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This paper aims to outline a dissertation project, which was presented at the conference Aktuelle landeskundliche Ansätze in DaF/DaZ (Actual cultural studies on didactic in German as a foreign language and second language). Furthermore, I want to conceptualize two terms, that focus to this perspective - migrationssensibel (migrational sensitive) and heimatkritisch (home critic). The paper starts with a short historical overview and a debate on the role of the concepts of Landeskunde and Erinnerungsorte (Spaces of memory). It also presents the methodological design that will be used for this dissertation project (Grounded Theory, and City Walks). Finally, I will describe the expected outcome of this dissertation project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Mapping Religious Studies requires a look at the intersections with other disciplines that study religious phenomena. This includes area studies such as Southeast European Studies. »Crypto-Christianity«, »folk religion« and »syncretism« are common terms in Southeast European studies to describe phenomena in the areal religious history. According to the disciplines' selfunderstanding, religious and area studies are interdisciplinary cultural studies that cooperate with each other. Thus, for a better understanding of religious phenomena, these studies are assumed to take definitions, perspectives and critiques of other disciplines into account in order to exchange knowledge of religious phenomena, and to share research methods with each other. Religious and area studies differ in terms of their tasks: While Religious Studies set up theories, area studies are claimed to be the corrective factor, testing theories of other disciplines. My paper presents how area studies - using the example of Southeast European studies - adopt terms, concepts and theories from Religious Studies when researching religious phenomena, and how the lack of communication between these two research fields neglects potentials. The paper shows the advantages as well as the necessity of interdisciplinary cooperation. Even if cultural studies cannot find a universally valid basis for the study of religion, I argue for a permanent dialogue between the creation and verification of theories and concepts on religion and religious phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Astonishingly, the trio ‚action film – Italy – tourism' has to date received little attention from the perspective of cultural studies and semiotics. The aim of this article is thus to show that communication strategies have made tourist travel a complex phenomenon of contemporary everyday culture from a semiotics perspective: conceptually, theoretically, and through a cursory examination of select examples from film. By doing so, it outlines the ways in which the combination of tourism and action films contributes to common clichés about Italy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, German as a foreign language (DaF) has been intensively debated with regard to certain deficits in cultural mediation, with the aim of (re-)integrating cultural content in teaching DaF. This article discusses the reasons for the unsatisfactory state of affairs, and points out the important role of Cultural Theory in teaching, and the potential use of the concept of Linguistic Landscapes (as developed in Cultural Studies) to open up new perspectives for DaF teaching by accentuating the close connection between language and culture. In the second part of the paper the didactic potential of this concept is clarified by introducing several suggestions for lessons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last thirty years, the concept of legibility has become a topos in the humanities, referring to the act of reading freed from its usual connection with the written text, and concerning also images, traces, and constellations. No one so deeply understood this non-literal' reading as Walter Benjamin, whose oeuvre is crossed by the topic of the compénétration and coappartenance of image and text. In his epistemology, mental and material images are intended as things that must be read. This paper offers an interpretation of his concept of legibility through its comparison with the one given by Aby Warburg in his Mnemosyne-Atlas. Both authors wanted to analyze the relationship between image and word to study the language of emotions and gestures. Through the comparison of the two methods emerges a privileged viewpoint to understand legibility as a fundamental epistemological paradigm of Kulturwissenschaft around 1900. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The history of ideas of the late twentieth and early twenty-fist centuries requires to take into account new forms of media expression such as video games. Video games have been an integral part of our entertainment culture for more than 40 years and are an international billion dollar business. Questions like "What is power? What does justice mean in politics? Who should govern whom?" are not only encountered in political essays and parliamentary debates. In order to understand how people have thought about domination in concrete societies over the past 40 years, we also have to examine the games that were played. Games cannot be imagined as an element of our societies and cultures independently of them; they are spaces of discourse where statements are constructed and communicated, and political ideas can be tested and applied in a playful way. As a medium, they thus provide a necessary space of communication within our highly complex societies, and as models of abstraction they also offer very specific access to a (very specific?) political reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Premodern rulership was largely based on writings and written communication. Although the connection between writing and rulership lies at the core of a cultural history of premodern politics, and has been investigated many times, very little research addresses the question of how these writings came into being. The following article closes this gap. It focuses on the reports that were produced during the last visitation of the Imperial Chamber Court (1767-1776). It first illustrates how matters negotiated orally were subsequently recorded in protocols. Then, it showshowthese protocols gave rise to appropriate reports in turn. These intertwined the actual course of general discussions in diplomatic negotiationswith the interests, concerns, and opinions of the diplomat writing the reports. The argument pays special attention to the work of secretaries who were most responsible for creating such reports. Drawing on research about practices of report formation as well as the processes of reception and practices of archiving, the investigation emphasizes the degree to which premodern rulership depended on the temporal, spatial, and material dimensions of report production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sprachenlernen geht über das Memorieren bloß rationaler Daten hinaus, und Sprachen lehren heißt u. a., den Lernenden landeskundliche und kulturelle Informationen zu vermitteln. Landeskunde kann ganz unterschiedliche Schwerpunkte setzen. Eine Möglichkeit der kulturwissenschaftlichen Landeskun-de ist der Ansatz der Erinnerungsorte. Was die Ziele dieses Ansatzes sind und ob und wie er in einigen Lehrwerken für Deutsch als Fremdsprache präsentiert wird, ist das Thema dieses Beitrags. // Learning languages is connected with emotions and learning languages also includes regional and cultural studies. Regional studies can put emphasis on various issues. One option of the cultural re-gional studies is the implementation of memory spaces. Thus, the present paper deals with the aims of such implementation as well as with the question if and how is it presented in textbooks of German as a foreign language.

