Brigitte Hamann

Biografie van Elisabeth (keizerin van Oostenrijk ; 1837-1898), echtgenote van keizer Franz Joseph.

The reluctant empress

Kaiserin wider Willen

Elisabeth

Lehrjahre eines Diktators

Hitlers Wien

Erzsébet királyné

La vie de cette impératrice, illustrée de reproductions de peintures et de photographies.

Impératrice Elisabeth d'Autriche

Traces the fame and adulation of one of the nineteenth century's most popular women, from her impoverished youth to her strange new life married to Emperor Franz Joseph

The Reluctant Empress

Brigitte Hamann unterscheidet anhand von sechs Begriffspaaren sechs zentrale Lebensmuster. Daraus gewinnt sie eine umfassende Typologie, mit der jeder Leser tiefe Einblicke in die Muster, Herausforderungen und Chancen seines Lebens gewinnen kann. Anhand von Fragebögen kann jeder seinen Typ bestimmen und präzise herausfinden, welche Erfahrungen und Motive sein Leben gestalten und wie er seine Talente sinnvoll einsetzen kann. Aus dieser Erkenntnis kann der Leser sein persönliches Problemlösungsmuster entwickeln und seiner wahren Bestimmung näher kommen.

Herausforderungen, Potenziale und Wege der 6 Persönlichkeitstypen

Reise zum Lebensziel

Was Sie wissen müssen um sich zu schützen und bei wirklich guter Gesundheit zu bleiben

Pandemie: Gefährdet eine Seuche die Welt?

Kämpferin für den Frieden

Bertha von Suttner

What turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to the critical, formative, years that the young Hitler spent in Vienna. As a failing, bitter, and desperately poor artist, Hitler experienced only the dark underbelly of Vienna, which was seething with fear, racial prejudice, anti-Semitism and conservatism. Drawing on previously untapped sources—from personal reminiscences to the records of shelters where Hitler slept—Hamann vividly recreates the dark side of fin de siècle Vienna and paints the fullest and most disturbing portrait of the young Hitler to date.

A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man

Hitler's Vienna

An exploration of the critical, formative years Adolf Hitler spent in Vienna, this study is both a cultural and political portrait of the city, and a biography of Hitler from 1906 to 1913. Photos and line illustrations.

A Dictator's Apprenticeship

Austrian writer and peace activist Bertha von Suttner was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. As founder of the Austrian and German Peace Associations and the author of a number of novels and several works on peace, von Suttner's name became synonymous worldwide with peace activism and protest against old world order. Ironically, her death eight days before the outbreak of World War I was seen by her contemporaries as a symbolic end of the possibility for world peace. In Bertha von Suttner, Brigitte Hamann has written the most comprehensive biography of the celebrated journalist - translated into English by Ann Dubsky - tracing not only von Suttner's life and work but spanning the political and social frontier of Austria on the eve of World War I. Von Suttner's novel Die Waffen Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!), published in 1899, was a bestseller and brought her international acclaim. Indeed, Tolstoy compared her technique of rallying readers to her cause to that of Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin for the emancipation of American slaves. Her lectures on peace and disarmament took her throughout Europe and the United States, where she formed close friendships with Andrew Carnegie, Alfred Nobel, Theodor Herzl, and Albert I of Monaco. As her conviction to initiate peace movements deepened, so her books became more impassioned. Her dictum, "universal sisterhood is necessary before the universal brotherhood is possible", demonstrated that her concerns extended beyond the peace movement to include women's issues and many social causes, making von Suttner's work quite relevant at the close of the twentieth century.

A Life for Peace

Bertha Von Suttner

Sissi

How an eighteen-year-old British orphan married into the Wagner family and became one of Hitler's closest confidants

A Life at the Heart of Hitler's Bayreuth

Winifred Wagner

Andere mögen Kriege führen, du, glückliches Österreich, heirate...: Reserl war leider ein Mädchen und damit kein Kaisernachfolger. Wie aus der Prinzessin Therese die grosse Kaiserin Maria Theresia wurde, wie sie ihrem Reich den Frieden bereitete, das beschreibt die bekannte Historikerin. Anhand geschichtlich verbürgter Tatsachen erzählt sie detailliert und anschaulich bis in die Alltäglichkeiten des Lebens am Wiener Hof. Kaiser Karl VI. hatte seiner Tochter mit dem Gesetz der 'Pragmatischen Sanktion' den Weg bereitet. Für Maria Theresia, Franz Stephan und ihre sechzehn Kinder kam vieles anders. Das Buch hört sich an wie ein Kindermärchen. Und die lustigen Zeichnungen von Rettich geben einen Eindruck jener Zeit mit den gepuderten Perücken. Ab 7 Jahren, ausgezeichnet, Ruedi W. Schweizer.

das Leben der Kaiserin Maria Theresia

Ein Herz und viele Kronen

das Leben des Armenarztes Eduard Bloch

Hitlers Edeljude

Wahrheit und Lüge in Bildern und Texten

Der Erste Weltkrieg

Sposa a diciassette anni di Francesco Giuseppe, Elisabetta di Wittelsbach («Sissi») abbandonò le foreste della Baviera per il mondo dorato e soffocante della corte di Vienna. Coraggiosa e fragile, malinconica ed eccentrica, Sissi non volle accettare nessuno dei ruoli che la tradizione e l'ambiente le assegnavano. L'intera sua vita, interrotta nel 1898 dal pugnale di un anarchico, fu un tentativo di sottrarsi al destino di «gabbiano prigioniero del castello», una fuga continua dai rituali e dal formalismo della vita di palazzo. Desiderando essere qualcosa di più della consorte di un imperatore, di affermare in ogni modo la propria individualità, Sissi fece di sé una donna speciale. Amazzone provetta, eccelse nei tornei di caccia; poetessa dilettante lasciò oltre cinquecento pagine di versi; giovane splendida, riuscì a trasformare la propria bellezza in un mito ineguagliabile. Nell'appassionata biografia della Hamann, che ha dedicato a Sissi anche un volume fotografico, rivive una donna di sensibilità e intelligenza straordinarie, una sovrana anomala e sognatrice, condannata a un destino di infelicità. Brigitte Hamann (Essen, 1940 - Vienna 2016) ha pubblicato numerose opere storiografiche sull'impero asburgico.

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