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Journal articles on the topic "Street life – Germany – Berlin"
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Whybrow, Nicolas. "Street Scene: Berlin's Strasse des 17 Juni and the Performance of (Dis)unity." New Theatre Quarterly 19, no. 4 (2003): 299–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x03000204.
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One of Berlin's most prominent streets, named after the East German workers' uprising of 1953 (in which Brecht was controversially implicated), serves as the performative location for Nicolas Whybrow's topographical interrogation of the politics of German nationhood. Particular attention is given to the new parliament building, the Reichstag, which has been out of action for the majority of its troubled history. The article considers attempts to perform democracy and unity since the fall of the Wall through various mediations, including Norman Foster's refunctioning of the Reichstag, Christo's facilitation of its rebirth, and a permanent installation by Hans Haacke which rewrites the building's prominent inscription of 1916, ‘For the German People’. Finally, Whybrow places the annual ‘Love Parade’ in the context of the long history of mass marches and demonstrations on this particular street, and analyzes its claims to be a unifying political event. Based loosely on the Benjaminian flâneur figure's practice of a first-hand experience of the street, incorporating both subjective immersion and detached observation of the revealing ‘detritus of modern urban life’, various tensions and superimpositions are rendered visible as the city undergoes transformation since reunification. Nicolas Whybrow, whose book Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin, and Berlin is forthcoming, is Senior Lecturer in Theatre at De Montfort University, Leicester.
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Leonhard, Sigi. "Brian Ladd: The Ghosts of Berlin. Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1997. 282 pp. $30.00." Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 15, no. 1 (2007): 206–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v15i1.230.
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This article presents a book review about Brian Ladd’s book, The Ghosts of Berlin. He uncovers the manifested and the hidden history of this city as well as the complexities of its life through its actual buildings, streets, traffic, and monuments and through the blueprints of unrealized projects, such as Hitker’s grandiose plans for a thoroughly revised capital. The result is a fascinating book about the development of Berlin and its role in national and international politics from the Middle Ages to the present.
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Dolderer, Winfried. "Een protestantse Flamenpolitik? Otto Bölke - dominee, heemkundige, Jongvlaams propagandist." WT. Tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging 72, no. 4 (2013): 303–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/wt.v72i4.12185.
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De Duitse dominee Otto Bölke (1873 – 1946) was geboren en werkzaam op de Fläming, een streek ten zuidwesten van Berlijn die in de middeleeuwen door inwijkelingen onder meer uit Vlaanderen en Nederland was gekoloniseerd. De vermeende Nederlandse afkomst van zijn voorouders heeft hem levenslang geïntrigeerd en aangezet tot een intense heemkundige bedrijvigheid alsmede een vroegtijdige belangstelling voor de Vlaamse beweging. Vanuit die belangstelling ontbolsterde Bölke zich tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog tot propagandist van de Flamenpolitik. Hij was betrokken bij een netwerk van Duitse sympathisanten van de meest radicale, Jongvlaamse variant van het activisme. De stichting van België kwam voor hem neer op een ‘verovering’ door de franstaligen; de Belgische staat noemde hij een ‘fabriek’ tot Romanisering van de Germaanse bevolking. Met Domela Nieuwenhuis maakte Bölke begin 1917 in Berlijn kennis. Domela leefde in onmin met het burgerlijke bezettingsbestuur, maar beschikte over Duitse vrienden in militaire evenals uiterst rechtse annexionistische kringen aan wie hij tot op het laatst verknocht bleef, De talrijke protestantse dominee's in dit netwerk waardeerden niet alleen de Nederlandse ambtsbroeder, maar evenzeer zijn politiek radicalisme dat strookte met hun eigen antidemocratisch conservatisme. Bölke toonde na de oorlog belangstelling voor het Vlaams nationalisme en kwam uiteindelijk in nationaalsocialistisch vaarwater terecht. Hij was een typische vertegenwoordiger van een Duits-nationaal protestantisme dat uit het keizerrijk doorgroeide tot in het Derde Rijk.
