Als ausgewiesener Kenner der Werke von Thomas Mann hat sich der Autor vor allem auf dieses Wissen gestützt, und so waren sich die Kritiker einig, dass erst diese Biographie dem Dichter gerecht wird: ?Ein faireres, nobleres Bild von Thomans Mann wird man nicht finden.? Die Zeit ?Hermann Kurzke l[...]
The letters present two great XX century Nobel Prize writers grieving for the ruined world. In the 1930s and 1940s, they rail against the stupidity of war and the cowardice of diplomats, against the social savagery of the Nazis, against the blind forces of abstraction and nationalism. They brood abo[...]
With "Gertrude," Herman Hesse continues his lifelong exploration of the irreconcilable elements of human existence. In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artists--his friend Heinrich Muoth, a brooding, self-destructive opera singer, and the [...]
The 25th edition of Hermann Paul's grammar is the first step toward a study grammar that combines the virtues of greater ease of use, concentration on essentials, and a more reliable description of Middle High German. The revised accounts of phonology and morphology have profited in part from the on[...]
Modern buildings are increasingly equipped with actuators and sensors, communication, visualization and control systems. This textbook provides an overview of industrial communication systems and stimulates a basic understanding of network and bus systems for the automation of buildings. After an in[...]