englischAround 14 million people in Germany regularly play music in their spare time. Many of them are members of wind orchestras or brass bands, who thus make an important contribution to regional (music) culture. However, what are their incentives in this respect? In an online survey of 214 [...]

englischLeadership of employees and colleagues, including influencing the top management, is essential to master the challenges of strategic communication work. Due to digitalization and globalization, the requirements for the communication of companies are becoming increasingly complex. Only [...]

englischAt the beginning of the 1970s, Wolfgang Harich increasingly turned towards ecological considerations. In 1975, his book, “Kommunismus ohne Wachstum” (‘Communism without Growth’), was published - the first work by a Marxist that faced the ecological challenges of modernity. It is printed in [...]

englischDigitalisation creates problems: supply chains that are not completely fair, massive consumption of electricity, an immense amount of e-waste, meagre efforts to recycle, etc. This is why this book argues for a more radical culture of reducing and forgoing our use of digital technologies, [...]

englischThe “individuelle Risikoanalyse” is a heuristic for a prognostic risk assessment of individuals. It provides a proceeding for the generation of scientifically founded propositions about the possibility that an individual going to conduct in a specific way. The present treatise includes two [...]

englischNumerous Buddhist festivals and ceremonies shape life in Sri Lanka. Devananda Rambukwelle, himself a Buddhist monk, examines their philosophical roots and the history of their origins, describes their procedure in detail and explains their religious and social context.

“Whatever is [...]

englischWith the mural paintings in the auditorium of the University of Leipzig, in the city councillors’ assembly hall of the New Town Hall in Chemnitz as well as the unrealised painting of the staircase in the Museum of Visual Arts in Leipzig, Conny Dietrich for the first time addresses the so far [...]

englischThe idea of the sublime is a key concept in Friedrich Schiller’s later dramatic aesthetic. This study demonstrates how the concept of the sublime in Schiller’s plays is implemented and transformed, starting from dramatic theory and then progressing to the written text before being portrayed [...]