New & Noteworthy

Edited by Olaf Peters On the eve of its subject's centennial, this richly illustrated and meticulously researched catalog celebrates—and reconsiders—one of the twentieth century's most significant artistic movements. Gustav F. Hartlaub’s 1925 exhibition “Neue Sachlichkeit” (New Objectivity) for the Kunsthalle Mannheim was a pivotal event that showcased a new artistic movement in Germany, characterized by its critical realism, social commentary, and detailed depiction of contemporary life; it marked a significant departure from Expressionism’s emotional intensity. But it was divided by two philosophies—the unflinching and socially critical Verists (Otto Dix, George Grosz, Georg Scholz, and others) and the Classicists (Alexander Kanoldt, Georg Schrimpf, and Christian Schad) who focused on harmony and beauty. This wide-ranging survey explores the tension between these camps and interprets it as a coherent chapter in art history. Essays by leading experts shed new light on the movement through the lens of regionality while considering a wide spectrum of media: architecture, design, drawings, film, paintings, photography, and philosophy. Their illuminating texts are accompanied by stunning reproductions of works such as Otto Dix’s Portrait of the Lawyer Dr. Fritz Glaser; Georg Scholz’s Of Things to Come; and Marcel Breuer’s Chair B 33. Impeccably produced and researched, this volume captures the ways that the New Objectivity proponents mirrored the Weimar period’s cultural, political, and social complexities. Hardcover304 pages | 200 color illustrationsPrestel Publishing, 20259.3 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9783791377926Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue

Neue Sachlichkeit / New Objectivity Exhibition Catalogue

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52-card deck features a Dagobert Peche design, gilt edges, and suits in gold foil. Court cards depict Neue Galerie masterworks by Otto Dix, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and others. Finely crafted with a luxurious finish.

Neue Galerie Playing Cards

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Silver-Plated Letter Opener

Between the years 1911 and 1918, Gustav Klimt kept a studio at Feldmühlgasse 11 in Vienna. Here, surrounded by an overgrown orchard full of apple trees and fragrant damask roses, Klimt worked on more than 50 paintings, including Adele Bloch-Bauer II. Only one of these rose bushes has survived till today, and after more than a hundred years it still flowers every year. In 2020 the scent surrounding the living rosebush (headspace scent) was captured by the FRAGRANTARIUM. Coincidentally its headspace scent contains aroma molecules that are normally found in apples and wild flowers just as depicted in Klimt’s Orchard With Roses. Top Notes: Freshly Cut Grass, Lemon, Golden Apples|Mid Notes: Damask Rose Oil, Honey, Pink PepperBase Notes: Wild Rose, Violet, Sandalwood 30ml / Hand filled in Austria. GUSTAV KLIMT, Orchard With Roses, 1912

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By Paul CelanEdited by Bertrand BadiouTranslated by Jason Kavett Insightful and provocative letters by a great twentieth-century poet to his artist wife about life and, revealingly, his own writing. An intimate look at this canonical poet’s process, mental health, and quotidian moments during the early 1950s. One of the most significant European poets of the twentieth century, Paul Celan came from an Eastern European Jewish family and lost his parents to the death camps of World War II. Transplanted to Paris, he produced a body of work that was an ongoing confrontation with that history of loss and with the German language. His poems, anguished and unsleeping, have by now been translated into many languages, becoming a touchstone for poets, writers, and philosophers. Letters to Gisèle presents the letters Celan wrote to his wife, the French visual artist Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, over the course of close to twenty years, along with letters to the couple’s son, Eric, and letters from Gisèle to Paul. They provide an intimate view of his literary career and troubled life, which was marked by repeated stays in psychiatric clinics. They also provide an unparalleled glimpse into Celan’s poetic workshop, including his own word-for-word renderings from German into French of more than a dozen of his poems. These he addressed to Gisèle as an ongoing, informal German lesson. They figure too as messages from the heart. Presented here trilingually, these overlapping versions of Celan’s poems open up new dimensions of his famously hermetic poetry, as dazzling as it is dark. This edition includes some poems in the original German and Celan’s own translations of them. Paperback544 pagesNYRB Poets, 20245.71 x 1.31 x 8.18 inchesISBN 9781681378305Letters, Essays

Letters to Gisèle

By Stephen Parker This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. First published in 2014 and now available in paperback, it was critically lauded and declared the definitive life of this great artist and writer. Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, including Brecht's medical records, Parker offers a rich and enthralling account of Brecht's life and work, viewed through the prism of the artist. Tracing his extraordinary life, from his formative years in Augsburg, through the First World War, his politicization during the Weimar Republic and his years of exile, up to the Berliner Ensemble's dazzling productions in Paris and London, Parker shows how Brecht achieved his transformative effect upon world theatre and poetry. Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life is a powerful portrait of a great, compulsively contradictory personality, whose artistry left its lasting imprint on modern culture. Paperback704 pagesMethuen Drama, 20156.14 x 1.44 x 9.21 inchesISBN 9781474240000Biography, Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life

By Adelbert von ChamissoTranslated by Leopold von Loewenstein-Wertheim Unsuccessful in his endeavors, the young and naive Peter Schlemihl seals a pact with the Devil in which he exchanges his shadow for the purse of Fortunatus, thereby gaining everlasting riches. But when he is ridiculed, persecuted and hated for being different from other men, he realizes that poverty is easier to bear than the loss of his peace of mind. Originally written as a cautionary tale for the children of Chamisso's patron, Peter Schlemihl was hailed by contemporaries as a masterpiece with a wide adult appeal, and continues to capture imaginations today. Paperback128 pagesAlma Classics, 2024Originally published in 18145.1 x 0.4 x 7.75 inchesISBN 9781847499233Children’s Book, Adelbert von Chamisso

