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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:
    almafu_BV005587258
    Format: XVI, 506, [16] S. : , Ill. ; , 25 cm.
    ISBN: 0-19-506508-5
    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: 1886-1954 Furtwängler, Wilhelm ; 1886-1954 Furtwängler, Wilhelm ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biographie ; Biografie ; Biografie
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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  • 2
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    The long aftermath : cultural legacies of Europe at war, 1936-2016 (2016)
    New York ; Oxford :berghahn books,
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    UID:
    almafu_BV043322722
    Format: xvi, 388 Seiten : , Illustrationen.
    ISBN: 978-1-78238-153-2 , 978-1-78533-820-5
    Series Statement: Studies in contemporary European history volume 17
    Content: "This volume explores the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War in Europe through the cultural artifacts of the times, beginning in 1936. Cultural artifacts include literature, poetry, and cinema"--Provided by publisher
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-78238-154-9
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
    RVK:
    NQ 5830
    Keywords: Kultur ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Spanischer Bürgerkrieg ; Zweiter Weltkrieg ; Kultur ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Zweiter Weltkrieg ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sammlung von Beiträgen ; Historische Darstellung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sammlung von Beiträgen ; Historische Darstellung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    URL: Rezension
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=BragancaLong
    URL: Rezension
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: http://opac.nebis.ch/objects/pdf03/z01_978-1-78238-153-2_01.pdf
    URL: http://opac.nebis.ch/objects/pdf03/z01_978-1-78238-153-2_01.pdf
    Author information: Bragança, Manuel 1973-
    Author information: Tame, Peter D. 1945-
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  • 3
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    The times literary supplement : TLS (1902)
    London : TLS Education Ltd. | London : Times Newspaper Ltd. ; 1.1902,17.Jan. - 77.1978,1.Dez. = Nr. 1-4000; Nr. 4001.1979,23.Nov. -
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    UID:
    gbv_12931059X
    Format: 36 cm
    Edition: London Times Newspaper Ltd. Mikrofilm-Ausg.: New Haven, Conn. : Research Publ. - Mikrofilm-Ausg.: London : Times Newspaper Ltd
    Edition: New Haven, Conn. Research Publ.
    ISSN: 0040-7895 , 0307-661X
    Note: Repr.: Nendeln : Kraus; New York, NY [u.a.] : Bowker , Ungezählte Beil.: Academic book sale , 1978,2.Dez. - 1979,22.Nov. nicht ersch.; Nr. 5181.2002 fälschlich als Nr. 5180, 5203.2002 fälschlich als Nr. 5202 bez.; Nr. 5307 doppelt gezählt, 5310 in der Zählung übergangen; Jahresindex ersch. im Verl.: Thomson Gale; Periodizität: wöchentl , Mikrofilm-Ausg.: New Haven, Conn. : Research Publ. - Mikrofilm-Ausg.: London : Times Newspaper Ltd
    Additional Information: Beil Liber
    Additional Information: Mehrjahresindex The Times 〈London〉 / Literary supplement / Index
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als CD-ROM-Ausg The times literary supplement on CD-ROM Cambridge : Chadwyck-Healey, 1997
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausg The times literary supplement London : Times Newspaper Ltd., 1990
    Additional Edition: Elektronische Reproduktion The times literary supplement historical archive London : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], 1902
    Language: English
    Subjects: General works , English Studies
    RVK:
    AZ 10000
    RVK:
    HN 1000
    Keywords: Literatur ; Rezension ; Englisches Sprachgebiet ; Neuerscheinung ; London ; Zeitung
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  • 4
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    German, Jew, Muslim, gay : the life and times of Hugo Marcus (2020)
    New York :Columbia University Press,
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    UID:
    almafu_BV046266246
    Format: xii, 300 Seiten.
