englischThe Middle Ages are booming in contemporary culture, but medieval material was already very popular after 1900: This study uses the successful drama "Tantris der Narr" by Ernst Hardt to develop an approach to the productive reception of the Middle Ages after the turn of the century. For [...]
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englischAt the beginning of the 20th century, sport turned into a phenomenon with great cultural reach. The modern sporting hero came onto the scene as an often politically and economically instrumentalised picture of perfection, showcased both in the media and at competitions. Despite criticism of [...]
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englischThis book is dedicated to the forgotten intellectual Léo Wanner, who intervened in the political landscape in the 1920s and 1930s with public statements and strategic ingenuity. Based on historical sources that were opend up for the first time, the diverse role repertoire of this globally [...]
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englischThis book is dedicated to the forgotten intellectual Léo Wanner, who intervened in the political landscape in the 1920s and 1930s with public statements and strategic ingenuity. Based on historical sources that were opend up for the first time, the diverse role repertoire of this globally [...]
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englischWith "Erste Erde", Raoul Schrott has presented a text that attempts to grasp the entire body of knowledge about the world - and thus inscribed himself in the tradition of polymaths such as Alexander von Humboldt, who pursued a similar goal with his "Cosmos" in the 19th century. Schrott thus [...]
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englischWhile Kurt Tucholsky's political struggle and provocations against Weimar society have gone down in literary history, there has been a lack of critical examination of his relationship to the new media that began to shape modern reality at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Berlin [...]
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englischWhile Kurt Tucholsky's political struggle and provocations against Weimar society have gone down in literary history, there has been a lack of critical examination of his relationship to the new media that began to shape modern reality at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Berlin [...]
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englischWith "Erste Erde", Raoul Schrott has presented a text that attempts to grasp the entire body of knowledge about the world - and thus inscribed himself in the tradition of polymaths such as Alexander von Humboldt, who pursued a similar goal with his "Cosmos" in the 19th century. Schrott thus [...]
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englischSince 1993, Osama bin Laden and al-Qáida have carried out a series of terrible Islamist terrorist attacks - on the World Trade Center 1, the US warship Cole, the World Trade Center 2 (11 September), hotels in Bali, synagogues in Istanbul, railways in Madrid and Casablanca, to name just a few [...]
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