englischThe causes of climate change and biodiversity loss are rooted in cultural habits and aesthetics that have not been challenged for centuries. Identifying and challenging them will help to warn the world about cultural practices that may be leading to planetary catastrophe.

This introduction [...]

englischManfred Weiss, born in 1935 in Niesky, is one of Saxony's renowned composers. From 1959 to 1999 he taught at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden. Wilfried Krätzschmar and Jörg Herchet were among his composer colleagues.

His oeuvre of symphonies, concertos, chamber music and [...]

englischAs a continuation of the first part on the concert history of the Königliche musikalische Kapelle Dresden published in 2018, the second part documents the orchestra's concert activities between 1858 and 1918, which were shaped - together with outstanding artists at the individual stands - by [...]

englischMaintaining democratic stability and respect for human rights in the United States is becoming a challenge in the face of current crises. In order to meet this challenge, Leo Kempe examines the influence of ethnicity and living space on the status of democracy. In the context of the Black [...]

englischHuman dignity is one of the topic areas that Ferdinand von Schirach has dealt with in literature like no other contemporary writer.

This study is situated at the nexus between literary, legal and media studies. By analysing numerous passages from von Schirach's literary texts as well as [...]

englischNew technologies are usually transferred into the music industry from outside and radically change the way of doing business. An optimal implementation of disruptive change processes hardly succeeds. The transfomation of current working processes and structures is imminent: the lack of [...]