Mythologie trifft Science-Fiction, Lyrik trifft Künstlerische Forschung – »Transient« erzählt vom Ende einer großen Liebe in Zeiten des Untergangs. Thomas Ballhausen verwebt Antike, Pop und Philosophie zu einem rauschhaften Langgedicht über die Zumutungen menschlicher Existenz vor dem Hintergrund einer phantastischen, wüsten Wirklichkeit. Seine Modernisierung des »Alkestis«-Stoffes erzählt von Schuld, Schande und dem Wunsch nach Vergebung. Der vielschichtige, stark rhythmisierte Text wird von digitalen Zeichnungen der Künstlerin Elena Peytchinska ergänzt und begleitet.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

The course of political events in the Federal Republic of Germany has been chiefly influenced by its two legislative bodies, the German Bundestag and the Bundesrat. The activities of both are so intertwined that a comprehensive documentation of the proceedings of both the Bundestag and the Bundesrat is indispensable. The microfiche edition 'Verhandlungen des Bundestages und des Bundesrates' provides access to earlier published parliamentary documents for a broad circle of scientists from the fields of history and politics as well as chambers, courts and authorities, in a practical and space-saving format. This microfiche edition of the proceedings of both legislative bodies contains: all stenographic reports (accounts of the course of each Bundestag and Bundesrat meeting); all printed documents (legislative drafts, international agreements, formal inquiries and responses, budget plans, and more); and comprehensive and detailed subject indexes compiled by the scientific documentation departments of the Bundestag and Bundesrat. Accompanying printed index volumes designed especially for this microfiche edition give researchers easy access to the contents of each legislative period.

The peer-reviewed series offers books that illuminate the multifaceted history of the Cold War in both its European and Global dimensions, across and beyond the Iron Curtain. It focuses on the interactions, interdependencies and co-operation of Eastern state socialist countries (and their citizens) with Western capitalist, Latin American, African and non-aligned states (and their citizens), as well as with China.