Drawing from my archival research on the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and the urban guerrilla movement active in the Bundesrepublik Deutschland from the 1970s, my dissertation works through the RAF to speculate about the compulsion towards self-representation inherent to subjectivity. Such compulsion proffers an urgent and recurrent imperative to speak what cannot be said or to conjure what does not exist. This work argues that the perils and the failures of such enunciation, in the face of its compulsory demand, are felt not only in speech but in choreographies of subjectivity performed in aesthetic convolutions of space, gesture, and intonation. These convolutions are subject-forming material productions, rather than reflections or echoes of a pre-existing coherent subject, and trouble the notion of self-representation to the extent that they produce and re-produce the self. While the body is formed by culture, it consistently circumvents the limits of the genres that govern speech communication, therefore, my work is concerned with tracing a mise en scne of self-production by emphasizing non-textual elements. The forms that this circumvention can take exceed the involuntary cry, gesture, uneven breath, or facial expression to include uses of space space that is implicated in the bodys formation but the public legibility of such circumventions is not guaranteed. This work aims to refunction the RAF's declaration of the body as a weapon to the body as a medium for communication and to approach the aesthetics of a body (anti)language that extends beyond the particularities of the urban guerrilla project to the situation of mundane subjectivity that repeatedly calls for enunciation. My dissertation is a performative text that deploys formal interventions such as collage, assemblage, photography, and interleaved texts meant to intrude upon the reader that target instrumental language use. To illustrate that the ongoing production of subjectivity of the urban guerrilla is not alien to that of the politically recognizable citizen, my work contemplates practices of contemporary art and the production of material objects of signification that engage in practices of citation and disguise the incoherence of our acts.

The diploma thesis focuses on comparative analysis of the EU countries, specifically of the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany. The paper is divided into four parts. The initial chapter is aimed at specification of the term competitiveness and the methods of measuring the competitiveness. The second and the third part focus on evaluation of chosen countries by using hard indicators and their placement in multicriterial rankings. The last chapter focuses on comparison between the competitiveness of United Kingdom and Germany

In 1955, barely ten years after the end of the most devastating war in Modern German history, a new German military was established in the Federal Republic, the Bundeswehr. In order properly fill the ranks of this new military the government, under the leadership of Konrad Adenauer, believed that it would have to draft men from the West German population into military service. For the government in Bonn conscription was a double-edged sword, it would not only ensure that the Bundeswehr would receive the required number of recruits but it was also believed that conscription would guarantee that the Bundeswehr would be more democratic and therefore in tune with the policies of the new West German state. What this study seeks to explore is what the West German population thought of conscription. It will investigate who was for or against the draft and seek to determine the various socioeconomic factors that contributed to these decisions. Furthermore this study will examine the effect that the public opinion had on federal policy.

The main subject of this master thesis is the issue of surrogacy in the Czech Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany. At the beginning, this thesis aspires to define the term surrogacy in general as well as other connected terminology, and subsequently to specify its categories and describe its major historic milestones. Afterwards, it deals with the rather brief Czech legislation concerning this institute and the consequences this has inevitably led to. It also concentrates on the methods of the assisted reproduction which help to put the surrogate motherhood into practice. This thesis does include ethical problems of surrogacy and some of the psychological and sociological aspects as well. Consequently, it summarizes sanctions which may arose as a result of surrogacy. After that, it explains the legislation related to this issue in the Federal Republic of Germany, its history and legal limits. It deals with the German sanctions which the realization as well as mere arrangement may be subjected to. It examines the standpoint of the German legislator regarding the right of a child to know his or her origin including its consequences, such as non-anonymous sperm donation and obligation of the legal parents to undergo a DNA test. It describes most recent demands of the society regarding the new...

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Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages. / Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 1986. / See item for full text

