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 [...]
more informationenglischAt 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 [...]
more informationenglischThis 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 [...]
more informationenglischThis 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 [...]
more informationenglischWith "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 [...]
more informationenglischWhile 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 [...]
more informationenglischWhile 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 [...]
more informationenglischWith "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 [...]
more informationenglischSince 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 [...]
more informationenglischSince 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 [...]
more informationenglischIn June 2009, US president Barack Obama travelled to Cairo to seek a ‘new beginning’ in the Middle East. Beyond people’s hopes and disappointments, Nils E. Lukacs takes the Obama’s historical idea under the magnifying glass. Asking what was ‘new’, what was ‘old’, and how the ‘new beginning’ [...]
more informationenglischIn June 2009, US president Barack Obama travelled to Cairo to seek a ‘new beginning’ in the Middle East. Beyond people’s hopes and disappointments, Nils E. Lukacs takes the Obama’s historical idea under the magnifying glass. Asking what was ‘new’, what was ‘old’, and how the ‘new beginning’ [...]
more informationenglischIgnaty J. Krachkovsky (1883–1951) is one of the most important Oriental scholars of the 20th century and is considered the founder of modern Arabic studies in Russia. The German edition of his biography by Anna A. Dolinina (1923–2017) presents his eventful life and exciting academic career [...]
more informationenglischIgnaty J. Krachkovsky (1883–1951) is one of the most important Oriental scholars of the 20th century and is considered the founder of modern Arabic studies in Russia. The German edition of his biography by Anna A. Dolinina (1923–2017) presents his eventful life and exciting academic career [...]
more informationenglischIn early modern Europe, music-theatrical patterns of representing the foreign ‘Other’ helped shape relations with the Ottoman Empire. Accordingly, hybridity must be understood as a dynamic practice playing with cultural blends and borrowings, albeit possibly (re-)producing inequalities, [...]
more informationenglischIn early modern Europe, music-theatrical patterns of representing the foreign ‘Other’ helped shape relations with the Ottoman Empire. Accordingly, hybridity must be understood as a dynamic practice playing with cultural blends and borrowings, albeit possibly (re-)producing inequalities, [...]
more informationenglischWho was responsible for the thousands of murders of people with psychological, mental or physical impairments under National Socialism? How were institutions and actors interconnected?
The mental hospitals play a central role as crime scenes within the framework of Nazi "euthanasia: Health [...]
more informationenglischStages of life can be climbed, life paths can be taken, life beginnings and evenings can be experienced - the anthology Lebensstufen (Life Stages) thematically addresses these traditional ciphers of Western cultural history and the history of ideas in order to trace the staging of life [...]
more informationenglischWho was responsible for the thousands of murders of people with psychological, mental or physical impairments under National Socialism? How were institutions and actors interconnected?
The mental hospitals play a central role as crime scenes within the framework of Nazi "euthanasia: Health [...]
more informationenglischStages of life can be climbed, life paths can be taken, life beginnings and evenings can be experienced - the anthology Lebensstufen (Life Stages) thematically addresses these traditional ciphers of Western cultural history and the history of ideas in order to trace the staging of life [...]
more informationenglischCurricula are a result of educational policy and pedagogical will. The curriculum development of the upper elementary school and the lower secondary school in Bavaria from 1945 to 2000 is presented to the reader in a longitudinal section. In doing so, continuities and discontinuities are [...]
more informationenglischCurricula are a result of educational policy and pedagogical will. The curriculum development of the upper elementary school and the lower secondary school in Bavaria from 1945 to 2000 is presented to the reader in a longitudinal section. In doing so, continuities and discontinuities are [...]
more informationenglischIn the decades around 1900, “Weltanschauungsliteratur” (ideological literature) boomed. These texts, which oscillate between science and literature, promise a meaningful explanation of the world in times of crisis. Three great novels of German modernist literature – Thomas Mann's Zauberberg, [...]
more informationenglischHow much tradition is there in the avant-garde? Is everything that is claimed to be new really new? Literary Expressionism (the most important avant-garde movement of Classical Modernism), which was and still is generally considered to be the epoch of "broken forms", claimed this for itself: [...]
more informationenglischDespite its undisputed place in the canon of the avant-garde, Oswald Wiener's „die verbesserung von mitteleuropa, roman“ remains, half a century after its publication, a riddle in need of interpretation. As part of his work on the first complete translation of the „verbesserung“ (into [...]
more informationenglischThis first comprehensive study of heroism and the heroic in “Doctor Who” (1963-2020) uses one of Britain’s longest-running TV series to access the changing state of the nation and its collective emotions since the early Sixties. The analysis of two decade-spanning processes of heroization [...]
more informationenglischIn the decades around 1900, “Weltanschauungsliteratur” (ideological literature) boomed. These texts, which oscillate between science and literature, promise a meaningful explanation of the world in times of crisis. Three great novels of German modernist literature – Thomas Mann's Zauberberg, [...]
more informationenglischThis first comprehensive study of heroism and the heroic in “Doctor Who” (1963-2020) uses one of Britain’s longest-running TV series to access the changing state of the nation and its collective emotions since the early Sixties. The analysis of two decade-spanning processes of heroization [...]
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englischHow much tradition is there in the avant-garde? Is everything that is claimed to be new really new? Literary Expressionism (the most important avant-garde movement of Classical Modernism), which was and still is generally considered to be the epoch of "broken forms", claimed this for itself: [...]
