The Viennese Girl

Author : Jenny Lecoat
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781760874285

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The Viennese Girl by Jenny Lecoat Pdf

Inspired by the true story of a young Jewish girl - Hedy Bercu - who fled to Jersey from Vienna only to find herself trapped on the island during the German occupation. In June 1940, the horror-struck inhabitants of Jersey watch as the German army unopposed takes possession of their island. Now only a short way from the English coast, the Germans plan their invasion. Hedy Bercu, a young Jewish girl from Vienna who fled to the isolation and safety of Jersey two years earlier to escape the Nazis, finds herself once more trapped, but this time with no way of escape. Hiding her racial status, Hedy is employed by the German authorities and secretly embarks on small acts of resistance. But most dangerously of all, she falls in love with German lieutenant Kurt Neumann -- a relationship on which her life will soon depend. A remarkable novel of finding hope and love when all seems at its darkest.

Author : Jenny Lecoat
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788855655

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The Girl From the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat Pdf

Based on a remarkable true story of love and survival. In June 1940, the Channel Islands are occupied by Hitler's forces. Hedy Bercu, a young woman who fled from Vienna to Jersey to escape the Occupation, finds herself once more entrapped by the Nazis, this time with no escape. Concealing her Jewish status, she finds translation work with the German authorities and embarks on secret acts of resistance. Most extraordinary of all, Hedy falls in love with a German lieutenant – a relationship on which her survival comes to depend. 'Combines historical fact with the fictional narrative, and offers a cast rich with multidimensional characters. Readers will be riveted' – Publishers Weekly

Author : Trudi Kanter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451696592

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Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler by Trudi Kanter Pdf

“ FOR EVEN IN NAZI VIENNA, Trudi realized, women still looked in the mirror. . . . She knows that even in the bleak darkness, we feel, love, desire. She left no child (she and Walter tried, with no success); her hats are long lost, but her book is her legacy, discovered once again.” —From the introduction by Linda Grant, a uthor of The Clothes on Their Backs, The Thoughtful Dresser and We Had It So Good In 1938 Trudi Kanter, stunningly beautiful, chic and charismatic, was a hat designer for the best-dressed women in Vienna. She frequented the most elegant cafés. She had suitors. She flew to Paris to see the latest fashions. And she fell deeply in love with Walter Ehrlich, a charming and romantic businessman. But as Hitler’s tanks rolled into Austria, the world this young Jewish couple knew collapsed, leaving them desperate to escape. In prose that cuts straight to the bone, Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler tells the true story of Trudi’s astonishing journey from Vienna to Prague to blitzed London seeking safety for her and Walter amid the horror engulfing Europe. It was her courage, resourcefulness and perseverance that kept both her and her beloved safe during the Nazi invasion and that make this an indelible memoir of love and survival. Sifting through a secondhand bookshop in London, an English editor stumbled upon this extraordinary book, and now, though she died in 1992, the world has a second chance to discover Trudi Kanter’s enchanting story. In these pages she is alive—vivid, tenacious and absolutely unforgettable.

Author : Sarah Wildman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101616161

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Paper Love by Sarah Wildman Pdf

One woman’s journey to find the lost love her grandfather left behind when he fled pre-World War II Europe, and an exploration into family identity, myth, and memory. Years after her grandfather’s death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled “Correspondence: Patients A–G.” What she found inside weren’t dry medical histories; instead what was written opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family’s prewar Vienna. One woman’s letters stood out: those from Valy—Valerie Scheftel. Her grandfather’s lover who had remained behind when he fled Europe six months after the Nazis annexed Austria. Valy’s name wasn’t unknown to her—Wildman had once asked her grandmother about a dark-haired young woman whose images she found in an old photo album. “She was your grandfather’s true love,” her grandmother said at the time, and refused any other questions. But now, with the help of the letters, Wildman started to piece together Valy’s story. They revealed a woman desperate to escape and clinging to the memory of a love that defined her years of freedom. Obsessed with Valy’s story, Wildman began a quest that lasted years and spanned continents. She discovered, to her shock, an entire world of other people searching for the same woman. On in the course of discovering Valy’s ultimate fate, she was forced to reexamine the story of her grandfather’s triumphant escape and how this history fit within her own life and in the process, she rescues a life seemingly lost to history.

