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    novelist Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German novelist Erika Mann (1905–1969), German actress and writer Klaus Mann (1906–1949), German novelist Golo Mann (1909–1994)...
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    the times as well as the downfall of the Weimar Republic. From 1927 until 1931, Kästner lived at Prager Straße 17 (today near no. 12) in Berlin–Wilmersdorf...
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    Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Maria Luise Augusta Catherina; 30 September 1811 – 7 January 1890), was Queen of Prussia and the first German Empress...
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    German citizenship was revoked. According to Istvan Deak, Tucholsky was Weimar Germany's most controversial political and cultural commentator. He published...
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  • works. Numerous artist portraits, for example, those of Helene Weigel, Thomas Mann and Hanns Eisler, were created during this time. At the end of the 1950s...
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    and he declined a tempting offer from the Grand Duke Carl Alexander von Weimar which would have involved moving to Thuringia. On 30 September 1862, his...
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    elderly people." Hitler's admiration for May led the German writer Klaus Mann to accuse May of having been a form of "mentor" for Hitler. In his admiration...
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    2011 FaustIn and out (2011). Premiered at Schauspielhaus Zürich, 2012. Die Straße. Die Stadt. Der Überfall (2012). Premiered at Munich Kammerspiele, 2012...
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    "Vicki-Baum-Platz" (in German). Vienna History Wiki. Retrieved 2022-11-30. "Vicki-Baum-Straße" (in German). KAUPERTS. Retrieved 2022-11-30. Vicki Baum at IMDb Vicki Baum...
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    some artists affected were Käthe Kollwitz, Heinrich Mann, Ricarda Huch, Alfred Döblin, Thomas Mann, Max Liebermann, Alfons Paquet, Franz Werfel and Jakob...
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    June 1914, using Continental-Kunstfilm's new studios at 9 Franz Joseph-Strasse, Weissensee Studios, for the filming. When the First World War broke out...
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    neighboring University, not the State library itself – including works by Thomas Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx and many others. Today...
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    In this series, he aims to show a cross-section of society during the Weimar Republic. Sander was born on 17 November 1876, in Herdorf, the son of a...
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    for various children's books and, notably, for an early edition of Thomas Mann's vast four-part novel, Joseph and His Brothers. Relief on the outer wall...
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    been previous plans for controlled-access highways in Germany under the Weimar Republic, and two had been constructed, but work had yet to start on long-distance...
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    ISBN 978-3-770-05271-4. 88 "writers", from Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900–1949, Volume 12 of Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, University of California...
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    grandmother of Katharina "Katia" Pringsheim (1883–1980), the wife of Thomas Mann, and of the musician Klaus Pringsheim Sr. (1883–1972). By another daughter...
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    given as 23:30) on 9 November, Harald Jäger, commander of the Bornholmer Straße border crossing, yielded, allowing guards to open the checkpoints and letting...
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    Mattheson in 1703, and Bach in 1705. Writer and Nobel laureate Thomas Mann was a member of the Mann family of Lübeck merchants. His well-known 1901 novel Buddenbrooks...
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    from 1924 to 1933. Part of this street was renamed Else-Lasker-Schüler-Straße in 1996. In Elberfeld in Wuppertal there is now a school named after her...
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  • Radványi and his family moved to Volkswohlstraße 81 (later Anna-Seghers-Straße), in East Berlin. On 3 July 1978 he died and was buried in the Dorotheenstadt...
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  • Decla and Decla-Bioscop produced some of the most well-known films of the Weimar era, including Homunculus, Die Pest in Florenz, The Spiders, The Cabinet...
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    November, she moved into his room on the third floor of 62 Große Frankfurter Straße (today Karl-Marx-Allee), which he sublet from 29-year-old Elisabeth Salm...
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    the reign of Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria. This includes Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ludwig Thoma...
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  • Die Welt. Welt. 21 August 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2018. "Auf offener Straße: Ein Toter bei Schießerei in Frankfurt". FAZ.NET (in German). 10 November...
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  • Cinema of Germany Lists of German films 1895–1918 German Empire 1919–1932 Weimar Germany 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931...
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    Günter Kunert (category Heinrich Mann Prize winners)
    Ortsangaben. Kurzprosa. Aufbau-Verlag 1970. Alltägliche Geschichte einer Berliner Straße. Aufgeschrieben und gezeichnet von Günter Kunert. illustrated story. Carl...
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    1933, the Gestapo moved into their Berlin headquarters at Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8. As a result of its 1936 merger with the Kripo (National criminal police)...
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    Ulrich Graf Brockdorff-Rantzau, became the first Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic. Kabrun's daughters, Cäcilie von Brockdorff and her sister Cornelia...
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    the novels of Norbert Jacques, by Fritz Lang. The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann), 1924 – the aging doorman at a Berlin hotel is demoted to washroom attendant...
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