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Un ensemble territorial qui a perdu son statut d’État, divisé en quatre zones d’occupation : telle est l’Allemagne d’après 1945. La reconstitution d’un enseignement artistique rentre dans le cadre d’un renouveau général. On peut s’interroger sur son importance dans un contexte éthique, historique et idéologique très difficile. Mais il apparaît qu’il a amené un exceptionnel foisonnement culturel et artistique avec la réouverture de nombreuses institutions supérieures d’art. Certains artistes qui avaient perdu leur droit d’exercer sous le Troisième Reich, acceptent de venir y enseigner. La présente étude s’attache à ceux d’entre-eux qui ont les conceptions pédagogiques et les méthodes les plus innovantes dans onze institutions réparties dans les quatre zones puis en RFA et en RDA. Pour cela, la consultation des archives ainsi qu’une abondante bibliographie ont été complétées par des entretiens avec d’anciens étudiants devenus enseignants et/ou artistes. Ces derniers ont témoigné de l’importance de la relation maître-élève dans la transmission mais également du rôle déterminant de la liberté artistique dont ils ont bénéficié. Ainsi la majorité des artistes allemands, ayant une renommée internationale aujourd’hui, ont étudié dans une ou plusieurs Écoles supérieures d’art ou Académie d’art de la zone orientale ou occidentale d’occupation après 1945. Cette formation constitue un atout essentiel de leur réussite. / Germany after 1945 was a territorial unity that had lost its status as a State and which was divided into four zones of occupation. The program of reform of art education is part of the widespread political and cultural renewal that took place during the subsequent post-War years. The importance of these reforms is a question to consider, with respect to the difficult ethical, historical and ideological context that shaped them. To all appearances, the reopening of many artistic institutions gave birth to an exceptional period of cultural and artistic activity. Indeed, some artists who had lost their right to practice under the Third Reich agreed to come back and teach art at these newly reopened institutions. The present study will focus on those artist-educators who developed the most innovative pedagogical concepts and methods, for example Willi Baumeister (Art Academy in Stuttgart), Karl Otto Götz (Art Academy in Düsseldorf) and Georg Meistermann (Art Academy in Karlsruhe). In total, the group I wish to investigate taught in eleven higher education institutions across all the four occupation zones; their work continued later, in the post-War states, FRG and GDR. My research methodology includes bibliographic research, archival research, and interviews with former students, many of whom have become artist-educators themselves. My correspondents were the benefactors of an extraordinary kind of teacher-student relationship that stressed an attitude of freedom that contrasted strongly with the previous historical period of the mid-1930s to 1945. The vast majority of German artists who now have an international reputation — including Georg Baselitz, Otto Piene, Gerhard Richter, Günter Uecker — studied in one or several higher art schools or art academies in the occupied zones (East or West) after 1945. / Die Etablierung einer institutionellen künstlerischen Ausbildung ist Teil des deutschen Wiederaufbaus nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Die Promotion zeigt diese Entwicklung auf, in der Arbeit untersucht wird die Bedeutung der künstlerischen Ausbildung in ihrem unterschiedlichen ethischen, historischen und ideologischen Kontext. Hinsichtlich der Untersuchung zur Künstlerausbildung in Deutschland nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg muss die Aufteilung Deutschlands in zunächst vier Besatzungszonen und nach 1945 die Teilung Deutschlands in die Bundesrepublik und die Deutsche Demokratische Republik berücksichtigt werden. Viele der während des Dritten Reiches verfolgten und ins Exil geflüchteten Künstler und Kunstpädagogen, kehrten nach Kriegsende nach Deutschland zurück und erhielten einen Lehrauftrag an einer Kunsthochschule oder –akademie. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht innovative pädagogische Konzepte an elf ausgewählten Institutionen. Die Untersuchung basiert auf einer intensiven Literaturrecherche und stützt sich auf Interviews mit ehemaligen Kunststudenten, die später Künstler und/ oder Dozenten werden. Die Interviews zeigen, wie wichtig die Kommunikation zwischen Schüler und Lehrer war und welche Rolle die Idee der künstlerischen Freiheit in ihrer persönlichen Entwicklung gespielt hat. Nach 1945 wurden viele deutsche Künstler, die heute einen international annerkten Ruf genießen, an einer oder mehreren deutschen Kunsthochschulen bzw. Kunstakademien in der östlichen oder westlichen Besatzungszone ausgebildet: Georg Baselitz, Otto Piene, Gerhard Richter, Günter Uecker. Die Ausbildung hat einen wesentlichen Vorteil an ihrem Erfolg.

Name of the thesis: Termination of employment relationship for violation of labour law obligations in the Czech Republic and Germany The thesis deals with the comparison of legal regulations of the Czech Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany on the termination of employment relationship for violation of employment obligations. Its main objective is to describe this legislation so that a critical analysis of certain conclusions of supreme courts of both countries can be carried with regard to terms of employee protection as well as the flexibility of employment, i.e. the basic principles of labour law. The thesis can be divided into four parts. In the first (introductory) part, the labour law of the Czech Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany are generally described. This chapter is followed by a description of the current legislation on the termination of employment in both the countries with emphasis on termination and immediate cancellation in case of the Czech Republic. In the case of the Federal Republic of Germany, the description of the applicable legal provisions relating to ordinary and extraordinary denunciations is emphasised. In the final part of the thesis, the findings obtained from previous chapters are compared to each other. From this comparison, conclusions are...

In the provided care for children placed in substitute residential facilities in the Czech Republic are in the context of European Union made demands to change some key aspects of its current structural frame. Aim of this master thesis is to provide in this context, through the analysis of mainly bibliographic sources, a complex overview of the system of substitute residential care in two EU countries, the Czech Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany. The thesis contains an insight into the activities of both systems, as well as comparatively processed answers to two initial research questions. The results of the research work on the answer to the question "What are the differences in the existing service network, regarding the work with the children placed in selected Czech and German children's homes?" show, that the established frame of the provided services is similar, but the qualitative and quantitative offer of the services is in practice reflected by different economic situations in both countries. The result of the second comparative research, answering the question "How are in the chosen countries determined the means of children rehabilitation in the selected children's homes?", shows, that the coordinated rehabilitation is in all its parts realized in both countries as consistent with the fulfilment of "the child's best interest" as possible. The most significant difference in reaching the optimal harmony of all segments of coordinated rehabilitation in these countries makes the application of support means to the work with the family, to the care for youth preparing for leaving the institution, to the realization of complex multidisciplinary care, or to fulfilment of an individual approach and planning. It is therefore desirable, that the Czech Republic, as well as the Federal Republic of Germany, orient themselves not only on the quality of provided help and care for the children placed in children's homes, but also on the future of young people, who are in the process of leaving the institution. This can be achieved by legislatively well-set structural system of substitute residential care, in which is through suitable service provided a valuable support in the context of coordinated rehabilitation. This master thesis can for the people interested in this topic expand the view on how the same mission regarding the children in substitute residential care is fulfilled by two advanced European countries, it can also be in this context an impulse to reflect on the form of a good practice in these institutions.