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A beautifully illustrated book-length publication on the contemporary artist and Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Garrett Bradley, whose quietly devastating work blurs the space between fact and fiction.Garrett Bradley works across narrative, documentary, and experimental modes of filmmaking to address themes such as race, class, familial relationships, social justice, and cultural histories in the United States. Her collaborative and research-based approach to filmmaking is often inspired by the real-life stories of her protagonists. This book explores Bradley’s work through the lens of devotion and features conversations with the artist and contributions from the likes of Ashley Clark, Arthur Jafa, Joy James, Tyler Mitchell, Kevin Quashie, and Claudia Rankine. This is the first volume in a new series of readers copublished with Lisson Gallery entitled Re:, which will respond to a number of its artists and themes past and present.Adopting archival material alongside newly shot footage, Bradley’s films exist simultaneously in the past, present, and future, not only disrupting our perception of time, but also breaking down our preconceived ideas about objectivity, perspective, and truth-telling. These narratives unfold naturally in both feature-length and short form, revealing a multitude of individual and collective stories. The social, economic, and racial politics of everyday life—its joys, pleasures, and pains—are lyrically and intimately rendered on screen.

The first exhibition catalogue of the acclaimed queer, feminist curatorial initiative Ridykeulous, marking the occasion of their first institutional presentation in Europe at Nottingham Contemporary.Founded in 2005, Ridykeulous mounts exhibitions and events primarily concerned with queer and feminist art. This publication will be the first exhibition catalogue by Ridykeulous, joined by Sam Roeck, and will accompany the fall 2023 exhibition Ridykes’ Cavern of Fine Inverted Wines and Deviant Videos at Nottingham Contemporary. With newly commissioned texts by curator Lia Gangitano and Alexandro Segade of the artist collective My Barbarian, the catalogue will be complemented by a conversation between Ridykeulous members Nicole Eisenman, A.L. Steiner and Sam Roeck, providing insights into the collective's thinking, politics, behind-the-scenes notations, and methods of exploration, as well as an introduction by Nottingham Contemporary's Chief Curator Nicole Yip.Using humor to critique the art world and heteropatriarchal culture at-large, Ridykeulous often reinvents language to reflect their sensibilities and concerns—composing communiqués, screeds, and diatribes across various media. The exhibition features an intergenerational mix of 30 contemporary visual artists working across film, video installation, sculpture, and performance. Playfully proposing queer fabulosity as a critical intervention in the capitalist spectacle, the exhibition seeks to erode the secondary positioning of LGBTQ+ art and artists as “alternative.” Designed by the Zürich-based Studio Marie Lusa, the publication will evoke the textual feeling of a zine, with over 100 full-color and black-and-white image plates.

An arresting and visually rich monograph of the work of contemporary artist Sanya Kantarovsky.Forlorn and spiritually bankrupt, tender or abject—the subjects in the figurative paintings of Sanya Kantarovsky (b. 1982) convey an uneasy, dark humor. They seem trapped in a precarious inner monologue, or under the spell of mundane lived experience. Sanya Kantarovsky: Selected Works 2010-2024 is published with the support of Aspen Art Museum, following Kantarovsky's exhibition A Solid House (2022). It includes more than 140 full-color image plates and spans the artist's oeuvre, focusing on his most recent output since his previous monograph No Joke (2014).The publication also includes a conversation between Kantarovsky and art historian Isabelle Graw, as well as essays by the psychoanalyst and writer Jamieson Webster and art historian George Baker.

Questo volume offre un accompagnamento alla lettura di Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) attraverso saggi che affrontano ¿ da punti di vista diversi ¿ diciassette dei molti libri pubblicati dall¿autore siciliano. Si compone così un moderno e aggiornato Companion sciasciano, utile a inquadrare l¿autore e a collocarlo nel campo letterario italiano del secondo Novecento, a individuare le costanti formali e tematiche della sua opera, a indagare i suoi modelli e a verificarne l¿eredità.

