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Frei Otto
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ISBN: 9783955532529 9783955532536 9783955532543 3955532542 3955532534 3955532526 Year: 2015 Publisher: München

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A depiction of his most important works New forms of lightweight and adaptable construction Insight into interdisciplinary research projects Frei Otto's work as a source of inspiration for architects and engineers worldwide No other architect provided as many ideas and inspiration to construction in the second half of the 20th century as Frei Otto. Lord Norman Foster described this great pioneer of lightweight construction simply as "an inspiration". Frei Otto explored the foundations of resource and energy-efficient building well before these issues received the attention of the wider public. By including users in construction planning and taking into account local and climatic conditions, he opened new avenues for the building industry. To celebrate his 90th birthday, the publication provides insights on the key aspects of his work. At its heart was the search for natural designs and an exploration of form-finding and self-development processes. As such he created a whole universe of ideas using membrane, net and convertible roofs with umbrellas, grid shells, and pneumatic structures. The book introduces his key works and highlights how his ideas were adopted and continued throughout the world. Kein anderer Architekt hat dem Bauen in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts so viele Anregungen und Impulse gegeben wie Frei Otto. Frei Otto erforschte die Grundlagen zu ressourcenschonendem und energieeffizientem Bauen lange bevor diese Themen in den Fokus der breiten Öffentlichkeit rückten. Mit der Einbeziehung der Nutzer in die Bauplanung sowie der Berücksichtigung klimatischer und örtlicher Gegebenheiten wies er dem Bauwesen neue Wege. Die Publikation anlässlich des 90. Geburtstags von Frei Otto gibt Einblicke in alle wichtigen Aspekte seines Schaffens. In dessen Zentrum standen die Suche nach natürlichen Konstruktionen und die Erforschung von Formfindungs- sowie Selbstbildungsprozessen. Dazu entwickelte er mit Membran-, Seilnetz- und wandelbaren Dächern, mit Schirmen, Gitterschalen und pneumatischen Konstruktionen ein ganzes Universum an Ideen. Das Buch stellt seine wichtigsten Arbeiten vor und zeigt, wie seine Vorstellungen weltweit aufgegriffen und fortgeführt wurden.


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Filmische Seitenblicke : Cinepoetische Exkursionen ins Kino von 1968
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ISBN: 311061894X 3110613174 3110618702 Year: 2019 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Ist 1968 gescheitert? Die Frage ist falsch gestellt. Die Ereignisse, die Bedeutung und die Auswirkungen von '68 lassen sich nicht in einem schlüssigen Narrativ fassen. Das Jahr beschreibt einen Kulminationspunkt, an dem höchst heterogene kulturelle, soziale und politische Phänomen in eine Interaktion zueinander treten, ohne ursächlich miteinander verbunden zu sein. Herzstück des Bandes ist ein Essay von Hermann Kappelhoff, der '68 aus der Analyse von Happenings, avantgardistischen Aktionen und Filmen heraus als Synonym für eine Form kultureller Gemeinschaftsbildung beschreibt; es markiert die Geburtsstunde der transnationalen Geschmacksgemeinschaft der westlichen Pop- und Jugendkultur. Dass sich der radikale kulturelle Wandel von '68 nur in seiner Heterogenität fassen lässt und die Logik des Happenings und des Widerspruchs zur poetischen Matrix des Kinos wird, zeigt ein Kaleidoskop aus Analysen von Filmen, die 1968 gezeigt wurden.


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Der weg zum frauenwahlrecht in Deutschland
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ISBN: 3845293535 3789054739 Year: 1998 Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG

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Vor genau achtzig Jahren wurde das Wahlrecht für Frauen in Deutschland auf Reichsebene eingeführt. Welche Gründe gab es dafür?Diese Untersuchung dokumentiert erstmals umfassend den Weg zum Frauenwahlrecht: in verfassungsgeschichtlicher, rechtsphilosophisch-geistesgeschichtlicher und politisch-rechtsgeschichtlicher Perspektive. Sie zeigt, wie sehr die staatsbürgerlichen Rechte der Frau von ihrer Stellung in der Familie her bestimmt wurden. Sie verdeutlicht ferner, daß es mehr die Revolution von 1918 war als eine kontinuierliche Entwicklung, der wir das Frauenwahlrecht verdanken.Das Werk wendet sich an Juristen, Politologen, Historiker und Soziologen. Es schließt eine bedeutende Lücke in der Erforschung der sozialen, politischen und rechtlichen Welt des 19. und des beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts.Die Verfasserin war Assistentin am Institut für Rechtsphilosophie und Allgemeine Staatslehre der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.


