englischThe Encyclopaedia provides a comprehensive overview of 3,300 major works of ancient literature, their content, significance and impact. In addition to literary works, it also includes scientific works, biographies, letters and histories. Several indexes make it easy to find individual works, [...]

Für die Klassische Philologie wie für die Alte Geschichte bietet die antike Geschichtsschreibung den unmittelbarsten Zugang zur Lebenswelt und Geschichte Roms. Caesar, Tacitus oder Cassius Dio dienen seit fast zwei Jahrtausenden als Quellen für das Bild Roms und des Römischen Reiches. Diese [...]

englischNering was the most influential architect in Brandenburg-Prussia around 1700. For the first time, the author contextualises Nering's work and subjects it to critical analysis. Nering transferred the style and quality primarily of Italian architecture to the Mark, which, as a strict, sober [...]

englischThe publication of the panel “Cold War Music Historiography: Focus on the GDR”, which took place at the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, deals with historiographical questions concerning the musical culture of the GDR. Among [...]

englischIn the GDR, fiction took on the function of a surrogate public sphere, since the mass media did not provide it. This is also true of literature set in the scientific establishment and milieu, a segment comprising some 150 texts. The handbook makes this segment accessible. On the one hand, it [...]

englischThe flood of information continues to grow, and fake news is booming due to the increasing influence of social media and artificial intelligence. The struggle for the better argument is proving difficult in an increasingly precarious debate culture. These developments are particularly [...]

englischThe year 1959 saw the release of Dave Brubeck's "Time Out", John Coltrane's "Giant Steps", Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue", Bill Evans' "Portrait in Jazz" and Ornette Coleman's "The Shape of Jazz to Come", all style-defining albums that were groundbreaking in the development of jazz. They [...]

englischThis book not only offers valuable ethnomusicological insights into the ritual music of the Tibetan Yungdrung Bön tradition. At the same time, it is an extraordinary case study in which Christiane Strothmann captivatingly describes her many years of collaboration with the Tibetan monastic [...]

englischGhost notes are ubiquitous in the rhythm of popular music: quiet notes or beats played between louder ones, filling in the metric grid. Nina Düvel's qualitative expert interviews with drummers explore for the first time why musicians use them and how they relate to the perception of groove [...]

englischThe 2022 PISA study marks a new low in the ongoing problem of developing pupils' reading skills. Belinda Akel addresses the desideratum of the lack of implementation of reading promotion programs at secondary level. Based on a multifactorial concept of reading competence, the self-developed [...]

englischWho is studying Islamic Studies in Germany today – and why? In this first nationwide survey, over 400 students of Islamic Studies provide information about their study motivation, career goals and views on Islam. Germany's future experts on Islam can thus be described more closely for the [...]

englischThe turn of the century around 1900 was a time of dynamic development for German cities. Westmünsterland in the Westphalian–Dutch border region was no exception. While factories developed into the most important employers in the towns, a new group of actors appeared on the scene, seeking [...]

englischNo other area of our lives consumes as much time as work. How much working time is 'normal' or 'acceptable' has become a highly political debate. But organised protest has always been at the centre of this debate. But what role has non-organised protest played? And what conclusions can be [...]

englischRosalba Carriera (1673–1757), the Venetian painter of pastel and miniature artwork, became famous for her partially intimate portraits and special painting technique in the first half of the 18th century. Her success was measured, among other things, by the fact that her clientele included [...]

englischToday more than ever, students of Latin philology need a commentary for the reading of Roman poets that will not let them down in linguistic, stylistic and metrical questions as well as in the field of realia. This is the purpose of Christina Meckelnborg's commentary on verses 397-814 of [...]

englischIn this book, Peter Krieger creates a political iconography of the Anthropocene: he shows how, with the help of optical forensics, an exploration of the history of ideas and a scientific interpretation of images, it is possible to understand what prompts people to abuse wild nature as a [...]

englischThis volume offers a new look at Walter Moers' Zamonia novels without completely omitting the intermedial, which has already been the subject of much research. A separate chapter is devoted to the carnival itself and the central aspects - fools, inverted orders, the grotesque - according to [...]

englischWhat images and stereotypes of Germany, Germans and the German language exist in the minds of Iranian learners of German? Although German has been learnt and taught in Iran for more than a century, the image that Iranians have of Germany has not yet been scientifically investigated.

In her [...]

englischIt is hardly known that the brothers Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) drew intensively from their earliest childhood. This publication is devoted to their hitherto unexplored childhood and youth drawings as well as those of their siblings Carl, Charlotte, Ludwig Emil [...]

englischThe biographical caesurae generated by human failure are the subject of the sociology of failure. From the perspective of literary studies and gender theory, this study connects to the interdisciplinary research of these discontinuities and elaborates the narrative techniques of failure of [...]

englischThe art-historical work provides an in-depth insight into the phenomenon of castles converted into monasteries, which was widespread throughout the Western world during the Middle Ages. The author, who is regularly involved in excavations, uses his knowledge of castle research to be able to [...]

englischThe media is often accused of being manipulated, biased or even controlled. Does it even abuse its power as the ‘fourth estate’? In this book, the author explores these questions from a value-free perspective and concludes that everything the media is accused of is already part of all [...]

englischThe representation of the 'Arab woman' in Western discourse occurs dualistically - either as a victim of repressive structures or as an eroticised-imagined harem lady. Colonial continuities are thus still evident today. Based on Lila Abu-Lughod's critique anchored in postcolonial theory, [...]

englischAccording to Sartre, every individual exists necessarily as consciousness of something. Rather implausibly, this seems to imply that one would not survive a dreamless sleep.