Peter Schlemihl

By Dr. MisesIntroduction and translation by Erik Butler A compilation of 16 rigorous, eccentric essays commissioned by the German founder of psychophysics The original 1824 German publication of Stapelia Mixta united a bevy of eccentric proposals, meditations and displays of consciously excessive learning that strove for an unusual clarity of absurdity, which was the hallmark of the pseudonymous author Dr. Mises. Aiming for a broader reading audience, it was titled after a flower, but one of such a stench as to guarantee originality. And such was the originality of these semiserious flights of excess that came under the cover of Dr. Mises, who wrote on everything from landscaping to the spiritual lives of plants and heavenly bodies while also conducting pioneering research in optics and experimental psychology.The 16 essays of this collection include discussions of dancing, drugs, immortality, perception and psychology. These increasingly inventive essays start with a relatively digestible “Encomium of the Belly” before developing into a complicated, prepataphysical exploration of Spatial Symbolism. Paperback152 Pages | 11 black and white illustrationsWakefield Press, 20245.25 x 8 inchesISBN 9781962728010 Essays

Stapelia Mixta

By Florian Heine Brimming with stunning reproductions and illuminating texts, this handy and accessible book is the perfect introduction to one of European modern art’s most important movements. Founded in Munich in 1911, the Blue Rider Group was a revolutionary collective of artists that pioneered German Expressionism. Including Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Natalia Goncharova, Gabriele Münter, and Marianne von Werefkin, the group rejected the prevailing formal and academic artistic trends of their time, sought to break free from the constraints of traditional painting, transcend the material world, and explore emotional and spiritual truths in their art. This book spotlights 35 important works that embody the artists’ pioneering achievements and radical innovations. It features stunning reproductions that highlight the movement’s use of luminous colors, symbolic forms, and expressive brushwork. Paperback112 pagesPrestel, 20246.75 x 0.39 x 8.25 inchesISBN 9783791377339Blue Rider, German Expressionism

The Blue Rider (Masters of Art)

Learn the wonder of different shapes through the art of Josef Albers Squares & Other Shapes uses the vivid artworks of Josef Albers to guide children through a wide range of geometrics, one artwork per page, beginning with squares and returning to them as a familiar refrain throughout. The variations between the vibrant shapes add to the book’s visual richness, and the accompanying text provides a relatable and engaging commentary that will encourage discussion. Josef Albers was a leading pioneer of 20th-century Modernism, best known for his Homages to the Square paintings, and his publication Interaction of Color. Albers was a teacher, a writer, a painter, a theorist, and, in this groundbreaking book, his influential art is used to teach shapes, one of the most important concepts for young children to learn. Each title in this must-own series of artful read-aloud boards uses masterpieces by celebrated artists to teach one of the top early-learning concepts for toddlers. Each concept is explored playfully through a curated selection of beautifully reproduced artworks while the accompanying text enriches the experience with witty, conversational commentary and an ‘about the artist’ text. Companion books in this series feature the art of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Ellsworth Kelly, and Alexander Calder. Board Book30 pages | 30 illustrationsAge range: 1-3Phaidon Press, 20258 x 7 inches ISBN 9781838669607Children's Book, Josef Albers

Squares & Other Shapes with Josef Albers (First Concepts with Fine Artists)

By Hannah ArendtTranslated and edited by Samantha Rose Hill with Genese Grill "A new volume of [Arendt’s] poetry reveals that the author of sobering works like The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition was writing ardent and intimate verse in her off-hours."- Srikanth Reddy, The Paris Review A landmark literary event, What Remains collects Arendt’s complete poetic oeuvre—never before published in English. Internationally renowned as one of the twentieth century’s foremost public intellectuals, Hannah Arendt was also intensely private. Though she often acknowledged that the language of poetry—especially that of Dickinson, Goethe, and Lowell—informed her work, only a few people knew that Arendt herself wrote poems. In fact, between 1923 and 1961, Arendt wrote seventy-four poems, many of them signposts in an otherwise unwritten autobiography. For nearly forty years after her death, these poems remained hidden among the archives of the Library of Congress, until 2011, when they were rediscovered by scholar and translator Samantha Rose Hill. Now, for the first time in English, Hill and Genese Grill present Arendt’s poems in chronological order, taking us from the zenith of the Weimar Republic to the Cold War, and from Marburg, Germany, to New York’s Upper West Side. Throughout, Arendt uses poetry to mark moments of joy, love, loss, and reflection. In “W. B.,” written in 1942, she remembers Walter Benjamin, who died near the French-Spanish border while attempting to flee the Nazis: “Gentle whispering melodies / Sound from the darkness. / We listen so we can let go.” So, too, she reflects on mutability and transience in 1946: “I know that the houses have fallen. / We entered the world in them, wonderfully sure, that they / were more durable than ourselves.” She tries to understand her place in the world: “Ironically foolish, / I’ve forgotten nothing, / I know the emptiness, / I know the burden, / I dance, I dance / In ironic splendor.” A gift to all readers of Arendt, this stunning, dual-language edition provides an unparalleled view into the inner sanctum of one of our most original thinkers. Hardcover208 PagesLiveright, 20245.8 x 0.8 x 8.6 inchesISBN 9781324090526 Poetry, Hannah Arendt

What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt

By Ursula Oswald-Graf, Aline Marion Steinwender, Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Christian Witt-DöringEdited by Ursula Oswald-Graf, Aline Marion Steinwender, Hans-Peter Wipplinger A representative selection of exhibits from the Backhausen archive will be presented to the general public for the first time as part of the Poetry of Ornament exhibition at the Leopold Museum. The show provides an insight into the unique archive holdings of the long-established company, comprising several thousand objects, which were made available to the museum on permanent loan in 2023. The exhibition Poetry of Ornament. The Backhausen archive highlights individual production steps, from the designs and patterns to the application of the fabrics. Hardcover328 pagesWalther König, 2024Text in German and English9.25 x 11 inchesISBN 9783753307503 Design, Textiles

Poesie des Ornaments: Das Backhausen-Archiv | Poetry of the Ornament: The Backhausen Archives

