[PDF] The Child Manuela The Novel Of Madchen In Uniform eBook

Author : Christa Winsloe
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9781853817458

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On the death of her mother, Manuela von Meinhardis is sent to a repressive school where affection and all weaker emotions are outlawed. In this regime only Fraulein von Bernburg offers tenderness and love, and for that both she and Manuela must suffer.

Author : Christa Winsloe
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Fiction
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A novel from which the play "Children in uniform" and the film "Mädchen in uniform" were adapted.

Author : Christa Winsloe
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2024-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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The Child Manuela (Das Mädchen Manuela) Manuela was a longed-for child, a child beloved in advance. Manuela ought to be born. Manuela ought to be a girl. Before she was born, a house was ready. A father who was already becoming impatient. A mother—deeply familiar with this child—even before she held her in her arms. Two brothers were certain comrades. A little patronising, but proud of her—now that she was really here. Manuela had to be born on Sunday—it also had to be Christmas. When the two brothers returned home from the Children’s Christmas Theatre, she was in the cradle. She had arrived like a Christmas present. The two brothers were not surprised. They had just seen the Christ Child lying in the cradle in the stable of Bethlehem. So that five-year-old Bertram said to ten-year-old Alfred in a confusion of thoughts, “Let’s carry her into the stable; this will be fun for her.” Only the objection that there were neither cows nor a donkey in the stable, but only horses—which did not exist in Bethlehem—made him abandon the plan.

Author : Barbara Mennel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1839024186

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Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that showcases women's agency and desire behind and in front of the camera. Adapted from Christa Winsloe's lesbian play, the story follows Manuela, an orphan in a boarding school for impoverished Prussian nobility. When she declares her love with her female teacher, the oppressive principal punishes her, leading to a desperate suicide attempt. Barbara Mennel's compelling study firmly establishes Mädchen in the Weimar cinema canon. Mennel contextualises the film in 1920s theories of sexuality and the conventions of modernist cinema. She contrasts its international success to the extensive censorship battles that surrounded it. The film's unique transnational and fragmented history results from the exile of many of its makers during the Nazi regime. By attending to the many remakes throughout the 20th and 21st century, Mennel underscores the film's timeless impact that continues to resonate with contemporary audiences.

Author : R. McCormick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 2002-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230107516

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Richard McCormick takes a fresh look at the crisis of gender in Weimar Germany through the analysis of selected cultural texts, both literary and film, characterized under the label 'New Objectivity'. The 'New Objectivity' was characterized by a sober and unsentimental embrace of urban modernity, in contract to Expressionism's horror of technology and belief in 'auratic' art. This movement was profoundly gendered - the epitome of the 'New Objectivity' was the 'New Woman' - working, sexually emancipated, and unsentimental. The book traces the crisis of gender identities, both male and female, and reveals how a variety of narratives of the time displaced an assortment of social anxieties onto sexual relations.

Author : Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0691191344

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An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel. He explores the connections among film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer makes a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. With a critical introduction by Leonardo Quaresima which provides context for Kracauer’s scholarship and his contributions to film studies, this Princeton Classics edition makes an influential work available to new generations of cinema enthusiasts.