This virtual exhibition features, in English translation, short excerpts from German-language literary texts that address human-nature entanglements. The aim is to show how literature can contribute to understanding and problematizing the relation between humans and nonhuman nature. What aspects of human-nature relations are addressed, at what point in literary history, and how are they shaped poetically? This virtual exhibition is also available in German here.

Introduction to the Exhibition
Transformation of Landscapes
Mountains, Glaciers, Climate
Forests and Deforestation
Pollution and Waste
Further Reading
This exhibition was created by Sabine Wilke under a CC BY 4.0 International license. This refers only to the text and does not include image rights. For information on the above images, please click here.

Wilke, Sabine. “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll through a History of Entanglement.” Environment & Society Portal, Virtual Exhibitions 2018, no. 4. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8150.

ISSN 2198-7696 Environment & Society Portal, Virtual Exhibitions

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