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The Storyteller Essays

de Walter Benjamin ...

Traducido por Tess Lewis ...

A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work.“The Storyteller” is one of Walter Benjamin’s most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between ... Leer más

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A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work.“The Storyteller” is one of Walter Benjamin’s most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between
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The Trial

de Franz Kafka ...

Series series The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time - Starbooks Classics Collection
The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader. Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to ... Leer más

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The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader. Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to
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The Metamorphosis

de Franz Kafka ...

Traducido por Ian Johnston ...

One extraordinary morning changes everything forever. In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka delivers one of the most influential and thought-provoking works of modern literature. Beginning with one of the most unforgettable openings in fiction, this remarkable novella explores the consequences of sudden transformation, inviting readers into a deeply symbolic and emotionally powerful story that ... Leer más

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One extraordinary morning changes everything forever. In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka delivers one of the most influential and thought-provoking works of modern literature. Beginning with one of the most unforgettable openings in fiction, this remarkable novella explores the consequences of sudden transformation, inviting readers into a deeply symbolic and emotionally powerful story that
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Shakespeare and the Strategies of an Opening

de Joel Benabu ...

The degree of Shakespeare’s concern for a "living theatre," capable of perpetually diversifying in order to maintain its appeal, is immediately apparent in the imaginative opening strategies employed in his plays. In an effort to illuminate them, this book studies the early printed texts for evidence of the opening lines of composition, as well as information supplied by Shakespeare for the actor ... Leer más

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The degree of Shakespeare’s concern for a "living theatre," capable of perpetually diversifying in order to maintain its appeal, is immediately apparent in the imaginative opening strategies employed in his plays. In an effort to illuminate them, this book studies the early printed texts for evidence of the opening lines of composition, as well as information supplied by Shakespeare for the actor
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Maxims and Reflections

de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...

Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills … Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’.Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation ... Leer más

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Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills … Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’.Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation
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Franz Kafka: The Best Works

de Franz Kafka ...

This ebook compiles Franz Kafka's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and parables such as "Amerika", "The Trial", "The Metamorphosis", "The Castle", "In the Penal Colony", "A Hunger Artist" and "The Great Wall of China". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) ... Leer más

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This ebook compiles Franz Kafka's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and parables such as "Amerika", "The Trial", "The Metamorphosis", "The Castle", "In the Penal Colony", "A Hunger Artist" and "The Great Wall of China". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)
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Illuminations

Essays and Reflections

de Walter Benjamin, Leon Wieseltier ...

Traducido por Henry Zohn ...

Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic ... Leer más

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Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic
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Letters to Milena

de Franz Kafka ...

Series series The Schocken Kafka Library
In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, was a gifted and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For the thirty-six-year ... Leer más

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In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, was a gifted and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For the thirty-six-year
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Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist

de Heinrich von Kleist ...

Traducido por Peter Wortsman ...

In this extraordinary and unpredictable cross-section of the work of one of the most influential free spirits of German letters, Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von Kleist’s transcendent prose. These tales, essays, and fragments move across inner landscapes, exploring the shaky bridges between reason and feeling and the frontiers between the human psyche and the ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

In this extraordinary and unpredictable cross-section of the work of one of the most influential free spirits of German letters, Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von Kleist’s transcendent prose. These tales, essays, and fragments move across inner landscapes, exploring the shaky bridges between reason and feeling and the frontiers between the human psyche and the
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One-Way Street

de Walter Benjamin, Greil Marcus ...

Traducido por Edmund Jephcott ...

One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature—by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, ... Leer más

$12.32 USD

One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature—by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental,
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50 Obras Maestras que debes leer antes de morir

Vol.1 (Bauer Classics)

de Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca, Gustav Meyrink, Solomon Northup, Miguel de Unamuno, Julio Verne, Mariano José de Larra, José de Espronceda, Amado Nervo, Alexander Pushkin, Francisco de Quevedo, Aristóteles, Benito Pérez Galdos, Virginia Woolf, Gustave Flaubert, Mark Twain, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, Jonathan Swift, Giovanni Boccaccio, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sir Walter Scott, Jack London, Sigmund Freud, William Shakespeare, James Fenimore Cooper, Carlo Collodi, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anne Brontë, Charles Baudelaire, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fedor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, Dante Alighieri, Alexandre Dumas, H.P. Lovecraft, Kahlil Gibran, James Joyce, Bauer Books ...

