Guides to the City: Berlin Anthologies

Michael Lewitscharoff\u27s Berlin-Paket (Berlin Package) first appeared in 2001; it invites readers to take a stroll through the city and promises surprising revelations about Berlin\u27s architecture, culture and history

Kriegs- und Generationszeugen: Adrienne Thomas und Vera Brittain // Generation and War Witnesses: Adrienne Thomas and Vera Brittain

Im Vordergrund stehen in diesem Beitrag Autorinnen, die sich in den dreißiger Jahren kritisch mit dem Ersten Weltkrieg und seinen Folgen auseinandersetzten. Am Beispiel von Adrienne Thomas ("Die Katrin wird Soldat") und Vera Brittain ("Testament of Youth") soll untersucht werden, wie die erklärte Zugehörigkeit von Frauen zur \u27Lost Generation\u27 mit der aktiven Kriegsteilnahme als Krankenschwester und einem differenzierten Patriotismusverständnis verbunden wurde. Auffallend sind dabei nicht nur thematische Akzente, die die Anti-Kriegsliteratur im weitesten Sinne prägten, sondern europäische Grenzen überschreitende Grundhaltungen. This contribution examines two female writers from 1930s who took a critical stance towards the Great War and its impact. Adrienne Thomas (Kathrin Becomes a Soldier) and Vera Brittain (Testament of Youth) serve as case studies illustrating how women\u27s association with the Lost Generation was linked to their active involvement in the war as auxiliary nurses and a distinct understanding of the meaning of patriotism. The analysis reveals thematic similarities with the cotemporaneous anti-war literature and critical approaches that proved relevant across Europe

Skipping orbits and enhanced resistivity in large-diameter InAs/GaSb antidot lattices

We investigated the magnetotransport properties of high-mobility InAs/GaSb antidot lattices. In addition to the usual commensurability features at low magnetic field we found a broad maximum of classical origin around 2.5 T. The latter can be ascribed to a class of rosetta type orbits encircling a single antidot. This is shown by both a simple transport calculation based on a classical Kubo formula and an analysis of the Poincare surface of section at different magnetic field values. At low temperatures we observe weak 1/B-periodic oscillations superimposed on the classical maximum.Comment: 4 pages, 4 Postscript figures, REVTeX, submitted to Phys Rev

Reading Across Cultures: Global Narratives, Hotels and Railway Stations

This is the final version of the article. Available from Springer Verlag via the DOI in this record.This article takes its cue from the English critic, novelist and painter John Berger. He argues that what we know determines what we see. Hotels and railway stations, though they differ in size, design and appearance, are places of temporary national and international congress that are recognized by everyone. They become visible or even iconic once their history or their role is turned into at least part of a wider narrative—in literature, film or in other arts. This provides a representative focus by which we may read a city’s or a nation’s past. In exemplifying such connections I focus first on the long-term history of Friedrichstraße station and some of the surrounding hotels in the context of the history of Berlin, situating them within the national and, by implication, also the international context. Secondly, I will consider the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 as an event in which the role of railway stations generated both personal and collective memories across cultures and over several decades

Research on bodies of the executed in German anatomy: An accepted method that changed during the Third Reich. Study of anatomical journals from 1924 to 1951

While it is known that bodies of the executed were used for anatomical research in Germany during the Third Reich, it is unclear whether this type of work was unique to the time period or more common in Germany than elsewhere. The dissected persons and the anatomists involved have not been fully investigated. This study of anatomical journals from 1924 to 1951 shows that 166 out of 7,438 [2.2%] German language articles mentioned the use of “material” from the bodies of executed persons. In comparison, only 2 out of 4,702 English language articles explicitly mentioned bodies of the executed. From 1924 to1932, 33 of a total of 3,734 [1%] German articles listed the use of the executed. From 1933 to 1938 the number rose to 46 out of 2,265 [2%], and increased again from 1939 to 1945 to 73 out of 984 [7%]. After the war 15 out of 455 [3%] still dealt with “material” from the executed. German anatomists' familiarity with the use of the executed as a standard for healthy tissues even before 1933 may have contributed to the ease with which they accepted the “opportunities” (large‐scale studies and research on women) presented to them by unlimited access to bodies of the executed provided by the abusive National Socialist (NS) legislation and continued using them for some years after the war. German postwar anatomy was built in part on the bodies of NS victims. Information given in some publications will help with further identification of these victims. Clin. Anat. 2013. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/97274/1/22107_ftp.pd