Author : Vivien Shotwell
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385678049

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Vienna Nocturne by Vivien Shotwell Pdf

Vienna Nocturne tells the story of the turbulent life and brilliantly successful career of young British opera singer Anna Storace, a child prodigy who is taken by her parents to Italy at age thirteen to advance her career. In love with life and wildly ambitious, Anna wants everything--to be famous, to be loved--and this leads her to make some fatal choices. We watch her turn from a carefree young girl to a passionate young woman, and it is during this transformation that her affair with Mozart blossoms. The story of their love, no less powerful for being forbidden, is reminiscent of the passionate thwarted romances described in Loving Frank and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Written in melodious prose by a young author studying opera at Yale, Vienna Nocturne is dramatic story of a woman's battle to find love and fame in an 18th-century world that controls and limits her at every turn.

Author : Teresa Grant
Publisher : NYLA
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781943772063

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Vienna Waltz by Teresa Grant Pdf

With Napoleon Bonaparte exiled to Elba, the elite of Europe have gathered at the glittering Congress of Vienna--princes, ambassadors, the Russian tsar--negotiating the fate of the Continent by day and flirting and waltzing by night. But on one of those candle-warmed evenings, Princess Tatiana, the most beautiful and talked about woman in Vienna, is found murdered during an ill-timed rendezvous with three of her most powerful conquests. . . Suzanne Rannoch has tried to ignore rumors that her new husband, Malcolm, is also one of Tatiana's lovers. As a protégé of France's Prince Talleyrand and an attaché for Britain's Lord Castlereagh, Malcolm sets out to investigate the murder. He needs Suzanne's unique skills and knowledge if he is to succeed. The complex dance between husband and wife in the search for the truth tests their marriage, their liberty, and their very lives. No one's secrets are safe, and the future of Europe may hang in the balance. . . "Glittering balls, deadly intrigue, sexual scandals. . .the next best thing to actually being there!" —Lauren Willig "A perfect blend of history, mystery, romance, and suspense." --Deborah Crombie

Author : Megan Brandow-Faller
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271086507

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The Female Secession by Megan Brandow-Faller Pdf

Decorative handcrafts are commonly associated with traditional femininity and unthreatening docility. However, the artists connected with interwar Vienna’s “female Secession” created craft-based artworks that may be understood as sites of feminist resistance. In this book, historian Megan Brandow-Faller tells the story of how these artists disrupted long-established boundaries by working to dislodge fixed oppositions between “art” and “craft,” “decorative” and “profound,” and “masculine” and “feminine” in art. Tracing the history of the women’s art movement in Secessionist Vienna—from its origins in 1897, at the Women’s Academy, to the Association of Austrian Women Artists and its radical offshoot, the Wiener Frauenkunst—Brandow-Faller tells the compelling story of a movement that reclaimed the stereotypes attached to the idea of Frauenkunst, or women’s art. She shows how generational struggles and diverging artistic philosophies of art, craft, and design drove the conservative and radical wings of Austria’s women’s art movement apart and explores the ways female artists and craftswomen reinterpreted and extended the Klimt Group’s ideas in the interwar years. Brandow-Faller draws a direct connection to the themes that impelled the better-known explosion of feminist art in 1970s America. In this provocative story of a Viennese modernism that never disavowed its ornamental, decorative roots, she gives careful attention to key primary sources, including photographs and reviews of early twentieth-century exhibitions and archival records of school curricula and personnel. Engagingly written and featuring more than eighty representative illustrations, The Female Secession recaptures the radical potential of what Fanny Harlfinger-Zakucka referred to as “works from women’s hands.” It will appeal to art historians working in the decorative arts and modernism as well as historians of Secession-era Vienna and gender history.

