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Geschichte und Region /Storia e regione 31/1 (2022)
Das Heft beschäftigt sich mit den Klosteraufhebungen innerhalb der Habsburgermonarchie im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert. Im Zuge des sogenannten josephinischen Klostersturms fielen insgesamt zwischen 700 und 800 von rund 2000 Klöstern und Stiften innerhalb von nur fünf Jahren von 1782 bis 1787 der staatskirchlich-aufgeklärten Säkularisation zum Opfer. Damit verbunden war ein breitgefächertes Klosterreformprogramm. Die Reformen gestalteten sich in den verschiedenen habsburgischen Regionen durchaus unterschiedlich und sie entwickelten mitunter eigene Dynamiken und Konturen, die das vorliegende Heft thematisiert und untersucht. Im Vordergrund steht die forschungsleitende Frage nach Funktion, Rolle und Reaktion von Klöstern und Stiften und von (Ex-)Mönchen und (Ex-)Nonnen im Spannungsbogen zwischen etatistischem Reformwillen der Wiener Regierung und dem Geschehen vor Ort. Der räumliche Fokus liegt auf Ungarn, Innerösterreich, Tirol, der Lombardei und dem Großherzogtum Toskana.
European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957
Explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century political practice and the project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access.
DEFA After East Germany
Paints a complex portrait of East German film art and representation through examining eighteen key DEFA films following the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, East Germany's DEFA filmmakers had a brief window in which to critique GDR society on either side of the Wende, the sweeping political turn that surrounded the fall of the Berlin Wall andthe opening of the border. Building on the DEFA Film Library's retrospective Wende Flicks series and Indiana University's DEFA Project, this study examines the newly rediscovered filmic artifacts of this transitional cinema, introducing eighteen key films from 1988 to 1994 in essays by German scholars, film professionals, and ...
Touching Photographs
Photography does more than simply represent the world. It acts in the world, connecting people to form relationships and shaping relationships to create communities. In this beautiful book, Margaret Olin explores photography’s ability to “touch” us through a series of essays that shed new light on photography’s role in the world. Olin investigates the publication of photographs in mass media and literature, the hanging of exhibitions, the posting of photocopied photographs of lost loved ones in public spaces, and the intense photographic activity of tourists at their destinations. She moves from intimate relationships between viewers and photographs to interactions around larger communities, analyzing how photography affects the way people handle cataclysmic events like 9/11. Along the way, she shows us James VanDerZee’s Harlem funeral portraits, dusts off Roland Barthes’s family album, takes us into Walker Evans and James Agee’s photo-text Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and logs onto online photo albums. With over one hundred illustrations, Touching Photographs is an insightful contribution to the theory of photography, visual studies, and art history.
Alpenvereinsjahrbuch BERG 2017
Das Jahrbuch BERG bietet mit erstklassigen Beiträgen namhafter Autoren und Fotografen einen einzigartigen Überblick über die wichtigsten Themen und Trends aus der Welt der Berge und des Bergsports. Der BergWelten-Schwerpunkt gilt diesmal dem Tiroler Skitourenparadies Sellrain, eine Region, die auch im Sommer überraschend viel zu bieten hat. Die Rubrik BergFokus widmet sich dem alpinen Kernthema Wege und Steige: Wie entstehen Wege im Gebirge, wann vergehen sie, warum gibt es immer wieder Clinch um Wegerechte und was macht eigentlich gutes Gehen aus? Die Rubrik BergMenschen stellt außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeiten wie den Kugler Bauern oder den polnischen Ausnahme-Alpinisten Voytek Kurt...
The German-Jewish Experience Revisited
In the past decades the “German-Jewish phenomenon” (Derrida) has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars from various fields: Jewish studies, intellectual history, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, critical theory. In all its complex dimensions, the post-enlightenment German-Jewish experience is overwhelmingly regarded as the most quintessential and charged meeting of Jews with the project of modernity. Perhaps for this reason, from the eighteenth century through to our own time it has been the object of intense reflection, of clashing interpretations and appropriations. In both micro and macro case-studies, this volume engages the multiple perspectives as advocated by manifold interested actors, and analyzes their uses, biases and ideological functions over time in different cultural, disciplinary and national contexts. This volume includes both historical treatments of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience – their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews – and contemporary reflections and competing interpretations as to how to understand the overall experience of German Jewry.
The Cultural Identities of European Cities
Cities are both real and imaginary places whose identity is dependent on their distinctive heritage: a network of historically transmitted cultural resources. The essays in this volume, which originate from a lecture series at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, explore the complex and multi-layered identities of European cities. Themes that run through the essays include: nostalgia for a grander past; location between Eastern and Western ideologies, religions and cultures; and the fluidity and palimpsest quality of city identity. Not only does the book provide different thematic angles and a variety of approaches to the investigation of city identity, it also emphasizes the importance of diverse cultural components. The essays presented here discuss cultural forms as various as music, architecture, literature, journalism, philosophy, television, film, myths, urban planning and the naming of streets.
Science Fiction Literature in East Germany
East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country's most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party's official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discuss...
