scholarly journals The Novel “Beyond the Blue Border”: Insight into the Past of the “Ossis” for the Modern Teenagers

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-162
Author(s):  
Yulia Isapchuk
Keyword(s):  
West Germany ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Juvenile Literature ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Aggressive Interference ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
Insight Into

The article analyses the debut historical juvenile novel by the German writer Dorit Linke (b. 1971) “Beyond the Blue Border” (“Jenseits der blauen Grenze”, 2014) in the aspect of the literary, historical and pedagogical potential of the text. The main events take place in the Baltic Sea in August 1989 when youths tried to escape from Rostock to West Germany with flashbacks into their life in the GDR. The connection between the periods of the late 1960s and 1980s is emphasized. It was a time of formation or changing the worldview of the main novel’s characters, which belong to three different generations: 1933 (grandfather), 1968 (parents) and 1989 (teenagers). The title of the book points to a kind of marine locus, representing the key stereotypes about the element of water and the inner state of the heroes. The sea is regarded as a constitutive topos, which not only performs the traditional background function of nature but also turns into an artistic image of a literary text. The narrative from the perspective of a teenage girl makes it possible to explain better to the reader of the appropriate age the motives of the incredible act of their peers and helps to get insight into the everyday life of the “Ossi” (residents of East Germany) in contrast to the “Wessi” (West Germans). In this way, the modern German historical juvenile literature demonstrates the relevance for its recipients, performing the cognitive and didactic functions without aggressive interference in the minds of adolescents.

Formation, translocation and resolution of Holliday junctions during homologous genetic recombination

1995 ◽  
Vol 347 (1319) ◽  
pp. 21-25 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Genetic Recombination ◽  
Holliday Junctions ◽  
The Novel ◽  
E Coli ◽  
The Past ◽  
Endonucleolytic Cleavage ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Made In

Over the past three or four years, great strides have been made in our understanding of the proteins involved in recombination and the mechanisms by which recombinant molecules are formed. This review summarizes our current understanding of the process by focusing on recent studies of proteins involved in the later steps of recombination in bacteria. In particular, biochemical investigation of the in vitro properties of the E. coli RuvA, RuvB and RuvC proteins have provided our first insight into the novel molecular mechanisms by which Holliday junctions are moved along DNA and then resolved by endonucleolytic cleavage.

Contacts between the Late Roman Empire and North-Central Europe

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 31-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Bursche
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
European Continent ◽  
North Central ◽  
The Past ◽  
Vistula River ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The Baltic

The concept of Central Europe is understood here to cover the geographical centre of the European continent (i.e. the territory between the Elbe, Bug and Neman rivers, that is, eastern Germany, Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia and Lithuania), formerly treated in much of the English-speaking world as ‘Eastern Europe’. In the past six years, however, this area has been moving closer to the West. This paper shall concentrate on the region north of the Carpathian mountains, particularly the Vistula river-basin and Scandinavia (without Norway), in other words the territory round the Baltic Sea.

Whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus (L.)) landings in the Baltic Sea during the past 100 years: combining official datasets and grey literature

2013 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 133-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aare Verliin ◽  
Lauri Saks ◽  
Roland Svirgsden ◽  
Markus Vetemaa ◽  
Mehis Rohtla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Coregonus Lavaretus ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Baltic

Screening the East, Probing the Past: The Baltic Sea in Contemporary German Cinema

2004 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-48
Author(s):  
Alexandra Ludewig
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Breeding Ground ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
The Past ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
German Cinema ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Artistic Heritage

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, unification, and the subsequent reinventionof the nation, German filmmakers have revisited theircountry’s cinematic traditions with a view to placing themselves creativelyin the tradition of its intellectual and artistic heritage. One ofthe legacies that has served as a point of a new departure has beenthe Heimatfilm, or homeland film. As a genre it is renowned for itsrestorative stance, as it often features dialect and the renunciation ofcurrent topicality, advocates traditional gender roles, has antimodernovertones of rural, pastoral, often alpine, images, and expressesa longing for premodern times, for “the good old days” that supposedlystill exist away from the urban centres. The Nazis used Heimatfilms in an effort “to idealize ‘Bauerntum’ as the site of desirable traditionsand stereotyped the foreign (most often the urban) as thebreeding ground for moral decay.”

Alltagsgeschichte: A New Social History “From Below”?