Anatomy in the Third Reich: An outline, part 1. National Socialist politics, anatomical institutions, and anatomists

Although it is known that anatomists working in Germany during the Third Reich have used bodies of victims of the National Socialist (NS) regime for dissection and research, a comprehensive history of the anatomy in the Third Reich has not yet been written. Recent studies of the history of German anatomy departments during this time period provide material for a first outline of the subject matter. A historical review can help with the formulation of ethical foundations in modern anatomy. From the outset, the NS regime sought to reorganize German universities according to NS leadership principles and political goals. Many German academics, especially physicians and among them anatomists, followed these intentions with a voluntary “self-alignment” that encompassed their professional actions as well as their ethics. Currently, political information is available for 111 of 178 anatomists. Thirty-eight of the anatomists were dismissed for racial or political reasons, among them 10 chairmen of anatomy, whereas 35 of the anatomists were politically active members of one of the NS organizations. Over 70% of the chairmen of anatomical departments in the time period from 1941 to 1944 were members of NS organizations. Anatomists, as so many other physicians and academics, belonged both, to the group of victims of the regime, i.e., those being dismissed from their positions for racial and political reasons, and to the group of supporters and sometimes active perpetrators of NS policies. Clin. Anat. 22:883–893, 2009. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64328/1/20872_ftp.pd

Berlin. Kultur und Metropole in den Zwanziger und Neunziger Jahren

An abstract for: (ed., with Ulrike Zitzlsperger): Berlin. Kultur und Metropole in den Zwanziger und Neunziger Jahren (München: Iudicium, 2007)

Formwandel und Körperwanderung in Rom – Vom Kardinalsgrabmal zum Kenotaph

Im folgenden Beitrag werden vier Entwicklungsstränge römischer Kardinalsgrabmäler im 16. Jahrhundert verfolgt, um sie am Ende zu einer Synthese zusammenzuführen: Während vor 1550 Grabmal und sterbliche Überreste noch eine Einheit bildeten, erfolgte im posttridentinischen Zeitalter ihre zunehmende Trennung. Päpstliche Dekrete und andere Quellen zeugen davon, dass Bestattungen der Leichname im Kirchenboden mehr und mehr eingeschränkt wurden. Darüber hinaus wird das sepulkrale Kardinalsporträt im Laufe der Entwicklung zwischen 1500 und 1600 immer belebter: Zuerst bildete sich der Demigisant heraus, ab 1550 setzte sich dann die Porträtbüste durch. Zudem entwickelte sich die Grabmalsarchitektur linear vom Nischengrabmal zum Säulenädikula-Grabmal. Letzteres trat erst nach 1550 auf und eroberte in den folgenden Jahren die römische Sepulkrallandschaft. In der posttridentinischen Zeit blieb dieses Architekturmotiv ansonsten allein der Altararchitektur vorbehalten. Die Beobachtungen führen schließlich zu der Synthese, dass das posttridentinische Kardinalsgrabmal ein Altargrabmal ist, das zudem mit der belebten Porträtbüste angereichert wurde. Das Grabmal entwickelte sich formal offenbar zum Ort der Transsubstantiation, bei der nicht die Wandlung der Hostie, sondern des belebten Porträts gemeint ist – umso mehr, als der Leichnam immer seltener mit dem Grabmal in örtlicher Verbindung steht (Zum Begriff der Transsubstantiation vgl. die Erklärungen in der Einleitung zum vorliegenden Tagungsband)

"Heimat" in den Berlinromanen Georg Hermanns

This is the author accepted manuscript