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Der Kriminalfall Charlotte Ursinus
Charlotte Ursinus, geb. von Weiss war eine Adelige in Berlin um 1800. Sie wurde wegen des Verdachtes auf Giftmord verhaftet. Monatelang war sie das Stadtgespräch in Berlin und die Sensationspresse berichtete ausführlich. Eine Reihe von Büchern wurden veröffentlicht, oft aber enthielten sie nur Halbwahrheiten oder erfundene Skandale. Klaus le Vrang hat in diesem Buch Wert gelegt auf exakte Tatsachen. Und die Wirklichkeit erweist sich als interessanter und spannender als die ausgedachten Geschichten. Es ist faszinierend zu erkennen, wie Charlotte Ursinus im Zuge der Ermittlungen und des Gerichtsverfahrens mit einer Verwirrtheit, hinter der eiskalte Logik steckt, der Todesstrafe zu entrinnen versucht. Dabei tritt auch das Eigenbild der Verbrecherin deutlich zutage.
Murderesses in German Writing, 1720-1860
An analysis of how female criminals were perceived both in the legal sphere and in general culture.
True Stories of Most Horrifying Female Serial Killers
• Aileen Wuornos (US): Became a prostitute in Florida and murdered seven men between 1989 and 1990. Claimed self-defense, saying the men had either raped or attempted to rape her. • Amelia Dyer (UK): Operated as a baby farmer, taking in infants for money but neglecting and often killing them. Suspected of being responsible for the deaths of over 400 infants. • Amelia Sach (UK): Along with her partner Annie Walters, ran a baby farming business where they murdered infants for profit. • Anna Maria Zwanziger (Germany): Infamous for poisoning victims with arsenic. • Belle Gunness (Norway): Lured men to her farm through personal ads, then murdered and robbed them. Estimated to have kille...
Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema
This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic. Poisons attract attention because they are both dangerous and hard to discover. Secretive and invisible, they are a challenging object of representation. How do science studies, literature, and especially film—the medium of the visible—explain and show what is hidden? How can we deal with uncertainties emerging from the ambivalence of dangerous substances? These considerations lead the editors of this volume to the notion of “precarious identities” as a key discursive marker of poisons and related substances. This book is unique in facilitating a multi-faceted conversation between disciplines. It draws on examples from historical cases of poisoning; figurations of uncertainty and blurred boundaries in literature; and cinematic examples, from early cinema and arthouse to documentary and blockbuster. The contributions work with concepts from gender studies, new materialism, post-colonialism, deconstructivism, motif studies, and discourse analysis.
Monstrous Anatomies
The book explores the significance and dissemination of 'monstrous anatomies' in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and descriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenment, during the Romantic and the Victorian Age. Since the investigations of late 18th-Century natural sciences, the fascination with monstrous anatomies has proved crucial to the study of human physiology and pathology. Featuring essays by a number of scholars focusing on a wide range of literary texts from the long nineteenth century and foregrounding the most important monstrous anatomies of the time, this book intends to offer a significant contribution to the study of the representations of the abnormal body in modern culture.
Practical Handbook of Bee Culture
In the summer of 2016 retired broadcaster Paul Ashton made an astounding discovery at a car boot sale in Sussex. He found a copy of Sherlock Holmes's Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, and bought it for £2. No other copy of this legendary volume – the only book Holmes wrote – has ever come to light. The Handbook is the journal kept by Holmes from 1904 to 1912. 1904 was the year he retired from active investigation and moved to a farmhouse in East Dean. In 1912 he came out of retirement and left East Dean in order to outwit the German spy network in Britain on the eve of World War I. The journal is, of course, principally the record of his bee-keeping activities, but Holmes has also incl...
Goethe Yearbook 18
New essays on topics spanning the Age of Goethe, with a special section of fresh views of Goethe and Idealism. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welcomingcontributions from scholars around the world. Volume 18 features a special section on Goethe and Idealism, edited by Elizabeth Millán and John H. Smith and including essays on Goethe and Spinoza; Goethe's notions of intuition and intuitive judgment; Novalis, Goethe, and Romantic science; Goethe and Humboldt's presentation of nature; Hegel's Faust; Goethe contra Hegel on...
Berliner Bürgertum im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert
Diese Sozialgeschichte untersucht am Beispiel einer repräsentativen Unternehmergruppe das Berliner Bürgertum. Mit der modernen Methode der nominalen Record Linkage werden die Mobilität und das soziale Netzwerk von bürgerlichen Familien und Familiengruppen bis weit in das 18. Jahrhundert zurückverfolgt. Die Arbeit basiert maßgeblich auf einer komplexen Auswertung von Kirchenbüchern. Eingebettet in den sozialen Kontext der Haupt- und Residenzstadt Berlin wird hier für die brandenburgisch-preußische Geschichte die lebhaft debattierte Problematik von Kontinuität und Diskontinuität im Prozeß der Herausbildung des modernen Bürgertums behandelt. Das Berliner Bürgertum mit seinen herausragenden Unternehmern, den Beamten und hofnahen Handwerkern, bedeutenden Kirchenmännern, Ärzten, Gelehrten und Künstlern nimmt in dieser Arbeit konkrete Gestalt an.
