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Journal articles on the topic "Berlin (germany), social life and customs"
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Peal, David. "Self-Help and the State: Rural Cooperatives in Imperial Germany." Central European History 21, no. 3 (1988): 244–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008938900012206.
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The consolidation of territorial states in Central Europe undermined the local customs and institutions that had shaped village life since the Middle Ages. By the end of the eighteenth century unitary law codes overrode rural customs. By distinguishing between public and private law, these codes stripped the organized village community of legal substance. Police and judicial functions once performed within the community were assumed by bureaucrats, and the state meddled with the use of local resources by liberalizing marriage and residence laws. Deprived of political autonomy, the village did remain the core economic and social unit in rural life, controlling access to communal forests and enforcing the rules of three-field agriculture. In the middle decades of the nineteenth century this limited autonomy was undermined as well. Freedom of contract, security of individual property, free transmission of property between generations, and commercialization of landed property struck at the ability of villages to control their material world in customary ways.
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TONYALI, Zeynep. "Sanat Bağlamında Berlin Duvarı’nın İzleri." International Journal of Social Sciences 8, no. 34 (2024): 458–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.52096/usbd.8.34.26.
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Germany was the place where the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union took place, planning to establish an ideological domination over the world. After the end of the Second World War, although the city of Berlin remained within the borders of East Germany, as per an agreement between the Soviets and the Western bloc countries. divided. In order to prevent their escape to East and West Germany, the German administration began to build a wall around East Berlin on August 13, 1961, closing all passages to the western part, telling its citizens that they had a freer and more prosperous life. Hundreds of people lost their lives trying to escape to West Berlin by crossing the Berlin Wall until it collapsed on November 9, 1989. The walls of the public space create a political language and a space used against the system. The aim of this study was investigated in the context of the division of Germany, represented by the wreckage of the Berlin Wall, on a social and political plane. The resistance and political discourse function of graffiti in public spaces is examined through the example of the Berlin Wall. Artistic traces with a predominant protest aspect were investigated through literature review and visual concepts. Keywords: Public art, Berlin Wall, War, Graffiti, Politics, Street Art
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van der Will, Wilfried. "Berlin as a Terrain of Cultural Policy: Outline of a Struggle." German Politics and Society 33, no. 1 (2015): 146–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/gps.2015.330111.
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After considering the functions of capital cities this article argues that culture both as creative activity and as living heritage of customs and architectural assemblies plays a central role in the self-perception of present-day Berlin. The agents—public and private—that interact in the conception and execution of decisive initiatives in the remake of the city form an extensive cultural policy establishment. They derive their legitimation from regional and federal constitutions and from their command of attention in the public discourse. Berlin's claimed status as the most obvious German metropolis is not self-evident. Within the nation it is neither the center of finance, nor the media, nor the supreme courts. In Germany there are other towns and metropolitan regions with a similarly rich infrastructure that can compete at least nationally. But Berlin, building on Enlightenment traditions, is making a plausible effort in regaining its cosmopolitanism. Despite a host of problems, it is now surpassing the ethnic and cultural diversity that was lost in the years of Nazi dictatorship. Can it maintain its attraction for creative talent, both cultural and technological, in view of accelerating social divisions and gentrification?
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Flickinger, Brigitte. "Cinemas in the City: Berlin‘s Public Space in the 1910s and 1920s." Film Studies 10, no. 1 (2007): 72–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/fs.10.9.
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In the early years of the cinema and into the 1910s and 1920s, it was less the film than cinema-going itself that attracted urban publics. In this era, people were enthusiastic about technology and the achievements of modernity; while at the same time they felt anxious about the rapid and radical changes in their social and economic life. In Germany, this contradictory experience was especially harsh and perceptible in the urban metropolis of Berlin. The article demonstrates how within city life, Berlin cinemas – offering the excitement of innovation as well as optimal distraction and entertainment – provided an urban space where, by cinema-going, appeal and uncertainty could be positively reconciled.
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Popov, Maxim Evgenievich. "The Russian Theater in Berlin (1919-1923): the Experience of Cultural Exports." Samara Journal of Science 6, no. 4 (2017): 156–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/snv201764208.
