Bowling for Communism illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by exploring acts of "urban ingenuity" amid catastrophic ...urban decay. Andrew Demshuk profiles the creative activism of local communist officials who, with the help of scores of volunteers, constructed a palatial bowling alley without Berlin's knowledge or approval. In a city mired in disrepair, civic pride overcame resentment against a regime loathed for corruption, Stasi spies, and the Berlin Wall. Reconstructing such episodes through interviews and obscure archival materials, Demshuk shows how the public sphere functioned in Leipzig before the fall of communism. Hardly detached or inept, local officials worked around centralized failings to build a more humane city. And hardly disengaged, residents turned to black-market construction to patch up their surroundings. Because such "urban ingenuity" was premised on weakness in the centralized regime, the dystopian cityscape evolved from being merely a quotidian grievance to the backdrop for revolution. If, by their actions, officials were demonstrating that the regime was irrelevant, and if, in their own experiences, locals only attained basic repairs outside official channels, why should anyone have mourned the system when it was overthrown?
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Mappe "Leipziger Bilderbogen. Alt - Leipzig". Auf der Mappe sind zahlreiche Leipziger Unternehmen und Geschäfte genannt.
Leipziger Bilderbogen. Alt Leipzig. Überreicht vom Specialhaus für ...Kontorbedarf Jean Speyer, Leipzig, Gottschedstraße 25
Cardboard "Leipzig picture sheet. Old - Leipzig’. Many Leipzig companies and businesses are mentioned on the folder.
Leipzig picture sheet. Old Leipzig. Presented by the Specialhaus for KontorÜberJean Speyer, Leipzig, Gottschedstraße 25
Vom 16. bis 18. Oktober 1813 wurde bei Leipzig die bis dahin größte Schlacht der Geschichte geschlagen, zum 100. Jahrestag von 1913 wurde das monumentale Völkerschlachtdenkmal gestiftet. Lange wurde ...die Völkerschlacht als ein Kampf zur "Befreiung Deutschlands" - unter preußischem Vorzeichen - gewertet. Angesichts der europaweiten, ja globalen Bezüge dieser "Völkerschlacht" ergaben sich jedoch höchst unterschiedliche Perspektiven und Bewertungsmaßstäbe. Daher sind die militärischen Aspekte um die politischen zu erweitern. Zudem verband sich die Frage nach der angemessenen Würdigung des Ereignisses mit dem Kampf um die Deutungshoheit der nachfolgenden Generationen. Diese komplexen Prozesse von Deutung und Umdeutung der Schlacht folgten den teils windungsreichen Wegen der deutschen Nationalbewegung. Der vorliegende Sammelband unternimmt es, die Verläufe, Folgen und Bedeutungen der Völkerschlacht und ihrer 200-jährigen Nachwirkung zu untersuchen.
This book examines church music and public concert music in Leipzig, Germany, a city in Saxony, in the period between 1750 (the year Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach died) and 1847 (the year that ...Gewandhaus orchestra conductor Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy died). The century in between these events was critically important for sacred music and public concert music. During this period, Leipzig’s church music enterprise, a bulwark of orthodox Lutheranism, was convulsed by repeated external threats—a growing middle class that viewed music as an object of public consumption, religious and political tumult, and the chaos of the Seven Years' War and the invasion of Napoleon. How church and concert life in Leipzig changed because of these forces is the focus of this book. Whereas most European cities saw their public concerts grow out of secular institutions such as a royal court or an opera theater, neither of these existed when Leipzig’s first subscription concert series, the Grosse Concert, was started in 1743. Instead, the city had a thriving church music enterprise that had been brought to its zenith by Bach. Paid subscription concerts therefore found their roots in Leipzig’s church music tradition, with important and unique results.
We tend to accept that German cities and states run their own cultural institutions (concert halls, theatres, museums). This book shows how this now "self-evident" fact became a reality in the course ...of the long nineteenth century.
El médico, fisiólogo y psicólogo alemán Wilhelm Wundt ha sido y es considerado el creador de la llamada psicología experimental, por su abordaje de conceptos psicológicos hasta entonces intuitivos, ...mediante métodos propios de la fisiología del siglo xix. Emergió de esta manera una nueva disciplina, la psicología científica, en el contexto físico de un laboratorio de ciencias en la ciudad alemana de Leipzig. Sin embargo, la labor de Wundt no se limitó únicamente al estudio de la psicología desde un punto de vista científico. Por una parte, se ha destacado su gran capacidad de convocatoria, aglutinadora y organizativa de un laboratorio original donde pudieron formarse investigadores de varias partes del mundo; y, por otra, modificó sustancialmente el modo de analizar la psicología, centrando la atención de los investigadores en el estudio pormenorizado de la consciencia mediante la utilización del método introspectivo.
Der Beitrag bietet einen Einblick in den 8. Bibliothekskongress, der vom 31. Mai bis 2. Juni 2022 in Leipzig stattfand und unter dem mehrdeutigen Motto "Freiräume schaffen" stand.
Stay the hand of vengeance Bass, Gary Jonathan
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International justice has become a crucial part of the ongoing political debates about the future of shattered societies like Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Chile. Why do our governments ...sometimes display such striking idealism in the face of war crimes and atrocities abroad, and at other times cynically abandon the pursuit of international justice altogether? Why today does justice seem so slow to come for war crimes victims in the Balkans? In this book, Gary Bass offers an unprecedented look at the politics behind international war crimes tribunals, combining analysis with investigative reporting and a broad historical perspective. The Nuremberg trials powerfully demonstrated how effective war crimes tribunals can be. But there have been many other important tribunals that have not been as successful, and which have been largely left out of today's debates about international justice. This timely book brings them in, using primary documents to examine the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, the Armenian genocide, World War II, and the recent wars in the former Yugoslavia.
Bass explains that bringing war criminals to justice can be a military ordeal, a source of endless legal frustration, as well as a diplomatic nightmare. The book takes readers behind the scenes to see vividly how leaders like David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton have wrestled with these agonizing moral dilemmas. The book asks how law and international politics interact, and how power can be made to serve the cause of justice.
Bass brings new archival research to bear on such events as the prosecution of the Armenian genocide, presenting surprising episodes that add to the historical record. His sections on the former Yugoslavia tell--with important new discoveries--the secret story of the politicking behind the prosecution of war crimes in Bosnia, drawing on interviews with senior White House officials, key diplomats, and chief prosecutors at the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Bass concludes that despite the obstacles, legalistic justice for war criminals is nonetheless worth pursuing. His arguments will interest anyone concerned about human rights and the pursuit of idealism in international politics.
Seit mehreren Wochen haben linke Gruppierungen für den Tag der Urteilsverkündung im Strafverfahren gegen Lina E. und drei andere Angeklagte vor dem OLG Dresden und das darauffolgende Wochenende ...Protestveranstaltungen angekündigt. Die Stadt Leipzig hat daraufhin für das Wochenende Versammlungen zum Thema im Stadtgebiet verboten. Neben der rechtlich angreifbaren Pauschalität wird das Verbot auch faktisch seinen Zweck verfehlen. Das Bedürfnis nach öffentlicher Auseinandersetzung mit dem Urteil lässt sich bestenfalls nur lenken. Ein Verbot hingegen dürfte eskalationssteigernd wirken.
The sacred spaces of our cities have become more diverse in recent decades. Alongside established institutions, new voices are claiming participation in the coexistence of religious ideas as well as ...in architectural expression.
