Pablo Picasso

Peter-Klaus Schuster

Sammlung Berggruen

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz

die Sammlung Berggruen

Picasso und seine Zeit

Franz Marc

Else Lasker-Schüler

Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst

An international overview of the state of our contemporary knowledge in sociocultural psychology - as a discipline located at the crossroads between the natural and social sciences and the humanities. Since the 1980s, the field of psychology has encountered the growth of a new discipline - cultural psychology - that has built new connections between psychology, sociology, anthropology, history and semiotics. The handbook integrates contributions of sociocultural specialists from fifteen countries, all tied together by the unifying focus on the role of sign systems in human relations with the environment. It emphasizes theoretical and methodological discussions on the cultural nature of human psychological phenomena, moving on to show how meaning is a natural feature of action and how it eventually produces conventional symbols for communication. Such symbols shape individual experiences and create the conditions for consciousness and the self to emerge; turn social norms into ethics; and set history into motion.

Karten und Briefe

Der blaue Reiter präsentiert Eurer Hoheit sein blaues Pferd

Wim Wenders

Globetrotting filmmaker Wim Wenders always takes his old panorama camera with him, using it whenever the sheer wealth of what he sees and the impression it leaves on him breaks the normal scale of things. Infinite landscapes, endless horizons, deserts, and mountain ranges overwhelm by their emptiness and silence, street fronts in Havana, Houston, Berlin, or Jerusalem offer deep insights into the shallows of civilization. Wenders' photographs are pictures of a world almost devoid of humans, a natural or man-made world viewed from a distance. They shed light on the many guises the surface of the earth dons and attest to Wenders' contemplative and amazed gaze. This gaze, of course, didn't stop at September 11 and delivered haunting photos of Ground Zero taken shortly after the attack. With poetic comments by the artist on all the pictures, the book is both a portrait of the world as encountered by the photographer and a portrait of the photographer as reflected in his vision of the world.

Pictures from the Surface of the Earth

Klaus G. Saur

Barbara Schneider-Kempf

The Festschrift for the 65th birthday of the president of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Foundation for Prussian Cultural Heritage) contains more than 60 contributions by individuals from culture and politics, libraries and publishers. Among the contributors are Heinz Berggruen, W. Michael Blumenthal, Karl Dedecius, Wolfgang Frühwald, Vittorio E. Klostermann, Norbert Lammert, Hermann Leskien, Jutta Limbach, Wolf D. Lucius, Michael Naumann, June Newton, Elisabeth Niggemann, Paul Raabe, Petra Roth, Henning Schulte-Noelle, Ruth Wagner, Christina Weiss, Karin von Welck, Christoph Wolff and Klaus Wowereit, et al. The subjects cover a spectrum ranging from the visual arts to museum designs and many aspects of books, publishering, librarianship and the promotion of culture.

Klaus-Dieter Lehmann zum 65. Geburtstag

Wissenschaft und Kultur in Bibliotheken, Museen und Archiven

Ein Leben nach christlichen Bildern

Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest

Peter-Klaus Schuster

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