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The paper is devoted to the consideration of Russian theatrical activity in Berlin during 1919-1923, when Berlin was the focus of Russian theater life abroad, and active creative exchange between German and Russian cultures took place in this connection. The problem of exporting Russian art culture to Western countries is of interest for both domestic and foreign researchers. Among the topical problems on this issue, the Russian theater plays an important role. The study of this issue gives an idea of the potential of Russian culture in a different social and cultural environment. In the center of the research is the process of formation and development of Russian theatrical life in the German cultural environment. The author made an attempt to identify and disclose the main artistic directions of the Russian theater in Berlin in 1919-1923 and determine their role in bringing Germany to the achievements of national culture. The work uses materials from the memoirs of contemporaries and periodicals. On the basis of these sources it is shown that the theater played one of the fundamental roles in preserving the Russian cultural community and their cultural appearance on the overseas. Russian theatrical seasons contributed to the Wests involvement in the achievements of Russian culture and the establishment of cultural and artistic ties between Germany and Soviet Russia. Thus, the activities of the Russian migr and touring Russian theater in Berlin in 1919-1923 reflected the high potential of Russian culture in the conditions of a foreign social environment.
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Mellēna-Bartkeviča, Lauma. "No kora Liepājā uz galvenajām lomām Berlīnē: latviešu tenora Artūra Priednieka-Kavaras starptautiskā karjera starpkaru periodā." Aktuālās problēmas literatūras un kultūras pētniecībā rakstu krājums, no. 28 (March 24, 2023): 205–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/aplkp.2023.28.205.
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The article brings to the spotlight Latvian tenor Arthur Cavara (Artūrs Priednieks-Kavara, 1901–1979), one of the most outstanding Latvian operatic tenors of the 20th century in the context of his international career successfully developed in Germany in the 1930s. In both the recently established Latvian Republic and Europe, the interwar period was a very intensive and, at the same time, very contradictory time due to the historical conditions, social processes and political regimes, but it was also the time of opportunities when one of the centres of art life longed for by Baltic musicians was Berlin. Arthur Cavara was one of a few Latvian singers gifted with unique voice qualities, working capacity and a vast repertoire, who managed to develop a successful career on operatic stages in Berlin in a very short time, thus engraving his name in European opera history of the interwar period. In 1927 the young opera choir singer from Liepāja was not hired by Latvian National Opera, and he decided to go to Berlin to study vocal art with Louis Bachner (1882–1945). In a few years, Priednieks-Kavara developed a successful operatic career in Germany, becoming one of the leading tenors of Krolloper un Die Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin, participating in guest performances in other countries, including South America, and finally, he was critically acclaimed in Latvia, too. The Second World War and related circumstances stopped the singer’s career at its peak, Cavara, together with his family, emigrated first to Germany, a well-known country to him, and afterwards to the USA, where he worked as a vocal coach and opera director. A great deal of facts regarding the life of Latvian tenors in Berlin was documented in letters published in Latvian press of the interwar period and autobiographical works by another opera singer and writer Mariss Vētra (1901–1965), who often met Cavara both in Germany and Latvia. The article traces the career of Cavara until the emigration in 1944.
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Kuntz, Benjamin, Günter Regneri, Anne Berghöfer, Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach, and Thomas Beddies. "„Die Medizin ist eine soziale Wissenschaft“ – zum 200. Geburtstag von Salomon Neumann." DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 144, no. 25 (2019): 1789–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-0973-6994.
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AbstractSalomon Neumann (1819–1908) is one of the outstanding representatives of 19th century social medicine. As a medical reformer, statistician and city councilor, he made a significant contribution to improving social and hygienic conditions in Berlin. His most famous work was published in 1847 under the title “Die oeffentliche Gesundheitspflege und das Eigenthum” [Public Health and Property]. From 1859 to 1905, Neumann was active in the Berlin City Council for the improvement of the living conditions of the population. He was involved in the construction of municipal hospitals, supported the modernisation of sewage disposal, organised the Berlin censuses of 1861 and 1864 and was active in the field of health and social statistics. Not only was Neumann exposed to anti-Semitic reprisals during his lifetime, a foundation he founded to promote the science of Judaism was dissolved by the National Socialists in 1940. On the occasion of his 200th birthday, this article commemorates the life and work of the democratically minded and socially committed doctor and health politician. Salomon Neumann has rendered great services to social medicine in Germany.
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Rohr, Elisabeth. "World in motion—the emotional impact of mass migration." Group Analysis 51, no. 3 (2018): 283–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0533316418784697.
