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mikrotext / Nikola Richter
mikrotext is a publisher for texts with attitude and for new narratives, founded in 2013 in Berlin by Nikola Richter The independent publishing house focusses on new literary texts that comment on contemporary questions and allow insights into tomorrow. The texts are inspired by discussions on social media platformes and reflect today’s global debates. All titles are published digital first. A selection is available in English. In 2020 and 2019, mikrotext was awarded the German Publisher Award by the Federal Ministry of Culture and Media.
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2025Anthony Burgess and America
The untold story behind the American influences on Burgess’s life, work and legacy
by Christopher W Thurley
Anthony Burgess and America is a biographical and critical analysis of Burgess's commentary on and relationship with the United States of America. Utilising Burgess's entire canon and newly discovered materials to assess Burgess's views on America, this book also evaluates the American inspirations in five Burgess novels. This essential addition to Burgess scholarship tells the story of a nearly unexplored area of Burgess's life. For the first time ever, Burgess's American experiences, work, and documented communication, lectures, interviews and public utterances are brought together to assess where these commentaries overlapped with his fiction. The result is a complex personal and public history about one of Britain's greatest twentieth century authors and their immersion into and interaction with American culture in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2005Russian politics today
by Michael Waller, Bill Jones
This introductory text, written by an established authority on communist and post-communist politics, describes how Vladimir Putin has turned to those with backgrounds in the military and security structures to provide stability in today's Russian Federation, following the democratising reforms of Gorbachev and the ensuing instability of the Yeltsin presidency. Against the background of an increasing authoritarianism, which has restored features of the Soviet political system, it examines the attempts by social and economic groups to assert themselves against the state using embryonic democratic forms that fall far short of pluralism. The book's fourteen chapters offer an exceptionally broad coverage. It will appeal to first- and second-year students in higher education, but its deliberately accessible style will also make it attractive to sixth-form students and the general reader. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2013The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe
From Communism to Pluralism
by Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe
This important book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the authors reconsider such crucial themes as the broader historical significance of the 1989 events, the complex interaction between external and internal factors in the origins and outcomes of the revolutions, the impact of the 'Gorbachev phenomenon', the West and the end of the Cold War, the political and socio-economic determinants of the revolutionary processes in Poland, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, and the competing academic, cultural and ideological perceptions of the year 1989 as communism gave way to post-communist pluralism in the 1990s and beyond. Concluding that the contentious term 'revolution' is indeed apt for the momentous developments in eastern Europe in 1989, this book will be essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and specialists alike. ;
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April 1977Philosophie der Offenbarung
1841/42
by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Manfred Frank, Manfred Frank
Schellings Berliner Vorlesung vom Wintersemester 1841/42, deren Nachschrift (auf der unsere Ausgabe basiert) H.E.G. Paulus gegen den Willen ihres Autors 1843 unter dem Titel »Die endlich offenbar gewordene positive Philosophie der Offenbarung« edierte, ist von Karl Jaspers als das letzte große Universitätsereignis bezeichnet worden. Jedenfalls müssen es die Zeitgenossen so empfunden haben. Friedrich Engels, der wie Kierkegaard, Bakunin, Jacob Burckhardt, Savigny und Ranke zu den Zuhörern der Schelling- Vorlesung gehörte, schrieb damals: »Wenn ihr jetzt hier in Berlin irgendeinen Menschen … nach dem Kampfplatze fraget, auf dem um die Herrschaft über die öffentliche Meinung Deutschlands in Politik und Religion, also über Deutschland selbst, gestritten wird, so wird er euch antworten, dieser Kampfplatz sei in der Universität, und zwar das Auditorium Nr. 6, wo Schelling seine Vorlesungen über Philosophie der Offenbarung hält.« Die umfangreiche Einleitung des Herausgebers rekonstruiert den geistes- und theoriegeschichtlichen Zusammenhang, in dem Schellings späte Philosophie in ihrer prinzipiellen Gegnerschaft zu der Hegels gesehen werden muß. Ergänzend dazu und mit teilweise überraschenden Pointen bringt der Anhang zeitgenössische Repliken auf Schellings Berliner Auftritt, der der preußischen Reaktion als »das notwendige Korrektiv für die neueren Entdeckungen der Kritik« - gemeint war die der Hegelschen Linken – galt.
