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The Making of Dissidents
Before Hungary’s transition from communism to democracy, local dissidents and like-minded intellectuals, activists, and academics from the West influenced each other and inspired the fight for human rights and civil liberties in Eastern Europe. Hungarian dissidents provided Westerners with a new purpose and legitimized their public interventions in a bipolar world order. The Making of Dissidents demonstrates how Hungary’s Western friends shaped public perceptions and institutionalized their advocacy long before the peaceful revolutions of 1989. But liberalism failed to take root in Hungary, and Victoria Harms explores how many former dissidents retreated and Westerners shifted their attention elsewhere during the 1990s, paving the way for nationalism and democratic backsliding.
Ossi Wessi
Ossi Wessi includes the proceedings of the fourteenth annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference at the University of California, Berkeley (2006), which explored issues surrounding the Berlin Wall, both pre- and post-reunification, in language, literature, and visual media. The collected articles discuss the situation of the Berlin Wall, describing its portrayal as both a dividing and uniting boundary, and often discussing the continued existence of the Wall in the minds of Germany’s citizens. The multi-disciplinary range of approaches contained in this volume reveals how diverse the portrayals of the history of the Wall have been, as well as how controversial the division of Germany remains today. Topics covered in this collection include Wende Literature and film, linguistic changes and attitudes since 1989, the complicated history of the Neo-Nazis, and the visual arts. Although Ossi Wessi is by no means a comprehensive reference work, each of its essays serve as a though provoking springboard for further research.
The Pilsen Revolt of 1953
This book analyzes the first of the vast popular uprisings in the countries of Eastern Bloc, the revolt of West Bohemian City of Pilsen against the currency reform of June 1, 1953. The text is the first complex critical monograph on this topic. In the methodological field the research is inspired by the theories of so-called new social movements. Therefore, the book frames the Pilsen revolt into the context of previous protest actions that had taken place in the examined region after the establishment of communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia. Thus, the text deals with all the conflicts occurred within the years 1948–1953. This method enables the author to study several protest cultures which operated on a long-term base in various parts of the society and which—each of them in a different way—affected the course of the Pilsen revolt.
The Poet’s Role
This study of contemporary German poetry represents the first attempt to examine comprehensively and at some length the lyric response to the unification period. It sets out to investigate, by means of close textual analysis, whether the German ‘Wende’ was also a turning-point for poetry, exploring how GDR poets responded both to the revolutionary events of 1989 and subsequently to the new, united Germany. An introductory chapter considers what is distinct about poetry as a genre, especially under censorship or amid historic change, as well as outlining the post-unification ‘Literaturstreit’. The following chapter offers a survey of the poet’s role in the GDR from 1949 until 1989. ...
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Single-Use Technology in Biopharmaceutical Manufacture
This book gives an overview of commonly-used disposables in the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals, their working principles, characteristics, engineering aspects, economics, and applications. With this information, readers will be able to come to an easier decision for or against disposable alternatives and to choose the appropriate system. The book is divided into two parts – the first is related to basic knowledge about disposable equipment; and the second discusses applications through case studies that illustrate manufacturing, quality assurance, and environmental influence.
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Akcent
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'Wende' und 'Einheit' im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Literatur
Das zweibändige Handbuch ist die erste umfassende Gesamtdarstellung der literarischen Verarbeitung von "Wende" und deutscher "Einheit". Band I informiert zunächst ausführlich über den sich nach 1989 rapide verändernden Literaturbetrieb, sprachliche Aspekte der "Wende" und wesentliche Feuilletondebatten. Im Zentrum stehen exemplarische Analysen wichtiger Essays, Tagebücher und Autobiografien, Protokolle, Erzählungen, Romane, Gedichte und Dramen u.a. von Christa Wolf, Volker Braun, Brigitte Burmeister, Christoph Hein. Weitere Kapitel setzen sich mit dem Phänomen der "Ostalgie", Figuren wie "IM", "Ossi" und "Wessi", häufig wiederkehrenden Metaphern und Motiven sowie intertextuellen Beziehungen auseinander. Band II enthält die bisher umfangreichste thematisch ausgerichtete Bibliografie von Primär- und Sekundärtexten. Durch die systematische Betrachtung von Texten aller Gattungen wird das bisherige Bild der sogenannten "Wendeliteratur" in vielerlei Hinsicht korrigiert und erweitert.
