Best Waldemar Kramer products in the Non-fiction category
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1. Hesse scandals
Scandal research has recently been booming in innovative research fields such as media studies and cultural studies. The main attention is not paid to the supposedly "scandalous" events, but to the question of how the scandal is produced and to the society that makes these scandals possible. Social and media history research approaches offer a completely new view of the past and thus also of archival sources. What do archival records say about secrets, moral codes, norm violations, and scandals? What reality does archival material depict? Such fundamental questions about archival sources arise quite consistently from these research approaches. The interdisciplinary conference will thus also explore the limits of depicting social-cultural realities and at the same time offer new perspectives for approaching history. Looking at scandals, their generation and their channels of communication opens up new perspectives on history and the sources with which it can be (re)constructed again and again.
2. Art belongs to everyone
Museum founder Reinhard Ernst in conversation with Peter Lückemeier and Stefan Schröder.
3. Italian Opera in Homburg
Italian opera was performed on all the world's great stages in the 19th century, despite the growing influence of French opera.
By a stroke of luck, the French casino founders François and Louis Blanc came to Homburg in 1841 and invested there in 1863 in the construction of a new Kurhaus with a spacious theatre hall and in the town's infrastructure.
Their plan to make the small residential town the preferred destination of a wealthy society from all over Europe through both the casino and an attractive opera company was a success.
From 1864 to 1872, an extensive, internationally acclaimed opera programme with famous stars such as Adelina Patti or Roberto Stagno was offered every summer for two to three months.
Many press reports, especially from the Milan Trovatore, sparkle with enthusiasm and convey a vivid picture of this glorious era of Homburg.
4. The Battenbergs
In the beginning there was an unseemly love marriage. And today their descendants sit on European royal thrones, the Battenbergs - also known as Mountbattens - whose ancestral seat is in Seeheim-Jugenheim on the Bergstrasse, were and are related to just about every European royal house of the 19th and 20th centuries. Indeed, the tsars Alexander II and Nicholas II sought out Heiligenberg Castle as a summer retreat until 1910; their world empire was ruled from there during that time. In this book, 13 historians from Germany, England and Bulgaria trace the surprising success story of this family. A detailed family tree, numerous historical illustrations and current photographs of the ancestral seat make the accounts additionally vivid.
Non-fiction
EUR26,90
The Battenbergs
German, Rainer von Hessen, Joachim Horn, Hans Sarkowicz, Alexander Jehn, 2024
5. The city of the railway becomes the European Quarter
In our time, change is a constant companion. Fading images, perhaps nostalgically transfigured in retrospect, often create melancholy. Who in the Europaviertel in Frankfurt am Main can still remember the railway repair works, depot, goods and marshalling yard? We are setting up a monument to this railway town, highlighting its transformation and historical roots. The area of the trade fair centre, which can be called the trade fair district, is viewed in a similar way: An exciting ensemble designed by various outstanding architects, but known to only a few people apart from visitors to the fair. The book deals with the planning and building history and its results. The interplay of changing framework conditions and many actors with different interests is made clear above all by an interview with contemporary witnesses. Pictures by photographer Eibe Sönnecken show the state of the Europaviertel in the years 2021 and 2022 and round off the view, as do the fundamental recommendations for future urban development projects at the end.
Non-fiction
EUR49,90
The city of the railway becomes the European Quarter
German, Martin Wentz, Elmar Schütz, by Dieter Lüpke, Peter Kerwien, Georg Speck, 2023
6. Hesse
What makes Hessen so unique? Our team of authors set out to find out. As journalists, they researched, read, listened and looked - on site. Their findings are therefore personally coloured, and the joy of discovery always resonates. The result is a portrait of a federal state that is constantly being shaken up and stimulated by new impulses like no other. Because no-one in Central Europe has ever been able to avoid Hessen. This was true for the legions of the Romans as well as for Huguenots, displaced persons from the German East or refugees from Syria and Ukraine. They all brought new and unfamiliar things with them. In Hessen, people have learned to deal with contrasts, to channel them and make them fruitful. This has resulted in unique successes in business and science, but above all a high level of tolerance towards those who think differently. Diversity is part of the DNA here.
7. Hesse in the 20th century
A political history.
8. Hesse in the Weimar Republic
Hardly any period of German history seems to be as well researched today as the 14 years of Germany's first democracy, which was destroyed by the National Socialist dictatorship in 1933. And yet this period was long seen as the interwar period, the aftermath of the Kaiserreich and the prehistory to the dictatorship, even as the stillborn child of the revolution. In contrast, the Weimar Republic is now seen as an independent era with development potential and its own successes, which above all managed to survive its turbulent early years. Focusing on the conflicts of the Reich, the presentation of the history of its individual states has long been neglected, but is now increasingly becoming a subject of consideration. This book on the history of Hesse in the Weimar Republic takes a look at an area that existed as a political entity only after 1945 in the present borders, but was also characterized before that by historical, ideational and institutional entanglements. The political history of Hesse in the years 1919 to 1933 is presented with reference to economic, social and societal developments insofar as they make this policy understandable.
9. An optimistic world?
The 19th century was an extremely diverse epoch in its cultural, scientific and political upheavals. The rapid social developments that began here continue to have an impact today - the nation state, the belief in progress, but also the artistic awakenings of this time provide impulses for global developments right up to the present day, in which the Bergstrasse region also participates. Heiligenberg Castle near Seeheim-Jugenheim was the setting for a first colloquium in October 2018, which dealt with the said castle as a meeting place of the Battenbergs with the international high nobility and European politics in the 19th century. The second colloquium in March 2020 will now turn to the developments mentioned, which are still effective today, in order to gain an understanding of the historical transformation processes of the 19th century, also with regard to the Bergstrasse region, and to reflect on current developments based on this. The volume edited by Dr. Joachim Horn and Jürgen Kerwer contains contributions by Prof. Dr. Birgit Aschmann on "The 19th Century - Breakthrough of Modernity?", Prof. Dr. Hermann Schäfer on "From the Poorhouse to the Threshold of Industrialization", Prof. Dr. Volkhard Huth on "The Heiligenberg and Europe " and "Aesculapius on the Magic Mountain - the sanatorium of Rudolf Laudenheimer and his illustrious guests" as well as by Prof. Frank Oppermann "On villa architecture in the 19th century and its influence on architecture in the region".