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June 1988Der Künstler und die Zeitkrankheit
Ausgewählte Schriften. Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Burkhard Schlichting
by Hugo Ball, Hans Burkhard Schlichting, Hans Burkhard Schlichting
Dieses Buch mit seinen vierzig, teils unveröffentlichten, teils in entlegene Zeitungen und Zeitschriften verstreuten Schriften ist eine Entdeckung. Denn die Brisanz von Hugo Balls zeit- und kulturkritischen Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1909-1925 kommt erst heute, nachdem die meisten seiner Prognosen eingetroffen sind und seit der Studentenrevolte der sechziger Jahre nicht nur die kulturpolitische Diskussion, sondern auch unser Lebensgefühl bestimmen, zu voller Geltung. Es ist der im Ersten Weltkrieg in die Schweiz Emigrierte, der Nachbar und Mitarbeiter von Walter Benjamin und Ernst Bloch bei der oppositionellen »Freien Zeitung«, der Verfasser eines »Bakunin-Breviers«, der Sympathisant von Kurt Eisner, der Autor eines Essays über Thomas Münzer, welcher Ernst Bloch zu seinem Münzer-Buch anregte, aber auch der Verfasser von brisanten Angriffen gegen Wilhelm II., Hindenburg und von Thesen über die verhängnisvollen Folgen Kantscher Philosophie für den preußischen Militarismus. »Ball würde – wäre der Begriff schon damals bekannt gewesen – ein leidenschaftlicher Gegner der modernen Leistungsgesellschaft samt ihren sozialpsychologischen Folgen gewesen sein. Seine eminente Bildung, sein glühender politisch-sozialer Erneuerungswille und die Kraft seiner Sprache entheben ihn dem Vorwurf, ein anarchistischer Agitator zu sein. Ansatzpunkt ist der erste deutsche ›Zusammenbruch‹ 1918/19. Das heißt die Frage nach den geschichtlichen Ursachen der deutschen Katastrophe. Thomas Münzer sieht Ball in Luthers Preisgabe der aufrührerischen Bauern und in der Tragödie der Bauernkriege einen Schlüssel zur deutschen Geschichte. Ball hat mit wenigen Gleichgesinnten Dada und den Surrealismus ›als Hingabe an den Gegensatz alles dessen, was brauchbar und nutzbar ist‹, in den Jahren vor dem Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges vorweggenommen.« ›Karl Korn in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung‹
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The ArtsAlbert MARQUET
by Mikhail GUERMAN
It is a paradox that Marquet belongs more to the past and future than to the present. His art awaits the silence that is yet to fall. He nevertheless teaches us to appreciate the riches of meditation, directing us to that exalted place of peace so central to his vision.
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Humanities & Social Sciences1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall - Coincidence or Planning? /1989 Mauerfall Berlin - Zufall oder Planung?