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 A Protestant Flamenpolitik (Flemish policy)? Otto Bölke – protestant pastor, expert on local history, propagandist of the Young FlemishThe German pastor Otto Bölke (1873 – 1946) was born and worked in the Fläming, a region southwest of Berlin, that had been colonised during the Middle Ages by immigrants from areas including Flanders and the Netherlands. The supposed Dutch origin of his ancestors intrigued him throughout his life and inspired his profound interest in local history as well as his early interest in the Flemish Movement.During the First World War that interest turned Bölke into a propagandist of the Flamenpolitik. He was involved in a network of German sympathizers of the most radical Young Flemish version of the activism. He considered the foundation of Belgium the equivalent of a ‘conquest’ by French speakers. He described the Belgian state as a ‘factory for romanising the Germanic population.’ Bölke made the acquaintance of Domela Nieuwenhuis in Berlin at the beginning of 1917. Domela was at odds with the civilian occupying administration but had German friends at his disposal in military as well as far right circles favouring annexation, to whom he remained attached until the end. The numerous Protestant pastors in this network valued not only their Dutch colleague, but also his political radicalism that reflected their own antidemocratic conservatism. After the war Bölke was interested in Flemish nationalism and finally ended up in the National Socialist arena. He was a typical representative of a German national Protestantism that evolved from the Empire to the Third Reich.
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Fitzpatrick, Blake, and Vid Ingelevics. "The everyday life of the Berlin Wall: College Station, Texas/Berlin, Germany." Public 25, no. 49 (2014): 50–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/public.25.49.50_7.
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von Döhren, Peer, and Dagmar Haase. "Risk assessment concerning urban ecosystem disservices: The example of street trees in Berlin, Germany." Ecosystem Services 40 (December 2019): 101031. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.101031.
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Zdun, Steffen. "The Fluid Nature of Street Culture: Non-Violent Participation, Changes in Adult Life, and Crumbling Ethnic Barriers in Germany." European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 27, no. 3 (2019): 207–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718174-02703002.
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This paper examines changes in the practice of street culture among non-violent young adult men. Many individuals who participate in street culture behave and talk in a pretty rough way among each other and act almost aggressively. This is done for establishing a certain reputation and self-image that relates to street culture rules and it is even widespread among non-violent players of this milieu. A comprehensive look on their behavior includes modifications of street culture practices in adult life. Another aspect of the fluid nature of street culture are crumbling ethnic barriers in this milieu in Germany. The latter contributes to further modifications, for instance, in social contacts and language use. The author provides supportive evidence from the existing literature and field work he has done in Germany.
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Valera Sosa, A., and C. Nickl-Weller. "Understanding walkability and walking rates in Berlin: an urban form and street pattern comparison." Die Psychiatrie 13, no. 02 (2016): 79–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1670123.
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Summary Background: This descriptive study provides information indicative of the interaction between physical features of neighbourhood environments with health behaviours such as walking and biking which consequently affect disease rates related to lifestyle. Aim: Through a summary of systematic observations at two urban scales, the macro and mesolevels, a neighbourhood comparison was realized in Berlin, Germany, to explore how urban forms and street patterns can support walking or biking, or not, despite seasonal variations, socio-economic status, cultural backdrop or individual decisions to walk. For this study, a conceptual evaluation framework was conceived and structured to assess secondary data from public databases, conveniently decreasing time and costs. Result: The framework and preliminary results of the work aim to be a significant endeavour in promoting transdisciplinarity among researchers and practitioners mainly from public health, architecture, urban planning and design fields.
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Dümpelmann, Sonja. "Trees, Wood, and Paper: Materialities of Urban Arboriculture in Modern Berlin." Journal of Urban History 46, no. 2 (2019): 310–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144219876610.
