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A Note on the Quire of P.Bodmer 45–47 and 27
No full textAbstract: This paper shows that P.Bodmer 45-47 and 27 are part of the same papyrus codex holding an editorial plan from the beginning. Moreover, it discusses a new disposition of the sheets, differently from Carlini’s view, and suggests the potential readership for such a book.Abstract: This paper shows that P.Bodmer 45-47 and 27 are part of the same papyrus codex holding an editorial plan from the beginning. Moreover, it discusses a new disposition of the sheets, differently from Carlini’s view, and suggests the potential readership for such a book
The Interrelation of Private and Political Autonomy under the ECHR:: A Theoretical and Jurisprudential Analysis
No full textDer Beitrag untersucht das Verhältnis von Demokratie und Menschenrechten im System der EMRK, ausgehend von der Rechtsprechung des EGMR: Die Konvention setzt Demokratie voraus, definiert sie jedoch nicht. In der Judikatur des EGMR erscheint Demokratie vor allem über politische Partizipationsrechte. Demgegenüber werden Rechte auf Privatsphäre, Identität und Selbstbestimmung regelmäßig als rein individuelle Interessen behandelt, die gegen kollektive demokratische Interessen abzuwägen sind. Der Artikel widerspricht dieser Gegenüberstellung. Aufbauend auf politischer Theorie und zentralen Entscheidungen zu Geschlechtsidentität, sexueller Orientierung und religiöser Praxis wird gezeigt, dass private Autonomie nicht im Gegensatz zu politischer Autonomie steht, sondern deren Voraussetzung bildet. Der Beitrag schlägt daher eine autonomiebasierte Lesart der Konvention vor: Eingriffe in private Lebensführung betreffen nicht nur individuelle Freiheit, sondern die Bedingungen demokratischer Teilhabe selbst. Menschenrechte erscheinen damit nicht als Grenze demokratischer Selbstbestimmung, sondern als deren strukturelle Voraussetzung.This article examines the relationship between democracy and human rights within the framework of the ECHR through the case law of the ECtHR. WHile the COnvention presupposes democracy, it does not define it. In the Court\u27s jurisprudence, democracy is primarily articulated through political participation rights. By contrast, rights concerning privacy, identity and self-determination are often treated as solely individual interests to be balanced against collective democratic concerns.
The article challenges this dichotomy. Drawing on political theory and leading judgments on gender identity, sexual orientation, bodily integrity and religious expression, it argues that private autonomy is not opposed to political autonomy but constitutes a precondition for it. The article proposes an autonomy-based reading of the Convention: interferences with private life affect not only individual liberty but also the conditions of democratic participation. Human rights thus appear not as limits to democracy, but as structural requirements of an inclusive democratic order
Four Documents Concerning Military Supplies
No full textThis article presents four unpublished or partially published papyri from the British Library, dating from the late third to the fourth century, which illuminate aspects of the Roman military supply system in Egypt. The documents include a receipt for hay and chaff delivered to soldiers, a declaration concerning large-scale delivery of tunics to military officials in Alexandria, and two accounts related to the vestis militaris tax, detailing payments and fractional assessments for military garments. The texts offer new insights into logistics, local administration, and the economic mechanisms behind the provisioning of the late Roman army.This article presents four unpublished or partially published papyri from the British Library, dating from the late third to the fourth century, which illuminate aspects of the Roman military supply system in Egypt. The documents include a receipt for hay and chaff delivered to soldiers, a declaration concerning large-scale delivery of tunics to military officials in Alexandria, and two accounts related to the vestis militaris tax, detailing payments and fractional assessments for military garments. The texts offer new insights into logistics, local administration, and the economic mechanisms behind the provisioning of the late Roman army
Gently Swaying, Suddenly—Yet Too Soon: Notes on Elfriede Jelinek’s Screenplay "Eine Partie Dame"
