Ergebnis für "Eroberung" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Werner Herzog schafft Werke mit magischer Kraft. "Fitzcarraldo" gehört zu seinen herausragendsten und berühmtesten Filmen. Während der teilweise zermürbenden und aussichtslos erscheinenden Dreharbeiten im Dschungel Südamerikas führt Herzog Tagebuch, das Protokoll einer existenziellen Erfahrung. Im Oktober 2012 entwickelt Herzog für die Volksbühne Berlin zwei Abende. Unter der musikalischen Leitung des Cellisten Ernst Reijseger spielen Harmen Fraanje (Orgel, Piano), der senegalesische Sänger Mola Sylla, sowie die Voches de Sardinna (Chor) und Stefan Winter (Turntables).

When William the Conqueror died in 1087, he left the throne of England to William Rufus . . . his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus's elder brother Robert fought to gain the crown he saw as rightfully his; this conflict marked the start of 400 years of bloody disputes as the English monarchy's line of hereditary succession was bent, twisted, and finally broken when the last Plantagenet king, Richard III, fell at Bosworth in 1485.

This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king. Edward I is familiar to millions as 'Longshanks', conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir William Wallace ('Braveheart'). Edward was born to rule England, but believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of the most dramatic of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale and leaving a legacy of division that has lasted from his day to our own.

For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. The Royal Art of Poison is a hugely entertaining work of popular history that traces the use of poison as a political - and cosmetic - tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today.

Henry II had all the gifts of the gods. He was charismatic, clever, learned, empathetic, a brilliant tactician, with great physical strength and an astonishing self-belief. Henry was the creator of the Plantagenet dynasty of kings, who ruled through eight generations in command of vast lands in Britain and Europe. Virtually unbeaten in battle, and engaged in a ceaseless round of conquest and diplomacy, Henry forged an empire that matched Charlemagne's.