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The systematization of street tree planting in twentieth-century cities went hand in hand with the development of the modern city’s managerial system. In the systematization process, tree planting and care was serialized and standardized. To facilitate these procedures, tree locations and conditions began to be surveyed, planned, and recorded on paper. Focusing on street tree planting in East and West Berlin, this article examines the role of different paper formats, technologies, and representations such as lists, plans, maps, and index and edge-notched cards in the evolution of an increasingly regimented urban arboriculture. Paper was intricately related to both the life and death of the trees that it helped to document. As much as the malleable and variable nature and materiality of street trees contributed to an evolution of paper formats to capture the trees’ changeable conditions, so the use of paper to control, regulate, and systematize also contributed to standardizing trees, their planting, and their care.
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Henke, Antje, Peter Thuss-Patience, Asita Behzadi, and Oliver Henke. "End-of-life care for immigrants in Germany. An epidemiological appraisal of Berlin." PLOS ONE 12, no. 8 (2017): e0182033. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182033.
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Beck, Hamilton. "W.E.B. Du Bois as a Study Abroad Student in Germany, 1892-1894." Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 2, no. 1 (1996): 45–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v2i1.25.
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This paper examines Du Bois's study in Germany, making use of a variety of documents relating to his stay in Berlin. Du Bois describes his life as a student in Berlin quite vividly in chapter 10 of his Autobiography, which is largely based on diaries and notes Du Bois kept as a student. The Du Bois papers stored at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst)1 provide an interesting perspective on chapter 10, for here we can see the diaries in their original form, unedited by Du Bois, who wrote the Autobiography many years later and who left out much that is of interest not only to students of Berlin in the 1890s but also to biographers of Du Bois. In this paper I will draw not only on his correspondence and Autobiography but also on unpublished sources, including documents I found in Berlin. Although the focus will be on Du Bois, it is also important to sketch in the cultural and political climate of the time, since this provides the setting for Du Bois's development and helps explain some elements in the further course of life.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Street life – Germany – Berlin"
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Löer, Kathrin. "At home with the unhoused : conversations with men and women living on the streets of Berlin." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1355596.
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Homeless individuals in Berlin can be included into the group of people who do something more interesting than architects would ever dream of. With their knowledge of the city and the ability to claim spaces, they create their home within the city context. They use the city and what the city offers, to their advantage and create their homes with what is available in the city. They are not homeless. For the "city users" the city becomes home- the city home.To tell the stories of individuals who make the city their home, this thesis describes the daily routine of several individuals (with insights gained from a two-month internship) and appreciates these people for how they manage to survive somewhat independently on the streets of Berlin.It is argued that these individuals are not future clients for architects. Instead, it is suggested that we --architects, designers, planners, policy-makers, and others – have much to learn from those we consider to be homeless.<br>Department of Architecture
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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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Schor, Ruth. "Eine alltägliche Tätigkeit : performing the everyday in the avant-garde theatre scene of late nineteenth-century Berlin." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f182a548-e450-4efa-a3a0-478461d44ab6.
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This dissertation situates late nineteenth-century Berlin's reception of naturalist drama in contemporary discourse about European modernism, which to date has disregarded the significant impact of this cultural environment. Examining the Berlin avant-garde's demand for "truth" and "authenticity," this study highlights its legacy of promoting more honest and dynamic forms of human interaction. Sketching the historical background, Chapter 1 demonstrates how the reception of Henrik Ibsen in Berlin fuelled creative strategies for a more honest approach to theatre. From literary matinees to more egalitarian ways of directing theatre, this moment in cultural history significantly shaped people's understanding of theatre as a tool for social criticism and as a means of creating a sense of intimacy. Two important figures are highlighted here: literary critic and theatre director Otto Brahm, central to the promotion of naturalism, and his more prominent protégé Max Reinhardt, who developed Brahm's legacy. Situating these developments in a theoretical framework, Chapter 2 draws on the concept of "the everyday" as set out by Toril Moi, Stanley Cavell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein to link the role of the ordinary on stage to the avant-garde's search for authenticity and truthfulness. Through this framework, Ibsen's social dramas from A Doll's House to Hedda Gabler (Chapter 3) can be seen perfectly to exemplify this shift in perspective from the 1880s through the 1890s, revealing the complexity of truthfulness in communications. Tracing these themes in other dramatic works, innovative readings of Arthur Schnitzler's Liebelei (Chapter 4) and Rainer Maria Rilke's Das tägliche Leben (Chapter 5) shed new light on these two fin-de-siècle authors. By highlighting these authors' previously unrecognised connections with Berlin's avant-garde theatre scene and their dramatic exploration of interpersonal connection, this study shows both how theatre functioned as a tool to examine human relationships and to what extent twentieth-century literature was grounded in this way of thinking.