1989 ◽  
Vol 22 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 394-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Crew
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Past History ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Book Market ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Masses

There is an insatiable demand in the Federal Republic for accounts of the past that allow contemporary Germans to identify with the forgotten joys and sorrows of ordinary people. Just about anything “thrown onto the (book)market” may include the word Alltag in its title. Trade union and SPD adult education programs, Volkshochschulen and youth associations teach “lay historians” how to retrieve the traces of their “lost past.” “History workshops” (Geschichtswerkstätten), inspired by the leftist-populism of the Greens and often dedicated to a politically subversive reconstruction of forgotten local histories, have sprung up all over West Germany. But despite this wave ofpopular enthusiasm, Alltagsgeschichte has not degenerated, as some critics feared, into an “entertaining, but naive and sentimental, low-German mini-series” Serious practitioners of Alltagsgeschichte have never been cintent to engage in the unexamined retrieval of the most obscure details of the everyday lives of the masses (die Vielen). Indeed, Alltagsgeschichte has challenged the theoretical and methodological hegemony of Strukturgeschichte within the German historical “guild” (Zunft) and it has campaigned for the construction of a radically new paradigm of social historical research. Alltagsgeschichte originally emerged from the dissatisfactions of a younger generation of social historians with the ”structural” social history (Strukturgeschichte) constructed by Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Jurgen Kocka, and the Bielefeld “school” in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Regional differences in winter sea level variations in the Baltic Sea for the past 200 yr

2008 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 384-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgit Hünicke ◽  
Jürg Luterbacher ◽  
Andreas Pauling ◽  
Eduardo Zorita
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sea Level Variations ◽  
The Baltic

scholarly journals Sedimentary alkalinity generation and long-term alkalinity development in the Baltic Sea

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Gustafsson ◽  
Mathilde Hagens ◽  
Xiaole Sun ◽  
Daniel C. Reed ◽  
Christoph Humborg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Reactive Transport ◽  
Total Alkalinity ◽  
Biogeochemical Model ◽  
Co2 Uptake ◽  
Low Oxygen ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
The Past ◽  
Oxygen Conditions ◽  
The Baltic

Abstract. Enhanced release of alkalinity from the seafloor, principally driven by anaerobic degradation of organic matter under low-oxygen conditions and associated secondary redox reactions, can increase the carbon dioxide (CO2) buffering capacity of seawater and therefore oceanic CO2 uptake. The Baltic Sea has undergone severe changes in oxygenation state and total alkalinity (TA) over the past decades. The link between these concurrent changes has not yet been investigated in detail. A recent system-wide TA budget constructed for the past 50 years using BALTSEM, a coupled physical-biogeochemical model for the whole Baltic Sea area, revealed an unknown TA source. Here we use BALTSEM in combination with observational data and one-dimensional reactive transport modelling of sedimentary processes in the Fårö Deep, a deep Baltic Sea basin, to test whether sulfate reduction coupled to iron (Fe) sulfide burial can explain the missing TA source in the Baltic Proper. We calculated that this burial can account for 26 % of the missing source in this basin, with the remaining TA possibly originating from unknown river inputs or submarine groundwater discharge. We also show that temporal variability in the input of Fe to the sediments since the 1970s drives changes in sulfur burial in the Fårö Deep, suggesting that Fe availability is the ultimate limiting factor for TA generation under anoxic conditions. The implementation of projected climate change and two nutrient load scenarios for the 21st century in BALTSEM shows that reducing nutrient loads will improve deep water oxygen conditions, but at the expense of lower surface water TA concentrations, CO2 buffering capacities and faster acidification. When these changes additionally lead to a decrease in Fe inputs to the sediment of the deep basins, anaerobic TA generation will be reduced even further, thus exacerbating acidification. This work highlights that Fe dynamics play a key role in the release of TA from sediments where Fe sulfide formation is limited by Fe availability, as exemplified for the Baltic Sea. Moreover, it demonstrates that burial of Fe sulfides should be included in TA budgets of low oxygen basins.

scholarly journals Sea Level Dynamics and Coastal Erosion in the Baltic Sea Region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Weisse ◽  
Inga Dailidiene ◽  
Birgit Hünicke ◽  
Kimmo Kahma ◽  
Kristine Madsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Coastal Erosion ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Coastline Change ◽  
Baltic Sea Region ◽  
The Baltic