No full textWien – im Schnittpunkt der politischen Blöcke in Ost und West. Hier begegnen sich Andzrej, polnischer Jude und Kommunist, der Kopf eines Agentenrings, und die Studentin Lisa. Sie erliegt einer obsessiven Leidenschaft. Er nutzt Sex als Glück für einen Augenblick. Die dritte Protagonistin ist die Stadt Wien, das „Blinddarmende von Westeuropa“: Babylon der Sprachen, Milieu der Emigranten, alter Spanienkämpfer, und der Agenten für den Osten. Der Rhythmus des Ganzen, so Jelinek, sei eine sanft schwingende Sinuskurve, cool und plötzlich von jähen Action-Zacken gestört. Sie schrieb dieses Drehbuch 1980, Rainer Boldt wollte Regie führen, Helmut Wietz produzieren. Serge Gainsbourg und Tilda Swinton waren als Hauptdarsteller ins Auge gefasst. Doch strauchelte das Projekt im Dschungel der bundesdeutschen Filmförderung.The setting is Vienna—the crossroads of crossroads of East and West political blocs. Here, Andrzej, a Polish-Jewish communist who leads an espionage ring, meets the student Lisa. She succumbs to an obsessive passion; he uses sex as a fleeting moment of happiness. The city itself functions as the third protagonist, the "appendix of Western Europe": a Babylon of languages, teeming with emigrants, Spanish Civil War veterans, and agents working for the East. Jelinek described the work’s rhythm as a gently swinging curve, cool yet suddenly disrupted by sharp spikes of action. Written in 1980, the screenplay was intended for a film production by Helmut Wietz and directed by Rainer Boldt, with Serge Gainsbourg and Tilda Swinton envisioned for the leading roles. Unfortunately, the project ultimately stalled in the labyrinthine jungle of West German film funding
Das Schreibende Ich
Full text linkDer vorliegende Text untersucht das Schreiben als Form der Selbstreflexion und Identitätsbildung über verschiedene Lebensphasen hinweg. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, wie sich Schreibpraktiken– insbesondere das autobiografische Schreiben – im Laufe der Zeit verändern und welche Rolle Materialität, Medien und Lebenssituationen dabei spielen. Ausgangspunkt ist die Analyse meiner eigenen Schreibbiografie, die von handschriftlichen Tagebucheinträgen in der Kindheit über erzählende Texte in der Jugend bis hin zu digitalen Formen des Schreibens im Erwachsenenalter reicht. Dazu wird ein autoethnografischer Ansatz verwendet, der subjektive Erfahrungen und Erinnerungen systematisch reflektiert und in einen größeren theoretischen Kontext einbettet. Als Untersuchungsmaterial dienen Tagebücher, Notizen, Kurztexte und Gedichte, die ich diachron auswerte, um Muster und Veränderungen im Schreibverhalten sichtbar zu machen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Schreiben in allen Lebensphasen eine zentrale Rolle für emotionale Verarbeitung, Selbstverständigung und Sinnstiftung spielt. Dabei verändert sich weniger die Motivation zum Schreiben als vielmehr die Form, Sprache und Funktion der Texte: vom spontanen, emotionalen Ausdruck hin zu einem bewussten, reflektierten literarischen Schreiben
A Woman᾿s Application for the Appointment of a Guardian (tutor ad actum)
No full textThe present article contains the first edition of a previously unpublished Greek text from the Collection of Papyri of the Austrian National Library (inv. no. P.Vindob. G 25822). The papyrus records the request of a woman who asks to be granted a legal tutor in order to carry out a legal act for which a tutor was required (tutor ad actum). The applicant claims to have no male relatives. The text concerns the applicant᾿s dowry, while the addressee of the request is most likely either the archiprytanis and exegetes of Alexandria or the exegetes of the Arsinoite metropolis of Ptolemais Euergetis. There are six parallels to our text coming from the Arsinoite nome and dated between 168/169 AD and 207 AD, which preserve applications to the archiprytanis and exegetes for the granting of a legal tutor. Unlike these texts, which are preserved as appendices to later documents, the Viennese fragment seems to preserve the original application of the woman in question.The present article contains the first edition of a previously unpublished Greek text from the Collection of Papyri of the Austrian National Library (inv. no. P.Vindob. G 25822). The papyrus records the request of a woman who asks to be granted a legal tutor in order to carry out a legal act for which a tutor was required (tutor ad actum). The applicant claims to have no male relatives. The text concerns the applicant᾿s dowry, while the addressee of the request is most likely either the archiprytanis and exegetes of Alexandria or the exegetes of the Arsinoite metropolis of Ptolemais Euergetis. There are six parallels to our text coming from the Arsinoite nome and dated between 168/169 AD and 207 AD, which preserve applications to the archiprytanis and exegetes for the granting of a legal tutor. Unlike these texts, which are preserved as appendices to later documents, the Viennese fragment seems to preserve the original application of the woman in question
