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Thema: Christopher Isherwood

Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood
(* 26. August 1904 in High Lane, Cheshire, England; ? 4. Januar 1986 in Santa Monica, Kalifornien) war ein britisch-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

Bekannt wurde er durch seine Berlin Stories, die Grundlage des Filmmusicals Cabaret wurden; seine Romane sind stark autobiografisch geprägt und beschreiben detailliert schwules Leben, insbesondere im Berlin der Zwischenkriegszeit. Im Alter war er einer der ersten literarischen Exponenten der Lesben- und Schwulenbewegung.

Artikel zu Christopher Isherwood auf Wikipedia

John Evans (ed.): Journeying Boy

The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938. UK 2009, 576 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Britten documented his childhood and adolescence in a daily journal he kept for a decade. From his arrival as a boarder at Gresham's School and his private lessons in London with Frank Bridge, to his student days at the Royal College of Music and apprenticeship in London, we trace the progress of a journeying boy. The 1930s brought successful collaborations ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Spender: Selected Poems

UK 2009, 121 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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A new selection and retrospect of the career of Stephen Spender, as poet and translator, to mark the 2009 centenary of his birth. Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, born in London, was educated at University College, Oxford, where he met, among others, W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, writing powerfully of the confusion and alarm of 1930s Europe. He ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: The Berlin Stories

USA 2008, 408 pp., pb., € 24.95
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First published in the 1930s, »The Berlin Stories« contains two astonishing related novels, »Mr. Norris Changes Trains« and »Goodbye to Berlin«, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs ... Weiterlesen

Andrea Weiss: In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain

The Erika and Klaus Mann Story. USA 2008, 302 pp., hardbound, € 21.79
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Thomas Mann's two eldest children, Erika and Klaus, were empowered by their close bond, they espoused vehemently anti-Nazi views in a Europe swept by fascism and were openly, even defiantly, gay in an age of secrecy and repression. Although their father's fame has unfairly overshadowed their legacy, Erika and Klaus were serious authors, and political visionaries. Their views earned them ... Weiterlesen

Peter Parker: Isherwood

UK 2005, 914 pp., brochure, € 25.99
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English novelist and diarist Isherwood is not heavily read these days, but his books remain in print, and the press will make an occasional reference to his most famous book, »Berlin Stories«, upon which »Cabaret« was based. One may hope that the appearance of this biography will spur more readers to turn to Isherwood's beautifully precise novels of English manners ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: My Guru and His Disciple

USA 2001, 340 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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University of Minnesota Press

»My Guru and His Disciple« is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood's own life. Sexual sprees, all-night drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: Lions and Shadows

USA 2000, 313 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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In 1938 the legendary Hogarth Press published the first of Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical writings, »Lions and Shadows«. In this book, Isherwood evokes the atmosphere of Cambridge as only he knew it, describing his life as a tutor, medical student, and struggling writer. The result is a captivating account of a young novelist's development in the burgeoning literary culture of the ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: The World in the Evening

USA 1999, 302 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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University of Minnesota Press

Against the backdrop of World War II, »The World in the Evening« charts the emotional development of Stephen Monk, an aimless Englishman living in California. After his second marriage suddenly ends, Stephen finds himself living with a relative in a small Pennsylvania Quaker town, haunted by memories of his pre-war gay affair with a younger man during a visit to ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin

UK 1998, 252 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage

»I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking«, are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation of the decadence and repression, glamour and sleaze of Berlin ... Weiterlesen

Abel Korzeniowski, Shigeru Umebayashi: A Single Man OST

CD mit 17 Tracks, € 19.99
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Der polnische Komponist Abel Korzenioski erntete für seine Filmmusik zu »A Single Man« eine Nominierung für den Golden Globe. Als wäre Michael Nymans von Streichern dominierter Klassizismus mit der minimalistischen Musik von Philip Glass eine beachtenswerte Fusion eingegangen, haben wir es beim Soundtrack zu Tom Fords Film mit sehr schönen, warmen, einladenden Melodien zu tun. Die Geigenarrangements - verstärkt durch ... Weiterlesen