Diss.--Universität Basel. / Bibliography: p. 216-219.

The diploma thesis A Case of a Beginning Teacher in the Caucasus: authorial approach in a school system seeks to depict and reflect on teacher´ s first year at work. The case study draws on author´s job experience at an international school in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Since this job experience taught the author a lesson, she wants to gain a deeper insight into her own pedagogical activity as well as to examine the options how to work creatively and originally within a limitating school system. The first part of the thesis operates experimentally with a biographical narrative method – the period in a beginning teacher position is being described in a novel way, using stylized literary diary entries as well as authentic ones, supplemented by personal correspondence from that time. The second part of the paper reflects on the narrated experience and analyzes it with the help of pedagogical and psychological literature. With respect to author´s intended future in educational sphere, she addresses topics which require a closer examination (nonviolent communication, consistency, freedom and order in a class and in relationships, a need to remain present and connected) and she searches for sources that could serve as an inspiration for her further educational activities. Method of nonviolent communication as well as principles of unschooling and dialogical acting with the inner partner are presented as the main inspirational impulses. Combining those together with the reflection of the teaching and examples from the school, a sort of beginning teacher´s handbook is being composed, to be used as a good practice in author´s future teaching. Finally, the whole story is being looked at through the narrative analysis which reveals signs corresponding to a genre of Bildungsroman. Furthermore, the story seems to be a story of the quest; the quest for meaning of what author does, the quest for her adult identity, for her place in the society and for the approach to educational institutions and their students. At that point, the thesis comes to the need of creating school system without hierarchy, which would rather be a community of equal individuals where relationships are not built on power principle, on command and prohibition, but they stem from highly developed empathy.

This dissertation discusses the intellectual interests of George, Count of Buquoy (1781-1851), who gained fame in the first half of the nineteenth century through his inventions of new technical devices, his efforts to improve manufacturing technologies used on his estates, his contacts with leading scientists and philosophers of the time, and his original scientific and philosophical treatises. This dissertation scrutinises the writings kept in Buquoy's archival estate, as well as his published works, and discusses the reactions his thoughts elicited among contemporary scientists and various other people within Buquoy's intellectual milieu. Methodologically, I draw on contemporary approaches to studies of intellectual history, which aim to interpret and contextualise particular ideas with regard to the author's immediate background and the broader intellectual climate of the time. Aiming to avoid biographical fallacy, I focus on pivotal moments of Buquoy's scientific career without attempting to integrate them into a biographical narrative by means of supposed causality. The thesis is structured as a chronologically ordered discussion of key themes and defining moments in the development of Buquoy's thought. Particular attention is paid to the influences which formed Buquoy's intellectual outlook, including his upbringing, education, the experiences he gained during travels, the knowledge he absorbed from scholarly treatises, and the views he exchanged with contemporary scientists. I show how these factors influenced the themes Buquoy chose to discuss in his treatises and the ways in which he presented his arguments. An important part of the thesis is a deconstructive analysis of Buquoy's self-presentation strategy, through which he sought to align himself with the scientific community. Finally, the thesis discusses the fundamental philosophical views underpinning Buquoy's intellectual endeavours in the field of science.

Theodor Meentzen (1875 Butjadingen -1963 Moritzburg), Schriftsteller, Autor, Publizist, Redakteur, Freidenker, engagierter Unterstützer der ersten Gründungen von Volkshochschulen ab 1919. Der Vater der späteren Unternehmer-Dynastie „Charlotte Meentzen - Kräutervital-Kosmetik“, selbst aus ärmlichsten Verhältnissen stammend, nutzte um 1900 als Modelltischler die Bildungsmöglichkeiten von Gewerkschaft und SPD und setzte sich für proletarisch-sozialistische Arbeiterbildung ein, wurde frühzeitig aktiver Sozialdemokrat, Freidenker und engagierter Gewerkschafter. Als Redakteur der Leipziger Volkszeitung (LVZ) kam er in Kontakt mit Hermann Duncker (1874-1960), begann mit Vortragsreisen und Referententätigkeit seinen Lebensunterhalt zu finanzieren und trat mit Vorträgen bei Arbeiterbildungsvereinen, -Organisationen, Gewerkschaften, Gewerbe- und Hand-werksvereinen bis hin zu Belegschaftsversammlungen der „Friedrich Krupp-AG“ in Erscheinung. Zahlreiche Schriften und Bücher wurden im Selbstverlag oder in der „Verlagsanstalt proletarischer Freidenker Leipzig“ veröffentlicht und machten Meentzen, der mit seiner Familie nach Moritzburg bei Dresden übersiedelt war, sehr vermögend und unabhängig.

