Zugl.: Dortmund, Univ., Diss., 2003

This thesis focuses on an analysis of the representation of the German Democratic Re-public (GDR) in two literary works by Thomas Brussig. The year between the summer of 1989 and the fall of 1990 was very eventful in Germany’s history. This time is called ‘Wende’, which finally ended with the reunification of the GDR and the German Fed-eral Republic. Since then, there has been a broad literary discourse about the ‘Wende’, which focuses on the time of the GDR itself, as well as its consequences afterwards. One of the authors involved in this debate is Thomas Brussig. This thesis will examine his two novels Helden wie wir (1995) and Wie es leuchtet (2004), which are both con-sidered to be part of the literary ‘Wende-dicourse’. Helden Wie Wir is regarded as one of the most important works within this genre. In this novel we find an accurate repre-sentation of the time and circumstances of the GDR, which ends with the fall of the Berlin Wall as the plot’s climax. Wie Es Leuchtet begins shortly before this event and describes the ‘German Year’ until the reunification. Therefore, both novels take place during the time of the GDR, represent how the ‘Wende’ developed, and bring the consequences it had for the country and its people in to consideration. The selection of these two stories is based upon the possibility that they allow to analyse different stations of the process of the ’Wende’. The main aspect which binds the novels together is the idea of ‘freedom’. The thesis will analyse the social structures of the time and answer the question of whether or not the ‘Wende’ is constructed as the protagonist’s liberation from a limited ‘power’. In order to achieve this, the thesis will utilize Foucault’s concepts of power and dis-course-relations. Since Foucault does not (against tradition) consider ‘power’ as some-thing that is completely possessed by the apparatus of the state, his ideas are helpful to analyse the distribution of power during the constructed time of the GDR, the “Wende”, and afterwards in literary works. Additionally, Foucault’s concept of resistance will help to analyse why the revolution, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of the GDR came in to existence. Furthermore, this thesis focuses on discourses about sexuality, body and gender by means of Foucault’s ideas as well as Judith Butler’s concept of performativity in order to discuss difficulties in society. The theory the thesis follows is that all of the novel’s constructed forms of society, especially those during and after the ‘Wende’, are societies that ‘need to be’ normalised, and are therefore a border itself for the people to free themselves from. In the first chapter the essay describes the genre “Wendeliteratur”. Afterwards, it elabo-rates on the most important points of Michel Foucault’s and Judith Butler’s theoretical concepts. At last, it gives an analysis of Brussig’s two novels with help of these con-cepts. The examination of Helden wie wir mainly shows that it is the hierarchical society during the GDR and afterwards that sets borders on societal freedom, since there is a distribution of power throughout the whole of society in both cases. The examination of Wie es leuchtet shows even clearer that the collapse of the GDR does not simultaneously mean absolute freedom for society.

This thesis explores Web Information Extraction (WIE) and how it has been used in decision making and to support businesses in their daily operations. The research focuses on a WIE system based on Genetic Programming (GP) with an extensible model to enhance the automatic extractor. This uses a human as a teacher to identify and extract relevant information from the semi-structured HTML webpages. Regular expressions, which have been chosen as the pattern matching tool, are automatically generated based on the training data to provide an improved grammar and lexicon. This particularly benefits the GP system which may need to extend its lexicon in the presence of new tokens in the web pages. These tokens allow the GP method to produce new extraction patterns for new requirements.

Webern scholarship has not comprehensively examined op. 25, drei lieder. If the selection of text for op. 25 is viewed as one work in three movements they create a ternary form (A-B-A1). To show how this form is developed in the music the author creates a new analytical system based on Schoenberg's Grundgestalt which is defined by three basic ideas: symmetry, liquidation, and variation. The relationship between the voice and accompaniment and Webern's deliberate manipulation of the text is used to reveal the use of a program which is then tied to the numerical symbolism of 2 and 3.

In recent years, there has been extensive debate in the area of literary criticism, much of it focused on real or imagined differences between male and female texts. French feminist theorists, Helene Cixous and Luce Irigaray, to name a few, argue that biological differences necessitate textual differences, while others reject this essentialist position, considering it just another means for perpetuating the notion of female inferiority. Many linguists assert that women use language differently than men, and that texts reflect these differences. But in order to analyze the origin of any textual differences, it is necessary to look beyond biology and linguistic performance, to concentrate on psychology and its wider implications in the cultural world. Because Brigitte Schwaiger's text, Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer. contains a number of elements which underscore the extent that psychology and culture influence text production, it will serve as the focus of this paper. While this work can be classified as a female Bildungs- or Reifungs-roman - a narrative about the development of a modem consciousness and the attendant struggles involved - it serves in a wider sense as an example of the "difference" argued by many feminists between male and female texts.

Univ., Diss.--Lausanne, 2003.

Since the fall of the Wall, a new era of East German literature has emerged. This genre of literature exists even though East Germany’s borders dissolved over a decade and half ago and is challenging the way we think about the former German Democratic Republic. East German author Thomas Brussig is pivotal in this new genre of literature. His novels Helden wie wir (1995), Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee (1999) and Leander Haußmann’s cinematic adaptation, Sonnenallee (1999), confront the negative associations and stereotypes connected with East Germany to deconstruct how formal history has portrayed its past and its citizens. Brussig’s texts take a completely different approach to remembering the GDR, which simultaneously challenges history’s dominant perspective as well as the Ostalgie phenomenon. Through his texts’ recollection, Brussig subverts the East German state in hindsight and begins the construction of a new mythology with which to associate former East Germany.

