The forgotten writer

The forgotten writer PDF Author: Friedrich S. Plechinger
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3756882918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
A forgotten writer who was once a Stasi agent and who provoked the world with his books was trying to find peace and quite by buying an old farm in a mid sized city in southern France so at least it seemed to everyone, but the reality told a different story and Francine Autem who sold him the farm through her little agency was suddendly confronted with many strange and unregular occurences which involved her in a world of sinister and life threatening secrets and a journey began that changed hers and other people`s life completely. Who was this man and why did their path cross?

Why the Church?

Why the Church? PDF Author: Hans Joas
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503640809
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
Why did Christianity produce the special organizational form "church" in the first place? Is it possible to be a Christian without the church? To what extent is Christian faith in community with other believers an alternative to the mere self-optimization of individuals? In this accessible and questioning new work, Hans Joas traverses theological, church-historical, sociological, and ethical territory in search of a viable conception of the church adequate to contemporary globalized societies. Across eleven essays that draw on work by Ernst Troeltsch, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, H. Richard Niebuhr, Leszek Kolakowski and others, Joas reflects on key debates—from the failure of so-called secularization theory to explain religiosity in modern society, to the role of Christianity and the church in relation to rampant nationalism and refugee crises, and to the question of whether or not human dignity ever was, or still is, the highest value in the West. Addressing the sociology of the church as the distinctive communal formation of Christianity for the last two millennia, Joas underscores the need for Christian conceptions of church to balance theological sensibility with concrete sociological grounding. In the process, he considers the relation of a community of faith to contemporary ideas about the optimization of life.

Friedrich Der Grosse

Friedrich Der Grosse PDF Author: Karl Friedrich Becker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prussia (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description

The Frey Sander Connections Germans from Russia

The Frey Sander Connections Germans from Russia PDF Author: Albert Frey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664119795
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 792

Book Description
This book provides the genealogical connection of the Frey, Sander and extended families. The genealogical record is traced from the late 1500’s of central Europe to the Russian Steppes near what is now Odessa Ukraine and finally to the Prairies of North America. Brief historical descriptions are included to provide some insight into the reasons why the families relocated. The major part of the book traces the ancestral lines through the years and includes church and civil records as genealogical prime sources.

Rebellion and Revolution

Rebellion and Revolution PDF Author: Melissa Etzler
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527553345
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
Rebellion and Revolution: Defiance in German Language, History and Art is a transnational collection of twelve essays by scholars of history, literature and film. It offers new perspectives on several of the key moments in history when the German revolutionary spirit was at its peak. Inspired by both the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the 40th anniversary of the student movements of 1968, this book contributes to current discourses on resistance by providing a retrospective look at events and time periods ranging from the German Peasants’ War of 1525 to the American War for Independence and the French Revolution in the 18th century; and from the tumultuous period of the Weimar Republic up until the final days of the German Democratic Republic. This book not only provides a new outlook on important historical moments and sociopolitical issues, rather the articles take a multidisciplinary approach to analyze a variety of artistic works inspired by historical rebellious movements. This book provides a variety of theoretical interpretations which will be useful to readers interested in historiography, gender studies, rhetoric, philosophy, film, music and literature.

Weimar on the Pacific

Weimar on the Pacific PDF Author: Ehrhard Bahr
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520257952
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
In the 1930s and '40s, LA became a cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodor W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who were fleeing Nazi Germany. This book is the first to examine their work and lives.

Alfred Döblin

Alfred Döblin PDF Author: Steffan Davies
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110217708
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 431

Book Description
Döblin’s texts, which range widely across contemporary discourses, are paradigms of the encounter between literary and scientific modernity. With their use of ‛Tatsachenphantasie’, they explode conventional language, seeking a new connection with the world of objects and things. This volume reassesses and reevaluates the uniquely interdisciplinary quality of Döblin’s interdiscursive, factually-inspired poetics by offering challenging new perspectives on key works. The volume analyses not only some of Döblin’s best-known novels and stories, but also neglected works including his early medical essays, political journalism and autobiographical texts. Other topics addressed are Döblin’s engagement with German history; his relation to medical discourse; his topography of Berlin; his aestheticisation of his own biography and his relation to other major writers such as Heine, Benn, Brecht and Sebald. With contributions in English and in German by scholars from Germany and the United Kingdom, the volume presents insights into Döblin that are of value to advanced researchers and to students alike.

The Critical Reception of Alfred Döblin's Major Novels

The Critical Reception of Alfred Döblin's Major Novels PDF Author: Wulf Köpke
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571132093
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
The first thorough study in English of the reception of Döblin's novels, written by one of the foremost Döblin scholars. Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) is one of the major German writers of the twentieth century. His experimental, ever-changing, avant-garde style kept both readers and critics off guard, and although he won the acclaim of critics and hada clear impact on German writers after the Second World War (Günter Grass called him "my teacher"), he is still largely unknown to the reading public, and under-researched by literary scholars. He was a prolific writer, with thirteen novels alongside a great many other shorter fiction works and non-fiction writings to his credit, and yet, paradoxically, he is known to a larger public as the author of only one book, the 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, which sold more copies in the first weeks of publication than all his previous novels combined. Alexanderplatz is known for its depiction of the criminal underground of Berlin and a montage and stream-of-consciousness technique comparable to James Joyce's Ulysses; it became one of the best-known big-city novels of the century and has remained Döblin's one enduring popular success. Döblin was forced into exile in 1933, and the works he wrote in exile were neglected by critics for decades. Now epic works like Amazonas, November 1918, and Hamlet, Oder die lange Nacht nimmt ein Ende are finding a fairer critical evaluation. Wulf Koepke tackles the paradox of Döblin the leading but neglected avant-gardist by analysis of contemporary and later criticism, both journalistic and academic, always taking into account the historical context in which it appeared. Wulf Koepke is Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University.

Land of Dreams

Land of Dreams PDF Author: André Lardinois
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047409280
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description
This collection of essays, dedicated to A.H.M. Kessels, provides an overview of modern Dutch scholarship in Greek and Latin studies with special emphasis on dreams in classical literature, classical drama and the reception of Homer.
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