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englischDespite its undisputed place in the canon of the avant-garde, Oswald Wiener's „die verbesserung von mitteleuropa, roman“ remains, half a century after its publication, a riddle in need of interpretation. As part of his work on the first complete translation of the „verbesserung“ (into [...]
more informationenglischFor decades, the Maoist New People's Army in the Philippines has been fighting exploitation and poverty. In the 1980s, several Catholic priests joined and shaped it. One faction pursued national revolution, while another emphasized the preservation of indigenous culture. Conrado Balweg [...]
more informationenglischHow does literature think about lived time? One of the central patterns of making sense of lived (and narrated) time is the category of fate, which has an ambiguous connection to the concept of chance. In contemporary literature, fate only seems to have become obsolete. Instead, the emphasis [...]
more informationenglischFor decades, the Maoist New People's Army in the Philippines has been fighting exploitation and poverty. In the 1980s, several Catholic priests joined and shaped it. One faction pursued national revolution, while another emphasized the preservation of indigenous culture. Conrado Balweg [...]
more informationenglischHow does literature think about lived time? One of the central patterns of making sense of lived (and narrated) time is the category of fate, which has an ambiguous connection to the concept of chance. In contemporary literature, fate only seems to have become obsolete. Instead, the emphasis [...]
more informationenglischIs it possible to know whether a historic structure was built to be let or for use by the owners? Which sources offer information about the residents of a house? Was there such a thing as tenancy law in the past? When did the idea of a rented flat as we know it today come about?
Living in [...]
more informationIm zeitkritischen Diskurs der Zwischenkriegsjahre wird eine Bindungssemantik entwickelt, die allen voran mit der Negation von Bindung, also einem Zustand der Bindungslosigkeit, einen begrifflichen Rahmen zur Beschreibung der eigenen Gegenwart schafft. Neusachliche Schriftsteller:innen nehmen den [...]
more informationenglischIs it possible to know whether a historic structure was built to be let or for use by the owners? Which sources offer information about the residents of a house? Was there such a thing as tenancy law in the past? When did the idea of a rented flat as we know it today come about?
Living in [...]
more informationIm zeitkritischen Diskurs der Zwischenkriegsjahre wird eine Bindungssemantik entwickelt, die allen voran mit der Negation von Bindung, also einem Zustand der Bindungslosigkeit, einen begrifflichen Rahmen zur Beschreibung der eigenen Gegenwart schafft. Neusachliche Schriftsteller:innen nehmen den [...]
more informationenglischThe Florentine poet Aldo Palazzeschi (1885–1974), still little known in Germany, was, together with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, one of the main exponents of Italian Futurism. He stood for a non-bellicistic variety of Futurism, which mainly referred to Nietzsche’s theory of humor as a medium [...]
more informationenglischThe Florentine poet Aldo Palazzeschi (1885–1974), still little known in Germany, was, together with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, one of the main exponents of Italian Futurism. He stood for a non-bellicistic variety of Futurism, which mainly referred to Nietzsche’s theory of humor as a medium [...]
more informationDie Studie fokussiert Texte, die häufig unter den aus Wertungshandlungen entstandenen Termini ‚Unsinns-‘ und ‚Nonsenspoesie‘ rubriziert werden, und problematisiert die damit verbundene Tendenz zur Homogenisierung literarischer Artefakte, die zwar similäre ästhetische Verfahren erkennen lassen, aber [...]
more informationDie Studie fokussiert Texte, die häufig unter den aus Wertungshandlungen entstandenen Termini ‚Unsinns-‘ und ‚Nonsenspoesie‘ rubriziert werden, und problematisiert die damit verbundene Tendenz zur Homogenisierung literarischer Artefakte, die zwar similäre ästhetische Verfahren erkennen lassen, aber [...]
more informationDie Untersuchung widmet sich den Repräsentationen des Islam und von Muslimen in Lesebüchern des Nationalsozialismus, der DDR und der Bundesrepublik (1935–1964/65). Es werden Lesebücher für die Volksschule (NS, BRD) und für die Grund- sowie die Polytechnische Oberschule (DDR) untersucht. Näher [...]
more informationenglischThis volume, which was published in cooperation with the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris, discusses surrealism in literature and art in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey between the 1930s and 1980s. Surrealism emerged as a movement in art and literature in Europe in the [...]
more informationDie Untersuchung widmet sich den Repräsentationen des Islam und von Muslimen in Lesebüchern des Nationalsozialismus, der DDR und der Bundesrepublik (1935–1964/65). Es werden Lesebücher für die Volksschule (NS, BRD) und für die Grund- sowie die Polytechnische Oberschule (DDR) untersucht. Näher [...]
more informationenglischThrough this work, one can find a new way of interpreting Yoko Tawada's work and a new perspective on power analysis and self-play for intercultural literary studies. On the one hand, the book deals with the violent subject constitution under three kinds of power mechanisms in texts of [...]
more informationenglischHow do novels and stories about fictional artists describe their art? This question leads to a completely new understanding of the history of the artist novel from its beginnings in late 18th c. German literature to its intercontinental present. The study reveals that this history has two [...]
more informationenglischThis volume, which was published in cooperation with the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris, discusses surrealism in literature and art in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey between the 1930s and 1980s. Surrealism emerged as a movement in art and literature in Europe in the [...]
more informationenglischThis study explores Bernard von Brentano’s work in exile against the background of his political transformation. Initially close to the KPD, he later was accused of rapprochement with the Nazi regime. In fact, his oeuvre, written in Switzerland, is characterized by profound patriotism. Yet, [...]
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