englischRepresentations of theatre and dance were and are as broad as they are connectable. This also applies to the academic study of theatre and dance. In this handbook, experts provide insights into the history (or histories) of both art forms, definitions and basic terms, methods and theories as [...]

englischFor an academic discipline like German studies to make its mark, global networking is essential, especially in a country such as Australia, which due to its geostrategic location does not allow for proliferent German studies research in the same way that Europe does. ‘Limbus—The Australian [...]

englischThe studies collected in this book illustrate a basic theory and methodology of cultural techniques research using concrete historical case studies. Accordingly, this book aims to analyse situations of elementary symbolisation processes in which the distinctions between the real and the [...]

englischRelics—objects perceived as old—tell us about times gone by. They can be used to describe age and to connect the past, the present and the future. With the material turn and temporality research, this book combines two research directions from recent decades and takes a diachronic look at [...]

englischFestivals and games are important cultural and social factors in Greek-Roman antiquity that are often not considered in the classroom. This volume, which contains the lectures held at the 30th Summer Academy of the Ministry of Education of the State of Baden-Württemberg, illuminates the [...]

englischGerman Schlager music has undergone great modernisation in recent years—stars like Helene Fischer, Andrea Berg, Vanessa Mai and Beatrice Egli have freed the genre from its outdated image. Fischer in particular is setting new standards through her acrobatic stage shows, modern pop–schlager [...]

englischAs archived archiving apparatuses, letter copying books are media in their own right. This work is dedicated to these mostly unknown objects and explains their dual function as archiving and archived media.

The study’s comprehensive research into different letter copying books reveals [...]

englischThese fifteen papers, published between 1987 and 2022, discuss the following themes: criticism of classicistic translations of Homer and Ovid; the history of the reception of Virgil, Horace and Lucian in literature and Classics; selected humanists and their study of ancient authors in the [...]

englischThe fascination of the royal game has always occupied the arts and science, resulting in compositions, paintings, stage works, etc. In addition, the explosive development of artificial intelligence (AI) has given chess a new dimension and importance, even as a model for scientific theories. [...]

englischIn Homer’s Iliad, the main character, Achilles, twice takes a course of action that upends decisions which he himself had previously proclaimed to be irrevocable. Achilles had refused to battle on the side of the Greeks – and then rejoins the fight as their ally. He had announced several [...]

englischThe Yearbook on Hofmannsthal and European modernity has been published since 1993 and is regarded as the most important instrument of research into Hofmannsthal. It places the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) in the aesthetic and socio-historical context of modern European culture [...]

englischThe chorus is situated within the friction between individuality and collectivity, or, to quote Nietzsche, between Apollo and Dionysus. A close look at choruses in dramas of the 20th and 21st centuries reveals this relationship. How does a chorus act as a group? And what happens to this [...]

englischContemporary culture is characterised by a peculiar desire for crime narratives. Novels, non-fiction books, films, TV series or podcasts that deal with real or fictional murders, acts of fraud or spectacular thefts attract a wide audience and often become the object of public fascination. [...]

englischSecrecy is a notion that is central to many different cultures, although it can mean different things and operate differently in those different cultural contexts. In a German context, Friedrich Nietzsche believed the secret was the foundation of culture, while Georg Simmel concluded secrecy [...]