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Die Gegenwart des Vergangenen : Stephan Wackwitz’ "Ein unsichtbares Land" als postkolonialer Roman
(2005)
Viele Publikationen jüngeren Datums beschäftigen sich erneut mit der deutschen Vergangenheit, die wieder einmal dem Vergessen entrissen werden soll, jetzt aber aus anderer Perspektive, indem sie nämlich in vielerlei Einzelheiten dokumentiert und so festgehalten werden soll. Zu der Kategorie von Texten, die die deutsche Vergangenheit aus den Brüchen wie der Kontinuität der Familiengeschichte betrachten, verdienen drei besondere Erwähnung: „Am Beispiel meines Bruders“ (2003) von Uwe Timm, das 2004 erschienene „Meines Vaters Land“, die „Geschichte einer deutschen Familie“, von Wibke Bruhns und der im Untertitel als „Familienroman“ bezeichnete Text von Stephan Wackwitz, „Ein unsichtbares Land“. Diese drei Texte stehen im Kräftefeld unterschiedlicher familiärer Beziehungen: zum Bruder bei Timm, zum Vater bei Wibke Bruhns, schließlich im Verhältnis Enkel-Großvater bei Wackwitz. Darüber hinaus geben die drei Werke einen Blick auf die deutsche Familie aus drei unterschiedlichen soziologischen Perspektiven: Bei Bruhns handelt es sich um die großbürgerliche Unternehmerfamilie, Uwe Timm beschreibt eine kleinbürgerliche Familie. Als dritte Variante tritt bei Stephan Wackwitz das Bildungsbürgertum in der Person des evangelischen Pfarrers und seiner Angehörigen auf. Allen dreien ist jenes unbestimmbare ‚echt Deutsche‘ gemeinsam, das auf verhängnisvolle Weise dem faulen Zauber des Nationalsozialismus zum Opfer fallen sollte.
Background: Only few authors have analyzed the impact of workplace conflicts and the resulting stress on the risk of developing cardiovascular disorders. The goal of this study was to analyze the association between workplace conflicts and cardiovascular disorders in patients treated by German general practitioners.
Methods: Patients with an initial documentation of a workplace conflict experience between 2005 and 2014 were identified in 699 general practitioner practices (index date). We included only those who were between the ages of 18 and 65 years, had a follow-up time of at least 180 days after the index date, and had not been diagnosed with angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, coronary heart diseases, or stroke prior to the documentation of the workplace mobbing. In total, the study population consisted of 7,374 patients who experienced conflicts and 7,374 controls for analysis. The main outcome measure was the incidence of angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, and stroke correlated with workplace conflict experiences.
Results: After a maximum of five years of follow-up, 2.9% of individuals who experienced workplace conflict were affected by cardiovascular diseases, while only 1.4% were affected in the control group (p-value <0.001). Workplace conflict was associated with a 1.63-fold increase in the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases. Finally, the impact of workplace conflict was higher for myocardial infarction (OR=2.03) than for angina pectoris (OR=1.79) and stroke (OR=1.56).
Conclusions: Overall, we found a significant association between workplace conflicts and cardiovascular disorders.
When, some two centuries ago, German Romantics turned their backs on modernity – industrialisation, urbanisation, commerce and secularisation – they turned to ancient India. For them, India exemplified the primordial unity of mankind with this and the afterworld. For sections of the emerging nationalist movement in Germany, found the deployment of India handy to question the cultural hegemony, and eventually break the political dominance, of France. They tried to surpass the French, who claimed the ancient Roman heritage, by claiming an even older heritage for the Germans. Friedrich Schlegel for example suggested that the German language, and not the French, stood in unbroken continuity with ancient Sanskrit. For Romantics such as he, Sanskrit, the oldest surviving Indo-European language, was closest to the language of original divine revelation. This lead Schlegel to romanticise India in a way that stood in marked contrast to the Orientalist clichés current in other parts of Europe at the time. For him, the link between Sanskrit and German made Germany the true oriental self of Europe. The importance of this particular representation of India for the German national movement is underlined by the great number of university chairs that sprang up in the course of the nineteenth century: twenty two in Germany as opposed to only three in the United Kingdom. This paper explores the particular kind of ‘inverse’ Orientalism of the Germans in the context of its recent post-colonial critique.