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Bernd Liske
Bernd Liske, born in 1956, studied mathematics in Chemnitz and is the owner of Liske information management systems. From its founding in 1998 until May 2015, Bernd Liske was a member of the main board of BITKOM, where he worked in the defense, education and knowledge management working groups. In the course of his efforts to deal with the revelations of Edward Snowden in the NSA affair, he was expelled from BITKOM in 2015. From 1998 to 2003 he was a member of the board of the Association of Organizations and Information Systems (VOI). Bernd Liske has been dealing with socio-political issues for many years. In his analyzes and concepts, he deals with social, political and economic problems in our society in order to make contributions to maintaining Germany as a business location. His book “PRISM A Lesson for our Democracy”, published in September, grew out of this. The diversity of the topics he deals with as well as the systemic principles used for their treatment can be followed on his homepage at and on his TWITTER channels @BerndLiske, @LiskeAphorismen and @LiskeZitate. He now regards his aphorisms as an open source operating system for the analysis and design of social processes and has been using them successfully for years.
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2018Aspects of knowledge
by Anke Bernau, Marilina Cesario, Hugh Magennis
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2016Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain
by Eva von Contzen, Anke Bernau, Anke Bernau
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August 2007Der tätowierte Hund
by Paul Maar, Anke Faust
In "Der tätowierte Hund" erweckt Paul Maar mit seiner grenzenlosen Fantasie eine außergewöhnliche Freundschaft zwischen einem Löwen und einem einzigartigen Hund zum Leben. Der Hund, dessen Körper mit bunten Bildern bedeckt ist, trifft im Urwald auf den Löwen. Diese Bilder sind nicht nur Schmuck, sondern jede Tätowierung erzählt eine eigene Geschichte. Nach anfänglicher Skepsis und einem Tauschgeschäft – ein Leberwurstbrot gegen Geschichten – beginnt der Hund, seine Abenteuer zu erzählen. Was folgt, ist eine Reihe von wunderbaren und ulkigen Geschichten, die den Löwen und die Leser gleichermaßen in ihren Bann ziehen. Diese Geschichten führen zu einem bunten Reigen von Erzählungen, die die Grenzen der Realität überschreiten und in eine Welt voller Fantasie und Humor entführen. "Der tätowierte Hund" ist Paul Maars Debütwerk für Kinder und wurde für seine Kreativität und seinen Einfallsreichtum mit einer Nominierung für den Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 1969 geehrt. Die Neuausgabe dieses fantastischen Romans wurde von Anke Faust wunderschön und fantasievoll in Collagetechnik illustriert, was die magische Welt der Geschichten visuell zum Leben erweckt. Dieses Buch ist ein Fest für die Fantasie und zeigt, wie aus einfachen Bildern durch die Kraft der Erzählung lebendige und fesselnde Geschichten entstehen können. Es ist ein Zeugnis von Paul Maars Fähigkeit, junge Leser und Zuhörer auf eine Reise voller Überraschungen und Entdeckungen mitzunehmen. Paul Maars fantastischer Debüt-Roman für Kinder: Ein Meilenstein in der Kinderliteratur, der die Fantasie anregt. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 1969: Anerkannte Qualität und zeitloser Charme. Wunderschön und fantasievoll illustriert von Anke Faust: Die Illustrationen in Collagetechnik bereichern die Erzählung und machen das Buch zu einem visuellen Erlebnis. Einzigartige Geschichten, die die Fantasie beflügeln: Jede Tätowierung erzählt eine eigene, fesselnde Geschichte. Ideal für Vorleser und junge Leser: Perfekt geeignet für gemeinsame Leseabende und zur Förderung der Lesefreude bei jungen Leser*innen ab 8 Jahren.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2016
Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain
by Eva von Contzen, Anke Bernau, Anke Bernau, Rebecca Mortimer
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2015Reading Robin Hood
Content, form and reception in the outlaw myth
by Stephen Knight, Anke Bernau
Reading Robin Hood explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice. This analysis of the whole sequence of the adventures of Robin Hood first explores the medieval tradition from early poems into the long-surviving sung ballads, and also two variant Robins: the Scottish version, here named Rabbie Hood, and gentrified Robin, the exiled Earl of Huntington, now partnered by Lady Marian. The nineteenth century re-imagined medieval Robin as modern - he loved nature, Marian, England, and the rights of the ordinary man - and in novels and especially films he has developed further, into an international figure of freedom, just as Marian's role has grown in a modern feminist context. The vigour of the Robin Hood myth still reproduces itself, constantly with new forms and new meanings. ;
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The ArtsJune 2021Medieval film
by Anke Bernau, Bettina Bildhauer
Medieval film explores theoretical questions about the ideological, artistic, emotional and financial investments inhering in cinematic renditions of the medieval period. What does it mean to create and watch a 'medieval film'? What is a medieval film and why are they successful? This is the first work that attempts to answer these questions, drawing, for instance, on film theory, postcolonial theory, cultural studies and the growing body of work on medievalism. Contributors investigate British, German, Italian, Australian, French, Swedish and American film, exploring topics such translation, temporality, film noir, framing and period film - and find the medieval lurking in inexpected corners. In addition it provides in-depth studies of individual films from different countries including The Birth of a Nation to Nosferatu, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Medieval Film will be of interest to medievalists working in disciplines including literature, history, to scholars working on film and in cultural studies. It will also be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and to an informed enthusiast in film or/and medieval culture.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Medieval film
