Foreword by Jost HermandThe libretti of the greatest German operas: Mozart's The Magic Flute, Beethoven's Fidelio, Wagner's Parsifal, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and Schoenberg's Moses and Aron.
This fascinating volume is for all serious students of European cinema as well as historians of Germany in the 20th century. "German Essays on Film" is divided into five parts: Late
This volume in The German Library includes the following authors and plays, which best represent the Expressionist movement of the early 20th century:-- Georg Kaiser: Gas I and Gas II-- Ernst Toller:
This bilingual collection, which includes some 60 modern poets, highlights the richness of 20th-century German-language lyricism. Poets are represented chronologically rather than grouped in schools o
This collection is organized in five part: Education for Girls and Women; Women and Work; Women and Politics; Issues of Gender; and Women in Art and Literature. It includes more than 90 excerpts by so
Indexes 9,800 Lieder composed after 1770, primarily for one voice and piano, scores to most of which can still be found in the US by industrious library patrons. Songs by 370 composers, representing 7
Originally published in 1987, this book brings together leading authorities from Germany and the USA who analyze how the East German economy actually operated - planning and management, pricing, inves
To celebrate Germany’s turn in the presidency of the EU Council, the German National Library is publishing this wonderful series of pictures, representing a visual “catch” culled from the more than th
Although there were a number of outstanding women writers of the late middle ages, it was not thought that women composed lyric poetry. Albrecht Classen's careful investigation of archival material, h
Includes: Gunther Anders, "Victims of Aggression"; Hannah Arendt, "From the Life of the Mind"; Ernst Bloch, "On Fine Arts in the Machine Age, From &quo
The influence of Nazism on German culture was a key concern for many Anglo-American writers, who struggled to reconcile the many contributions of Germany to European civilization, with the barbarity o