Abstract. There are a large number of geophysical processes affecting sea level dynamics and coastal erosion in the Baltic Sea region. These processes operate on a large range of spatial and temporal scales and are observed in many other coastal regions worldwide. Together with the outstanding number of long data records, this makes the Baltic Sea a unique laboratory for advancing our knowledge on interactions between processes steering sea level and erosion in a climate change context. Processes contributing to sea level dynamics and coastal erosion in the Baltic Sea include the still ongoing visco-elastic response of the Earth to the last deglaciation, contributions from global and North Atlantic mean sea level changes, or from wind waves affecting erosion and sediment transport along the subsiding southern Baltic Sea coast. Other examples are storm surges, seiches, or meteotsunamis contributing primarily to sea level extremes. All such processes have undergone considerable variations and changes in the past. For example, over the past about 50 years, the Baltic absolute (geocentric) mean sea level rose at a rate slightly larger than the global average. In the northern parts, due to vertical land movements, relative sea level decreased. Sea level extremes are strongly linked to variability and changes in the large-scale atmospheric circulation. Patterns and mechanisms contributing to erosion and accretion strongly depend on hydrodynamic conditions and their variability. For large parts of the sedimentary shores of the Baltic Sea, the wave climate and the angle at which the waves approach the nearshore are the dominant factors, and coastline changes are highly sensitive to even small variations in these driving forces. Consequently, processes contributing to Baltic sea level dynamics and coastline change are expected to vary and to change in the future leaving their imprint on future Baltic sea level and coastline change and variability. Because of the large number of contributing processes, their relevance for understanding global figures, and the outstanding data availability, we argue that global sea level research and research on coastline changes may greatly benefit from research undertaken in the Baltic Sea.

scholarly journals Sedimentary alkalinity generation and long-term alkalinity development in the Baltic Sea

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Gustafsson ◽  
Mathilde Hagens ◽  
Xiaole Sun ◽  
Daniel C. Reed ◽  
Christoph Humborg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Reactive Transport ◽  
Total Alkalinity ◽  
Biogeochemical Model ◽  
Co2 Uptake ◽  
Low Oxygen ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
The Past ◽  
Oxygen Conditions ◽  
The Baltic

Abstract. Enhanced release of alkalinity from the seafloor, principally driven by anaerobic degradation of organic matter under low-oxygen conditions and associated secondary redox reactions, can increase the carbon dioxide (CO2) buffering capacity of seawater and therefore oceanic CO2 uptake. The Baltic Sea has undergone severe changes in oxygenation state and total alkalinity (TA) over the past decades. The link between these concurrent changes has not yet been investigated in detail. A recent system-wide TA budget constructed for the past 50 years using BALTSEM, a coupled physical–biogeochemical model for the whole Baltic Sea area revealed an unknown TA source. Here we use BALTSEM in combination with observational data and one-dimensional reactive-transport modeling of sedimentary processes in the Fårö Deep, a deep Baltic Sea basin, to test whether sulfate (SO42-) reduction coupled to iron (Fe) sulfide burial can explain the missing TA source in the Baltic Proper. We calculated that this burial can account for up to 26 % of the missing source in this basin, with the remaining TA possibly originating from unknown river inputs or submarine groundwater discharge. We also show that temporal variability in the input of Fe to the sediments since the 1970s drives changes in sulfur (S) burial in the Fårö Deep, suggesting that Fe availability is the ultimate limiting factor for TA generation under anoxic conditions. The implementation of projected climate change and two nutrient load scenarios for the 21st century in BALTSEM shows that reducing nutrient loads will improve deep water oxygen conditions, but at the expense of lower surface water TA concentrations, CO2 buffering capacities and faster acidification. When these changes additionally lead to a decrease in Fe inputs to the sediment of the deep basins, anaerobic TA generation will be reduced even further, thus exacerbating acidification. This work highlights that Fe dynamics plays a key role in the release of TA from sediments where Fe sulfide formation is limited by Fe availability, as exemplified by the Baltic Sea. Moreover, it demonstrates that burial of Fe sulfides should be included in TA budgets of low-oxygen basins.

scholarly journals Hypoxic areas, density-dependence and food limitation drive the body condition of a heavily exploited marine fish predator

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 160416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Casini ◽  
Filip Käll ◽  
Martin Hansson ◽  
Maris Plikshs ◽  
Tatjana Baranova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Density Dependence ◽  
Body Condition ◽  
Food Limitation ◽  
Biological Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Fish Predator ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Baltic

Investigating the factors regulating fish condition is crucial in ecology and the management of exploited fish populations. The body condition of cod ( Gadus morhua ) in the Baltic Sea has dramatically decreased during the past two decades, with large implications for the fishery relying on this resource. Here, we statistically investigated the potential drivers of the Baltic cod condition during the past 40 years using newly compiled fishery-independent biological data and hydrological observations. We evidenced a combination of different factors operating before and after the ecological regime shift that occurred in the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s. The changes in cod condition related to feeding opportunities, driven either by density-dependence or food limitation, along the whole period investigated and to the fivefold increase in the extent of hypoxic areas in the most recent 20 years. Hypoxic areas can act on cod condition through different mechanisms related directly to species physiology, or indirectly to behaviour and trophic interactions. Our analyses found statistical evidence for an effect of the hypoxia-induced habitat compression on cod condition possibly operating via crowding and density-dependent processes. These results furnish novel insights into the population dynamics of Baltic Sea cod that can aid the management of this currently threatened population.

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