englischIn the winter of 1946, pupils from Cecilienschule, a girls’ school in Saarbrücken, Germany, created a little Danke-Buch, a ‘thank you’ book with drawings, letters and poems for representatives of the Irish food aid, because this humanitarian deed saved numerous children’s lives.

In 2013, due [...]

englischTranshumanists propagate the possibility of physically and mentally 'enhancing' and 'overcoming' the human race by using technology and science. In doing so, they present a liberal self-conception that is supposedly compatible with democratic structures. In contrast to this line of thought, [...]

englisch It is a slow process of an awakening consciousness of the German colonies. Even less is known about the German colonial cinema in spite of it being the (medial) source of nationalism and racism. Using two examples, the work is analysing how “the others“ are created by hierarchy. The [...]

englischIn October 2019, the art teacher, artist and professor Helga Kämpf-Jansen would have celebrated her 80th birthday. Before she died, she had thought about starting another book project: On the basis of Kafka’s story ‘The Cares of a Family Man’, she had wanted to ask people interested in art [...]

englischSince the creation of the theater, the theater stage has been closely connected to the political. Can theater play also pave the way for integration? In this book, amateur actors from different language and cultural backgrounds develop a play based on their own experiences with flight, [...]

englischReligions design specific gender images and transport them into society through a variety of visual media. Kristin H. Purfürst focuses on designs of female role models in Thai Buddhist temple paintings and inquires about the emergence of female stereotypes in a process of mutual influence [...]