The nucleolus at Weimar

Media Education at the Bauhaus-University Weimar

The rapid evolution of Media through the introduction of digital technologies, the multimedialization of computer hardware and the development of new network technologies have generated the need for new profession profiles responding to the rapid changes in this fast evolving branch. In the new Media, arts and humanities are tied to rapid technological development to create new markets and new ...

Shakespeare in the Weimar Republic

Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic

The hyperinflation episode in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s was not the first hyperinflation, nor was it the only one in early 1920s Europe or even the most extreme inflation in history (the Hungarian pengő and Zimbabwean dollar have both been more inflated). However, as the most prominent case following the emergence of economics as a scholarly discipline, it drew interest in a way that pre...

The German Right in the Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic has long been synonymous in the public mind with political instability, economic crisis and cultural ferment. In recent years this image has been cemented as Weimar has been co-opted by many commentators in the United States and Europe as a benchmark for ‘crisis’, an exemplar of failure against which the political and economic uncertainties of our times are measured in order...

The nucleolus.

When cells are observed by phase contrast microscopy, nucleoli are among the most conspicuous structures. The nucleolus was formally described between 1835 and 1839, but it was another century before it was discovered to be associated with a specific chromosomal locus, thus defining it as a cytogenetic entity. Nucleoli were first isolated in the 1950s, from starfish oocytes. Then, in the early ...