holds degrees in German and English Literature from the University of Tübingen, University of Oregon, Eugene, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is Professor of German Studies at North Carolina State University, and has also served as Director of International Studies, and as Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies. She has published two books: Autorschaft und Subjektgenese: Christa Wolfs Kein Ort Nirgends (1992), and Figurationen von Kunst, Musik, Film und Tanz: Intermedialität bei Libuše Moníková (2018). Her current research program is situated in the environmental humanities, with a special focus on contemporary literary and cultural plant and animal studies. Recently published articles can be found in the journals Literatur für Leser:innen, Humanities, and Gegenwartsliteratur. Together with Solvejg Nitzke, she wrote the editorial for a Green Letters special issue on “Arboreal Imaginaries” (2022). Her articles cover topics such as literary and cultural aspects of gardening, trees, lichen, lignite extractivism, sisters, Klaus Modick's novella Moos, Christa Wolf, Libuše Moníková, and Niklas Maak's novel Technophoria.

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Published

2026-04-30

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Vol. 17 No. 1 (2026): Sea More Blue

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Book Reviews

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