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I feel very honoured and am enormously pleased to have been invited to speak here at the 17th Symposium of the Group Analytic Society International in Berlin. It means a lot to me, to be able to speak here today, because Berlin is a very special place for me. It is here, in this town, that my Jewish grandfather met my Christian grandmother almost 100 years ago. They fell in love and about a year later my mother was born. 20 years later my Jewish grandfather was forced to leave Germany, together with his new family. Therefore, I never had a chance to get to know him. When I was 20, I myself left Germany to live in New Orleans, USA. I stayed there for five years and then returned to Germany. It cannot be denied, migration and refuge have always been an issue in my family and in my personal life, that is why I cannot talk about migration and refugees without emotions and without being moved. This can be sensed and felt also in the following explorations and thoughts about the emotional impact of mass migration.
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Gook, Ben. "Ecstatic Melancholic: Ambivalence, Electronic Music and Social Change around the Fall of the Berlin Wall." Emotions: History, Culture, Society 1, no. 2 (2017): 11–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-00102003.
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The Cold War’s end infused electronic music in Berlin after 1989 with an ecstatic intensity. Enthused communities came together to live out that energy and experiment in conditions informed by past suffering and hope for the future. This techno-scene became an ‘intimate public’ (Berlant) within an emergent ‘structure of feeling’ (Williams). Techno parties held out a promise of freedom while Germany’s re-unification quickly broke into disputes and mutual suspicion. Tracing the historical movement during the first years of re-unified Germany, this article adds to accounts of ecstasy by considering it in conjunction with melancholy, arguing for an ambivalent description of ecstatic experience – and of emotional life more broadly.
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Hörschelmann, Kathrin, and Nadine Schäfer. "‘Berlin is Not a Foreign Country, Stupid!’—Growing up ‘Global’ in Eastern Germany." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 39, no. 8 (2007): 1855–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a38384.
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In this paper we analyse how young East Germans come to be differentially placed in global network space through their socioeconomically and culturally specific engagements with globalised mediascapes and ethnoscapes. We call for greater awareness of the power differentials which shape globalisation, and draw on the theoretical work of Pierre Bourdieu to show how unequal access to social and cultural capital influences and is reflected in the ‘glocal’ connections through which young people develop and perform their identities. Further, we seek to understand how these differential engagements impact on young people's future trajectories through the development of different competencies. We contend that, precisely how young people are positioned in networks of global–local connectivity matters profoundly, both for the performance of their present identities, and for their future life chances.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Berlin (germany), social life and customs"
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Simsek-Caglar, Ayse. "German Turks in Berlin : migration and their quest for social mobility." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41770.
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This study examines the dynamics of German Turks' practices and life-styles and their relationship with Turkey in the context of the possibilities brought into their lives by their particular type of dislocation. Turkish migrants' "culture" and life-styles are explored in the context of their complex social space, rather than within a framework encapsulated in a reified ethnicity and/or immutable "Turkish culture".<br>Chapter I discusses concepts of ethnicity, culture and identity and presents a critical account of the literature on German Turks in this respect. Chapter II focuses on the ambiguities and insecurities of German Turks' legal, political and social status in both Turkey and Germany, and traces the consequences of these conditions on Turkish migrants' complex sense of place. The discussion of German Turks' "myths of return" in the context of their liminality and the impact these have on their self-image and their visions about their lives constitute the focus of chapters III and IV respectively. Chapter V explores the changing nature of Turkish migrants' interpersonal relationships. Chapter VI concentrates on the anomalies of the social space occupied by German Turks in German society and discusses their life-styles, practices and emergent cultural forms in the context of social mobility.
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Zipp, Gisela Lesley. "A history of the German settlers in the Eastern Cape, 1857-1919." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004215.
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This thesis came into being as the result of a question innocently posed to me three years ago: Why do some towns in the Eastern Cape have German names? This thesis is not so much an answer to that question (which is answered in the following paragraphs) as an attempt to answer the questions that followed: Were the Germans really as benevolent and hard-working as much of the most readily available literature implies? Why did the military settlers leave and the peasant farmer settlers remain? What was the nature of relationships between the German settlers and other groups in the area? How did the German settlers see themselves? The existing literature provides the historic details, more or less, but not the context and explanations I sought. As such, I set out to find them and document them myself, addressing three main questions: 1. What was the (changing) nature of the German settlers' day-to-day lives between 1857 and 1919? 2. How was a German identity maintained/constructed within the German communities of the Eastern Cape between 1857 and 1919? 3. How did the Germans interact with other groups in the area? In answering these questions, I have also provided the necessary background as to why these settlers chose to come to South Africa, and why some of them left. I have limited this study to the period between 1857 and 1919 so as to include the First World War and its immediate aftermath, a time when enmity between Great Britain and Germany would have made life difficult for German descendants in the Union of South Africa. Introduction, p. 7.
