Das Tagebuch (1880-1937), Band 4 (Das Tagebuch 1880-1937. Leinen-Ausgabe, Bd. ?): 1906-1914 - Hardcover

1880-1937

 
9783768198141: Das Tagebuch (1880-1937), Band 4 (Das Tagebuch 1880-1937. Leinen-Ausgabe, Bd. ?): 1906-1914

Synopsis

"Loud extreme tensions that developed a fluidum, a not unpleasant surveillance of nerves": Harry Graf Kessler's diary of Europe before the First World War between 1906 and 1914.

Graf Kessler resigns as head of the Grand Ducal Museum of Art in Weimar. He signs impressions and people on his travels between Paris, London, Berlin and Weimar and details a Greece trip with Hofmannsthal and Aristide Maillol. The plans for a gigantic Nietzsche monument in Weimar are discussed. Politics (such as the affair around the Berlin police chief of Jagow) and cultural life (so Diaghilews Ballets Russes) also play the prominent role in these records.

And already a fleeting overview of Kessler's encounters, which he portrays in this volume, awakens extreme curiosity. The reader encounters Sarah Bernhardt, Pierre Bonnard, Edward Gordon Craig, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Eleonore Duse, Maximilian Harden, Walther Rathenau, Max Reinhardt, Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, George Bernard Shaw, Richard Strauss, Carl Sternheim, Igor Strawinsky and others.

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