Sütterlin was created by the Berlin graphic artist L. Sütterlin (1865-1917), who modelled it on the style of handwriting used in the old German Chancery. It was taught in German schools from 1915 to 1941 and is still used by the older generation. ...
Growing up in East Germany in the days before the Berlin Wall was torn down, he actually defected to West Germany and wound up losing part of a finger due to frostbite in the process; it was saved and reattached. After appearing in German movies and TV shows, he got his first Ho...
Before the Seven Year’s war the whole of German culture had been French. Even now German writers found but scant acceptance at Berlin or Vienna. The princes of the smaller states, shut out from the great world of politics, surrounded themselves with literature and art, and with men who wo...
“The Magic Marksman,” libretto by Friedrich Kind), Weber successfully challenged the outdatedhegemonyofGaspare Spontiniin Berlin.Der Freischützillustrates the GermanRomanticwriters’ love for dark forests, the echoes of hunters’ horns, the threatening presence of supernatural forces, and the ...
After 1908 Strauss lived in Garmisch, inBavaria, in a villa that he built with the royalties fromSalome. He conducted in Berlin until 1919, when he agreed to become joint director, with Franz Schalk, of the Vienna State Opera. His appointment proved unfortunate, since it coincided with a po...
were published with a long list of aristocratic subscribers. In the next three years he undertook concert tours in Berlin and Prague and might have traveled more widely still had the international situation permitted. In 1800 he launched a public concert on the grand scale, in which one of his...