By Ludwig WittgensteinEdited and Translated by Marjorie Perloff "Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 is a strange and intriguing record — illuminating when it comes to Wittgenstein’s preoccupations, his sexual anguish, his continuous struggles with his ‘work’ in philosophy, along with his intermittent comments about his ‘job’ in the military... The war meant that Wittgenstein — and therefore his philosophizing — had changed... This transformation comes across as bewildering and almost unbearably moving. The notebooks show the circumstances in which Wittgenstein’s mystical turn toward the end of the ‘Tractatus’ was born — not in an attempt to escape that world, but in a determination to immerse himself in it."—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times New Yorker • Best Books of 2022Literary Hub • Most Anticipated Books of 2022 Written in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein’s searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translation. During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951). Upon learning that these notebooks, which richly contextualize the early stages of his magnum opus, the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus, had never before been published in English, the Viennese-born Perloff determinedly set about translating them. Beginning with the anxious summer of 1914, this historic, en-face edition presents the first-person recollections of a foot soldier in the Austrian Army, fresh from his days as a philosophy student at Cambridge, who must grapple with the hazing of his fellow soldiers, the stirrings of a forbidden sexuality, and the formation of an explosive analytical philosophy that seemed to draw meaning from his endless brushes with death. Much like Tolstoy’s The Gospel in Brief, Private Notebooks takes us on a personal journey to discovery as it augments our knowledge of Wittgenstein himself. Paperback240 pages Liveright, 20256.3 x 9.4 inches ISBN 9781324096290 Theory, Philosophy

Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 [paperback]

By Stefan ZweigTranslated by Anthea Bell In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig’s short stories the very best and worst of human nature are captured with sharp observation, understanding and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death to faith restored and hope regained, these stories present a master at work, at the top of his form. Perfectly paced and brimming with passion, these twenty-two tales from a master storyteller of the Twentieth Century are translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell. Paperback720 pagesPushkin Press Classics, 2025 5.1 x 7.8 inches ISBN 9781805331827Literature, Short Stories

The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

By Erich Maria Remarque Introduction by Sebastian Faulks Widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time, this classic tale of a young German soldier’s harrowing experiences in the trenches of World War I is the basis for an Academy Award-winning film. With an introduction by bestselling author Sebastian Faulks. When twenty-year-old Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under the first brutal bombardment in the trenches. Through the ensuing years of horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another. Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel not only portrays in vivid detail the combatants’ physical and mental trauma, but dramatizes as well the tragic detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home. Remarque’s stated intention–“to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war”–remains as powerful and relevant as ever, a century after that conflict’s end. Paperback224 pagesRandom House, Inc.Originally published in 19295.17 x 0.66 x 8 inchesISBN 9780593688670 Literature, Historical Fiction

All Quiet on the Western Front

By Josephine BakerForeword by Ijeoma OluoTranslated by Anam Zafar and Sophie Lewis “A gorgeous, captivating gem of a memoir… Josephine Baker’s as enthralling on the page as she was on the stage.” —Abbott Kahler, New York Times bestselling author of Eden Undone and Sin in the Second City After stealing the spotlight as a teenaged Broadway performer during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Josephine then took Paris by storm, dazzling audiences across the Roaring Twenties. In her famous banana skirt, she enraptured royalty and countless fans—Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso among them. She strolled the streets of Paris with her pet cheetah wearing a diamond collar. With her signature flapper bob and enthralling dance moves, she was one of the most recognizable women in the world. When World War II broke out, Josephine became a decorated spy for the French Résistance. Her celebrity worked as her cover, as she hid spies in her entourage and secret messages in her costumes as she traveled. She later joined the Civil Rights movement in the US, boycotting segregated concert venues, and speaking at the March on Washington alongside Martin Luther King Jr. First published in France in 1949, her memoir will now finally be published in English. At last we can hear Josephine in her own voice: charming, passionate, and brave. Her words are thrilling and intimate, like she’s talking with her friends over after-show drinks in her dressing room. Through her own telling, we come to know a woman who danced to the top of the world and left her unforgettable mark on it. Hardcover304 pagesTiny Reparations Books, 2025Originally published in 19495.8 x 1 x 8.54 inchesISBN 9780593853696Memoir, Josephine Baker

Fearless and Free: A Memoir

By Ulrich Alexander BoschwitzTranslated from the German by Philip BoehmPreface by André Aciman “A jewel of a rediscovery . . . . A riveting, noirish, intensely filmic portrait of an ambivalent fugitive, cornered but not captured, safest when in motion, at greatest risk when forced to rest.” —The Wall Street Journal "Stunning . . . clairvoyant . . . Boschwitz’s novel pulsates with fine, understated descriptions . . . One comes away marveling not only at Boschwitz’s craftsmanship but at what can only be called his human spirit . . . The Passenger resembles a message in a bottle: cautionary, despairing, a literary warning." —Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman, is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had long patronized, and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks, he boards a train. And then another. And another . . . until his flight becomes a frantic odyssey across Germany, as he searches first for information, then for help, and finally for escape. Taut, immediate, infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor, The Passenger is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control. Twenty-three-year-old Ulrich Boschwitz wrote The Passenger at breakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, and his prose flies at the same pace. Long considered lost, the original manuscript was only recently discovered in the German archives and has now been published throughout the world and universally hailed as a masterpiece. Paperback288 pagesMetropolitan Books, 2022Originally published in 19385.35 x 0.72 x 8.2 inchesISBN 9781250811288Fiction, Rediscovered Literature

The Passenger

By Irmgard KeunTranslated by Kathie von Ankum Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour. Paperback208 pagesPenguin Classics, 2019Originally published in 19325.08 x 0.35 x 7.76 inchesISBN 9780241382967Weimar Literature, Neue Sachlichkeit