Author : Alys X. George
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226819969

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The Naked Truth by Alys X. George Pdf

"In the popular imagination, turn-of-the-century Vienna is a cerebral place, marked by Freud, the discovery of the unconscious, and the advent of high modernist culture. But as historian Alys George argues, this stereotype of Viennese Modernism as essentially "heady" overlooks a rich cultural history of the body in the period. Spanning 1870 to 1930, The Naked Truth is an interdisciplinary tour de force that recasts the visual, literary, and performative cultures of the era and offers an alternative genealogy of this fascinating moment in the history of the West. Starting with the Second Vienna Medical School and its innovations in anatomy and pathology, George traces an emerging culture of bodily knowledge by analyzing a variety of written and visual media, including theater and dance, and by drawing connections between scientific and artistic discourses. Paying equal attention to both low and high culture, bringing gender and class issues back to the fore, and highlighting the role of female thinkers and writers, George's book makes a signal contribution to our understanding of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Viennese and European culture. The Naked Truth shows us that the "inward turn" cannot be understood until it is set against the backdrop of a culture obsessed with exploring and displaying humanity in its embodied, carnal form"--

Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780330477406

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The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson Pdf

Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for readers young and old. In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there, but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her. And sure enough, one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt and searching, Annika's mother has come to claim her daughter, who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family . . .

Author : Anne-Marie O'Connor
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781101873120

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The Lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O'Connor Pdf

National Bestseller The true story that inspired the movie Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. Contributor to the Washington Post Anne-Marie O’Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt’s 1907 masterpiece—the breathtaking portrait of a Viennese Jewish socialite, Adele Bloch-Bauer. The celebrated painting, stolen by Nazis during World War II, subsequently became the subject of a decade-long dispute between her heirs and the Austrian government. When the U.S. Supreme Court became involved in the case, its decision had profound ramifications in the art world. Expertly researched, masterfully told, The Lady in Gold is at once a stunning depiction of fin-de siècle Vienna, a riveting tale of Nazi war crimes, and a fascinating glimpse into the high-stakes workings of the contemporary art world. One of the Best Books of the Year: The Huffington Post, The Christian Science Monitor. Winner of the Marfield National Award for Arts Writing. Winner of a California Book Award.

Author : Josephine Bacon
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0070233179

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Patisserie of Vienna by Josephine Bacon Pdf

Recipes range from quick and easy unbaked confections to elaborate classics. A general introduction describes the patisserie of Vienna, with detailed notes on special equipment and ingredients. 36 pages of color photos.

Author : Lillian Langseth-Christensen
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : MINN:31951000371244H

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A Design for Living by Lillian Langseth-Christensen Pdf

Author : Adrian Mathews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0099283042

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Vienna Blood by Adrian Mathews Pdf

A Viennese reporter spends an evening with a computer nerd. Months later the man's widow calls, hoping the reporter can help explain her husband's demise. The reporter agrees against his better judgement, soon finding himself in strange deep water.

Author : Alessandra Comini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1632931532

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The Fantastic Art of Vienna by Alessandra Comini Pdf

An investigation of the historic Viennese milieu of plural dualities in which artists, musicians, writers, and scientists worked in the city not only of dreams but of nightmares.

Author : Alexandra Seibel
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789048531684

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Visions of Vienna by Alexandra Seibel Pdf

'Visions of Vienna' explores the cinematic city of Vienna in international filmmaking in order to provide a fresh perspective on the works of canonized auteurs such as Erich von Stroheim, G. W. Pabst, Ernst Lubitsch, and Max Ophüls. By elaborating the intimate connection between their Vienna-set films and an urban experience bound up with the cultural specificity of the city, the book adds a new contribution to the study of Viennese modernity in cinema. It argues that Vienna's common association, on film, with anti-modern imagery of the nostalgic glorification of the Habsburg Myth is directly tied to crucial issues of modernity. Films set in Vienna persistently articulate the experience of displacement due to emigration, changing gender relations and anti-feminism, class distinction, and anti-Semitism. These themes are all tangibly evident in the representations of this city in cinema - despite the ongoing mystification of Vienna as the incarnation of 'waltz dreams' and schmaltz.