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Adam Freudenheim, Ruth Martin, Volker Weidermann (Beteiligte)

Dreamers


When the Writers Took Power, Germany 1919
Herausgegeben von Freudenheim, Adam; Übersetzung: Martin, Ruth
1st ed. 2018. 256 S. 21.6 cm
Verlag/Jahr: PUSHKIN PRESS 2018
ISBN: 1-78227-504-5 (1782275045)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-78227-504-6 (9781782275046)

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History that reads like a novel: the story of the writers and intellectuals behind the failed Bavarian Revolution of 1918, by the author of the acclaimed Summer Before the Dark.
At the end of the First World War in Germany, the journalist and theatre critic Kurt Eisner organised a revolution which overthrew the monarchy, and declared a Free State of Bavaria. In February 1919, he was assassinated, and the revolution failed. But while the dream lived, it was the writers, the poets, the playwrights and the intellectuals who led the way. As well as Eisner, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, and many other prominent figures in German cultural history were involved. In his characteristically lucid, sharp prose, Volker Weidermann presents us with a slice of history - November 1918 to April 1919 - and shows how a small group of people could have altered the course of the twentieth century.