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Johann Gottlob von Quandt (1787−1859) : Kunst fördern und ausstellen
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ISBN: 3422981454 9783422981454 3422966838 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter

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Quandt war Erbauer eines ersten Goethe-Erinnerungsortes, Gründer des Sächsischen Kunstvereins und Vorkämpfer für eine moderne Gemäldegalerie in Dresden. Er förderte zeitgenössische Künstler und erforschte Alte Meister. Seine Mitbürger wollte er durch Kunst gebildet wissen und trug unermüdlich mit Gesprächen, Artikeln und Ausstellungen dazu bei. Vorliegende Studie beleuchtet die umtriebige Persönlichkeit und ihr Wirken im frühen 19. Jahrhundert. Quandts breites Engagement hinterließ tiefe Spuren im deutschen Kulturleben und gab der jungen Kunstgeschichte wesentliche Impulse. Daher lohnt der Blick in seine Biographie, seine schriftlichen Vermächtnisse, seine private Sammlung mit Werken solch klingender Namen wie Overbeck, Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Friedrich, Botticelli, Fra Angelico und Cranach.


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The German Federal Constitutional Court : the court without limits
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ISBN: 0191835323 0192512099 0192512102 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This volume offers a potted history of the German Federal Constitutional Court, one of the most influential constitutional courts in recent years. It examines the development of the court and its interaction with the German basic law, its approach to judicial reasoning, and its significance for contemporary constitutional theory.


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Jews and Protestants : From the Reformation to the Present
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ISBN: 3110664712 311066108X Year: 2020 Publisher: De Gruyter

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The book sheds light on various chapters in the long history of Protestant-Jewish relations, from the Reformation to the present. Going beyond questions of antisemitism and religious animosity, it aims to disentangle some of the intricate perceptions, interpretations, and emotions that have characterized contacts between Protestantism and Judaism, and between Jews and Protestants. While some papers in the book address Luther's antisemitism and the NS-Zeit, most papers broaden the scope of the investigation: Protestant-Jewish theological encounters shaped not only antisemitism but also the Jewish Reform movement and Protestant philosemitic post-Holocaust theology; interactions between Jews and Protestants took place not only in the German lands but also in the wider Protestant universe; theology was crucial for the articulation of attitudes toward Jews, but music and philosophy were additional spheres of creativity that enabled the process of thinking through the relations between Judaism and Protestantism. By bringing together various contributions on these and other aspects, the book opens up directions for future research on this intricate topic, which bears both historical significance and evident relevance to our own time.


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Friedrich Rosen : Orientalist Scholarship and International Politics
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ISBN: 3110639548 3110639254 Year: 2020 Publisher: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter

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The German lacuna in Edward Said's 'Orientalism' has produced varied studies of German cultural and academic Orientalisms. So far the domains of German politics and scholarship have not been conflated to probe the central power/knowledge nexus of Said's argument. Seeking to fill this gap, the diplomatic career and scholarly-literary productions of the centrally placed Friedrich Rosen serve as a focal point to investigate how politics influenced knowledge generated about the "Orient" and charts the roles knowledge played in political decision-making regarding extra-European regions. This is pursued through analyses of Germans in British imperialist contexts, cultures of lowly diplomatic encounters in Middle Eastern cities, Persian poetry in translation, prestigious Orientalist congresses in northern climes, leveraging knowledge in high-stakes diplomatic encounters, and the making of Germany's Islam policy up to the Great War. Politics drew on bodies of knowledge and could promote or hinder scholarship. Yet, scholars never systemically followed empire in its tracks but sought their own paths to cognition. On their own terms or influenced by "Oriental" savants they aligned with politics or challenged claims to conquest and rule.


