Spectral cinema from a phantom state: film aesthetics and the politics of identity in Divided Heaven and Solo Sunny

In this essay I draw on close textual analysis to consider the interface between film aesthetics and the politics of identity in Konrad Wolf’s Der geteilte Himmel / Divided Heaven (1964) and Solo Sunny (1979). Both films focus on women who have to confront painful processes of self realisa-tion in specifically East German contexts. They also show Wolf and his collaborators working in two very different modes, from a nouvelle vague-inspired mix of location shooting and self-conscious formal artifice to a more laconic style and mobile camera that borrow from documentary aesthetics. Viewed from the perspective of today, the films resist the reductive stereotyping of what Christa Wolf in 1991 called the 'phantom' East Germany, and offer a more productive haunting. As living ghosts in the post-reunification era, they are a reminder of the necessity of remembering, and so confound both a negative 'master narrative' of the GDR and a collective amnesia with no interest in this history

Workshop on Raising Data using the RDBES and TAF (WKRDBESRaiseTAF; outputs from 2022 meeting)

41 páginasThe Workshop on Raising Data using the RDBES and TAF (WKRDBES-Raise&TAF) met online (26–30 of September 2022) to evaluate the use of the Regional Database and Estimation System (RDBES) format to reproduce the 2022 InterCatch input and output, identifying a Transparent Assessment Framework (TAF) structure to organize the intermediate steps and to propose standardized output formats. The main outcomes of WKRDBES-Raise&TAF were: · RDBES provides sufficient support for current national estimation protocols. However, some minor issues were reported that hampered an exact reproduction of the estimates. Therefore, adaptations of the data model should not be excluded completely. · All the input to stock assessment that InterCatch currently provides, could be reproduced. The participants started from the current stock extracts that can be downloaded from InterCatch. · A workflow was proposed with a national TAF repository for each country, a stock estimation repository and a stock assessment repository. The intermediate output of those repositories will be stored in an ‘intermediate output database’ and depending on the user role, you will get access to the relevant stages in this workflow. · The following requirements for the standard output formats were defined: they cannot be more restrictive than the InterCatch input and output format; they should present measures of uncertainty and sample sizes (for national estimates) and should have a configurable domain definition (for national estimates). Despite those successful outcomes, the current plan for transition to an operational system was concluded to be too optimistic. WKRDBES-Raise&TAF therefore recommends to the Working Group on Governance of the Regional Database and Estimation System (WGRDBESGOV) to revise the roadmap and allow RDBES to be in a test phase also for 2023. WKRDBES-Raise&TAF felt the need to test the proposed workflow on a small scale and therefore recommends to the WGRDBESGOV to arrange a workshop where two stocks (pok.27.3a46 (Saithe (Pollachius virens) in Subareas 4, 6 and Division 3.a (North Sea, Rockall and West of Scotland, Skagerrak and Kattegat) and wit.27.3a47d (Witch (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus) in Subarea 4 and Divisions 3.a and 7.d (North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat, eastern English Channel)) will be set up to go through the whole flow.Peer reviewe

Nutrient measurements from POLARSTERN cruise PS114 (LTER HAUSGARTEN)

Dissolved inorganic nutrients measured during the Polarstern Expedition PS11410, which took place from July to 3 August 2018. Further information concerning the analysis is presented in the accompanying report

Revision of nutrient data from Polarstern expedition PS101 (ARK-XXX/3)

This is a revision (quality assessment) of nutrient data measured onboard the RV Polarstern during expedition PS101 (9 September - 23 October 2016). A brief report is attached, which provides a summary of what the revision entailed

Nutrient measurements from POLARSTERN cruise PS99.2 to Fram Strait (LTER HAUSGARTEN)

This is a quality controlled revision of nutrient (nitrate plus nitrite, nitrite, phosphate, silicate and ammonium) measurements carried out during expedition PS99.2 aboard RV Polarstern (24 June 2016 - 16 July 2016) as part of the LTER HAUSGARTEN. It had not been previously been submitted to PANGAEA because at the time of analyses, problems were encountered with the instrumentation used. After an exhaustive quality controlled assessment of the data, here we are now providing a revised version, where data has been quality flagged

Effects of multiple stressors on an Arctic phytoplankton assemblage from Kongsfjorden (Svalbard)

Increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations lead to ocean warming and acidification, with fastest rates of change occurring in the Arctic. Concurrent changes in sea-ice cover and optical properties as well as in surface stratification also cause strong changes in the light regimes phytoplankton encounter in the water column. Each of these environmental changes alone has the potential to strongly alter primary production and phytoplankton community structure, but their simultaneous changes probably lead to strong and unexpected interactive effects. To shed light on this understudied topic, a natural phytoplankton assemblage from the Kongsfjorden (Svalbard) was exposed to a matrix of two pCO2, two temperatures and two light levels. Performance and development of the phytoplankton assemblages under controlled conditions were monitored for 3 weeks. Preliminary results for the observed changes in species composition, stoichiometry, primary production and photophysiology will be presented. The likely consequences in terms of productivity changes or biodiversity shifts and their implications for higher trophic levels and biogeochemical cycles will be discussed

Depth integrated biogeochemical and ecophysiological monitoring at station KB3 in Kongsfjorden (2016-2018), Version 2

The project AWI-funded AMUST project aims at understanding at current and future controls of Arctic spring blooms and concurrrent effetcs on biogeochemistry,by combining experimental work with long-term monitoring in April and May each year to study the Kongsfjorden spring bloom. This dataset was also used in the FAABulous project to compare spring bloom phenology in open-water and ice-covered fjords. Environmental as well as biological (stoichiometry and photosynthesis) data from the years 2014, and 2016-2018 for the mid-fjord station KB3 were samples. Furthermore, daily average temperature and salinity from a nearby mooring (see Hop et al. 2019 for details) are provided for the study period

Biogeochemical and ecophysiological monitoring at station KB3 in Kongsfjorden (2014-2018)

The project AWI-funded AMUST project aims at understanding at current and future controls of Arctic spring blooms and concurrrent effetcs on biogeochemistry,by combining experimental work with long-term monitoring in April and May each year to study the Kongsfjorden spring bloom. This dataset was also used in the FAABulous project to compare spring bloom phenology in open-water and ice-covered fjords. Environmental as well as biological (stoichiometry and photosynthesis) data from the years 2014, and 2016-2018 for the mid-fjord station KB3 were samples. Furthermore, daily average temperature and salinity from a nearby mooring (see Hop et al. 2019 for details) are provided for the study period

Depth integrated biogeochemical and ecophysiological monitoring at station KB3 in Kongsfjorden (2016-2018)

The project AWI-funded AMUST project aims at understanding at current and future controls of Arctic spring blooms and concurrrent effetcs on biogeochemistry,by combining experimental work with long-term monitoring in April and May each year to study the Kongsfjorden spring bloom. This dataset was also used in the FAABulous project to compare spring bloom phenology in open-water and ice-covered fjords. Environmental as well as biological (stoichiometry and photosynthesis) data from the years 2014, and 2016-2018 for the mid-fjord station KB3 were samples. Furthermore, daily average temperature and salinity from a nearby mooring (see Hop et al. 2019 for details) are provided for the study period