Mostrando resultados por "1939 Exil der Frauen" en Todas las categorías

Eine spannende Zeitreise ins Schicksalsjahr berühmter Frauen. Unda Hörner folgt den Spuren berühmter Frauen in zwölf lebendig erzählten Kapiteln durch das Jahr 1939: Hannah Arendt gelingt die Flucht nach New York, Helene Weigel zieht mit dem Brecht-Tross nach Schweden. Marlene Dietrich nimmt die amerikanische Staatsbürgerschaft an, Erika Mann veröffentlicht mit Bruder Klaus ein Who's who der deutschen Kultur im Exil.

The season of 1939 brought all those "in Society" to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the king and queen to mark their acceptance into the new adult world of their parents. They sparkled their way through a succession of balls and parties and sporting events. The season brought together influential people not only from society but also from government at the various events of the social calendar.

In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to a massive world war. Drawing on contemporary diaries, memoirs, and newspapers, as well as recorded interviews, 1939 is a narrative account of what the coming of the Second World War felt like to those who lived through it.