The Artificial Silk Girl

By Irmgard KeunTranslated by Geoff Wilkes Gilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, determined and fearless. She's not even derailed when her parents drop a massive bombshell on her twenty-first birthday. But then she meets the charming but aimless Martin, and for the first time, Gilgi finds herself blown bewilderingly and dangerously off-course. Set in Cologne against the backdrop of rising Nazism, Irmgard Keun's astonishing debut electrified Weimar Germany. With its frank exploration of sex, abortion, work and love, it feels as fresh today as when it first appeared. Paperback192 pagesPenguin Classics, 2019Originally published in 19317.76 x 0.43 x 5.04 inchesISBN 9780241391808Weimar Literature, Neue Sachlichkeit

Gilgi, One of Us

By Benjamin Carter Hett "At a time of deep distress over the stability of democracy in America and elsewhere, Benjamin Carter Hett's chronicle of the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Adolf Hitler could not be more timely. 'The Death of Democracy' makes for chilling reading." -- Roger Lowenstein, The Washington Post “[An] extremely fine study of the end of constitutional rule in Germany. . . . With careful prose and fine scholarship, with fine thumbnail sketches of individuals and concise discussions of institutions and economics, . . . [Benjamin Carter Hett] sensitively describes a moral crisis that preceded a moral catastrophe.” -- Timothy Snyder, The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. To say that Hitler was elected is too simple. He would never have come to power if Germany's leading politicians had not responded to a spate of populist insurgencies by trying to co-opt him, a strategy that backed them into a corner from which the only way out was to bring the Nazis in. Hett lays bare the misguided confidence of conservative politicians who believed that Hitler and his followers would willingly support them, not recognizing that their efforts to use the Nazis actually played into Hitler's hands. They had willingly given him the tools to turn Germany into a vicious dictatorship. Paperback320 pagesHolt Paperbacks, 20195.35 x 0.85 x 8.2 inchesISBN 9781250210869History, Weimar Republic

The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic

By Susan Hood and Greg Dawson A Sydney Taylor Book Award 2023 Middle Grade Notable A Jewish Book Council Award Middle Grade Finalist The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias “Anna”) and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers while hiding in plain sight during the Holocaust. A middle grade nonfiction novel-in-verse by award-winning author Susan Hood with Greg Dawson (Zhanna’s son). She wouldn’t be Zhanna. She’d use an alias. A for Anna. A for alive. When the Germans invade Ukraine, Zhanna, a young Jewish girl, must leave behind her friends, her freedom, and her promising musical future at the world’s top conservatory. With no time to say goodbye, Zhanna, her sister Frina, and their entire family are removed from their home by the Nazis and forced on a long, cold, death march. When a guard turns a blind eye, Zhanna flees with nothing more than her musical talent, her beloved sheet music, and her father’s final plea: “I don’t care what you do. Just live.” This incredible true story in-verse about sisterhood, survival, and music. Includes extensive back matter with original letters and photographs, additional information, and materials for further reading. Paperback368 pagesAge range: 10-13Harper Collins, 20235.25 x 1 x 7.5 inchesISBN 9780063083905Middle Grade Readers, Children’s Books

Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis

By Elyse Graham “A fascinating new study. . . Book and Dagger tells the story of four such recruits—and surveys many others—with an almost breathless sense of wartime romance and drama. It makes for entertaining, atmospheric reading.” — Wall Street Journal The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training to perform undercover operations and investigative work—and these surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institutions with their efforts. In Book and Dagger, Elyse Graham draws on personal histories, letters, and declassified OSS files to tell the story of a small but connected group of humanities scholars turned spies. Among them are Joseph Curtiss, a literature professor who hunted down German spies and turned them into double agents; Sherman Kent, a smart-mouthed history professor who rose to become the head of analysis for all of Europe and Africa; and Adele Kibre, an archivist who was sent to Stockholm to secretly acquire documents for the OSS. These unforgettable characters would ultimately help lay the foundations of modern intelligence and transform American higher education when they returned after the war. Thrillingly paced and rigorously researched, Book and Dagger is an inspiring and gripping true story about a group of academics who helped beat the Nazis—a tale that reveals the indelible power of the humanities to change the world. Hardcover400 pagesEcco, 20246 x 1.15 x 9 inchesISBN 9780063280847History, World War II

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

By Luisa Weiss A collection of more than 100 of the best, most emblematic recipes of German and Austrian home cooks, from the author of Classic German Baking. To many, German food is humble comfort food, the kind of food that may not win a beauty award, but more than makes up for it with its power to soothe, nourish and cheer. In Classic German Cooking, Luisa Weiss—who was born in Berlin to an Italian mother and American father, and married into a family with roots in Saxony—has collected and mastered the essential everyday recipes of Germany and Austria. Classic German Cooking features traditional and time-honored recipes that are beloved in homes across the region, such as Rinderrouladen (Braised Beef Rolls), Quarkauflauf (Fresh Cheese Soufflé), Hühnerfrikassee (Chicken Fricassee) and authentic Viennese Gulasch or Alpine Germknödel (Plum Butter-Stuffed Steamed Dumplings). Cozy Apfelküchle (Apple Fritters) bring warmth to an afternoon snack, while tangy Spargelsalat (White Asparagus Salad) signals the sweet start of Spring. Luisa gives history and context to the cooking of Germany and its influences worldwide. Sprinkled with both personal stories and historical insights, Classic German Cooking will leave you with a well-rounded understanding of the cuisine and its lasting influence. Hardcover272 PagesRandom House, Inc., 20248.27 x 1.06 x 10.28 inchesISBN 9781984861887 Cookbook

