Thomas Bernhard and the air crash on Tettelham in 1944. "It was a spectacle of unrelieved tragedy".

In his autobiographical essay "Ein Kind" (A Child) the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931-1998)describes the downing of a heavy World War II USAIRFORCE bomber at Tettelham near Traunstein in Upper Bavaria in 1944. The scene of the crash is now headed by a chapel and some reminiscenses of the crews' fate. Although the event is still vivid in the local history, it was not known that Thomas Bernhard had been a keen eyewitness

Evaluating the impact of deviating technical standards on business processes, trade and innovation

Surrounding the increasingly intense discussions about the emergence of new global standardization regimes in context of China’s rise as a dominant standardization power, there has been much talk about countries purposefully using deviating national standards to impose trade barriers. The discussion of whether and to what degree technical standards deviate from international standards and how this affects business, trade, innovation and the standard system is of global relevance. As research about the impact of deviating technical standards is still strongly underrepresented in the academic community, this research analyses the different “degrees” of deviation and the respective impact of minor or negligible deviation and strong deviation on businesses trading in a global context. By using a mixed research method based on literature review, analysis of standard documents and semi-structured interviews, this study discusses peculiarities and challenges associated with deviating technical standards. This is of relevance with regards to international trade and especially trade with countries that became increasingly important players in the international standardization regime. Our research will therefore add further insights to a better understanding of the close linkage between economic growth and standardization. This paper further highlights how deviating technical standards impact companies around the globe and how these companies could use a newly developed risk indicator to not only engage in the standard game but also to better assess consequences.&nbsp

„A Hund is er scho’“. Die Migration eines Ausdrucks und seine bayerisch-ungarische Transfergeschichte

„Hund“ als Schimpfwort scheint universal zu sein. In Bayern jedoch ist die Wortfolge „…aber a Hundt’ is er scho’!“ durchaus eine Respektsbezeichnung. Die Erklärung dafür sucht der Historiker Michael Weithmann, der Autor des bekannten Bandes "Die Donau: Geschichte eines europäischen Flusses", indem er bayerische Sprachgeschichte und Ereignisse aus dem Mittelalter miteinander verbindet

Lawrence of Bavaria. The english writer D.H. Lawrence in Bavaria and beyond. Collected Essays. Reisen David Herbert Lawrences in Bayern und in die Alpenländer

The collection of various texts on D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) represents the English writer’s first journey abroad having led the young and receptive teacher - already deeply influenced by German philosophy - into Bavaria and the Tyrol. Vividly featured in his - during his lifetime unpublished - novel "Mr Noon" the stay in Germany and Bavaria in the years 1912 and 1913 and the people he met there were to be the plot of Lawrence’s main works. In Munich Lawrence and his later German wife Frieda von Richthofen (1879-1956) were part of the so-called Schwabing-Bohème. In these circles of artists, poets, social-reformes, as well as of heroines of free love, anarchists and early fascists the author received his ideas about sex and erotics, which were performed in his famous novel "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" in 1927/1928. Especially the impact of the Austrian Doctor Otto Gross (1877-1920), a former lover of Frieda Lawrence, who tried to connect Friedrich Nietzsche’s "Will to Power" and Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis, on Lawrence’s work is a remarkable criterion. The studies also follow Lawrence’s tracks into the Tyrol and his and Frieda’s wandering across the Alps to Northern Italy (1912-1913), an adventure playing the real setting of his novel "Women in Love" of 1920 and described in his essays "Twilight in Italy" (1916)