    ISBN: 978-0-231-19671-0 , 978-0-231-19670-3
    Series Statement: Religion, culture, and public life
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-231-55178-6
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
    RVK:
    NQ 2360
    Keywords: 1880-1966 Marcus, Hugo ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie
    URL: Rezension
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    Holocaust Angst : the Federal Republic of Germany and American Holocaust memory since the 1970s (2016)
    New York, NY :Oxford University Press,
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    UID:
    almafu_BV043545130
    Format: XV, 296 Seiten : , Illustrationen.
    ISBN: 978-0-19-023782-0
    Content: In the face of an outpouring of research on Holocaust history, Holocaust Angst takes an innovative approach. It explores how Germans perceived and reacted to how Americans publicly commemorated the Holocaust. It argues that a network of mostly conservative West German officials and their associates in private organizations and foundations, with Chancellor Kohl located at its center, perceived themselves as the "victims" of the afterlife of the Holocaust in America. They were concerned that public manifestations of Holocaust memory, such as museums, monuments, and movies, could severely damage the Federal Republic's reputation and even cause Americans to question the Federal Republic's status as an ally. From their perspective, American Holocaust memorial culture constituted a stumbling block for (West) German-American relations since the late 1970s. Providing the first comprehensive, archival study of German efforts to cope with the Nazi past vis-a-vis the United States up to the 1990s, this book uncovers the fears of German officials - some of whom were former Nazis or World War II veterans - about the impact of Holocaust memory on the reputation of the Federal Republic and reveals their at times negative perceptions of American Jews. Focusing on a variety of fields of interaction, ranging from the diplomatic to the scholarly and public spheres, the book unearths the complicated and often contradictory process of managing the legacies of genocide on an international stage. West German decision makers realized that American Holocaust memory was not an "anti-German plot" by American Jews and acknowledged that they could not significantly change American Holocaust discourse. In the end, German confrontation with American Holocaust memory contributed to a more open engagement on the part of the West German government with this memory and eventually rendered it a "positive resource" for German self-representation abroad. Quelle/Source: Umschlag.
    Note: Dissertation University of Pennsylvania
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-0-19-023784-4
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , Political Science
    RVK:
    MD 6200
    RVK:
    MG 10070
    RVK:
    MG 15070
    RVK:
    MG 70070
    RVK:
    NQ 2360
    RVK:
    NQ 6020
    Keywords: Judenvernichtung ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Transnationale Politik ; Geschichtsbewusstsein ; Judenvernichtung ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
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    Author information: Eder, Jacob S. 1979-
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  • 6
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    Applied arts in British exile from 1933 : changing visual and material culture (2019)
    Leiden ; : Brill Rodopi,
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    UID:
    almahu_9949701705802882
    Format: 1 online resource.
    ISBN: 9789004395107
    Series Statement: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, volume 19
    Content: Yearbook Volume 19 continues an investigation which began with Arts in Exile in Britain 1933-45 (Volume 6, 2004). Twelve chapters, ten in English and two in German, address and analyse the significant contribution of émigrés across the applied arts, embracing mainstream practices such as photography, architecture, advertising, graphics, printing, textiles and illustration, alongside less well known fields of animation, typography and puppetry. New research adds to narratives surrounding familiar émigré names such as Oskar Kokoschka and Wolf Suschitzky, while revealing previously hidden contributions from lesser known practitioners. Overall, the volume provides a valuable addition to the understanding of the applied arts in Britain from the 1930s onwards, particularly highlighting difficulties faced by refugees attempting to continue fractured careers in a new homeland. Contributors are: Rachel Dickson, Burcu Dogramaci, Deirdre Fernand, Fran Lloyd, David Low, John March, Sarah MacDougall, Anna Nyburg, Pauline Paucker, Ines Schlenker, Wilfried Weinke, and Julia Winckler.
