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Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew

Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew more books like this

by Mr. John Felstiner

A critical examination of the works of the celebrated writer, written by a leading literary scholar.

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Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle

Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle more books like this

by Robert E Norton

Stefan George (1868-1933) was one of the most important and influential poets to have written in German. His work, in its originality and impact, easily ranks with that of Goethe, Holderlin, or Rilke. Yet George's reach extended far beyond the sphere of literature. Particularly during his last three decades, George gathered around himself a group ...

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Europe, Europe more books like this

by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Helena Franklin (Editor), Martin Chalmers (Translator)

A unique, entertaining and revealing insider's tour of the new Europe as Americans never see it, by one of West Germany's leading writers. Enzensberger shows how Europe is finding a new identity.

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Paul Celan : a biography of his youth more books like this

by Israel Chalfen

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Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder

Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder more books like this

by Susan Youens

Lieder began with words, with the composer's discovery of a poet and a poetic work, but the scholarly study of lieder has tended to bypass those origins. Schubert's choice of poets has traditionally come under fire for the preponderance of mediocre talent, and yet many of these writers were highly esteemed in their day. In her highly acclaimed ...

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Rilke : a life

Rilke : a life more books like this

by Wolfgang Leppmann

This is the first major study of the German poet to appear in English.

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Introduction to German Poetry: A Dual-Language Book

Introduction to German Poetry: A Dual-Language Book more books like this

by Gustave Mathieu (Editor), Guy Stern (Editor)

Over 40 poems by Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Holderlin, Brecht, other masters. Full German text plus literal English translations on facing pages. Biographical and critical commentary on each poet. 34 portraits. Introduction.

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Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger: An Unresolved Conversation, 1951--1970

Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger: An Unresolved Conversation, 1951--1970 more books like this

by Professor James K Lyon

This work explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan, regarded by many as the most important European poet after 1945, and Martin Heidegger, perhaps the most influential figure in twentieth-century philosophy. It centers on the persistent ambivalence Celan, a Holocaust survivor, felt toward a thinker ...

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Der blaue Reiter präsentiert Eurer Hoheit sein blaues Pferd : Karten und Briefe more books like this

by Franz Marc, Else Lasker-Schüler, Peter-Klaus Schuster, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst

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My Gaze Is Turned Inward: Letters 1938-1943

My Gaze Is Turned Inward: Letters 1938-1943 more books like this

by Gertrud Kolmar, Brigitte Goldstein (Translator), Johanna Woltmann (Editor)

The letters of a gifted Jewish poet living in Nazi Germany; So a picture of Gertrud Kolmar, a gifted Jewish writer struggling to sustain her art and her family in the midst of the encroaching horrors of Nazi Germany, emerges clearly from these eloquent and allusive letters. Written in the stolen moments before her day as a forced laborer in a ...

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Christian Morgenstern more books like this

by Erich Hofacker

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Ach Europa!: Wahrnehmungen Aus Sieben Landern: Mit Einem Epilog Aus Dem Jahre 2006 more books like this

by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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Deutsche Dichterinnen vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart more books like this

by Gisela Brinker-Gabler

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A Woman's Voice in Baroque Music: Mariane Von Ziegler and J. S. Bach

A Woman's Voice in Baroque Music: Mariane Von Ziegler and J. S. Bach more books like this

by Mark A Peters

At the end of his second year in Leipzig, J.S. Bach composed nine sacred cantatas to texts by Leipzig poet Mariane von Ziegler (1695-1760). Despite the fact that these cantatas are Bach's only compositions to texts by a female poet, the works have been largely ignored in the Bach literature.Ziegler was Germany's first female poet laureate, and the ...

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Ich Wolkenstein: Eine Biographie more books like this

by Dieter Kuhn

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Else Lasker-Schuler: A Life

Else Lasker-Schuler: A Life more books like this

by Betty Falkenberg

Else Lasker-Schuler, a pivotal figure in German Expressionism, presided over avant-garde cafe life in pre-World War I Berlin in much the same way Gertrude Stein did in Paris around the same time. Her poetry, prose, plays and graphic art are not very well known in the English-speaking world, but her work has been enjoying a critical and popular ...

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Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs

Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs more books like this

by Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, Barbara Wiedemann (Editor)

The correspondence between Sachs (1891-1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature and the great German-speaking poet Celan (1920-1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the day Celan was buried. An annotated index of names and a chronolog

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Else Lasker-Schüler in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten more books like this

by Erika Klüsener

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My Gaze Is Turned Inward: Letters 1934-1943 more books like this

by Gertrud Kolmar, Johanna Woltmann (Editor), Brigitte Goldstein (Translator)

The letters of a gifted Jewish poet living in Nazi Germany; So a picture of Gertrud Kolmar, a gifted Jewish writer struggling to sustain her art and her family in the midst of the encroaching horrors of Nazi Germany, emerges clearly from these eloquent and allusive letters. Written in the stolen moments before her day as a forced laborer in a ...

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Exile and the elemental in the poetry of Erich Arendt more books like this

by Suzanne Shipley Toliver

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In Time of Need: A Conversation about Poetry, Resistance & Exile more books like this

by Reiner Kunze

A transcript (edited) of a conversation between Germany's most famous contemporary lyric poet and his French translator, about poetry and poets under Nazism and Communism in Germany.

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Else Lasker-Schuler: Inside This Deathly Solitude more books like this

by Ruth Schwertfeger

This exploration of the life and work of one of the most colourful figures of German Expressionism, Else Lasker-Schuler, focuses on her poetry, gender, Judaism and exile.

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Petrus Lotichius Secundus, neo-Latin poet more books like this

by Stephen ZON

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Rainer Maria Rilke : 1875-1975 : e. Dokumentation more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Aber Die Hoffnung: Autobiographisches Aus Und Uber Deutschland more books like this

by Hilde Domin

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