New edition series "Kassel Literature"

Under the editorship of Prof. Dr. Nikola Roßbach together with kassel university press (KUP), the first volumes of a new series of editions entitled "Kassel Literature" have been published.

Anyone interested in Kassel as a literary city can discover here, among other things, how Kassel's Robinsonades in the 18th century imagined their colonial fantasies under the banner of the Enlightenment, that fairy tales not only dominated the stage in the Viennese folk theater in the 19th century, but that gnomes and elves also haunted the stage under Hercules. The works in the series also reveal that the literary field in Kassel around 1900 was dominated by female realists and that the solution to the 'women's question' could fail for many reasons.

The following works have been published to date:

Wilhelm Lynker and Julius Braunhofer "Herkules oder Ambos und Actien"

Sophie Junghans "Around Happiness"

Charlotte von Hünerbein "Eigenart"

Heinrich Adalbert Carl von Egloffstein "The new Hessian Robinson"

Hans Eisenträger "The husband of his wife"