'For the past half-century Frank Field has been an outstanding parliamentarian, social reformer and champion of the disadvantaged. He joined the Labour Party at the age of 16 and was expelled from it at the age of 78.' -Brian & Rachel Griffiths'Frank Field is one of the most important, iconoclastic and remarkable politicians of his generation. This book is told with his Christian belief, regrets and all, and his trademark searing honesty.' -Nick TimminsIn the increasingly dirty world of British politics, one man has stood out for unimpeachable integrity - the former Labour Member of Parliament for Birkenhead, Frank Field.In this touching but also profound memoir, the veteran former Labour MP and social campaigner Frank Field reveals the poverty of his own childhood and the deep and lasting effect of his Christian socialism. Field has spent his life fighting poverty in Britain, and has found allies on all sides of the political spectrum. In this book, Field talk about his activism, his foundational work with the Child Poverty Action Group and his work passing legislation for the Minimum Living Wage. He explains why he has dedicated his life to speaking out against the corruption of greed and power and writes with great alacrity about the titans of his political age, including Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher. In the end, Field's zeal for reform was too much for too many people, and, in 2015, he was deselected by his own local Labour party. Politics, Poverty and Belief is an implicit indictment of modern British politics - the world of cash for questions, Partygate and all the rest - in which the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.

"Rab: A Deeper Look" by Robbie Ornig is a riveting exploration of the captivating history of Rab, an island jewel of the Adriatic Sea. From its ancient roots to its vibrant modern life, this comprehensive volume presents a meticulously researched account of Rab's rich tapestry of life. Ornig work stands out for its depth, offering readers a unique perspective on the island's cultural, societal, and culinary traditions. Packed with illuminating details and heartfelt storytelling, this book is a must-read for history enthusiasts, scholars, and anyone interested in discovering the hidden depths of this Mediterranean gem.

The book seeks to correct the anomaly in the theology of prayer among contemporary Christians who have replaced hard work with prayer thereby presenting God as a magician. The book reveals that everything should be subjected to reasonable faith to avoid extreme nihilism and rationalism.There's no conflict between faith and reason as the duo compliment each other. There is the need to strike a balance between Faith, prayer and hard work through rational reasoning.

Based on the blockbuster 2022 solo show in London, KAWS: NEW FICTION documents the ground-breaking, multi-layered exhibition that presented the artist's new and recent works in physical and augmented reality. A unique collaboration between the acclaimed artist KAWS, the Serpentine Galleries, digital art platform Acute Art, and the online video game phenomenon Fortnite, KAWS: NEW FICTION bridges the gap between the physical and virtual worlds, showcasing KAWS's artworks as they've never been seen before. This one-of-a-kind book chronicles the iconic KAWS figure as it journeys through viewing the exhibition's paintings, sculptures, site-specific additional artworks revealed via augmented reality (visible at the show through a dedicated AR app), and the virtual recreation of the physical gallery simultaneously featured in Fortnite. KAWS: NEW FICTION is a celebration of the unprecedented exhibition, and KAWS's creative influence, as it was experienced in physical, virtual, and augmented realities.

This is a book about survival. It is a book about a 21 year old Army Scout pilot shot down during the Vietnam War on a Scout mission well inside North Vietnamese controlled territory in Cambodia.He along with his two crew members, his Observer and his Door Gunner, were shot down on 10 March 1971.They were hit by a B-40 Rocket Propelled Grenade or an SA-7 missile. The pilot, WO1 Craig (Jeff) Houser immediately lost engine power and then realized he had no cyclic control. The burning aircraft passed over a river and crashed into the trees above the riverbank, exploded on impact, and then fell into the river and sank.He never saw his two crew members: Observer SP4 Robert T. Kiser or Door Gunner Sgt. Curtis R. Smoot again. After almost drowning, Houser managed to somehow get out of the wreckage of the aircraft on the bottom of the river and swim to the river bank.This was then the beginning of what turned out to be four days of Escape and Evasion. He was burned and blinded (totally blinded in one eye and loss of most of his vision in the other) by the crash. Most of his survival equipment was now on the bottom of the river. He had no food, no medicine, and no water. It was now the dry season in this area of Southeast Asia and other than the river he crashed in, all the intermittent streams and creeks were dried up.First he had to keep from being captured, that was the primary goal.It is absolutely a true story of survival against all odds.