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Doe, Connor Bartlett. "Puppet Theater in the German-Speaking World." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/88.
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This work begins with a brief history of puppet theater in Germany. A look at important social aspects, pertinent philosophical discussions and the significance of puppet theater in the German literary tradition follow. The final chapter looks at Peter Schumann, a German puppeteer and artist who lives in America. In Germanistik, German puppet theater deserves a devoted place in the field of legitimate study in terms of its history, content and influence. Puppet theater's historical development in Germany represents the larger evolution of Germany. From ancient times up to the present day, this artistic form of representation has enjoyed an audience in the German-speaking regions. The evolution of puppet theater parallels Germany's quest for legitimacy as a nation and desire for cultural unification. A study of puppet theater thematizes the issue of popular cultural history. For most of its existence in Germany, puppet theater served as popular entertainment. The conception of folk art and folklore - which includes puppet theater - by the German Romantics led them to believe that folk artists possessed a mysterious authenticity inaccessible to Classicists and their narrowly-defined world of high art. Much German literature and thought from the 19th century onward shows a fondness for the Volk aspect of puppet theater. Puppet theater and its reception in German Romanticism helped to shape literary and philosophical themes that would lead to further recognition of puppetry as an art form and an integral aspect of German culture. In the 20th century, puppet theater took on bold new forms. Adapting to film, television, academia and the avant-garde, respected proponents of puppet theater brought the art form into the light of day. No longer did it merely consist of vulgar or mildly artistic street performances or as a vehicle for Romantic-era nostalgia. German puppet theater in the 20th century moved into the realm of mass culture with film and, more effectively, with television. It also gained footing in academia, eventually becoming a fully-recognized field of study as well as a performance medium with infinite possibilities. One can only hazard a guess as to where puppet theater will go in the future. The ability of the art form to uncannily reflect the human condition is well known. How the human condition will change and how the performers of puppet theater will respond remains to be seen.
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Steffens, Sven. "Untersuchungen zur Mentilität belgischer und deutscher Handwerker anhand von Selbstzeugnissen: (spätes 18. bis frühes 20. Jahrhundert)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211865.
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Weber, Peter C. "The Praxis of Civil Society: Associational Life, the Politics of Civility, and Public Affairs in the Weimar Republic." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/5603.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>This dissertation analyzes the efforts to develop a pluralistic political culture and democratic practices of governance through the training of democratic leaders in Germany's first school of public affairs, the German School of Politics. The investigation of the thought-leaders that formed this school illustrates two main points. First, through the prism of the School, I detail the efforts to develop a conception of civil society that, by being grounded in civility, could retie social bonds and counter the brutalization of politics characteristic of the post-World War One years. By providing practical knowledge, courses in public affairs could not only free Germans from the blinders of ideologies, but also instill in them an ethos that would help viewing the political enemy as an opponent with an equal right to participate in the political process. Secondly, I point to the limits of trans-national philanthropy in supporting the development of civil society in young democracies. By analyzing the relationship between U.S. foundations and the School, I focus on the asymmetry that existed between American ideals of democracy and the realities of the German political system. This study thus focuses on the dynamics between the actions of institutions and organizations, and the broader social behaviors that constitute public life.
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Zulu, Prince Bongani Kashelemba. "From the Lüneburger Heide to northern Zululand : a history of the encounter between the settlers, the Hermannsburg missionaries, the Amakhosi and their people, with special reference to four mission stations in northern Zululand (1860-1913)." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/6216.
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BAUER, Volker. "Cameralism and court :the German discourse on court economy in the 18th century." Doctoral thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5733.
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Examining board: Prof. Franco Angiolini (supervisor) ; Prof. Peter Claus Hartmann ; Prof. Jochen Hoock ; Prof. Jacques Revel ; Prof. Keith Tribe<br>Defence date: 11 October 1993<br>PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017
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SIMON, Vera Caroline. "Nationalfeiertage in einem transnationalen Europa: Vergleichende Überlegungen zum 3. Oktober und 14. Juli." Doctoral thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/14199.