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Schlör, Joachim. "Das Ich der Stadt : Debatten über Judentum und Urbanität 1822-1938 /." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0608/2005481418.html.
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Vasudevan, Alexander Patrick. "Metropolitan theatrics : performing the modern in Weimar Berlin, 1919-1933." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16967.
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"Metropolitan Theatrics" charts the unsettling and reshaping of everyday life in
Weimar Berlin between 1919 and 1933. It does so, by convening a conversation between the
multidisciplinary insights of performance studies and recent geographical approaches to the
study of the modern city. Berlin's restless relationship with the 'modern' offers, it is argued,
an ideal historical milieu in which to test performance theory while at the same time question
some of its presentist assumptions. Drawing on a variety of historical sources, the study
focuses on the role of performance - not only theatrical representation, but also the popular
press, novels, the visual and performing arts, modern dance, scientific experiments, and
everyday practices - in order to demonstrate the specific conjunction of visuality and
embodiment that allied 'Berlin' with 'modernity.'
The thesis is divided into two main parts. Part One is a close reading of texts and images
and how they have come to figure Weimar Berlin as an imagined environment. In this
respect, recent scholarship in the humanities has been caught on the horns of a theoretical
dilemma, namely how to accommodate the seemingly undocumentable event of
performance. Different responses to this dilemma are discussed. In particular, it is argued
that in seeking to go beyond representation to embodied experience, a sense of the cultural
presence of the former in the latter merits greater critical attention. Part Two continues the
thesis's discussion of performance's unorthodox archives by drawing attention to a
repertoire of aesthetic and scientific practices which were developed to sense and adapt to
the traumatic shock of metropolitan modernity. Ultimately, this thesis provides an
historically specific account of aspects of Weimar modernity and thus means to contribute
not only to an historical geography of Berlin, but also to the forging of methodologies that
serve to widen the cross-disciplinary study of modern culture and modernity. Given the
importance of the Weimar era to our understanding of the nature of European modernity, the
development of a geography of performance makes a strong case for re-examining the ways
in which the relationship between 'modernity' and the 'city' is usually formulated<br>Arts, Faculty of<br>Geography, Department of<br>Graduate
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Liu, Guangji. "Urban shelter for diverse living : master plan in Leharter Street." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/25001.
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Berlin is one of the most dense cities for tenantable living, from nineteen century to the reunification decade in the late twentieth, the housing living cost always maintain an affordable level for multiple classes requirements. However, after step into twenty-one century, the urban gentrification sweeps out many affordable rental housing financed by city government, instead of higher cost for housing living in downtown Berlin. What I look for in this master design project is trying to broad a new view in how to develop the modern, affordable housing for diverse groups living in the inner city.<br>text
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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)
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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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(10789695), Adriana Catalina Garcia Acevedo. "AUTISTIC ADULTS AND THEIR INTERSECTIONS: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO CULTURAL CONCEPTIONS OF DISABILITY IN INDIGENOUS, CAMPESINOS AND URBAN FAMILIES IN COLOMBIA." Thesis, 2021.
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<p>This ethnographic project
delves into the spheres of life of three autistic adults and their families.
