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Time to Let Go is a contemporary family drama set in Britain.
Following a traumatic incident at work Stewardess Hanna Korhonen
decides to take time off work and leaves her home in London to
spend quality time with her elderly parents in rural England. There
she finds that neither can she run away from her problems, nor does
her family provide the easy getaway place that she has hoped for.
Her mother suffers from Alzheimers' disease and, while being
confronted with the consequences of her issues at work, she and her
entire family are forced to reassess their lives. The book takes a
close look at family dynamics and at human nature in a time of a
crisis. Their challenges, individual and shared, take the Korhonens
on a journey of self-discovery and redemption.
In the sleepy town of Bratislava in 1933 a romantic girl falls for
a bookseller from Berlin. Greta Weissensteiner, daughter of a
Jewish weaver, slowly settles in with the Winkelmeier clan just as
the developments in Germany start to make waves in Europe. The
political climate in the multifaceted cultural jigsaw puzzle of
disintegrating Czechoslovakia becomes more complex and affects
relations between the couple and the families. The story follows
their lot through the war with its predictable and also its
unexpected turns and events and the equally hard times after. From
the moment that Greta Weissensteiner enters the bookstore where
Wilhelm Winkelmeier works, and entrances him with her good looks
and serious ways, I was hooked. But this is no ordinary romance; in
tact it is not a romance at all, but a powerful, often sad,
Holocaust story. What makes The Luck of the Weissensteiners so
extraordinary is the chance Christoph Fischer gives his readers to
consider the many different people who were never in concentration
camps, never in the military, yet who nonetheless had their own
indelible Holocaust experiences. Set in the fascinating area of
Bratislava, this is a wide-ranging, historically accurate
exploration of the connections between social location, personal
integrity and, as the title says, luck. I cared about every one of
this novel's characters and continued to think about them long
after I'd finished reading. -- Andrea Steiner, University of
California Santa Cruz The Luck of the Weissensteiners is an epic
saga set in wartime Eastern Europe. It follows the lives of two
families - one Jewish, one Catholic - and their entwined survival
amidst the backdrop of the second world war; first the fascist then
the communist invasion and occupation of Slovakia, and the horror
of the consequences of war. The reader is transported to a world of
deception, fear, distrust and betrayal, alongside enduring love and
family drama. The characters are vividly painted in the mind of the
reader as we follow their journey across Europe at a time of
unimaginable challenge and trauma. Weissensteiners is a magnificent
tale of human survival. I wish I hadn't read it already so that I
may repeat the pleasure of discovering and becoming lost in the
story once again.(less)
Sebastian is the story of a young man who, due to an unfortunate
accident, has his leg amputated shortly before World War I. When
his father is drafted to the war it falls to him to run the family
grocery store in Vienna, to grow into his responsibilities, bear
loss and uncertainty, and hopefully find love. Sebastian Schreiber,
his extended family, their friends and the store employees
experience the 'golden days' of pre-war Vienna, the time of war and
the end of the Monarchy, while trying to make a living and to
preserve what they hold dear. Fischer convincingly describes life
in Vienna during the war years; how it affected the people in an
otherwise safe and prosperous location, the beginning of the end
for the monarchic system, the arrival of modern thoughts and
trends, the Viennese class system and the end of an era. As in the
first book of the trilogy, The Luck of The Weissensteiners we are
confronted again with themes of identity, nationality and borders.
The step back in time from Book 1 and the change of location from
Slovakia to Austria enables the reader to see the parallels and the
differences deliberately out of sequential order, so as not to see
one as the consequence of the other, but to experience them as the
reality it must have felt like for people at the time. Review from
Goodreads: The strength of this author lies in the choice of his
characters, a large ensemble cast around the title character
Sebastian. Each of them seems to represent a different class, a
social or an ethnic group of the melting pot that is the Habsburg
Vienna of 1913. The family shop with its wide selection of goods
and changing staff serves almost as the perfect symbol for the
forced Austro-Hungarian state that has run its cause. With much
research gone into the setting Fischer however focuses more on the
human side of his characters and their conflicts. As before, he
never points the finger or favours one group in particular but
manages to give a great and authentic feel of the times. Self-doubt
and a fear of the future oozes out of most his characters,
particularly the physically fragile Sebastian and his family. It
seems the old generation is holding on to what they know and what
is slipping through their fingers; the young ones are unsure how to
be themselves in a modern world where old values are becoming
meaningless and their own initiative and expertise will be needed.
With a hint of irony and a love for sentiment and nostalgia Fischer
portrays the stubborn heroes, the errant and self-defeating and
often silly ways in which the characters trod along in their search
for happiness, be that seances, amateur psycho-analysis or risking
all for a piece of the past. This second part of his trilogy is
less intense in terms of historic background and has an easier flow
of writing. Greatly evolved Fischer gently shows the falling apart
of the old order, showing some of the innocence of the time. After
having first written a book about the brutal times that follow this
is a daring concept that fortunately paid off. Just like the leg
amputated Sebastian has to learn to walk through life with what he
has left, so will the new shrunken state of Austria need to find a
new stance in a changing Europe. Having read in an interview that
the story is based on his own grandfather makes the story all the
more touching and a small piece of history come alive.
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Sport -
Sportokonomie, Sportmanagement, Note: 1,3, Deutsche Sporthochschule
Koln (Sportwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:
Inhaltsangabe: Einleitung: Seit Beginn der neunziger Jahre hat sich
in den professionellen Ligen des Teamsports in Europa eine neue
Form des Sportsponsoring entwickelt, die als Ligasponsoring
bezeichnet wird. 1993 war es zunachst das englische
Brauereiunternehmen Carling, das fur den Betrag von 3 Millionen
Pfund jahrlich das Titelsponsoring der F.A. Premier League
ubernahm. Im Laufe der letzten zehn Jahre wurde auch von anderen
Fussballligen in Europa das Ligasponsoring eingefuhrt. So z.B. in
Irland, Osterreich, Schottland und der Schweiz, wo die Ligen zum
Teil auch den Namen des Sponsors ubernommen haben. Das
Ligasponsoring ist im europaischen Profifussball damit zu einer
zusatzlichen Finanzierungsquelle fur die Vereine,
Ligaorganisationen und Verbande geworden. Die Summen, die
mittlerweile fur solche Sponsorings aufgebracht werden sind
erheblich: fur den aktuellen Drei-Jahres-Vertrag mit der
Kartengesellschaft Barclaycard erhalt die F.A. Premier League
Limited 16 Millionen Pfund pro Jahr. Zusatzlich hat das
Ligasponsoring sich zu einer attraktiven Werbeplattform fur die
beteiligten Unternehmen entwickelt. Die errechneten Werbewerte der
osterreichischen max.Bundesliga belegen, dass in der Saison
2000/2001 fur das Titelsponsoring von max.mobil. ein Werbewert von
uber 187 Millionen Schilling erzielt wurde. Das Sponsorship kostete
max.mobile. fur diesen Zeitraum dagegen nur 40 Millionen OS.
Aufgrund der erfolgreichen Entwicklung in anderen europaischen
Ligen sind auch die Vertreter des deutschen Profifussballs auf
diese Form des Sponsoring aufmerksam geworden. Die ersten
Spekulationen uber ein Titelsponsoring fur die hochste deutsche
Spielklasse im Fussball begannen mit der Einfuhrung eines
einheitlichen Auftrittes der deutschen Fussball-Bundesliga zu
Beginn der Saison 1996/97. Am 30. Septembe
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