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  2. Meier (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Armin Meier (1943–1978), German actor; Armin Meier (1941–1999), Liechtenstein politician; Barbara Meier (born 1986), German model; Barbara Meier, Swiss curler; Bernd Meier (1972–2002), German football goalkeeper; Bernd Meier (1944–2005), German politician; Bertram Meier (born 1960), German Roman-Catholic bishop; Billy Meier (born 1937 ...

  3. Books in Germany - Wikipedia

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    Reinhard Wittmann [in German] (1991). Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels: ein Uberblick [History of the German Book Trade: an Overview] (in German). C.H. Beck. ISBN 3406354254. Jäger, Georg (2013-02-07). Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert [History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries] (in ...

  4. Heinrich Meier - Wikipedia

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    Meier was the editor of Strauss' collected works in German. [4] Meier's book Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem (2003) evaluates Strauss and his critics, with the aim of encouraging self-criticism among philosophers. [5] The book argues that Strauss' main concern was never politics, but the conflict between reason and revelation. [4]

  5. 1928 in literature - Wikipedia

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    All the characters in the book were presented as attractive people and put forward with admiration." [ 11 ] Other lesbian literature published in England this year evades prosecution: Elizabeth Bowen 's novel The Hotel , Virginia Woolf 's fictional Orlando: A Biography , and Compton MacKenzie 's satirical Extraordinary Women .

  6. Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out - Wikipedia

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    The book is subdivided into three chronologically organized subsections, which navigate the historical origins of German perceptions of Africa and blackness, the Brown Babies and accompanying social problems immediately following World War II in Germany, and finally anecdotes and narratives contextualized in lingering modern racism in Germany ...

  7. Kairos (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Kairos is a 2021 novel by German author Jenny Erpenbeck.It received Germany's Uwe Johnson Prize in 2022. [1] The English translation, by Michael Hofmann, published in the U.S. by New Directions and in the U.K. by Granta Books, was shortlisted for the U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2023 [2] and won the International Booker Prize in 2024.

  8. Lesley Chamberlain - Wikipedia

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    Lesley Chamberlain (born 26 September 1951, Rochford, Essex) is a British author who has written in a number of different genres — travel writing, food writing, Russian history, German history, fiction — after beginning as a journalist.

  9. Literature of East Germany - Wikipedia

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    The criticism of Georg Lukács greatly impacted the literature of the GDR. His theories served as a middle ground between the necessary creative independence of the author and the theory of socialist realism as it was functioning at that time in the Soviet Union, paving the way for an East German literature that was to be more independent and original than what was to be found in the soviet bloc.