Ergebnis für "Exil" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

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...

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘We ache for love, but love eludes us. Out of this crisis comes so much of what it means to be human’ Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every...

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

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...

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.

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.

WINNER OF THE DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 TORONTO BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE JUDY GRAHN AWARD FOR LESBIAN NONFICTION From a queer Muslim woman and artist, a generous, heartfelt and insightful memoir about family and finding the path to...

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.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker' Omar El Akkad ‘Her most ambitious and dazzling book yet’ Brian Eno ‘Perhaps the most urgent and necessary book of our times’ Michael Morpurgo Dear stranger. Are you home? Do you feel at home? For...

Im Frühsommer 1940 trieb die Wehrmacht Flüchtlinge durch Westeuropa. Wer es nicht nach England schaffte, suchte Zuflucht in Lissabon: Tausende warteten im neutralen Portugal auf ein Schiff. Britische Spione und deutsche Agenten belauerten sich, Rohstoffeinkäufer suchten große Mengen an Sardinen für Hitlers Heer zu kaufen und wichtiger noch: das seltene und nicht zu ersetzende Wolfram für Panzerstahl.

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.

Elias Aoun är en mycket brutal säkerhetschef i Algeriet. Han och hans medarbetare gör sig skyldiga till grova övergrepp för att skydda regimen. Tre ungdomar, tillika medlemmar i Amnesty, mördas av Aoun och hans män. I boken får vi följa en familjs ansträngningar att hitta sin dotter...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

A riveting and deeply researched account of King Juan Carlos’s epic fall from grace. Paul Preston, the preeminent historian of modern Spain, here lays bare the complex web of financial and sexual excess that led to the hero’s vertiginous downfall. For decades, King Carlos was immensely...

Three buried files. One label. A lifetime of punishment. Gregory Paul never expected forgotten LimeWire downloads to cost him everything. But when investigators found three buried files during an unrelated criminal investigation, the state did not see an accident, nuance, context, or the fact that no direct victim was ever tied to his case. It saw a monster.

Gregory Paul's life ended in a single night in 2009. Not because he committed a crime, but because he told the truth. When a multi-agency raid turned his Clawson home into a crime scene, investigators found three video files on his computer. And when confronted, Gregory did what he thought was right: he told the truth. That honesty became his life sentence. Within months, the life he’d built for himself came crumbling down around him.