TY - THES A1 - Mahncke-Zare, Naghme T1 - Legitimiertes Unrecht T1 - Legitimized injustice BT - die Urteile des Obersten Gerichts zu Fällen der „Republikflucht“ und ihr Einfluss auf die Rechtspraxis der DDR 1949-1975 BT - the verdicts of the Supreme Court in cases of "desertion from the Republic" and their influence on legal practice in the GDR 1949-1975 N2 - Das Oberste Gericht der DDR war integraler Bestandteil der sozialistischen Staatsführung und unterlag strengen Denk- und Organisationsstrukturen. Es war eng in die politische Agenda der SED eingebunden und genoss keinerlei Unabhängigkeit. Die Auslegung des DDR-Rechts durch das Gericht orientierte sich ausschließlich an den innen- und außenpolitischen Interessen der SED. Dies galt auch für die Rechtsprechung in Fällen der Republikflucht und ihrer gesetzlichen Vorläufer. Die höchste Gerichtsinstanz im Staat war aktiv an der Gestaltung und Umsetzung der Strafjustiz gegen Republikflüchtige beteiligt, was wesentlich zur Festigung der Herrschaftsgewalt der SED beitrug. Die vorliegende Untersuchung analysiert Urteile des Obersten Gerichts im historisch-politischen Kontext und zeigt auf, dass die Urteilspraxis ausschließlich im Interesse parteipolitischer Ziele handelte und weder dem Volk noch der eigentlichen Rechtsfindung verpflichtet war. Des Weiteren wird der maßgebliche Beitrag des Obersten Gerichts an der schrittweisen Kriminalisierung der Bürger der DDR beleuchtet. Dies wirft ein kritisches Licht auf die Rolle des Rechtssystems bei der Sicherung von Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Menschenrechten in autoritären Regimen. N2 - The Supreme Court of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was an integral part of the socialist state leadership and was subject to strict thought and organizational structures. It was closely integrated into the political agenda of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and enjoyed no independence. The court's interpretation of GDR law was oriented exclusively towards the domestic and foreign policy interests of the SED, including the jurisdiction in cases of “Republikflucht” and its legal precursors. The highest court instance in the state was actively involved in the design and implementation of criminal justice against fugitives from the republic, which contributed significantly to the consolidation of the SED's power to rule. This study analyses judgments of the Supreme Court in a historical-political context and shows that the sentencing practice acted exclusively in the interests of party political goals and was neither committed to the people nor to the actual finding of justice. Moreover, the pivotal role of the Supreme Court in the gradual criminalization of citizens in the GDR is underscored. This sheds light on the critical role of the legal system in safeguarding the rule of law and human rights in authoritarian regimes. KW - DDR-Recht KW - Oberstes Gericht KW - SED-Herrschaft KW - Republiklflucht KW - Unrechtsjustiz KW - GDR law KW - supreme court of the GDR KW - SED regime KW - travel ban KW - human rights violation Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-635499 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World BT - Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany. T3 - Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series N2 - This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy.  This book draws on more than 260 life history interviews and uncovers complex and contradictory experiences and transnational encounters. What emerges is a series of dualities that exist side by side in the memories of the former migrants: the state and the individual, work and consumption, integration and exclusion, loss and gain, and the past in the past and the past in the present and future. By uncovering these dualities, the book explores the lives of African migrants moving between the Third and Second worlds.  Devoted to the memories of worker-trainees, this transnational study comes at a time when historians are uncovering the many varied, complicated, and important connections within the global socialist world. KW - Open access KW - Third World KW - Second World KW - East Germany KW - Angola KW - Mozambique KW - Socialism KW - Labor Migration Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-031-06775-4 SN - 978-3-031-06778-5 SN - 978-3-031-06776-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06776-1 SN - 2634-6273 SN - 2634-6281 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Cham ER - TY - BOOK ED - Martin, Katja ED - Hamann, Anja Maria ED - Kreibig, Nina T1 - Tod und Krise BT - Totenfürsorge und Bestattungspraktiken im langen 19. Jahrhundert N2 - Der Tod wird oftmals als größtmögliche menschliche Krise wahrgenommen. Doch wie definiert sich Krise im Kontext von Tod und Sterben? Dieser Frage geht der vorliegende Sammelband im zeitlichen Rahmen des langen 19. Jahrhunderts nach, welches sich durch zahlreiche Brüche und Veränderungen im Umgang mit dem Tod und den Verstorbenen auszeichnet. Die Beiträge sind das Ergebnis eines gleichnamigen Symposiums im Jahr 2019. Aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive thematisieren Jungforscher:innen Bestattungspraktiken im Krieg und in Seuchenzeiten, setzen sich mit Innovationen im europäischen Bestattungswesen und mit den daraus resultierenden Spannungsverhältnissen auseinander. Sie problematisieren die Repräsentationsbedürfnisse des Adels im Zusammenhang mit dem Tod und untersuchen Erinnerungskulturen sowie das bewusste Verdrängen von Todeskontexten. Hierbei wird der Fokus auf die Akteur:innen gelegt, deren Intentionen und ihr konkretes Handeln. Krisen fungieren zum einen als Motor für neue Entwicklungen. Zum anderen verdeutlichen sie bisweilen eine erstaunliche Innovationsresistenz beim Umgang mit dem Tod. Eines aber zeichnet Krisen maßgeblich aus: sie zwingen die Betroffenen zu einer Entscheidung. Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-944693-03-3 PB - Arijeh Verlag CY - Potsdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Yael, Attia A1 - Lapidot, Elad A1 - Tzuberi, Hannah T1 - 60 Years after the Algerian War BT - Interculturality in the Postcolonial Age N2 - Over the six decades since it officially ended, the Algerian War has become a key event for marking, retrospectively, the beginning of a new era in European, Western and global history. This new era is characterized by the proclaimed end of Western hegemony – by the proclaimed end of European history as global, universal history. This era, our era, understands itself as the time after the domination of the West, a time or multiple times of “post”: the time of postcolonialism, but also postmodernity, postsecularism, posthumanism. The times of “post” are characterized by a fundamental reconfiguration of the relations between European civilization and its Others, first and foremost by the proclaimed split between Europe and its Others, and more generally by the disintegration, disruption and dispersion of the – allegedly – unified space of culture, knowledge and discourse. The postcolonial era is an era of diversity and difference, an era of dispersions and diasporas, where the space of culture is a space of multiple cultures, a space of in-between, of “inter”: the space of the intercultural, but also the interreligious, interethnic, interracial and inter-epistemic. This conference will reflect on the “inter” in the time of “post”. We invited scholars, thinkers, intellectuals and artists to discuss various aspects and models of intercultural dynamics that have been developed and articulated in the aftermath of the Algerian War or of other events that marked the decline of Western hegemony, such as the Second Vatican, May 1968 or the Vietnam War. How did the age of decolonization reshape the discourse and practice of intercultural relations? To what extent interculturality itself is a sign or a site of decolonization? To what extent, on the contrary, intercultural relations may reproduce colonial or generate neocolonial patterns? Contributions examine the emergence of intercultural notions and practices in various intellectual traditions, European or non-European; the development of new categories and constellations of identity, otherness and dialogue; the interrelations between epistemic, cultural, discursive, religious and political aspects; as well as reactions to these new developments and various forms of critique and resistance. We are especially interested in how this reflection may shed light on socio-political and cultural phenomena, trends and concerns of the present time. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://intellectualdiaspora.org/de/culture-of-difference_culture-of-difference-interculturality-in-the-postcolonial-age/ PB - Katholische Akademie Berlin CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zakrzewski, Tanja T1 - Rezension zu: Poettering, Jorun: Migrating Merchants - Trade, Nation, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Hamburg and Portugal . - Berlin: De Gryter, 2018. - 397 S. - ISBN: 978-3-11-047001-7 JF - Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.comparativ.net/v2/article/view/3241/2941 SN - 0940-3566 VL - 2 SP - 289 EP - 291 PB - Universitätsverlag CY - Leipzig ER - TY - BOOK ED - Martin, Katja ED - Heinzmann, Michael T1 - Wir Mendes BT - Geschichte und Geschichten einer jüdischen Familie aus Frankfurt an der Oder N2 - Frankfurt an der Oder verfügte einst über blühendes jüdisches Leben. Es gab jüdische Geschäfte und Bankhäuser, ein jüdisches Kinderheim und Krankenhaus, Synagogen und Mikwen sowie einen großen jüdischen Friedhof. Die Geschichte der Bankiersfamilie Mende, die 30 Jahre lang in einem Haus am Lennépark in der Halben Stadt lebte, steht symbolisch für die Zeit des liberalen deutsch-jüdischen Bürgertums an der Schwelle zum 20. Jahrhundert und gibt uns einen Einblick in ihren Alltag und ihr häusliches Leben. Die Zeugnisse von Max Bamberger und Käthe Mende dokumentieren die schweren ersten Jahre im 17. Jahrhundert als Neuankömmlinge in Frankfurt an der Oder, die Auswirkungen der Aufklärung, die spannende Zeit der Industrialisierung und die Wirren des Ersten Weltkrieges. Auch gewinnen wir Aufschluss über die Zeit der Shoah, durch die deutsch-jüdisches Leben ein jähes Ende finden sollte. Nicht zuletzt stellen die Memoiren von Max Bamberger und Käthe Mende einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Frankfurter Stadtgeschichte dar, die  —  versehen mit vielen amüsanten Anekdoten  —  überdies äußerst unterhaltsam sind. Die Grundlage dafür bildeten die Familienerinnerungen der Sozialpädagogin und Nationalökonomin Käthe Mende und des Übersetzers Max Bamberger, die sich als Schreibmaschinenmanuskripte im Leo Baeck Institut für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte in New York befinden. Ergänzt werden die Berichte durch historische Einordnungen und Erläuterungen sowie eine Einführung in die Geschichte des jüdischen Frankfurts. Hervorgegangen ist die Edition aus einem langjährigen gemeinsamen Forschungsprojekt der Jüdischen Studien an der Universität Potsdam (Dr. Michael Heinzmann und Dr. Katja Martin) mit dem Institut für angewandte Geschichte – Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft im Dialog e.V. (Dr. Magdalena Abraham-Diefenbach und Dr. Markus Nesselrodt) und dem Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, gefördert und unterstützt durch die Szloma-Albam-Stiftung. Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-944693-02-6 PB - Arijeh Verlag CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - la Grange, Anna T1 - Afrikaner-sondebok? Die lewe van Hans van Rensburg, Ossewabrandwagleier JF - South african journal of cultural history Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.54272/sach.2022.v36n2a12 VL - 36 IS - 2 SP - 197 EP - 198 PB - South African Society for Cultural History CY - Pretoria ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo T1 - 'Per voler del primo amor ch'i' sento' BT - Justinian and Theodora from the sixth to sixteenth centuries T2 - Representing Rome's emperors: historical and cultural perspectives through time Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-0-19-286926-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192869265.003.0008 SP - 195 EP - 213 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wyrwa, Ulrich T1 - Review of: Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, ed. Dan Diner, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, (Stuttgart –Weimar: Metzler, 2011-2017), 7 Vol JF - Quest : issues in contemporary Jewish history Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.48248/issn.2037-741X/682 SN - 2037-741X VL - 2018 IS - 14 SP - 123 EP - 131 PB - Fondazione Centro Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CY - Milano ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nehring, Christopher T1 - Files, agents, "Deep State," and Russian influence: the legacy of the communist state security service in Bulgaria JF - International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence N2 - How much influence did the former communist state security service Darzhavna sigurnost (DS) have during the transformation period in Bulgaria? For the first time in history, there is empirical data available that allow for an analysis of the role of the Bulgarian secret police and its "afterlife" after 1990. Bulgarian intelligence archives, which were made partly accessible following the country's admission to the European Union in 2007, provide an excellent basis for an analysis of the relationship between the DS and the Soviet State Committee for Security, the transformation of the Bulgarian security apparatus in 1990, attempts to disclose the state security archives, and continuous infiltration of Bulgarian politics, institutions, and security apparatus by former agents of the communist intelligence and security apparatus. The empirical data suggest that personal connections, dependencies, and informal networks of former DS agents and officials played an important role during the transformation period in Bulgaria and are at least partly responsible for political corruption, continuous Russian influence, a high degree of politicization of the Bulgarian security apparatus, misuse of intelligence and illegal surveillance practices, and a high degree of domestic and international mistrust and (dis-)loyalty. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2021.2018264 SN - 0885-0607 SN - 1521-0561 VL - 35 IS - 2 SP - 318 EP - 338 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sanchez Sanz, Arturo A1 - Laudenbach, Benoît A1 - Weiß, Adrian A1 - Werner, Eva A1 - Stachon, Markus A1 - Anders, Friedrich A1 - Barthel, Christian A1 - Berrens, Dominik A1 - Avalli, Andrea A1 - Vandewalle, Alexander A1 - Ferrara, Pasquale A1 - Pohl, Patrik ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Spring Issue T2 - thersites Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol16 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 16 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Düvel, Pia A1 - Ehmig, Ulrike A1 - McCall, Jeremiah A1 - Unceta Gómez, Luis A1 - Bakogianni, Anastasia A1 - Fischer, Jens A1 - Serrano Lozano, David A1 - Ambühl, Annemarie A1 - Matz, Alicia A1 - Brinker, Wolfram A1 - Mach, Jonas Konstantin A1 - Mancini, Mattia A1 - Werner, Eva ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Spring Issue T2 - thersites KW - history textbooks KW - textbook research KW - historical consciousness KW - Spartacus KW - slavery KW - history teaching KW - Anfänge der systematischen lateinische Epigraphik KW - Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum KW - Archiv KW - Reproduktion von Inschriften KW - history KW - video games KW - agents KW - historiography KW - Jonathan Muroya KW - Greek mythology KW - classical reception KW - cartoons Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol18 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2024 IS - 18 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Scianna, Bastian Matteo ED - Bartrop, Paul R. T1 - Directing the war from triumph to disaster BT - the German and Italian cases JF - The Routledge history of the Second World War N2 - After the Second World War, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were singled out as evil geniuses who misled the masses and plunged them into an “unwanted war.” In