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C.H.BECK FOREIGN RIGHTS NEWS FALL 2020
Dear Publishers and Friends, These are challenging times – but that’s no news for Angela Merkel, who since 1990 with patience and strong nerves has asserted herself against the men in the political arena to become the most powerful woman in the world. Next year, her resignation as first German female Chancellor will be a turning point for Germany, Europe and for international politics. Since his time as parliamentary reporter, historian and journalist Ralph Bollmann has been following Merkel on her way. His biography of Angela Merkel is the first to cover her entire political life and an indispensable reading for anyone who wants to understand not only her thinking but also the German and European history of recent times. Everything spoke against little Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti (1792 - 1878) becoming something. Hubert Wolf in his recently published book The Infallible. Pius IX and the Invention of Catholicism in the 19th Century describes the amazing path of the ailing young nobleman from the province to the most powerful and longest-serving pope in history (1846 - 1878), who reinvented Catholicism. This captivating and vividly written book has reached rank 20 on the Spiegel bestseller list. Hubert Wolf has won the Leibniz Prize of the DFG, the Communicator Prize, the Gutenberg Prize and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern. His bestsellers published by C.H.Beck include The Nuns of Sant‘Ambrogio (2013), which has been translated into 15 languages.
Anti-semitic stereotypes are back in vogue today and anti-semitic prejudices are on the rise. Sometimes they are openly displayed, sometimes hidden behind criticism of Israel. In his new Short History of Anti-Semitism, Peter Schäfer clearly and concisely describes how anti-Semitic stereotypes have spread since antiquity, have led to persecution and annihilation and are still virulent today. His enlightening book is a must-read for all those who want to understand why anti-semitism is so old and at the same time so topical and what it means for Jews in the neighbourhood, in Israel and all over the world. Zora del Buono`s fascinating major family novel of the 20th century The Marshalless was already the “cover story” of NZZ Books on Sunday. The Swiss author tells us about the fate of a political woman, inspired by her own grandmother: an impressive, dazzling main character, told on the basis of profound research, and yet a very personal story - exciting and stirring, informative and eye-opening. Just out, Laura Lichtblau’s debut novel Black Powder was already praised by Spiegel online: “Seldom have we read about the dystopian future in such a funny, exhilarating – and thus all the more oppressive – way”, and poet and novelist Nora Gomringer promises: Anyone who reads this book, “will not want any other reading ammunition for this autumn”. Sample translations for both fiction titles are available. © Christoph Mukherjee
Contents
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5 Hardcover Non-Fiction
6 Translation Funding | 8 Angela Merkel | Ralph Bollmann
Geisteswissenschaften International
7 9 How we Became Who we Are | Heinrich August Winkler
10 Germany | Andreas Fahrmeir (Ed.)
11 The Weight of a Human Life. Sophie Scholl.
A biography | Maren Gottschalk
12 Tito – the eternal Partisan | Marie-Janine Calic
13 My Journey to Beethoven | Christian Thielemann
14 Cult and Art. Beethovens Missa solemnis as religious service
Jan Assmann
15 Democracy. A German Affair | Hedwig Richter
16 Writings on Art and Film | Günther Anders
17 The Saviours | Michael Stausberg
18 A short history of Antisemitism | Peter Schäfer
19 The strangest Places of Religions | Johann Hinrich Claussen
20 Gladius . Romes Legions in Germania | Thomas Fischer
21 Henry Kissinger | Bernd Greiner
22 The Life of Lola Montez | Marita Krauss
23 The Infallible | Hubert Wolf
24 Karl Lagerfeld | Alfons Kaiser
25 12 days and Half a Century.
A History of the German Empire 1871-1918 | Christoph Nonn
26 Blood and Iron | Christoph Jahr
27 Everybody writes for Himself. Writers during Nazism
Anatol Regnier
28 Between Heaven and the Elbe river | Jan Bürger
29 Mao’s long shadow | Daniel Leese
30 Rebel Minds | Melanie Jahreis
31 Sexism – A History of Oppression | Susan Arndt
32 The Artists’ Anecdote | Werner Busch
33 From Rome to the borders of the world | Arnold Esch
34 History of German Literature 1830-1870 | Peter Sprengel
35 The End of Money as we know it | Alexander Hagelüken 51 Pandemics | Jörg Hacker
36 America First | Stephan Bierling 52 Notre–Dame | Thomas W. Gaehtgens
37 The Yiddish Joke | Jakob Hessing 53 History of Antisemitism | Werner Bergmann
38 China – 101 important questions | Hans van Ess 54 Auschwitz | Sybille Steinbacher
39 China First | Theo Sommer 55 History of Turkey | Klaus Kreiser
40 The History of the World | Ewald Frie 56 History of Israel | Noam Zadoff
41 Turn of an Era 1979 | Frank Bösch 57 Spanish History | Walther L. Bernecker
42 Hungary in a Nutshell | György Dalos 58 Moorish Spain | Georg Bossong
43 Authenticity | Erik Schilling 59 Women’s movement and Feminism | Ute Gerhard
44 Eating Insects | Florian J. Schweigert 60 Yoga | Vanamali Gunturu
45 Ma’at | Jan Assmann 61 Witches | Wolfgang Behringer
46 Native Americans | Heike Bungert 62 Military History of the Middle ages | Martin Clauss
47 The little Wagner-Fan | Enrik Lauer and Regine Müller 63 Jesus | Jens Schröter
48 Respect is something different | Gabriele Krone-Schmalz 64 Mahler’s Symphonies | Peter Revers
49 Germany’s Political System | Manfred G. Schmidt 65 Albrecht Dürer | Thomas Schauerte
50 Depression in Childhood and Adolescence 66 The Language Acquisition of the Child | Jürgen Dittmann
Christiane Nevermann and Hannelore Reicher
67 Fiction
68 The Marshaless | Zora del Buono
69 Black Powder | Laura Lichtblau
70 Dresden. The Second Period | Kurt Drawert
71 The Tomb of the Virgin | Stefan von der Lahr
72 Three Flies | Nico Bleutge
Translation Funding by
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Geisteswissenschaften International
for Translations of Outstanding Research into English
Our following titles have received funding:
Title Author Licensee
Kafka. Der ewige Sohn Peter-André Alt Northwestern UP
Den Islam neu denken Katajun Amirpur The Ginko Library
Tambora und das Jahr ohne Sommer Wolfgang Behringer Polity Press
Florenz und Bagdad Hans Belting Harvard UP
Götter und Mythen des Nordens Klaus Böldl I.B. Tauris
Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart Michael Brenner Indiana UP
Kleine jüdische Geschichte Michael Brenner Princeton UP
Propheten des Vergangenen Michael Brenner Princeton UP
Das Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Völker Jörg Fisch Cambridge UP
Caravaggio S. Ebert-Schifferer Getty Publications
Der lange Sommer der Theorie Philipp Felsch Polity Press
Meister Eckart Kurt Flasch Yale UP
„Ein Leben wie im Traum“ Kultur im Dritten Reich Moritz Föllmer Oxford UP
Das Mittelalter Johannes Fried Harvard UP