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Defence Date: 13/02/2009<br>Examining Board: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI) – supervisor; Prof. Etienne François (Freie Universität Berlin); Prof. Kiran Klaus Patel (EUI); Prof. Heidemarie Uhl (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)<br>PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digital archive of EUI PhD theses<br>No abstract available
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TACKE, Charlotte. "Denkmal im sozialen Raum : eine vergleichende Regionalstudie nationaler Symbole in Deutschland und Frankreich im 19 Jahrhundert." Doctoral thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5988.
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Defence date: 23 January 1993<br>Examining board: Prof. Dr. Etienne François (Université de Paris I) ; Prof. Dr. Ute Frevert (Universität Konstanz) ; Prof. Dr. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EHI; interner Betreuer, supervisor) ; Prof. Dott. Marco Meriggi (Università di Trieste) ; Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Reinhard Koselleck (Universität Bielefeld; externer Betruer)<br>PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017
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Rauhut, Irene. "Schule und Kirche : Zusammenhang von Schulentwicklung und christlicher Gesellschaftsverantwortung in dem sozialen Brennpunkt Berlin-Moabit." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/6443.
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Text in German<br>In dieser Forschungsarbeit wird der Zusammenhang von christlicher
Gesellschaftsverantwortung und Schulentwicklung in dem sozialen Brennpunkt Berlin-
Moabit untersucht.
Aufgrund des anhaltenden Wegzugs bildungsorientierter Eltern mit schulpflichtigen Kindern
und damit einer zunehmenden Entmischung (Segregation) der Schülerpopulation und damit
des Ortsteils Moabit, möchte die qualitative Studie einen Beitrag dazu leisten, Wege aus
dieser schulischen Krise, die Auswirkungen auf die Kirchen Moabits und den Ortsteil
insgesamt hat, zu finden.
Als Lösungsansatz wird dabei das Bleiben von bildungsorientierten Familien in Moabit mit
einer aktiven Kirchenzugehörigkeit aus folgenden Gründen verfolgt:
Bleiben bildungsorientierte Familien wieder verstärkt in Moabit wohnen und gehen ihre
Kinder auf die ihnen zugewiesenen Grundschulen, so werden durch eine Aufhebung der
Segregation die Bildungschancen erhöht, da schulisches Lernen bedeutend auf dem Prinzip
des Voneinander Lernens basiert, wie dies zahlreiche Studien belegen.
Bleiben Familien mit aktiver Kirchenzugehörigkeit in dem sozialen Brennpunkt Berlin-
Moabit wohnen, so können sie in gegenseitiger Unterstützung durch eine missionalinkarnatorische
Art zu leben, d.h. durch ein am Vorbild Jesu orientiertes Wohnen und Leben
unter den Menschen, Transformation in dem sozial benachteiligten Ortsteil Moabit bewirken.
Somit werden Eltern befragt, deren Kinder sich im schulpflichtigen Alter befinden und die
das Ziel verfolgen, langfristig in Moabit wohnen zu bleiben, die bereits Moabit aufgrund der
Schulsituation verlassen haben oder die vor dieser Entscheidung stehen.
Durch diese qualitative Studie, die sich im Kontext der Missionswissenschaften bewegt und
der empirischen Theologie zuzuordnen ist, werden Lösungsmöglichkeiten für die Situation in
dem Ortsteil Moabit erwartet.<br>The Thesis explores the connection between Christian social responsibility and public school
development in the social hot spot of Berlin-Moabit.
Due to the ongoing move away of education-oriented parents with their school-aged children,
Moabit suffers from an increasing segregation in its student population and consequently also
in its overall population. The present qualitative study seeks to suggest a solution to this
schooling crisis that impacts both the churches in Moabit as well as the entire community.
The approach to the segregation dilemma in Moabit that this study proposes is for educationoriented
families who are also active church members to deliberately remain living in Moabit.
This approach is based on two rationales: (1) If education-oriented families increasingly
remain in Moabit and send their children to the respectively assigned public schools,
segregation can be halted and the overall educational opportunities of all school children will
be raised, since school learning strongly draws upon the principle of mutual learning, as many
studies have documented. (2) If families who are active church members deliberately remain
living in the social hot spot of Moabit, they can support each other to live their lives in a
missional incarnation-oriented way, following the pattern of Christ. That way they can
eventually initiate a process of transformation in the socially disadvantaged community of
Moabit.
In accordance with the outlined approach parents of school-aged children are interviewed,
who either intend to stay in Moabit, or who have already moved away from Moabit because
of the schooling situation, or who are currently confronted with the decision to stay or move.