The author motivates the issue by, on the one hand, critically and analytically discussing somatic, psychological, [...]

englischMax Müller's lecture 'Theosophy, or Psychological Religion' marked a long dispute between Müller and members of the Theosophical Society over fundamental questions of world interpretation. While Müller regarded the laws of logic as 'sacred' and therefore irrefutable, reason in the occult [...]

englischNarrating issues of sustainability creatively is as challenging for journalists as it is full of opportunities. A range of different ‘ecological genres’, combining information and experimental literary qualities, can help to make the current ecological crisis tangible and shape social [...]

englischThis study examines the image of the priest as it is found in the Church Fathers of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Synodal period (1700–1917). Different models of the priesthood are identified and examined in terms of how they were shaped by the socio-political situation. In the course [...]

englischWhat German science fiction authors put on paper in the 1920s and early 1930s are not infrequently pre-fascist omnipotence fantasies of galactic proportions. Michael Novian examines literary representations of the “Nordic race” in science fiction novels from the period before the Second [...]

englischBorn around 425 BC, the Athenian Xenophon lived through the most exciting period in Athenian history. A versatile student of Socrates, he spent much of his life in exile. He worshipped the Spartan king Agesilaos and glorified Persian culture, which he visualised in his major work, the [...]

englischEpics are the oldest written long texts in many languages. They claim to recount fundamental events and seek to give validity to their version through formal composition. This volume provides an overview of Greek and Latin epic poetry from Homer to Late Antiquity. But above all it asks: How [...]

englischHarich's autobiography of his youth in Neuruppin provides an insight into the formation of his world view, and at the same time shows him as part of the Berlin cultural landscape that survived the war. The volume also includes an appendix with the text "Die Ereignisse aus meiner Sicht" - [...]

englischPsychological and social orientation needs that arise from the encounter of different cultures are dealt with in peace education dialogue mainly in a communicative way, sometimes also in an action-theoretical or praxeological way. While linguistic patterns often fail due to language [...]

englischThe study examines the coverage of the main public news channels Tagesschau and heute in the period from January 2020 to September 2021, using the method of quantitative content analysis to describe how the federal government dealt with the Corona crisis in Germany and how the loss of power [...]

englischSociety is fundamentally political and contingent. And yet politics is a tough and energy-sapping struggle for hegemony, and the foundations of the social order appear unshakeable despite various attempts at change.

Drawing on Ernesto Laclau's formulation of a theory of hegemony and [...]

englischIdeas about the influence of Christianity on European culture and science today are often one-sided. This volume offers an introduction to the scholarly study of the history of Christianity's impact. It shows which theological interpretations of the Christian faith have inspired artists, [...]

englischDigital transformation particularly affects banks. Their business processes have been largely digitized for several years, which is a significant factor for process agility and ensuring entrepreneurial capability. In the public sector, despite the pandemic-driven surge in digitalization, [...]

englischLeo Justinus Kauffmann was at the height of his creative powers when he was killed in an Allied air raid on Strasbourg in 1944. Subject to Nazi reprisals because of his Jewish wife and forced out of his job as a piano teacher, Kauffmann had to earn much of his living by composing light music [...]

englischWith this study, Jennifer Reiff encourages us to critically question the gender culture in children's media and to find new ways of representation.

Based on the psychological and sociological foundations of interculturality research, the author examines selected sequences in children's audio [...]

englischAs a central element of mediation between players and the game world, the avatar is at the centre of many video games. In this research work, Ronja Weidemann uses the example of Let's Plays to examine the extent to which the relationship between avatars, players and their community can be [...]

englischThe secularisation thesis predicts the long-term loss of religion’s importance due to it being at odds with modernity. In some countries, however, religion is gaining in importance.

In this book, Hannes Vorhofer analyses religious–secular conflicts in Israel against the background of the [...]

englischThe internet is increasingly becoming part of the everyday experience of younger and younger children. While the age at which children first experience the internet has been falling continuously since the turn of the millennium, internet-enabled devices are being integrated into everyday [...]

englischReaders are often mystified by the late work of Gerhard Roth, the Austrian author who died in 2022. Hans-Bernd Bunte’s book on Roth’s last five novels undertakes a detailed search for interpretations which complement the common perception of Roth. Known to be a critical observer of reality, [...]

englischThe renowned German composer Lothar Voigtländer (* 1943 in Leisnig/Saxony) gained his first musical experience in the Dresden Kreuzchor and studied at the Academy of Music in Leipzig and at the Academy of Arts of the GDR in Berlin, where he has lived since 1973. He worked as a professor of [...]

englischSince ancient Egypt, the kiosk has undergone many cultural and historical transformations. Architectural terminology still refers to a free-standing pavilion open on several sides, originally located in palace gardens, as a kiosk. From the 18th century onwards, it began to evolve from an [...]

englischAfter the expulsion of East Prussian refugees to Denmark in 1945, the country had to adjust to taking in thousands of refugees within a very short time. Elisa Herzig sheds light on the fate of these people and paints a comprehensive picture of their challenges, everyday life, nutrition and [...]

englischHow certain can we be of the accuracy of a doctor’s diagnosis? Which inference rules are used? Why do diagnostic errors happen? The author illuminates the convoluted thought process from symptom presentation to diagnosis using epistemology and theory of science with a special reference to [...]

englischIf we look around us, we see necessities that require care everywhere. How is care anchored in being human? What are the sources that feed our ability to care? Instead of assuming that care is an ethical question of should or must, this book shows why we care, why we can care and why we want [...]

englischSince the beginning of Russia's war against Ukraine, the European public has also been looking at Poland. As Ukraine's direct neighbour, Poland plays an important role in providing aid to the troubled country. However, the domestic political development under Poland's national conservative [...]