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    The devil's music master : the controversial life and career of Wilhelm Furtwängler (1992)
    New York, NY ; Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV005587258
    Format: XVI, 506, [16] S. , Ill. , 25 cm
    ISBN: 0195065085
    Content: From 1922 until his death in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwangler was the foremost cultural music figure of the German-speaking world, conductor of both the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras. But a cloud still hangs over his reputation, despite his undeniable brilliance as a musician, because of a fatal and tragic decision. Wilhelm Furtwangler remained in Germany when thousands of intellectuals and artists fled after the Nazis seized power in 1933. His decision to stay behind earned him lasting condemnation as a Nazi collaborator--"The Devil's Music Master." Decades after his death, Furtwangler remains for many not only the greatest but also the most controversial musical personality of our time. In The Devil's Music Master, Sam H. Shirakawa forges the first full-length and comprehensive biography of Furtwangler
    Content: He surveys Furtwangler's formative years as a difficult but brilliant prodigy, his rise to pre-eminence as Germany's leading conductor, and his development as a musician, composer, and thinker. Shirakawa also reviews the rich recorded legacy Furtwangler documented throughout his forty-year career--such as the legendary Tristan with Kirsten Flagstad and the famous performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1942 and 1951. Equally important, Shirakawa goes backstage and behind the lines to explore how the Nazis seized control of the arts and how Furtwangler single-handedly tried to prevent such evil characters as Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Goring from annihilating Germany's musical life. He shows how Furtwangler, far from being a toady to the Nazis, stood up openly against Hitler and Himmler--at enormous personal risk--to salvage the musical traditions of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven
    Content: Shirakawa also presents moving and overwhelming evidence of Furtwangler's astonishing efforts to save the lives of Jews and other persecuted individuals trapped in Nazi Germany--only to be proscribed at the end of the war and nearly framed as a war criminal. But there was more to Furtwangler than his politics, or even his music, and we come to know this extraordinary man as a reluctant composer, a prolific essayist and diary keeper, a loyal friend, a formidable enemy when crossed, and an incorrigible philanderer. Numerous musical luminaries share their memories of Furtwangler to round out this vivid portrait. Based on dozens of interviews and research in numerous documents, letters, and diaries, many of them previously unpublished, The Devil's Music Master is an in-depth look at the life and times of a unique personality whose fatal flaw lay in his uncompromising belief that music and art must be kept apart from politics, a conviction that transformed him into a tragic figure
    Note: Literaturangaben
    Language: English
    Subjects: Musicology
    RVK:
    LP 92000
    Keywords: Furtwängler, Wilhelm 1886-1954 ; Furtwängler, Wilhelm 1886-1954 ; Biografie ; Biographie ; Biografie ; Biografie
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0635/91025994-d.html
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0722/91025994-b.html
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    Heisenberg probably slept here : the lives, times, and ideas of the great physicists of the 20th century (1997)
    New York [u.a.] : Wiley
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV011450316
    Format: XI, 274 S. , Ill., graph. Darst.
    ISBN: 0471157090
    Series Statement: Wiley popular science
    Language: English
    Subjects: Physics
    RVK:
    UB 3100
    Keywords: Physiker ; Geschichte 1900-1995 ; Physiker ; Geschichte ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie
    URL: Autorenbiografie
    URL: Verlagsangaben
    URL: Cover
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix04/96042935.html
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    Brecht and company : sex, politics, and the making of the modern drama (1994)
    New York : Grove Press
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV009865501
    Format: XX, 732, [32] S. , Ill.
    Edition: 1. ed.
