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Constructing "Heimat" in the Ruhr Valley: Krupp housing and the search for the ideal German home 1914-1931
No full textFew German history topics have garnered as much attention as the nuanced meaning of Heimat and the controversial past of the Krupp steel firm. This article examines their historical intersection in the housing realm. Between 1914 and 1931, when the impact of World War I entirely reframed the housing question, Heimat advocates like Hermann Muthesius and Paul Schultze-Naumburg used examples of Krupp estates to depict their vision of the ideal German home. These historically neglected Krupp settlements were hybrids of vernacular and modern influences and served as significant precursors to the dominant Kleinsiedlung housing still dotting the German landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Peer reviewedfinal article publishe
Keynote with Brian Fies
No full textSketch notes for this session by graphic notetaker Sandy Bartholomew are available for download.
Brian Fies has been a journalist, an environmental chemist, a freelance journalist, a science writer and, beginning early in the 21st century, a cartoonist. His first graphic novel Mom’s Cancer, a true story about his mother’s diagnosis and treatment, won an Eisner Award, a German Youth Literature Prize, and other recognitions. In October 2017, Brian and his wife Karen lost their home in what was at that time the largest wildfire in California history. The webcomic he made gave a first-hand account from ground zero of a major disaster, and Brian expanded his webcomic into a full-length print version of A Fire Story, recently named a Finalist for a 2020 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards (EGL Awards) in Best in Adult Graphic Literature (Non-Fiction).Keynote presentation for the 2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference by cartoonist Brian Fies. Additional reading mentioned in the keynote: - Brian's Blog: http://brianfies.blogspot.com/ - No Ordinary Flu from Public Health Seattle-King County: https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health/emergency-preparedness/preparing-yourself/pandemic-flu/comic.aspx - A Fire Story Animation by KQED: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13813960/watch-a-santa-rosa-cartoonists-a-fire-story-come-to-lifeNEGM20 Keynote, courtesy of the MCPHS School of Healthcare Business
Thirty-First Annual Bibliography 2017 (Contemporary German Literature Collection)
No full textThe 31st bibliography for 828 volumes added to Washington University Libraries' Contemporary German Literature Collection. All published in 2017, these acquisitions include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals from publishers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This Collection serves as the research arm for the Washington University Department of Germanic Languages and Literature's Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature. Organized by author or editor, the bibliography includes local call numbers as well as subject and genre descriptors
From German communist antifascism to a contemporary united front
No full textDr. Devin Z. Shaw (Douglas College) writes the book chapter From German communist antifascism to a contemporary united front (2021).Final book published.DC Author's celebration 202
The Hermit in German Literature
No full textIn this thorough study of the figure of the hermit in the works of German writers Fitzell analyzes characters in works by Lessing, Goethe, Klinger, Hoffmann, Wieland, Eichendorff and others. The author argues that the figure of the hermit characterizes the quality of inwardness and withdrawal from society characteristic of German literature, and shows how this quality was represented in the age of Goethe
Brian MURDOCH: German Literature and the First World War: The Anti-War Tradition. Collected Essays by Brian Murdoch, Farnham, 2015, 309 pp., ISBN 9781472452894
No full textReseña de la obra Brian MURDOCH: German Literature and the First World War: The Anti-War Tradition. Collected Essays by Brian Murdoch, Farnham, 2015, 309 pp., ISBN 9781472452894. A cargo de Axel Weipert
Ulrich Becher: An Introduction to the Life and Writings of this Contemporary German Author
No full textv, 29 p.Originally I had intended to treat all of his epic, lyric,
and dramatic works which were available to me. As my research
progressed, I realized, however, that a detailed investigation
of Becher's philosophy, literary form and imagery would be
impossible within the limitations of a thesis. Instead, I
chose to introduce this contemporary German author to an
English-speaking audience through a survey of his life and
works, followed by an analysis of three narratives representing
the three periods of Ulrich Becher's writing
Transport of Brownian particles in a narrow, slowly varying serpentine channel
No full textWe study the transport of Brownian particles under a constant driving force and moving in channels that present a varying centerline but have constant aperture width (serpentine channels). We investigate two types of channels, solid channels, in which the particles are geometrically confined between solid walls and soft channels, in which the particles are confined by the potential energy landscape. We consider the limit of narrow, slowly varying channels, i.e., when the aperture and the variation in the position of the centerline are small compared to the length of a unit cell in the channel (wavelength). We use the method of asymptotic expansions to determine both the average velocity (or mobility) and the effective dispersion coefficient of the particles. We show that both solid and soft-channels have the same effects on the transport properties up to leading order correction. Including the next order correction, we obtain that the mobility in a solid-channel is smaller than that in a soft-channel. However, we discuss an alternative definition of the effective width of a soft channel that leads to equal mobilities up to second order terms. Interestingly, in both cases, the corrections to the mobility of the particles are independent of the Péclet number, and the Einstein-Smoluchowski relation is satisfied.Copyright 2015 AIP Publishing. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing
Code choice and code-switching in Swiss-German internet relay chat rooms
No full textIn the German-speaking regions of Switzerland, dialect is spoken by all social groups in most communicative situations, Standard German being used only when prescribed. Swiss dialects rarely appeared in written form before the 1980s, apart from the genre of dialect literature. Due to the growing acceptance of informal writing styles in many European languages, dialect is increasingly employed for written personal communication, in particular in computer-mediated communication (CMC). In Swiss Internet Relay Chat (IRC) rooms, varieties of German are used side by side as all chatters have a command of both standard and dialectal varieties. Depending on the channel, the proportion of dialectal contributions can be as high as 90 percent. The choice of a particular variety depends on both individual preference and on the predominant variety used within a specific thread. In this paper I take a quantitative approach to language variation in IRC and demonstrate how such an approach can help embed qualitative research on code-switching in CMC
Pennsylvania German Rhymes, Chants, and Lullabies
No full textA handwritten document by an unknown author, dating from circa 1950. Within, the author details various Pennsylvania German sayings, chants, and rhymes.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/1283/thumbnail.jp
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