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Florian Neuhann
Theodula and I

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978-3-538-07312-8
19,95 € (D)

“Time for the sleepyheads to wake up!” That was a common refrain throughout Sister Theodula’s life – in her role as a nun in the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood, as the first female professor in a Catholic seminary, and as an author. She fought against the Nazi regime in ...

Friederike Haedecke
Goddesses and Murderesses

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978-3-538-03134-0
18,00 € (D)

Powerful women: Octavia, Livia, Cleopatra, Antonia, Poppaea, Berenice … their names lend drama and intrigue to the history of the Roman Empire. They exercised real political power through their marriages, divorces and remarriages as well as their intrigues, murder plots and their influence on the em ...

Karl-Josef Kuschel, Frido Mann, Paulo Soethe
Motherland

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978-3-538-07293-0
19,90 € (D)

The Brazilian roots of the Mann family. The mother of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, Julia da Silva-Bruhns was Brazilian. She spent her childhood between the sea and the jungle. These Brazilian roots of the Mann family have been largely ignored by the public. This book traces the family history in Brazil ...

Nais Mason
My Strength Is Hope

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978-3-491-36024-2
18,00 € (D)

Suffering has given her strength. Beaten, deceived and infected with HIV by her own husband, Nais Mason was left to fend for herself in her Kenyan homeland after his death. But Nais refused to give in to fate. Instead, she decided to fight for herself and the future of her children. She eventually m ...

Eva Rieger
Love Ever Radiant, Laughing Death

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978-3-538-07270-1
14,99 € (D)

Women as leitmotifs in Wagner’s life Minna, Mathilde and Cosima are just a few of the names of the women who played a key role in Richard Wagner’s life. Eva Rieger uses Wagner’s romantic relationships as the background for a new portrait of the composer. She relies on numerous original manuscripts a ...

Jürgen Schreiber
She Died Like Che Guevara

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978-3-538-07274-9
19,90 € (D)

How Monika Ertl avenged Che Guevara On April 1st, 1971 a young woman appeared at the Bolivian consulate in Hamburg. She entered the office of Roberto Quintanilla Pereira, the Consul General, pulled out a Cobra .38 Special and killed him. The murder remains unsolved to this day. In this book, Jürgen ...

Franzpeter Messmer
Georg Friedrich Händel

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978-3-491-35022-9
19,90 € (D)

This new biography establishes close links between Händel’s personal life and his artistic development. From the Hamburg Opera House on the Gänsemarkt, his career took him via glorious periods in Florence and Rome to London, where he played a key role in that city’s rise to a world centre for music. ...

Heinrich Schoenker
I Was Eight and Wanted to Live

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978-3-491-35023-6
24,90 € (D)

Heinrich Schönker’s memories of his childhood are unique for two reasons: he survived the Holocaust, despite growing up in the town of Auschwitz (now known by its Polish name of O?wi?cim), the later site of the Nazi extermination camp. He and his family escaped death only because his father hurried ...

Michael Schroeder
Sappho of Lesbos

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978-3-538-07257-2
19,90 € (D)

Very little is known about the early Greek lyric poet Sappho of Lesbos – after all, she lived over two and a half millennia ago. Many biographers have attempted to provide an account of Sappho’s life, telling of things such as her circle of women, her journey into exile in Sicily … Michael Schroeder ...

Jörg Aufenanger
Richard Wagner and Mathilde Wesendonck

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978-3-491-35010-6
19,90 € (D)

Richard Wagner and Mathilde Wesendonck – Poetry brough them together, but only in music could they be united. In honour of the 125th anniversary of Richard Wagner's death on 13th February 2008 Mathilde Wesendonck, Wagner's Isolde – Portrait of a touching female figure The dramatic affair between Mat ...

Sabine Appel
Arthur Schopenhauer

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978-3-538-07241-1
24,90 € (D)

"Life is an awkward thing," determined Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860). Sabine Appel's spirited look at the life and work of this great German thinker offers exemplary evidence that the greatest ideas are based not on systematic thinking and conceptual studies, but rather on a world view and highly ...

Michael Carlo Klepsch
Picasso and National Socialism

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978-3-491-35011-3
22,90 € (D)

The artist in the Gestapo's sights: Picasso living and surviving under the Nazi regime in France Picasso was not only an artist of genius; he also possessed a sharp political mind which he used to oppose the onward march of the Fascists through artistic protest. His 'Guernica' painting was a powerfu ...

Veronika Beci
Joseph von Eichendorff

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978-3-538-07238-1
24,90 € (D)

Veronika Beci accompanies us on the baron’s journey through life, which took him from his family’s estate, his beloved Schloss Lubowitz near the Oder, to the universities at Halle and Heidelberg and on to Vienna, Königsberg and Berlin. She portrays his existence as an impoverished aristocrat, listle ...

Sabine Appel
Madame de Staël

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978-3-538-07231-2
24,90 € (D)

Anna Louise Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) lived an unusual, turbulent life in an historically eventful time: between the Enlightenment and Romantic movements, Ancien Régime, revolution and reaction. Her life history took her right through those turbulent times. Opposed to Napoleon, she was banned fr ...

Georg Stefan Troller
You: Unforgettable 22 Memorable Meetings

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978-3-538-07216-9
19,90 € (D)

You: Unforgettable 22 Memorable Meetings

“You: Unforgettable” is a book about meetings with 22 of the most exciting personalities of the 20th century – from art, film, sports, fashion, literature, music… All of them have impressed Georg Stefan Troller, often amused and also influenced him personally. Their examples helped him after the war ...

Jörg Aufenanger
Friedrich Schiller

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978-3-538-07190-2
12,95 € (D)

Three years before he died, he was finally allowed to call himself “von Schiller”. A nice advancement for one who came into the world as the son of an army surgeon and who as an angry young man, homeless refugee and author of revolutionary dramas was long a thorn in the eye of the powerful. A short ...

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