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Manche Auseinandersetzungen innerhalb einer Zivilgesellschaft werden schnell sehr emotional geführt und ziviler Ungehorsam wird als probates und/oder (einzig?) effektives Mittel zum Erreichen oder zur Abwehr bestimmter Ziele angesehen. Hierfür stehen etwa die „68er“, „Brokdorf“, „Gorleben“, „Hambacher Forst“, „Black Lives Matter“, „Fridays for Future“ und ganz aktuell die Aktionen der „Letzten Generation“. Personen mit unterschiedlichen Wertvorstellungen begegnen sich nicht nur friedlich und unvoreingenommen im Diskurs. Die Grenzen des Rechtsstaats werden ausgetestet. Doch wo verlaufen sie? Wahrnehmung berechtigter Interessen durch friedliche Sitzblockade...

Against the background of globalization, increasingly saturated markets, changing customer needs and constant change, ever greater demands are placed on the provision of services (of goods and services) and thus also on the work performance of employees and managers. Quality, service, reliability and innovation are becoming increasingly important. These services (performance and knowledge work) determine the competitiveness of the company. In addition, the success of management is increasingly determined by the correct, future-oriented approach to phenomena such as complexity, dynamics...

The idea is the origin of successful action. Idea management forms an important basis of innovation management. Ideas management and the associated BVW company suggestion scheme are "idea machines" and important sources for new ideas and improvements. Companies should not miss the opportunity to collect and use ideas and suggestions for improvement from employees, customers, suppliers and other groups. A holistic, integrated management concept is required for successful idea management. The integrated idea management has an effect far beyond the...

Since its beginnings, the history of opera has been shaped by adaptations of popular subjects and literary material. But according to what rules do such opera adaptations work? Which dramaturgical means are used in the transformative process of adaptation and what are the consequences for the original template? ​Based on the Danish opera Lulu by Friedrich Daniel Rudolph Kuhlau, first performed in Copenhagen in 1824, the adaptation of a narrative text is examined on a textual and musical level. In...

content Mountain hiking as an option at school is not yet a very common activity, although hiking can be traced back thousands of years. Hiking days at school often do not take place as classic “hikes”, but are used as general days out to museums or cinemas. Exercise in nature is particularly important for young people who grow up in a media world that is far removed from nature and spend many hours of their school days sitting.Based on this...

"Together we are changing the rules of pornography." This is what the burgeoning (queer) feminist porn scene promises. But according to what rules does pornography work? And to what extent are new porn makers trying to break with the usual norms and forms of representation? On the one hand, pornography stands for female objectification, male-dominated pleasure images and gender stigmatization. On the other hand, it stands for sexual self-empowerment, sex positivism and the expression of one's own sexuality independent of...