The present qualitative study, that is situated in the missiological field and can be ascribed to
the range of empirical Theology, expects to find specific solutions for the above outlined
problem in Moabit.<br>Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology<br>M. Th. (Missiology)
Books on the topic "Berlin (germany), social life and customs"
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Philip, Brady, Wallace Ian 1942-, and Goethe-Institut London, eds. Prenzlauer Berg: Bohemia in East Berlin? Rodopi, 1995.
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Black, Monica. Death in Berlin: From Weimar to divided Germany. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Zachau, Reinhard K. Berliner Spaziergänge: Literatur, Architektur, Film. Focus/R. Pullins, 2009.
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Gill, Anton. A dance between flames: Berlin between the wars. Carroll & Graf, 1994.
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Keil, André. "The Captives of the Kaiser." In Out of Line, Out of Place. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501765421.003.0003.
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This chapter focuses on Schutzhaft (protective custody) and political prisoners in Germany. In 1933, the Nazi regime resorted to the instrument of Schutzhaft to detain over two hundred thousand political opponents almost immediately after its ascent to power. Thus, Schutzhaft became essential to the attempts to establish social control on the home front and to protect the moral standards of the population. The chapter explains the historical significance of the correlation between the phenomenon of detention without trial and the dynamics of German home front politics. Additionally, the notion of the state of siege and the state of exception generally continued to influence political thought in the interwar years. The chapter then examines a case study that focused on the Berlin Police's handling of protective custody.
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Rosenhaft, Eve. "Working-Class Life and Working-Class Politics: Communists, Nazis and the State in the Battle for the Streets, Berlin 1928–1932 *." In Social Change and Political Development in Weimar Germany. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429277283-8.
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Smith, Woodruff D. "The Diffusionist Revolt." In Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany 1840-1920. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195065367.003.0009.
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Abstract Before Ratzel made his switch to full-time academic employment in the mid-1870s, he had spent brief periods studying under some of the leading figures in geography and Volkerkunde, including Bastian in Berlin.1 But he had not stayed at Berlin. Because of his irregular entry into academic life and the fact that his first appointment was at a technical institute in Munich, Ratzel was more or less destined to operate outside the Berlin establishment. This, combined with the antagonism toward the previous generation of social scientists, partly manifested in Ratzel’s politics and his Darwinism, led Ratzel to see himself as a potential leader of a revolt against the neoliberal theoretical pattern identified with the Berlin establishment.
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Pohl, Katharina. "Fatherhood In East And West Germany: Results Of The German Family And Fertility Survey." In Fertility and the Male Life-Cycle in the Era of Fertility Decline. Oxford University PressOxford, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198294443.003.0011.
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Abstract This paper focuses on the aftermath of an event that captured the world’s attention for several months, beginning in November 1989. The Berlin Wall, built in August 1961, was suddenly opened for the first time in 28 years, and thousands of East Germans made ready, almost overnight, to leave their country and enter West Germany. Such an east-west exodus, of course, never actually came to pass, but what did occur were profound political, economic, and social changes, from the highest level of society down to the smallest demographic unit: changes that are continuing to unfold in the transition to a unified Germany. Among these changes are those involving family formation and reproduction.
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Moser, Stephanie, Susanne Elisabeth Bruppacher, and Frederic de Simoni. "Public Representation of Ubiquitous ICT Applications in the Outpatient Health Sector." In User Perception and Influencing Factors of Technology in Everyday Life. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1954-8.ch015.
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ICT advances will bring a new generation of ubiquitous applications, opening up new possibilities for the health sector. However, the social impacts of this trend have largely remained unexplored. This study investigates the public representation of future ICT applications in the outpatient health sector in terms of their social acceptance. Mental models of ICT applications were elicited from inhabitants of Berlin, Germany, by means of qualitative interviews. The findings revealed that the interviewees felt ambivalent about anticipated changes; only if ICT use were to be voluntary and restricted to single applications and trustworthy institutions did they expect individual benefits. Concerns about data transmission to unauthorized third parties and widespread technological dissemination forcing compulsory participation led people to feel averse to such technology. Implications for potential implementation of future ICT applications in the outpatient health sector are discussed.
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Frühauf, Tina. "In the Midst of Rubble." In Transcending Dystopia. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197532973.003.0002.