Series Libro 1 - Los Más Vendidos en Español
Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa.La Divina Comedia por Dante AlighieriMetafísica por AristótelesSentido y Sensibiildad por Jane AustenLas Flores del Mal por Charles BaudelaireEl Decamerón por Giovanni BoccaccioAgnes Grey (Español) por Anne BrontëLas Aventuras de Pinocho por C. CollodiEl ... Leer más

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Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa.La Divina Comedia por Dante AlighieriMetafísica por AristótelesSentido y Sensibiildad por Jane AustenLas Flores del Mal por Charles BaudelaireEl Decamerón por Giovanni BoccaccioAgnes Grey (Español) por Anne BrontëLas Aventuras de Pinocho por C. CollodiEl
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On Hitler's Mein Kampf

The Poetics of National Socialism

de Albrecht Koschorke ...

Traducido por Erik Butler ...

Series Libro 2 - Untimely Meditations
An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature.Hitler's Mein Kampf was banned in Germany for almost seventy years, kept from being reprinted by the accidental copyright holder, the Bavarian Ministry of Finance. In December 2015, the first German edition of Mein Kampf since 1946 appeared, with ... Leer más

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An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature.Hitler's Mein Kampf was banned in Germany for almost seventy years, kept from being reprinted by the accidental copyright holder, the Bavarian Ministry of Finance. In December 2015, the first German edition of Mein Kampf since 1946 appeared, with
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The Metamorphosis

de Franz Kafka ...

Traducido por Ian Johnston ...

A strange transformation. A fractured family. A haunting exploration of what it means to be human. The Metamorphosis is the famous existential novella by Franz Kafka, one of the most influential works of modern literature. The story follows Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman who awakens one morning to discover that he has mysteriously transformed into a giant insect. As he struggles to adapt to ... Leer más

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A strange transformation. A fractured family. A haunting exploration of what it means to be human. The Metamorphosis is the famous existential novella by Franz Kafka, one of the most influential works of modern literature. The story follows Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman who awakens one morning to discover that he has mysteriously transformed into a giant insect. As he struggles to adapt to
... Leer más
The Metamorphosis

de Franz Kafka ...

in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German ungeheures Ungeziefer, literally ... Leer más

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in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German ungeheures Ungeziefer, literally
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The Emergence of Memory

Conversations with W.G. Sebald

de W.G. Sebald ...

When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching ... Leer más

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When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (Book Analysis)

Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

de Bright Summaries ...

Series series BrightSummaries.com
Unlock the more straightforward side of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, which follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who is shunned and rejected by society in spite of his incredible talent as a perfume-maker. What no one knows is that his ... Leer más

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Unlock the more straightforward side of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, which follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who is shunned and rejected by society in spite of his incredible talent as a perfume-maker. What no one knows is that his
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Gesammelte Werke: Gedichte + Erzählungen + Roman + Dramen + Schriften zu Kunst und Literatur

Dinglyrik, Duineser Elegien, Malte Laurids Brigge, Jenseitskritik

de Rainer Maria Rilke ...

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Gedichte + Dramen + Erzählungen + Roman + Schriften zu Kunst und Literatur" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) war ein Lyriker deutscher Sprache. Mit seiner in den Neuen Gedichten vollendeten, von der bildenden Kunst beeinflussten Dinglyrik gilt er als einer ... Leer más

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Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Gedichte + Dramen + Erzählungen + Roman + Schriften zu Kunst und Literatur" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) war ein Lyriker deutscher Sprache. Mit seiner in den Neuen Gedichten vollendeten, von der bildenden Kunst beeinflussten Dinglyrik gilt er als einer
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Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann

Traducido por Peter Wortsman ...

de Various ...

