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Erwin Strittmatter as a writer for young people
No full textIn meiner Masterarbeit wird die Kinderliteratur von Erwin Strittmatter untersucht. Auch eine Darstellung der Kinderliteratur in der Zeit der DDR. Als die zwei Beispiele die bearbeitet werden, gelten die Romane „Tinko“ und Band eins der Trilogie „Der Wundertäter“. Beide Romane erzählen eine Geschichte über Kinder, ihre Kindheit und ihre Jugendjahren. Wie Strittmatter die Kindheit in seinen Werken dargestellt hatte
Eva Strittmatter und Erwin Strittmatter. eine ehe um worte
No full textSymbiotic and yet very fragile was this couple’s relationship, held together by the silence of a woman who resisted her life only through poetry. The tension created by the dichotomy of a domestic life in East Germany and her existence as a writer was the source of Eva Strittmatter’s (1930-2011) creativity. Only by writing on the fringe of a reality centered on her husband’s needs as a novelist, was she able to create her own poetic oeuvre. As such, much of Strittmatter’s work reflects her escape into nature to compose poetry in opposition to her husband’s prose. Writing on “branches” and “paddock posts” became metaphors for expressing the disparity between the existences of two writers, one of which drew his creative sustenance from the other. Drawing her own energy from the landscape surrounding the hamlet of Schulzenhof, north of Berlin, Eva Strittmatter was able to write herself into existence as a serious poet. Her poetry as well as letters they wrote to each other show how she derived poetic vigor from the friction of her multiple roles as homemaker, editor and companion of Erwin Strittmatter.Symbiotisch und zerbrechlich war die Beziehung dieses Paares, zusammengehalten durch das Schweigen einer Frau, die sich mit Lyrik ihrem Leben entgegenstellte. Die Spannung aus der Dichotomie eines hausfraulichen Lebens in Ostdeutschland und ihrer eigenen Existenz als Autorin war die Quelle von Eva Strittmatters (1930-2011) Kreativität. Nur durch das Schreiben am Rand einer Realität, die sich um die Bedürfnisse ihres Mannes, des Romanciers Erwin Strittmatter, drehte, konnte sie ihr eigenes poetisches Werk schaffen. So reflektieren viele ihrer Texte die Flucht in die Natur. Dort entstand ihre Lyrik auf „Ästen“ und „Koppelpfählen“ in Opposition zu dem Missverhältnis in ihrer Ehe, in der die schriftstellerische Existenz des Nationalpreisgewinners ihr Potential nur zu Lasten der kreativen Kraft der Dichterin ausschöpfen konnte. Mit der Energie, die sie aus Wanderungen in der Landschaft rund um die kleine Ortschaft Schulzenhof nördlich von Berlin gewann, gelang es Eva Strittmatter sich als ernstzunehmende Dichterin zu etablieren. Ihre Lyrik wie auch ihre veröffentlichten Briefe zeigen die poetische Kraft, die sie aus der Friktion ihrer Mehrfachbelastung als Hausfrau, Lektorin und Gefährtin von Erwin Strittmatter bezog
Legitimation processes of sport organizations: the case of Norwegian youth sport policy and the 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games
No full textAvhandling (doktorgrad) - Norges idrettshøgskole, 2017Introduction: The Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sport’s (NIF) main argument for hosting the 2016 Lillehammer Youth Olympic Games (hereafter referred to as Lillehammer 2016) was the alleged positive demonstration effect, the promise that the event would increase the active engagement of youth in Norwegian organized sports in terms of participation, young leadership, and young coaches, and play an important role in NIF’s youth sport policy. Aim: The aim of this research is to analyze how different actors shape and influence Norwegian youth sport policy in connection to Lillehammer 2016 as legitimation process of NIF. This aim was met through the examination of four research questions, which comprise the entire policy process, from formulation (Article 1) via implementation (Article 2) and perception of the policy target group (Article 3) to the policy outcome (Article 4). Theoretical framework: The combination of neo-institutional theory and implementation literature served as analytical framework for examining how structures and practices within the youth policy process and Lillehammer 2016 are expressed, implemented, reproduced, and changed.Article I: Strittmatter, A.-M. (2016). Defining a problem to fit the solution: A neo-institutional explanation for legitimizing the bid for the 2016 Lillehammer winter Youth Olympic Games. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 8(3), 421–437.Article II: Strittmatter, A.-M. and Skille, E. Å. (2016). Boosting youth sport Implementation of Norwegian youth sport policy through the 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games. Sport in Society, 1–17. doi:10.1080/17430437.2015.1124568Article III: Strittmatter, A.-M., Hanstad, D. V. and Skirstad, B. (Submitted). Mismatch of expectations between target group and implementing agents in youth sport policy. International Review for the Sociology of Sport.Article IV: Strittmatter, A.-M. (Under review). Increasing youth sport engagement through the Youth Olympic Games: Leveraging strategies and tactics. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing.Seksjon for kultur og samfunn / Department of Cultural and Social Studie
Option implied information and portfolio allocation
