For years he had sweaty hands while writing, Theo Sommer claims in his memoirs, although his boss Marion Gräfin Dönhoff sent him an enthusiastic telegram from Sylt on his first editorial: "Bravo, brilliantly done!" The publisher could have wrapped the praise as a lower third around Sommer's posthumously published memoir "Zeit meines Lebens", because if there ever was a brilliant journalist's life, then it was Theo Sommer's.In 1958, at the age of 27, he became editor of the Time, one...
Of Fritz Goettler"She often laughs between her complaints," the mother says at the beginning of this book: "She is happy. I listen to her laughter. She laughs for nothing. This nothingness is a lot. Sometimes she even laughs in the morning. She wakes up tired up, but she wakes up and starts the day." What this mother's laughter means, where it comes from, what it hides, what it can provoke is played out in the book, leaving empty, unexplained passages,...
After the military coup in Turkey, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, then a young Turkish actress, really wanted to go to the famous director Benno Besson - in the early 1970s for many left-wing theater people, for example the most important theater man in the world and the most influential student of Bertolt Brecht. In one of her novels, Özdamar, this year's Büchner Prize winner, describes how she waited for hours in the foyer of the East Berlin Volksbühne for Besson. When...
A “colossal” sum. According The Sunday newspaper, the Albin Michel editions have won the bid for the publication of the memoirs of Angela Merkel. Ten months after his departure from power, the memories of the former German Chancellor (2005-2021) fueled lust. The “rumor” relayed by The JDD reports a check for "nearly 400,000 euros" for the purchase of the rights to the writings of Angela Merkel.A significant sum in this period of inflation in Germany. Even if it remains far...
Of Susan VahabzadehBy the end of this book, the "Heimat" films and their creator have finally become inseparable. The filmmaker Edgar Reitz has repeatedly included his own life, from his childhood in the Hunsrück and his departure in Munich, into the television series, which now runs for sixty hours. You can confidently call it his life's work. "I think," he told his producer as he began writing Heimat, "I found an oil well in my backyard." At least that's what...
US director Sofia Coppola is adapting Priscilla Presley's memoirs The American director Sofia Coppola received an Oscar in 2004 for "Lost in Translation". photo © Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPA/dpa US director Sofia Coppola wants to bring the story of Elvis Presley's widow to the screen. The main roles have already been cast. With the planned film "Priscilla", the US director Sofia Coppola (51, "Lost in Translation", "On the Rocks") wants to bring the story of Priscilla and Elvis Presley to the screen....
Status: 08.09.2022 5:19 p.m About nine months ago she was dismissed from office with a big tattoo and pop music. Now Chancellor Merkel wants to write her memoirs. It should also be about key political decisions. It should be an "exclusive insight" into her political life and work: After Angela Merkel was Chancellor for 16 years, she now wants to present her personal story in a book. She will be supported in this by her longstanding office manager and political...
ex-chancellor Merkel's memoirs are due to be published in autumn 2024 Ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to publish her memoirs - but that will take time. photo © Michael Kappeler/dpa It's supposed to be exclusive and personal when the ex-Chancellor publishes her political memoirs. Her announcement sounds as if she wants to explain herself in it. Ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) wants to publish her political memories in a book in autumn 2024. The publisher announced on Thursday that the memoirs, written...
royals Prince Harry is said to settle accounts with Duchess Camilla in his memoirs Prince Harry: His memoirs could get him into a lot of trouble © Koen van Weel/ / Picture Alliance 2022 seems like the season finale of a royal docu-soap, because Prince Harry is planning a real highlight at the end of the year. The prince wants to publish a book about his life. Duchess Camilla should not get off well in the book. With his brother...
One can of course say that George Grosz described the first half of the 20th century in his caricatures and paintings in a highly revealing manner. But it's incredibly interesting to have him tell you the whole story. His autobiography "A Little Yes and a Big No" was first published in English in 1946 and in German in 1955 and is only available second-hand today. There are really fabulous stories in there.The most beautiful takes place in New York in...