by Michael Wolski
Classification in History The fall of the Wall in 1989 is a historical example of the end of the relationship between hegemon and vassal. It shows how the hegemon silently disposed of his now unloved child. It is a story of the betrayal of the most loyal political friends and a common ideology. East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Army on May 8, 1945 at the end of World War II in Europe and then, according to the decisions of the Allies, the Soviet-occupied zone in Germany was dominated by the Soviet Union. The German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in this zone in 1949, when the Soviet Union under Stalin was still convinced of the victory of communism in the world. At the same time, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in the Western zones. After only ten years it became clear that the socialist (Soviet) system in the GDR - a Western European, highly industrialized country - was not working. People left their country across the open sector border in Berlin. For this reason, the East German Communists had to build the Berlin Wall in 1961 on the orders of the Soviet Union, hermetically sealing East Germany (and Eastern Europe) from the West. According to Allied regulations, Berlin was a jointly administered city, with one zone of each of the 4 Allies. Until 1990, West Berlin was therefore a territory of the Western Allies USA, United Kingdom and France. Westberlin became a capitalist island in the GDR. Ultimately, this isolation led to the decline of the entire Eastern Bloc. Only 25 years later, when Gorbachev came to power (1985), the Soviet Union decided in secret to separate from its Eastern European vassal states and introduce a market economy. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, which was planned and carried out top secretly, was the opening of the clamp that had held the socialist countries together. One year later (on October 3, 1990), German unity was achieved and again one year later - in late 1991 - the Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 states and with it the socialist camp in Europe. This disintegration was due to a boomerang of history - the German-Soviet treaties together with secret protocols of 1939, which unexpectedly unfolded their destructive potential in 1989. Thus, 50 years after the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the German-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, both destroyed the Soviet Union as collateral damage of the opening of the Berlin Wall. The Book In this book, the course of events of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is portrayed differently than in current contemporary historiography. I claim on the basis of evidence and facts that the Soviet Union was responsible for the fall of the Wall. In a covert action, high-ranking East German KGB agents in the army, Stasi and mass-media took over command on the evening of November 9, 1989. At the same time, a meeting of the Central Committee of the SED was "randomly" extended by almost 3 hours, isolating over 250 high-ranking party and state officials from the outside world. Thus the state power was unable to act in the decisive hours of the fall of the Wall. I describe the fall of the Wall as an East German contemporary witness, working from 1986-1990 in the liaison office of a Dow Jones listed US corporation in East Berlin (GDR). While I had noticed events in East Berlin since 1986 that could indicate that unofficial KGB employees were being sought by Stasi in the International Trade Center (IHZ), this assumption became certain in 1994. The report on the evaluation of Stasi documents in the Bundestag confirmed my assumptions. In June 2020 the last GDR Minister of the Interior of the first freely elected government (9 April 1990 – 2 October 1990) gave this number for the first time since 1990: In 1989/90 there were about 50,000 people in the GDR working for KGB (and GRU). Thus my view that the Soviet Union planned and realized the fall of the Wall was confirmed after more than 30 years. The official German narrative (which is currently being retold worldwide) is based on the fall of the Wall by civil rights activists. They convinced the border officers to open the wall. However, no details are given about the process "behind the scenes". It must be remembered that as late as October 1989, the Politburo was still discussing the use of tanks against demonstrators in Leipzig (who demanded free passage out of the GDR). So why the change of mind within 4 weeks? More information about my alternative view of the fall of the Wall can be found here (in German, English, Russian, Chinese): https://www.1989mauerfall.berlin/expose-leseprobe.html The book reads like a thriller.
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Slimness without diets. Psychological techniques for slimming and appetite control
by M.Khors
Thoughts about food prevent you from enjoying life, weight is not decreasing, but only growing and you have tried hundreds of diets. Is it about you? Then, welcome to the course "Slimness without diets" by Mikhail Khors, an addictologist, clinical psychologist, and therapist. Mikhail Khors treats tobacco, alcohol and food addiction without pills and injections. Minimum theory - Maximum practice. From the book you will know: -How to eat any food and lose weight at the same time? -Why some people easily gain weight while others do not? Why diets don't work? And after reading this book, you will also acquire new eating habits, a positive attitude towards your body and lose extra pounds.
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May 2017Napoleon Bonaparte in Russia
by Regina Gonçalves
Caius Zip, the young time traveller, witnesses the invasion of the French army under the command of the legendary Napoleon, in the city of Moscow. Caius accidentally saves Napoleon from an attempt against his life, and later meets Princess Natasha and her son Ivan. Caius Zip attends a dinner and listens, captivated, to the stories told by Napoleon himself, on his strategies and achievements up to the moment of the invasion of Moscow. After crossing a vast forest with Ivan, Caius meets Kutuzov, the prudent Russian commander-in-chief, who retreats and makes things more difficult for the invaders by cutting their supply lines and striking continuously with guerrilla tactics until the arrival of his greatest ally: general winter!