    ISBN: 0802115292
    Content: "The result of twenty-five years of research on three continents, Brecht and Company is a revolutionary portrait of one of the world's greatest theater artists - and the people upon whom he built his reputation. Bertolt Brecht is regarded by many as the most influential figure in twentieth-century theater; the director Peter Brook has argued that "all theater work today at some point starts with or returns to his achievement." In this first full biography of the Brecht circle, John Fuegi confirms Brecht's rank as a world-class theater director, but also shows why much of the writing can no longer be attributed to Brecht alone." "Brecht's first violent, homoerotic plays, though noisily provocative failures at the box office, brought him praise from adventurous critics. In Berlin in the 1920s, Brecht found someone who would change not only his life but world theater: Elisabeth Hauptmann, who wrote over 80 percent of The Threepenny Opera in exchange for time in Brecht's life and in his bed. Yet her name often disappeared from the printed text, as well as from other plays and poems. Disappointed and disaffected, Hauptmann was supplanted by the passionate, tubercular Margarete Steffin, who contributed crucially to such classics as Mother Courage and The Good Woman of Setzuan. With Steffin's death in 1941, Brecht's career as a playwright virtually ended, though other works, begun with her, were finished with the aid of the uninhibited and politically committed Danish director and author Ruth Berlau." "Fuegi traces the evolution of Brecht's parasitic relationships and aggressive ambition through close analysis of diaries, letters, and drafts of the literary works, revealing a man who was personally dazzling, a genius at assembling and
    Content: "The story of Brecht's artistic thefts is told against a backdrop of his equivocal politics through the turbulent times: from the 1932 New Year's party with members of Germany's virulent right wing, to his refusal to acknowledge Stalin's murderous purges, to his shocking break before the House Un-American Activities Committee, to his frequent anti-Semitism, to the privilege and ease he enjoyed in a repressive East Germany." "Brecht and Company will irrevocably change our understanding of one of the world's great writer-directors, even as it presents us with three new artists of enduring stature: Elisabeth Hauptmann, Margarete Steffin, and Ruth Berlau."--BOOK JACKET
    Note: Engl. Ausg. u.d.T.: Fuegi, John: The life and lies of Bertolt Brecht
    Language: English
    Subjects: German Studies
    RVK:
    GM 2660
    Keywords: Brecht, Bertolt 1898-1956 ; Freundeskreis ; Literaturproduktion ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biographie ; Biografie
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    Author information: Fuegi, John 1936-
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    Journey through genius : the great theorems of mathematics (1990)
    New York u.a. : Wiley
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV003593991
    Format: XIII, 300 S. , Ill.
    ISBN: 0471500305
    Series Statement: Wiley science editions
    Content: Mathematics is a science of rare mystery, created by great mathematicians who can at times seem like master magicians. This book opens up the world of mathematics to a wide and diverse audience of history, science, math, and general interest readers.
    Language: English
    Subjects: Mathematics
    RVK:
    SG 590
    RVK:
    SK 110
    Keywords: Mathematik ; Geschichte ; Theorem ; Geschichte ; Mathematik ; Mathematiker ; Geschichte ; Biografie ; Biografie
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Inhaltstext
    URL: Verlagsangaben
    URL: Autorenbiografie
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix03/89027366.html
    Author information: Dunham, William 1947-
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    The three escapes of Hannah Arendt : a tyranny of truth (2018)
    New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV045133489
    Format: 233 Seiten , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 9781635571882 , 9781526602404
    Content: "One of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is best known for her landmark 1951 book on openness in political life, The Origins of Totalitarianism, which, with its powerful and timely lessons for today, has become newly relevant. She led an extraordinary life. This was a woman who endured Nazi persecution firsthand, survived harrowing "escapes" from country to country in Europe, and befriended such luminaries as Walter Benjamin and Mary McCarthy, in a world inhabited by everyone from Marc Chagall and Marlene Dietrich to Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. A woman who finally had to give up her unique genius for philosophy, and her love of a very compromised man--the philosopher and Nazi-sympathizer Martin Heidegger--for what she called "love of the world". Compassionate and enlightening, playful and page-turning, New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt is a strikingly illustrated portrait of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed, and irrefutably courageous woman whose intelligence and "virulent truth telling" led her to breathtaking insights into the human condition, and whose experience continues to shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times."--Amazon
    Language: English
    Subjects: Philosophy
    RVK:
    CI 6373
    Keywords: Arendt, Hannah 1906-1975 ; Biografie ; Comic ; Comic ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Comic
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    Dharma lion : a critical biography of Allen Ginsberg (1992)
    New York : St. Martin's Pr.