The thesis deals with communication of bilingual Czech-German families in North Rhine- Westphalia. We focused mainly on the language of primary school children. The work contains two sections - a theoretical and a practical section. In the first, theoretical part of the work we tried to describe (on the based on literature) the issue of bilingualism, bilingual education and language acquisition. We also discussed the development, more specifically of primary-aged children. Attention in this section is also drawn to the region of North Rhine- Westphalia, where our research was realized. The practical part of the thesis focusses on the qualitative research of communication in multilingual families. We tried to create language biographies of individual families, based on interviews with Czech-speaking parents. Using a questionnaire, we investigated the attitudes of German-speaking parents to bilingual education. We also recorded the linguistic performances of children, which were then analyzed. Our goal was to create the most complete overview of the researched families. Key words language acquisition, bilingualism, younger school age, linguistic biography

Thesis using the oral history of attempts based on interviews with dealers to characterize the emergence and development of casinos in the country, focusing on the period 1990-1999. It will further seek to analyze croupiers look for changes in their profession during the nineties, it tries to find out how the company viewed these devices and how their perceptions changed over time. This research will also try to approximate the conditions under which the casino could arise in which sites are placed among these devices, as over time changed their level and quality of services offered and what kind of casino guests attended. Another objektive of this work is to find out what people in the nineties to post dealer reported what they had to comply with the conditions and how their level in the nineties changed. Keywords: 1990 - 1999 - casino -the dealer- oralhistory -biography.

This diploma thesis is about residents who live in the Lesser Town, the historic center of Prague. It focuses on the changes perceived by residents that took place during their lifetime. Work is based on literature and qualitative research in the form of biographical interviews. The theoretical part deals with the concepts of identity, tourism, gentrification, genius loci and ageing which are essential for understanding the changes identified in the analytical part. The analytical part is divided into seven units: changes of the atmosphere of the Lesser Town, its inhabitants, living environment, housing stock, changes of people who have shared their stories with me and more global changes that had influenced the Lesser Town. The work also describes which problems and benefits related to life in the Lesser Town do communication partners perceive.

Was ist ein Leben? Kann man es knapp erzählen, etwa im Lexikonformat? Man hat es versucht, im 17. Jahrhundert etwa Louis Moréri in seinem ''Grand Dictionnaire Historique'', der 1674 in der ersten Auflage und 1759 in der zehnten erschien. In dieser Zeitspanne publizierten auch in Deutschland mehrere Verleger, zumal in Leipzig, verstärkt biografische Lexika, von denen das größte paradoxerweise am wenigsten bekannt ist: Johann Heinrich Zedlers ''Großes vollständiges Universal-Lexicon'' in 68 Folianten, ein völlig ungehobener Schatz biografischer Information.

Die kurze Darstellung von Leben und Musik des Komponisten, Pianisten und Dirigenten Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47) basiert auf einer langen Beschäftigung mit seinen auch unbekannteren Werken und versucht eine andere Sicht auf ihn, jenseits der Klischees von Oberflächlichkeit und Tiefe, handwerklicher Glätte und Gefühlsausdruck. Dies erfordert einige Gegendarstellungen zu kursierenden Legenden. Mendelssohns in sich vielfältige Einstellung zum Komponieren und Aufführen von Musik, seine Verankerung im deutschen Protestantismus, die ihn aber nicht dran hinderte, für alle Konfessionen zu komponieren, seine Hinwendung zur mosaischen Religion, sein produktives Anknüpfen an verschiedene geistesgeschichtliche und musikalische Traditionen, sein mutiges Voranschreiten in der Erfindung neuer musikalischer Formen und Harmonien - aus all diesen Erscheinungen wird hier die widersprüchliche Summe eines Musikerlebens gezogen. (Autor)

Im Zentrum der Arbeit steht die Verbindung von Politik und Wissenschaft im Leben des Durkheimschülers Robert Hertz (1881-1915). Beide Themenfelder werden in ihrer Genese und ihren theoretischen Grundzügen rekonstruiert, wobei großer Wert auf die Verortung seiner Überlegungen sowohl im zeitgenössischen kulturellen und politischen Kontext als auch im durkheimianischen Denken gelegt wird. Angelegt als Intellektuellenbiografie beleuchtet die Arbeit den Einfluss von Hertz' sozialistischer Haltung einerseits und Durkheims straffer organisatorische und fachliche Führung der 'Année sociologique' andererseits auf Hertz’ wissenschaftliche Themenwahl. Dabei werden sowohl alle Rezensionen von Robert Hertz als auch seine wissenschaftlichen Aufsätze ('Contribution à une étude sur la représentation collective de la mort', 'La prééminence de la main droite, étude sur la polarité religieuse', 'Saint Besse, étude d'un culte alpestre', 'Le péché et l’expiation dans les sociétés primitives') ebenso wie sein politisches Schrifttum und umfangreiche Korrespondenzen ausgewertet.