Like Mephisto, Pathetic Symphony is a novel about important artists and their milieu. Drawing his material from documented sources, and without ever distorting historical truth or sacrificing biographical accuracy for the sake of the narrative, Klaus Mann here presents a moving and unforgettable story of a tortured genius of music -- Peter llych Tchaikovsky. When the book was first published in 1948, The New York Times praised its "erotic passages and the recreation of the European musical society -- Brahms, Wagner, Grieg, Rubinstein, Mussorgsky walk through the pages." Inextricably bound up with Tchaikovsky's life are people who provide the rich orchestration of the novel: his "beloved friend" and mysterious benefactress, Madame von Meek, whom he never met personally; Desiree Artot, the Belgian singer, with whom the young, struggling composer believed himself madly in love; Antonia Miliukov, the pathetic partner in Tchaikovsky's short-lived and tragic marriage; and Tchaikovsky's nephew Vladimir Davydov, whose youth and charm captured the heart of the older man. Tchaikovsky's trials and triumphs, adventures and strange compulsions, maladjustments and neuroses inspired Klaus Mann's admiration and compassion. Both were cosmopolitans who spent more time abroad than in their own countries; both raised the suspicion and envy of their contemporaries at home. According to Mann, Tchaikovsky was the prototype of a man without a country. In Russia, Tchaikovsky's works were criticized as being too Western, the Germans accused him of Asiatic primitivity, and the Parisians found him overly Germanic. Mann wrote Tchaikovsky's story with the conviction of personal identification: "I could describe all of it; none of it was alien to me," he wrote in The Turning Point. Christopher Isherwood wrote of Mann, his friend, "From his earliest days, he inhabited the circles of the brilliant and famous. He experienced pleasure and success at an age when one is best able to enjoy them. He traveled widely and continuously -- so much so that the huge upheaval of the Emigration [from Nazi Germany to Holland and then to the U.S.] seemed, as far as he was concerned, to be no more than an extension of his normal way of living. During the last sixteen years of his life, Klaus produced an impressive body of work -- novels, non-fiction books, and innumerable articles -- under circumstances that would have reduced most writers to impotent silence."

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A searing indictment of evil in Hitler's Germany. Hendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to power in Germany, he willingly renounces his Communist past and deserts his wife and mistress in order to keep on performing. His diabolical performance as Mephistopheles in Faust proves to be the stepping-stone he yearned for: attracting the attention of Hermann Göring, it wins Hofgen an appointment as head of the State Theatre. The rewards - the respect of the public, a castle - like villa, a uplace in Berlin's highest circles - are beyond his wildest dreams. But the moral consequences of his betrayals begin to haunt him, turning his dreamworld into a nightmare.

Das Manual enthalt eine einzigartige Zusammenstellung praktischer Detail-Informationen, die Sie kaum in einem anderen Nachschlagewerk finden.
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o Echte "Insider-Tips" zur Durchfuhrung und Beurteilung komplexer endokrinologischer Funktionstests.
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Das vorliegende Buch fasst die Referate eines Symposiums zusam- men, das im Marz 1986 im Klinikum Grosshadern der Universitat Munchen stattfand. Ziel und Zweck dieser Tagung war es, einen UEberblick zu bekom- men uber den derzeitigen Kenntnisstand hormonproduzierender, maligner Tumoren, angefangen von der Grundlagenforschung bis hin zu Besonderheiten der Diagnostik und Therapie derartiger Erkrankungen unter Einbeziehung moeglichst vieler Fachdiszipli- nen. Im einzelnen war die Grundlagenforschung mit einem Referat uber das Wachstumsverhalten und die therapeutische Beeinflus- sung von hormonproduzierenden bzw. hormonabhangigen mensch- lichen Tumoren nach xenogener Transplantation vertreten. Von morphologischer Seite wurde uber histologische Besonderheiten und spezielle immunhistochemische Verfahren bei malignen endo- krinen Tumoren berichtet. Zur Identifizierung und Charakterisie- rung verschiedener, nicht nur endokrin-aktiver Tumorzellen wurde ein neues Verfahren, die Durchflusscytometrie vorgestellt. Weitere Themen waren die diagnostische und therapeutische Relevanz von Tumormarkern sowie bildgebende Verfahren bei endokrinen Tumo- ren. Einzelne klinisch orientierte UEbersichtsreferate waren den en- dokrinen paraneoplastischen Syndromen, malignen Tumoren des endokrinen Pankreas, dem ektopen ACTH-Syndrom, dem Neben- schilddrusen- wie dem medullaren Schilddrusenkarzinom sowie den boesartigen Nebennierenrindentumoren im Kindes- und Er- wachsenenalter gewidmet. An Therapieverfahren wurden die Ra- diojodtherapie bei Schilddrusenkarzinom, die Behandlung von chromaffinen Tumoren mit 131-J-Metajodobenzylguanidin und die operative Strategie bei endokrinen Pankreastumoren besprochen. Von gynakologischer Seite wurde die Diagnostik und Therapie des Chorionepithelioms abgehandelt. Ein Schwerpunkt waren schliess- lich die malignen Hodentumoren; es wurden in EinZelreferaten die Diagnostik, die Operationsverfahren, die Strahlentherapie und ins- besondere die Chemotherapie besprochen.

In this second installment of his autobiography (following Kind dieser Zeit), Klaus Mann describes his childhood in the family of Thomas Mann and his circle, his adolescence in the Weimar Republic, and his experiences as a young homosexual and early opponent of Nazism. He also describes how, after the Reichstag elections of September 1930, friends and family began to discuss the looming prospect of emigration and exile. When Stefan Zweig published an article claiming that democracy was ineffective, Klaus replied: "I want to have nothing, nothing at all to do with this perverse kind of `radicalism.'" After hearing one of his working-class lovers in a storm trooper's uniform say, "They are going to be the bosses and that's all there is to it," Klaus fled to Paris in March of 1933. He became one of one hundred thousand German refugees in France, losing his publisher, friends and associates, and readers in the process. He describes finding a German Jewish publisher in Amsterdam and the difficulties of starting a journal of emigre writing. In 1934, his German passport expired and he was forced to renew temporary travel documents every six months. The President of Czechoslovakia offered citizenship to the entire Mann family in 1936 but then Hitler invaded that country and Klaus emigrated to the United States. Despite statelessness, bouts of syphilis and drug abuse, neither his pace of travel nor publication slowed. His novel Der Vulkan is among the most famous books about German exiles during World War II but it sold only 300 copies. Klaus stopped reading and writing German in the U.S. "The writer must not cling with stubborn nostalgia to his mother tongue," he writes in The Turning Point. He must "find a new vocabulary, a new set of rhythms and devices, a new medium to articulate his sorrow and emotions, his protests and his prayers." This extraordinary memoir, an eyewitness account of the rise of Nazism by an out gay man, was Klaus Mann's first book written in English.

Written with passion and humor, but without romanticizing, or ignoring the unsavory side, a book that turns history on its head.