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV006951844
    Format: XV, 769 S. , Ill.
    Edition: 1. ed.
    ISBN: 0312081790
    Content: Perhaps no poet in the history of America, with the exception of Walt Whitman, has so dominated the popular imagination as has Allen Ginsberg. From the close of World War II to the end of the Cold War, Ginsberg has been in the vanguard of every popular movement; from the emergence of the Beat Generation in the Fifties to the hippie and antiwar movements of the sixties, to the ecology movement and the Buddhist revival of the seventies, Allen Ginsberg has given voice to his generation's spirit in poetry of astonishing power. Michael Schumacher has spent eight years researching and writing this dramatic biography, with Ginsberg's full cooperation and with access to all his journals and papers, as well as spending thousands of hours interviewing Ginsberg's friends and enemies alike. With the sweep of an epic novel Schumacher tells the story of this quintessentially American poet and his times, with fascinating portraits of such contemporaries as Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs, among many others, along with many rarely seen photographs. This is undoubtedly the most complete portrait we are ever likely to see of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
    Language: English
    Subjects: American Studies
    RVK:
    HU 3705
    Keywords: Ginsberg, Allen 1926-1997 ; Ginsberg, Allen 1926-1997 ; Biografie ; Biografie
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    Bob Dylan und Amerika (2012)
    Stuttgart : Reclam
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV040613974
    Format: 477 S. , Ill.
    ISBN: 9783150108697 , 3150108691
    Uniform Title: Bob Dylan in America
    Note: Musik für den kleinen Mann: die Volksfront und Aaron Coplands Amerika -- Die Durchdringung des Äthers: die Beat Generation und Allen Ginsbergs Amerika -- Dunkelheit, die überm Mittag thront: das Konzert in der Philharmonic Hall, New York, 31. Oktober 1964 -- Der Sound von 3 Uhr morgens: die Arbeit an Blonde on Blonde, New York und Nashville, 5. Oktober 1965 - 10. (?) März 1966 -- Kinder des Olymp: die Rolling Thunder Revue, New Haven, Connecticut, 13. November 1975 -- Vieler Märtyrer Tod: "Blind Willie McTell", New York, 5. Mai 1983 -- Alle Freunde, die ich je gehabt habe, sind tot: "Delia", Malibu, Kalifornien, Mai 1993 -- Dylan und die Sacred Harp: "Lone Pilgrim", Malibu, Kalifornien, Mai 1993 -- Die Rückkehr des Modernen Minstrel: "Love and theft", 11. September 2001, und das Newport Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, 3. August 2002 -- Bob Dylans Bürgerkriege: Masked and Anonymous, 23. Juli 2003, und Chronicles: Volume one, 5. Oktober 2004 -- Träume, Pläne, Sujets: Modern Times, 29. August 2006, Theme Time Radio hour with your host Bob Dylan, 3. Mai 2006 - 15. April 2009, The Bootleg series, Vol. 8: Tell tale signs: rare and unreleased, 1989-206, 7. Oktober 2008, und Together through life, 28. April 2009 -- Coda: Hörst du, was ich höre ?: Christmas in the heart, 13. Oktober 2009
    Language: German
    Subjects: Musicology
    RVK:
    LS 48040
    Keywords: Dylan, Bob 1941- ; Biografie ; Biographie ; Biografie
    URL: http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=4039099&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=4039099&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm
    URL: http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=4039099&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm
    Author information: Wilentz, Sean 1951-
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    Shakespeare A to Z : the essential reference to his plays, his poems, his life and times, and more (1990)
    New York u.a. : Facts on File
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV004407205
    Format: IX, 742 S. , Ill.