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Familienunternehmer als externe Beiräte : Empirische Untersuchung einer häufig gewählten Besetzung: Wie gut ist sie wirklich?
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ISBN: 3737009945 3847109944 Year: 2019 Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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Firmeninhaber berufen gerne andere Familienunternehmer als externe Mitglieder in ihre Beiräte. Aber welche Erwartungen verbinden sie mit dieser Berufung? Und wie zufrieden sind sie mit dem Ergebnis? In seiner Studie führt Otto W. Obermaier qualitative Interviews mit 59 Mitgliedern aus 19 Gremien bedeutender Firmen, die die beschriebene Konstellation aufwiesen. Seine Ergebnisse zeigen ein Spektrum von gegenseitigen Erwartungen, die unter anderem durch die Führungsstruktur des jeweiligen Unternehmens beeinflusst werden. Aus der weitgehend fehlenden Abklärung dieser Erwartungen können jedoch Konflikte resultieren, die die Zufriedenheit mit der Amtswahrnehmung beeinträchtigen. So ist das Zusammenwirken der beiden Familienunternehmer zwar per se nützlich, kann aber deutlich verbessert werden. Company owners like to recruit owners of other family businesses as external members to their advisory boards. What are the owners expectations and how satisfied are they with that recruitment? Findings were generated from qualitative interviews with 59 members of advisory boards of large German firms providing the staffing described above. The research results show a range of mutual expectations influenced by factors such as the governance structure of the relevant company. Significant lack of communication on those expectations may lead to conflicts between the players that diminish the satisfaction level on both sides. So the co-operation between the two owners is per se useful but can be improved considerably.


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A new order of medicine
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ISBN: 0822986817 9780822986812 9780822945604 0822945606 Year: 2019 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa.

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The sixteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the number of educated physicians practicing in German cities. Concentrating on Nuremberg, A New Order of Medicine follows the intertwined careers of municipal physicians as they encountered the challenges of the Reformation city for the first time. Although conservative in their professed Galenism, these men were eclectic in their practices, which ranged from book collecting to botany to subversive anatomical experimentations. Their interests and ambitions lead to local controversy. Over a twenty-year campaign, apothecaries were wrested from their place at the forefront of medical practice, no longer able to innovate remedies, while physicians, recent arrivals in the city, established themselves as the leading authorities. Examining archives, manuscript records, printed texts, and material and visual sources, and considering a wide range of diseases, Hannah Murphy offers the first systematic interpretation of the growth of elite medical "practice," its relationship to Galenic theory, and the emergence of medical order in the contested world of the German city.


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The Future of the German-Jewish Past : Memory and the Question of Antisemitism
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ISBN: 1557537291 1557537119 1557537968 Year: 2020 Publisher: Purdue University Press

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"Germany's acceptance of its direct responsibility for the Holocaust has strengthened its relationship with Israel and has led to a deep commitment to combat antisemitism and rebuild Jewish life in Germany. As we draw close to a time when there will be no more firsthand experience of the horrors of the Holocaust, there is great concern about what will happen when German responsibility turns into history. Will the present taboo against open antisemitism be lifted as collective memory fades? There are alarming signs of the rise of the far right, which includes blatantly antisemitic elements, already visible in public discourse. But it is mainly the radicalization of the otherwise moderate Muslim population of Germany and the entry of almost a million refugees since 2015 from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan that appears to make German society less tolerant and somewhat less inhibited about articulating xenophobic attitudes. The evidence is unmistakable-overt antisemitism is dramatically increasing once more. The Future of the German-Jewish Past deals with the formidable challenges created by these developments. It is conceptualized to offer a variety of perspectives and views on the question of the future of the German-Jewish past. The volume addresses topics such as antisemitism, Holocaust memory, historiography, and political issues relating to the future relationship between Jews, Israel, and Germany. While the central focus of this volume is Germany, the implications go beyond the German-Jewish experience and relate to some of the broader challenges facing modern societies today"--

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