No full textA key concern in the financial literature is if asset prices can be predicted. In the past, studies mainly investigated on the predictability of past asset prices or financial ratios. This thesis takes an alternative route and centres on information derived from options. Utilising options is appealing for two major reasons: First, the structure enables to obtain a forward looking or implied estimate. Second, the cross-section gives detailed insight about the future states of the underlying asset. The starting point of this thesis is to investigate on option implied risk-aversion. A simulation study is developed to analyse risk-aversion estimates from option prices. The simulation suggests that risk-aversion varies drastically over time and the volatility of the underlying has a strong impact. Subsequently, the thesis addresses the use of option implied information within portfolio allocation. The considered investor is infinitely lived with a time varying risk-premium. The dynamics of the risk-premium are derived using various implied predictor variables. They are extracted considering different assumptions about the underlying asset price density. The findings suggest that the option implied risk-premium is the preferable predictor and flexible densities do not benefit notably. Furthermore, performance measures suggest that option implied predictors are superior to historical predictors and similar to financial ratios. The final chapter elaborates further on the previously considered portfolio allocation. It proposes a novel estimation method to obtain consistent estimates of the risk-premium process. The method relies on the observable option implied risk-premium. It avoids the use of a multivariate framework when working with financial ratios. Only with the proposed method, the dynamics of the state variable are economically reasonable. Further, the applied performance measures improve
A Study of the Reading Readiness Programs in Certain Parochial Schools
No full textReading readiness is a term used to describe a degree of development which is needed before a child starts to read. It is a concept which contains a wealth of educational implications. "There is no magic that makes children suddenly grow up as they step into first grade. What happens will be the logical outcome of all that has gone before." There is little doubt as to the importance of this period of transition from the kindergarten to the period in first grade when the child begins reading from actual pre-primers and primers.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
Erwin Strittmatter in reference to the agarian novel of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
No full textThis study deals with two aspects of German literature: the agrarian novel from the early nineteenth century to National Socialism, and a comparison of capitalist and socialist ideology, using the works of the DDR author Erwin Strittmatter.
In the first part of the thesis, chosen works are analysed with the aim of establishing a pattern of bourgeois idealism and of tracing its development in reference to the changing historical background. The political implications of the nationalist transformation and radicalisation of the conservative agrarian ideology, which grew up as a middle-class reaction to the emergence of modern industrial Germany, are illustrated by the combination of the heroic and the idyllic in fascist literature.
The second part deals with the socialist agrarian novel, which is discussed, in the light of Marxist theory, as a departure from the conservative model, and in relation to different political ideals and objectives. Three agrarian novels of Erwin Strittmatter Ochsenkutscher, Tinko and Ole Bienkopp - are examined in detail as the basis for contrast with capitalist doctrine and for observations on the role of literature in the DDR.
The concluding chapter illustrates how, in the established East German state of the 1960's, the disregard for the demands of authority, which is a feature of Strittmatter's Ole Bienkopp, indicates a return to the traditional pattern of bourgeois idealism within the confines of socialist morality
Direct and Indirect Effects based on Changes-in-Changes
No full textWe propose a novel approach for causal mediation analysis based on changes-in-changes assumptions restricting unobserved heterogeneity over time. This allows disentangling the causal effect of a binary treatment on a continuous outcome into an indirect effect operating through a binary intermediate variable (called mediator) and a direct effect running via other causal mechanisms. We identify average and quantile direct and indirect effects for various subgroups under the condition that the outcome is monotonic in the unobserved heterogeneity and that the distribution of the latter does not change over time conditional on the treatment and the mediator. We also provide a simulation study and two empirical applications regarding a training programme evaluation and maternity leave reform
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Replication Data for "Life Cycle Patterns of Cognitive Performance Over the Long Run"
No full textLittle is known about how the age pattern in individual performance in cognitively demanding tasks changed over the past century. The main difficulty for measuring such life cycle performance patterns and their dynamics over time is related to the construction of a reliable measure that is comparable across individuals and over time and not affected by changes in technology, environmental factors, or tasks. This study presents novel evidence for the dynamics of life cycle patterns of cognitive performance over the past 125 years based on an analysis of data from professional chess tournaments. Individual move-by-move performance in more than 24,000 games is evaluated relative to an objective benchmark that is based on the respective optimal move suggested by a chess engine. This provides a precise and comparable measurement of individual performance for the same individual at different ages over long periods of time, exploiting the advantage of a strictly comparable task and a comparison to an identical performance benchmark. Repeated observations for the same individuals allow disentangling age patterns from idiosyncratic variation and analyzing how age patterns change over time and across birth cohorts. The findings document a hump-shaped performance profile over the life cycle and a long-run shift in the profile towards younger ages that is associated with cohort effects rather than period effects. This shift can be rationalized by greater experience, which is potentially a consequence of changes in education and training facilities related to digitization
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