He wrote a total of 18 volumes both fiction and nonfiction along with numerous article for newspapers and magazines in Germany. His nonfictional books were commonly anecdotal in form and one volume can plausibly claim to be at least a semi-scholarly study of its subject. It notes that the ...
Bertha’s father, Friedrich Krupp, committed suicide in scandal in 1902, having been exposed in the newspapers as a homosexual. Because it was deemed unthinkable for the Krupp armament empire to be run by a woman, the emperor William II personally sought an acceptable husband for the young Ber...
The newspapers of the time are filled with reports of arrests for the offence of“Careless Talk.”A meter reader from Oxford was detained after alleging“we should be just as well under the Nazi’s as we are now!”A Dorset policeman was jailed for expressing similar sentiments and a Peterhe...
They prove how, since the conclusion of the Great War, the Poles systematically attempted to exterminate the German minority in Poland and to ruin Danzig; they prove how the Fuehrer endeavoured by broad-minded and infinitely patient statesmanship to establish German-Polish relations on a perman...
. Newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst was said to be the highest paid man. Hearst disapproved of West on moral grounds, and once editorialized: “Can’t something be done about Mae West [by Congress]?” Hearst also forbade any mention of West’s 1936 filmKlondike Anniein his newspapers...
Karl Tannert, consulate secretary described the club,“…our coach halts in the middle of abeautiful garden in front of a palatial building that our fellow countrymen had furnished in a cozy and most comfortable fashion. There is a dining hall with German, English and Spanish newspapers to choo...
At the beginningof February1965, advertisementsfor aGermancoursewere placedin severalEgyptiannewspapers.Morethan110EgyptianspersonallyregisteredwithAgnesHelbiginaprovisionallyfurnishedofficeat thecenter.³³Paradoxically, thehigh numberof registrationswasareasonfor concernratherthanjoy.The headof theKIZ,Klaus Timm...
Further reading:New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933(135kb pdf) 1/ Some of these ideas came from Murphie, Andrew. “Computers are not theatre: the machine in the ghost in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s thought,” in Genosko, Gary (ed.,).Deleuze an...
"Four small collages for inspection. Kurt Schwitters (?)" "I KNOW," wrote Schwitters in 1931, "that I am an important factor in the development of art and shall for ever remain so, but I fear I shall not experience this in my lifetime, so I collect together sketch upon sketch, ...
Personal and professional cor-respondence was conducted in German, and German-language newspapers from Vienna and Berlin had a substantial readership. The active knowledge of German kept alive the channel of connection between Croatian Jewry and Deutschtum. Even beyond the German language, the most ...