Siberia in German (German-speaking) Television Documentaries

Literary Mapping in German-Speaking Europe

Early modern maps were surrounded by and interspersed with texts of many kinds. The intimate relationship between cartographic image and geographical text in the map was due to the map’s mixed media structure and its early appearance in the context of history books, travel reports, or chorographic descriptions. Literature was based on other types of text. Epic, drama, and poetry were essentiall...

Exercises for German-Speaking Children with Dyslexia

In this work-in-progress we present a computer-based method to design German reinforcement exercises for children with dyslexia. From different schools, we collected more than 1,000 errors written by children with dyslexia. Then, we created a classification of dyslexic errors in German and annotated the errors with different language specific features, such as phonetic and visual features. For ...

Infant Development: Perspectives from German Speaking Countries

Infant Development: Perspectives from German Speaking Countries

Theoretical considerations Empathy from a cognitivistic viewpoint According to current understanding empathy is an experience in which people participate in or share the emotional state of somebody else on the basis of this person's expression and/or their situation. The emphasis on the emotional dimension expressed in this definition is rather new. Under Piagetian influence, empathy was more o...

The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television

THE CULTURAL MEMORY OF GERMAN VICTIMHOOD IN POST-1990 POPULARGERMAN LITERATURE AND TELEVISIONby ANJA PAULINE EBERTAugust 2010Advisor: Dr. Anne RotheMajor: Modern LanguagesDegree: Doctor of Philosophy My dissertation analyzes the representation of Germans as victims of the Third Reich andthe Second World War in post-1990 German memory. After unification, there no long...