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Title: "Urtheil und ein schönes Lied" : Das Armesünderblatt (1750-1820) in der Sammlung "German Criminology Collection" der Michigan State University
Creator: Bollen, Magelone
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "Poor sinner's pamphlets" are mostly four-page leaflets, printed and sold cheaply on the occa-sion of an execution. They contain the official court document with death sentence, confession, a religious or moralistic poem, and at times an illustration. During the transitional period of 1750-1820, they were a wide spread cultural practice in Bavaria and the neighboring regions in southern Germany. While the authorities aimed at deterrence and social discipline, bourgeois readers enjoyed an...
Show more"Poor sinner's pamphlets" are mostly four-page leaflets, printed and sold cheaply on the occa-sion of an execution. They contain the official court document with death sentence, confession, a religious or moralistic poem, and at times an illustration. During the transitional period of 1750-1820, they were a wide spread cultural practice in Bavaria and the neighboring regions in southern Germany. While the authorities aimed at deterrence and social discipline, bourgeois readers enjoyed an illicit pleasure. Based on the extensive, yet unexplored holdings of Michigan State University's German Criminology Collection, this study investigates form, function, devel-opment and commercialization of the medium and places it within the historical, juridical, liter-ary and medial context. It analyzes the literary features of the poems and how they indicate a change in the conception of the criminal. Five extensive case studies focus on different im-portant aspects: the oral and written publication, crime investigation and confession, the spec-tacle of the execution, robbers' threat to inner security, as well as the connections between several documents related to the same murder case. A detailed comparison of the variants of-fers insights into the succession and adaptation of prints. An excursus presents parodies of death sentences ranging from mere puns to the subversive political satire.
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Title: Die frauengestalten in Theodor Fontanes Berliner romanen : rolle und funktion in der darstellung des konflikts zwischen individuum und gesellschaft
Creator: Kienbaum, Barbara E.
Date: 1978
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Friedrich Justin Bertuch's "London und Paris" : the portrayal of French and English caricatures from the German perspective
Creator: Albert, Michael Thomas
Date: 2004
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Remarks by U.S. President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in a joint press conference
Creator: Obama, Barack
Date: 2016-11-17
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: U.S. President Barack Obama joins German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a joint press conference in which they speak highly about their eight-year friendship and transatlantic partnership. President Obama tells reporters that he doesn't expect President-elect Trump to follow his foreign policy blueprint, but challenges Trump to stand up to Russia if they deviate from U.S. values and international norms. He also says Trump ran an "unconventional campaign" that was likely the biggest political...
Show moreU.S. President Barack Obama joins German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a joint press conference in which they speak highly about their eight-year friendship and transatlantic partnership. President Obama tells reporters that he doesn't expect President-elect Trump to follow his foreign policy blueprint, but challenges Trump to stand up to Russia if they deviate from U.S. values and international norms. He also says Trump ran an "unconventional campaign" that was likely the biggest political upset in modern American history. Merkel's remarks are translated into English. Held in Berlin during Obama's sixth visit to Germany.
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Title: Solving the Stadtschloss dilemma : what an old façade will say about new Berlin
Creator: Naumann, Stephen (Stephen Paul)
Date: 2006
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The Metaphysics of Avicenna : a new Latin edition of Metaphysica I & II, with prefatory remarks on the problem of sources for and interpretations of, his approach to Metaphysics
Creator: Ballard, Edward Lee
Date: 1981
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Vergleichende pragmalinguistische Analyse bundesdeutscher und nordamerikanischer Automobil-Werbeanzeigen
Creator: Gramberg, Anne-Katrin
Date: 1991
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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