relation to their armed forces, this narrative argued that the generals under their command had been demoted to powerless tools in the hands of the dictators, having to follow orders and with no sway over decision-making. It was further asserted that Germany and Italy had not been able to secure a victory due to the dictators’ meddling. Yet, as this chapter shows, there are important differences between the German and Italian cases. The chapter compares both the command structures in which the dictators operated as well as their grand strategies and how they cooperated during the war. Their personal relationship will be also analyzed, as it is impossible to look at the Axis without understanding the complex personal relationship at the very top. The strategies of both Hitler and Mussolini will be looked at and how each leader behaved in terms of working with their closest ally, together with some examples of cooperation on the lower military rungs. Y1 - 2022 SN - 9780429455353 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429455353-16 SP - 181 EP - 194 PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon ER - TY - THES A1 - Kucharzewski, Tim T1 - Wars and the world BT - the Russian army in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Georgia, and popular culture N2 - This book offers a descriptive analysis of the Soviet/Russian wars in Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Georgia, as well as an in-depth exploration of the ways in which these wars are framed in the collective consciousness created by global popular culture. Russian and Western modalities of remembrance have been, and remain, engaged in a world war that takes place (not exclusively, but intensively) on the level of popular culture. The action/reaction dynamic, confrontational narratives and othering between the two "camps" never ceased. The Cold War, in many ways and contrary to the views of many others who hoped for the end of history, never really ended. Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-1-0364-0374-4 PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne ER - TY - JOUR A1 - D'Aprile, Iwan-Michelangelo T1 - Zeitungslektüre und Zeitungspoetik in Fontanes Romanen JF - Colloquia Germanica : internationale Zeitschrift für Germanistik N2 - This article examines scenes of Zeitungslektüre (newspaper reading) in some exemplary Fontane novels to reconstruct them as a serial narrative pattern that fills specific narrative functions similar to other narrative patterns such as letter writing or country excursions (Landpartien) which have often been shown to be typical for Fontane’s novels. These newspaper scenes can be read as multifaceted culmination points at the surface of the novel’s story in which aspects of Fontane’s writing practices, formal aspects (characterization of figures, narrative temporalities, narrative structure), autopoietic reflection as well as addresses to the readers are brought into a complex interplay. The newspaper-reading scenes are thus significant textual signals of what has been called Fontane’s specific Zeitungspoetik. The argument is unfolded by examining examples from three different genres: the historical novel Unwiederbringlich, the “Berlin everyday novels” (“Berliner Alltagsgeschichten”) Irrungen, Wirrungen and Mathilde Möhring, and the Zeitroman or political novel Der Stechlin. T2 - Newspaper reading and newspaper poetics in Fontane's novels Y1 - 2020 UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/26976011 SN - 0010-1338 VL - 52 IS - 1-2 SP - 27 EP - 46 PB - Narr Francke Attempto CY - Tübingen ER - TY - THES A1 - Kaun, Mario T1 - Begrenztes Cottbus? BT - Perspektiven auf die Lebenswelt der Cottbuser Exklavengesellschaft 1740–1806 T2 - Schriften des Frühneuzeitzentrums Potsdam N2 - In diesem Band ermöglicht Mario Kaun ausgewählte Einblicke in die Lebenswelt der Cottbuser Exklavengesellschaft des 18. Jahrhunderts. Erstmalig erscheint hiermit für diesen Untersuchungsraum eine grundlegende Studie, die in umfassender Weise die Exklave und das Verhältnis von Militär und Gesellschaft näher erforscht sowie die wirtschaftliche Funktion der Garnison in einer aufstrebenden Stadt kritisch hinterfragt. Der Autor lenkt hierbei das Augenmerk auf etliche, bisher völlig unbekannte Perspektiven, die darüber hinaus einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Stadt- und Regionalgeschichtsforschung von Cottbus und der Niederlausitz leisten. Insbesondere die Befassung mit der brandenburgisch-preußischen Exklave stellt eine wertvolle Ergänzung zur bislang rudimentären Forschungslage dar. N2 - In this volume, Mario Kaun provides selected perspectives into the lifeworld of the Cottbus exclave society of the 18th century. This is the first time that a fundamental study has been published for this research area, which comprehensively explores the exclave and the relationship between the military and society in more detail and critically scrutinizes the economic function of the garrison in an up-and-coming town. The author draws attention to a great deal of previously unknown information, which also makes an important contribution to urban and regional history research on Cottbus and Lower Lusatia. In particular, the treatment of the Brandenburg-Prussian exclave represents a valuable addition to the hitherto rudimentary research situation. Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-3-8471-1726-1 SN - 2198-5251 VL - 13 PB - V & R Unipress CY - Göttingen ER -