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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"German culture"”.
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Cape of German hopes : exploring German culture in Cape Town : a reflective analysis from the perspective of the producer
… Essay supporting the documentary film 'Cape of German Hopes' and aims, with special references from the director's and editor's perspective, to back up the documentary by explaining more in depth about the motivation, goals and achievements of the film. The documentary is a journey that explores …
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Vertimo strategijos perteikiant realijų pavadinimus iš vokiečių į lietuvių kalbą /
… and specific objects defining items, i.e. culture-bound words (words that are frequently defined as non-equivalent lexis) occurs. The doctoral theses aim to approach the aforementioned linguistic phenomenon from an interdisciplinary perspective and, during the analysis of the selected …
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Discourse and Device. The Power Strategies of Hildegard Medicine
… that have lead to its contemporary popularity in German culture. Yet while its interest to scholars of German cultural studies is plain, the ultimate significance of my investigation is more than academic. Hildegard Medicine is a lens for viewing broader issues of the discourse of biomedicine and …
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Gottsched Und Seine Nachwelt Im Achtzehnten Jahrhundert: Versuch Einer Ideengeschichtlichen Ubersicht. (German Text);
… and his followers. This study, written in German, is a contribution to the re-evaluation of Gottsched and his accomplishment in modernizing German culture life in the international spirit of Enlightenment. Whereas earlier scholarly studies of Gottsched have been based primarily on his major …
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Using the AVPT With German University Students to Establish a Norminative Base for Visual Construct Preferences
… construct preferences of young male and female German adults, using the Arrington Visual Preference Test (AVPT). The AVPT is a pre-existing Jungian based test, developed to identify the visual construct preferences of individuals or groups. Eighteen female and fifteen male university students …
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Beyond the "Year of Song": Text and Music in the Song Cycles of Robert Schumann after 1848
… breakdowns. Schumann's late works show how his culture and the artists communicating within that culture were transformed from the beginning to the middle of the nineteenth century. These late works, therefore, should be viewed in the context of Schumann's output as a whole and in regard to …
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Memory on the move: transnational travel in post-1989 German literature
Contemporary German literature after 1989 has become increasingly transnational and transcultural, given its numerous portrayals of travel, particularly in exploring traumatic family pasts. The transitional years of 1989/90, known as the Wende, have arguably resulted in greater mobility and …
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Folk Fiction: Yiddish and the Negotiation of Literary Legacy in Germany after 1945
… when Eastern European Yiddish-language culture was all but destroyed and millions of Yiddish speakers were murdered, the language took on newsignificance in German culture. Whether it be as a symbol of proletarian solidarity in East German theater or as part of West German literary …
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The Public Polemics of Baldur von Schirach: A Study of National Socialist Rhetoric and Aesthetics, 1922-1945
… a leading figure of the National Socialist German Worker's Party, and the means by which he chose to transmit his beliefs in totalitarianism, racism, and militarism. Schirach's activities serve as a case study of the Third Reich's artistic and cultural programs and the means by which these …
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From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism
… illuminate the development of fascist ideas, culture, politics, and power across Europe from 1920-1945? The components of that question are: what were the core elements of Jünger’s aesthetics, morality, and politics? How did he synthesize these elements to create his influential vision of …
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Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) : his relationship to Carl Heinrich Graun and the Berlin circle
The history of music in Germany in the first half of the eighteenth century is best understood within the context of the social, cultural and intellectual history of the German people during this period.The intellectual coming of age of the middle classes during the first decades of the century …
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Improvising Goethe’s Faust Part One in two Berlin high school theatre classes for cross-cultural dialogue among Turkish-German students
By taking a prototypical German text i.e. Goethe’s Faust Part One to two high-school theatre-classes in Berlin, I explored how Turkish-German students engage performatively with the idea of German identity. Through an improvisational treatment of the play, students performed activities based on the …
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International languages in New Zealand secondary schools and universities: Coherence, consistency and transparency
… Kingdom-based study. This involved students of German in New Zealand universities taking a German CTest and/or completing a questionnaire relating primarily to their reasons for learning the language and their attitudes towards German culture. Chapter 9 provides an over-view of the project, …
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Vokiečių kalbos mokymo(si) motyvacija mokykloje /
… is the motivation of learning and teaching German as a foreign language in Lithuanian schools. The research aims to find out what motivational factors have the greatest impact on the learning and teaching experiences of the German language. This study utilised a qualitative research design …
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“Alles ist nur Wörter”: the critique of German history in Michael Stock’s Prinz in Hölleland
… in North America, yet the influence of German Queer Cinema on such movies was overlooked. Some critics made the connection between the two cinemas but never delved deeper into the possible influences that German film had on American directors. Why were the movies of Fassbinder, von …
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The legitimation of science in the early German enlightenment Leipzig, ca. 1687-1750
… that the light of science has spread through Germany and other countries." Leipzig was described as "the cradle of all arts and sciences," "the biggest journal-factory," "the Mecca of the European book- /overs," "the German Athens" (Diderot). This study explores the various forces that …
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Views from the Other Side: Colonial Culture and Anti-Colonial Sentiment in Germany Around 1800
… expansion in the eighteenth century while the German lands lacked both a central political authority and colonies of their own. We know from the work of scholars such as Susanne Zantop that German intellectuals were fascinated by encounters with non-European cultures, and German genres of …
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The distorted image: German Jewish perceptions of Germans and Germany, 1918-1935
<p>The regime confronting German Jewry in 1933 was of a type unprecedented in German history. Yet the German Jewish responses were, on the whole, consistent with responses to former regimes. There was little resistance, relatively little emigration until 1935 to 1938, pledges of loyalty to the new …
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Synthesizing the chemical subject: Poison gas, gas masks, and collective armoring in Germany, 1915-1938
During World War I, German scientists and engineers were the first to develop the modern gas mask as well as many of the weaponized gases that are still stockpiled in the Middle East today. In the wake of their first use on the Ypres battlefields in 1915, German soldiers quickly realized the …
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