German Culture

Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international best seller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.

This new, updated edition of Germany - Culture Smart! examines the vast changes that have led to Germany's new world confidence. It explains how German traditional values and working methods are adapting to take advantage of international opportunities and global society while maintaining the commitment to quality, organization, and time that marks out German business life.

First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power.

Propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that so many Germans have worked to rebuild, Germania was recorded to enlighten us on serious topics, curiosities, and on the limits of language, the meaning of culture, and the pleasure of townscape.

The summer that Patty Bergen turns twelve is a summer that will haunt her forever. When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, Patty learns what it means to open her heart. Even though she’s Jewish, she begins to see a prison escapee, Anton, not as a Nazi, but as a lonely, frightened young man. As their gentle friendship blossoms, Patty experiences a kind of love she never felt from her abusive father or her distant mother.

Eine fremde Welt, tödliche Kreaturen und ein dämonischer Begleiter! Allein mit lustigen Sprüchen bewaffnet, muss Sam sich in einer fremden Welt, voller Dämonen und Magie, behaupten. Gerade noch auf dem Weg zur Schule, findet er sich nun in allerhand lebensbedrohlichen Situationen wieder und kämpft um sein Leben. Zumindest bis er auf den Dämon Yujin trifft und sich dessen Reise zur Rettung eines Reiches anschließt, das vom Rest der Welt im Stich gelassen wurde.

A major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II—tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany’s implacable hostility toward Soviet Russia In the West, World War II is commonly understood as the Allies’ struggle against Nazism. Often...

Die Liebe der Erika Ewald ist eine feinfühlige Novelle von Stefan Zweig über das Aufblühen und Zerbrechen einer zarten Liebe. Erika, die nicht mehr an das große Glück glaubt, begegnet einem jungen Musiker – sensibel, talentiert, voller Hingabe. Zunächst scheint das Glück vollkommen. Doch als er zwischen seiner Kunst und der Liebe wählen muss, stellt sich die Frage: Ist wahre Leidenschaft vereinbar mit Hingabe an einen anderen Menschen? Eine eindrucksvolle psychologische Miniatur – leise, klug und voller innerer Spannung.

In der Novelle Schwüle Tage verbringt der junge Graf Bill seine Sommerferien auf dem Familiensitz, nachdem er das Abitur nicht bestanden hat. Unter der glühenden Sonne entfalten sich emotionale Spannungen zwischen ihm, seinem distanzierten Vater und geheimnisvollen Begegnungen mit Dorfbewohnern. Eduard von Keyserling schildert in schlichter und eindringlicher Sprache die Irritationen des Erwachsenwerdens, familiäre Erwartungen und das Ende einer Liebe.

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade their city: they’ve herded the sorry prisoners of...

Are you learning German? Knowing more words is one of the best ways to speak and understand more German. And if you want to sound like a native speaker, you'll need vocab that's relevant to German culture and daily life and that is actually used by German people. With Learn German: Discover German Culture & Traditions by GermanPod101.com, you learn the must-know vocab and German cultural insights that you won't find in a textbook.

Schadenfreude is the story of a teenage Jewish intellectual who falls in love - in love with a boy (who breaks her heart), a language (that's nearly impossible to master), a culture (that's nihilistic but punctual), and a landscape (that's breathtaking when there's not a wall in the way). Rebecca is an everyday, misunderstood '90s teenager with a passion for Pearl Jam and Ethan Hawke circa Reality Bites until two men walk into her high school civics class: Dylan Gellner and Franz Kafka, hitching a ride in Dylan's backpack.

Master the World's Most Challenging—and Rewarding—Business Markets Are you struggling to gain traction in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland despite having a successful business model? You're not alone. The DACH Paradox explains why the world's most prosperous markets are also the most challenging to enter—and how to succeed where others fail. PROVEN STRATEGIES FOR DACH MARKET SUCCESS This comprehensive guide reveals the strategic frameworks and cultural intelligence necessary for sustainable DACH expansion. Based on fifteen years of real-world experience, you'll learn how to avoid the ...

"Some love stories don’t begin with fireworks—they begin with letters."In the summer of 1934, Mary Antoinette Meister is already considered an old maid at twenty-two. Life in Batesville, Indiana, hasn’t offered much beyond chores and quiet expectations. So when she’s invited to help her brother, Father John, a Franciscan priest stationed in Port Sulphur, Louisiana, she agrees—more out of duty than curiosity. She expects heat, mosquitos, and mass. She doesn’t expect Oscar Buras. A sixth-generation son of the bayou, Oscar is smitten the moment he sees Mary. But she’s unimpressed...

An exhilarating, darkly funny debut novel about the absurd and fleeting nature of childhood fame, and the ever-evolving desire for family and forgiveness.

Lucy Gardiner felt like she was put on earth to dance.

Amid the chaos of her Massachusetts...

For fans of Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, Great Disasters is a stirring debut novel about six young men coming of age, and the enduring friendships that make us who we are—even as our paths diverge.

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