Bild und Mythos Luca Giuliani University of Chicago Press
Europa ja – aber welches? Dieter Grimm Oxford UP
Geschichte Deutschlands im 20. Jahrhundert Ulrich Herbert Verso
Erlöste und Verdammte Thomas Kaufmann Oxford UP
Der Schrecken Gottes Navid Kermani Polity Press
Gott ist schön Navid Kermani Polity Press
Ungläubiges Staunen. Über das Christentum Navid Kermani Polity Press
Die Büchse der Pandora Jörn Leonhard Harvard UP
Latein Jürgen Leonhardt Harvard UP
Gottes Körper Christoph Markschies Baylor UP
Die Wahrsagekunst im Alten Orient Stefan M. Maul Baylor UP
Carl Schmitt Reinhard Mehring Polity Press
Die Welt der mittelalterlichen Klöster Gert Melville Liturgical Press
Über das Glück des philosophischen Lebens Heinrich Meier University of Chicago Press
Die Verwandlung der Welt Jürgen Osterhammel Princeton UP
Die Entzauberung Asiens Jürgen Osterhammel Princeton UP
Die Ära der Ökologie Joachim Radkau Polity Press
Das letzte Jahrhundert der Pferde Ulrich Raulff Penguin
Das islamische Recht Mathias Rohe Brill Academic
Der katholische Rubens W. Sauerländer Getty Publications
Der Islam und die Frauen Irene Schneider Markus Wiener
Des Kaisers alte Kleider Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger Berghahn Books
Maria Theresia Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger Princeton UP
Das Heilige Römische Reich Deutscher Nation Barbara Stollberg Rilinger Princeton UP
Der Kalte Krieg Bernd Stöver Cambridge UP
Philosophie des Traums Christoph Türcke Yale UP
Egozentrizität und Mystik Ernst Tugendhat Columbia UP
Theoderich der Große Hans-Ulrich Wiemer Yale UP
Geschichte des Westens, Bd. 2 Heinrich August Winkler Yale UP
Papst und Teufel Hubert Wolf Harvard UP
Die Nonnen von Sant‘Ambrogio Hubert Wolf Alfred A. Knopf
NON-FICTION
Ralph Bollmann
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ANGELA MERKEL
The Chancellor and her Time
This is the first biography of Angela Merkel covering
her entire political work.
Angela Merkel seems to be “the last woman stand-
ing” among Western politicians. When the Ger-
man chancellor leaves office in autumn 2021 at
the latest, she will leave a world in disarray - with
the US under the leadership of Donald Trump, a
Britain ravaged by Brexit and a French President
Macron in big trouble. For many people around
the world, the German Chancellor embodied
liberal values and a multilateral order in times of
emerging populism and new nationalism.
Angela Merkel’s resignation as Chancellor is a turning point Ralph Bollmann
for Germany, Europe and for international politics. Since ANGELA MERKEL
his time as parliamentary reporter, historian and journalist
The Chancellor and her Time
Ralph Bollmann has observed Merkel up close. In this com-
Approx. 700 printed pages with approx.
prehensive biography, he shows how the outsider was able
50 illustrations
to assert herself against the men in the political arena with
distance, patience and strong nerves and rose to become the German title:
most powerful woman in the world. Ralph Bollmann
Angela Merkel’s term of office was an era of crises in which Angela Merkel
certainties dissolved. As a former citizen of the GDR she was Die Kanzlerin und ihre Zeit
much better prepared than any other politician, for having
Date of publication: close to the with-
already experienced a break in politics in 1989/90.
drawal of Angela Merkel, probably in
Crises did not diminish her popularity - on the contrary: late autumn 2021.
Merkel became popular as the woman who kept all impo-
A manuscript, complete except for
sitions away from the Germans, although disapproving of
the final part, will be available from
their unwillingness to change. This harmony ended with the September 2020.
refugee debate. Instead of putting political passions aside,
the Chancellor now polarized even in the new major ideo- Ralph Bollmann was born in 1969
logical conflict between cosmopolitans and protectionists and studied modern history, politics
- not only in Germany but also on a global scale. She once and public law in Tübingen, Bologna
again made herself available for election in 2017 against her and Berlin and attended the German
original intention. Unlike her predecessors she will proba- School of Journalism in Munich. After
bly still manage to shape her own withdrawal from politics. 13 years as editor of politics and parlia-
So far, her management of the Corona-Pandemia in Germa- mentary correspondent at the left-wing
ny has strengthened her reputation and popularity as well as daily newspaper “taz”, he has been the
that of her party CDU. economic policy correspondent of the
For anyone who wants to understand not only the politics “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszei-
of the first German female chancellor, but also the German tung” since 2011. Since his years as par-
and European history of recent times this is an indispensable liamentary correspondent, he has follo-
reading. wed the work of Angela Merkel closely
and has accompanied the Chancellor
on numerous trips. Ralph Bollmann is
author of several publications.
Heinrich August Winkler
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How we Became Who we Are
A short History of the Germans
The quintessence of the German history –
expertly portrayed by Heinrich August Winkler
Heinrich August Winkler Heinrich August Winkler became famous as the author of
How we Became Who we Are the masterpieces „The Long Road to the West“ and „History
of the West“. His books are considered to be the epitome of
A short History of the Germans
historical expertise, clear political judgement and an excel-
256 pages
lently readable language. After the great standard works,
€ 22,–
which have reached bestseller dimensions with a total print
German title: run of more than 250,000 copies, one of Germany‘s most
Heinrich August Winkler prominent historians is now presenting a book of radical
Wie wir wurden, was wir sind. brevity: Anyone who believes having no time for the Ger-
Eine kurze Geschichte der Deutschen man past can now take a master class in the most concise
form. There are more convenient national histories than
Further works published by C.H.Beck: the German one. But it is not only the great catastrophes of
the 20th century that continue to influence current debates
Is the West Collapsing? (2017)
and shape German politics and German self-image. Older
Simplified Chinese: CITIC Pess Corporation
Serbian: Albatros plus d.o.o. historical events such as the history of the German Reich,
the Reformation or the conflict between unity and free-
The Long Way West, 2 vols. (2010) dom in the 19th century have also had a profound impact on
English: Oxford University Press
Germany. It takes a great historian to describe the depth of
Italian: Donzelli Editore
French: Librairie Arthème Fayard all these developments and at the same time translate them
Polish: Wydawnictwo Universytetu Wroclawskiego into tangible political lessons for the present. With “How
Hungarian: Osiris Kiado we Became Who we Are” Heinrich August Winkler wrote a
Japanese: Showado Publishing Co. brilliant German history for enlightened citizens.
