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Physik in unserer Zeit, Volume 54, Issue 6, Page 302-304, November 2023., 2023 Die Harfe ist ein uraltes Instrument, das in vielen Kulturen und Varianten gespielt wird – überwiegend von Frauen. Anders als traditionelle Instrumente ist die moderne Konzertharfe ohne mühsames Umstimmen der Saiten in allen Tonarten spielbar, erfordert aber engagierte Fußarbeit.
Leopold Mathelitsch, Ivo Verovnik
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A secret thing: Forgetting the author in Annette von Droste‐Hülshoff's “Das erste Gedicht”
The German Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 4, Page 498-515, Fall 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines the notion of secrecy in Annette von Droste‐Hülshoff's poem “Das erste Gedicht” (1846), pursuing its inquiry through a critical analysis of the gendering of space and authorship in Walter Benjamin's commentary on her poetics in Deutsche Menschen. Eine Folge von Briefen (1936).
Julia Gutterman
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 36-56, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This article considers visual and textual descriptions of conversions to Lutheranism by focusing on the former Augustinian monk Gottfried Rabe, who delivered his revocation sermon in Wittenberg in 1601 and features on two woodcuts as well as on a commemorative medal.
Martin Christ
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 281-304, September 2021., 2021 Abstract The paper discusses what lay behind the successes of the Bavarian Academy of Science, which was established in 1759. To this end the academic day‐to‐day operations during the first five decades of its existence are being analyzed in four different fields of activity (academia, popularization, distribution of natural knowledge, expertise).
Susan Splinter
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Money, Violence, and the Financialized Self in Michael Haneke's Glaciation Trilogy
The German Quarterly, Volume 94, Issue 1, Page 116-130, Winter 2021., 2021 This essay argues that Haneke's Glaciation Trilogy actively engages the mounting financialization of self during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Against the backdrop of Robert Bresson's 1983 film L'argent, which features the relatively new automated teller machine (ATM), the study analyzes the provocative destruction of money scene in Der siebente ...
William H. Carter
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, 2021 JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, Volume 19, Issue 9, Page 1337-1340, September 2021.
Steffen Schubert +5 more
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German Life and Letters, Volume 73, Issue 3, Page 365-382, July 2020., 2020 ABSTRACT This article examines Berta Lask's drama Thomas Münzer (1925), which was commissioned by the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD) and staged in Eisleben to mark the 400th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War (1524–5) and the execution of Thomas Müntzer.
Catherine Smale
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Der Aphroditekult von Ankara im Altertum
Belleten, 1966 Einen Teil der alten Geschichte von Ankara bildet ihre Religionsgeschichte. In den Werken der alten Historiker gibt es keine Notizen, die uns über diese wichtige und interessante Gebiet Aufschlüsse erteilen könnten.
Sabahat Atlan
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Reading versus Seeing? Winckelmann's Excerpting Practice and the Genealogy of Art History
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 239-261, June 2020., 2020 Abstract From his arrival in Italy in 1755, Winckelmann's work is infused throughout by a fundamental antinomy: reading versus seeing. This antinomy possesses for him a decidedly epistemological significance: it allows him to present himself as the father of a discipline deserving of its name, i.e., the history of art.
Elisabeth Décultot
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 218-238, June 2020., 2020 Abstract The paper reconstructs the tension between the then emerging approach of emphasising authorial innovation and the traditional learned practice of adapting and reusing existing texts, which was cultivated in the early modern ars excerpendi. In 1717, a case of plagiarism occurred in the midst of a new historiographical genre (Reichshistorie) and
Daniel Fulda
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