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Die Schönen und die Reichen
Er musste ein Leben erfinden. Und die Frau, die es geführt hatte. Und ihre Erinnerung an dieses Leben. Ein Gesellschaftsroman großen Zuschnitts: Macht und Musik, Obsessionen und Abgründe - und ein unlösbares Rätsel. Boy, ein ehemals erfolgreicher Biograph mittleren Alters, steht nach dem Flop seiner letzten beiden Bücher vor dem Nichts. Da erhält er eine Chance, die Chance für einen Neuanfang. Ina von Mallind wünscht sich einen Ghostwriter für ihre Memoiren: über ihr Leben an der Seite des größten musikalischen Genies des 20. Jahrhunderts. In Mallinds Haus gerät Boy in die Kulisse der Schönen und der Reichen. Aber was als "Dallas in Bayreuth" beginnt und über Stationen an der Cote d'Azur und Berlin zu einem Finale in Florenz führt, erzählt tatsächlich nicht die Biographie einer spektakulären Frau, sondern von zwielichtigen Charakteren, von Demütigung, Überlebenswillen und der Droge Erfolg sowie dem verzweifelten Versuch jedes Einzelnen, mithilfe von Geld sich und sein Leben zu behaupten.
Perlensamt
Martin Saunders, amerikanischer Kunsthistoriker in Berlin, lernt durch Zufall David Perlensamt kennen - einen eigenartig anziehenden, geheimnisvollen Menschen. Wenige Tage nach dieser Begegnung geschieht in Perlensamts Wohnung in der Fasanenstraße ein Mord. Fast zur selben Zeit wird dem Auktionshaus, für das Saunders arbeitet, ein Courbet angeboten. Exakt das Bild, das Saunders in der Wohnung Perlensamts gesehen hat. "Perlensamt" ist ein Kriminal- und Gesellschaftsroman, der das große Thema Raubkunst aufblättert - und auf den Spuren bedeutender Werke und ihrer 'Sammler' zwischen Berlin, Paris, New York wandelt.yy
Auctioneers Who Made Art History
Procurement analysis, sales planning, customer orientation, brand management—the art market is changing more rapidly than ever before. The price that a work of art commands influences its place in the art-historical canon. Auction houses have become dominant avenues of distribution, as have art fairs, galleries, and art dealers. Even today the ritual dramaturgy of the auction resembles an archaic competition, which can leave participants speechless and captivate bystanders. At the center of the action is the auctioneer, whose performance is increasingly critical to the success of the auction. With portraits of auctioneers, this volume tells the story of the art auction business. Key events that played out in cities such as New York, Paris, Zurich, Berlin, Stuttgart, and Pompeii come alive and show how the auctioneer is emerging from the anonymity of a service provider and stepping into the limelight as the star of the show.
TOPmodel
Heidi Klum hat es geschafft: Das Thema "Topmodel" ist in aller Munde. Barbara Bongartz hat das Phänomen erforscht: "Ich wollte wissen, wer diese Ikone der Massen wirklich ist. Meine Porträtanfrage wurde von Günter Klum abgelehnt. Also begann ich, bei Castings, Modeschauen und Shootings zu recherchieren. Und stellte fest: Die Totalität des Traums, über einen Laufsteg zu schweben, auf einer Plakatwand zu flattern, das Gesicht einer Marke zu sein, erwischt alle. "Es war schon immer mein Traum, mit Kleidern zu posieren", schrieb eine Leserin dem Frauenmagazin Brigitte, die ab 2010 ihre Fotostrecken nur noch mit Leserinnen bestreitet. Das Casting hat begonnen ...
The Curious Humanist
"Siegfried Kracauer is today considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. During the Weimar Republic, he established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, now often ranked alongside his friends Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. When he arrived in Manhattan aboard a crowded refugee ship in 1941, however, he was virtually unknown in the United States and had yet to write his best-known books, From Caligari to Hitler and Theory of Film. In this study, Johannes von Moltke details the intricate ways in which the American intellectual and political context shaped Kracauer's seminal contributions to film studies and shows how Kracauer's American writi...
From Caligari to Hitler
An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel. He explores the connections among film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer makes a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. With a critical introduction by Leonardo Quaresima which provides context for Kracauer’s scholarship and his contributions to film studies, this Princeton Classics edition makes an influential work available to new generations of cinema enthusiasts.
Dismantling the Dream Factory
The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer reassesses this period, looking in particular at how the attempt to 'dismantle the dream factory' of Nazi entertainment cinema resulted in a new cinematic language which developed as a result of the changing audience demographic. In an era when female viewers comprised 70 per cent of cinema audiences a 'women's cinema' emerged, which sought to appeal to female spectators through its genres, star choices, stories and formal conventions. In addition to analyzing the formal language and narrative content of these films, Baer uses a wide array of other sources to reconstruct the original context of their reception, including promotional and publicity materials, film programs, censorship documents, reviews and spreads in fan magazines. This book presents a new take on an essential period, which saw the rebirth of German cinema after its thorough delegitimization under the Nazi regime.
East German Film and the Holocaust
East Germany’s ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany’s name during the Third Reich. Instead, it cast communists as both victims of and victors over National Socialist oppression while marginalizing discussions of Jewish suffering. Yet for the 1977 Academy Awards, the Ministry of Culture submitted Jakob der Lügner – a film focused exclusively on Jewish victimhood that would become the only East German film to ever be officially nominated. By combining close analyses of key films with extensive archival research, this book explores how GDR filmmakers depicted Jews and the Holocaust in a country where memories of Nazi persecution were highly prescribed, tightly controlled and invariably political.
International Adventures
A comprehensive account of the popular German film industry of the 1960s, its main protagonists, and its production strategies. The book challenges traditional assumptions about this mode of film-making.
As long as the Roses still bloom. The track record of the German Heimatfilm
Master's Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject History Europe - Germany - Modern History, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (School of History, Classics and Archaeology), course: MLitt History, language: English, abstract: Several historians and film scholars have dealt with the German Heimatfilm. They mainly concentrated on the films' reception in the 1950s, when they served as a form of distraction from reality. Large audience figures were attracted to go to the movies to see peaceful villages, mountains, lakes or woods. The reasons for the genre's success were revealed by several researchers. But, when switching on television today, it becomes clear that the phenomenon of Heimat is sti...