Simplified Chinese: Moveable Type Legacy
A History of the West: Heinrich August Winkler taught modern history from 1991
The Era of the World Wars 1914 – 1945 (2011) to 2007 at the University of Berlin.
English: Yale University Press In 2014 he received the European Prize for Political Culture of
Italian: Donzelli Editore
the Hans Ringier Foundation, in 2016 the Leipzig Book Prize
Simplified Chinese: Social Sciences
Academic Press for European Understandig. In 2018 he was awarded the
Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Weimar (3rd ed. 1997)
Italian: Donzelli
Russian: DHI Moscow
Simplified Chinese: Social Sciences
Academic Press
Andreas Fahrmeir (Ed.)
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Germany
A Nation’s global History
There has never been a portrait of Germany like
this before: 2000 years of history and stories of
people and powers, events and inventions, ideas
and works of art - the first global history of Ger-
many. Outstanding historians, publicists and
cultural scientists narrate the influences from
Germany on the world and also how the world
affected Germany.
Thus, from many perspectives, a surprisingly different Andreas Fahrmeir (Ed.)
picture of our history emerges, a completely new national Germany
world history. Every national history is a “container” with
A Nation’s global History
historical content. But how did these contents actually get
944 pages including 6 illustrations and
into the container? If one consistently pursues this ques-
6 maps
tion, it becomes clear that every country`s history consists € 38,-
of an infinite number of networks forming a dense histori-
cal network. This work takes a look at the most important German title:
junctions in the history of Germany - on the one hand, its Andreas Fahrmeir (Hg.)
global impact, on the other hand, at influences coming from Deutschland
Globalgeschichte einer Nation
outside. In an astonishing panorama we meet the Romans in
Germania, Charlemagne and the Caliph’s court in Baghdad,
the first university in Prague and the black art of Johannes
Gutenberg, we travel with Sybille Merian to Surinam, follow
the worldwide traces of Moses Mendelssohn, Kant or even
Max Weber. The Code Civil as a legal import, communism as
an export of ideas, the strange career of a meatball named
Hamburger, Neuschwanstein and the Blaue Reiter, all these
are also topics as well as the destructiveness of the world
wars and the Cold War period, the magic of the Gewand-
haus Orchestra under Kurt Masur, the success of German
directors in Hollywood and the breakdown odyssey of Berlin
Airport which amuses the world.
Andreas Fahrmeier teaches as professor for modern history
at the University Frankfurt on Main.
Further works published by C.H. Beck
German History (2017)
Revolutions and Reforms (2010)
Simplified Chinese: Social Sciences
Academic PressMaren Gottschalk
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The Weight of a Human Life.
Sophie Scholl. A Biography
Incorruptible humanity: The life of Sophie Scholl
“We are not silent, we are your bad conscience,
the White Rose won’t leave you alone”, was writ-
ten on a leaflet of the small student resistance
group in Munich, whose inner circle included
Alexander Schmorell and Hans Scholl, his younger
sister Sophie, Christoph Probst, Willi Graf and the
university professor Kurt Huber. Posthumously,
the student, who fearlessly raised her voice with
her friends against the Nazi regime of injustice
and the war of annihilation, actually became a
conscience of the Germans. Today she is one of
the most famous personalities in German history.
Maren Gottschalk Just a few days after the war began, 18-year-old Sophie had
The Weight of a Human Life. written to her friend Fritz Hartnagel, an officer-to.be: “I
can’t understand why people’s lives are now constantly in
Sophie Scholl. A Biography
danger. I will never understand it and I find it terrible. Don’t
320 pages including 30 illustrations
say it’s for the fatherland.” And even when she stood in front
€ 22,95
of Robert Freisler on February 22nd, 1943, the 21-year-old
German title: said what she thought in the courtroom: “What we wrote
Maren Gottschalk and said, that’s what you all think, but you don’t have the
Wie schwer ein Menschenleben wiegt courage to say it.” The same day Sophie Scholl was executed
Sophie Scholl. Eine Biographie by guillotine.
Maren Gottschalk studied history and politics in Munich.
She works as a journalist for Westdeutscher Rundfunk (West
German Broadcasting Cologne) and has written numerous
critically acclaimed biographies. Ten years after her much
praised life story of Sophie Scholl, she is working on the
basis of previously unpublished sources and conversations
with contemporary witnesses once again with Sophie Scholl.Marie-Janine Calic
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Tito – The eternal Partisan
A Biography
The man, who was Yugoslavia
Josip Broz Tito was a typical man of the Age of
Extremes, which he personally experienced, suf-
fered and shaped. At his death he was considered
an internationally recognized statesman, today
many consider him a brutal dictator. But who was
he really? Marie-Janine Calic makes the historical
person behind the legends visible and tells the
story of his adventurous life, in which the rise and
fall of Yugoslavia is reflected.
Tito was a politician of his own calibre. He was a visionary Marie-Janine Calic
and pragmatist, a strategist and doer, one who, through Tito – The eternal Partisan
extraordinary talents and under very special historical
A Biography
circumstances, made an unprecedented career. During the
400 pages including 25 illustrations
Second World War, he and his partisans liberated Yugoslavia
€ 29,95
from German occupation. It was the role in which he felt
completely at home and which legitimized his long years German title:
of rule. Without him, Yugoslavia would probably no longer Marie-Janine Calic
exist after the Second World War. For 35 years he remained Tito – Der ewige Partisan
the indispensable moderator of a more or less prosperous Eine Biografie
coexistence. But Tito‘s Yugoslavia hardly survived its creator
for a decade, and an outbreak of violence followed which
Europe had not experienced since the Second World War.
Thus the shadow of bitter failure lies over Tito‘s life‘s work.
Marie-Janine Calic teaches as professor of Southeast Eu-
ropean history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of
Munich. Her most recent publications by C.H.Beck are:
„Geschichte Südosteuropas“ (2019), „Geschichte Jugoslawiens“
(2020).
Further works published by C.H.Beck
History of Yugoslavia in the 20th Century
Serbian: Clio Publishers
Croatian: Naklada Ljevak
English: Purdue University Libraries
Southeastern Europe (2nd ed. 2019)
Simplified Chinese: Social Sciences
Academic Press
English: Harvard University Press
Sovenian: Cankarjeva Zaloba
Zalonitvo, d.o.o.Jan Assmann
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Worship and Art
Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis as Service
Jan Assmann’s great book about Beethoven
Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis”, his often underesti-
mated late work, is great art and solemn service in
one. Jan Assmann shows why this work represents
a climax in the long history of worship service
and at the same time marks the point at which
religious worship becomes autonomous art. A
masterful étude on art and religion, which makes
us better understand Beethoven’s music and at the
same time the Christian worship service.