'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered'Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the Romantics of the early nineteenth century to works of contemporary fiction, it includes Hoffmann's hallucinatory portrait of terror and insanity 'The ... Leer más

$12.95 USD

'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered'Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the Romantics of the early nineteenth century to works of contemporary fiction, it includes Hoffmann's hallucinatory portrait of terror and insanity 'The
... Leer más
Death in Venice and Other Stories

de Thomas Mann ...

Traducido por Nicola Luckhurst, Ritchie Robertson ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"' This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912, after which he turned to larger-scale projects. The acknowledged classic among the early shorter fiction is the novella Death in Venice, in which Mann develops a lyrical style and a ... Leer más

$6.29 USD

'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"' This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912, after which he turned to larger-scale projects. The acknowledged classic among the early shorter fiction is the novella Death in Venice, in which Mann develops a lyrical style and a
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Legal Tender

Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination

de John Griffith Urang ...

Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office. But in fact, as John ... Leer más

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At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office. But in fact, as John
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Kindred by Choice (The Elective Affinities)

Enriched edition. Love, Marriage, and Mysterious Attraction in a Weimar Aristocratic World

de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...

Traducido por James Anthony Froude, R. Dillon Boylan ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'Kindred by Choice' (also known as 'The Elective Affinities') is a novel that delves into the complexities of love, marriage, and human relationships. Set in early 19th century Germany, the story follows the lives of two couples whose fates become intertwined in unexpected ways, exploring the idea of how people are drawn together through a mysterious force of ... Leer más

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'Kindred by Choice' (also known as 'The Elective Affinities') is a novel that delves into the complexities of love, marriage, and human relationships. Set in early 19th century Germany, the story follows the lives of two couples whose fates become intertwined in unexpected ways, exploring the idea of how people are drawn together through a mysterious force of
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Die größten Klassiker der deutschen Literatur: Sturm und Drang

Literaturanthologie des 18. Jahrhunderts zwischen Geniekult, Freiheitsdrama und Aufklärungskritik

de Johann Georg Hamann, Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Wilhelm Heinse, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gottfried August Bürger, Matthias Claudius, Heinrich Leopold Wagner, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Johann Anton Leisewitz, Johannes Friedrich Müller, Friedrich Schiller ...

Diese Auswahl erschließt den Sturm und Drang als Aufbruchsepoche deutscher Literatur, in der Genieästhetik, Naturerfahrung, Freiheitsdrang und gesellschaftliche Kritik eine neue, leidenschaftliche Sprache finden. Dramatische Konflikte, lyrische Selbstbehauptung, satirische Miniaturen, philosophische Reflexionen und volksliednahe Töne stehen nebeneinander. Texte im Umfeld von Goethes und Lenz' ... Leer más

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Diese Auswahl erschließt den Sturm und Drang als Aufbruchsepoche deutscher Literatur, in der Genieästhetik, Naturerfahrung, Freiheitsdrang und gesellschaftliche Kritik eine neue, leidenschaftliche Sprache finden. Dramatische Konflikte, lyrische Selbstbehauptung, satirische Miniaturen, philosophische Reflexionen und volksliednahe Töne stehen nebeneinander. Texte im Umfeld von Goethes und Lenz'
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The Undercurrents

A Story of Berlin

de Kirsty Bell ...

Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories.The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but ... Leer más

$10.99 USD

Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories.The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but
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Heinrich Mann, Sammlung

de Heinrich Mann ...

Heinrich Mann (* 27. März 1871 in Lübeck; † 11. März 1950 in Santa Monica, Kalifornien) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und der ältere Bruder von Thomas Mann, in dessen Schatten er stets stand.Ab 1930 war er Präsident der Preußischen Akademie der Künste, aus der er nach der nationalsozialistischen Machtergreifung ausgeschlossen wurde. Mann, der bis 1933 meist in München gelebt hatte, emigrierte ... Leer más

$2.69 USD

Heinrich Mann (* 27. März 1871 in Lübeck; † 11. März 1950 in Santa Monica, Kalifornien) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und der ältere Bruder von Thomas Mann, in dessen Schatten er stets stand.Ab 1930 war er Präsident der Preußischen Akademie der Künste, aus der er nach der nationalsozialistischen Machtergreifung ausgeschlossen wurde. Mann, der bis 1933 meist in München gelebt hatte, emigrierte
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