Erfahrungsbericht aus der Welt der sozialen Medien. Die Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) hat Anfang dieses Jahres mit dem Reisetagebuch des Straßburger Orgelbauers Johann Andreas Silbermann (1712–1783) eine einzigartige Neuerwerbung in den Bestand der Musikabteilung integriert (siehe auch BIS 2015, H. 1, S. 18–20). Darin beschreibt der Neffe von Gottfried Silbermann eine viermonatige Reise nach Mitteldeutschland und Berlin im Jahr 1741. Im Unterschied zum vollständig veröffentlichten SiIbermann-Archiv in französischem Privatbesitz blieb dieses Tagebuch bislang völlig unbekannt. Es bietet einen faszinierenden Einblick in das Musikleben kultureller Zentren in Deutschland zur Zeit Johann Sebastian Bachs. Den Ankauf des Reisetagebuchs hat Katrin Bicher, Fachreferentin der SLUB mit einem eigenen Silbermann-Twitterkanal begleitet. Die BIS-Redaktion fragte Sie zum „Making off“ und der Intention dieser Aktivitäten in den sozialen Medien.

Inaug. _ Diss.: Philosophische Fakultät: Mannheim: 1976. _ Bibliogr. p. 378-405.

Am 21. Februar 1741 war es endlich soweit, und ein lang gehegter Plan des Straßburger Orgelbauers Johann Andreas Silbermann ging in Erfüllung. Die nächsten vier Monate würde er auf einer „sächsischen Reysse“ verbringen, die dazu diente seine weitere Familie kennenzulernen, seine instrumentenkundlichen Kenntnisse zu vertiefen. 122 Tage war Silbermann unterwegs und führte während dieser Zeit ausführlich über seine Eindrücke, Erlebnisse und Begegnungen Tagebuch. Knapp 300 Seiten beschrieb er, die durch etwa 50 Stiche von Stadtansichten, Gebäuden und anderen Sehenswürdigkeiten sowie durch zahlreiche selbstgefertigte Skizzen und Bilder ergänzt wurden. Nach der Reise nutzte er die Aufzeichnungen weiter, fügte beispielsweise Notizen zu bedeutenden Ereignissen an den besuchten Orten, wie die Zerstörungen in Heidelberg oder Zittau, hinzu. Er stellte die Bögen zu einem Band zusammen, den er mit dem Titel „Anmerckungen derer Auf meiner Sächsischen Reysse gesehenen Merckwürdigkeiten / Wie ich solche an unterschiedenen Orten meist nur kurtzlich aufgeschrieben“ versah.

This diploma thesis explores the concept of theatricality as developed by the Swiss theatrologist Stefan Hulfeld. The thesis aims at a presentation of Hulfeld's research which is based on examination of historical documents, his particular focus being the theatricality of the 18. century in Solothurn (Switzerland). In this thesis, his theory is compared to other theatricality theories developed by Rudolf Münz and Andreas Kotte. The more general aim of the presented work is to devise a notion of theatricality which is based on historical- theatrological exploration of historical documents.

The San Andreas Fault stretches for over 800 miles through California. Along the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains, areas in close proximity to the San Andreas Fault Zone may be subject to site amplification of ground motion caused by seismic activity via wave propagation through the subsurface. These seismic hazards are being addressed via the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Faulting Zone Act and the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). Shear wave velocity of the subsurface has served as a proxy for ground motion amplification and is therefore a useful parameter to help analyze and reduce seismic hazards. Low shear wave velocities of the subsurface have been known to correlate with higher amplitude ground motion. This study focuses on refraction microtremor analysis (ReMi) of the subsurface in Northern San Bernardino; more specifically, areas encompassing California State University San Bernardino, in close proximity to the San Andreas Fault. The technique will resolve shear wave velocity values for the top 30 meters (Vs30) of the subsurface. This depth of investigation has proven to be an effective means in determining subsurface conditions. ReMi profiles were situated 0.25 to 2.0 miles away from the San Andreas Fault, and in some instances, strategically positioned next to housing developments and structures. Phase velocity dispersion curves were generated by processing ReMi seismic data and subsequently inverted to attain average shear wave velocity profiles with depth. The geologic units in the study area consist of very young wash deposits, young alluvial fan deposits and Pelonist schist deposits. These geologic units may be an indicator to how seismic waves behave in subsurface lithology. To highlight differences in Vs30 values across the project area, a microzonation map was constructed.