Jan Assmann Missa solemnis, “solemn mass”: This is what the Catholic
Worship and Art high mass was called since the Middle Ages. Jan Assmann
approaches Beethoven’s “Missa” from the origins of Chris-
Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis as Service
tian worship and draws an impressive historical arc span-
288 pages including 50 sheet music samples
ning two millennia: from the Last Supper of Jesus and the
€ 28,-
commemoration ceremonies of the early Christians, through
German title: the emergence of liturgical forms, which in the High Middle
Jan Assmann Ages became music through polyphonic singing, to mo-
Kult und Kunst dern music settings. Beethoven’s “Missa” was also inten-
Beethovens Missa Solemnis als Gottesdienst ded for liturgical use, but it went beyond the purpose, not
only because of its length, but also because of its immense
intensity. To follow Jan Assmann`s relating musical details
to the great historical lines is very pleasurable. He shows us
the birth of art from the spirit of worship and even makes it
Further works published by C.H.Beck: almost audible.
Cultural Memory (8th edition 2018)
English: Cambridge University Press Jan Assmann is professor emeritus of Egyptology at the
French: Flammarion University of Heidelberg and Professor for general cultural
Italian: Giulio Einaudi Editore studies at the University of Konstanz. He was often awar-
Spanish: Editorial Gredos ded, among others, the Sigmund Freud Prize for scientific
Greek: Crete University Press
prose (2016) and the Peace Prize of the German Book trade
Chinese: Peking University Press
Turkish: Ayrinti Yayinlari (with Aleida Assmann, 2018). His latest book published by
Polish: Warsaw University Press C.H.Beck is “Axis time. An Archaeology of modernity” (Ach-
Czech: Prostor Nakladatelstvi senzeit. Eine Archäologie der Moderne, 2019).
Hungarian: Atlantisz
Serbian: Prosveta
Bulgarian: Open Society Publishing House
Romanian: Universitatea “Al.I.Cuza”–
Editura Universitatii Death and the Hereafter in
Bosnian: Vrijeme Publishers Ancient Egypt (2nd ed. 2010)
English: Cornell University Press Ma’at (3rd edition 2020)
Religion and Cultural Memory (3rd ed. 2008) Italian: Giulio Einaudi Editore Polish: Warsaw University Press
English: Stanford University Press French: Editions du Rocher
Spanish: Fundacion David Calles Arabic: The National Center Achsenzeit (2018)
Korean: Ulyuck Publishing House for Translation Simplified Chinese: Yilin PressChristian Thielemann
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My Journey to Beethoven
Christian Thielemann about Ludwig van Beethoven
– a musical summit
Beethoven has accompanied Christian Thielemann
on his musical path like hardly any other compo-
ser. In his book, Thielemann tells what he learned
about Beethoven’s music along the way and why
we cannot do without Beethoven.
For Christian Thielemann, it is the fundamentally human Christian Thielemann
aspect of Beethoven’s music that lies at the core of its fasci- My Journey to Beethoven
nation. With its infinite richness of expression, it traverses
288 pages including 20 illustrations
the entire cosmos of art. This music feels with us, and that is € 22,–
why we find ourselves in it. Christian Thielemann explains German title:
what constitutes the unsurpassed greatness of Beethoven’s Christian Thielemann
symphonies, why the composer was unlucky in opera, Meine Reise zu Beethoven
why the “Missa solemnis” represents for him the peak of
Beethoven’s creativity. He reflects on good and bad pathos,
on Beethoven the sceptic and the big question of how to play
his music. The famous Beethoven interpreters appear in his
book showing us also the enormous difficulties that every
conductor hast to face with Beethoven. This is the book of
an artist who, like few people, has looked into Beethoven’s
workshop and sought the traces of his genius.
Christian Thielemann is one of the most important conduc-
tors of his generation worldwide. Since 2012 he has been
principal conductor of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dres-
den, and in 2013 he also took over the artistic direction of
the Salzburg Easter Festival. Since 2015 he has been Music
Director of the Bayreuth Festival. For a long time now he has
worked regularly with the Vienna and Berlin Philharmoni-
ker. His book “My Life with Wagner” (2013) was published by
C.H.Beck.
Further works published by C.H.Beck
My life with Wagner (2013)
Spanish: Ediciones Akal, S.A.
English: The Orion Publishing Group
Simplified Chinese: Bejing Imaginist
Time CultureHedwig Richter
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Democracy
A German Affair
From the 18th Century to the Present Day
Freedom, equality, justice –
A slightly different history of democracy
For a long time it was considered absurd that all
people – really all! – were supposed to be equal.
Hedwig Richter shows how this revolutionary idea
came up and gradually took root, also in Germany.
Especially here it was so radically rejected and
became the norm again as naturally as nowhere else.
Anyone who is afraid of the new authoritarian men
today should read this wonderfully lightly written,
optimistic book, which shows us the Trumps and
Erdogan’s of this world as grotesque last survivers.
Hedwig Richter Low participation in elections makes the alarm bells ring: di-
Democracy senchantment with democracy! But from the beginning, spe-
cial efforts - from alcohol to money to state coercion - were
A German Affair
needed to get people to vote. A better indicator of democra-
From the 18th century to the present day
tisation is therefore the way the human body is treated: the
400 pages including 22 illustrations and abolition of serfdom and corporal punishment, increasing
€ 26,95 prosperity, the humanisation of work, equal treatment of
the sexes. Hedwig Richter tells the story of democracy as a
German title:
Hedwig Richter chronology of mistakes, coincidences and learning processes
Demokratie with the breach of civilisation by the Holocaust in its center.
Eine deutsche Affäre Her vivid, refreshing book focuses on Germany, because it
Vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart is precisely the German affair with democracy that makes
it clear how internationally binding the paths to freedom,
equality and justice are.
Hedwig Richter is a professor for modern and contemporary
history at the Bundeswehr University Munich. For her re-
search she was awarded the prize of the Democracy Founda-
tion. She regularly presents her topics to a broad audience in
major newspapers and on radio.Günther Anders
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Writings on Art and Film
Günther Anders: The posthumous writings –
the new volume
This volume is the first to collect previously unpublished
writings and scattered published texts on art and film by the
philosopher and writer Günther Anders. These works are
mainly from the years 1925 to 1956 and show the philosopher
and committed supporter of the anti-nuclear movement in a
new light.