London 1951: At finde selve livets kode er det, der optager videnskaben allermest i disse år, også den brillante, unge kemiker Rosalind Franklin. Som nyansat på King's College kaster hun sig ud i forskningen, men hendes kolleger vil hellere ignorere en kvinde i laboratoriet end at arbejde sammen med hende. De ambitiøse mænd må dog snart indse, at Rosalind er en seriøs konkurrent i kapløbet om at opdage DNA-strukturen. Selvom hun får støtte fra sin assistent Oliver, bliver situationen værre. Bag Rosalinds ryg tyer hendes mandlige kollegaer til stadig mere uretfærdige metoder ...Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) var en brillant, britisk videnskabskvinde, der spillede en afgørende rolle i kortlægningen af selve livets kode, DNA’et, der indeholder alt genetisk information. I begyndelsen af 1950’erne forskede hun ved King’s College i London, hvor hun gjorde den banebrydende opdagelse, at DNA har en spiralformet struktur, en helix. I dag er det almindeligt kendt, at Rosalind Franklins kollegaer, James D. Watson og Francis Crick, indhentede hendes forskningsresultater uden hendes medviden og brugte dem i deres publikation af en model for DNA’s struktur, som de i 1962 modtog Nobelprisen i medicin for. Watson har sidenhen sagt, at Franklin burde have fået prisen.Historiens enestående kvinder er en ny serie fra Gutkind, som i romanform fortæller om en række kvinder, der – udover at være enestående på hvert deres område – har skabt historie, der inspirerer den dag i dag.Om forfatteren:Petra Hucke (f. 1978) bor i München med sin mand og har et hoved fuld af ideer. Hun oversætter fra engelsk og fransk, elsker at læse islandske romaner, på islandsk, arbejder som freelance-redaktør og har udgivet romaner.

Als Marvel-Verleger Martin Goodman den genialen Stan Lee bat, eine neue Comicreihe zu entwickeln, ahnte er nicht, dass er so etwas wie The X-Men bekommen würde. Niemand sah voraus, dass sich diese Superhelden zu einem wahren Phänomen der Popkultur entwickeln würden - nicht Goodman, nicht Lee, und nicht einmal der hellsichtige Futurist Jack Kirby. Von Lee und Kirby als Mutanten konzipiert, begannen sie als ein charmantes, bunt zusammengewürfeltes Team von Außenseitern. Sie waren Teenager mit "eX-tra"-Kräften, die sie bei ihrer Geburt erhielten und nicht etwa durch zufällige kosmische Strahlung oder eine Atomexplosion. Ausgebildet und angeführt von einem nüchternen Professor, waren die Helden imstande, die Welt vor Bedrohungen und Bösewichten zu bewahren.Die ersten Stories legten den Grundstein für vieles, das die X-Men zu einer Schnittstelle von Comics und Popkultur werden ließ. Von der Öffentlichkeit gefürchtet, missverstanden und verfolgt, führten die Mutanten ihren eigenen Bürgerrechtskampf. Ihren unterschiedlichen Superkräften zum Trotz, fanden die Außenseiter Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast und Iceman in ihrer Gemeinschaft Sicherheit. Professor Xavier stellte sich seinem Feind Magneto, der seinerseits eine Bruderschaft böser Mutanten versammelt hatte und gegen die ganze Menschheit kämpfte.Lee und Kirby waren davon beflügelt, die Comics in das Marvel-Zeitalter zu führen und erfanden eine ganze Schar von Schurken und Figuren die zu festen Bestandteilen der Marvel-Heldensagen werden sollten: die mit Superkräften ausgestatteten Geschwister Quicksilver und Scarlet Witch, den kollossalen Blob, den unaufhaltsamen Juggernaut, Ka-Zar, den Dschungelbewohner aus dem Wilden Land, den Halbgott The Stranger von den Sternen, und Bolivar Trask mit seiner Armee von Sentinels, die Mutanten jagten. Als Lee und Kirby neuen Talenten Platz machten, um sich anderen Gefilden des Marvel-Universums zu widmen, tat sich der Zeichner aus der Atlas-Ära Werner Roth mit dem aufstrebenden Autor Roy Thomas, der bald selbst eine Legende werden sollte, zusammen, um ihre langjährige Arbeit an den X-Men zu beginnen.Angelehnt an die Größe der Originalzeichnungen enthält diese Ausgabe im XXL-Format die ersten 21 Geschichten der sonderbaren Superhelden aus den Jahren 1963-1966. In enger Zusammenarbeit mit Marvel und der Certified Guaranty Company (CGC) wurden makellose Originalausgaben für die Reproduktion neu aufgenommen. Jede Seite wurde so fotografiert, wie sie vor mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert gedruckt wurde, und dann mit modernen Retusche-Techniken digital überarbeitet. Eventuelle Ungenauigkeiten der damals vorherrschenden Drucktechnik wurden auf diese Weise korrigiert, so als kämen die Comics frisch aus einer erstklassigen Druckmaschine der 1960er Jahre. Um die Haptik der ursprünglichen Hefte zu simulieren, wurde eigens für unsere Marvel-Serie ein ungestrichenes Papier entwickelt.In seinem Vorwort lässt der kreative Kopf hinter den modernen X-Men-Stories, Chris Claremont, die Blütezeit der Gründerjahre von Lee und Kirby noch einmal aufleben. Ein ausführlicher Essay des X-Men-Autors Fabian Nicieza sowie Originalzeichnungen, Fotos und Erinnerungsstücke begleiten uns in die frühen Jahre der X-Legenden.Auch als Collector's Edition von 1.000 nummerierten Exemplaren erhältlich© 2023 MARVEL