    ISBN: 0816018057
    Series Statement: A Roundtable Press book
    Language: English
    Subjects: English Studies
    RVK:
    HI 3300
    Keywords: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Biografie ; Enzyklopädie ; Wörterbuch ; Wörterbuch ; Enzyklopädie ; Wörterbuch
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    Debussy (2014)
    Oxford ; New York, NY [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV041570276
    Format: XI, 297, [14] S. , Ill., Notenbeisp.
    ISBN: 9780199730056
    Series Statement: The master musicians
    Content: Nearly one hundred years after the death of its composer, the music of Claude Debussy has lost none of its breadth of appeal. With the rare ability to entice listeners on many levels, at its heart lies an engaging simplicity-one which defies traditional analysis and lends mystery to what ultimately is an extremely refined and highly personal approach to composition. Equally fascinating is Debussy's often contradictory personality-at times elusive, but always centered on his devotion to music and his ambition to create a name for himself unlike any other. Author Eric Frederick Jensen provides new insight to the man and the music in this authoritative biography. Although born into poverty, and a failure as a piano student at the Paris Conservatoire, Debussy became the most famous French composer of his day, known for his culture and refinement. His revolutionary music baffled critics but was embraced by audiences. Debussy's scandalous personal life stirred up as much controversy as his music, and his notoriety proved more harmful to his career than the unusual nature of his compositions. Jensen also explores Debussy's relationship to the arts and his career as a music critic. Debussy drew on all of the arts in his development as a composer, including poetry and painting, and his fascination with the arts has often led to his being classified as an Impressionist or Symbolist, two claims which Jensen debunks. One of the finest music critics of his time, Debussy's reviews reveal a great deal not only about his musical taste, but also about what he felt the role and function of music should be. Debussy brings together the most recent biographical research, including a revised catalogue of Debussy's compositions and the first complete edition of his correspondence. With separate, chronological sections on his life and music, Debussy is accessible to the general reader who wishes to focus on his life and personality, while p
    Note: Literaturverz. S. 279 - 289 , Werkverzeichnis Debussy Seite 260-272
    Language: English
    Subjects: Musicology
    RVK:
    LP 91690
    Keywords: Debussy, Claude 1862-1918 ; Biografie ; Werkverzeichnis ; Biografie
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    Author information: Jensen, Eric Frederick 1951-
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    Lincoln (1995)
    New York : Simon & Schuster
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV010766785
    Format: 714 Seiten, 32 ungezählte Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    ISBN: 0684808463
    Content: "This fully rounded biography of America's sixteenth President is the product of Donald's half-century of study of Lincoln and his times. In preparing it, Donald has drawn more extensively than any previous writer on Lincoln's personal papers and those of his contemporaries, and he has taken full advantage of the voluminous newly discovered records of Lincoln's legal practice. He presents his findings with the same literary skill and psychological understanding exhibited in his previous biographies, which have received two Pulitzer Prizes." "Much more than a political biography, Donald's Lincoln reveals the development of the future President's character and shows how his private life helped to shape his public career. In Donald's skillful hands, Lincoln emerges as a youthful, vigorous President. One of the youngest men ever to occupy the White House, he was also the husband of an even younger wife and the father of boisterous children. We witness how Lincoln's absorption with politics disrupted his family life, and how his often tumultuous marriage affected his political career. And we see a man renowned for his storytelling and his often sidesplitting humor lapse into the periods of deep melancholy to which he was prone, not only during the dark days of the Civil War but throughout his life." "Donald's strikingly original portrait of Lincoln depicts a man who was basically passive by nature, who confessed that he did not control events but events had controlled him. Yet coupled with that fatalism was an unbounded ambition that drove him to take enormous political risks and enabled him to overcome repeated defeats. Donald shows that Lincoln was a master of ambiguity and expediency - but he also stresses that Lincoln was a great moral leader, inflexibly opposed to slavery and absolutely committed to preserving the Union."--BOOK JACKET.
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , American Studies
    RVK:
    NP 6060
    RVK:
    HT 5965
    Keywords: Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 ; Biografie ; Biografie
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Klappentext
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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