In his analyses and commentaries on Weimar cinema, sound
film and Hollywood film production, his interpretations
of works of art from the Louvre in Paris, his diary notes on
Italian Renaissance art and pointed portraits of artists from
Rubens to Goya, Anders proves to be a phenomenologically
trained aesthetician and media philosopher. The texts, edited
for the first time from the author‘s estate, also allow a new
look at Anders‘ oeuvre, especially at his much-read media cri-
ticism in the „The Outdatedness of Human Beings“ (1956).
Günther Anders
Günther Anders (1902 - 1992) counts among the most impor- Writings on Art and Film
tant philosophers of the 20th century. His intellectual and poli-
560 pages including 37 illustrations
tical radicalism is without precedent in the German-speaking € 58,-
world. His main work is “The Outdatedness of Human Beings”.
Reinhard Ellensohn is assistant in research projects on the German title:
Günther Anders estate at the Institute of Philosophy at the Günther Anders
University of Vienna and Secretary of the International Gün- Schriften zu Kunst und Film
ther Anders Society. Most recently, he has edited Günther
Anders’ writings on music philosophy with C.H.Beck.
Kerstin Putz is assistant at the Literature Museum of the
Austrian National Library in Vienna and the research project
“Günther Anders: Media Aesthetics and Intellectual Networks”.
Most recently she published the correspondence “Write ‘hard
facts’ about yourself” between Günther Anders and Hannah
Arendt at C.H.Beck.
Further works published We – sons of Eichmann To Love Yesterday (3rd edition 1997)
by C.H.Beck: (3rd edition 2001) French: Fage éditions
Japanese: Shobunsh Publishing Italian: Bollati Boringhieri
The Molussian Catacombs (1991)
French: Editions Payot & Rivages
Dutch: Lemniscaat Rotterdam Diaries and Poems (1985)
Spanish: Ediciones Paidós
A Fight of Cherries: Dialogues with French: Fage editions
Hannah Arendt (2012) Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen,
volume 1 (7th edition 1983) Hiroshima is everywhere (1995)
Italian: Donzelli Spanish: Ediciones Paidós
French: Payot French: éditions ivrea
Italian: Bollati Boringhieri French: Editions du Seuil
Spanish: Paidos
Japanese: Hosei University Press Man without world (2nd edition 1993)
Kafka, Pro and Contra Spanish: Editoral Pre-Textos Japanese: Hosei University Press
(4th edition 1972) Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen,
Brasilian: Cosac & Naify Ketzereien (Heresies) (1996)
volume 2 (4th edition 1983)
Japanese: Hosei University Press
The View of the Tower French: fario
(3rd edition 1984)
Italian: Bollati Boringhieri Visit to Hades (3rd edition 1997)
Japanese: Hosei University Press Italian: Bollati Boringhieri
Japanese: Hosei University Press
Spanish: Editoral Pre-Textos
Italian: Mim-Edizioni About Heidegger (2001)
Italian: Bollati BoringhieriMichael Stausberg
C.H.BECK FALL 2020 17
The Saviours
A global History of Religions in the 20th
Century
Preachers, Gurus, Charlatans:
A Global History of Religions
The 20th century was the century of religions.
Michael Stausberg uses 47 biographies to describe
how saviours of all kinds - from Rudolf Steiner to
the Dalai Lama - spread religious energy around
the globe who overcame geographical and often
even denominational barriers and created the
dazzling religious multiverse in which we live
today.
Michael Stausberg The transformation of the world in the 19th century led to
The Saviours cross-border new beginnings. Leo Tolstoy created the proto-
type of a universal religion that links Western and Eastern
A global History of Religions in the 20th
Century traditions. Eastern teachers spread their post-religious
teachings of Zen, Yoga or mindfulness in the West. For Ma-
784 pages including 45 illustrations
€ 32,- hatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Bob Marley religion
was the starting point for political liberation, while the Bea-
German title: tles sang of inner liberation through Transcendental Medi-
Michael Stausberg tation. Besides the peaceful world- and self-improvers, there
Die Heilsbringer were violent preachers like Osama bin Laden or Jim Jones,
Eine Globalgeschichte der Religionen im
but they also reached people beyond traditional bonds. This
20. Jahrhundert
is all the more true for the writers, film directors, psycho-
logists and physicists who were religious visionaries. In his
brilliant panorama Michael Stausberg shows how in the 20th
century new announcements of salvation changed not only
the established religions, but also politics and culture.
Michael Stausberg is Professor of Religious Studies at the
University of Bergen, member of the Norwegian Academy of
Sciences and European editor of the international journal
Religion. C.H.Beck published his book “Zarathustra and his
Religion” (2018).
Further works published by C.H.Beck:
Zarathustra and his Religion (2018)
English: Equinox Publishing Ltd.
Italian: Carocci Editore
Japanese: Hara ShoboPeter Schäfer
C.H.BECK FALL 2020 18
A Short History of Anti-Semitism
Why anti-Semitism is so old and yet so topical.
Anti-Semitism is visible again, partly openly, part-
ly hidden behind “thoughtless” statements and
criticism of Israel. But where does anti-Semitism
begin, and how new is what we experience today?
Peter Schäfer describes clearly and concisely how anti-Semi- Peter Schäfer
tic stereotypes have spread since antiquity, led to persecu- A Short History of Anti-Semitism
tion and annihilation and are still virulent after the Shoah.
352 pages
One doesn’t have to understand anti-Semitism, but has to € 26,-
know it in order to fight it off.
Already in pre-Christian antiquity there was hatred against German title:
Jews, there were ghettos and pogroms, but it was only the Peter Schäfer
New Testament writings, with their opposition to Judaism Kurze Geschichte des Antisemitismus
which created the conditions for ritual murder and persecu-
tion of Jewish people in the Middle Ages.
Luther called for the extermination of the “devil’s children”,
the Enlightenment philosophers found Judaism unreasona-
ble, scientists justified the hatred of Jews on racist grounds
and all too many were prepared to participate in the “Final
Solution of the Jewish Question” or preferred to look away.
One might have thought that the shock of the mass murder
was salutary, but anti-Zionism and right-wing ideologies
have been penetrating into the middle of society with anti-
Semitic baggage for years, preparing the ground for new
violence. Peter Schäfer’s enlightening book is a must-read
for all those who want to understand why anti-Semitism is
so old and at the same time so topical and what it means for
Jews in the neighbourhood, in Israel and all over the world.
Peter Schäfer, professor emeritus of Jewish Studies, has
been working at the University of Berlin and Princeton Uni-
versity and was until 2019 Director of the Jewish Museum
Berlin. C.H.Beck has already published his book “Two Gods
in the Sky” (2017).Johann Hinrich Claussen
C.H.BECK FALL 2020 19
The Strangest Places of Religions
Of hidden churches, magic trees and
forbidden shrines
Places of religions – a travel guide of a very
different kind
No one has any intention of creating a strange
place. It just happens. The oldest rock garden in
Japan is overgrown with moss, trees suddenly
prove to have healing powers, and churches have
to be hidden from persecutors. Johann Hinrich
Claussen describes 39 Christian and non-Christian
places, amazing, frightening or funny as they may
seem and yet they deserve our respect.