This thesis analyzes their experiences, current routines, and personal and
family narratives about what it means to be an autistic adult across different
identities and geographies. This thesis also identifies forms of knowledge that
arise in these life experiences and shape strategies, decisions, or attitudes
taken to navigate through life or overcome possible difficulties in their
present and futures. This research takes place in Colombia, a diverse country
and engages with anthropology of the everyday, sensory anthropology and
disability studies.</p>
Books on the topic "Street life – Germany – Berlin"
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Habermas, Jürgen. A Berlin republic: Writings on Germany. University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
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Rice, Leland. Up against it: Photographs of the Berlin Wall. University of New Mexico Press, 1991.
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Black, Monica. Death in Berlin: From Weimar to divided Germany. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Death in Berlin: From Weimar to divided Germany. German Historical Institute, 2010.
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Rodden, John G. "Berlin, 1994 No Difficulties with the Truth? The Last Testament of Philosopher-Dissident Wolfgang Harich." In Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195112443.003.0022.
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“Peace Street.” As we drive up to the home of Wolfgang Harich, 72, one of the leading intellectual controversialists in postwar Germany—indeed a one-man battlefield where DDR history and identity have fought themselves out—I remark to my friend Ulrike on the ironies of his address. It seemed to evoke what Harich wished for himself, after decades of struggle to regain his good name: to rest in peace. And that he not, as he once said, “go dishonored to the grave.” Ulrike, 35, a western Berlin linguist, is interested in hearing more about Harich’s history. The DDR itself is like a dream to her, she says—let alone such distant events such as Harich’s arrest and trial for sedition in 1956/57. She doesn’t remember ever paying much attention to the DDR; East Berlin was just a few streets yet a world away. She does not know much about DDR history, but as a Berliner, she says, she has always felt some special bond to “the east.” She too is eager to meet Wolfgang Harich, the man whose comprehensive reform proposals constituted the only Party attempt at internal restructuring of the DDR before its collapse in 1989/90. I talk about Harich’s reputation as a young man—what I’ve heard of it from acquaintances, such as Monika Hüchel, wife of the poet Peter Hüchel and a former colleague of Harich at the Tägliche Rundschau. Harich was “quite a ladies’ man,” she noted, very much a bon vivant, glittering in his wit and repartee amid the rubble in postwar Berlin. Brilliant, gossipy, impulsive, principled, rational, visionary, high-minded, refractory, moralizing, self-righteous: Harich, son of the distinguished literary critic Walther Harich—who died when Harich was a small boy—came from a well-to-do German bourgeois family and seemed in the late 1940s a throwback to an earlier era of broadly cultivated European intellectuals. I had long hoped to meet Wolfgang Harich—ever since I had read the 1956 Spiegel cover story about him—in which the editor of the Deutsche Rundschau had called him “an intellectual phenomenon,” “a pure intellect on two feet,” and “a genius, an intellectual Wunderkind.”
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Alexander, Phil. "The Music in Berlin: Spaces and Places." In Sounding Jewish in Berlin. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190064433.003.0003.
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In a complement to the networks and styles of the previous chapter, this chapter offers a detailed analysis of the spaces that frame the Berlin klezmer scene. It draws on the influence of British cultural studies to locate this scene within the characteristic fluidity and bricolage aesthetics of the city’s wider street-level musical culture—brought to life here through description and analysis of the sonic profusion of Mauerpark’s weekly “mini-festival.” The chapter then moves on to explore in depth ways in which we might understand “Jewish space,” including the important role of music in the mediation of German-Jewish space. The majority of the chapter then looks in detail at the official/unofficial spatial spectrum that frames several characteristic klezmer venues in the city: a long-running and appealingly shabby club/bar; a contemporary arthouse theater program; a well-established, friendly yet surprisingly formal dance night; and the lively space of a West Berlin kosher cafe. It then discusses in depth the three klezmer jam sessions that take place in the city, considering each of these sessions as its own version of a wider “scene,” with reference to the work of Will Straw and others. The last part of the chapter discusses how several unofficial spaces that have developed recently point to a possible paradigm shift in the presentation and reception of Yiddish musical culture in the city, seen in the ground-level complex of Yiddish cultural activities established over the last six years in the Neukölln district. Once again, the solid theoretical underpinning is brought to life by strong ethnographic description and interviews.
