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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
This book spans the most terrible period of German history, focusing on the figure of Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord (1878-1943), the General who took control of the army in 1930 and…
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Migration, refugee crises, terrorism, civil war: four brilliant essays from the point of view of analysis and prognosis.
Mr. Z is a contemporary Socrates or an imitation of Keuner de Brecht, not only for his quirkiness but also the stoicism. Mr. Z does not write, but some of…
This bilingual (German/English) edition of the talk given at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin, 1998, with illustrations by K
Diego De Filippi
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Universitat Karlsruhe (TH) (Institut fur Literaturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Literatur und Film nach 1968, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die…
With subversive energy and masterful brevity, Mr Zed undermines arrogance, megalomania, and false authority. A determined speaker who doesn’t care for ambitions, he forces topics that others would rather keep…
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger,Tess Lewis
A collection of daring short essays on topical themes, including politics, economics, religion, society.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection not from Jeremy Bentham’s famous prison but…
Hans Magnus Enzensberger,Mike Mitchell
A collection of writings based on Enzensberger’s personal experience as a left-wing sympathizer during the 1960s.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany’s greatest living poet, was already well known…
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Mike Mitchell
A unique portrait of a revolutionary movement that is largely unknown outside Spain.
Northern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in the…
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The Silences of Hammerstein engages readers with a blend of a documentary, collage, narration, and fictional interviews. The gripping plot revolves around the experiences of real-life German General Kurt von…
The inner workings of the European Union are as much a mystery to those living within its confines as they are to those of us who reside elsewhere. This title…
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany’s greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of which Tumult is an autobiographical record. Derived from old…
Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection of daring short essays on topical themes-politics, economics, religion, society-not from Jeremy Bentham’s famous prison but from a mid-1930s Cabinet of…
An account of the life and death of Buenaventura Durruti, a Spanish Civil War leader, that turns his life into a larger story of revolution, commitment, and failed struggles for…
The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully normal life in the Munich suburbs. All that the three children really know about money is that there’s never enough of it in…
One of Germany’s greatest living writers offers up an analysis (and samples) of his failed projects.
My dear fellow artists, whether writers, actors, painters, film-makers, singers, sculptors, or composers, why…
Hans Magnus Enzensberger,Piers Spence
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, one of Europe’s leading thinkers describes the forces tearing our world apart.
Thomas Muller
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universitat des Saarlandes (Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Hans Magnus Enzensberger, 17 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch…
Byung-Hee Rim
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (Universit'at Siegen, 1999).
Un Nam
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Dortmund, 1995.
Dr Boris Pawlowski
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 1997 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: sehr gut, Christian-Albrechts-Universit t Kiel (Institut f r Neuere Deutsche Literatur und Medien), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese…
Anna Panek
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Freie Universitat Berlin (Institut fur Deutsche und Niederlandische Philologie), Veranstaltung: PS zu Textanalyse und Texttheorie, 18…
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Journalismus, Publizistik, Note: 2,3, Freie Universitat Berlin (Institut fur Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: PS ‘Gesellschafts- und Medientheorien im UEberblick’…
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Simon Pare, Sonaksha Iyengar
A unique and modern approach to money, wealth, greed, and financial ignorance presented via a story of a family in the Munich suburbs.
The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully…
Celebrates the tenacity of the normal and routine in everyday life, where the survival of the objects we use without thinking - a pair of scissors, perhaps - is both…
An international best-seller that does for maths what Sophie’s World did for philosophy.
Expanded dual language edition of Germany’s most important poet, adding work from his later collections Kiosk, Lighter Than Air and A History of Clouds to his earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems…
W. G. Sebald
A gorgeous illustrated poetry collection by W. G. Sebald: An extraordinarily handsome edition of poems by the late great writer (Confrontation).