In der Postmoderne zeichnen sich Konflikte der Gegenwart, vom Rechtspopulismus bis zur Identitätspolitik, bereits ab. Spektakuläre Beispiele aus Design, Architektur, Kino, Pop, Philosophie, Kunst und Literatur erzählen vom Beginn der Informationsgesellschaft, von der Entfesselung der Finanzmärkte, von Subkulturen, Disco, Punk, Techno-Pop, Schulterpolstern und Memphis-Möbeln.1967 begann unsere Gegenwart: Die Moderne, die glaubte, alles sortieren zu können mit gleichen Häusern, Möbeln und Rechten für alle, wurde verabschiedet, und aus ihren Ruinen entstand eine bizarre, exzentrische Welt. Architekt*innen erklärten den Vergnügungspark zur idealen Stadt, Designer*innen befreiten sich vom guten Geschmack, Selbstverwirklichung trat an die Stelle der Systemkämpfe, und neue Medien synchronisierten den Globus. Der Band ist ein Standardwerk zur Postmoderne, opulent und breit angelegt in Bildern und Texten verschiedener Disziplinen.Künstler*innen:Aldo Rossi, Alessandro Mendini, Andy Warhol, Arata Isozaki, Charles Jencks, Charles Moore, Coop Himmelb(l)au, David Byrne, David Hockney, David Lynch, Denise Scott Brown, Donald Barthelme, Donna Haraway, Ed Ruscha, Ettore Sottsass, Félix Guattari, Frank Gehry, Frederic Jameson, Gaetano Pesce, General Idea, Gilles Deleuze, Gustav Peichl, Hans Hollein, Harumi Yamaguchi, J.G. Ballard, Jacques Derrida, James Stirling, James Wines, Jean-Luc Godard, Jenny Holzer, John Landis, John Portman, Judith Butler, Kraftwerk, Leonard Koren, Leslie Fiedler, Linder Sterling, Louise Lawler, Lucinda Childs, Madelon Vriesendorp, Makato Nakamura, Marshall McLuhan, Martin Margiela, Michel Foucault, Nam June Paik, Neville Brody, Nigel Coates, Óscar Tusquets, Oswald Mathias Ungers, Pedro Almodóvar, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, Ricardo Bofill, Richard Rogers, Ridley Scott, Robert Venturi, Robert Wilson, Robert Wyatt, Roland Barthes, Sally Potter, Shin Tamakatsu, SITE, Stanley Kubrick, Stanley Tigerman, Stephen King, Stewart Brand, Studio 65, Sturtevant, Terry Farrell, Thomas Gordon Smith, Thomas Pynchon, Trisha Brown, Van Dyke Parks, Walter Pichler, Werner Rösler, Yellow Magic Orchestra, u.v.m.

Was muss nach dem Ende einer Diktatur getan werden, damit das Leid der Verfolgten ein Ende findet und die Geschichte sich nicht wiederholt? Wenige Langzeitstudien haben wissenschaftlich untersucht, welche Wirkungen Maßnahmen im Rahmen von Transitional Justice tatsächlich erzielt haben. Dieser Band analysiert anhand von sieben Ländern, was die Aufarbeitung von Diktaturen bewirken kann ¿ und wo ihre Grenzen liegen.

The history of the relationships intertwined by the Taizé Community amongst Christians of Eastern European countries in the second half of the last century has not yet been written. Yet it is a fundamental chapter for understanding the unique international irradiation of the community. The encounter with the different faces of a Christian youth beyond the Iron Curtain who in Taizé experienced an European space at once unified, will become in particular one of the main directions of investment of the community from the early 1960s. It is on this story that the contributions of this volume intend to throw a first light, relying on a completely unpublished documentation and on the witnesses of many protagonists involved in the construction of this unique continental and ecumenical network.

