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November 2025Farm der Tiere
Ein Märchen | Sie wollten Freiheit. Sie bekommen Unterdrückung | Der Klassiker über Macht, Manipulation und Moral neu übersetzt von Eike Schönfeld
by George Orwell, Eike Schönfeld
Eine Farm. Eine Revolution. Ein Traum von Freiheit, der in Diktatur umschlägt. Die Tiere auf der Farm des Säufers Mr Jones werden vernachlässigt, ausgebeutet und misshandelt – bis sie eines Tages beschließen zu rebellieren. Die Intelligentesten unter ihnen, die Schweine, führen den Aufstand an, vertreiben den menschlichen Peiniger und stellen neue Regeln für das Zusammenleben auf: Alle Tiere sind gleich! Ein glückliches Leben scheint bevorzustehen, doch allmählich bilden sich neue Machtstrukturen heraus … und aus ehemals Unterdrückten werden neue Gewaltherrscher. George Orwells dystopischer Roman von 1954 ist erschreckend aktuell – und dabei in zeitgemäßer Neuübersetzung so zugänglich wie nie. In einer Welt voller Fake News, Filterblasen und Führungsversagen hält Orwell uns den Spiegel vor. Ein Kompass für kritisches Denken mit Witz, Biss und bedrückender Klarheit.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019The war that won't die
The Spanish Civil War in cinema
by David Archibald
The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miró - rallied to support the country's democratically-elected Republican government. The arts have played an important role in shaping popular understandings of the Spanish Civil War and this book examines the specific role cinema has played in this process. The book's focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Film, Media and Hispanic Studies, but also to historians and, indeed, anyone interested in why the Spanish Civil War remains such a contested political topic.
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The ArtsJune 2021The war that won't die
The Spanish Civil War in cinema
by David Archibald
The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miró - rallied to support the country's democratically-elected Republican government. The arts have played an important role in shaping popular understandings of the Spanish Civil War and this book examines the specific role cinema has played in this process. The book's focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Film, Media and Hispanic Studies, but also to historians and, indeed, anyone interested in why the Spanish Civil War remains such a contested political topic.
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June 2014Nie wieder!
Die schlimmsten Reisen der Welt
by Herausgegeben von Enzensberger, Hans Magnus; Übersetzt von Fienbork, Matthias; Beiträge von Orwell, George; Beiträge von Woodcock, George; Beiträge von Brinkmann, Rolf Dieter; Beiträge von Roth, Joseph; Beiträge von Sarduy, Severo; Beiträge von Döblin, Alfred; Beiträge von Manguel, Alberto; Beiträge von O'Rourke, P. J.; Beiträge von O'Flaherty, Liam; Beiträge von Findley, Timothy; Beiträge von Jerofejev, Venedikt; Beiträge von Kapuściński, Ryszard; Beiträge von Stevens, Stuart; Beiträge von Barry, Dave; Beiträge von Fenton, James; Beiträge von Geldof, Bob; Beiträge von Lewis, Norman; Beiträge von Marnham, Patrick; Beiträge von Bouvier, Nicolas; Beiträge von Naipaul, V. S.; Beiträge von Byron, Robert; Beiträge von Newby, Eric; Beiträge von Raban, Jonathan; Beiträge von Nizan, Paul; Beiträge von Ryle, John; Beiträge von Waugh, Evelyn; Beiträge von Saviane, Sergio; Beiträge von Chatwin, Bruce; Beiträge von Theroux, Paul; Beiträge von Winchester, Simon
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July 2006Shaw für Boshafte
by George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Kluge, Thomas Kluge
Für Liebhaber des boshaften Humors: George Bernard Shaw. »Die Beziehung des Vorgesetzten zum Untergebenen schließt gute Manieren aus.«
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September 1986»Seien Sie nicht zu undankbar, mir zu antworten«. Bernard Shaw – Lord Alfred Douglas. Briefwechsel
by George Bernard Shaw, Lord Alfred Douglas, Mary Hyde, Ursula Michels-Wenz
George Bernard Shaw wurde am 26. Juli 1856 als Sohn eines Beamten in Dublin geboren. 1876 zog er nach London, wo er sich als einer der führenden Musik- und Theaterkritiker etablieren konnte. Shaw betätigte sich auch auf politischer Bühne und wurde u.a. Mitglied der Fabian Society. Seine schriftstellerische Laufbahn begann er mit fünf erfolglosen Romanen, wandte sich dann dem Schreiben von Dramen – darunter vielen Komödien – zu, die sich durch die Verbindung von Ironie, Satire und Kritik an gesellschaftlichen und politischen Mißständen auszeichnen. Shaws Gesamtwerk umfaßt über 60 Dramen. 1925 wurde er mit dem Literaturnobelpreis ausgezeichnet. Er starb am 2. November 1950 in Ayot Saint Lawrence.
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September 2000Lektüre für Minuten
Gedanken aus seinem Werk
by George Bernard Shaw, Ursula Michels-Wenz
"Die Auswahl »Lektüre für Minuten« vermittelt in konzentrierter Form sie die Gedankenwelt des Werks Bernard Shaws und beleuchtet dieses, ganz im Sinne des Autors, aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven in Kapiteln über Tugend und Laster; über das Glück; Angst und Tod; Mann und Frau, Eltern und Kinder etc. Besonders dem mit Shaw noch nicht vertrauten Leser kann die thematische Aufteilung Zugang zur Vielschichtigkeit seiner Thesen und Verständnis des ebenso beliebten wie umstrittenen Moralisten, der politische und menschliche Kraftfelder mit Scharfsinn und Humor analysiert, wesentlich erleichtern."
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2026Massacres in Early Modern Drama
by Georgina Lucas
Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage. Informed by theories drawn from massacre studies, the monograph challenges orthodoxies about senseless violence, illuminates archaic forms of massacres, and attests to their brutally diverse stage representations. Anchored by the contention that the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris (1572) was instrumental to early modern understandings of massacre, the book uses this atrocity, and its most famous dramatic depiction - Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris - as a hook to explore larger concerns about massacre in plays by Robert Greene, George Chapman, John Fletcher, and William Shakespeare. Thus, Massacres in Early Modern Drama considers how early modern drama forms part of a continual cultural process of trying to piece together the contentious and traumatic phenomenon of massacre.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceMay 2025US diplomacy and the Good Friday Agreement in post-conflict Northern Ireland
by Richard Hargy
Richard Haass and Mitchell Reiss, as autonomous diplomats in the George W. Bush State Department, were able to alter US intervention in Northern Ireland and play critical roles in the post-1998 peace process. Their contributions have not been fully appreciated or understood. The restoration of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government in 2007 was made possible by State Department-led intervention in the peace process. There are few references to Northern Ireland in work examining the foreign policy legacy of the George W. Bush presidency. Moreover, the ability to control US foreign policy towards the region brought one of George W. Bush's Northern Ireland special envoys into direct diplomatic conflict with the most senior actors inside the British government. This book will uncover the extent of this fall-out and provide original accounts on how diplomatic relations between these old allies became so fraught.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2018David and Bathsheba
By George Peele
by Mathew R. Martin, David Bevington
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Peele's powerful and disturbing drama.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2022David and Bathsheba
George Peele
by Mathew R. Martin
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Peele's powerful and disturbing drama.