Stephan Groetzner is a contemporary German writer whose book So ist das is said to be mysterious— the novel surprises with its conciseness as well as the mix of an unusual, almost poetic form and a simple syntax. It thus opens the doors to various interpretations. The thesis deals with the question if the brief and concise language in So ist das influences the development of the narrative elements time and space. Furthermore, it canvasses the consequences its influence might have when it comes to genre attribution. The essential theories for the discussion are Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan's Narrative Fiction, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics as well as Nicole Mahne's Transmediale Erzähltheorie, with a narratological perspective on time and space. Moreover, literary-historical works like Andrew Thacker's The Imagist Poets, Yoshinobu Hakutani's Haiku and Modernist Poetics, Bertram Müller's Absurde Literatur in Rußland as well as Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus play a decisive role in the analysis. The goal of this thesis is to bring the unique style of a rather unknown contemporary writer from Germany into the context of other art forms like comics, haiku, imagism and absurdism, and to discuss what kind of outcomes the conciseness might have, regarding its influence on the narrative elements time and space as well as on the genre attribution.

Der Juniordoktor ist neben der „Dresdner Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften“ das zweite renommierte Veranstaltungsformat des Netzwerks „Dresden – Stadt der Wissenschaften“ in den Bereichen Wissenschaftskommunikation und Bildung/Bildungsgerechtigkeit. Im Sinne einer „Bildungskette“ bildet der Juniordoktor das Bindeglied zwischen niedrigschwelligen, öffentlichkeitswirksamen Formaten (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Kinderuniversität) und vertiefenden, individuellen Angeboten (Schülerlabore, Sommeruni) der wissenschaftlichen Bildung und Orientierung in Dresden. Konzipiert als Teil des Veranstaltungsprogramms „Wo Elemente sich verbinden“, mit dem Dresden im bundesweiten Wettbewerb des Stifterverbands für die Deutsche Wissenschaft den Titel „Stadt der Wissenschaft 2006“ gewann, erfreut sich der Juniordoktor bei wissenschaftsinteressierten Kindern und Jugendlichen bis heute großer Beliebtheit. Zwischen 2006 bis 2010 zählte das Juniordoktor-Programm in vier Durchgängen 1420 Teilnehmer der 3. bis 12. Klassen aus Dresden und dem Umland. Nach einer zweijährigen Veranstaltungspause wurde das Programm strukturell optimiert und konzeptionell qualifiziert. Als Teil des Projektes „Wie Elemente sich verbinden“, mit dem das Netzwerk „Dresden - Stadt der Wissenschaften“ im Jahr 2012 erneut einen Preis des Stifterverbands für die Deutsche Wissenschaft im Finale „Stadt der Wissenschaft“ gewann, wurde der Juniordoktor im Schuljahr 2012/13 neu gestartet. Seit dem Start im Jahr 2006 gab es keine systematisch-strukturierte Analyse und Evaluation des Juniordoktor-Programms. Die in diesen Bericht einfließenden Befragungen dienten der Gewinnung von Informationen zur Evaluation und Weiterentwicklung des Juniordoktors. Die Befragung erfolgte in den drei Gruppen „Veranstalter 2012/13“, „Teilnehmer 2012/13“ und „Teilnehmer 2006-2010“ mit gruppenspezifischen Online-Fragebögen.:1 Einleitung 7 2 Stärken des Juniordoktor 9 2.1 Ziele 10 2.2 Kernbotschaft 10 2.3 Zufriedenheit 10 2.4 Nutzen 12 2.5 Alleinstellungsmerkmal 12 3 Der Juniordoktor in Zahlen 13 3.1 Statistische Auswertung 2006 bis 2013 13 3.2 Statistische Auswertung 2012/13 16 4 Detaillierte Auswertung und Interpretation 21 4.1 Veranstalter 2012/13 23 4.1.1 Motivation und Ziele 23 4.1.2 Beurteilung der Teilnehmer 25 4.1.3 Organisation und Optimierung 25 4.2 Teilnehmer 2012/13 26 4.2.1 Interesse 26 4.2.2 Beitrag des Juniordoktor zu Schule und Berufs-/Studienwahl 26 4.2.3 Organisation und Optimierung 28 4.3 Teilnehmer 2006-2010 31 4.3.1 Interesse 31 4.3.2 Beitrag des Juniordoktor zu Schule und Berufs-/Studienwahl 31 4.3.3 Organisation und Optimierung 33 5 Zusammenfassung und Handlungsempfehlungen 34 5.1 Beitrag des Juniordoktor zu Schule und Berufs-/Studienwahl 34 5.2 Veranstaltungszeiten 34 5.3 Altersgruppenunterteilung 34 5.4 Verbindlichkeit der Anmeldung 35 5.5 Kommunikation und Außenwahrnehmung 35 5.6 Befragung und Evaluation 35 6 Tabellenanhang 37 6.1 Veranstalter 2012/13 37 6.2 Teilnehmer 2012/13 41 6.3 Teilnehmer 2006-10 49 6.4 Übersicht Teilnehmerzahlen pro Veranstaltung 2012/13 53

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