Habich, Matthias 1940-Overview
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Most widely held works by
Matthias Habich
Nirgendwo in Afrika Nowhere in Africa
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26 editions published between 2001 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 1,390 libraries worldwide Critically acclaimed, this is the award winning true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learns to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya.
Der Fangschuss
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13 editions published between 1976 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 314 libraries worldwide Set in Latvia in 1919 at the end of the Russian civil war, a Prussian soldier rejects the advances of an aristocratic woman. She retaliates by joining the Bolsheviks.
Coup de grace
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2 editions published between 1983 and 2006 in German and Multiple languages and held by 62 libraries worldwide Drama set in 1919 shortly following the conclusion of WWI. A German army unit has been sent to the Baltic to keep Communism at bay. Billeted to an estate, the daughter of the mansion falls in love with the commander, but is spurned by him.
Die Entführung aus dem Serail singspiel in three acts
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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3 editions published between 1991 and 2006 in German and No Linguistic content and held by 52 libraries worldwide Uitvoering van Mozart's opera over de pogingen van een Spaanse edelman zijn verloofde uit een Turkse harem te bevrijden.
Jahrestage
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6 editions published between 2000 and 2010 in German and held by 39 libraries worldwide The core to this novel is remembrance, and Jahrestage is a requiem for the victims of twentieth-century German history. Told in the form of recollections of Gesine Cresspahl of the history of her family from the Weimar Republic to the Prague Spring. She has fled as a single mother from the DDR to live in New York, while supporting "socialism with a human face" as forwarded by Dubček.
Der Fangschuss
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9 editions published between 1976 and 2009 in German and held by 23 libraries worldwide "The story is set in Latvia in 1919, at the height of the Soviet Civil War. Margarethe von Trotta plays an aristocrat sympathetic to the Communist cause. Besides her ruinous habit of falling love with men who do not love her, Margarethe's tragic flaw is her refusal to acknowledge the cost of the revolution in terms of human lives."--Allmovie.
Nowhere in Africa
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4 editions published between 2001 and 2004 in German and Finno-Ugrian and held by 23 libraries worldwide Summary: The true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learn to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya.
A corps perdu Straight to the heart
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1 edition published in 1993 in French and held by 23 libraries worldwide Pierre, a hardened photojournalist, returns from an assignment in Nicaragua to find himself suddenly cut loose from his happy, if unorthodox, domestic life. Flashbacks reveal the relationship to have been an erotically charged arrangement. He becomes obsessed with discovering why they abandoned him.
La demoiselle sauvage The savage woman
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1 edition published in 1993 in French and held by 23 libraries worldwide A bruised woman with blood on her hands is nursed back to health by an engineer, who discovers her horrible secret.
Jahrestage aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl
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1 edition published in 2004 in German and held by 19 libraries worldwide Tells the story of Gesine Cresspahl, who lives in New York as an emigrant from East Germany. Through the eyes of her eleven years old daughter and through articles and headlines from the NY Times we can follow the life in NY. Asked by her daughter, Gesine tells the story of her life beginning just before World War Two until 1967/1968. During the Kristalnacht, her mother kills herself. Her father spies for the British Army. After the war, the East German secret police (Stasi) put pressure on Gesine and her boyfriend to carry our certain orders they didn't want to. Eventually, she flees to West Germany and then to the US.
Die Rättin
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5 editions published between 1997 and 2009 in German and held by 12 libraries worldwide Then film creates a grandiose doomsday phantasy playing in the narrator's head, accompanied by sarcastic commentaries on the condition of the world of humans by his pet rat, and interspersed by a subplot involving Oskar Matzerath, the hero of the novel The Tin Drum, and his grandmother who reappear in the novel The Rat.
Der Passagier : Welcome to Germany
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2 editions published between 1987 and 1991 in German and held by 11 libraries worldwide
En algún lugar de Africa Nowhere in Africa
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1 edition published in 2003 in German and held by 11 libraries worldwide En los albores de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una familia de origen judío, los Redrich, logra escapar de la amenaza Nazi. Llegan a Africa, donde les espera otro tipo de vida, una vida llena de esperanzas y sueños, pero rodeada de pobreza y aislamiento. Sus raíces alemanas se convierten en cadenas que los ligan a un país en el que no podrían sobrevivir, pero en el cual han dejado todo lo conocido y amado. Mientras pasan los años, Kenia se convierte en su hogar, pero la esperanza de regresar a Alemania sigue presente, y los recuerdos de una mejor vida traerán nuevos conflictos a la ya estable existencia de los Redrich, en algún lugar de Africa.
Thomas Brasch Filme : Engel aus Eisen, Domino, Mercedes, Der Passagier
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1 edition published in 2010 in German and held by 10 libraries worldwide Thomas Brasch was a writer and translator, and also a filmmaker. In 1967/1968 he studied at the Academy of Film and Television in Babelsberg, but was expelled for distributing leaflets against the invasion of the Warsaw-Pact countries in Czechoslovakia and sentenced to prison. He left the GDR in 1976 with his sons. His sons later died, resulting him to emerge as a writer for the 1981 films Iron Angel, Domino, Mercedes (Brasch's 1985 eponymous piece adapted for the Dutch television) and The Passenger : Welcome to Germany, with Tony Curtis in the lead role. The 'Iron Angel' and 'The Passenger' were the only German competition entries invited to the film festival in Cannes.
Die Rättin frei nach Motiven aus dem gleichnamigen Roman von Günter Grass
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4 editions published between 1997 and 2011 in German and Undetermined and held by 8 libraries worldwide
Unkenrufe: Zeit der Versöhnung
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3 editions published in 2006 in German and held by 8 libraries worldwide A German art historian and a Polish restorer fall in love and are inspired to begin an idealistic business together, which they hope will help bridge the longstanding conflict between Germans and Poles. However, their venture becomes more and more commercial, while their original hope of international understanding is cast by the wayside.
Nowhere in Africa sometimes home is where you least expect it
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 8 libraries worldwide
Das Urteil
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3 editions published between 1998 and 2008 in German and held by 7 libraries worldwide A thriller about an old Jewish bookseller, the main witness to a murder, who arrives at the airport where he must wait for his plane. There, he's approached by a woman who offers him a ticket on first class and a red book in trade for his ticket. The book is one that he has desired for many years,so he accepts her offer. Waiting in the first class lounge, a stranger sitting across from him starts asking him questions about the murder, and seem to know more than he should about the murder.
Demofoonte ein Opernfragment = fragments of an opera
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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1 edition published in 2008 in Italian and held by 7 libraries worldwide
Lauter Lyrik - Goethe
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3 editions published in 2009 in German and held by 6 libraries worldwide more
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Drama Erotic films Ethnic relations Families Feature films Feature films Fiction films Fiction television programs Film adaptations Film and video adaptations Films for the hearing impaired Foreign films Germans Germany Germany (East) Grass, Günter,--1927- History Immigrants Jewish families Jewish refugees Jews Jews, German Jews--Persecutions Johnson, Uwe,--1934-1984 Kenya Latvia Love Man-woman relationships Motion pictures Motion pictures, German Operas Poland Television adaptations Television mini-series Thrillers (Motion pictures) United States Unkenrufe (Grass, Günter) Videodiscs Video recordings Video recordings for the hearing impaired War films War films War of Independence (Latvia : 1918-1920) World War (1939-1945) Yourcenar, Marguerite Zweig, Stefanie
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German
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Undetermined (24) French (15) English (4) No Linguistic content (2) Italian (2) Polish (2) Multiple languages (2) (1) Finno-Ugrian (1) Spanish (1) Miscellaneous languages (1) Covers
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