scholarly

books

• Stanford in Haus Cramer: A Berlin Microhistory, edited by Karen Ruoff Kramer and Cheryce von Xylander. A scholarly portrait and close reading of a house that has served as a barometer of modernity for over a century from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including historical authors Hermann Muthesius, Julius Posener, and Helmut Engel. With artistic contributions by Veit Laurent Kurz, Rochelle Goldberg, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, and Renata Stih & Frieder Schnock. Designed by Maureen Belaski. Distributed by and available through Stanford University Press. Palo Alto: BOSP, 2026.

• The Politics of Discourse: Third Thoughts on New Subjectivity. New York: NYU Ottendorfer Series, 1994.

• Aktualisierung Brechts, ed. Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Klaus Pierwoß, Karen Ruoff Kramer. West Berlin: Argument-Verlag, 1980.

articles

• "Reflections on the Past Decade." Conversations, Contestations and Cross-Cultural Comparisons, 10th Anniversary of the Graduate School of North American Studies, JFK Institute Berlin, 2017.

• "Das Enron-Ranking-Paradigma." in: Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften no. 272, 2007, pp. 488-490.

• "Jeans." Historical Materialism, vol. 14, no. 4, p. 289-294, 2006.

• "Jeans,. Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, vol. 6, Hamburg: Argument Verlag, 2004.

• "Continental Drift? On German-American Discontents." North America special issue of WIR-Magazin für die Ehemaligen der Freien Universität, 2-2003, Dec. 2003, p. iv.

• "Kontinentaldrift? – Das Dilemma der deutsch-amerikanischen Sündenböcke." WIR-Magazin für die Ehemaligen der FU, Dec. 2003, p. 48.

• "Clichés, Lies, and Other Misapprehensions." Internationale Politik/Translatlantic Edition, vol. 4, no. 3, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswaertige Politik, Berlin, 2003.

• "Sündenböcke, verzweifelt gesucht." Die Tageszeitung, vol. 25, 7 July 2003, pp. 1-15.

• "Klischees, Lügen und Missverständnisse. Zur amerikanisch-deutschen Fehlwahrnehmung." Internationale Politik, vol. 58, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswaertige Politik, Berlin, 2008.

• "Blauhemd und Blue Jeans in Filmen der DEFA." Jeans, Rock & Vietnam: Amerikanische Kultur in der DDR, Recherchen vol. 14, Theater der Zeit/Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Berlin 2002, pp. 129-151.

• Keyword "Ernst Busch," Encyclopedia of Contemportary German Culture, edited by John Sandford, London: Routledge, 1999.

• Keyword "Drama: Federal Republic of Germany," Encyclopedia of Contemportary German Culture, edited by John Sandford, London: Routledge, 1999.

• Keyword "Dramaturg," Encyclopedia of Contemportary German Culture, edited by John Sandford, London: Routledge, 1999.

• Keyword "Epic Theater," Encyclopedia of Contemportary German Culture, edited by John Sandford, London: Routledge, 1999.

• Keyword "Freie Volksbühne," Encyclopedia of Contemportary German Culture, edited by John Sandford, London: Routledge, 1999.

• Keyword "Erwin Piscator," Encyclopedia of Contemportary German Culture, edited by John Sandford, London: Routledge, 1999.

• Keyword  "Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer," Encyclopedia of Contemportary German Culture, edited by John Sandford, London: Routledge, 1999.

• Keyword "Peter Stein," Encyclopedia of Contemportary German Culture, edited by John Sandford, London: Routledge, 1999.

• Keyword "Theaters: Federal Republic of Germany," Encyclopedia of Contemportary German Culture, edited by John Sandford, London: Routledge, 1999.

• Keyword "Karl Valentin," Encyclopedia of Contemportary German Culture, edited by John Sandford, London: Routledge, 1999.

• "Imag(in)ing the GDR: Gender in Projected Memory." After the GDR: New Perspectives on the Old GDR and the Young Länder, ed. Lawrence McFalls and Lothar Probst, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001.

• "Intellektuelle Reife." in: Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 1998.

• "Representations of Work in the Forbidden DEFA films of 1965/66." Séan Allan & John Sandford (ed.), DEFA: East German Cinema 1946-1992, New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 1997.

• "Eingreifendes Denken." Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, vol. 3, Hamburg: 1997.

• "Vergangenheitsverlust und Gegenwartsverbot." translated by W.-D. Junghanns, Berliner Debatte/Initial, Berlin: Gesellschaft für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Publizistik, 1996.

• "Theater in a Quasi-Capital: Reflections on the Berlin Theater Festival 1992." Western European Stages, vol. 4, no. 2, New York, 1992. 

• "No longer Two, Not Yet One: German Theatre and the 1991 Berlin Festival." Western European Stages, vol. 3, no. 2, New York, 1991.

• "Reise in die Ungleichzeitigkeit. Thüringer Tagebuch Anfang 1990." with Volker Gransow, Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, March 1990.

• "Rückblick auf die Wende zur Neuen Subjektivität." translated by Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften, no. 142, 1983, p 802-20.

• "Antwort auf Antwort hoch zwei," Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften, no. 123, 1980, p 732-33.

• "Denkbare und die Denkware. Zum eingreifenden Denken." Argument Special Issue: Aktualisierung Brechts, ed. Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Klaus Pierwoß, Karen Ruoff Kramer, Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften, no. AS 50,, 1980, p 75-84.

• "Tui oder Weiser?  Zur Gestalt des Philosophen bei Brecht," Argument Special Issue: Brechts Tui-Kritik, ed. Herbert Claas and Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften, no. AS 11 (1976), p. 17–52.

• "Warenästhetik in America, or: Reflections on a Multi-National Concern," in Warenästhetik. Beiträge zur Diskussion, ed. Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1975, p 48-69.