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April 2019Teatro e universidade
by Gonçalves, Jean Carlos
Mikhail Bakhtin, filósofo literário, cujos estudos são geralmente associados ao Carnaval e ao Diálogo, foi uma figura solitária que trabalhou, sobretudo em seu ateliê. Jean Carlos Gonçalves nos apresenta um livro em que as ideias de Bakhtin sobre o Diálogo e a Educação são retiradas de um estúdio sombrio para um estúdio bem iluminado, e ali, são convidadas ao jogo. Bakhtin escreveu sobre ideias em interlocução na ágora (o fórum público), mas nesta obra vemos Jean Gonçalves propondo um espaço real, mais do que apenas teórico, onde ensino e aprendizagem se constituem enquanto acontecimento. De certo modo, o ateliê de Gonçalves nos leva de volta às raízes do ver e do pensar, do teatro e da teoria: no grego antigo, ??????? (theasthai) [olhar ou contemplar]. Aqui, nesse estúdio iluminado por vozes da cena e da pedagogia, nos é ofertada uma nova forma de olhar/contemplar o ensino e a aprendizagem no contexto de formação superior em Teatro. — DICK MCCAW, Professor do Departamento de Drama e Teatro da Royal Holloway, University of London
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EducationDialogism
A Bakhtinian Perspective on Science and Learning
by Roth, W.-M.
In this book, Wolff-Michael Roth takes a 38-minute conversation in one science classroom as an occasion for analyzing learning and development from a perspective by and large inspired by the works of Mikhail Bakhtin but also influenced by Lev Vygotsky and 20th century European phenomenology and American pragmatism. He throws a new and very different light on the nature and use of language in science classroom, and its transformation. In so doing, he not only exposes the weaknesses of existing theoretical frameworks, including radical and social constructivism, but also exhibits problems in his own previous thinking about knowing and learning in science classrooms. The book particularly addresses issues normally out of the light of sight of science education research, including the material bodily principle, double-voicedness, laughter, coarse language, swearing, the carnal and carnivalistic aspects of life, code-switching, and the role of vernacular in the transformation of scientific language. The author suggests that only a unit of analysis that begins with the fullness of life, singular, unique, and once-occurrent Being, allows an understanding of learning and development, emotion and motivation, that is, knowing science in its relation to the human condition writ large. In this, the book provides responses to questions that conceptual change research, for example, is unable to answer, for example, the learning paradox, the impossibility to eradicate misconceptions, and the resistance of teachers to take a conceptual change position.
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Pushkin. Boldino. Quarantine.
Chronicle of self-isolation in 1830.
by Vizel Michail
“Nothing is more like a Russian village in 1662 than a Russian village in 1833,” said Pushkin. And Gogol wrote about Pushkin: "This is a Russian person in his development, in which he, perhaps, will appear in 200 years." Leafing through the calendar of the Boldinskaya autumn, a Moscow journalist and translator, editor-in-chief of the portal GodLiterature.RF Mikhail Vizel parses letters sent by Pushkin from the Nizhny Novgorod estate to his bride, friends, and business partners. Nothing is more like self-isolation in 2020 than the quarantine of 1830, right down to the genius's addiction to buckwheat! Pushkin and this is our everything. Author's introduction:“Any quarantine can turn into the Boldin autumn,” we say in Russia. Indeed, if you look at it, it's just amazing how a short and purely economic trip to the Nizhny Novgorod estate in the fall of 1830 unexpectedly became a three-month "creative trip" for 31-year-old Pushkin. As we remember, from September 5 to December 1, 1830 "Onegin" was completed, "Little Tragedies" and innovative (for Pushkin himself and for all Russian literature) "Belkin's Tale", the poem "House in Kolomna" were written, not to mention several dozen lyric poems. Thanks to this, the Boldinskaya autumn went down in history as the highest rise of a genius in his prime.And Pushkin also wrote letters. We have received 19 letters to various correspondents - first of all, of course, to the bride - m-lle Goncharova, 18-year-old Natasha. But also to friends and colleagues, in which he adhered to the style, to put it bluntly, informal. And now we have at our disposal something like Instagram or Facebook, from which we can restore: what exactly did Pushkin do in his Boldin autumn? How did she end up - Boldinskaya? Pushkin's letters make it clear how.
