Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland

Research in Germanic Studies 1996-97

© The University of Aberdeen and The Institute of Germanic Studies 1996


THESES IN PROGRESS

C HISTORY, SOCIETY, INSTITUTIONS

[History, politics, sociology: to 1900][ From 1900 ][Business and management studies since 1900]
[The Press, the media, the arts]


C HISTORY, SOCIETY, INSTITUTIONS

C 1 History, politics, sociology
 C 1.1 To 1900

German national identity (PhD Sheffield) K. Wilds

The concept of leadership in the political and cultural discourse of 19th and 20th century Germany (PhD Aston) K. Bradshaw

The picture of England in Fin-de-siècle Vienna (PhD Aston) E. Ertl

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C 1.2 From 1900

The concept of leadership in the political & cultural discourse of 19th and 20th century Germany (PhD Aston) K. Bradshaw

The picture of England in Fin-de-siècle Vienna (PhD Aston) E. Ertl

Communitarianism in Germany (M Phil Cardiff) A. Reiche

Social authoritarianism and the Left (PhD Sheffield) P. Thompson

The nature and origin of Democratic Liberalism in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1945 (PhD Aston) M. Cupples

The development of conservative and extreme right-wing thought in Germany from the inception of the unified state to the present (PhD Birmingham) A. Statham

Unifying women: a comparative study of the effects of unification on women secondary school teachers at selected schools in Baden-Württemberg and Thüringen (PhD Nottingham Trent) C. Basten

European police cooperation: a case study (PhD Aberdeen) A. Naughton

Youth, ‘nature’ and ‘community’ in Britain and Germany 1916-1936 (PhD Birmingham) M. Mertens

Environmentalist thought in contemporary Germany (PhD Keele) I. Blühdorn

The economic transformation of post-communist Germany: British firms in the Leipzig region (PhD Keele) K. Sucher

Language and ideology of the PDS (PhD Durham) M. Denison

Mediations between hermeneutics and critical theory in modern German thought (PhD London, KC) A. Goepel

Hope, faith and apathy: the establishment of the East German dictatorship in Thuringia 1945-1968 (PhD London, UC) M. Allinson

Constructing socialism at the grass-roots: popular opinion, conflict and competence in the GDR, 1952-1961 (PhD London, UC) C. Ross

Intellectual origins and legacy of the Free German Youth (M Phil Sheffield) J. Rhys

Youth in the GDR (M Phil London, UC) M. Fenemore

Social constructions of motherhood in state socialism and capitalism: the former GDR – a case study (PhD Bath) C. Sourbut

A study of Erich Honecker with particular reference to the Reformist movement emanating from the Soviet Union (M Phil Exeter) H. Dexter

The role of the Protestant Church in the ‘Wende’ in the GDR (PhD Reading) S. Brown

The withdrawal of Soviet troops from East Germany: process and impact (PhD Keele) J. Gulliver

The ‘Stasi’ legacy: the case of the ‘Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter’ (PhD Glasgow) B. Miller

Process of unification: Germany, Italy, and Europe in comparison (PhD London, UC) B. de la Serna-Lopez

The Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands since 1989 (PhD Liverpool) J. K. Teschner

Bündnis 90/Die Grünen: a case study of political alliances in Brandenburg 1990-1994 (PhD UWE) B. Harper

Concepts of nature and critique of reason in the German ecology movement (PhD Keele) I. Blühdorn

Germany and eastward expansion of the EU (PhD Reading) L. Strybol

Konrad Adenauer 1955-1963 (MA University of Kent at Canterbury) D. Senior

Wolf Biermann’s ‘Wende’ (PhD Liverpool) D. Nolan

Der Mensch mit den modernen Nerven: Adolf Loos’s Kulturkritik (PhD Glasgow) J. Stewart

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C 2 Business and management studies since 1900

German business and the New Right (PhD Sheffield) D. Phillips

Trade union and labour relations in Germany (M Phil Sheffield) C. Annesley

The transformation of the PDS (PhD Birmingham & CREES) T. Oppenkowski

Analysis of a corpus of contemporary German economics and management discourse (PhD Birmingham) A. Mackison

Ethics in purchasing (PhD London, KC) L. Preuss

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C 3 The press, the media, the arts

Neue Sachlichkeit: a German art movement (M Phil Sunderland) S. B. Plumb

The role of the media in German unification (PhD Swansea) K. von Oppen

Changes in the media in Eastern Germany since reunification (PhD Sheffield) J. McHaffie

The image of Great Britain and the British in German ‘bürgerliche Zeitschriften’ of the inter-war period (M Phil Nottingham Trent) B. Jung

Images of Germany in British public opinion: their relationship of diversities in the development of specific forms of political culture (PhD Oxford Brookes) M. L. Luginsland

Technology and mass culture in the writing of Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1956-1993 (PhD Southampton) A. King

A phenomenological analysis of visual expressivity in European film (PhD Edinburgh) D. Macrae

A critical history of German cinema 1988-1995 (PhD Southampton) J. Legge

The standing in Great Britain of the German cinema after 1945 (PhD Reading) J. Lembach

Germany and the horror film (PhD Warwick) R. Kiss

Gendered and national identity in DEFA films (PhD Nottingham) J. Gregson

Female images and gender relations in DEFA films (PhD Reading) A. Rinke

The perception of self and other in the mass media in East and West Germany after unification (PhD Strathclyde) S. Schrabback

Representation of young people in the films of Helmut Dziuba (M Phil/PhD UWE) G. Müller

The Plebiscite of the Consumers: Hans Magnus Enzensberger on media, culture and democracy (PhD Southampton) A. King

The interplay of media: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films (PhD Edinburgh) U. Militz

On Werner Herzog’s films (PhD Edinburgh) E. Ballin

The German state and film production: the example of Oskar Messter, 1896-1943 (PhD Reading) T. Carrozza

Edgar Reitz’ Heimat (PhD Edinburgh) M. Sobhani

Histories, mythologies and fictions in Edgar Reitz’s Heimat (PhD Manchester) R. J. Palfreyman

Schnitzler’s Der Junge Medardus as drama and film (PhD Cambridge) H. Bachmann

Alternative film mode as represented in the work of Straub-Huillet (PhD Edinburgh) U. Böser

Sound and image in Wim Wenders’ films (PhD Edinburgh) A. Graf

The aesthetics of documentary film: Klaus Wildenhahn (PhD Edinburgh) G. Lorenz

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