    Note: Front Matter -- , Copyright Page -- , Dedication -- , Acknowledgments -- , List of Illustrations -- , Notes on Contributors -- , Introduction 1 / , 1 New Homes in a Foreign Country. Bauen und Wohnen im britischen Exil der 1930er Jahre 6 / , 2 Peter Moro and the Men from Mars 27 / , 3 Women Exile Photographers 49 / , 4 "Quite content to be called a good craftsman" - an Exploration of some of Wolf Suschitzky's Extensive Contributions to the Field of Applied Photography between 1935 and 1955 67 / , 5 Navigating Wolf Suschitzky's Charing Cross Road  93 / , 6 "It is the spaces between the notes that give the sound". Von Hamburg, über London, New York nach Australien: Der Fotograf Francis Reiss 107 / , 7 Drawing for Radio Times: the Contribution of Émigré Artists 132 / , 8 "The Craftsman's Sympathy": Bernhard Baer, Ganymed and Oskar Kokoschka's King Lear  150 / , 9 Typographers in Exile 176 / , 10 Making Animation Matter: Peter Sachs Comes to Britain 191 / , 11 Textile in Exile: Refugee Textile Surface Designers in Britain 212 / , 12 "The Man from the Bauhaus": the Lost Career of Werner 'Jacky' Jackson 229 / , Back Matter -- , Index. , English and German.
    Additional Edition: Print version: Applied Arts in British Exile from 1933: Changing Visual and Material Culture Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Rodopi, [2019], ISBN 9789004395091
    Language: English
    Subjects: Art History
    RVK:
    LO 50095
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    URL: Volltext
    URL: Volltext
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    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=031465904&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
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  • 7
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    From open secrets to secret voting : democratic electoral reforms and voter autonomy (2015)
    New York, NY :Cambridge Univ. Press,
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    UID:
    almafu_BV042662966
    Format: XVI, 266 S. : , Diagramme.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    ISBN: 978-1-107-10021-3 , 978-1-107-49529-6
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    Content: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. The protection of voters' autonomy; 3. Electoral intimidation by state employees; 4. Electoral intimidation by private actors; 5. The production of irregularities at times of elections: a quantitative analysis; 6. The adoption of electoral reforms; 7. Labor scarcity, rural inequality, and electoral reforms: the determinants for electoral reform of the Prussian electoral system; 8. Voting for opposition candidates: economic concentration, skills, and political support for social democracy; 9. Dilemmas on the right and the road to proportional representation; 10. From macro- to micro-historical analysis in comparative research
    Content: "The expansion of suffrage and the introduction of elections after authoritarian interludes are momentous political changes that represent only the first step in the process of democratization. In the absence of institutions and guarantees that protect the electoral autonomy of voters against a range of actors who seek to influence their votes, these rights can just be hollow promises. This book examines the adoption of electoral reforms that protected the autonomy of voters during elections and sought to minimize undue electoral influences. Empirically, the book focuses on the adoption of reforms protecting electoral secrecy in Imperial Germany during the period between 1870 and 1912. This book shows that the political impetus for changes in electoral institutions originated with politicians that faced relatively high costs of electoral intimidation and identified the economic and political factors that affect the latter"--
    Content: "The process of democratization that unfolded in European countries during the nineteenth century involved multiple dilemmas of institutional design. The first question concerned the scope of political suffrage. The transition from restrictive to extended suffrage took place either through the adoption of piece-meal changes in the scope of the franchise or through dramatic extensions that enfranchised nearly all citizens. Reforms enacted in Britain exemplify the first approach. There, the expansion of suffrage proceeded gradually. The first Franchise Act, enacted in 1832, extended the scope of suffrage from five to seven percent of the population. The second Franchise Act of 1867 extended the scope of suffrage to sixteen percent of the population (Cook 2005: 68). By contrast, both France and Germany adopted electoral reforms that expanded the share of the enfranchised population suddenly and dramatically. In Germany, the electoral law adopted in 1870 introduced universal suffrage for men.Similarly, France adopted universal male suffrage in 1799. While France reverted to censitary voting during the Restoration, it restored full universal suffrage for all male voters in 1848"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Language: English
    Subjects: Political Science
    RVK:
    MF 4300
    RVK:
    MG 15430
    Keywords: Wahlrecht ; Entwicklung ; Wahlgeheimnis
    URL: Cover image
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    Author information: Mares, Isabela
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    Hitler's diplomat : the life and times of Joachim von Ribbentrop (1992)
    New York :Ticknor & Fields,
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    UID:
    almafu_BV006431548
    Format: XV, 376 S.