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The Symposium of Vagabond Standards
by Vecdi Ciracioglu
Vagabond Standards (SSS) by Faretin. The Dream Busting Missionary Army has been following him from time to time under the disguise of a teacher or a nurse since his childhood. Faretin strives to become a poet, yet he has no success in publishing his poems in any journal. So he starts taking short notes on a symposium that will orient mankind towards wise vagabondism. Eventually Faretin gets confined to a mental asylum because of his hallucinations.According to Faretin the future of suffering humanity lies in the The SSS. Closely observing his surroundings at the bighouse, Faretin decides to breakout with the help of his friends. As he tries to find his way around, he discovers that “fantastic bodies wrapped tightly with weird souls have to sharpen their eyes to see into their own depths”.Faretin discards the letters “h” and “t” from his name and turns into a mouse or a crab from time to time. These finely planned fictional scenes add a Kafkaesque dimension to the novel. While transforming his character into a crab or a mouse the writer takes the character’s point of view or mobility into consideration and his manner reminds us how neccessary the usage of visual memory is in literature. While building sentences speculating on the scenes where Faretin feels like a real mouse, Çıracıoğlu also contemplates images that focus on detail.As defined by Mikhail Bahtin, The SSS possesses the characteristics of a carnivalesque novel, a quality that is extremely rare in Turkish Literature. It is a novel where reality and fantasy are interwined and the imaginary world of the hero is introduced to us, enriched with fantastic components.The SSS is a carnaval that pushes the boundries of madness and language. The novel is a door to neverland and a carnaval of words without a veil.
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FictionSeptember 2020Ghosts’ Procession
by Gianluca Lioni
Sardinia, 1864. Russian anarchist Michail Bakunin lands on the island of La Maddalena, where he is personally greeted by Giuseppe Garibaldi and his gang. Meanwhile, at the only tavern in the village, old English captain Daniel Roberts learns about the mysterious death of Loriga, a merchant who claimed to have witnessed the Rèula, a macabre procession of souls that local people believe to be a “portent of doom”. But Roberts is too shrewd a man to fall for superstition, and so he begins to investigate what could be the true reason behind this murder –until the situation soon falls into chaos when another man is found dead.To solve the mystery, Roberts must delve into the intricate tangle of deceptions, secrets and fables, with Garibaldi, Bakunin and a priest as his allies.With a skilful and knowing literary eye, Gianluca Lioni creates a strongly convincing scenario for his debut novel, a story just as plausible as historically accurate.
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FictionJune 2016The Chechen Assassination Plot
by Antony Tobias
BASED ON TRUE EVENTS this is a tale of International espionage, illegal arms, love, deceit and murder. It's 1993 and the Russian state of Chechnya is threatening independence. Russia's oilfields are in Chechnya and the Russians are desperate to keep hold of them. Self- proclaimed Chechen President Dudayev sends Mikhail Kaynskov and his brother to London as Ambassadors, to seek recognition for an independent Chechnya. They are also commissioned to buy arms from a corrupt MOD official to defend Chechnya against Russia. Kaynskov has unlimited funds, a passion for high living - and prostitutes. The KGB blackmail two Armenian petty criminals, Gregor and Rostya to go to London and carry out a mission for Russia, to put a stop to Chechnya's plans. KGB Agent Vee kills Kaynskov's London contact, takes his place and establishes Gregor and Rostya as the Ambassadors' assistants. MI5, under the watchful eye of Andrew Harrigan and The Foreign Office are aware that British involvement could end in another cold war so follow developments, merely monitoring the situation. The Armenians fail to abort the arms deal. Agent Vee receives instructions from the KGB and orders the Armenians to eliminate the Ambassador. Unwillingly, Gregor and Rostan carry out the murders. Through a mixture of incompetence and greed the bodies are discovered in a cardboard packing case by the delivery driver and the Armenians are arrested. Whilst on remand Gregor becomes suicidal and tries to persuade his lawyer, Leon Chainey, to arrange a deal with MI5 in exchange for information about the KGB. He knows that if the KGB find out they will kill him so Chainey arranges for him to be moved to Belmarsh high security prison for safety. In Chechnya the situation worsens, Dudayev - desperate for arms, sends more 'diplomats' to London and a hit man called Vasler to avenge the deaths of his Ambassadors, the Kaynskov brothers. But Vasler does not stop at the killers. This bizarre trail of events are subsequently unveiled through the London courts of justice and the news media. Meanwhile in Chechnya a war with Russia develops, which continues to this day.