The article focuses on conference of Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik (GiG) which was held virtually due to COVID-19 pandemic. Topics discussed include focus illuminate language, literature and culture from ancient times; contributions of Mediterranean to linguistic, literary, cultural, social, political, economic, ecological interculturality; and information on linguistic methods with cultural studies.

Einzelgänger und Außenseiter, die sich durch exzessives Konsumverhalten und extensives Trivialwissen um ein populärkulturelles Produkt auszeichnen – auch heute ist das Bild der Fans noch stark von Stereotypen geprägt. Meistens wird Fantum jedoch nicht mit Aktivität oder gar Kreativität gleichgesetzt. Viele Fans sind aber genau das: aktive ProduzentInnen von kulturellem Kapital. Dieser Artikel fokussiert eine derartige Fanaktivität: die Produktion von Fan Fiction. Darunter versteht man Fan-generierte, fiktionale Geschichten, die Charaktere sowie bestimmte Handlungselemente eines bestimmten (populärkulturellen) Ausgangsproduktes – hier: die Serie The Mentalist – beinhalten, und heute auf entsprechenden Internetseiten gepostet werden. Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich mit Bedingungen sowie Motivationen für die Produktion von deutschsprachiger Fan Fiction und der anschließenden Veröffentlichung derselben auf der Seite www.fanfiktion.de. Es wird gezeigt, dass die AutorInnen derartiger Texte, die eine immense Bandbreite aufweisen, sehr organisiert vorgehen. Des Weiteren wird die Bedeutung der Austauschund Review-Möglichkeiten auf den Fan Fiction Websites hervorgehoben, die sehr zentral für die interviewten fünf AutorInnen ist. English Abstract: Loners and outsiders, who can be distinguished through excessive consumption of and the knowledge of trivia around a specific cultural product as well as obsessive consumerism of said product – even today the image of fans is a highly stereotyped one. Usually, the reputation of a dedicated fan is not associated with an active, creative producer of cultural capital. In reality, most of them are though – a fact that can easily be shown by a single Google search. This article focuses one form of such fan-productivity: the creation of fan fiction. Fan fictions are user-generated, fictional stories which feature characters of the preferred, popular cultural fan object – here: the The Mentalist-series – and are nowadays posted on appropriate websites. To be more precise, this paper focuses conditions of and motivations for the production of German fan fiction and the consequent publication of said stories on the website www.fanfiktion.de of five authors. It will be underlined that all authors approach the production of fan fiction in a highly organized way even though their stories themselves show a great variety. Furthermore, the importance of fan fiction reviews and comments is essential for all five authors, whose age varies from 13 to 53 years.

Assuming a praxeological point of view, this essay will conceptualize translation as a category indicating a certain practice of association. In this practice not contexts, cultures or languages as such are linked, but rather speech acts, texts or utterances in general. This implies an inverse conceptualization of the relationship between translation and context with respect to ways it is mostly perceived: from a cultural-theoretical perspective, instead of presupposing pre-existing contexts between which translation would assume a mediating position, those contexts are created through the practice of translation itself, i.e. they are invoked, referred to, and perspectivized in translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]