Reisen und Gärten

With volume 26 of the CGL-Studies, the Center for Garden Art and Landscape Architecture (CGL) of Leibniz Universität Hannover continues after volume 11 (H. Fischer, S. Thielking, J. Wolschke-Bulmahn, eds, Reisen in Parks und Gärten. Umrisse einer Rezeptions- und Imaginationsgeschichte), and volume 23 (Hubertus Fischer, Georg Ruppelt, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, eds, Eine Reise in die Schweiz. Das Reisetagebuch des hannoverschen Hofgärtners Heinrich Ludolph Wendland aus dem Jahr 1820) continues the scholarly examination of historical travelogues in their content of information on the history of gardens and travel as well as on historical aspects of landscape perception. Volume 26 presents the results of the symposium held in February 2016 and funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, ""Travel and Gardens. Travel, Travelogues, and Gardens from the Middle Ages to the Present."" The individual chapters are dedicated to topics such as travel literature and garden history, travelogues in garden art and garden monument preservation, travel, nature and landscapes, or travelogues in their significance for the history of the horticultural profession. Horticulture and landscape architecture in modern travel as well as editorial aspects of travelogues are further thematic foci of the volume

Spielpraxis der Saiteninstrumente in der Romantik. Bericht des Symposiums in Bern, 18.–19. November 2006

Interpretationsforschung ist eine noch junge Forschungsrichtung der Musikwissenschaft, vor allem, wenn sie dezidiert den Begriff der «Interpretation» für die klingende Realisierung von Musik reserviert. Der Band versammelt die Beiträge einer Tagung zum Thema des Streicherspiels im 19. Jahrhundert. Er leistet damit einen Beitrag zur weiteren Aufhellung eines Bereichs der Musikhistorie als Interpretationsgeschichte, für dessen Erforschung sich eben nicht – oder nur marginal – auf Klangdokumente, sondern nur auf Vortragslehren, Rezensionen und Ohrenzeugenberichte zurückgreifen läßt. Im vorliegenden Band werden Praktiker und Theoretiker miteinander ins Gespräch gebracht. Der Themenkreis reicht vom Gitarrenbau über die Orchester- und Dirigierpraxis bis hin zum Quellenwert historischer Aufnahmen und den von Heinz Holliger rekonstruierten Cello-Romanzen von Robert Schumann. Im Zentrum steht jedoch die Beschäftigung mit der Violine, den Violinisten und den Geigenbauern

Subjectivity Regained? German-Language Writing from Eastern Europe and the Balkans through an East-West Gaze

This project uncovers the role of recent German-Balkan works in articulating transnational identity in and through literature. Drawing on social and political models of European identity representations as well as on studies on stigma, trauma, and diasporic cultures as distinct historical formations, I contend that migrant fictions from Eastern Europe and the Balkans not only illuminate the concepts and demarcations operative in European collective imaginations but also introduce an Eastern European/Balkan dimension regarding the formation of modern identities beyond a national focus. To investigate this process, I focus on three Eastern European expatriates: the Bulgarian-born German and Austrian writers Rumjana Zacharieva and Dimitre Dinev and the Russian-German Wladimir Kaminer. The dissertation begins with an overview of postcolonial and Western theories of subjectivity and hybridity within the context of German literary-critical discourse on alterity, migration, and Turkish-German writings to argue that the historical and cultural context from which Eastern Europe/the Balkans have developed as Europe's "Other within" requires a reconfiguration of present theoretical models. In historiographic fashion, this thesis emphasizes the role of Ottoman and Soviet legacies and Western domination on the formation of Balkan subaltern identities. Attending to a tradition of Balkanist discourse that engages the internal bipolar demarcation of Balkan identities as part Western, part Oriental, I reconsider in chapters 3 and 4 how Dinev and Zacharieva's writings negotiate the experience of migration from East to West and articulate particular kinds of Balkan identities as a response to competing representations of the Balkans and the West. In the fifth chapter, my application of the Russian discourse on itself and Europe in examining Kaminer's works transcends the discussion of migration and Balkan identities to offer a related, yet differentiated, account of the manifold processes that surround other Eastern European writings in German. By analyzing these narratives through an East-West lens, the study shows how thinking about identity and migration in literary and historical perspectives proves useful for understanding the shifting identities and borders in Germanic Europe and beyond

Goa-Trance

Das Forschungsgebiet der gegenständlichen Arbeit ist die sogenannte Goa- Trance (Festival)-Szene mit ihrem ausgeprägten performativen Charakter. Im Zentrum steht das Individuum innerhalb eines ultra-modernen Gefüges, das sich zugleich auf tribale Strukturen und Praktiken bezieht. Die zentrale Analyse zeichnet einen großen Bogen von Zusammenhängen zwischen Alternativkulturen, deren Ursprüngen in den Jugendbewegungen der sechziger Jahre, den Körper als Instrument des Widerstands und die Suche nach Identität. Claudia Tempers Beitrag bezieht sich insbesondere auf die Konstruktion touristischer Räume in Goa, Indien. Das Hauptaugenmerk der Abhandlung John-Daniel Martins liegt auf den Aspekten der Performance und der visuellen Anthropologie hinsichtlich europäischer Festivals.The present work find its area of research in the Goa-Trance (festival) scene and its markedly performative character. The human individual stands at its center within an ultra-modern condition that nonetheless links back to tribal structures and practices. The central investigation reveals a wide range of relationships between alternative cultures, their origins in the youth movements of the 1960s, the understanding of the body as an instrument of resistance, and the search for identity. Claudia Temper’s contribution focuses especially on the construction of tourist spaces in Goa, India. The primary goals of the analysis developed by John- Daniel Martin center on the aspects of performance and the visual anthropology of the European festivals