Esther Bauer

Current research concentrates on images of masculinity in times of crisis, including World War I and the interwar years, and on non-hegemonic masculinities, especially homosexual masculinities. A new book-length project explores depictions of aging men and male midlife crisis in prose texts since 1900, including Thomas Mann’s “Tod in Venedig,” Max Frisch’s Homo faber, Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf, and Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Das dreißigste Jahr.”