Johann Hinrich Claussen „Shan-ti... ooooooooooooooom!“ Where the holy rivers Ganges
The Strangest Places of Religions and Yamuna meet the invisible river Sarasvati is the navel of
the world. Whoever bathes in this „honey of immortality“ at the
Of hidden churches, magic trees and
forbidden shrines right time can be redeemed. But beware: 100 million pilgrims
want to do the same at the same time. In the Congo, after a
256 pages
€ 19,95 lonely journey on gravel roads, one reaches the heavenly Jeru-
salem: a huge temple with 37,000 seats. Just as remote is the
German title: sanctuary of Difunta Correa, where truck drivers offer V-belts,
Johann Hinrich Claussen rims and whole trucks.
Die seltsamsten Orte der Religionen Johann Hinrich Claussen invites us on an entertaining world
Von versteckten Kirchen, magischen Bäu-
tour into another dimension. Whether animal cemetery or rat
men und verbotenen Schreinen
temple, cathedral made of garbage or hermitage made of world
war debris, place of survival or place of death, in the desert or
right next door: the strangest places of the religions let us dis-
cover reasons and abysses of human existence:
The burial cave of the patriarchs
The porcelain church in Meissen
The mountain of nocturnal prayers
The mausoleum of the postman
The temple of the infinite green
The druid tree of Herchies
Highway City of Faith
A doll‘s cupboard for Jesus
Further works published The holy rats of Deshnok
by C.H.Beck: Where you can buy eternal life
The 101 most important Questions:
Johann Hinrich Claussen is the cultural representative of the
Christianity (2016)
Corean: Sanhae Publishing Co. Protestant Church in Germany and honorary professor at the
Chinese: South & North Publishing University of Berlin. C.H.Beck‘s publications include „The book
Japanese: Sogensha Inc. of Flight.” (Das Buch der Flucht, 2018), „God’s houses“ (Gottes
Häuser, 2012) and „God’s Sounds“ (Gottes Klänge, 2015). Through
God’s Sounds (2015)
Simplified Chinese: Bookzone Publication his articles for the newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter
Service Co., Ltd. Allgemeine Zeitung and the magazine Spiegel he is known to a
large readership.Thomas Fischer
C.H.BECK FALL 2020 20
Gladius
Rome‘s Legions in Germania
The Romans in Germania – a Story of War and
Peace
For five hundred years Romans and Germanic
tribes lived side by side – often as enemies, at
times also as neighbours. Thomas Fischer il-
luminates their eventful history from Caesar`s
conquests to the beginning of the Merovingian
Empire. His detailed and informative work is
indispensable for all who want to know more
about warriors and legionaries, their weapons and
equipment, units and battles.
The Roman legions were famous for their discipline, the Thomas Fischer
Teutons for their wild courage. But how was a legion orga- Gladius
nized? And how was it possible that apparently unorganized
Rome‘s Legions in Germania
Germanic hordes could have three legions in Teutoburg
352 pages including 63 illustrations
Forest? Thomas Fischer is a widely acclaimed specialist in
€ 26,95
the archaeology of the Roman provinces. He designs in his
latest book a clear and vivid picture of the military life of German title:
the Romans and Germanic peoples, whose heritage is still Thomas Fischer
visible in many places in Germany today. Gladius
Roms Legionen in Germanien
Until his retirement, Thomas Fischer was professor of Archa-
eology of the Roman Provinces at the Archaeological Institu-
te of the University of Cologne.Bernd Greiner
C.H.BECK FALL 2020 21
Henry Kissinger
Guardian of the Empire
A Biography
From Fürth to the White House – Henry Kissingers
Life of a Century
Henry Kissinger - security advisor to two Ameri-
can presidents, Secretary of State, Elder States-
man, bestselling author, political advisor, oracle.
As an adolescent fleeing from the Nazis, he be-
came a popstar in politics in his new home count-
ry. Bernd Greiner gets to the bottom of this life of
a century. Drawing on a variety of unknown
sources, he paints the portrait of a man whose
self-dramatization reveals much about his wishes
but nothing about his politics.
Henry Kissinger Hardly anyone enjoys such a reputation. There are few peo-
Guardian of the Empire ple about whom opinions differ so widely. He was friends
with Helmut Schmidt, but he did not get along with Willy
A Biography
Brandt. And even as an elder person, his speeches pola-
464 pages including 25 illustrations
rize. Kissinger belonged to the Guard of Guardians when
€ 26,95
unpleasant problems were pressing onto the agenda of the
German title: American empire: how should the USA deal with the loss
Bernd Greiner of importance? Where is America’s place in a multipolar
Henry Kissinger world? What role to assign to diplomacy, what role to the
Wächter des Imperiums military? Is it about common security or security at the ex-
Eine Biografie
pense of others? This is why Kissinger is still relevant today
- in an often disturbing way and in any case differently than
he would like to be. For he overestimated the possibilities of
the empire. The closer you get to him, the less of the smooth
facade remains.
Bernd Greiner is founding director and member of the “Ber-
lin College of Cold War”. He taught Non-European history
at the Hamburg University and headed up the Research Unit
“History and Theory of violence” at the Hamburg Institute
for Social research. His publications with C.H.Beck include
“The Cuba crisis. The World on the threshold of nuclear war”
(2015) and “9/11. The day, the fear, the consequences” (2011).
Bernd GreinerMarita Krauss
C.H.BECK FALL 2020 22
I challenged the stronger sex
everywhere
The Life of Lola Montez
“A woman’s reputation is often nothing but the
echo of male viciousness.” Lola Montez, Memoirs.
Dancer overthrows Bavarian king! A scandal!
Nevertheless her whole life was a scandal for the
better society of her time – thus it was completely
self-determined. On the occasion of her 200th
birthday, a modern biography is being published
which recalls the courageous life of this emanci-
pated woman in a misogynist world.
Lola Montez had many faces and many names. The daugh- Marita Krauss
ter of a British officer, whose real name was Eliza Gilbert, I challenged the stronger sex every-
defied moral conventions at an early age: At 16 she eloped, where
married her lover and moved with him to India, at 22 she The Life of Lola Montez
dallied around the capitals of Europe as a “Spanish dancer”
304 pages including 30 illustrations
and at 25 she began her affair with King Ludwig I. When she € 24,-
was consequently driven out of Munich Lola Montez marke-
ted her story on Broadway in New York and in the outbacks German title:
of Australia. The fate of the self-confident dancer, who was Marita Krauss
raised to the rank of Countess Landsfeld as the King’s mis- Ich habe dem starken Geschlecht überall
den Fehdehandschuh hingeworfen
tress and never allowed herself to be intimidated by the
Das Leben der Lola Montez
male world. She inspired filmmakers and theatre directors.