We studied a paleoseismic trench that was excavated across the Banning strand of the San Andreas Fault by Petra Geosciences (33.9172°, -116.538°). The trench exposed a ~40 m wide fault zone in interbedded alluvial sand gravel, silt and clay deposits. We present the first paleoseismic record for the Banning strand of the southern San Andreas Fault. The most recent event occurred sometime between 730 and 950 cal BP, potentially coincident with rupture of the San Gorgonio Pass thrust. We interpret that five earthquakes have occurred since 3.3-2.5 ka and eight earthquakes have likely occurred since 7.1-5.7 ka. It is possible that additional events may have occurred without being recognized, especially in the deeper section the stratigraphy, which was not fully exposed across the fault zone. We calculate an average recurrence interval of 380 - 640 yrs based on four complete earthquake cycles between earthquakes 1 and 5. The average recurrence interval is thus equivalent to or less than the elapsed time since the most recent event on the Banning strand. The recurrence interval is similar to the San Gorgonio Pass (450-1850 years) but longer than that for the Mission Creek strand (~220 years).

Beowulf's contest with Grendel has universally been read as an assertion of heroic agency. Yet as I demonstrate, this purportedly neutral convention derives from the misreading of a riddle design that invites and then disrupts expectation in the accidental denouement of Grendel's self-destruction. As an alternative to heroic misprision, I locate Beowulf's salient analogues in the poetic hagiographies, Andreas and Juliana. Within these poems I demonstrate a distinctive Christian critique, which defines heroic order through its assertion of loyalty to insiders and enmity to outsiders, and aligns with René Girard's anthropology in marking enmity both as a source of social cohesion and instability. I also demonstrate a distinctive "crossover poetics" that switches godly and demonic attributes between the opposed communities. As this crossover design gives rise to tropes of heroic-hagiographic hybridity, it exposes a biblical prophetic distinction between the physical realm of objects, actions, and words, and the metaphysical realm of emotional, ethical, and relational principles--a distinction by which the poem locates the origin of enmity in the idolatrous gestalt of egoistic materialism and the origin of loyalty in the covenant ethos of transcendent affiliation. This crossover design, moreover, functions in rapprochement with heroic culture, to affirm the godliness of loyalty and reject demonic enmity, while also interrogating the idolatrous potentiality of Christian discourse. As an alternative to the instabilities marked within heroic social order, the hagiographies offer a new social order based in a two-fold conception: a Christological model that entails compassion for enemies and self-sacrificing obedience to the covenant ethos, and a prophetic model that resists violent contagion through egoistic effacement, entailed in acts of divine praise and benevolent prayer. Lacking these redemptive disciplines, Beowulf's pagan fictive world nevertheless incorporates the same hagiographic critique, but through dystopian patterns of demonic inversion. Thus, Beowulf synthesizes the cardinal hagiographic elements--the same narrative arcs, lexical patterns, and crossover poetics--in a drama that schools its audience in prophetic discernment: to see the essential, defining reality beneath the surface of human events and to recognize patterns of divine retribution as paradoxical enactments of demonic self- destruction.