The nursing process generally is understood as key element of professional nursing care in Germany. This study follows this argument back to the introduction of the nursing process in the 1970s and 1980s. At that time, the German healthcare system underwent dramatic changes and economic reorganization, which can be understood as the emergence of the neoliberal rationale in Germany. The argument of cost explosion was used to restructure hospitals into enterprises that were to operate based on the logic of the market. Its cybernetic logic made the nursing process an ideal instrument to restructure nursing care. Perspectives of governmentality and critical accounting reveal the nursing process as an accounting tool which has made nursing calculable. And while German nurses valued its potential for professionalization, the findings suggest that a newly constituted accountable nursing vocation can instead be considered as de-professionalizing.

This new reading of Erving Goffman's work shows how his analyses of everyday life portray interactional analogs of larger Cold War realities. Rather than viewing Goffman as microsociologist of the mundane, he is shown to be a powerful social theorist of the American Cold War.

1993. To unge forelsker sig. Jack er flygtet fra de snævre rammer ude på landet i Kansas og går på kunstakademiet. Elizabeth har vristet sig fri af sin velhavende Østkystfamilie og studerer kognitiv psykologi, adfærdsøkonomi og evolutionsbiologi. Og så lige neurovidenskab oveni …Jack og Elizabeth bliver gift, får en søn. Men slumrende konflikter dukker op til overfladen, da Jack må opgive sine kunstneriske ambitioner til fordel for et lærerjob, og Elizabeth involveres i et tvivlsomt forskningsprojekt på centeret Wellness. Skjulte familietraumer afdækkes lag for lag med chokerende afsløringer til følge …Wellness er en skarp, satirisk og morsom, men også kærlig fortælling om familie, kunst, moral, fupdiæter, forstadsliv, forældres perfekthedssyndrom, åbne ægteskaber samt det moderne menneske, der snurrer rundtosset rundt i nettets afkroge og fanges ind af algoritmer og digitale plattenslagere.Ny stor roman af amerikanske Nathan Hill, forfatteren til Niksen.

China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party. But since the election of Xi Jinping as General Secretary, life at the top in China has changed. Under the guise of a corruption crackdown, which has seen his rivals imprisoned, Xi Jinping has been quietly building one of the most powerful leaderships modern China has ever seen. In CEO China, the noted China expert Kerry Brown reveals the hidden story of the rise of the man dubbed the 'Chinese Godfather'. Brown investigates his relationship with his revolutionary father, who was expelled by Mao during the Cultural Revolution, his business dealings and allegiances in China's regional power struggles and his role in the internal battle raging between the old men of the Deng era and the new super-rich 'princelings'. Xi Jinping's China is powerful, aggressive and single-minded and this book will become a must-read for the Western world.

Jonas war mein bester Freund, obwohl ich ihn nur selten mit diesem Allerweltsnamen anredete, der sich in unserer Schulklasse eingebürgert hatte. Irgendwann hatte ich begonnen, ihn mit Johannes anzusprechen, seinem ins Taufregister und ins Buch des Standesamts eingetragenen Vornamen, und er hatte nicht abgewunken. Dazu war er wohl viel zu intelligent, ja ich möchte sogar behaupten, dass er mir in Bezug auf die menschliche Reife turmhoch überlegen war.Schulfreundschaften halten nicht immer ewig - das muss auch der Erzähler dieses Romans erkennen; und wenn sich eine Frau zwischen zwei Schulfreunde drängt, verschieben sich Prioritäten. Wege trennen sich, aber Erinnerungen bleiben. Doch sie verändern sich: Der, der sich in seiner Jugend unterlegen fühlte, meistert - wenn der Vergleich unwichtig wird - die Unwägbarkeiten des Lebens manchmal besser als jener, der damals überlegen schien. Doch das unsichtbare Band der Freundschaft fragt nicht nach Über- oder Unterlegenheit, nach Schuld und Vergebung. Es ist einfach da, auch wenn es verloren scheint ...Norbert Heinrich Holl beschreibt in "Johannes, der Ire" eine Coming-of-Age-Geschichte über das Hohe Lied der Freundschaft, die auch dann Bestand hat, wenn man glaubt, sie verspielt zu haben.

From her magical childhood being reared in a family of travelling entertainers to building a career as a music star, Sandy recounts the highs - and lows - of a lifetime in music.