The historian Marita Krauss describes the path of Lola Mon-
tez in all its ups and downs evaluating the diaries of Ludwig
I, which have been neglected so far.
Marita Krauss is Professor of European Regional History and
Bavarian and Swabian Regional History at the University of
Augsburg.Hubert Wolf
C.H.BECK FALL 2020 23
The Infallible
Pius IX and the Invention of Catholicism
in the 19th Century
“I am the tradition!” Pius IX.
Everything spoke against little Giovanni Maria
Mastai Ferretti (1792 - 1878) becoming something.
Hubert Wolf describes the amazing path of the
ailing young nobleman from the province to the
most powerful and longest serving pope in his-
tory (1846 - 1878), who reinvented Catholicism.
This captivating and vividly written book is a cold
shower for all wishing to see in the Pope the repre-
sentative of ancient traditions.
Hubert Wolf After the French Revolution, the magnificent but centuries-
The Infallible old crooked house of Catholicism lay in ruins and had to be
rebuilt. But in what style? Romantic-medieval? Or contem-
Pius IX and the Invention of Catholicism in
the 19th Century porary modern? While some were still arguing, others were
already building anew: Hubert Wolf describes how Catho-
400 pages including 27 illustrations and 1 map
€ 28,- licism, in the name of invented traditions, was completely
German title: geared towards Rome. With Pius IX, the right pope was
Hubert Wolf elected in 1846 for this programme: Conscious of his own
Der Unfehlbare. Pius IX. und die Erfindung des perfection of power, he proclaimed the dogma of the Imma-
Katholizismus im 19. Jahrhundert culate Conception of Mary, isolated the Church from demo-
Further works published by C.H.Beck: cracy and modernity with the “Syllabus errorum” and had
Celibacy (2019) himself declared infallible at the First Vatican Council. To
Italian: Donzelli traditional critics he coolly replied: “La tradizione sono io”,
Czech: Prostor I am the tradition! When shortly afterwards the Papal States
Conclave (2017) were finally lost, this could only increase the worldwide
Czech: Prostor veneration of the “prisoner in the Vatican”. The book makes
Crypt (2nd ed. 2015) impressively clear how since then everything stands with the
Czech: Vysehrad Pope - and falls with him.
The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio (2013)
French: Editions du Seuil Hubert Wolf is Professor of Church History at the Univer-
Italian: Mondadori
Korean: Sigma Books sity of Münster. He has been awarded the Leibniz Prize
Spanish: Knopf of the DFG, the Communicator Prize, the Gutenberg Prize
English: Oxford University Press and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern. His
Simplified Chinese: SDX Joint Publishing bestsellers published by C.H.Beck include “The Nuns of
Czech: Prostor
Sant’Ambrogio” (2013), “Krypta. Suppressed Traditions of
Pope and Devil (2012)
Church History” (2015), “Conclave. The Secrets of the Election
Catalonian: Pagès editors
Polish: Bellona SA of the Pope” (2017) and “Celibacy. 16 Theses”(2019).
French: CNRS Editions
Hungarian: Szent István Társulat
English: Harvard University Press
Greek: Logeion Publications
Croatian: Sandorf Index
The Vatican and prohibited books (2007)
Italian: Donzelli EditoreAlfons Kaiser
C.H.BECK FALL 2020 24
Karl Lagerfeld
A German in Paris
A Biography
„It starts with me and it ends with me.“
Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld (1933 - 2019) was one of the most
important fashion designers in the world - and
one of the most famous Germans. The charismatic
designer, who influenced brands such as Chanel,
Chloé and Fendi, stylized himself into a living
logo, to a myth of the fashion world.
What is behind this larger-than-life figure who, despite all Alfons Kaiser
his desire to communicate, kept his own life story a secret? Karl Lagerfeld
In this first German biography, Alfons Kaiser, who has long
A German in Paris
been acquainted with the legendary fashion designer, comes
A Biography
close to the person Lagerfeld: the precocious boy from the
North German lowlands who preferred to draw in the attic 320 pages including 50 illustrations
rather than play with his peers. The son, who was criticized € 24,-
all his life by his emotionally cold mother, but who never-
German title:
theless brought her to Paris. The rival of Yves Saint Laurent, Alfons Kaiser
the brother, the nephew, the friend - and finally the partner Karl Lagerfeld
of Jacques de Bascher, the great love of his life. The book Ein Deutscher in Paris
takes off the mask of „Emperor Charles“ and presents an Eine Biografie
extremely active, historically educated man of radical decis-
ions, who worked with Prussian discipline and was at home
in many styles - an extremely versatile, multi-faceted and at
the same time down-to-earth genius.
Alfons Kaiser is an editor at the „Frankfurter Allgemeine Zei-
tung“. His favourite subject is fashion.Christoph Nonn
C.H.BECK FALL 2020 25
12 Days and Half a Century
A History of the German Empire
1871 – 1918
In 1871 the German nation state was founded. In
the five following decades modern Germany was
born. In his vividly written book, Christoph Nonn
shows the Janus-faced German Empire, which
paved the way for both the Third Reich and our
present-day democracy, and tells the story of half
a century, starting with twelve days.
(2017). Versailles, January 18, 1871: In the Hall of Mirrors of the
Christoph Nonn famous castle of the French Kings the German Empire is
12 Days and Half a Century proclaimed. Its development was characterized by im-
mense economic dynamism with extensive political stand-
A History of the German Empire
1871 – 1918 still, democratic learning processes and authoritarian
incrustation, groundbreaking social reforms and the most
496 pages including 25 illustrations
intense social conflicts. In twelve chapters, each of which
€ 29,95
is based on the events of a particular day, Christoph Nonn
German title: illuminates this fascinatingly colourful epoch and evokes the
Christoph Nonn life the contemporaries who designed it. For example, the
12 Tage und ein halbes Jahrhundert artist Anton von Werner, who painted the Emperor‘s Procla-
Eine Geschichte des deutschen Kaiserreiches mation several times, Julie Bebel, who confidently took the
place of her husband August in politics as well as in the joint
turnery workshop, when he was once again in prison, or the
shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt, who as the „Captain of Köpenick“
made a fool of a town and thus made a nation laugh.
Christoph Nonn teaches modern history at the University of
Düsseldorf. His publications with C.H.Beck include:
„Bismarck“ (2015) and the knowledge volumes „History of
North Rhine-Westphalia“ (2009) and „The German Empire”
1871 - 1918
Further works published by C.H.Beck:
Bismarck (2015)
Simplified Chinese: Social Sciences
Academic PressChristoph Jahr
C.H.BECK FALL 2020 26
Blood and Iron
How Prussia imposed Germany
1864 – 1871
How the German nation state came into being –
the history of the founding of the Reich recoun-
ted.