    ISBN: 0-395-62152-6
    Content: This first full-length English-language biography of Joachim von Ribbentrop, Adolf Hitler's notorious foreign minister, is also an authoritative account of the social and political workings of Nazi Germany. The result of a lifetime of research and firsthand experience, the book combines narrative history of the highest order and intimate familiarity with the people, events, and social currents that animated Hitler's regime. A well-to-do social climber who made and married money, von Ribbentrop was among the few in Hitler's circle with a claim to social prominence. As ambassador to England, von Ribbentrop quickly worked his way up to head the Foreign Ministry, along the way negotiating the British Naval Agreement, the Anti-Comintern Pact, and the Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Frustrated during the war, when diplomacy was rendered virtually obsolete, von Ribbentrop never forsook his Fuhrer even at Nurnberg, where he was tried and hanged as a senior war criminal. With a provocative foreword by Tom Wolfe that draws disturbing comparisons between the Berlin of the 1930s and American society of the 1980s, Hitler's Diplomat is not only the riveting story of one of Hitler's closest collaborators, it also provides a window onto a side of Nazi Germany that is as fascinating as it is troubling: the men and women of culture and means who gave themselves to Hitler and his war machine.
    Language: English
    Keywords: 1893-1946 Ribbentrop, Joachim von ; 1889-1945 Hitler, Adolf ; Außenpolitik ; Biografie ; Biografie
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    Politics in dark times : encounters with Hannah Arendt (2010)
    New York [u.a.] :Cambridge Univ. Press,
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    UID:
    almahu_BV026936269
    Format: IX, 397 S.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    ISBN: 978-0-521-76370-7 , 978-0-521-12722-6
    Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke. - "This outstanding collection of essays explores Hannah Arendt's thought against the background of recent world-political events unfolding since September 11, 2001, and engages in a contentious dialogue with one of the greatest political thinkers of the past century, with the conviction that she remains one of our contemporaries. Themes such as moral and political equality, action and natality, and judgment and freedom are reevaluated with fresh insights by a group of thinkers who are themselves well known for their original contributions to political thought. Other essays focus on novel and little-discussed themes in the literature by highlighting Arendt's views of sovereignty, international law and genocide, nuclear weapons and revolutions, imperialism and Eurocentrism, and her contrasting images of Europe and America. Each essay displays not only superb Arendt scholarship but also stylistic flair and analytical tenacity"-- Provided by publisher.. - Includes bibliographical references and index
    Language: English
    Subjects: Political Science , Philosophy
    RVK:
    CI 6373
    RVK:
    MC 6700
    Keywords: 1906-1975 Arendt, Hannah ; Politisches Denken ; 1906-1975 Arendt, Hannah ; Politische Philosophie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    URL: Cover
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    URL: Cover
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    Author information: Benhabib, Seyla, 1950-
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    Lincoln in the bardo / (2017)
    London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney :Bloomsbury,
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    UID:
    almahu_BV044404274
    Format: 341 Seiten : , Illustrationen.
    ISBN: 978-1-4088-7174-4 , 978-1-4088-7175-1 , 9781408871775
    Content: The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War. The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering a thrilling, supernatural domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself trapped in a transitional realm – called, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo – and as ghosts mingle, squabble, gripe and commiserate, and stony tendrils creep towards the boy, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul. Unfolding over a single night, Lincoln in the Bardo is written with George Saunders' inimitable humour, pathos and grace. Here he invents an exhilarating new form, and is confirmed as one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic panoply of voices – living and dead, historical and fictional – Lincoln in the Bardo poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end?
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    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ePub ISBN 978-1-4088-7176-8
    Language: English
    Subjects: American Studies
    RVK:
    HU 9800
    Keywords: 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham ; Fiktionale Darstellung
    Author information: Saunders, George 1958-
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