This thesis deals with the sociological conception of the dropout (Aussteiger) figure in Wilhelm Genazino’s Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag (2001) and, in terms of the history of ideas, his predecessors in Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas (1808) and Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung (1913). It discusses if and how Genazino’s protagonist represents a new contemporary dropout model, and discusses the extent to which such figures can be read as dropouts, how their individual dropout characteristics are designed and motivated, and which factors connect these central characters to each other. According to Christian Schüle and his “21 Fragmente über die Identität des Aussteigers” no one can better provide a picture of the state of a society than someone who intentionally exits from it. Thus, the essential process of dropping out is described. If someone is dropping out, he is reacting to circumstances; to what extent he reacts is, however, uneven. There is no prototype of a dropout. To grasp this highly complex and little investigated phenomenon, several sociological concepts are employed, such as assimilation, deviant behaviour, alienation, individualism and the aspect of self-realization. Niklas Luhmann’s Protest serves as another theoretical basis for the concept of dropping-out (Aussteigertum). His book focuses on how protesters choose themes that none of society’s systems would recognize as their own and thereby mirror the state of things in the society as they really are. The thesis then shows how the action of all three protagonists can be associated with these sociological concepts and how Genazino’s character in Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag is related to previous protagonists such as Kohlhaas and Samsa. Kleist’s “gebrechliche Einrichtung der Welt” becomes the alienated world of Gregor Samsa and turns into Genazino’s “Gesamtmerkwürdigkeit des Lebens” in which melancholia and succussion bring the protagonist near to failing. The experimental setting all three authors use brings to mind the philosophical stream of Existentialism, on which they all seem to verge. Under societal pressure, all three figures begin to protest against their related situations in different ways. Because of having to submit himself to the exigencies of the society, Genazino’s protagonist feels as if he has to degenerate. To escape from these feelings he continuously walks physically through his environment and at the same time applies a philosophy of sight: as a reflective observer in the river of everyday life, as a swimmer against the tide of boredom, he drops out of society in his own way, different from the way Kohlhaas and Samsa did, but still related to them.

The thesis explores the role of music in Günter Grass’s novels. In pointing out the vital role of intermediality for Grass’s narrative strategies, the thesis opens up for a new, intermedial perspective on his work. It shows how references to music are used to realise Grass’s poetological concept “paspresenture” – the simultaneous presence of past, present and future – as well as his constant strive towards concreteness. The study draws on theories of intermediality, with a special focus on the role of transmedial media characteristics. It develops a transmedial methodology for analysing intermedial references, stressing how the notion of “musicality” within the text is created by media characteristics shared by both music and literature. Intermedial references are conceived as highlighting structures that are inherent in literature. The textual analyses of The Tin Drum (1959), Too Far Afield (1995) and Crabwalk (2002) are divided into three steps. First, explicit musical references in the narratives are interpreted as indexes pointing towards transmedial structures relevant to this specific context. Second, the examination demonstrates the prominent role of transmedial characteristics such as repetitivity, contrast, simultaneity and performativity within the texts. Third and last, the function of musical reference is discussed: in all three narratives, the focus on transmedial structures supplies a more consistent interpretation of passages which otherwise prove difficult to decipher. In Grass’s fiction, issues appear not to be discussed but performatively reenacted and thus remind more of musical than literary development. What is more, music – as handled by Grass – does not appear absolute or transcendent; rather, its manipulative potential is always prominent. However, the way musical references are used to realise Grass’s poetological aims stresses the bodily presence of musical performance, thus making music appear as the performative realisation of time.

The main purpose of this workshop is to focus upon a complementary approach to the study of, and the investigation into, concepts related to Geometry- Space Strand. It ought to benefit educators especially those who prepare teachers for the primary/elementary schools. Participants in this workshop will initially learn the skills needed in Pop-Up Engineering to produce ‘hole’ 3- D paper models which illustrate some particular geometric concepts. The process of the construction of these models allows for building imagery, testing predictions, arousing and satisfying curiosity, connecting to Geometric concepts and most of all motivating and holding interest. It is envisaged that this approach to the teaching and learning of geometric concepts will provide grounds for discussion, enrichment, exploration, clarification of and ownership of ideas, and cross curriculum integration. It has the potential to reduce the apparent difficulty students experience with the study of geometric concepts.