Classic German Cooking

By Bernadette Watts "Sensitive, tender, and gorgeously illustrated." –Kirkus Reviews, starred review Inspired by a famous story of Franz Kafka, European artist Bernadette Watts reimagines the legend of this literary figure and the letters he writes to comfort a young girl who has lost her doll. Nothing is lost if it remains alive in our hearts! While strolling through the park, Franz Kafka hears the cry of a young girl named Saskia sitting with her mother. When Franz learns that the child has lost her beloved doll, Christiana, Franz reassures her that her doll is traveling the world. Upon their next fortuitous meetings, Franz presents Saskia and her mother with postcards from the lost doll—one from Paris, another from Venice, and finally one from Egypt. When Saskia insists that her doll Christiana come home from her travels, Franz is distraught until he finds a vintage doll in a secondhand shop. Saskia is skeptical—the doll looks old. But when Franz reminds her that we all age from our amazing journeys through life, her heart bursts with joy at their being reunited. Inspired by a famous story, this moving account of generosity highlights the power of imagination and offers a window into the enigmatic life of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Hardcover40 pagesAge range: 4-8NorthSouth Books, 2024 8.5 x 0.4 x 11 inchesISBN 9780735845565Children's, Art History

Wish You Were Here: Postcards from Franz Kafka

By Joseph Roth Translated by David Le Vay “An absorbing, dark, beautifully written” novel on the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire “written with the melancholy wit and grace of Gogol” (New Statesman, The Times) This deeply moving, deeply philosophical story set in Ukraine touches on timeless themes of uprooted identity, destiny, and loneliness Widely praised and rarely available in English, Weights and Measures builds on Roth’s most famous work, The Radetzky March. Among his final works, this fable about the disintegration of a good man transports us back in time to Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the early 20th century. In this haunting and poetic novel, scrupulous artillery officer Anselm Eibenschütz is persuaded by his wife to leave behind his job as an artilleryman in the Austro-Hungarian army and take up a civilian post as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a secluded territory near the Russian border. Once there, his discipline and quiet dignity begin to dissolve as he encounters a shadowy world of smugglers, fugitives, and runaways. A deeply felt commentary on the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Weights and Measures registers on both a historical and personal level to portray the slow capitulation of a good man to insidious small-time corruption and to his own destructive passion. Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: outstanding classic storytelling from around the world, in a stylishly original series design. From newly rediscovered gems to fresh translations of the world’s greatest authors, this series includes such authors as Stefan Zweig, Hermann Hesse, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Gaito Gazdanov. Paperback112 pagesRandom House, Inc., 2024Originally published in 19375.1 x 0.48 x 7.78 inchesISBN 9781805330653Literary Fiction, Literature

Weights and Measures

von Lilli Hollein, Claudia Cavallar, und Anne-Katrin Rossberg Dagobert Peche, einer der exzentrischsten Gestalter*innen der Wiener Moderne, ließ die Formensprache der berühmten Wiener Werkstätte gleichsam explodieren: Mit opulenten, von der Natur inspirierten Dekoren und einer revolutionären Ästhetik verlieh er Gebrauchsgegenständen eine bis dahin unbekannte Vielschichtigkeit. Peche arbeitete mit unterschiedlichsten Materialien - Silber, Glas, Keramik, Leder und Papier - und entwarf Schmuck, Möbel, Ausstellungs-Displays sowie sensationelle Stoffmuster. In wenig mehr als 10 Jahren schuf er ein OEuvre, das die Kunst- und Designwelt bis heute fasziniert und inspiriert. Die Publikation widmet sich dem ureigenen Kosmos des Künstlers in sieben Kapiteln - von "Arkadien " bis "Unheimlich" - und verfolgt seine Ausstrahlung vom Art-déco-Stil über die Postmoderne bis in die Gegenwart. Dagobert Peche, one of the most eccentric designers of Viennese Modernism, virtually blew apart the stylistic idiom of the famous Wiener Werkstätte: with opulent decorations inspired by nature and a revolutionary aesthetic, he lent practical objects a hitherto unknown complexity. Peche worked with a wide range of materials - silver, glass, ceramic, leather, and paper - designing jewelry, furniture, and exhibition displays, as well as sensational fabric patterns. In little over a decade he created an oeuvre that has fascinated and inspired the worlds of art and design ever since. Divided into seven chapters - from "Arcadia" to "Uncanny" - this publication is dedicated to the artist's unique cosmos and traces his impact from Art Deco to Postmodernism to the present day. Paperback306 Seitan | 375 illustrations, 239 colorText in English and GermanWalther König, 20248.23 x 10.98 inchesISBN 9783753307459 Monograph, MAK Exhibition Catalogue

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Von Elisabeth Sandmann Ein großes Kunst-Drama - die präzise recherchierte und emotional fesselnde Geschichte hinter Klimts »Goldenen Adele« Mitten im Ersten Weltkrieg wird Maria Altmann in Wien in eine wohlhabende jüdische Familie hineingeboren. Ihre früh verstorbene Tante, Adele Bloch-Bauer, geht bei dem Maler Gustav Klimt ein und aus, der 1907 ihr Porträt, das berühmte Bildnis der Goldenen Adele fertigstellt. Mit dem Einmarsch der Nazis wird der gesamte Besitz geraubt und den Bloch-Bauers bleibt von der einstmals großen Kunstsammlung buchstäblich nichts. Als sich die Erben nach 1945 um eine Rückgabe bemühen, sehen sie sich konfrontiert mit Lügen und Intrigen, die sie in ihrem vollen Ausmaß erst 50 Jahre später erkennen. Jetzt beschließt Maria Altmann mit fast 84 Jahren, den Staat Österreich von den USA aus zu verklagen und es beginnt ein transatlantischer Rechtsstreit, der einem Krimi gleicht. Gemeinsam mit dem jungen Anwalt Randol Schoenberg wird sie bis an das Höchstgericht der USA gehen und am Ende siegen. Hardcover128 pagesText in GermanSandmann, Elisabeth (Erweiterte und aktualisierte Neuausgabe edition), October 202414.1 x 1.4 x 21.6 cmISBN 9783949582387Provenance, Art History, Law

