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Seit 1951 sammelt Klaus Wagenbach fotografische Dokumente über Franz Kafka; in fünf Jahrzehnten entstand ein einzigartiges Archiv mit hunderten von Aufnahmen. Dieses Archiv ist Grundlage des vorliegenden Bandes, der alle wichtigen Bilder zum Leben Kafkas enthält. Die begleitenden Texte von Klaus Wagenbach fassen in Einführungen zu den einzelnen Kapiteln die jeweilige Lebenssituation zusammen. Besonders wichtige Dokumente oder Fotografien werden erläutert und mit Zitaten ergänzt. Sämtliche wichtigen Personen, Orte und Landschaften in Kafkas Leben treten auf, die Arbeits- und Schreibstätten werden vorgestellt.

As Neil Barnett shows in this short but engaging biography, The charismatic, near-mythological figure of Josip Broz Tito was many things: an inspirational partisan leader and scourge of the Germans during their occupation of Yugoslavia in the Second World War; a doctrinaire communist but an ever- present thorn in Moscow's side.

Following German reunification in 1990 there has been a reassessment of Bismarck's role in European history

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Che Guevara ha encarnado como pocos las utopías sociales y los sueños de toda una generación. Su implacabilidad consigo mismo, su fuerza de voluntad y su desprecio por la muerte lo han convertido en un ídolo. La monografía describe el mito y la realidad de una vida extraordinaria y agitada, que hasta hoy fascina y entusiasma a personas en todo el mundo.

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Ludwig van Beethoven steht i n seiner Zeit und zugleich ü b e r ihr. Bedeutend sind die Anregungen, welche der schulisch kaum gebildete, seinem geistigen und politischen Lebensraum jedoch engagiert und skeptisch zugewandte Künstler durch Aufklärung, Französische Revolution, Napoleonkult, Weimarer Klassik und idealistische Philosophie erhalten hat. Nicht minder imponierend ist die ästhetische Summe, welche der sein Zeitalter überragende Komponist letztlich zieht: Sein Werk, ein Wunder an Prägnanz, Vielfalt und Differenziertheit, wird für Zeitgenossen und Nachfahren zum Inbegriff von Musik als kraftvoll zusammengefasster Individualität.

When Churchill died, one might have thought that it was not a man who was being borne to his grave, but British history itself - a resplendent, fortunate history whose last illustrious chapter Churchill himself had written almost a quarter of a century before.

Caravaggio was the most revolutionary artist of the Italian Baroque. The intensity and drama of his chiaroscuro style is matched only by his life. Outlaw, heretic, murderer and sensualist are some of the charges brought against him by his contemporaries.

The year 2005 marks the bicentenary of the death of one of the greatest figures in German literature. Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was a playwright, poet, historian and literary critic. Together with Goethe, whose friend and colleague he became, Schiller established the German language and its literature as essential components of European culture. His plays, including Wallenstein, Maria Stuart and Wilhelm Tell, have been translated and performed all over the world. This compact biography draws liberally on Schiller's correspondence and on contemporary records. It places Schiller in the context of a rapidly changing Germany, with its many small, semi-feudal principalities confronting the tide of new ideas from revolutionary France, an increasingly confident middle class and a growing sense of German national identity. The book is illustrated throughout in color and monochrome.Contents:Individuality and rebellion --The author of The robbers --Dramatist in Mannheim --Friendship --The historian --Wiemar and Jena --The classical poet --In Berlin --The end of an epoch.

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A biography of the Czech writer includes photographs of the people and places important to him during his life

Marie Curie made pioneering discoveries in the field of radioactivity and discovered two elements, Radium and Polonium, the latter having acquired new notoriety over one hundred years after Curie's discovery, when she named it in honour of her native Poland. schovat popis

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