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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Uli Linke
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415921220
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Uli Linke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135962804
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Karl Eric Toepfer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520206632
"A massive achievement. . . . Toepfer respects the body, wants to understand movement as the primary medium of ideas, and gives women the central role they actually played in this aesthetic and intellectual discourse."Marcia B. Siegel, author of The Shapes of Change"
Author : Jens Richard Giersdorf
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 029928963X
The Body of the People is the first comprehensive study of dance and choreography in East Germany. More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jens Richard Giersdorf investigates a national dance history in the German Democratic Republic, from its founding as a Communist state that supplanted the Soviet zone of occupation in 1949 through the aftermath of its collapse forty years later, examining complex themes of nationhood, ideology, resistance, and diaspora through an innovative mix of archival research, critical theory, personal narrative, and performance analysis. Giersdorf looks closely at uniquely East German dance forms—including mass exercise events, national folk dances, Marxist-Leninist visions staged by the dance ensemble of the armed forces, the vast amateur dance culture, East Germany’s version of Tanztheater, and socialist alternatives to rock ‘n’ roll—to demonstrate how dance was used both as a form of corporeal utopia and of embodied socialist propaganda and indoctrination. The Body of the People also explores the artists working in the shadow of official culture who used dance and movement to critique and resist state power, notably Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Arila Siegert, and Fine Kwiatkowski. Giersdorf considers a myriad of embodied responses to the Communist state even after reunification, analyzing the embodiment of the fall of the Berlin Wall in the works of Jo Fabian and Sasha Waltz, and the diasporic traces of East German culture abroad, exemplified by the Chilean choreographer Patricio Bunster.
Author : Bernard Ray
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 3755431424
Gaining muscle and losing fat requires precision engineering. It should come as no surprise then that the Germans — who brought us the diesel, engine, electron microscope, and Heidi Klum — pioneered it. According to legend, during the Cold War, an Eastern Bloc scientist defected to West Germany, where he conducted experiments on weight training for body recomposition. His team found that pairing upper- and lower-body exercises, performing moderate rep ranges, and limiting rest between sets led to increases in muscle size and fat loss. This kind of training has come to be called German Body Comp (GBC), and it’s a primary go-to template for trainers who need to whip clients into shape fast. The German Body Comp Program has approached the weight loss idea from a complete different point of view and that aerobics are not essential to lose fat and at the same time enjoy maximum cardiovascular health. If you desire to build muscle and burn adequate fats while enjoying maximum cardiovascular health, then this book is perfect for you. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW
Author : Michael Hau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2003-04-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226319768
From the 1890s to the 1930s, a growing number of Germans began to scrutinize and discipline their bodies in a utopian search for perfect health and beauty. Some became vegetarians, nudists, or bodybuilders, while others turned to alternative medicine or eugenics. In The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany, Michael Hau demonstrates why so many men and women were drawn to these life reform movements and examines their tremendous impact on German society and medicine. Hau argues that the obsession with personal health and fitness was often rooted in anxieties over professional and economic success, as well as fears that modern industrialized civilization was causing Germany and its people to degenerate. He also examines how different social groups gave different meanings to the same hygienic practices and aesthetic ideals. What results is a penetrating look at class formation in pre-Nazi Germany that will interest historians of Europe and medicine and scholars of culture and gender.
Author : Nora Krug
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1476796637
* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal This “ingenious reckoning with the past” (The New York Times), by award-winning artist Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her family’s wartime history in Nazi Germany. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement; though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it. After twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. In this extraordinary quest, “Krug erases the boundaries between comics, scrapbooking, and collage as she endeavors to make sense of 20th-century history, the Holocaust, her German heritage, and her family's place in it all” (The Boston Globe). A highly inventive, “thoughtful, engrossing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) graphic memoir, Belonging “packs the power of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David Small’s Stitches” (NPR.org).
Author : Marion E. P. de Ras
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0415182557
This volume is an insightful social and cultural history of girls in the German youth movements in the pre-Nazi era.
Author : William Armstrong Fairburn
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Germany
ISBN :
Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Church buildings
ISBN :