Der gestohlene Klimt

von Wilfried Rosendahl und Claude W. SuiFotografien von August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch & Robert Häusser Der aufwendig gestaltete Band präsentiert nicht nur eine Reihe großartiger Bilder von bleibendem Wert und im hochwertigen Druck, er ist ein wertvolles Dokument zur Geschichte der Fotografie in der Vor- und Nachkriegszeit. Ein Muss für Fotografie- und fotohistorisch Interessierte und für jede Sammlung mit Büchern zur Fotografie! Die Brüchigkeit unseres Seins: Legendäre Aufnahmen der 1920er und 30er Jahre von August Sander (1876–1964) und Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897–1966), den Hauptvertretern der »Neuen Sachlichkeit« in der Fotografie, treffen auf Ikonen von Robert Häusser (1924–2013), einem Klassiker der Nachkriegszeit. In faszinierender Beobachtung zeigen sie Menschen, Arbeitswelten und Natur in Zeiten von Umbruch und Neuanfang. Die »Neue Sachlichkeit« wurde 1925 geboren, als Hartlaub seine legendäre Mannheimer Ausstellung so benannte und damit einen bleibenden Begriff der Kunstgeschichte prägte. Unser Band feiert das 100. Jubiläum mit herausragenden Porträts und Menschendarstellungen, Fotografien von Industrie und Arbeiter:innen sowie von Landschaften und Pflanzen. Sanders Werk »Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts« oder Renger-Patzschs »Die Welt ist schön« haben Fotogeschichte geschrieben. Im Dialog mit Häusser, der in diesem Jahr seinen 100. Geburtstag hat, offenbaren sich Korrespondenzen wie Besonderheit der jeweiligen Handschrift. Gebunden168 Seiten, 140 Abbildungen in FarbeHirmer Verlag GmbH, 20248.78 x 9.96 inchesISBN 9783777444369Monographs, Photography

Sachlich Neu

von Vicki BaumMit einem Vorwort von Elke Heidenreich »Vicki Baum hat sich selbst gern als erstklassige Schriftstellerin zweiter Güte bezeichnet, was natürlich Unsinn war, wie jeder in ihren jetzt neu aufgelegten Erinnerungen nachlesen kann [...], mit viel Gossip und Witz und Palmen dazwischen.« --Die Welt Vom Berlin der 1920er-Jahre bis nach Hollywood: Vicki Baums Lebensgeschichte. Sie sei »nur eine einfache Geschichtenerzählerin« gewesen, schreibt Vicki Baum in ihren Memoiren. Wer nur wenige Seiten dieses Buches liest, begreift sofort, was für ein charmantes Understatement das ist. Baum war eine großartige Erzählerin – und ihr Leben derart angefüllt mit Außergewöhnlichem, dass es geradezu schwindelig macht. »Es war alles ganz anders« beschwört die pulsierenden Metropolen Wien und Berlin in einer explosiven Zeit des Umbruchs herauf. Und es führt vor, wie eine starke hochmoderne Frau ihren Weg geht bis nach Hollywood in einer von Männern dominierten Welt. Taschenbuch592 SeitenText in GermanKiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH, 20184.92 x 7.48 InchesISBN 9783462052091Memoir

Es war alles ganz anders: Erinnerungen

von Erich Kästner "Fabian" ist Erich Kästners Meisterwerk. Doch das Buch wurde vor seinem Erscheinen 1931 verändert und gekürzt, denn der junge Kästner hatte in seinem ersten Roman alle Register gezogen. Das machte das Manuskript für den Verlag zu einem Sprengsatz, den das Lektorat mit spitzen Fingern entschärfte. Das Buch erschien schließlich entgegen Kästners ursprünglicher Intention unter dem Titel "Fabian". Jetzt liegt der Roman zum ersten Mal so vor, wie ihn Kästner geschrieben und gemeint hat - unter dem Titel, den Kästner ursprünglich vorgesehen hatte: "Der Gang vor die Hunde". Vom Kästner-Experten Sven Hanuschek herausgegeben und Wort für Wort rekonstruiert. Hardcover320 pagesText in GermanAtrium Verlag AG, 2017Originally published in 193118.0 x 12.0 cmISBN 9783038820017Fiction, Neue Sachlichkeit

Der Gang vor die Hunde

Von Vicki Baum »Dieses Buch hat mich berührt. Vicki Baum ist eine erstklassige Schriftstellerin.« Jakob Augstein im Literarischen Quartett »Vor Rehen wird gewarnt.« Diesen Satz, den er einmal in einem Wildpark gelesen hat, kann Rechtsanwalt Watts nur jedem entgegnen, der von der zarten und aufopferungsvollen Ann Ambros spricht. Denn so rehäugig Ann auch durchs Leben geht, so rücksichtslos nimmt sie sich, was sie will. Sie verführt den Mann ihrer Schwester, treibt nicht nur San Francisco, sondern auch Wien zur Verzweiflung, sorgt dafür, dass sie stets das Beste bekommt und dass man ihr noch dankbar ist, wenn man ihr das letzte Hemd schenken darf. Vicki Baum erzählt von einer Frau, der man nicht in die Quere kommen will und deren Bann man sich doch bis zur letzten Seite nicht entziehen kann. Paperback412 pagesText in GermanArche Literatur Verlag AG, 20217.36 x 1.22 x 4.72 inchesISBN 9783716040324 Fiction, Weimar Literature