Constructing Society and Its Margins. Austrian Deportation Policy-Making in 1990 and 2005
Full text linkIn this article, I examine two episodes of policy-making in the field of deportation policy, in 1990 and 2005, in the context of prevailing social, economic, and border policy dynamics in Austria. In both cases, the emergence of a specific deportable subject served larger issues. In 1990 the construct of the ‘economic refugee’ shifted the focus towards migration management. In 2005 the notion of asylum abuse distracted from the government’s competitive and polarizing political approach.In this article, I examine two episodes of policy-making in the field of deportation policy, in 1990 and 2005, in the context of prevailing social, economic, and border policy dynamics in Austria. In both cases, the emergence of a specific deportable subject served larger issues. In 1990 the construct of the ‘economic refugee’ shifted the focus towards migration management. In 2005 the notion of asylum abuse distracted from the government’s competitive and polarizing political approach
A Greek Christian Epitaph of Egypt in the San Antonio Museum of Art
No full textThis article presents an edition of an unpublished Christian epitaph in Greek that likely comes from either Armant (Hermonthis) or Esna (Latopolis) in Upper Egypt. The inscription commemorates a woman named Rachel and is inscribed atop a finely decorated tombstone that depicts an eagle between two pilasters. This article presents an edition of an unpublished Christian epitaph in Greek that likely comes from either Armant (Hermonthis) or Esna (Latopolis) in Upper Egypt. The inscription commemorates a woman named Rachel and is inscribed atop a finely decorated tombstone that depicts an eagle between two pilasters.  
The City Solution? Theodosiopolis and the System of Joint Administration in the Late Antique Fayyum
No full textThis article discusses the status of the civitas of Theodosiopolis in the Fayyum Oasis and its place in the administrative and social network of late antique Egypt. First mentioned in 447 CE, the city appears to have held a peculiar position. It functioned as a point of local reference, had its own surrounding territorium (or “nome”) including villages and hamlets, and operated as a fiscal unit on par with other civitates. Yet the affairs of its nome were managed exclusively by authorities of the larger neighboring city of Arsinoe. The Theodosiopolite nome was dissolved by the mid or later seventh century, but some traces of it as a subregion of the Arsinoite nome persist into the eighth century. This model of a “formal city” may constitute a new type of “postcurial” city formation in the late antique Roman East. Tebtynis, while often suggested as a candidate, is unlikely to have been the village that evolved into Theodosiopolis.This article discusses the status of the civitas of Theodosiopolis in the Fayyum Oasis and its place in the administrative and social network of late antique Egypt. First mentioned in 447 CE, the city appears to have held a peculiar position. It functioned as a point of local reference, had its own surrounding territorium (or “nome”) including villages and hamlets, and operated as a fiscal unit on par with other civitates. Yet the affairs of its nome were managed exclusively by authorities of the larger neighboring city of Arsinoe. The Theodosiopolite nome was dissolved by the mid or later seventh century, but some traces of it as a subregion of the Arsinoite nome persist into the eighth century. This model of a “formal city” may constitute a new type of “postcurial” city formation in the late antique Roman East. Tebtynis, while often suggested as a candidate, is unlikely to have been the village that evolved into Theodosiopolis