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The reestablishment of the Jewish community of Berlin, the largest in prewar and postwar Germany, is examined across the city’s four sectors, focusing on the role music played in religious service, social life, and concert. Between 1945 and 1949, musical practices adhered to prewar models that largely relied on cantors, organists, and singers who had been active in the community before 1945, among them Leo Gollanin and Arthur Zepke. At times, the cultural interests and outlets of the community intersected with that of the Displaced Persons and the occupying forces, such as in charity concerts.
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Herold-Zanker, Katharina. "‘Feeling Oriental’." In Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780191990489.003.0004.
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Abstract This chapter shift the focus onto German decadence. This portion of the book on Paul Scheerbart’s and German-Jewish author Else Lasker-Schüler’s Decadent Oriental fiction of the 1890s and the 1910s reads their shared Nietzschean ‘Anti-Europäertum’ [Anti-Europeanness] as a form of self-Orientalization. Scheerbart’s art historic journalism and interest in Ancient Babylon and Assyria shaped his dramas and short fiction, presenting the East as stage or mirror to Western modernity’s shortcoming. Scheerbart’s architectural writing dedicated to Glasarchitektur, however, also projects a hopeful, utopian vision which, inspired by Eastern craftsmanship, would facilitate the pacifist, transparent coming-together of a global community. More so than Symons, who sought the affiliation with Romani in England and Fane’s association with the Armenians, both authors of the Berlin Bohème longed to embody the East through their fiction, and in Lasker-Schüler’s case, also in real life. The chapter traces Lasker-Schüler creating her own auto-fictional stylization in her male Arabic alter ego, prince ‘Jussuf’, in her Orientalizing prose, and in her correspondence with British Germanist Jethro Bithell. The chapter places emphasis on the role of decadent satire and queered gender performance as tools which these authors adopted to prompt critical self-reflection on Germany’s social progress and the self-inflicted degeneration of Europe at the cusp of the First World War.
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Sheehan, James J. "Eighteenth-century Society." In German History 1770-1866. Oxford University PressOxford, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198221203.003.0003.
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Abstract N 1765, when Goethe went from Frankfurt to Leipzig to begin studying law, his clothes, speech, and manners marked him as a foreigner; some female companions told him, none too gently, that he looked as if he had ‘dropped down out of another world’. Karl Heinrich Lang had a similar experience when he and his family moved from one Swabian village to another in the 1770s; although their journey lasted no more than four hours, the Langs found themselves in an ‘island of different customs, dialects, and manners’. The same sort of thing struck Georg Forster when he travelled through the Rhineland in 1791. Even in neighbouring towns such as Boppard and Andernach, Forster discovered that people spoke and behaved quite differently. Nowhere else,-wrote Freiherr von Knigge, is it harder to know how to act than in Germany, since ‘nowhere else can one find such a great multiplicity of conversational tones, educational methods, opinions on religion and other matters, and such a great diversity of conditions which claim the attention of various social groups in the different provinces’. This fragmentation of social experience reflected and was reinforced by the backwardness of the communications system throughout central Europe. Goethe’s trip from Frankfurt to Leipzig, for instance, was filled with delays and discomforts; even so, he was more fortunate than Casanova, who once had to spend three long days trying to traverse eighteen short leagues. Under the best of circumstances, it took nine days to go from Berlin to Frankfurt, two from Augsburg to Munich.
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Bienenstock, Myriam. "The Pantheism Controversy in the 1780s." In Oxford History of Modern German Theology, Volume 1: 1781-1848. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845768.003.0012.
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Abstract The publication in 1785 of the ‘Letters on the Doctrine of Spinoza’ triggered in Germany a powerful Spinoza cult which had not been willed by F. H. Jacobi, their editor: he had perceived the growing enthusiasm for Spinoza, also manifested by Herder and Goethe, and wanted to react. Rather than waging war on Spinoza himself, he targeted Mendelssohn the Jew and the Berlin Aufklärung, also other famous contemporaries whom he summoned to choose between reason and faith. Many preferred to declare themselves ‘Spinozists’. Kant resisted, but Fichte evolved an influential form of pantheism disparagingly called by Herder ‘transcendental Spinozism’. Herder’s own aesthetical pantheism developed into a highly successful yet much criticized philosophy of history. The figure of Spinoza also marked the life and works of Goethe, the ‘great heathen’, and of ‘the great heathen No. 2’ Heinrich Heine, who gave a social and political meaning to pantheism, that ‘clandestine religion of Germany’.