Vor Rehen wird gewarnt

By Scott Colman “This insightful book is a vital contribution to our understanding of Ludwig Hilberseimer's impact on modern architecture and urbanism. It presents a fresh and nuanced appraisal of this extraordinary designer's modernism and its larger cultural relevance in the twentieth century.” ―Robin Schuldenfrei, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK and author of Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930-1960 This book brings to light the work and influence of the German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer – a central figure of the Weimar Republic avant-garde, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Despite being internationally-known for his work on Lafayette Park in Detroit, Hilberseimer's legacy as a whole has been obscured in the history of modern architecture. Whether this is due to the intense shadow cast by Mies, or by his oeuvre being split between the differing languages and contexts of interwar Germany and post-war North America, this book argues that the time is now right for a critical reassessment of Hilberseimer's work and writings. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which explores the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this study clarifies and situates Hilberseimer's ideas both as an architect and writer, and examines their influence on modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism. The first account of Hilberseimer in English, it provides a contextual account of Hilberseimer's works which have until now been subject to fragmentary or highly specialized interpretations. By demonstrating the influence of Hilberseimer's ideas on the architecture of Mies van der Rohe, the book also lends Mies's work a newfound urban significance. Paperback392 pages | 54 bw illustrationsBloomsbury Visual Arts, 20249 x 6 inchesISBN 9781350369412Architecture, Weimar Design

Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City

Text by Paul CelanTranslated by Holly Cundif Retranslating Celan's translations of Shakespeare, Dickinson, Rimbaud and more reveals new insights on the circularity of language. Born in Romania into a German-speaking family and recognized as one of the most important postwar poets, Paul Celan (1920–70) is also celebrated for his meticulous German translations of a wide range of works by such luminaries as Dickinson, Mandelstam, Rimbaud, Shakespeare and Ungaretti. Inspired by the close relation between Celan’s work as Überträger, or "transmitter," and his own poetry, Holly Cundiff has retranslated some of these works into English to illuminate the interstices in which we catch a glimpse of Celan’s own perspective. Each selection in The Other Voice is presented in three versions: the poem in its original language, Celan’s translation into German and Cundiff’s translation into English directly from Celan’s translation. This circular process highlights the generative and transformative force of language, which Celan viewed as a means not only of sculpting the world but also of forming new worlds. Hardcover92 pagesMarquand Books, 20258 x 11 inchesISBN 9781646570430 Literature

The Other Voice: Translations from the Übertragungen of Paul Celan

By Shana Gozansky Selected as one of Oprah’s Favorite Things 2023 As Oprah says on OprahDaily.com – 'Created for kids, these little books pair famous artworks (Gauguin! Kerry James Marshall!) with read-aloud text ("Love is... soft snuggles... and tender nuzzles"). So special – adults will want them, too.' ‘A delightful board book … The eye-catching collection of paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures is baby’s first art history lesson.’–Smithsonian Magazine, Best Children’s Books of 2023 ‘A beautiful blend of a concept book … [and] a wonderful way to introduce fine art to very young children.’–School Library Journal ‘This book and the others in the series are great ways to introduce your child to the world of art.’–Sincerely Stacie This keepsake children’s book celebrates adventure in a new and accessible way: through art! Featuring a bright stylish cover and sturdy colorful pages, My Art Book of Adventure pairs 35 famous artworks with joyful read-aloud text, illustrating the many feelings that come with big milestones. A beautiful gift for babies, toddlers, and young children, as well as new and expecting parents, My Art Book of Adventure presents vibrant paintings, drawings, and sculptures by a diverse array of artists – from Edward Hopper and Henri Matisse to Amy Sherald and Yinka Shonibare. With its elegant design and heartwarming descriptions, My Art Book of Adventure will be treasured by little ones and grown-ups alike. Part of the beloved My Art Books series of stunning board books, which explore big feelings through famous artworks. Board Book48 pages | 30 illustrationsAge range: 2-4 yearsPhaidon Press, 20237.5 x 5.75 inchesISBN 9781838666996Children's Book, Art History for Kids

My Art Book of Adventure

By Walter SernerIntroduction and translation by Erik Butler "These ‘outlandish’ stories relate casual pranks and complicated grifts that are by turns comic and calamitous: some read like games of Cluedo with the players amped up on coke, while others suggest scenes pulled from a film noir, a genre they anticipate by twenty years."―London Review of Books, Hal Foster "At the Blue Monkey offers pieces of a life that don’t fit together, its mystery never solved. There’s no closure to speak of, but if it raises any questions about the nature of fiction and life, its job is done." ―Spectrum Culture, Pat Padua Walter Serner’s first story collection, published in German in 1921, brought to narrative form the philosophy of his earlier Dada manifesto/handbook, Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Who Wish to Be One—life is a con job and demands the skills of a swindler. With its depiction of a world of appearances in which nothing can be trusted, At the Blue Monkey helped establish the ex-doctor and renounced Dadaist as a literary “Maupaussant of crime” and offers in this first English translation 33 stories of criminals, con artists and prostitutes engaged in varieties of financial insolvency, embezzlement, sexual hijinks, long and short cons, and dalliances with venereal diseases and drugs. Told in a baroque, sometimes baffling poetry of underworld slang in an urban world of bars and rent-a-rooms, these short tales are presented to the reader like so many three-card Montes in which readers come to realize too late that they may well themselves be the literary mark. Paperback192 pagesWakefield Press, 20205.5 x 8 inchesISBN 9781939663467Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

At The Blue Monkey: 33 Outlandish Stories

Written and illustrated by Jon Klassen "Folk tales are meant to be flexible things, open-source stories infinitely moldable to the needs of teller and era. That’s the wonder of them — and of “The Skull,” an old Tyrolean yarn distilled to its droll essentials and marvelously reimagined by the Caldecott medalist (and national treasure) Jon Klassen. . . The pared-back, ocher-tinted illustrations are well suited to the folk-tale form, and pair perfectly with Klassen’s deceptively simple storytelling." —The New York Times Book Review "Caldecott medalist Klassen’s signature style is brought to bear on a Tyrolean tale imbued with equal parts comfort and creepiness. . . . One can only hope that children will tell and retell this reinterpretation many times to themselves throughout the years. Employing his customary pitch-perfect tonal gymnastics, only Klassen could inspire readers to want craniums as pals."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Echoes of other forbidding fairy tales pervade this high-stakes telling, in which Otilla’s primal bravery and sly wit result in an arc from flight to mutual reliance."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) A #1 New York Times bestseller! Caldecott Medalist and New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Jon Klassen delivers a deliciously macabre treat for folktale fans. Jon Klassen's signature wry humor takes a turn for the ghostly in this thrilling retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale. In a big abandoned house, on a barren hill, lives a skull. A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from terrible danger and run away, and when she finds herself lost in the dark forest, the lonely house beckons. Her host, the skull, is afraid of something too, something that comes every night. Can brave Otilla save them both? Steeped in shadows and threaded with subtle wit—with rich, monochromatic artwork and an illuminating author’s note—The Skull is as empowering as it is mysterious and foreboding. Hardcover112 pagesAge range: 6 to 9 YearsCandlewick Press, 20235.98 x 7.99 inchesISBN 9781536223361Juvenile Fiction, Tales and Folklore

