... veterinarian to zoological director to global conservation activist, the article shows that the Malthusian fears that underpinned Grzimek's plea for national parks in sub-Saharan Africa that segregated people and wildlife had their origins in an environmental Kulturkritik born of post-Nazi and Cold War...

... East. Bernhard Gissibl and Thaddeus Sunseri, in turn, have highlighted the continuities that link the German plans for the Białowieża Forest back to pre–World War I colonial visions and forward to German contributions to the establishment of the Serengeti National Park. 10 To put it bluntly...

... sponsored by European and North American nongovernmental organizations has often ignited protest and resistance move- ments. Old-style conservation that focuses on creating wildlife reserves and national parks to protect endangered plants and animals has often displaced local communities...

... panels that comprised the dome, and a pedestal made of reinforced concrete. Like Stülerʼs National Gallery, Tautʼs expressionist museum cited the temple as building type. But Tautʼs model was not the Parthenon but the pagoda-like towers of Luna Park, a modern amusement park located blocks from...

... , 2012 . Parks Lisa . “ Field Mapping: What Is the ‘Media’ of Media Studies? ” Television and New Media 21 , no. 6 ( 2020 ): 642 – 49 . Parks Lisa , and Starosielski Nicole , eds. Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures . Urbana : University of Illinois...

...Matthew Philpotts The first major government building to be completed in Berlin by the National Socialist regime, later the House of Ministries in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and now the seat of the Federal Finance Ministry, the Reich Aviation Ministry is an archetypal palimpsest site...

...- ian effects this modernity might have had” (71). This shift is epitomized by his observation of the changed imagery on the roller coaster in the Berlin Luna Park: in 1931 the Alps, symbolizing nature and nationalism, replaced the modernity of the Manhattan skyline that he had commented...

... and thus a member of one of its diaspora nationalities. Despite their formal and procedural differences, both artists promoted photomontage as the premier agitational weapon of world communism and Soviet propaganda, contra the rise of documentary photography as well as various modes of realist painting...

... of the Silbersteins’ actual destination, which transforms the unknown terror of the ghettos and camps into a sort of amusement park populated by giant teddy bears, redirects the traumatic impact of the knowledge of what is happening to the Silbersteins, allowing her to preserve her son’s innocence while hinting...

... political tradition and what Unger understood to be its inability to overcome the forms of the nation-state and capitalist society. 9 Unger’s lectures appear to have left a deep impression on Benjamin. His praise of Politics and Metaphysics appears in a letter to his friend Gershom Scholem from...

.... Moreover, by looking at peripheries of German culture, scholars can break out of the straitjacket of national narratives and rediscover the transnational dimensions inherent in German history. Bukovina, a multiethnic former province of the Habsburg Empire that now spans the border between Ukraine...

...: Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit?”). 49 In this lecture Adorno explores how, in his view, postwar Germany should treat its past and think about the horrors that took place under the National Socialist regime. Exploring the difficulties and dangers inherent in such a project, he develops a pedagogy, based...

... und seine Schlösser (Ofœcial Guide to Berlin and the Surrounding Areas of Potsdam and Its Castles), was quick to follow in 1928. The city boasted a multitude of tourist attractions—the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, the royal palaces, the Trep- tower and Lietzensee Parks, and the evening...

..., is that when applied outside London one might very well call attention to oneself by dressing as a gentleman: “This basic principle can- not be practiced everywhere. Wearing a coat which remains unnoticed in Hyde Park, you would draw a great deal of attention in Peking, Sansibar, and Saint Stephenʼs...

... Press . Donahue Neil H. , ed. 1995 . Invisible Cathedrals: The Expressionist Art History of Wilhelm Worringer . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press . Geulen Eva . 2002 . Das Ende der Kunst: Lesarten eines Gerüchts nach Hegel . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp...

... national parks in Africa on German aware- ness of environmental issues, but gives equal attention to how Grzimek also claimed that the African lands were “common property” of the world—but not of the people residing there. Though Grzimek’s ecological efforts for Africa created “a global...

... to possess liberating capacities: achieving power in the air was supposed to unite the nation and raise Germany’s position in the world, whereas other world powers would be an obstruction on land and at sea. See, e.g., Ernst Jünger, ed., Luftfahrt ist not! (Leipzig: Protektor des deutschen...

... in a park for the first time in a long while. Using walking sticks, they stroll arm in arm beneath the trees, speaking with each other in French while Radlmaier’s voice off-screen calls out instructions in German. The two men are Frédéric Moreau and Deslauriers, childhood friends from Gustave Flaubert’s...

... stands in for public outdoor spaces like alleys, shopping areas, parking lots, and vacant lots. The urban street is one of the “symptomatic sites of moder- nity” (“Tracking,” 614) and crucial to the cinematic imaginary. Kracauer, for example, argues that films “evoke a reality more inclusive than...

.... We see the Turkish Market, one of Kreuzberg’s big tourist attractions, where Zach seizes the opportunity to practice his newly acquired Turkish vocabulary with the local vendors. We see him strolling through a Turkish supermarket and buying “Cola Turka,” which he sips on a sun-lit park bench. Aziza’s...