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Simplicissimus
Mike Mitchell�s translation of Simplicissimus was shortlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. �It is a violent and often all-too-realistic picaresque, set in war-torn Europe during the 17th-century Thirty Years War. Simplicissimus is the eternal innocent, the simple-minded survivor, and we follow him from a childhood in which he loses his parents to the casual atrocities of occupying troops, through his own soldiering adventures, and up to his final vocation as a hermit alone on an island. It is Rabelasian in some respects, but more down to earth and melancholy.” Phil Baker in The Sunday Times �It is the rarest kind of monument to life and literature, for it has survived almost three centuries and will survive many more. It is a story of the most basic kind of grandeur - gaudy, wild, raw, amusing, rollicking and ragged, boiling with life, on intimate terms with death and evil - but in the end, contrite and fully tired of a world wasting itself in blood, pillage and lust, but immortal in the miserable splendour of its sins.” Thomas Mann
Collections and Books, Images and Texts: Early Modern German Cultures of the Book
How did German composers brand their music as Venetian? How did the Other fare in other languages, when Cabeza’s Relación of colonial Americas appeared in translations? How did Altdorf emblems travel to colonial America and Sweden? What does Virtue look like in a library collection? And what was Boccaccio’s Decameron doing in the Ethica section? From representations of Sophie Charlotte, the first queen in Prussia, to the Ottoman Turks, from German wedding music to Till Eulenspiegel, from the translation of Horatian Odes and encyclopedias of heraldry, these essays by leading scholars explore the transmission, translation, and organization of knowledge in early modern Germany, contributing sophisticated insights to the history of the early modern book and its contents.
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The Adventurous Simplicissimus
The Adventurous Simplicissimus is a cornerstone of German Baroque literature, written by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. Through the misadventures of its protagonist, Simplicius, the novel offers a social satire that portrays with irony and detail the devastation caused by the Thirty Years' War. With an approach that blends raw realism and fantastical elements, the author critiques the hypocrisy, corruption, and inequalities of his time while presenting profound reflections on human fragility and the search for meaning in a chaotic world. Since its publication, The Adventurous Simplicissimus has been acclaimed as one of the first picaresque novels in the German language, with a na...
Breitenbach 1650 - 1910 von A-K
Ein Orts- und Familienbuch von 1650 bis 1910 der Gemeinde Breitenbach. Breitenbach ist heute ein Ortsteil der Gemeinde Schauenburg im nordhessischen Landkreis Kassel. Der Ort wird erstmals 1408 in einem Sühnebrief der Stadt Wolfhagen als Breydenbach erwähnt. Es ist aber anzunehmen, dass das Dorf älter ist, denn der noch stehende Kirchturm mit seinen romanischen Formen könnte aus dem 12 Jahrhundert stammen. Der Name des Ortes wird von Breida (Flur) abgeleitet. Bekannte Persönlichkeiten sind Johann Friedrich Krause und Albert (Ali) Schindehütte. Zu Ehren von Johann Friedrich Krause und Demoiselle Maria Hassenpflug (aus Hoof), beide haben viel zu den Märchen der Brüder Grimm beigetragen, wurde 1997 im alten Feuerwehrhaus die "Schauenburger Märchenwache" errichtet. Gegründet wurde die Märchenwache von dem Künstler Albert (Ali) Schindehütte, wohnhaft in Hamburg und geboren in Breitenbach.
