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A German Life

Author : Christopher Hampton
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780571356188

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I had no idea what was going on. Or very little. No more than most people. So you can't make me feel guilty. Brunhilde Pomsel's life spanned the twentieth century. She struggled to make ends meet as a secretary in Berlin during the 1930s, her many employers including a Jewish insurance broker, the German Broadcasting Corporation and, eventually, Joseph Goebbels. Christopher Hampton's play is based on the testimony she gave when she finally broke her silence to a group of Austrian filmmakers, shortly before she died in 2016. Maggie Smith, alone on stage, plays Brunhilde Pomsel. Christopher Hampton's play is drawn from the testimony Pomsel gave when she finally broke her silence shortly before she died to a group of Austrian filmmakers, and from their documentary A German Life (Christian Krönes, Olaf Müller, Roland Schrotthofer and Florian Weigensamer, produced by Blackbox Film & Media Productions).

A German Life

Author : Bernd Wollschlaeger
Publisher : A German Life
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Children of Nazis
ISBN : 0979183103

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Black German

Author : Theodor Michael
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 9781781383117

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Black German by Theodor Michael Pdf

This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence in Germany and Europe: the autobiography of Theodor Michael. Theodor Michael is among the few surviving members of the first generation of 'Afro-Germans': Born in Germany in 1925 to a Cameroonian father and a German mother, he grew up in Berlin in the last days of the Weimar Republic. As a child and teenager he worked in circuses and films and experienced the tightening knot of racial discrimination under the Nazis in the years before the Second World War. He survived the war as a forced labourer, founding a family and making a career as a journalist and actor in post-war West Germany. Since the 1980s he has become an important spokesman for the black German consciousness movement, acting as a human link between the first black German community of the inter-war period, the pan-Africanism of the 1950s and 1960s, and new generations of Germans of African descent. Theodor Michael's life story is a classic account of coming to consciousness of a man who understands himself as both black and German; accordingly, it illuminates key aspects of modern German social history as well as of the post-war history of the African diaspora. The text has been translated by Eve Rosenhaft, Professor of German Historical Studies at the University of Liverpool and an internationally acknowledged expert in Black German studies. It is accompanied by a translator's preface, explanatory notes, a chronology of historical events and a guide to further reading, so that the book will be accessible and useful both for general readers and for undergraduate students.

A German Life in the Age of Revolution

Author : Jon Vanden Heuvel
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 081320948X

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A German Life in the Age of Revolution by Jon Vanden Heuvel Pdf

The story of Joseph Gorres's life is in many ways the story of German political culture in the revolutionary epoch. Indeed, his dates, 1776-1848, frame the "Age of Revolution" and, like the age in which he lived, Gorres's life was marked by great upheavals. One of the most prominent German journalists of his age, Gorres pioneered political journalism, or what was called Publizistik in Germany. He was a founder of political Catholicism, and was in no small part responsible for the fact that Germany eventually developed a party based on the Catholic confession. Gorres was also an extraordinarily prolific scholar with an almost dizzying range of interests. His life provides a window into an incredibly prolific era in European history, into the political implications of the Enlightenment, the wide-reaching intellectual movement of German romanticism, the roots of German nationalism, and the origins of German political party formation.Gorres traversed the entire political spectrum of his age: his youth, formed in the shadow of the French Revolution, was characterized by enlightened, cosmopolitan republicanism -- what some have dubbed "German Jacobinism"; his middle years included a romantic phase, in which he helped foster a nascent German cultural nationalism, before he became a fiery nationalist writer and publisher of the Rheinischer Merkur, the most important political newspaper in Germany up to that time. In the sunset of his life he was primarily a Catholic political polemicist.Gorres helped shape the immensely creative and pivotal years in which he lived, years that saw the development of the modern state system and the origin of the political spectrum in Germany, as well as thevery concepts "liberal" and "conservative", which are so much a part of our political discourse today.

Life in the Third Reich

Author : Richard Bessel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Germany
ISBN : 9780192158925

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This book reveals that daily German life under the Third Reich involved a complex mixture of bribery and terror; of fear and concessions; of barbarism and appeals to conventional moral values employed by the Nazis to maintain their grip on society. Eight leading historians present essays that shed fresh light on topics as familiar as the role of political violence in Nazi seizure of power and the German view of Hitler himself. It also focuses on lesser-known aspects of life in the Third Reich, such as village life, the treatment of "social outcasts," and the Germans' own retrospective view of this period of their history.

A Baltic German Life

Author : Claus Von Rosen
Publisher : Old Guard Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 184861361X

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A Baltic German Life by Claus Von Rosen Pdf

Claus von Rosen was born into one of the Baltic Ritterschaften, the German-speaking landed nobility of the Baltic countries, then part of the Russian Empire. He prospered as an executive in family-owned businesses, and adapted to the new order of independent Estonia, learning the language and doing national service in the Estonian army. With the arrival of the Second World War, and the invasion of Estonia by Soviet forces, all German Balts were declared enemy aliens, and Claus's family moved west and he himself was drafted into the German army, seeing service on the Eastern front. There, together with thousands of other German soldiers, he was taken captive by the Soviets and imprisoned in Siberia. He was to remain in the Gulag until 1955, when all German prisoners-of-war in the USSR were released, following negotiations between Moscow and Bonn. Claus returned to the Federal Republic (West Germany), for him a new country born from the ruins of the old. This volume is his memoir, offering the modern reader a glimpse of an almost-forgotten, indeed almost-unknown, world.

