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" By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany's leading playwrights was all but secured. Consisting of Wallenstein's Camp, The Piccolomini and The Death of Wallenstein, this suite of plays appeared between 1798 and 1799, each production under the original direction of Schiller's collaborator and mentor, Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe. Across the three plays, which are now commonly performed and printed together, Schiller charts the thwarted rebellion of General Albrecht von Wallenstein. Based loosely on the events of the Thirty Years' War, the trilogy provides a unique vantage on an army's loyalty to their commander and the machinations and intrigues of international diplomacy, giving insight into the military hero who is placed on the threshold between these forces as they are increasingly pitted against one another. The Wallenstein trilogy, formally innovative and modern beyond its time, is a brilliant study of power, ambition and betrayal. In this new translation—the latest in a long line of distinguished English translations of the play, starting with Coleridge's in Schiller's lifetime—Flora Kimmich succeeds in rendering what is often a difficult source text into language that is at once accessible and enjoyable. Coupled with a complete and careful commentary and a glossary, both of which are targeted to undergraduates, and accompanied by an authoritative introductory essay by Roger Paulin, this edition also includes embedded readings in German of the play and links to the original German text. It will be an invaluable resource for students of German, European literature and history, and military history, as well as to all readers approaching this important set of plays for the first time. "

"Cécile" (1886) ist einer der großen Frauenromane Fontanes. Das Schicksal der Titelfigur, die die Unbarmherzigkeit gesellschaftlichen Drucks in den Selbstmord treibt, ist nicht nur menschlich anrührend, sondern kann als scharfe Kritik an Moralvorstellungen und Zwängen in einer Gesellschaft gelesen werden, die tiefe innere Gräben durch rigide Konvention überspielt. Ein zweiteiliger Aufbau an den Schauplätzen Thale im Harz, wo in der Atmosphäre der Sommerfrische kleine Transgressionen durchgehen mögen, und dem steiferen Berlin, eine sukzessive Entfaltung der Vorgeschichte Céciles und ihres Mannes St. Arnaud, die sich ihrem jungen Verehrer Gordon-Leslie als "Roman im Roman" enthüllt, und intrikate, schillernd ambivalente Anspielungs- und Motivkomplexe kennzeichnen den Text. Einer dieser Anspielungskomplexe ist den Kommentatoren bisher entgangen: der Verweis auf die Mörder Wallensteins in der Geschichte und in Schillers Wallenstein-Drama, besonders in dessen drittem Teil Wallensteins Tod, welchen die Namen des einen und der militärische Rang des anderen männlichen Protagonisten enthalten. Dem Verweiskomplex, den diese Signale öffnen, kommt eine zentrale textstrukturierende und hermeneutische Funktion zu. Den Verästelungen dieses Motivs nachzugehen kann dazu beitragen, die Verankerung des Erzählten in zeitgenössischen Diskursen nachzuzeichnen und das Wissen um Fontanes Strategie der wechselseitigen asymmetrischen, polyvalenten und oft widersprüchlichen Verspiegelung von Fiktion, Geschichtsdiskurs und der (eben im Diskurs konstruierten) Geschichte selbst um ein signifikantes Detail zu erweitern.

von Hans Schulz ; Umschlagtitel: Wallenstein. - In Fraktur ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- 4 Biogr. 300 l

Postal que reproduce una pintura de la primera mitad del siglo XVII de Van Dyck. Representa a un hombre distinguido, posiblemente Wallensteins (1583-1634), que fue un político bohemio y caudillo militar, mercenario al servicio del emperador Fernando II que luchó contra los rebeldes protestantes y sus aliados suecos y daneses. Llegó a poseer un ejército de 30.000 a 100.000 hombres bajo su mando durante la guerra de los Treinta Años, y fue nombrado duque de Friedland y caballero del Toisón de Oro (1625), duque de Zagan (1627), así como duque de Mecklemburgo (1628-1631) y Conde Palatino. ; En la postal aparece el siguiente texto: Fürstlich Liechtenstein`sche Gemälde-Galerie, Wien.

The stage between completing Don Carlos (1787) and Wallenstein (1799) was the most important one in Friedrich Schiller's intellectual and creative evolution. This writer stopped writing drama at that moment, as well as read Kant's three Critiques and began a strong and fruitful friendship with Goethe. The French Revolution exerted a remarkable influence upon Schiller. This shock led him to reject political solutions to suppress despotism and made him to create his concept of aesthetic education. However, this article, apart from the above mentioned reasons, focuses attention on two other aspects, which appear at the beginning and end of an itinerary, namely: the shock caused by Schiller's creation of Marquis de Posa as a character, and the deep change in his notions of the tragic and tragedy as a writer, which, as being developed in his theoretical works, appear in an original and disturbing way in Wallenstein. ; La etapa comprendida entre la finalización de la escritura de Don Carlos (1787) y la de la Trilogía Wallenstein (1799) fue la más importante de la evolución intelectual y creativa de Friedrich Schiller. En ella el escritor detuvo su producción de dramas, leyó las tres críticas de Kant e inició una sólida y fructífera amistad con Goethe. Fue muy evidente entonces el impacto de la Revolución Francesa en el autor. Esta conmoción lo llevó a rechazar soluciones políticas de supresión del despotismo y le hizo crear su concepto de educación estética. Sin embargo, este artículo, aparte de ello, pone el foco en otros dos aspectos, que son principio y final de un itinerario, a saber, la conmoción que le produce a Schiller su creación de la figura del Marqués de Posa y el profundo cambio de las nociones de trágico y tragedia, que, gestándose en sus escritos teóricos, se manifiesta original e inquietantemente en Wallenstein.

Why did Napoleon succeed in 1805 but fail in 1812? Could the European half of World War II have been ended in 1944? These are only two of the many questions that form the subject-matter of this meticulously researched, lively book. Drawing on a very wide range of sources, van Creveld examines the specifics of war: namely, those formidable problems of movement and supply, transportation and administration, so often mentioned - but rarely explored - by the vast majority of books on military history. In doing so he casts his net far and wide, from Gustavus Adolphus to Rommel, from Marlborough to Patton, subjecting the operations of each to a thorough analysis from an unusual point of view. In this edition with a new introduction, van Creveld revisits his now-classic text, and comments in a new afterword on the role of logistics in high-tech, modern warfare.