“Kursbuch Geschichte der europäischen und globalen Moderne” offers a compendium and study book on types of events, central terms and learning strategies in modern and contemporary European and global ...history as an exemplary history of technical-industrial modernity. Target groups are students of history, the humanities and social sciences as well as all technical and scientific subjects with an interest in modern history.
Wewelsburg Castle in Germany figures prominently in right-wing conspiracy theories and popular culture. This book sheds light onto the background and impact of these myths for the first time. During ...the Nazi era, this Westphalian castle became a key venue for gatherings of high ranking SS leaders. After World War II, rumors about occult SS rituals made the place a pilgrimage site of the extreme right. The northern tower’s ornamental sun wheel design, today known as the “Black Sun,” appears in thrillers, comic books, and in the right-wing music scene. It has morphed into a dubious visual element of today’s pop culture and is now familiar to people throughout the world as a symbol of neofascist and alt-right groups. The lavishly illustrated volume traces facts and fiction about the origins and current reception of the myths related to Wewelsburg Castle and the sun wheel symbol.
The aim of this article is an attempt to diagnose the current condition of the philosophy of history, as well as to show its potential in explaining contemporary phenomena and constructing a ...rational image of the world. Two recent works by Steven Pinker (The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined and Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress) and the methodological work of Karl Raimund Popper provide a point of reference. And although the works mentioned are not classed as historiosophical (even by Pinker himself), it is the author’s opinion that they fully deserve this title by showing that philosophical reflection on history is something that is sorely needed today, in an age of multiple contradictory diagnoses and radical prophecies.
Contemporary collecting relies on the expertise of museum professionals. They identify, acquire, and safeguard current objects and testimonies that can illustrate and challenge history writing in the ...future. This paper presents the contemporary collecting endeavours of the House of European History—a museum that opened its doors in Brussels in 2017, as an academically independent project of the European Parliament. It contributes to the current discussion on best practices in collecting materials relevant to present-day society and documenting history in the making. In particular, it stresses the importance for a history museum to document significant aspects of the present and focuses on two recent collecting actions of the House, which were undertaken to document the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine.
The history of official relations between Russia and Japan encompasses a period of a little more than one hundred and fifty years, but stretch back unofficially for at least double that amount of ...time. But for both Russia and Japan, these relations have never been a key element of foreign policy, indispensable or intrinsically important for their diplomatic strategy. It is also noteworthy that for most of this time Russia and Japan were enemies, rivals, competitors. For both parties the significance of bilateral relations to a large extent was determined by their geographical proximity. This geographically predestined relationship can be characterized as 'distant neighbors'. At the same time, at certain historical stages, this neighborhood was not so 'distant'. The countries managed to establish relations in the economic sphere while tourism cultural scientific and educational ties were actively developing. The complexity of the relations which developed for just over three centuries is worthy of study. This book analyzes these three centuries of Japan-Russia relations so as not to miss out any essential factors of the relationship.
This book is the first history of Austria’s Chambers of Chartered Engineering Consultants from the foundation of the institution of chartered engineering consultants in 1860 up to the ...Ziviltechnikergesetz of 1957. In addition to tracing the history of the organization, the book tackles head-on the controversial issue of collaboration with the Nazi regime and the fate of those chartered engineering consultants who were persecuted. Selected biographies reveal the extent of the chambers’ autonomy and show how members’ careers were made and broken during this period, as well as discriminatory measures. A special concern of this book is to keep alive the memory of those chartered engineering consultants who fell victim to the Nazi regime. With this thorough and scientific reappraisal, Austria’s Federal Chamber of Chartered Engineering Consultants has taken an important step in taking responsibility for its own history.
Resilienz Szöllösi-Janze, Margit
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte,
06/2024, Letnik:
72, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Das Konzept Resilienz als Sonde in die Zeitgeschichte einzuführen, erlaubt dieser, sich über Verwissenschaftlichungsprozesse neu zu definieren, sich der Analyse komplexer Zusammenhänge zu stellen und ...innovative Fragestellungen zu entwickeln. Seit den 1970er Jahren diffundierte der Terminus international aus der Physik zunächst in die Psychologie und Ökologie und verklammert seit der Jahrtausendwende wie ein interdisziplinäres Scharnier Natur-, Lebens-, Gesellschafts- und Kulturwissenschaften. Der Resilienz-Begriff drang außerdem aus den Wissenschaften in das Denken etwa von Politik, Militär, Ökonomie und Kindererziehung vor. Resilienz ist eng an die Wahrnehmung multipler Krisen oder gar drohender Katastrophen gebunden und an die Erwartung geknüpft, den Kipppunkt wissenschaftsbasiert für Innovation und Erneuerung zu nutzen.
In Königstein im Taunus gründeten vertriebene katholische Priester aus den ehemaligen Ostgebieten nach 1945 eine Bildungsstätte, in der die Frömmigkeitskultur an die nächsten Generationen ...weitergegeben werden sollte. Hier entwickelte sich in den 1950er Jahren ein Kommunikationszentrum, in dem eine Hochschule Priester für den Osten ausbildete und vielfältige Medien über die Lage hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang informierten. Von Königstein ging die Kapellenwagenmission aus, die katholische Gläubige in der westdeutschen Diaspora aufsuchte. Nostalgische Rückbesinnung verband sich mit der Errichtung eines modernen Tagungsbaus. Seit den 1970er Jahren gerieten die Königsteiner Unternehmungen in eine grundlegende Krise. Mit der Gründungsgeneration starben die auf den Osten bezogene Mentalität und letztlich auch die Königsteiner Anstalten. Das Ende des Kalten Kriegs verschob die Nachkriegszeit der katholischen Vertriebenen endgültig in die Erinnerungskultur.
In ihrer Dissertation nimmt Roxanne Narz das frühe Feuilleton der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung in den Blick und entwirft erstmals ein mediengeschichtliches Panorama dieses großen bundesdeutschen ...Medienakteurs. Am Beispiel von fünf markanten Diskursen – der NS-Vergangenheit, den lebensweltlichen Umbrüchen der Nachkriegszeit, der modernen Literatur, Kunst und Musik, „1968“ und den Geschlechterdebatten – zeichnet sie die großen Linien der Feuilletonberichterstattung und die redaktionellen Umbrüche hinter den Kulissen des Leitmediums nach. Anhand bislang unberücksichtigter Quellen verbindet sie Programm-, Institutions- und Zeitgeschichte zu einer Gesamtschau auf die ersten fünfundzwanzig Jahre Zeitungsgeschichte und zeigt, dass das Feuilleton der FAZ die Transformation der jungen Bundesrepublik nicht nur beobachtete, kommentierte und mitprägte, sondern auch selbst von ihr erfasst wurde.