The Clark fault is one of the primary dextral faults in the San Jacinto fault zone system, southern California. Previous mapping of the Clark fault at its southern termination in the San Felipe Hills reveals it as a broad right lateral shear zone that ends north of the crossing, northeast-striking, left-lateral Extra fault. We investigate the relationship between the dextral Clark fault and the sinistral Extra fault to determine whether the Clark fault continues to the southeast. We present new structural, geophysical and geomorphic data that show that the Extra fault is a ~7 km wide, coordinated fault array comprised of four to six left-lateral fault zones. Active strands of the Clark fault zone persists through the Extra fault array to the Superstition Hills fault in the subsurface and rotate overlying sinistral faults in a clockwise sense. New detailed structural mapping between the San Felipe and Superstition Hills confirms that there is no continuous trace of the Clark fault zone at the surface but the fault zone has uplifted an elongate region ~950 km. sq. of latest Miocene to Pleistocene basin-fill in the field area and far outside of it. Detailed maps and cross sections of relocated microearthquakes show two earthquake swarms, one in 2007 and another in 2008 that project toward the San Felipe Hills, Tarantula Wash and Powerline strands of the dextral Clark fault zone in the San Felipe Hills, or possibly toward the parts of the Coyote Creek fault zone. We interpret two earthquake swarms as activating the San Jacinto fault zone beneath the Extra fault array. These data coupled with deformation patterns in published InSAR data sets suggest the presence of possible dextral faults at seismogenic depths that are not evident on the surface. We present field, geophysical and structural data that demonstrate dominantly left-lateral motion across the Extra fault array with complex motion on secondary strands in damage zones. Slickenlines measured within three fault zones in the Extra fault array reveal primarily strike-slip motion on the principal fault strands. Doubly-plunging anticlines between right-stepping en echelon strands of the Extra fault zone are consistent with contraction between steps of left-lateral faults and are inconsistent with steps in dominantly normal faults. Of the 21 published focal mechanisms for earthquakes in and near the field area, all record strike-slip and only two have a significant component of extension. Although the San Sebastian Marsh area is dominated by northeast-striking leftlateral faults at the surface, the Clark fault is evident at depth beneath the field area, in rotated faults, in microseismic alignments, and deformation in the Sebastian uplift. Based on these data the Clark fault zone appears to be continuous at depth to the Superstition Hills fault, as Fialko (2006) hypothesized with more limited data sets.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Geosciences and School of Computing and Engineering. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2005. / "A dissertation in geosciences and computer networking." Advisor: Tina M. Niemi. Typescript. Vita. Description based on contents viewed Mar. 12, 2007; title from "catalog record" of the print edition. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 331-341). Online version of the print edition.

En Allemagne, la Kunstakademie de Düsseldorf est le lieu où la photographie documentaire est légitimée comme pratique artistique durant les années 1980. Dans la classe de Bernd et Hilla Becher, des étudiants tels Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff et Andreas Gursky y apprennent les principes fondateurs de la Nouvelle Objectivité. Ce mémoire portera plus particulièrement sur le travail d'Andreas Gursky. Nous expliquerons de quelles façons l'artiste détourne les stratégies figuratives et procédurales associées à la photographie documentaire afin de construire une représentation structurée et détaillée du monde. L'étude de son travail nous conduira ainsi à réfuter la notion d'objectivité pour analyser l'image photographique à partir de son intelligibilité, de sa lisibilité et de son autonomie formelle. Dans les œuvres d'Andreas Gursky, les problèmes associés à l'émergence de la mondialisation y sont évoqués de façon générique. L'organisation spatiale des espaces photographiés se traduit par des arrangements compositionnels rigoureusement structurés. La précision focale attribuée à chaque motif permet enfin de scruter les sujets représentés dans les moindres détails. Nous exposerons les principales stratégies employées par l'artiste qui favorisent ces différents modes de lecture. L'emprunt de registres thématiques traités par les médias de masse, l'attention portée à l'autonomie plastique de ses œuvres comme la recomposition numérique de celles-ci seront étudiés. Notre discussion consistera ainsi à comprendre la valeur référentielle des photographies d'Andreas Gursky en dehors d'un rapport dichotomique entre les notions d'objectivité et de subjectivité. Considérant que les enjeux sociaux culturels ne peuvent être représentés directement, nous démontrerons que sa démarche esthétique et conceptuelle nécessite un travail de construction. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Andreas Gursky, photographie allemande, Kunstakademie de Düsseldorf, objectivité, esthétique documentaire.