2026 GESIS #Klingemann Prize for the Best #CSES #Scholarship
Named in honor of Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Klingemann, co-founder of CSES, the prize (€1,000 honorarium) recognizes the most outstanding scholarly work using CSES data published in 2025 (article, book, dissertation, or other scholarly work).
Das ist eine wunderliche Nacht; der Mondschein in den gothischen Bogen des Dohms erscheint und verschwindet wie Geister – an der Laterne des Thurmes klettert ein Nachwandler herum, mit einem Säuglinge im Arme, es ist der Klökner; sein Weib schaut aus der Luke, händeringend, aber stumm wie das Grab, daß der schlafende Wandler, der sicher wie der sorglose Mensch, die gefährlichsten Stellen zurüklegt, nicht beim Rufe seines Namens erwachend und schwindelnd mit dem Knaben in das tiefe Grab hinunterstürze. - aus 'Nachtwachen. Von Bonaventura' Dienmann, Penig 1804 von Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann (1777 - 1831) https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/show/klingemann_nachtwachen_1805
This is a strange night; the moonlight appears and vanishes like ghosts in the Gothic arches of the cathedral – A sleep-walker, with an infant in his arms, is climbing about on the tower light, it is the sexton; his wife looks from the dormer window, wringing her hands, but mute as the grave, lest the sleeping wanderer, who passes over the most dangerous places safely, as a carefree man, plunge down into the deep grave with his boy by awakening at the call of his name and growing dizzy. – Die Nachtwachen des Bonaventura. The night watches of Bonaventura English translation by Gerald Gillespie (1971) Source: https://archive.org/details/dienachtwachende0000bona/page/158/mode/1up
Romantic Landscapes (29)
#Cathedrals #Klingemann #RomanticLandscapes
The 10th Nightwatch of Bonaventura evokes a moonlit gothic cathedral in a nocturnal cityscape. The picture is already conventional by 1804, the date of the 1st publication, but the sardonic humour of the scene is uncommon.
