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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Germany</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/germany/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:12:32 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Book Review: Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad</title><link>http://calitreview.com/21921</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/21921#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:00:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classical music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Giuseppe Verdi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Richard Wagner]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=21921</guid> <description><![CDATA[Perhaps, the best way of approaching Conrad’s book is to regard it primarily as a meditation on creativity. As with opera itself, where passion and empathy lead, intellectual appreciation will follow. The key insight of this fine book is easy enough to grasp. In an age of strutting nationalism, both Verdi and Wagner gave the world music that ultimately transcends the limits of borders or political ideology, regardless of how subsequent regimes used it.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/21921/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/18323</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/18323#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ballet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ballet Russes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[George Balanchine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[René Blum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twentieth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=18323</guid> <description><![CDATA[All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that tormented France from 1894 to 1904 and the Nazi-led Holocaust in which he perished. To his dying day, Blum thought of himself as a French patriot. Yet it was the complicity of French officials during the German occupation that set him on the road to Auschwitz.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/18323/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: Ballad Of The Soldier</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13701</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13701#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:32:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Southeast Asia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13701</guid> <description><![CDATA[This weekend, Peter Weir graces us with <em>The Way Back</em>, a tale of daring escape by prisoners of war. In due fashion this week's Listicle salutes the soldier in film. From comedy to adventure to stark, sobering drama, soldiers have faced a great deal on the movie screen.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13701/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936</title><link>http://calitreview.com/11939</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/11939#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:33:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1920s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1930s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Adolf Ziegler]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antonio Donghi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aristide Maillol]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Carlo Carra’]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Edward Steichen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Giorgio de Chirico]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guggenheim Museum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hitler]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Isadora Duncan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jean Cocteau]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Leni Riefenstahl]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Madeleine Vionnet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mario Sironi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mussolini]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Otto Dix]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Picasso]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twentieth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War I]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=11939</guid> <description><![CDATA[<em>Chaos and Classicism</em> tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage of trench warfare, sensitive spirits in Europe craved artistic depictions of beautiful bodies, unscathed by shrapnel, and timeless, uncluttered architecture inspired by the Greek and Roman past. Yet, it was not long before this craving for life-affirming art was transformed into the soulless ideology of Mussolini's Fascist Italy and Hitler's Third Reich.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/11939/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler&#8217;s Valet by Heinz Linge</title><link>http://calitreview.com/4854</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/4854#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:08:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1940s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hitler]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4854</guid> <description><![CDATA[Unfortunately the book, while delivering a few marginal insights into Hitler’s character, motivations and global strategies, seems largely a one-dimensional narrative that more resembles a loss of contact with reality than a recounting of anything worthy of notice.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4854/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Imag(in)ing America</title><link>http://calitreview.com/786</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/786#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:18:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hitler]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mussolini]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=786</guid> <description><![CDATA[The confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was to the Italians the “political, intellectual, and moral equivalent of the first U.S. moon landing; and as a European I am stuck down here on earth watching the Yankee space ship make its landing way up there,” Valli wrote.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/786/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Greatest Battle:  Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski</title><link>http://calitreview.com/266</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/266#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:41:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andrew Nagorski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hitler]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stalin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/10/08/the-greatest-battle-stalin-hitler-and-the-desperate-struggle-for-moscow-that-changed-the-course-of-world-war-ii-by-andrew-nagorski/</guid> <description><![CDATA[He focuses on the assault on Moscow, the largest battle in history between two opposing armies.  In this battle seven million men took part, and of these 2.5 million were killed, taken prisoner, wounded, or went missing.  The invading Nazi army numbered about three million, which as Nagorski might usefully have mentioned was six times larger than Russia’s last previous major invader, Napoleon’s Grande Armée in 1812.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/266/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Frau Braun and The Tiger of Auschwitz</title><link>http://calitreview.com/33</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/33#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:17:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Holocaust]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//essays/frau-braun-and-the-tiger-of-auschwitz/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The principal accused was an Auschwitz commandant, one Wilhelm Boger, whose sobriquet was “The Tiger of Auschwitz.”  He was a man who had been arrested after a successful post-war career, having become a rich businessman who’d never been questioned before.  At that time he was in his late 60s.  Of the many witnesses for the prosecution there was a woman called Frau Braun.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/33/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