by Anke Bernau, Bettina Bildhauer
Medieval film explores theoretical questions about the ideological, artistic, emotional and financial investments inhering in cinematic renditions of the medieval period. What does it mean to create and watch a 'medieval film'? What is a medieval film and why are they successful? This is the first work that attempts to answer these questions, drawing, for instance, on film theory, postcolonial theory, cultural studies and the growing body of work on medievalism. Contributors investigate British, German, Italian, Australian, French, Swedish and American film, exploring topics such translation, temporality, film noir, framing and period film - and find the medieval lurking in unexpected corners. In addition it provides in-depth studies of individual films from different countries including The Birth of a Nation to Nosferatu, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Medieval film will be of interest to medievalists working in disciplines including literature, history, art history, to scholars working on film and in cultural studies. It will also be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and to an informed enthusiast in film or/and medieval culture.
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2017Transporting Chaucer
by Anke Bernau, Helen Barr
Drawing on the work of British sculptor Antony Gormley, alongside more traditional literary scholarship, this book argues for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others. Chaucer's playfulness with textual history and chronology anticipates how his own work is figured in later - and earlier - texts. Responding to this, the book presents innovative readings of the relationships between medieval texts and early modern drama, literary texts and material culture. It re-energises conventional models of source and analogue study to reveal unexpected - and sometimes unsettling - literary cohabitations. At the same time, it exposes how associations between architecture, pilgrim practice, manuscript illustration and the soundscapes of dramatic performance reposition how we read Chaucer's oeuvre and what gets made of it. An invaluable resource for scholars and students of all levels with an interest in medieval English literary studies and early modern drama, Transporting Chaucer offers a new approach to how we encounter texts through time.
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2017Reading Robin Hood
Content, form and reception in the outlaw myth
by Anke Bernau, Stephen Knight
Reading Robin Hood explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the Middle Ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice. This analysis of the whole sequence of Robin Hood adventures begins with the medieval tradition, from early poems into the long-surviving sung ballads, and goes on to look at two variant Robins: the Scottish version, here named Rabbie Hood, and gentrified Robin, the exiled Earl of Huntington, now partnered by Lady Marian. The nineteenth century re-imagined medieval Robin as modern, a lover of nature, Marian, England and the rights of the ordinary man. In novels and especially films he has developed into an international figure of freedom, while Marian's role has grown in a modern feminist context. Even to this day, the Robin Hood myth continues to reproduce itself, constantly discovering new forms and new meanings.
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2010In Strange Countries: Middle English Literature and its Afterlife
Essays in memory of J. J. Anderson
by Anke Bernau, David Matthews
These essays by senior scholars in medieval studies celebrate the career of J.J. Anderson, editor, critic, and co-founder of the Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture series, who taught in medieval studies at the University of Manchester for forty years. The essays are rooted in medieval literature but frequently range beyond the confines of the Middle Ages. They reflect the breadth of Anderson's own scholarly interests, especially in drama and Arthurian literature. There is a particular focus on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, poems which preoccupied him throughout his scholarly life. There are also new reconsiderations of La?amon's Brut, Mirk's Festial, the Passion plays, and the manuscripts of the Pore Caitif. Moving beyond the traditional purview of medieval literature, several contributors trace the afterlives of medieval themes in later literature. These essays include a consideration of the twinned trajectories of the medieval heroes Robin Hood and King Arthur from medieval literature to modern television, a comparison of La?amon's Brut and Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and a recreation of the Bishop Blase procession which took place in industrial Bradford. Contributors are Rosamund Allen, Ralph Elliott, Alexandra Johnston, Stephen Knight, Peter Meredith, Susan Powell, Gillian Rudd, Alan Shelston, and Kalpen Trivedi. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2024Unfit
The COVID-19 crisis and the future of the NHS
by Hugh Pym
Reporting from the front lines of the pandemic, celebrated BBC journalist Hugh Pym takes readers on a gripping journey to the heart of the UK's COVID-19 crisis. He unearths shocking revelations about the failings of the British state and the Whitehall machine, shedding light on the consequences of woeful unpreparedness and misguided policies. This hard-hitting exposé draws on untold stories from the corridors of power, providing an insider's perspective on the drama, personalities and critical decision-making processes. Going beyond individual accounts, it presents a comprehensive assessment of the UK's preparedness, lockdown measures and response strategies. A tale of resilience and devastating consequences, Unfit challenges the very foundations of the UK's response to the pandemic, leaving no stone unturned in its quest for truth. Finally, it looks ahead to ask what is in store for the future of the NHS.