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Rodden, John G. "Berlin, 1994: Bridge over Broken Glass? A Journey to Germany’s Sole Jewish High School." In Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195112443.003.0020.
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In the beginning was the memory. “I’m still hesitant even to mention it,” the young woman says in a low voice. We huddle closer together. “East Berlin was, after all, the capital of our ‘anti-fascist’ state.” She pauses. “And I’m even more anxious talking about it here—in this Oberschule.” She pauses again, then sets her shoulders and shakes her head impatiently. “But, on the other hand, it is my family history—I can’t do anything about that,” she continues. “I don’t believe in hiding it or repressing it—there’s been too much of that down through the years. And so I do tell people about it. Because it’s precisely my determination to confront my history that has brought me here.” Here: where—in a visceral, sometimes gut-wrenching way—past meets present, native meets foreigner, East meets West, Jew meets Gentile. And, above all, here: where—with as much good will and naturalness (and even a semblance of normalcy) as such an encounter can occur—Jew meets German. For we are sitting in the first—and still only—Jewish Oberschule in Germany in more than 50 years. We are talking in a corner in Room 212, the cramped teacher’s conference room through which her colleagues pass as they leave to teach their classes. Frau Ulla Berhau, 33, has the morning free and is willing to talk to me. A slight woman with short black hair cut in a close crop, Frau Berhau speaks in even tones and in a sharp Saxon accent about her past. Like many eastern German women, she wears no makeup, but her face lights up with animated expression as she tells her story, whose newest chapter has much to do with the historical challenges facing the Jewish Oberschule at Great Hamburg Street 27 in eastern Berlin. “To build a school is hard,” says Frau Berhau, “especially here in this street, especially for . . . us.” She gestures toward the center of Room 212 and her colleagues as she pauses, then shakes her head again.
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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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Stangl, Paul. "Landscapes of Commemoration." In Risen from Ruins. Stanford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503603202.003.0002.
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After the war, Berliners’ dire need for housing and infrastructure sometimes presented a life or death struggle. Some resources and labor were diverted to transform the symbolic dimension of the urban landscape. The Allies called for the removal of all public symbols of Nazism and German militarism, and German officials at the local level were delegated the task of identifying these sites. The Berlin Magistrat developed lists of street signs and monuments to be removed as symbols of Nazism, militarism, and Prussian monarchy. The process involved debate that followed party lines. German Communists took the most iconoclastic stance, due to a view of German exceptionalism that traced the roots of Nazism to the Prussian state. German Communists and the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD) began constructing memorials to honor their fallen, imposing narratives that honored enemies of the former Reich.
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"Berlin Street Life: Scenes and Scenarios." In Thick Space. transcript-Verlag, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839420430.239.
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Rodden, John G. "Marooned in the Workers’ Paradise: Cold War Catechetics, 1951–61." In Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195112443.003.0010.
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August 12, 1951. It’s a brilliant Sunday afternoon in the eastern sector of Berlin, the DDR’s capital, now an urban showplace of 1.7 million residents and proudly known on road signs as Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR—a simple declaration of the SED’s ongoing claim to the entire city as DDR territory. The boulevards are clean and neat in Alexanderplatz, the downtown area of East Berlin. Windows are bedecked with flowers, and flags from every nation of the globe festoon the buildings, which are draped with tapestries displaying the goal of world socialism in dozens of languages: Friede, Pokoj, Paix, Beke, Pax, Pace, Peace. But a walk off the main drag casts doubt on whether there is much cause to preen: six years after the war’s close, block after block of row houses are still gutted. The decrepit trolley cars are slow-moving war survivors; postwar automobiles are nowhere to be seen, except for a few “official” vehicles of the government and People’s Police. Rubble lines every side street. The National Reconstruction Program, a much-publicized campaign to repair the DDR’s war-scarred cities, is not slated to begin until late fall. Economic reconstruction is barely under way. But ideological reconstruction is well advanced. Waves of Blueshirts, 100 abreast, pass at the rate of 30 ranks per minute in the gala marking the climax of the two-week World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace. Sponsored by the international Communist Youth Organization, this year’s festival dwarfs its predecessors in Prague (1947) and Budapest (1949), as well as the “Storm Berlin” Deutschlandtreffen (German rally) of 500,000 youth in May 1950. The theme for the 1951 festival is “Stalin’s Call to Arms for Peace.” The vast majority of the participants belong to the FDJ and JP, which together boast almost three million members. Down the treeless center parkway of Unter den Linden—the lime trees were cut down years ago—and from the side streets filled with debris sweep one million East Germans, along with 26,000 foreign guests from 104 countries.
