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All titles in "Biographies"
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H.G. Adler
A Journey
"A masterpiece, written in particularly beautiful and pure prose. (...) Adler has re-established the principle of hope in modern literature." --- Elias Canetti
There was a time when ... More about this title -
Gabrielle Alioth
The Appraising Glance
Even in her youth, painter Angelica Kauffmann – born 1741 – was celebrated as an extraordinary talent. Her portraits of Winckelmann and Goethe attracted international attention, and her ... More about this title
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Gabrielle Alioth
The Greek Empress
In 980 a boy is born in Cleve who will change the whole of western civilisation and be celebrated by his contemporaries as the mirabila mundi, the wonder of the world. His career is meticulously ... More about this title
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Fritz Arnold
Friendships in the Time of Hate
"I was twenty when I first left the train at the Stazione Termini, on a chilly spring morning, exhausted but full of expectation." Four years later, the narrator returns to Rome but this time ... More about this title
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Michael Augustin
That's All!
Deaths of the Famous
Ezra Pound walked upright onto the ambulance ship in Venice, grumbling that there was nothing wrong with him – and promptly died on arrival at the hospital. German satirist Georg Christoph ... More about this title -
Reinhard Baumgart
Then & Now
A Life in Germany 1929-2003
Reinhart Baumgart, "one of the pillars of literary life in this country" (Die Welt), recounts the story of his life: moving, ironic and always full of vivid images of meetings with remarkable men ... More about this title -
Martin Roda Becher
Permanent Residents
His grandfathers had little time for each other. Alexander Roda Roda, the sharp-tongued man of letters, and Richard Becher, the business lawyer met only for an occasional game of chess in a New ... More about this title
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Hans-Georg Behr
Almost a Nomad
All he wants is to be an artist, and he won't settle for anything less. So, on his 14th birthday, he escapes from the convent school he detests, hitches a lift to Vienna, and applies to join the ... More about this title
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Hans Bender
Like the Palm of My Hand
When Hans Bender looks up from his writing-desk, his gaze falls upon the trees in his garden, reminding him that there is a world beyond his literary profession. For decades Bender has observed ... More about this title
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Barbara Beuys
For I am Sick with Love
The Life of Hildegard von Bingen
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) was a multi-talent. As a prophet, she opens up the bold panorama of her visions in three voluminous books and explores, independent of biblical or theological ... More about this title -
Barbara Beuys
Paula Modersohn-Becker
On November 20, 1907, 31 year-old Paula Modersohn-Becker, who has just given birth to a daughter, dies in Worpswede near Bremen. In less than ten years, she has created a huge body of work, in ... More about this title
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Barbara Beuys
Sophie Scholl
A biography
We think we know everything about Sophie Scholl. Scenes from the film have imprinted themselves in our memory: how she was sentenced to death and executed by the infamous "Volksgerichtshof" ... More about this title -
Auch als eBook verfügbarBarbara Beuys
Sophie Scholl
A biography
We think we know everything about Sophie Scholl. Scenes from the film have imprinted themselves in our memory: how she was sentenced to death and executed by the infamous "Volksgerichtshof" ... More about this title -
Barbara Beuys
The Price of Passion
The Life and Times of Li Qingzhao, Chinas Greatest Poetess
The extraordinary life story of Li Qingzhao and a panorama of Chinese culture, politics and religion: we hear about educated women teaching their daughters and sons, men seeking and appreciating ... More about this title -
Bogdan Bogdanovic
The Green Box
A Book of Dreams
Belgrade, mon amour: images, encounters, messages by the architect, writer and former mayor of Serbia's capital.
Bogdan Bogdanovic, the illustrious Serbian architect, writer and former ... More about this title -
Karl Heinz Bohrer
Shrapnel
Story of a Childhood
When the roaring bombers had finally turned away from Cologne and the sound of the defensive fire had died down, the boys would start gathering garish shards of shrapnel from the streets: little ... More about this title -
Luc Bondy
My Dibbuks
Memoirs and Reworked Dreams
Is it comedy - or tragedy? Short prose pieces, dialogues, and the memories of a great theatre director.
How do we become who we are? What makes for real friendship and how do we keep ... More about this title -
Rudolf Borchardt
Anabasis
Notes, Recollections and Documents 1943-45
Lucca, August 1944: soldiers with dogs scour the vineyards where Rudolf Borchardt, who has been living in Italy for decades, hides with his family. Now they are searching for him, as a Jew and as ... More about this title -
Dieter Borchmeyer
Goethe, Citizen of his Time
"They don't like me", the sixty-year-old Goethe remarked of the Germans, "and I don't like them either!" Nevertheless it was he who provided the parentheses that encompassed all the contradictory ... More about this title
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Lars Brandt
Keepsakes
Willy Brandt, German Chancellor and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, was the role model for an entire generation. And he was a man of many faces, constantly observed, interpreted, ... More about this title