Bücher von Katharina Rein

This book explores stage conjuring during its "golden age," from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illusions of the time that stand in for different kinds of illusions typical of stage magic in the "golden age" and analyses them within their cultural and media-historical context: "Pepper's Ghost," the archetypical mirror illusion; "The Vanishing Lady," staging a teleportation in a time of a dizzying acceleration of transport; "the levitation," simulating weightlessness with the help of an extended steel machinery; and "The Second Sight," a mind-reading illusion using up-to-date communication technologies. These close readings are completed by writings focusing on visual media and expanding the scope backwards and forwards in time, roughly to 1800 and to 2000. This exploration will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Führung und Personal - Mitarbeitermotivation, Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Mitarbeiter eines Unternehmens sind sein größtes Kapital - häufig wird dieser Satz in Unternehmensleitfäden verwendet. Durch die jährlich durchgeführt Gallup Studie wird jedoch deutlich, dass Führungskräfte noch nicht verinnerlicht haben, dass die Mitarbeiter und deren Motivation eine große Bedeutung für den Erfolg eines Unternehmens haben. Diese Arbeit befasst sich deshalb mit den Handlungsmöglichkeiten der Führungskräfte im Bezug auf die Mitarbeitermotivation. Es wird untersucht, woher Motivation kommt, was Menschen motiviert und welche verschiedene Motivationsmodelle Unternehmen zur Verfügung stehen. Ziel ist es, herauszustellen, welche Maßnahmen zur Motivation greifen und einen möglichst hohen Erfolg für Unternehmen versprechen. Denn wenn Mitarbeiter sehen, dass ihre individuellen Bedürfnisse berücksichtigt werden, ist es leichter, diese an das Unternehmen zu binden und ein möglichst angenehmes Arbeitsklima zu schaffen.

What is Magic?Magic has been present throughout human cultures in history, proving equally constant and mutable. Defined as supernatural powers, an explanatory belief system or a form of entertainment, magic persists to this day in new kinds of magical thinking in our highly technical, digitized environment.Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, magic has enjoyed a growing visibility in popular culture and scholarship. Contributing to this field, this volume illuminates the multi-faceted topic from a variety of perspectives. The chapters collected here investigate diverse aspects and shapes of magic to uncover its manifold material and immaterial appearances in past and present cultures. While offering a broad overview, this book also provides close readings and in-depth analyses of specialist examples, including magical talismans and amulets, magic of the stage and screen (e.g. Black Panther, Shape of Water), historical magicians and their representations (e.g. Harry Houdini) and contemporary queer and feminist witchcraft (e.g. #MagicResistance).By tracing magic¿s strong interrelation with colonial discourses, politics, the economy and the arts, magic¿s role is shown to go well beyond its traditional definition. Magic can be a political act, a means of empowerment and protest, an economic metaphor, and an instrument of oppression and liberation alike. This broad spectrum of magic discourses and their permeation into different aspects of cultures in history, present day and fiction is analysed by the more than thirty contributors to this volume in short, accessible essays.