Zugl.: Berlin, Humboldt-Universiẗat, Diss., 2008.

The main purpose of this workshop is to focus upon a complementary approach to the study of, and the investigation into, concepts related to Geometry- Space Strand. It ought to benefit educators especially those who prepare teachers for the primary/elementary schools. Participants in this workshop will initially learn the skills needed in Pop-Up Engineering to produce ‘hole’ 3- D paper models which illustrate some particular geometric concepts. The process of the construction of these models allows for building imagery, testing predictions, arousing and satisfying curiosity, connecting to Geometric concepts and most of all motivating and holding interest. It is envisaged that this approach to the teaching and learning of geometric concepts will provide grounds for discussion, enrichment, exploration, clarification of and ownership of ideas, and cross curriculum integration. It has the potential to reduce the apparent difficulty students experience with the study of geometric concepts.

In der Publikation „500 Jahre Lommatzscher Pflege“ Ein Familienfest – Erzählungen zur Geschichte einer Landschaft nimmt der Autor Thomas Gerlach den Leser mit auf einen Streifzug in die Vergangenheit bis hin zur Gegenwart. Auf Grundlage der aktuellen Forschungen, aber mit erfundenen Persönlichkeiten als literarische Erzählung werden Geschichten um die 500-jährige urkundliche Ersterwähnung der Lommatzscher Pflege vom 01. September 1517 erzählt. Mit Zeichnungen aus der Lommatzscher Pflege erhält die 50-seitige Publikation einen unverwechselbaren Charakter.

Der männlichkeitszentrierte Beitrag von Martin Kandzia gilt einem deutschsprachigen Erzähltext aus den 1970er Jahren und trägt den Titel „Männlichkeit, Risiko und Verunsicherung in Martin Walsers Novelle Ein fliehendes Pferd“. Theoretisch interdisziplinär fundiert, beleuchtet er noch einmal das schon von Froese und Vetter in den Blick genommene Entanglement von Gender, Risiko und literarischem Genre. Mit der Novelle als dritter traditionsmächtiger Gattung und Walsers rezeptionsstarkem Gegenwartstext kontextualisiert er es jedoch genre- und epochenspezifisch neu. Indem die Argumentation an dem kompakten Figurenarsenal der beiden Paare Halm und Buch die sinnkonstitutive Bedeutung der Geschlechterkonstruktionen und -stereotype verfolgt, belegt sie nicht nur die Leistungsfähigkeit eines genderwissenschaftlichen Interpretationszugangs. Sie erarbeitet auch literarische Parallelen und Korrespondenzen zu aktuellen soziologischen Konzepten, wie der ʻmännlichen Herrschaft‘ (Bourdieu), der konkurrenten ʻhegemonialen Männlichkeit‘ (Connell) oder, anhand von einigen erinnerten Wettbewerbs-Spielen des ErzählerProtagonisten Halm, des ʻRisikohandelns als Strukturübung des männlichen Geschlechtshabitus‘ (Meuser). Die ambivalente Figurenführung und die komplexen narrativen Beobachtungs- und Vermittlungsebenen der Novelle stellen, so der Verfasser, unter dem Stichwort der Verunsicherung oder Krise solche extraliterarischen theoretischen Konstruktionen jedoch zugleich auch dialogisch in Frage und insistieren so auf dem Eigenwert von ästhetischer Erkenntnis.

Born April 2, 1873, on the estate of Oneg in the province of Novgorod, Russia, Sergei Vassilyvitch Rachmaninoff was the fifth of the six children of Vassili and Lyoubov Boutakova Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff's aristocratic descent was traced to the Hospodars Dragosh, rulers of the realm of Molday from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. One of the daughters from this family had married a son of the Grand Duke Ivan III of Moscow. The son's nephew was named Rachmanin, and from this source the family name originated.1 Rachmaninoff's mother was the daughter of a general, head of Araktcheyev Military College in Novgorod and the owner of a number of estates in the district. It was with a dowry of five of these estates that Lyoubov Boutakova married Vassili Rachmaninoff, and on one of these estates, Oneg, the couple settled down to married life.

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