Amidst the turmoil of World War II, Zurich was an enclave where modern art held its ground. In the aftermath, Concrete Art, design, and the "Swiss Style" became emblematic of a modern Switzerland. Influenced by De Stijl, Russian Constructivism, and the Bauhaus, the Zurich Concretists aimed to transform society through aesthetics, design, and architecture. Circle! Square! Progress! brings together the main protagonists Max Bill, Camille Graeser, Verena Loewensberg, and Richard Paul Lohse along with precursors such as Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges Vantongerloo, Theo van Doesburg, and Anton Stankowski. Contemporary witnesses, artist Peter Fischli and curator Bice Curiger, add their unique perspectives. The volume vividly describes the Zurich Concretist's conections with European avant-garde, delving into the hostilities, scandals, and their ultimately successful struggle for recognition against the backdrop of the 20th century's upheavals.

The term "performance," as used in 1955 by the British philosopher of language John L. Austin, refers to processual, "performative" aspects that take center-stage instead of rigid states and fixed norms. It has found its way into the most diverse areas of science and technology and has recently also appeared in the architectural context. Performance has long been a recurring topic also in the design and research work of Zurich-based architecture firm Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin (EMI). This is particularly visible in the award-winning design for a tourist infrastructure on the eastern ridge of the Jungfrau in the Swiss Alps (2012), in the temporary installation Anthropomorphic Form for the Swiss Art Awards (2019), and in the residential building on Stampfenbachstrasse in Zurich (2022). Their own work is a catalyst for EMI's deeper engagement with performance, now set forth in this book. Texts by the firm's founding partner Elli Mosayebi and by Joseph Schwartz, Laurent Stalder, and Nina Zschocke, all of whom also teach at ETH Zürich's Department of Architecture, as well as artistic and documentary photographs, plans, and drawings, illuminate the phenomenon from the different perspectives of architectural practice, theory of architecture, and structural engineering.

"Pistolen verstehen - Grundlagen und Berechnungen" verkörpert ein umfassendes Nachschlagewerk, das grundlegende Konzepte der Physik und der Technischen Mechanik erläutert. Ein Großteil des Buches widmet sich den Berechnungen, die für die Selbstladefunktion von Rückstoßladern Relevanz besitzen. Besonders interessant hierbei: Die Abschnitte zur Verschlussdynamik, die verschiedene Aspekte wie die Rücklaufgeschwindigkeit, Modellierung und Bewegungsgleichungen mit Reibung behandeln. Das Taschenbuch im Format 17x22 cm bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Mechanik von Selbstladepistolen und vermittelt dem Leser ein tiefgreifendes Verständnis der Grundlagen und Berechnungen, die in diesem Bereich eine Rolle spielen. Der Autor geht sehr systematisch vor und präsentiert die Fakten auf eine verständliche Art und Weise. Insgesamt ist das Werk äußerst informativ und bietet eine Fülle von Berechnungen und Modellen, die es zu einer unverzichtbaren Informationsquelle für jeden werden lassen, der ein tiefes Verständnis der Mechanik von Pistolen erlangen möchte.

Die Bayerische Staatskanzlei entwickelte sich nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg erstaunlich rasch zur Schaltzentrale der Regierungspolitik und des bayerischen Föderalismus. Doch wie konnte sie diese Hüter-Rolle einnehmen? Welche politischen Ziele verfolgte sie gemeinsam mit den bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten und wie setzte sie diese um? Rick Tazelaar untersucht in seiner Studie das Führungspersonal, die Organisationskultur sowie die Handlungsfelder der Bayerischen Staatskanzlei zwischen 1945 und 1962. Mithilfe erstmals zugänglicher Akten zeigt er, wie sehr diese Bereiche im Zeichen der Konsolidierung des bayerischen Staats standen. So richtete die Staatskanzlei ihren Umgang mit NS-Belastung sowie ihre Personalauswahl nach ihren föderalistischen Zielen aus und etablierte eine dezidierte Geschichtspolitik, um den bayerischen Staat von der NS-Zeit abzugrenzen. Der autoritär-etatistische Führungsstil war dabei stark geprägt von den Erfahrungen in dem Deutschen Kaiserreich und in der Weimarer Republik. Mit kritischem Blick auf die Hintergründe föderalistischer Politik historisiert die Studie ein zentrales Element der demokratischen Kultur der Bundesrepublik.