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Das nackte Wort
Der Erzähler, "alias Georg Niemann", verschränkt sein intimes Gedankenbuch mit der Schilderung seiner Beziehung zu Liv, mit der er zwei Kinder hat. Das Regelwerk ihrer Liebe umfasst beides: Unbedingtes Vertrauen und unbedingte Freiheit, die Sinnenlust zu leben, wann immer und mit wem auch immer sie sich zeigt. Entlang der Entwicklung ihrer Beziehung verfasst Georg seine Gedanken zum Eros, die radikal persönlich und politisch formuliert sind und ein neues männliches Selbstver- ständnis postulieren, das die Kluft der beiden Geschlechter in der Sprache überwinden will.
Pioneers of Modern Design
Richard Weston is professor at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. He has published extensively on twentieth-century architecture, including his book Materials, Form, and Architecture, published by Yale University Press.
Regimes of Terror and Memory
The author claims that the thesis of the Uniqueness of the Holocaust has become a convenient excuse for not recognizing other regimes of terror in recent history. He therefore compares the memory of Nazi Germany’s macro criminal record with the remembrances of Stalin’s Russia and Mao’s China, the Japanese Empire, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Indonesia 1965, the totally eclipsed transatlantic slave trade and US slavery. He discusses the cultural reasons for these memory distortions in the West and in the societies that experiences these macro crimes of genocidal violence. He has embedded his search in an autobiographical context that begins with his birth, upbringing and education in Germany from 1938 to 1969, continues after his move to Hawaii in 1970 in the American political culture and becomes through extensive travelling in Europe, Asia and S. Africa cosmopolitan.
New Perspectives on Br?cke Expressionism
New Perspectives on Br?cke Expressionism: Bridging History brings together highly-renowned international art historians in a scholarly work that offers the first full-length reassessment in English of the importance of the Br?cke group to German modernism specifically and to international modernism more generally. It challenges, interrogates and updates existing orthodoxies in the field of Br?cke studies by deploying new research combined with innovative interpretative approaches. This is an exciting volume of essays with an interlinking tripartite structure that charts the significance of this pioneering German avant-garde group in relation to various critical themes, namely, 'cultural and ...
Those Who Forget
“[Makes] the very convincing case that, until and unless there is a full accounting for what happened with Donald Trump, 2020 is not over and never will be.” —The New Yorker “Riveting…we can never be reminded too often to never forget.” —The Wall Street Journal Journalist Géraldine Schwarz’s astonishing memoir of her German and French grandparents’ lives during World War II “also serves as a perceptive look at the current rise of far-right nationalism throughout Europe and the US” (Publishers Weekly). During World War II, Géraldine Schwarz’s German grandparents were neither heroes nor villains; they were merely Mitlaüfer—those who followed the current. Once the w...
Kingdom of Twilight
HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH - THE TIMES One night in autumn 1944, a gunshot echoes through the alleyways of a small town in occupied Poland. An S.S. officer is shot dead by a young Polish Jew, Margarita Ejzenstain. In retaliation, his commander orders the execution of thirty-seven Poles - one for every year of the dead man's life. First hidden by a German couple, Margarita must then flee the brutal advance of the Soviet army with her new-born baby. So begins a thrilling panorama of intermingled destinies and events that reverberate from that single act of defiance. KINGDOM OF TWILIGHT follows the lives of Jewish refugees and a German family resettled from Bukovina, as well as a form...
Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories
This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank’s story in the twenty‐first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations. Engaging Anne Frank with these other cases clarifies the distinct nature of the Holocaust, and we build on the fact that the diary touches areas of deep interest, especially to young people, and that it has been read as a monument to resisting hate, which is itself a prerequisite for educating citizens of more diverse and inclusive societies. The diverse contributions and viewpoints in this volume illustrate how rich the ongoing engagement with Anne Frank and her legacy remain.
A History of Jeddah
An urban history of Jeddah from the late Ottoman period to the present day, seen through its diverse and changing population.
Sommerjungs
Thadée und Zachée, schön wie junge Götter, brillante Studenten, zwei Brüder aus gutem Hause und strahlend kraftvolle Surfer: Sie glauben, der Sommer ihres Lebens ende nie – dieser leuchtende Sommer zwischen mächtigen Wellen, aufschäumender Gischt und dem pudrigen Licht des Meeres. Tahdée jedoch, von einem Hai verstümmelt, findet sich jäh seiner so begnadeten Existenz beraubt. Eifersucht und bissiger Neid treiben ihre Wurzeln in ihm. Der plötzliche Tod von Zachée gibt der Familie den Gnadenstoß, die nun, von Thadées Schicksal bereits erschüttert, langsam, aber sicher in den Sog des Wahnsinns driftet. Der von Körperlichkeit, Eros und Freiheit getragenen Atmosphäre des Surfens tröpfelt die Autorin das Gift der Spannung eines perfekt komponierten Thrillers ein. Mit lustvoller Intensität zerstört sie dabei die Lügen, die sozialen Konventionen, das Gehabe – die sie allesamt mit fröhlicher Grausamkeit buchstäblich zerlegt.
Einstein and Heisenberg
This is a fascinating account of two great scientists of the 20th century: Einstein and Heisenberg, discoverers, respectively, of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. It connects the history of modern physics to the life stories of these two extraordinary physicists.These discoveries laid the foundation of modern physics, without which our digitized world of computers, satellites, and innovative materials would not be possible. This book also describes in comprehensible terms the complicated science underlying the two discoveries.The twin biography highlights the parallels and differences of these two luminaries, showing how their work shaped the 20th century into the century of physics.
