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The period between the First World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is often characterized as the age of extremes—while this era witnessed unprecedented violence and loss of human life, it also saw a surge in humorous entertainment in both democratic and authoritarian societies. The Politics of Humour examines how works such as satirical magazines and comedy films were used both to reaffirm group identity and to exclude those who did not belong. The essays in this collection analyse the political and social context of comedy in Europe and the United States, exploring topics ranging from the shifting targets of ethnic jokes to the incorporation of humour into wartime broadcasting and the uses of satire as a means of resistance. Comedy continues to define the nature of group membership today, and The Politics of Humour offers an intriguing look at how entertainment helped everyday people make sense of the turmoil of the twentieth century.

Lyrical, mysterious, and laden with symbolism, Franz Kafka’s novels and stories have been translated into more than forty languages ranging from Icelandic to Japanese. In Transforming Kafka, Patrick O’Neill approaches these texts through the method he pioneered in Polyglot Joyce and Impossible Joyce, considering the many translations of each work as a single, multilingual “macrotext.” Examining three novels – The Trial, The Castle, and America – and two short stories – “The Judgment” and “The Metamorphosis” – O’Neill offers comparative readings that consider both intertextual and intratextual themes. His innovative approach shows how comparing translations extends and expands the potential meanings of the text and reveals the subtle differences among the hundreds of translations of Kafka’s work. A sophisticated analysis of the ways in which translation shapes, rearranges, and expands our understanding of literary works, Transforming Kafka is a unique approach to reading the works of a literary giant.

This textbook on Instructional Design for Learning is a must for all education and teaching students and specialists. It provides a comprehensive overview about the theoretical foundations of the various models of Instructional Design and Technology from its very beginning to the most recent approaches. It elaborates Instructional Design (ID) as a science of educational planning. The book expands on this general understanding of ID and presents an up-to-date perspective on the theories and models for the creation of detailed and precise blueprints for effective instruction. It integrates different theoretical aspects and practical approaches, such as conceptual ID models, technology-based ID, and research-based ID. In doing so, this book takes a multi-perspective view on the questions that are central for professional ID: How to analyze the relevant characteristics of the learner and the environment? How to create precise goals and adequate instruments of assessment? How to design classroom and technology-supported learning environments? How to ensure effective teaching and learning by employing formative and summative evaluation? Furthermore, this book presents empirical findings on the processes that enable effective instructional designing. Finally, this book demonstrates two different fields of application by addressing ID for teaching and learning at secondary schools and colleges, as well as for higher education.

Raum und Identität sind nicht als getrennte Größen zu denken, sondern stehen – so die Leitthese des Bandes – in einem sich wechselseitig bedingenden Verhältnis von Kontingenz und Stabilität. Mit der Frage nach der Verräumlichung des Selbst will der Band Perspektiven auf das vielschichtige und relationale Gefüge sozialer Praktiken eröffnen. Die interdisziplinär angelegte Publikation versammelt Beiträge aus der Soziologie, der (Wissens-)Geschichte, der Philosophie, den Sprachwissenschaften und der Museumspraxis. In historischen und regionalen Fallstudien sowie theoretischen und epochenübergreifenden Beiträgen wird das epistemologische Potenzial des Spatial Turn in den Kulturwissenschaften für Fragen nach der Identitätskonstruktion sowie der Rolle von Selbstverhältnissen für die Raumproduktion erschlossen. Dabei werden zum einen Analysen von Identitäts- und Raumkonzepten in ihren wechselseitigen Bedingtheiten vorangetrieben, zum anderen sind Raum und Identität selbst Gegenstand von Analysen regionaler und zeitlich gebundener Praktiken.

Dieses Buch beschreibt Lebensmitteltrends aus den Themenkomplexen Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung. Es werden anschaulich aktuelle Themen für die Lebensmittelindustrie und dem Lebensmittelhandel behandelt. Die Fallstudien wurden von Masterstudenten des Studiengang Lebensmittelwirtschaft der Hochschule Trier im Fach Unternehmensführung bearbeitet und präsentiert.

This dissertation was awarded the Ernst Reuter Prize of the Free University of Berlin. Comedy and Nazism - these two concepts may at first seem irreconcilable. At best, one associates vicious satires of the regimes and secretly passed-on Whisper Jokes with the period from 1933 to 1945. But laughter was also found in the Nazi era, and in all media - theater, books, film, press, and radio - dominated by a form that contemporaries called the German humor. With this humor, the wishes of the audience came through, and despite the opposition of Nazi propagandists it was able to establish itself through the commitment of journalists. At the same time, German humor tried to fit in as best it could into the Nazi ideology. This analysis of its success, therefore, shows how widespread the support for Nazism was and how engaged journalists were in the Nazi state. With this study of the contemporary debate about comicality and the products of German humor, the author makes a contribution to the study of public opinion during the Nazi dictatorship. German text.