Ergebnis für "Exil" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Arno Geiger erzählt von seinem Vater, dem die Erinnerungen langsam abhanden kommen...

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.

Vom Frühstücksei bis zum Cocktail bei Präsident Roosevelt, vom gemütlichen Weihnachtsabend zu den Erfahrungen des Exils – Thomas Mann verbindet in den erhaltenen Journalen nahtlos das Alltägliche mit dem Weltgeschehen. Schonungslos erzählt er von familiärem Zwist, von Krankheit und Knabenliebe, von Politik und literarischen Projekten. Die interessantesten Einträge hat Hermann Kurzke für diese Edition ausgewählt. Mit gekonnter Balance und fein nuanciert bringt sie kein geringerer als Hanns Zischler zu Gehör.

Winner of the 2025 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers Shortlisted for the 2025 Toronto Book Award From a queer Muslim woman and artist, a generous, heartfelt and insightful memoir about family and finding the path to one's truest self. The youngest of three daughters, and the only...

The Exile joins Osama bin Laden as he escapes into Pakistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, bringing to vivid life the years leading up to his death spent on the run and in exile. It tells the human story, and illuminates the global political workings. It is a tale of evasion, collusion, betrayal and the deep pain of isolation.

Exile and Ecstasy sets out to explore the psychedelic path that occupies the crossroads between the Ram Dass movement and Hasidism. It's a path of seeking and escape, rebellion and return, medicine and magic. Bridging the polar ends of the Jewish and psychedelic worlds, while buttressing the...

In Democracy in Exile, Daniel Bessner shows how the experience of the Weimar Republic’s collapse and the rise of Nazism informed Hans Speier’s work as an American policymaker and institution builder. Bessner delves into Speier’s intellectual development, illuminating the ideological origins of the expert-centered approach to foreign policymaking and revealing the European roots of Cold War liberalism.

Lise Meitner, Pionierin der Kernphysik und internationale Koryphäe ihres Fachs, schreibt 1938 ihrem Freund und Kollegen Otto Hahn aus dem schwedischen Exil: Er habe tatsächlich einen Atomkern gespalten - seine Ergebnisse ließen keinen anderen Schluss zu. Es ist eine Entdeckung, die die Welt verändern wird... Diese Textcollage mit Musik zum 50. Todestag der österreichischen Physikerin Lise Meitner nimmt den Hörer mit auf eine spannende Reise in die Welt der Physik des 20. Jahrhunderts - samt ihrer moralischen Verstrickungen. Und es würdigt die Physikerin als eine der ersten Frauen, die den bislang von Männern beherrschten Elfenbeinturm der Wissenschaft betreten konnten.

Ovid, geboren mitten in den blutigen römischen Bürgerkriegen und gestorben vermutlich nach dem Jahr 17 n. Chr. in seinem Verbannungsort Tomis, ist bis heute einer der unsterblichen römischen Klassiker. Seine "Ars amatoria", die "Metamorphosen", diese unerschöpfliche Schatztruhe mythischer Gestalten und Geschichten, aber auch die in der Verbannung entstandenen "Tristia" und die "Briefe vom Schwarzen Meer", erfreuen sich ungebrochener Beliebtheit.

As a college professor, Dr. Arik Greenberg had studied religion all his life, earning advanced academic degrees in his field. But none of this would sufficiently prepare him for his true spiritual journey. In The Exile, the first book of a trilogy, his challenge would be to rescue the family home from his mother’s deadly compulsive hoarding, and to protect his parents from their mental illnesses, borne out of a family legacy of abuse.

This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American powers, and a place where spies, soldiers, and political agents exchanged secrets and vied for control. In November 1942, as a part of Operation Torch...

She Who Tastes, Knows is an expansive history of Durkhanai's homeland and a vivid, moving story about what it truly means to understand another's culture. Through stories of food, family, belonging and migration, the book traverses cultural boundaries, weaving a tapestry of dignity, empathy and understanding.

George Blake was the last remaining Cold War spy. As a senior officer in the British Intelligence Service who was double agent for the Soviet Union, his actions had devastating consequences for Britain. Yet he was also one of the least-known double agents, and remained unrepentant. In 1961, Blake was sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for betraying to the KGB all of the Western operations in which he was involved, and the names of hundreds of British agents working behind the Iron Curtain. This was the longest sentence for espionage ever to have been handed down by a British court

Echoes of Exile reveals the seismic disruptions of twentieth-century European history through the intimate lens of one family's struggle to survive. Setting out to record the life of her mother, Ruth, Daniela Spenser unearthed personal facts and stories that additionally illuminate the shared traumas and experiences of millions of Czech, Polish, and German Jews who died in the Holocaust, as well as the stories of those who survived and lived under Communism and the Cold War.

EXILS est un podcast créé par Laurie Darmon dont chaque épisode est consacré à une personnalité qui raconte l’exil qu’elle a vécu ou que sa famille a vécu, et comment les origines plurielles qui en découlent influencent sa façon de mener sa vie.Qu’ils viennent d’Orient, d’Afrique du Nord ou d’autres régions du monde, Laurie Darmon donne la parole à ceux qui ont grandi ailleurs, ainsi qu’à leurs enfants ou leurs petits-enfants, afin qu’ils déroulent le long fil qui s’insinue partout, les amours, les voyages, les plaisirs, les chagrins, et rassemble tous ceux...

There is little in this world that a family cannot endure, if endure they must. For we all have it within us to lose everything, absolutely everything, and still find strength in the most simple, beautiful things. Pat and Mandy Retzlaff lived a hard but satisfying farming life in Zimbabwe...

The Untold Story of Steve Jobs's Wilderness Years—and the Creation of a Legend In 1985, Steve Jobs—the brilliant, volatile founder of Apple Computer—walked out of his company's headquarters, driven from the very corporation he had created. What happened next would transform not only his...

A memoir of a child's forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin's Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face of extraordinary hardship. In April of 1940, six-year-old Ida woke to the sound of pounding on her door. Soviet soldiers forcibly packed her and her mother onto a train with thousands of their neighbors and deported them to remote Siberia, leaving them stranded to survive the brutal winter in subhuman conditions.

Filled with deep insights and never-before-seen details, Trump in Exile is an explosive, all-access account from behind the scenes at Mar-a-Lago as former president Donald Trump regroups from an election defeat that he refuses to acknowledge and plots his return. The Capitol riots on January 6...

Tales from the road, told by full-time traveler Colin Wright.