Amerikanische Studenten an der Münchner Akademie der Bildenden Künste 1870-1887

Mehr als 400 US-Amerikaner besuchten in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zum 1. Weltkrieg die Zeichen- und Malklassen der Akademie der bildenden Künste in München, die meisten von ihnen zwischen 1870 und 1887. Der Wandel kultureller Konstellationen in den USA ließ eine rasch wachsende Zahl von Kunstjüngern, die im eigenen Land allenfalls dürftige Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten vorfanden, in die Kunstzentren Europas strömen – auch ins solide und kostengünstige München. 1875 galten die "Munich men" als jene "new men", welche im Begriff waren, die amerikanische Kunstentwicklung zu revolutionieren. Doch die Meinungen der Kritiker waren gespalten: Zu ungeschönt erschienen die Themen, zu oberflächlich wirkte die technische Versiertheit der Munich men. Nachfolgende Generationen traten zurückhaltender auf und näherten sich stärker an das Erscheinungsbild ihrer Konkurrenten an den Pariser Schulen an. Gemeinsam agierten sie auf kosmopolitischem Parkett und entwickelten die Kunstinfrastruktur der USA. Knapp 150 Jahre danach unternimmt dieses Buch eine multiperspektivische, kollektive künstlerische Biografie der Munich men und zeigt auf, wie aus Rezipienten Vermittler künstlerischer Innovation wurden. Susanne Böller studierte Kunstgeschichte und Amerikanistik in Stuttgart, Washington, D.C. und München. Sie ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lenbachhaus in München. Als Kuratorin und Autorin beschäftigt sie sich mit der Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte des 19. bis 21. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland und den USA

Detection of lactose (and maltose) in the context of school: Woehlk test, Fearon\u27s test and the hexamethylenediamin method - amine based color reactions as detection reactions for carbohydrates

Kohlenhydrate sind eine sehr bekannte chemische Stoffgruppe, für die es zahlreiche Nachweisreaktionen gibt. Innerhalb der Stoffgruppe der Kohlenhydrate sind Lactose und Maltose zwei sehr wichtige Verbindungen. Da sie auf natürliche Weise in Milch und Milchprodukten bzw. beim Abbau von Stärke auftreten, sind sie in Lebensmitteln aller Art vertreten und besitzen somit eine hohe Alltagsrelevanz. Weiterhin sind viele Schülerinnen und Schüler von dem Phänomen der Lactoseintoleranz betroffen und wissen aus eigener Lebenserfahrung, wie wichtig die Kenntnis über den Milchzuckergehalt verschiedener Lebensmittel bei der Zubereitung der eigenen Nahrung ist. Diese Fakten werden von den Lernenden als sehr interessant empfunden und tragen durch ihre Aussagekraft und Anschaulichkeit zur Lebendigkeit des experimentellen Chemieunterrichts bei. Wie eine Auswertung aktueller, gängiger Schulbücher im Rahmen dieser Arbeit zeigt, mangelt es derzeit jedoch sowohl an schulisch geeigneten Experimenten als auch an Unterrichtskonzepten für den Nachweis und die Verwendung von Lactose und Maltose im Unterricht. Daher ist es ein Ziel dieser Arbeit, sowohl schulische geeignete Experimente als auch anwendbare Kontexte zu finden, um das von Lactose und Maltose ausgehende Potential für schülerorientierte Lernvorgänge zu nutzen. (DIPF/Orig.)Carbohydrates are a very well-known chemical group of substances for which numerous detection reactions are available. Within the carbohydrate group, lactose and maltose are two rather important compounds. Since they occur naturally in milk and dairy products and in the degradation of starch, they are present in various foods around the globe and thus have a high relevance for everyday life. In addition, the phenomenon of lactose intolerance, which also affects many students, demands a high level of attention in the preparation of daily food. These facts considered to be quite interesting by the learners and add to the liveliness of the experimental chemistry lessons due to their expressiveness and vividness. However, an analysis of current standard textbooks in the context of this thesis shows that there is currently a lack of teaching concepts and experiments suitable for the school contexts for the detection and the use of lactose and maltose in the classroom. Therefore, one of the aims of this thesis is to find both suitable experiments for schools and applicable contexts to use the potential of lactose and maltose for student-oriented learning processes. (DIPF/Orig.

The reconstruction of post-war West German new music during the early allied occupation (1945-46), and its roots in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich (1918-45)

This thesis is an analysis of the development of new music in occupied Germany from the end of World War Two, on 8 May 1945, until the end of 1946, in terms of the creation of institutions for the propagation of new music, in the form of festivals, concert series, radio stations, educational institutions and journals focusing on such a field, alongside an investigation into technical and aesthetic aspects of music being composed during this period. I argue that a large number of the key decisions which would affect quite fundamentally the later trajectory of new music in West Germany for some decades were made during this period of a little over eighteen months. I also argue that subsequent developments up to the year 1951, by which time the infrastructure was essentially complete, were primarily an extension and expansion of the early period, when many of the key appointments were made, and institutions created. I also consider the role of new music in mainstream programming of orchestras, opera houses, chamber music societies, and consider all of these factors in terms of the occupation policies of the three Western powers – the USA, the UK and France. Furthermore, I compare these developments to those which occurred in during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, of which I give an overview, and argue as a result that the post-war developments, rather than being radically new, constituted in many ways a continuation and sometimes distillation of what was in place especially in the Weimar years. I conclude that the short period at the centre of my thesis is of fundamental importance not only for the course of German new music, but that in Europe in general

Dictionary of World Biography

Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post-industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016. He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia’s five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia’s 100 ‘living national treasures’ in 1998, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life

Dictionary of World Biography

Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post-industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016

Dictionary of World Biography: Fourth edition

Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post-industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016. He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have been elected to all four Australian learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia’s 100 ‘living national treasures’ in 1998, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life’

Operatic Pasticcios in 18th-Century Europe

In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part of the established working methods in many arts. In the world of 18th-century opera, such practices ensured that operas could become a commercial success because the substitution or compilation of arias fitting the singer's abilities proved the best recipe for fulfilling the expectations of audiences. Known as »pasticcios« since the 18th-century, these operas have long been considered inferior patchwork. The volume collects essays that reconsider the pasticcio, contextualize it, define its preconditions, look at its material aspects and uncover its aesthetical principles