Ergebnis für "Kassandra" in Literatur & Belletristik

Christa Wolfs Meisterwerk erzählt von Kassandra, der schillerndsten Frauenfigur der griechischen Mythologie...

Furchterregend klingt das Wort, das der zehnjährige Josef Ambacher aufschnappt: Sibirien. Die Erwachsenen verwenden es für alles, was im fernen, fremden Osten liegt. Dorthin werden Hunderttausende deutscher Zivilisten – es ist das Jahr 1945 – von der Sowjetarmee verschleppt, unter ihnen auch Josef. Kasachstan ist das Ziel. Dort angekommen, findet er sich in einer harten, aber auch wundersamen, mythenvollen Welt wieder – und er lernt, sich gegen die Steppe und ihre Vorspiegelungen zu behaupten.

Hier werden die Ballade "Kassandra" und das gesellige Lied "Das Siegesfest" vorgetragen. Beide besingen den Kampf um Troja nach dem Mythos der Griechen: Kassandras Weissagung deutet den Kampf der belagerten Stadt voraus; im "Siegesfest" mischen sich Triumph und Trauer derer, die den 10-jährigen Krieg gewonnen und derer, die ihn verloren haben.

Die zwanzigjährige Violet Sorrengail sollte in den Schreiberquadranten eintreten und ein ruhiges Leben zwischen Büchern und Geschichte führen. Jetzt hat der kommandierende General – auch bekannt als ihre knallharte Mutter – Violet befohlen, sich den Hunderten von Kadetten anzuschließen, die danach streben, die Elite von Navarra zu werden: Drachenreiter.

William James is a man with a lot on his plate. Three years after a messy divorce, he’s renovating the dilapidated old house his wife let him have, working for a construction technology firm, and playing music in bars. But when he moves into a new apartment, he discovers a supernatural ability—he can see ghosts and raise the dead. With his ghostly roommate and two girlfriends, William embarks on a journey to explore the unseen world, build a new family, and learn to control his powers.

Für seine Ballade „Kassandra“ greift Schiller den Kassandra-Mythos aus dem antiken Epos Troja auf. Die Ballade enthält dem entsprechend viele Namen und Anspielungen aus der Troja und der antiken Götterwelt.

Following the execution of Lukas Morris, Preternatural Private Investigator Kassandra Lyall told herself that she'd learn more about the local werewolf pack's Alpha female. Just as she begins her investigation, she's interrupted by a phone call from friend and ex-colleague, Detective Arthur Kingfisher. The body of a 16-year-old boy has been found. It's not just any 16-year-old boy, it's Timothy Nelson, a boy Kassandra knew was curious about the preternatural.

Welcome to “read between the times”, the podcast where we’ll not only read between the lines but delve deeper into the meaning beyond the text and its history. Every episode we’ll discuss a book and give you an overview on the themes, motifs and topics that lie hidden beneath the cover - our main focus is the historical context of the book.

Preternatural private investigator and paranormal huntress Kassandra Lyall is used to working alone. Whenever there's a murder or a mystery to solve that involves the preternatural she's the witch they call. When she's contacted to help the local cops work on a mysterious murder case, she finds herself needing all the help she can get. A bloodthirsty werewolf is loose in the city and on a killing spree. As if her plate weren't full enough, a strange she-wolf seeks Kassandra's aid, asking her to help find her missing brother.

Dieses Hörbuch enthält folgende Lesungen: "Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre" (Erzählung), "Spiel des Schicksals" (Erzählung), "Der Sonntagsspaziergang" (Gedicht), "Kassandra" (Ballade), "Das Siegesfest" (Gedicht/Lied), "Die Kraniche des Ibykus" (Gedicht) sowie die nachgesprochene Vorlesung "Was heisst und zu welchem Ende studiert man Universalgeschichte?". Als Bonus ist das Feature "Inkognito - Schiller in Oggersheim" enthalten.

An inventive and riveting epic saga, After the Flood signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent. A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great coastal...

When paramedic, Michael Perry, loses his father, he finds himself in a downward spiral. His depression threatens to end him and so does his addiction. In an attempt to quit smoking with hypnotherapy, he is left with disturbing side effects. How far must he go to kill this disease?

Yule is a time to celebrate the rebirth of the light, but for Preternatural Private Investigator and Paranormal Huntress Kassandra Lyall, it's about solving yet another series of crimes. When a couple disappears from their quiet neighborhood home, Detective Arthur Kingfisher brings Kassandra in on the case. In the midst of aiding the police, Kassandra finally finds herself at serious odds with Sheila Morris, the local werewolf pack's Alpha female, when Sheila decides to abuse someone very dear to Kassandra.

When Mayfair’s newly minted Chamber of Commerce goes off the rails, and decides to build an ice skating rink, a decades-old skeleton is uncovered. The secrets it reveals threaten more than the town’s Christmas plans. Feeling responsible since the let’s-attract-more-tourists idea was hers initially, service dog trainer Marcia Banks is determined to help her police detective boyfriend solve the mystery - whether he wants her help or not. Maybe she can wheedle more out of the townspeople than he can.

Hola a todos, en este podcast voy a estar discutiendo y dando mi opinion de libros entre otras cosas. Espero que disfruten de mi podcast. Hasta la proxima.

I was sheltered and raised in a Catholic household. I was taught to dress a certain way. Behave a certain way. Never having any free will of my own. But all my Catholic beliefs went out the window when I met him. I was only sixteen at the time. Deimos…his name sounded so good coming out of my mouth. Rumors were spread that Demios was just a myth that parents told their daughters to scare them into being obedient or else they would meet Deimos, the GOD of Terror and Dread.

Sinead - who is both resilient and vulnerable, insightful and insecure - spends her days supporting her ailing mother and appeasing Emerson, the man who owns her house and the diner where she works. She wants nothing more than to leave the town her own dark history is bound up in, but Emerson asserts his power over her, thwarting her progress at every turn. One day, Tobias, a mysterious rambler from the east coast, walks into the diner, and Sinead makes the impulsive decision to invite him into her life and home.

Rumi was an ancient teacher, poet, and mystic who had his fair share of tough times. Through the ups and downs, he wrote poetry that, to this day, moves the soul. We all know it's easy to get stuck in places we don't want to be: a dead end job, an unhappy marriage, a toxic family or friendship. Your goal is not to transform all of those areas at once. Your mission is to focus on transforming yourself and, as a result, your relationship to everything else in your life will change.

When Karina's kid brother is accused of a gang-style killing, she calls the only person she knows who might be able to clear his name - her ex-boyfriend, Mason Sinclair. Though Mason dreads returning to Albuquerque where his wife was murdered, he can't say no to Karina. Before long he's neck-deep in assault rifles and has thrust Karina into the crosshairs of the same desperate criminals who killed his wife. It will take all his skills and those of his Falsely Accused Support Team buddies to keep her alive.

Raine gave her life to save her pack, but when a she-wolf wakes with no memory of who she is, can the story have a happy ending? She is hunted by demons and vampires, but Raine must find her way and lead the charge against the Demon King before he can unleash the sorcerer's magic into the world.