This essay assembles some selected opinions of authors living in the region "Niederrhein"

The principle 'order' is an important part of Germany's mental tradition. This essay observes some novels of the post-war era and discusses the attitude of three authors (Böll, Andersch, Koeppen).

In order to describe the alteration of the ships motion with decreasing water depth different approaches were investigated. Within the simulation the best results can be achieved using the "formulation of a dependency of each coefficient of the mathematical model from the water depth". The motions calculated with this method are very close to those simulated with a set of coefficients derived for a single water depth. The formulation of an exponential equation build up of a constant term and a term describing the dependency from the water depth. The application of the exponential function is demonstrated using sets of coefficients from former manoeuvring investigations and it is tested by simulations with the different mathematical models. In this work a simple and in easy usable approach for the consideration of the water depth in the manoeuvring simulation is presented.

An analysis of Dürrenmatts' famous play "the physicists"

When describing the rituals of love since antiquity authors would use metaphorical formulas. This essay gives an overview of transformations and variations of an idiomatic expression ("friendly glances") in the German literature from the middle ages till the 20th century

The German scientist Tschirnhaus, at his time nearly well known as Leibniz, considered the genesis of volcanic eruptions. Though he combined logical and empirical methods, nevertheless his results didn't mark a new beginning.

Dürrenmatt's most famous play in the German canon of literature

Business services play a major role in post-fordist economies. This paper is based on a macro-scale analysis (1980 - 1995) of the locational system of business services in Northrhine-Westphalia, a federal state in Germany. The locational system has developped in a way that the hierarchical dimension has lost importance since 1980 whereas the functional differentiation among the locations, i.e. the cities, has increased. On the whole the locational system proves to be stable.

The role of eroticism and violence in the European literature of the 'fin de siècle'

the myth of the vampires, the historical facts, Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula", the Dracula films since Murnau's "Nosferatu" till Coppola's "Dracula"