The Paulskirche (Francfort Parliament) had failed
its attempt to found a German nation state in
1848/49. But the “German question” remained
open until the Prussian-dominated German Reich
was proclaimed in January 1871. Nothing was
without alternative and everything could have
turned out differently. But the way in which Prus-
sia forced Germany had consequences which con-
tinue until today.
“The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches Christoph Jahr
or majority decisions, but by iron and blood.” With these Blood and Iron
words, Otto von Bismarck, on September 30, 1862, justified
How Prussia imposed Germany
the need for higher military spending. Ten years later, the 1864 – 1871
weapons had spoken - in the war against Denmark in 1864,
352 pages including 20 illustrations
in the inner-German war between Austria and Prussia in € 26,-
1866, and finally in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71.
Diligent historians hastened to celebrate Prussia’s mission as German title:
the inevitable fulfilment of German history. Christoph Jahr Christoph Jahr
combines the dramatic events of the 1860s with the major Blut und Eisen
Wie Preußen Deutschland erzwang
trends of the time and the perspective from above with the
1864 – 1871
experiences from below. Whether loyal to his convictions
as a liberal, resolute conservative or Prussian-critical South
German, Bismarck’s cynical power politics found many
critics and resistance to the founding of the Reich was great.
Nevertheless, contemporaries saw no alternative in the end.
Christoph Jahr teaches history at the University of Berlin. He
regularly publishes on historical topics in the Neue Zürcher
Zeitung and other newspapers.Anatol Regnier
C.H.BECK FALL 2020 27
Everyone Writes for Himself
Writers in National Socialism
Writers in the Third Reich: Stories of surprising
Inconsistency
Artists are said to be pronounced individualists.
The poets who remained in Germany after 1933 also
behaved very differently. Whoever wanted to publish
as an author in the Third Reich had to be officially
registered as a member of the “Reichsschriftums-
kammer” (National Chamber of Writing). But what
did that mean? How much adaptation was required?
What was the relationship to the state and how did
the writers see themselves as representatives of Ger-
man intellectual life? Did they maintain contact with
emigrated colleagues? And what was their attitude
towards persecution and deportation of the Jews.
Anatol Regnier Anatol Regnier, who himself comes from a family of artists
Everyone Writes for Himself who decided against emigration, approaches the topic
through literary self-testimonies of such diverse personali-
Writers in National Socialism
ties as Gottfried Benn, Hans Fallada, Ricarda Huch, Hanns
336 pages
Johst, Erich Kästner, Ina Seidel and Will Vesper. Were they
€ 26,-
part of the system? Or was it possible to maintain integrity
German title: as writers in National Socialist Germany? The findings are
Anatol Regnier often surprisingly ambivalent and much greyer than the
Jeder schreibt für sich allein black and white logic of Nazi/Antinazi suggests.
Schriftsteller im Nationalsozialismus
Anatol Regnier is a classical guitarist, chanson singer and
freelance writer. He was awarded the Ernst Hoferichter Prize
and 2012 with the Schwabing Art Prize. C.H.Beck also publis-
hed his book: “We Future generations” (2014).Jan Bürger
C.H.BECK FALL 2020 28
Between Heaven and the Elbe
A cultural History of Hamburg
The gateway to the world – a cultural history of
Hamburg
Hamburg, the city on the river Elbe, did not gain
importance through princes or the clergy, it does
not offer castles and palaces. Hamburg grew so-
lely through trade and with its port as the gateway
to the world for travellers and emigrants for half a
millennium.
Earlier than other German cities, Hamburg became a mel-
ting pot of lifestyles and cultures. The Hanseatic city as we
know it today was mainly created in the past one hundred Jan Bürger
and fifty years. Yet in many places we suddenly encounter Between Heaven and the Elbe
the older past. Using the network of Hamburg‘s under-
A cultural History of Hamburg
ground and suburban trains as a guide, Jan Bürger roams
368 pages including 40 illustrations
the streets and districts with us and tells us the story of its
€ 24,-
diverse culture and those who created it. A cultural and his-
torical journey of discovery through one of the most exciting German title:
German cities from literature and theatre, from music and Jan Bürger
museums, from graves and scholars, to the street and the Zwischen Himmel und Elbe
harbour, the Beatles and the Elbe Philharmonic Orchestra. Eine Hamburger Kulturgeschichte
Jan Bürger, born in 1968, studied in Hamburg. He published
books on Hans Henny Jahnn, Gottfried Benn and Max Frisch
and is a member of the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg.
He was an editor in Berlin and guest professor in Nashville,
Tennessee. Since 2002 he has been working at the German
Literature Archive in Marbach, where he is in charge of the
estate of Peter Rühmkorf, among other things. C.H.Beck
has published „The Neckar. A literary journey” (2013) and
two new editions of Joseph Roth‘s reportages: „Travels in the
Ukraine and Russia“ (2015) and „Paris Nights“ (2018).Daniel Leese
C.H.BECK FALL 2020 29
Mao’s Long Shadow
China‘s dealing with the past
Between refurbishment and the final stroke: The
Chinese Communist Party and the legacy of Mao.
How can a dictatorship deal with the legacy of in-
justice and state crimes committed under its rule?
The Chinese Communist Party was confronted
with this question after the death of Mao Zedong
in 1976. The mass campaigns of the „Great Leader“
had claimed horrendous numbers of victims and
brought the country to the brink of civil war.
Daniel Leese Under Mao‘s successors, the party began a large-scale
Mao’s Long Shadow experiment in historical crisis management. Millions of
politically persecuted people were rehabilitated, compensa-
China‘s dealing with the past
tion payments were made and perpetrators were brought to
600 pages including 20 illustrations
justice, above all the „gang of four“ around Mao‘s wife Jiang
€ 38,-
Qing. The aim was to focus all energies on economic reform
German title: policies. But the shadows of the past could not be so easily
Daniel Leese dispelled, and the effects of this policy are still felt today.
Maos langer Schatten Based on a large number of hitherto unknown documents,
Chinas Umgang mit der Vergangenheit the Freiburg sinologist Daniel Leese draws a broadly based
panorama of Chinese politics and society during the critical
phase of upheaval between 1976 and 1987.
Daniel Leese teaches Sinology with a focus on „History and
Politics of Modern China“ at the Albert-Ludwigs-University
Freiburg. C.H.Beck published his book: „The Chinese Cultu-
ral Revolution 1966 – 1976” (Die chinesische Kulturrevolution
1966 – 1976, 2016).
Further works published by C.H.Beck:
The Chinese Cultural Revolution (2016)
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