Sontag

Hoffnungen, Wünsche und Erwartungen, Höhen und Tiefen - das sind 130 Jahre Hertha BSC. Seit langer Zeit spielt der Verein so Fußball, wie das Leben funktioniert: mit Auf- und Abstiegen, mit Siegen und Niederlagen, mit Frustrationen und Festen... ehrlich und bodenständig, abgehoben und wahnsinnig. - Aber dieses Buch ist keine Vereinschronik oder Festschrift zum 130. Geburtstag. Vielmehr erinnert sich der Autor mit leichter Feder einfach an besondere Momente im Vereinsleben, an Spiele und Ereignisse, an Dramen und Komödien, an große und an kleine Namen - und erzählt, wie sich die Fans den Verein zurückgeholt haben. Dies alles mit viel Liebe und Leidenschaft... so, wie es sich für einen echten Herthaner gehört.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age <BR><BR>Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch museums. Soon, he found himself unearthing the strange, inspiring and sometimes terrifying stories of the artists who shaped one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity, the Dutch Golden Age.<BR><BR>As he explored the hidden world of the Dutch Masters (and one Mistress), Moser met a crowd of fascinating personalities: the stormy Rembrandt, the intimate Ter Borch, the mysterious Vermeer. Through their art, he got to know their country, too: from Pieter Saenredam's translucent churches to Paulus Potter's muddy barnyards, and from Pieter de Hooch's cozy hearths to Jacob van Ruisdael's tragic trees. Over the years, Moser found himself on increasingly intimate terms with these centuries-dead artists, and found that they, too, were struggling with the same questions he was. Why do we make art? What is art, anyway - and what is an artist? What does it mean to succeed as an artist, and what does it mean to fail?<BR><BR>The Upside-Down World is an invitation to ask these questions, and to turn them on their heads: to look, and then to look again. It is a brilliant, colourful and learned book for anyone, whether lifelong scholar or curious tourist, who has ever felt the lure of the Dutch galleries. It shows us art, and artists, as we have never seen them before.

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzer-Preis als beste BiografieSusan Sontags glamouröse Erscheinung ist so legendär wie ihr schneidender Verstand. Das Themenspektrum, das sie in ihrem beeindruckenden literarischen Werk bearbeitete, reicht von postabstrakter Malerei über Pornografie und Existenzialismus bis hin zu Krebs und Kriegsfotografie. Für seine monumentale Biografie dieser Literaturikone des 20. Jahrhunderts konnte Benjamin Moser zahlreiche private Aufzeichnungen auswerten und erstmals Lebensgefährten wie Annie Leibovitz befragen. Sein tiefgründiges, intimes Porträt vermisst das Leben und den geistigen Kosmos dieser Intellektuellen, die wohl ebenso sehr bewundert wie gehasst wurde und für die ihre Freundin Jamaica Kincaid einmal die Worte fand: 'Sie war großartig. Ich glaube, seit ich Susan kenne, möchte ich nicht mehr großartig sein.' Mit einem 32-seitigem Bildteil.Ausstattung: mit insgesamt 32-seitigem Bildteil

17 nationale Titel und der Gewinn des Korä-Cup sprechen eine klare Sprache: Alba Berlin ist das Powerhouse im deutschen Basketball.Der Berliner Basketball-Bundesligist Alba Berlin hat eine kurze, aber bewegte Historie. Zwischen 1997 und 2004 dominierte er den deutschen Basketball mit sieben Meisterschaften in Folge und konnte auch auf internationalem Parkett stets für Furore sorgen. Insgesamt 18 Titel stehen für Alba Berlin zu Buche.Dem Autor Benjamin Moser geht es in seinem Buch weniger um Daten und Fakten, sondern eher um die Menschen, die diese Titel gewonnen haben, und deren Geschichten. Von Alba-Legenden wie Wendell Alexis oder Henrik Rödl, die sich in Berlin unsterblich machten. Oder von einem Manager, der Alba Berlin aus dem Nichts zur internationalen Marke aufbaute.Es ist eine Berliner Erfolgsgeschichte, ein Mythos, dem im vereinten Berlin Flügel gewachsen sind und der wie wohl kein anderer Verein ganz Berlin repräsentiert.EINIGE GRÜNDEWeil Alba Berlin 1995 den Korä-Cup gewonnen hat. Weil Alba Berlin »NBA-Sieger-Besieger« ist. Weil Alba Berlin sieben Deutsche Meisterschaften in Folge gewann. Weil Svetislav Pe¿i¿ mit Alba Berlin sieben Titel holte. Weil Patrick Femerling Rekordnationalspieler ist. Weil Hallensprecher Tom Böttcher über den Anschreibetisch sprang. Weil Alba Berlin aus Charlottenburg kommt. Weil Wendell Alexis viermal MVP der BBL wurde. Weil Henning Harnisch neunmal in Folge Deutscher Meister wurde. Weil Marco Baldi seit 28 Jahren (1990) Geschäftsführer bei Alba Berlin ist. Weil Alba Berlin eine Fanfreundschaft mit Rasta Vechta hat. Weil Siege gegen Brose Bamberg die schönsten sind. Weil Alba Berlin beim »Finale dahoam« der Spielverderber war. Weil Alba Berlin in München eine Filiale eröffnet hat. Weil Alba Berlin seit Gründung jedes Jahr in den Playoffs war.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by: OMagazine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, SeattleTimesThe definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private faceNo writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of money—and when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated—and undermined—her writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own. Utilizing hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to Sarajevo—and featuring nearly one hundred images—Sontag is the first book based on the writer’s restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz. It is a definitive portrait—a great American novel in the form of a biography.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by: OMagazine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, SeattleTimesThe definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private faceNo writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of money—and when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated—and undermined—her writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own. Utilizing hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to Sarajevo—and featuring nearly one hundred images—Sontag is the first book based on the writer’s restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz. It is a definitive portrait—a great American novel in the form of a biography.

WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY<BR><BR>Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES <BR><BR>'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry <BR><BR>'There can be no doubting the brilliance - the sheer explanatory vigour - of Moser's biography... a triumph of the virtues of seriousness and truth-telling that Susan Sontag espoused' New Stateman <BR><BR>The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face <BR><BR>Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - and the dangers - of the twentieth-century world.<BR><BR>Her writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, Fascism and Freudianism, Communism and Americanism, reflected the conflicted meanings of a most conflicted word: modernity. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began and the Berlin Wall came down, in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based, exploring the private woman hidden behind the formidable public face.<BR><BR>Drawing on hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from Manhattan to Sarajevo - and featuring nearly one hundred images, many never seen before - Sontag is the first book based on the writer's restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about her, including Annie Leibovitz. It is an indelible portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers, who lived one of that century's most romantic - and most anguished - lives.