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Berlin in Lights

The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1918-1937

By: Graf Harry Kessler

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Berlin in Lights

The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1918-1937

By: Graf Harry Kessler

Vibrantly bringing to life the frenetic, constantly changing mood of Germany and Europe between the wars, Berlin in Lights is a fascinating collection of diaries written by German aristocrat Harry Kessler, a diplomat and publisher who moved easily among the world of art, politics, and society. Kessler's diaries encompass an extraordinary variety of people from Einstein, Josephine Baker, and Bertolt Brecht to Virginia Woolf, Jean Cocteau, and Andre Gide, to name a few. Recording firsthand the agonizing collapse and death of Weimar Germany and the arrival of the Nazis, as well as the artistic and cultural movements that flourished then, his diaries beautifully encapsulate the tumultuous years between the two world wars. Book jacket.

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Grove Press

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080213839X

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9780802138392

The Diaries of a Cosmopolitan 1918-1937

By: Graf Harry Kessler

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The Diaries of a Cosmopolitan 1918-1937

By: Graf Harry Kessler

Known as the Red Count' because of his fiercely republican views, Count Harry Kessler was intensely involved in the art, politics and society of Weimar Germany. A writer of sharp perception and boundless curiosity, Harry Kessler wrote down everything as it happened. The diaries encompass an extraordinary variety of people. Josephine Baker dances naked in his drawing-room, Einstein engages him in long discussions about his theories, George Grosz contacts him from underground during the political troubles. Asquith and Cocteau, Diaghilev and Gide, Lloyd George and Richard Strauss, Rodin and Bernard Shaw, Eric Gill and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Virginia Woolf and Paul Valery, are among the people he knew and observed. He took a keen interest in politics. Alongside his artistic adventures are accounts of street fighting, the Spartacus uprising, the murder of Rosa Luxemburg, government upheavals, international disputes, elections and assassinations.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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1842120611

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9781842120613

The Correspondence of Edward Gordon Craig and Count Harry Kessler, 1903-1937

By: Edward Gordon Craig,Graf Harry Kessler

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The Correspondence of Edward Gordon Craig and Count Harry Kessler, 1903-1937

By: Edward Gordon Craig,Graf Harry Kessler

This long-awaited edition brings together for the first time 366 letters, cards and telegrams exchanged between Craig and his patron the cosmopolitan Count Kessler. An important primary source, illuminated by Dr Newman's commentary, it focuses on three areas of particular importance: - 1. Craig's artistic ideas and the spread of his influence through exhibitions and books; proposals are developed for work with Otto Brahm, Eleonora Duse, Max Reinhardt, Henry van de Velde, Eduard Verkade, Leopold Jessner, Dyaghilev, Beerbohm Tree, C. B. Cochran, and others. 2. Kessler's Cranach Press Hamlet with wood-engraved illustrations by Craig; this is a landmark in the history of twentieth-century book design and printing whose genesis is now fully revealed in these letters and amplified with reproductions of eighteen trial page proofs. 3. The relationship between an artist and his patron. Exceptionally detailed indexes are an additional feature of this book

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MHRA

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0901286591

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9780901286598

Journey to the Abyss

The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918

By: Graf Harry Kessler

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Journey to the Abyss

The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918

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Journey to the Abyss" is a selection of the early diaries, 1880-1918, of Count Harry Kessler, translated into English for the first time.

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030726582X

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9780307265821

The Correspondence of Edward Gordon Craig and Count Harry Kessler, 1903-1937

By: Edward Gordon Craig,Graf Harry Kessler

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Berlin in Lights

The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1918-1937

By: Graf Harry Kessler

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The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1918-1937

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Journey to the Abyss

The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918

By: Graf Harry Kessler

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The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918

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Journey to the Abyss" is a selection of the early diaries, 1880-1918, of Count Harry Kessler, translated into English for the first time.

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Tagebucher, 1918-1937

By: Graf Harry Kessler

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Tagebucher, 1918-1937

By: Graf Harry Kessler

Harry Clemens Ulrich Kessler, seit 1879 von Kessler, seit 1881 Graf (von) Kessler (1868 - 1937), war ein deutscher Kunstsammler, Mäzen, Schriftsteller, Publizist und Diplomat. Kessler führte 57 Jahre (1880-1937) Tagebuch, wobei er großen Wert auf Vollständigkeit legte. Dieses Tagebuch darf mit Recht als Kesslers literarischer Nachlass bezeichnet werden. Zuletzt hat das Deutschen Literaturarchiv in Marbach das Tagebuch in neun Bänden veröffentlicht. Sie enthalten umfangreiche Register der im Text vorkommenden Orte, Werke und Personen mit teilweise umfangreichen Erläuterungen. Am Ende werden unter anderem die Namen von etwa 12.000 mehr oder weniger bedeutenden Zeitgenossen, von Sarah Bernhardt und Jean Cocteau über Otto von Bismarck und Albert Einstein bis George Bernard Shaw und Josephine Baker, aufgelistet sein, die Kesslers Ruf als "Menschensammler" begründen. Kritiker halten diese Texte denn auch für "ein Fest für Literaturnarren und Wissbegierige nach Geschichte und Geschichten". Kessler macht in seinen Aufzeichnungen "die sinnliche Erfassung von Phänomenen zum Credo. Seine Wahrnehmungs-Erfahrungen", so die Kritik, "tragen nicht selten Züge einer Experimentalsituation, einer Inszenierung".

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8026886992

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9788026886990

The Diaries of a Cosmopolitan

1918 - 1937

By: Harry Kessler,Graf Harry Kessler

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The Diaries of a Cosmopolitan

1918 - 1937

By: Harry Kessler,Graf Harry Kessler

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0297643800

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9780297643807

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Berlin in Lights

Berlin in Lights

The Diaries of a Cosmopolitan 1918-1937

The Diaries of a Cosmopolitan 1918-1937

The Correspondence of Edward Gordon Craig and Count Harry Kessler, 1903-1937

The Correspondence of Edward Gordon Craig and Count Harry Kessler, 1903-1937

Journey to the Abyss

Journey to the Abyss

The Correspondence of Edward Gordon Craig and Count Harry Kessler, 1903-1937

The Correspondence of Edward Gordon Craig and Count Harry Kessler, 1903-1937

Berlin in Lights

Berlin in Lights

Journey to the Abyss

Journey to the Abyss

Tagebucher, 1918-1937

Tagebucher, 1918-1937

The Diaries of a Cosmopolitan

The Diaries of a Cosmopolitan

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