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Ladd, Brian. "Double Restoration: Rebuilding Berlin after 1945." In The Resilient City. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195175844.003.0011.
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As in any city recovering from disaster, Berlin, following World War II, had the opportunity to reconnect with its local traditions. The restoration of political, social, and cultural forms offered a kind of reconnection, and so did the tangible reconstruction of buildings, streets, and utility lines. Any revival of tradition was, however, enormously complicated by two problems of continuity, one temporal, one geographical—and both of them political and philosophical. First was the question of historical continuity. On the one hand, there was a desire to rebuild: to repair a damaged but extant city or, more broadly, to continue the best local traditions in architectural style, social policy, and economic development. On the other hand, everyone in charge was determined to break demonstratively with the immediate past, that is, with the Third Reich, but they did not agree about which cultural, architectural, or urbanistic traditions were the Nazi ones. The second complication arose from the fact that the city was soon divided between East and West, governed by two ideologically opposed regimes, each determined to claim the legacy of pre-Nazi Berlin, to display the clearer break with Hitler, and to prove its cultural and political superiority. Under these complicated circumstances, the rebuilding of Berlin became one of the most visibly contested venues of the early Cold War, even as it remained a matter of basic comfort and prosperity for ordinary Berliners. The fact of Berlin’s destruction in the Second World War is well known, but merely to ask the question of what caused that destruction is to plunge into contested territory. In the Soviet-occupied East, for example, the official line at first informed Germans that the destruction of their land was the legacy of Hitler and the Nazis. Later, as the Cold War heated up, they were more likely to hear blame cast upon the “Anglo-American terror bombers” (with no mention of the secondary role of Red Army artillery in the battle of Berlin). In theWestern zones of occupation, a version of the former story remained the official one, with perhaps more emphasis on the collective responsibility of the German people as a whole for the deeds of the Nazis.
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Dekel, Irit. "13 “You Are My Liberty”: On the Negotiation of Holocaust and Other Memories for Israelis in Berlin." In Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany. Rutgers University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36019/9781978800755-014.
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"Back to the Lecture Hall: Family and University Life in Berlin." In A Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany. BRILL, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004337268_008.
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Karaca, Erol, and Nuray Gökçek Karaca. "The Study of the Scale to Determine Attitudes on Labor Force Participation of Turkish Migrant Women in Germany." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c07.01489.
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This study sought to develop a Likert type scale which is valid and reliable in order to investigate attitudes on labor life participation of the migrant women. The research was carried out with 570 Turkish migrant women in Germany, living in Cologne (172), Stuttgart (150), Bremen (109), Munich (53) and Berlin (86), Germany, in 2012-2013. The data were collected by using a questionnaire consisting of two sections, developed by the researchers to determine attitudes on labor life participation of migrant women. The first part is the form related to demographic and personal information, consisting of items about the gender, age, marital status, status, if they find their income level sufficient, if they look at the future with confidence and perceptions about being unionized. The second part includes 15 expressions related to attitudes on labor life participation of migrant women on a 5-point Likert-type scale consisting of 5 choices, from 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree. Data which were collected through that The Attitude Scale on Labor Life Participation were analyzed with factor analysis by using the statistical package SPSS. The findings of the study revealed that the scale was valid and reliable.
