Performing Urgency #2 – Series Edited by Florian Malzacher. 'Turn Turtle, Turn! Reenacting The Institute' is a creative and intellectual analysis of the new turn in the perception and workings of the institutes in the performing arts. What has become apparent in the last ten years or so is a move towards an engaged re-appropriation of the arts institute in artistic (performance) practices, and a more in-depth collaboration between institutes and artists in rethinking the functioning, the p...

„Sherry Thomas’ Bücher sind eine Offenbarung.“—New York Times Bestseller-Autorin Lisa KleypasHelena Fitzhugh und David, Lord Hastings kennen sich seit Jahren. Doch während David insgeheim in den eigensinnigen Rotschopf verliebt ist, hat Helena nichts als Verachtung für ihn übrig. Daran ist David zwar alles andere als unschuldig, aber an seinen Gefühlen ändert das nichts – ebenso wenig wie die Tatsache, dass Helena eine Affäre mit einem verheirateten Schriftsteller unterhält. Als di...

According to Wikipedia: "Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (18 October 1777 21 November 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him."

Das Urteil by Franz Kafka.

Classic Schiller drama about the Thirty Years' War, in the original German. . According to Wikipedia: "Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last few years of his life (17881805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang Goethe, with whom he greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics, encouraging Goethe to finish works he left merely ...

Die Traumdeutung by Sigmund Freud.

Classic Schiller drama, in the original German. . According to Wikipedia: "Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last few years of his life (17881805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang Goethe, with whom he greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics, encouraging Goethe to finish works he left merely as sketches; this thereby ga...

Erstes Buch1Einige Ordonnanzen, die die Treppe emporeilten, blieben plötzlich wie angewurzelt stehen, ein junger ordenglitzernder Hauptmann mit rosigen Wangen, eben im Begriff sich zu schneuzen, verbarg in äußerster Hast das Taschentuch, und nur einem Drillichkittel gelang es noch im letzten Augenblick, in die Portierloge zu entkommen: oben auf der Treppe leuchtete der hellrote Mantelaufschlag eines Generals.Mit breitem Steingesicht, den Blick verborgen in den grauen...

TOOTS is our baby. He is a queer one too; up early, and always in dread of bed-time. One morning, not long ago, we heard him singing, and on looking for him, found the little rogue in the very middle of our best bed in the guest chamber, where he was playing hand-organ with a long hairpin put through the pretty pillow covers which had just come home from the laundry. There he sat singing a droll medley of "Uncle Ned," "Blessed Desus," and "Down in the Coal Mine." He had been watching two s...

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