The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

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Fodor's Vienna & the Best of Austria: With Salzburg & Skiing in the Alps (Full-color Travel Guide)

By Larry Wolff "[A] masterful intellectual history of the province."—Timothy Snyder, New York Review of Books "Wolff's way of telling the story of how the idea of Galicia evolved throughout the nineteenth century is a dense narrative in which a variety of sources are related or juxtaposed to create multiple contexts—historical, political, social, intellectual, cultural. . . The scope and quality of Larry Wolff's scholarship makes The Idea of Galicia an impressive achievement. Not only has the author made a major contribution to the history of Galicia and to historiography, but he has also set a high standard for historical writing."—Jolanta Pekacz, Canadian Journal of History Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its memory continues to exercise a powerful fascination for those who live in its former territories and for the descendants of those who emigrated out of Galicia. The idea of Galicia was largely produced by the cultures of two cities, Lviv and Cracow. Making use of travelers' accounts, newspaper reports, and literary works, Wolff engages such figures as Emperor Joseph II, Metternich, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Ivan Franko, Stanisław Wyspiański, Tadeusz "Boy" Żeleński, Isaac Babel, Martin Buber, and Bruno Schulz. He shows the exceptional importance of provincial space as a site for the evolution of cultural meanings and identities, and analyzes the province as the framework for non-national and multi-national understandings of empire in European history. Paperback 504 pagesStanford University Press; 1st edition, 20126 x 1.25 x 9 inchesISBN 9780804783125European History

The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture

By Sasho DimoskiTranslated by Paul Filev Alma Mahler presents the imagined memories of a talented, passionate woman living in the shadow of a famous husband. The novel deals with Alma's marriage to the distant and introverted Gustav Mahler and with the many intellectual and emotional sacrifices Alma makes in order to be a support for him. Alma Mahler presents the imagined memories of a talented, passionate woman living in the shadow of a famous husband. The novel deals with Alma's marriage to the distant and introverted Gustav Mahler, the Austrian late-Romantic composer and conductor, and with the many intellectual and emotional sacrifices Alma makes in order to be a support for him. Throughout, Alma wrestles with the tension between her desire to be near genius and her growing awareness that all she will ever receive in return for her sacrifice are the great man's silence and the pains of solitude. Paperback152 pagesDalkey Archive Press, 20185 x 8 inchesISBN 9781628972368 Historical Fiction, Literature

Alma Mahler

By Robert SeethalerTranslated by Katy Derbyshire “Calming, gentle and unsentimental.”—The Guardian “A reminder of the strength and importance of human connections.”—New York Journal of Books Warm, fleeting, and profoundly human.”—Independent Book Review “A humble café in post-World War II Vienna serves as backdrop for all the large and small dramas of everyday life in this subtly scintillating novel... While Seethaler's characters face significant difficulties, the story never feels grim, but rather steadfast and even hopeful. Katy Derbyshire translates Seethaler’s prose from the German with calm delivery, charming descriptions, and understated humor. This lovely novel sweetly and simply emphasizes built family, resilience, and rebirth.”—Julia Kastner, Shelf Awareness From one of Austria’s most beloved and best-selling authors, comes this vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna. Summer 1966. Robert Simon is in his early thirties and has a dream: to open a café that welcomes all kinds of customers. Raised in a home for war orphans, Robert has miraculously grown into a warm-hearted, hard-working, and determined man. When the corner café in the Carmelite market square closes, Robert realizes that his chance has come. The place, dark and dilapidated, is in a poor neighborhood of the Austrian capital, but for some time now a new wind has been blowing, and the air is filled with an inexplicable energy and a desire for renewal. In the newspapers with which fishmongers wrap the char and trout from the Danube, one can read about great things to come, a bright future beginning to rise from the quagmire of the past. Enlivened by these promises, Robert refurbishes the café, painting the walls, varnishing the furniture, and polishing the stove plates. Rewarding Robert’s efforts and in search of a congenial place to gather, talk, read, or just sit and be, customers arrive, bringing their stories of passions, friendships, abandonments, and bereavements. Some are in search of company, others long for love, or just a place where they can feel understood. As the city is transformed, Robert's café becomes at once a place of refuge and one from which to observe and rejoice. Combining the enchantment of warm prose with tender humor, Robert Seethaler has written a charming parable of human existence animated by unforgettable characters and a kaleidoscope of human stories. Hardcover208 pagesEuropa Editions, 20255.28 x 8.27 inchesISBN 9798889660644Literary Fiction

The Café with No Name

By Marieluise Fleisser Marieluise Fleißers Ingolstädter Stücke, deren Uraufführung in den 20er Jahren zum Skandal führte, zeigen Kleinstädter, deren doppelte Moral jeden Emanzipationsprozeß abschnürt wie ein Korsett aus Gewohnheit, Aberglauben und Engstirnigkeit. Und sie zeigen, um was es der Fleißer geht: um Glück, Liebe, Angstlosigkeit und Klarheit. Paperback160 pagesText in GermanSuhrkamp Verlag, 19974.29 x 6.97 InchesISBN 9783518369036Literature

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