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Psenner, Angelika. "The loss of semi-public spheres within the Vienna urban parterre system—cause and effect study." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5221.
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As proven in the preceding pilot study the historical Viennese ground floor originally presented an intruiging and essential semi-public sphere with no clear-cut boundary between inside and out. Rather, doors and windows were left open most of the time so that there were many points that gave access to the ground-floor premises. Original photos from the period attest to this: the ground-floor facades were permeable; semi-public or even private uses of the ground floor extended to the street, and conversely, the premises were easily accessible to the “public flow.” In addition many of the ground-floor premises in the chosen research area were connected with basement floors or cellars underneath, which meant a further extension of the urban parterre. The (commercial) use of the street-facing premises in most cases also included the interior courtyard. Today, interior courtyards mostly accommodate garbage cans or dumpsters; more intensive, diversified uses of this part of the StadtParterre nowadays are rare. Thus the historical StadtParterre was a ramified, varied, much-used and hence engaging space. Permeable ground-floor facades provided a flexible interface between public and semi-public spaces; intensely interacting with one another. First and foremost, though, the point here is to acknowledge the significance of the urban parterre for the functoning of a city—a fact that has somewhat fallen into oblivion in the noughties of the 21st century ever since the emergence of 3D city modeling. The reason for this may be that conventional 3D city models canot really represent intricate, small-scale, multilayered, and ramified ground-floor structures und thus prevent us from perceiving them in a broader functional perspective.The paper discusses reasons and socio-urban effects of a dis-linked, malfunctioning urban parterre.References Anderson, S. ed. (1978): On Streets. Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press. Appleyard, D. (1981): Livable streets. Berkeley: University of California Press. Davis, H. (2012): Living Over the Store: Architecture and Urban Life. London and New York: Routledge. Gehl, J. (1996): Life between Buildings: Using Public Space. Translated by Jo Koch. Copenhagen: Arkitektens Forlag (orig. Livet mellem husene. 1978). Krusche, J. and Vogt, G. (2011): Strassenräume Berlin, Shanghai, Tokyo, Zürich: Eine foto-ethnografische Untersuchung. Baden, CH: Lars Müller Publishers. Scheuvens, R. and Schütz, T. (2012): Perspektive Erdgeschoss, Werkstattbericht 121. Vienna: Magistratsabteilung 18, Stadtentwicklung und Stadtplanung.
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Abokersh, Mohamed Hany, Manel Vallès, Luisa F. Cabeza, and Dieter Boer. "A Multicriteria Approach to Evaluate Solar Assisted District Heating in the German Market." In ASME 2020 14th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2020-1668.
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Abstract Following the ambitious EU plan in cutting the greenhouse emission and replacing conventional heat sources through the presence of renewable energy share inside efficient district heating fields, seasonal storage coupled with district heating plants can have a viable contribution to this goal. However, the performance uncertainty combined with the inadequate assessment regarding the financial potential and the greenhouse emission reduction associated with the deployment of those innovate district heating systems represents a great challenge for sufficiently apply it. Our work tends to explore the prospects for wide-scale deployment of the seasonal storage in the residential sector in the German market. The proposed methodology framework correspondingly based on a multi-objective approach which is applied to optimize the cost against an aggregated environmental metric throughout the life cycle of the proposed system in comparison to their relative conventional heating systems. In this context, the proposed methodology framework is applied to Berlin as a representative for the central European climate zone with consideration for the seasonal and short-term storage systems and their relatively load profiles. The environmental improvement associated with the solar district heating system (SDHS) coupled with seasonal storage in the central European climate zone is heavily weighed enough in decision making for proposing SDHS as a sustainable solution replacing the conventional heat sources. Furthermore, the proposed methodology framework successes in eliminating the yearly system variation. Thus, the yearly solar fraction never goes down below than 97.8% in the investigated climate zone. Overall this study can assist in approving the feasibility of the SDHS with the goal of establishing a more sustainable energy infrastructure in Germany.