environmental pollution The University of Rostock researches the dangers of traffic emissions At a test stand in the research hall of the Faculty of Mechanical and Marine Engineering at the University of Rostock, doctoral student Benedikt Gündling controls a combustion system that emits the emissions of a jet engine. photo © Bernd Wüstneck/dpa An international measurement campaign to investigate the health hazards from particulate matter emissions and air pollution from aircraft turbines and ship engines has started. The project is...
Prince Harry He's researching Diana's last hours Princess Diana with her son Prince Harry. © imago images/ZUMA Press Prince Harry is haunted by the death of his mother. Now it has become known that he had Princess Diana explore the last hours. For his upcoming book, Prince Harry (37) has dealt intensively with the last hours of his late mother, Princess Diana (1961-1997). The British newspaper "The Sun" learned this from Paris judicial circles. Persons commissioned by Harry had researched...
"I wanted to explore good and bad in life": This is how the title hero of Luigi Dallapiccola's "Ulisse" introduces himself on the stage of the Frankfurt Opera, having escaped the raging sea almost naked. As in Homer's epic, Odysseus has reached the island of the Phaeacians by swim, where he tells about his past: about Calypso and Circe's search for love, about the Lotophages, who make people happy by teaching them to forget the past and future. But Ulisse,...
Of Sabine ReithmaierIngvild Richardsen talked almost continuously for three hours, only sipping her coffee briefly in between. She listed one project after the other, described exhibitions and archive finds and raved about the great women whose lives she is researching. Is it possible that she is obsessed with her work? The question pauses for a moment. No, the literary scholar then says. She is not obsessed. Rather, a sense of responsibility compels them to keep going. "Most of the time...
Manfred Gahr puts on a green smock and cautiously enters the aviary. The zebra finches buzz and chirp around his head, pretty little birds with red beaks and orange cheeks. Gahr stands calmly in the middle. "Listen, someone is singing," he says suddenly and turns his head to the side. "That one over there, see him?" He picked out the singer from among two dozen voices. Everything else is apparently just chirping and palaver, but no singing. Gahr, director of...
The key to primeval times is somewhat reminiscent of a heart. But the 150-million-year-old coral is not red, but beige. She doesn't breathe oxygen either, she breathes history. Concentrated, Wolfgang Kießling, 56, ascetic type, piercing eyes, runs his fingers along her lines. Then he looks up. "This coral," he says, "wants to tell us something."A February afternoon at the Erlangen Institute for Palaeontology Friedrich Alexander University (FAU). The office of Germany's most influential paleontologist is a room for prehistoric research:...
Many Jews lived in Grünwald until the Nazis came to power: merchants, scientists, filmmakers. Most of them had to flee or they were deported and murdered. A historian sheds light on the dark chapter of local history for the first time. from Claudia Wessel, GrunwaldMoritz and Nomy Kowalski's daughters could still live in Munich. This is how far Susanne Meinl, the historian who is currently writing a book about National Socialism in Grünwald, has come in her research. The feeling...