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2018The Knight and the Barrel (Le Chevalier au barisel)
by Anke Bernau, Adrian Tudor
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2020Language and imagination in the Gawain poems
by Anke Bernau, J. Anderson
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2018Water and fire
The myth of the flood in Anglo-Saxon England
by Anke Bernau, Daniel Anlezark
Noah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and flood myths survive in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the Anglo-Saxon imagination. Focusing on literary representations, it contributes to our understanding of how Christian Anglo-Saxons perceived their place in the cosmos. For them, history unfolded between the primeval Deluge and a future - perhaps imminent - flood of fire, which would destroy the world. This study reveals both an imaginative diversity and shared interpretations of the Flood myth. Anglo-Saxons saw the Flood as a climactic event in God's ongoing war with his more rebellious creatures, but they also perceived the mystery of redemption through baptism. Anlezark studies a range of texts against their historical background, and discusses shifting emphases in the way the Flood was interpreted for diverse audiences. The book concludes with a discussion of Beowulf, relating the epic poem's presentation of the Flood myth to that of other Anglo-Saxon texts.
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August 2003Ein Schaf fürs Leben
by Maritgen Matter, Anke Faust, Sylke Hachmeister
In "Ein Schaf fürs Leben" von Maritgen Matter entfaltet sich die ungewöhnliche Freundschaft zwischen einem hungrigen Wolf und einem arglosen Schaf an einem kalten Wintertag. Ursprünglich vom Wolf als leichte Beute angesehen, überredet er das Schaf zu einer gemeinsamen Schlittenfahrt durch die verschneite Landschaft, mit dem verborgenen Ziel, das Schaf am Ende der Reise zu verspeisen. Doch während ihrer abenteuerlichen Fahrt durch die Winternacht, die sich durch lustige und unerwartete Begebenheiten auszeichnet, entwickelt sich zwischen den beiden eine tiefe Verbindung, die den ursprünglichen Plan des Wolfes in Frage stellt. Die Reise nimmt schließlich eine überraschende Wendung, die das gegenseitige Verständnis und die neu entdeckte Freundschaft zwischen Schaf und Wolf in den Mittelpunkt rückt. Dieses von der Kritik gefeierte Kinderbuch, ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2004, zeichnet sich durch seine aufwändigen Illustrationen in Collagetechnik aus, die die Geschichte für Leser jeden Alters zum Leben erwecken. Maritgen Matters Erzählung über Freundschaft, Vertrauen und die unerwarteten Wendungen des Lebens spricht sowohl Kinder als auch Erwachsene an und macht "Ein Schaf fürs Leben" zu einem unvergesslichen Leseerlebnis. Die Geschichte wird durch die kunstvollen Bilder von Anke Faust ergänzt, die den Text nicht nur visuell untermalen, sondern auch die Atmosphäre der Erzählung auf besondere Weise einfangen. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2004: Anerkennung für herausragende literarische Qualität. Tiefgründige Erzählung über Freundschaft und Vertrauen: Bietet wertvolle Lebenslektionen für junge Leser. Aufwändige Illustrationen in Collagetechnik: Machen das Buch auch visuell zu einem Genuss und fördern die Vorstellungskraft. Für Leser*innen jeden Alters: Ansprechend sowohl für Kinder ab 6 Jahren als auch für Erwachsene, die die tiefere Bedeutung hinter der Geschichte schätzen. Humor und Weisheit: Eine Geschichte, die sowohl unterhält als auch zum Nachdenken anregt, begleitet von humorvollen und zugleich nachdenklichen Dialogen.
