This thesis deals with the short story “Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa ...” (1950) by the German author Heinrich Böll (1917-1985). The well-established interpretation of this famous short story is that it deals with the dismal fact that the Nazis ended the development of Western culture, which cumulatively had been on its way since Greek antiquity. In this paper another reading is proposed, namely that the short story sheds light on the influence of the Romantic era in Germany and that a certain interpretation and use of Romanticism provided some of the seeds to the obscure ideas of the Nazi era. Research on Böll´s early writings is presented. The notion of cultural memory is introduced. The intertextual connections between Bölls text and other texts are being uncovered. Most fruitful proves the connection between “Wanderer” and the poem “Der Spaziergang” (1795) by Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) to be. “Wanderer” can be read as a satirical version of Schillers poem. Reasons for Böll to choose Schiller’s elegy as a target are discussed at length. A parable in the story, ”wie ein Gesicht eines Schlafenden” / like a face of a sleeping person, unfolds an undertext to the short story, a Catholic text. Jesus, the Holy Communion, prayers and the eternal cross are present. Wanderer can be read as a requiem over the young soldier. Further, the inability of the wounded soldier to connect to his surroundings is interpreted as a parallell to Germany at the end of the war; the Nazis had stolen the Heimat from the people and it was no longer possible to interpret the world as something you belonged to. While Heinrich Böll on the surface of the text tries to recapture the German language from its nazi-poisend condition, the protagonist within the text regains his identity by means of his own handwriting - a part of his language.

Freie Univ., Diss.--Berlin, 2006.

Was uns eine Gedenktafel am Haus Nr. 48 in Lotzdorf aussagt - was sie (leider) nicht aussagt - und weshalb die Stifter bzw. Gestalter dieser Tafel ungerecht sind. 'Wilhelm von Kügelgen verbrachte hier Tage seiner Kindheit' - so steht es auf einer Gedenktafel. Der Vater Gerhard von Kügelgen wird weder erwähnt noch geehrt, obwohl er der um ein Vielfaches berühmtere Maler war, der mehrere Jahre zu seiner Sommerkur im Augustusbad mit seiner Familie in Lotzdorf wohnte. Der „Vergesslichkeit“ seines Sohnes Wilhelm ist es sicherlich zuzuschreiben, dass die Gemeindevorsteher Lotzdorfs nicht ihm, dem berühmten und erfolgreichen Maler Gerhard von Kügelgen, eine Gedenktafel widmeten, sondern kurioserweise nur seinem Sohn Wilhelm, der damals als Kind in Lotzdorf mit den Eltern weilte und als alter Mann diese seine Erinnerungen in seinem Buch festhielt. Es kann nur vermutet werden, dass die Persönlichkeit des Gerhard von Kügelgen, sein Rang als berühmter Maler, ebenso wie seine hohe gesellschaftliche Stellung in Dresden, den Lotzdorfern in der Zeit seiner Kuraufenthalte und auch späterhin im Ort nicht bekannt waren. Unbemerkt und unbekannt blieben auch eine Reihe seiner berühmten Besucher und Malerfreunde, die ihren Freund und Gönner in Lotzdorf während seiner Kuren aufsuchten.

Hypertension is a global disease that many effected people in developing countries is not aware of. Hypertension is linked with cardiovascular disease. Prehypertension is not a disease but if not correctly treated, it could develop into hypertension. The aim of the study was to investigate if there are any differences in circadian blood pressure between two study groups, one group with normal blood pressure and one group with prehypertension. This study was a explorative study and its design is based on measurements of blood pressure values and a questionnaire was used to help get the data collection. 51 students volunteered to have their blood pressure taken from them and out of these 51, 24 where selected into two groups of 12 each for the Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. hese 24 students would be a part of our study and an ambulatory (Schiller-102 plus) blood pressure monitor was used to collect the data. The prevalence of prehypertension findings in the clinical testing phase was 37% of the population. There was a variation between the groups during the day (systolic) but there was not a significant difference during the night.