Although beset by social, political, and economic instabilities, interwar Vienna was an exhilarating place, with pioneering developments in the arts and innovations in the social sphere. Research on the period long saw the city as a mere shadow of its former imperial self; more recently it has concentrated on high-profile individual figures or party politics. This volume of new essays widens the view, stretching disciplinary boundaries to consider the cultural and social movements that shaped the city. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire resulted not in an abandonment of the arts, but rather led to new forms of expression that were nevertheless conditioned by the legacies of earlier periods. The city's culture was caught between extremes, from neopositivism to cultural pessimism, Catholic mysticism to Austro-Marxism, late Enlightenment liberalism to rabid antisemitism. Concentrating on the paradoxes and often productive tensions that these created, the volume's twelve essays explore achievements and anxieties in fields ranging from modern dance, theater, music, film, and literature to economic, cultural, and racial policy. The volume will appeal to social, cultural, and political historians as well as to specialists in modern European literary and visual culture. Contributors: Andrea Amort, Andrew Barker, Alys X. George, Deborah Holmes, Jon Hughes, Birgit Lang, Wolfgang Maderthaner, Therese Muxeneder, Birgit Peter, Lisa Silverman, Edward Timms, Robert Vilain, John Warren, Paul Weindling. Deborah Holmes is Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography in Vienna. Lisa Silverman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

At fifty, the European Court of Human Rights finds itself in a new institutional setting. With the EU joining the European Convention on Human Rights in the near future, and the Court increasingly having to address the responsibility of states in UN-led military operations, the Court faces important challenges at the national, European and international levels. In light of recent reform discussions, this volume addresses the multi-level relations of the Court by drawing on existing debates, pointing to current deficits and highlighting the need for further improvements.

At fifty, the European Court of Human Rights finds itself in a new institutional setting. With the EU joining the European Convention on Human Rights in the near future, and the Court increasingly having to address the responsibility of states in UN-lead military operations, the Court faces important challenges at the national, European and international levels. In light of recent reform discussions, this volume addresses the multi-level relations of the Court by drawing on existing debates, pointing to current deficits and highlighting the need for further improvements.

Sie begegnen uns taglich allerorten - die Prominenten. Sie lacheln von Plakatwanden, strahlen uns vom Bildschirm entgegen, sind Gegenstand der allmorgendlichen Zeitungslekture. Sie stehen standig im Licht der Offentlichkeit. Doch wer sind diese Personen? Worauf beruht ihr herausragender Status und wer hat fur ihre Bekanntheit gesorgt? Welches Image haben sie beim Publikum und inwieweit nehmen sie Einfluss auf Meinungen und Einstellungen? Theoretisch und empirisch widmet sich das Buch diesen Fragestellungen."

Can—and should—participation be a means of achieving sustainability? The concepts of sustainability and participation are both in vogue, and many international, supranational and national legal texts and standards refer to these two concepts. However, there are still several unanswered questions that invite legal inquiry: which sustainability? Which kinds of participation? Participation by whom? How are the two concepts of sustainability and participation effectively interlinked in legal provisions? This book approaches the interconnection between sustainability and participation inductively and precisely in areas of law which are commonly associated with sustainability and sustainable development: national, European and international environmental and economic law.

Haben Sie sich auch schon einmal eine Hexe gewunscht, die das Elend der Welt in Ordnung bringt? Hexen gibt es doch nicht, oder Fragen Sie doch mal die Burger von Klein- Gwndsch. Sie kennen Klein-Gwndsch nicht? Sie kennen Emilia nicht? Dann wird es aber Zeit, sie kennen zu lernen und sie auf einem ausserst bewegten Lebensabschnitt zu begleiten. Tauchen Sie ein in das Leben einer Hexe im 21.Jahrhundert, die ganz plotzlich vor eine unerwartete und spannende Aufgabe gestellt wird. Traumen und leben Sie mit Ihr, teilen sie ihre Gedanken und gehen Sie mit ihr auf eine Abenteuerreise, um die Welt ein Stuckchen besser zu machen. Lebhaft und mit Humor geschrieben, kurzweilig und sehr phantasievoll, fur junge und junggebliebene Leser, die auch gern mal der Realitat und dem Althergebrachten entfliehen mochten

Dies ist eine Sammlung meines Lebens. Gedanken, Gefhle, Erinnerungen, Eindrcke, Erfahrungen, aber auch Kritik an meinen lieben Mitmenschen, mal ernsthaft, mal humorvoll, eingepackt in Verse, Lieder, Texte und kleine Geschichten.