The Pictures of German Life Throughout History

Author : Gustav Freytag
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066394660

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The Pictures of German Life Throughout History by Gustav Freytag Pdf

This eBook edition of " The Pictures of German Life Throughout History" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Volume 1: Scenes from the Hussite War (1425): Emigration of Germans to the east after the thirteenth century Contrast of the Bohemians… A German Lady of the Royal Court: Life at Court The last of the Luxemburgers The Hungarian Crown... A Travelling Student: Characteristics of the fifteenth century Introductions in the sixteenth century The Latin schools, the children of the people as scholars… The Mental Struggles of a Youth, and his Entrance into a Monastery (1510): The church Brotherhoods; Indulgences... Out of the Cloister into the Struggle (1522): The storm among the people Luther's popularity Narrative of Johann Kessler... Doctor Luther (1517 to 1546): Three letters to the Pope Luther as a writer Activity of his latter years... German Princes at the Imperial Diet (1547): Luther and Charles V. The Roman Empire Weakness of the Imperial power Alliance of the German opposition with France... A Burgher Family: Insight into the lower circles of German life Social superiority of the Protestant provinces... The Marriage and Housekeeping of a Young Student: Position of women in the middle ages Marriage considered as an alliance between families... Of a Patrician House (1526 to 1598): Hans Schweinichen's account of the riches of the Fuggers... German Nobility in the Sixteenth Century: False position in the nation Transition to modern life... German Ideas of the Devil in the Sixteenth Century... Volume 2: The Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648) Life and Manners of the Soldiers The Villagers and their Pastors Clippers of Money and Public Opinion The Cities The Peace (1650) Rogues and Adventurers Engagement and Marriage at Court (1661) Of the Homes of German Citizens German Life at the Baths in the Seventeenth Century Jesuits and Jews The Wasunger War (1747)…

Pictures of German Life in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Vol. 1&2)

Author : Gustav Freytag
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066057091

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Pictures of German Life in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Vol. 1&2) by Gustav Freytag Pdf

This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook "Pictures of German Life in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ Scenes from the Hussite War (1425):_x000D_ Emigration of Germans to the east after the thirteenth century_x000D_ Contrast of the Bohemians…_x000D_ A German Lady of the Royal Court:_x000D_ Life at Court_x000D_ The last of the Luxemburgers_x000D_ The Hungarian Crown..._x000D_ A Travelling Student:_x000D_ Characteristics of the fifteenth century_x000D_ Introductions in the sixteenth century_x000D_ The Latin schools, the children of the people as scholars…_x000D_ The Mental Struggles of a Youth, and his Entrance into a Monastery (1510):_x000D_ The church_x000D_ Brotherhoods; Indulgences..._x000D_ Out of the Cloister into the Struggle (1522):_x000D_ The storm among the people_x000D_ Luther's popularity_x000D_ Narrative of Johann Kessler..._x000D_ Doctor Luther (1517 to 1546):_x000D_ Three letters to the Pope_x000D_ Luther as a writer_x000D_ Activity of his latter years..._x000D_ German Princes at the Imperial Diet (1547):_x000D_ Luther and Charles V._x000D_ The Roman Empire_x000D_ Weakness of the Imperial power_x000D_ Alliance of the German opposition with France..._x000D_ A Burgher Family:_x000D_ Insight into the lower circles of German life_x000D_ Social superiority of the Protestant provinces..._x000D_ The Marriage and Housekeeping of a Young Student:_x000D_ Position of women in the middle ages_x000D_ Marriage considered as an alliance between families..._x000D_ Of a Patrician House (1526 to 1598):_x000D_ Hans Schweinichen's account of the riches of the Fuggers..._x000D_ German Nobility in the Sixteenth Century:_x000D_ False position in the nation_x000D_ Transition to modern life..._x000D_ German Ideas of the Devil in the Sixteenth Century..._x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ The Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648)_x000D_ Life and Manners of the Soldiers_x000D_ The Villagers and their Pastors_x000D_ Clippers of Money and Public Opinion_x000D_ The Cities_x000D_ The Peace (1650)_x000D_ Rogues and Adventurers_x000D_ Engagement and Marriage at Court (1661)_x000D_ Of the Homes of German Citizens_x000D_ German Life at the Baths in the Seventeenth Century_x000D_ Jesuits and Jews_x000D_ The Wasunger War (1747)…

Sketches of German Life, and Scenes from the War of Liberation in Germany

Author : Karl August Varnhagen von Ense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Europe
ISBN : NYPL:33433082394853

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Sketches of German Life, and Scenes from the War of Liberation in Germany by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense Pdf

Extracts from the memoirs of a German soldier and diplomat during the period 1785 to 1810. Includes visits to Paris and the court of Napoleon and the invasion of Germany by Napoleonic forces.

Sketches of German life, and Scenes from the War of Liberation in Germany. Selected and translated from the Memoirs of V. von E. by Sir A. D. Gordon

Author : Carl August Ludwig Philipp VARNHAGEN VON ENSE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020414543

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Sketches of German life, and Scenes from the War of Liberation in Germany. Selected and translated from the Memoirs of V. von E. by Sir A. D. Gordon by Carl August Ludwig Philipp VARNHAGEN VON ENSE Pdf