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Search results „Donna Leon”

Blogposts (132)

30 Jahre Commissario Brunetti – Donna Leon über ihre Ermittlerfigur

from 27/10/2023

Diogenes feiert Donna Leon

from 04/06/2021

»Guido Brunetti leistet mir beste Gesellschaft.« Ein Interview mit Donna Leon

from 08/06/2021

Ewige Jugend: Donna Leon und ihre Silberhochzeit mit Commissario Brunetti

from 07/06/2016

Milde Gaben — Platz 1 Spiegel-Bestsellerliste! Drei Fragen an Donna Leon

from 04/06/2022

Alles Gute zum 80. Geburtstag, Donna Leon!

from 30/09/2022

Auf Brunettis Spuren durch Venedig

from 21/07/2016

Donna Leon: »Tod zwischen den Zeilen«

from 12/06/2015

Ross Macdonald in neuen Übersetzungen

from 08/07/2014

»Gefährliche Ferien«: Reisen Sie zu den Schauplätzen Ihrer Lieblingskrimis

from 04/05/2016

Der Diogenes Verlag macht eine literarische Reise nach Italien: Für die Ferien empfehlen wir diese 10 Bücher all'italiana

from 08/07/2022

Donna Leon und Brunetti feiern 25. Jubiläum

from 25/05/2016
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Backstage
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Donna Leon

Backstage

»In the hands of great authors, characters are like real people, merely realer«, Donna Leon once said. Perhaps this is why her life is so rich in characters and people accompanying her, both real and fictional.

Backstage presents a colorful troupe: the rock genius Frank Zappa, Veniceʼs most famous diamond dealer, a courageous sex worker and womenʼs rights activist, a clever composer, tragic heroes and admired colleagues. In the hands of Donna Leon, these encounters turn into sparkling jewels. A treasure trove of delightful discoveries.

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Ein Leben in Geschichten
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Donna Leon

Wandering Through Life

Donna Leon has led an adventurous life, and with her tell-tale knack for observation, she turns her experiences in America, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Italy (of course) and Switzerland into a captivating read. She takes us on a journey around the world, from growing up on a farm, to curfew pajama parties in Iran, financial straits, and a Fiat 600. And we join Donna as she arrives in Italy as a chaperone, as she hunts for the perfect cappuccino, and as she encounters small marvels in the mountains.

»There is no worse crime than not having loved.«
Donna Leon

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Donna Leon

Donna Leon

Donna Leon, born in New Jersey in 1942, has worked as a travel guide in Rome and as a copywriter in London. She taught literature in universities in Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia. The Brunetti novels brought her to world-wide fame. Donna Leon lived in Italy for many years, and although she now lives in Switzerland, she often visits Venice.

Mit dir steht die Welt nicht still
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Melissa Müller

With You, the World Keeps Turning

London, 1951. Nanette Blitz and John Konig meet at a party. She is the only survivor in her family, and deeply traumatised. He is also an orphan, and already has a ticket for the crossing to Brazil. Their encounter is a moment of happiness and intimacy — something neither of them expected to feel again. They write to one another for almost two years before Nanette decides to follow John to São Paulo. This is a book about rediscovered hope and joy for life, and an extraordinary love.

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Nur fliegen kann er nicht
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Res Strehle, Naegeli, Harald

Harald Naegeli.

Harald Naegeli, an individual filled with poetry, an artist filled with love for nature, and an advocate for utopia and the museum on the street. This unique biography tells of the life and work of the introverted artist, who completed his ›Urwolken (Primeval Clouds)‹ in large format over the years with single strokes, as well as the extroverted sprayer and political Dadaist who can adorn building walls within seconds — just don’t mention the term ›criminal damage‹.

»Often described as prime father of street art, he sees himself as a direct successor of painting cavemen.«
Urs Bühler/ NZZ, Zurich

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Gabriella Gamberini Zimmermann

Gabriella Gamberini Zimmermann

Gabriella Gamberini Zimmermann, born in France in 1957, emigrated to Venice, where Donna Leon was one of her close neighbours for a number of years.

Rebell im Cola-Hinterland
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Matthias Penzel

Rebel in the Coke Hinterland

Who was Jörg Fauser? What were his influences, his annoyances, what did he dream of and what enraged him? Matthias Penzel and Ambros Waibel let nothing deter them from uncovering the real Jörg Fauser, the rebel and junkie, the son and man. The only biography of the author of unparalleled novels, invaluable reportage, tender poetry and rebellious prose. This new edition expanded with fresh insights and stripped of misinformation is both an enthralling read and important witness to its time.

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Picassos Friseur
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Monika Czernin, Melissa Müller

Picasso’s Hairdresser

When Picasso meets hairdresser Eugenio Arias in 1947, they develop a deep relationship.
It is principally their communist conviction that unites the two Spaniards in exile in the South of France, but they also share a great love of bullfighting and a mischievous sense of humour. Picasso’s Hairdresser not only depicts the intense friendship between these two extraordinary men but also offers a fresh look on the world-famous painter as a generous and loyal companion.

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Roberta Pianaro

Roberta Pianaro

Roberta Pianaro, born in 1948, has a jewellery workshop and a much used kitchen. Donna Leon calls Roberta the ›Risotto Queen‹ and often gets to enjoy her cooking. Just as well, for numerous dishes from Roberta's kitchen are served to the Brunettis as well.
Mameleben
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Michel Bergmann

Mameleben

Magnificent and infuriating, loving and stifling, self-sacrificing yet interfering – Michel Bergmann loves his mother Charlotte, and sometimes he can’t stand her. In this unvarnished book, he tells the story of a strong, obstinate woman who was driven out of Germany, lost nearly her entire family, and was ultimately happily reunited with her future husband, yet too often had to face her troubles alone.

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Marius Müller-Westernhagen
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Friedrich Dönhoff

Marius Müller-Westernhagen

Freiheit, Sexy, Lass uns leben, Wieder hier are songs that anybody in Germany could sing along to. But who is the artist behind them? Through in-person conversations with Friedrich Dönhoff, Marius Müller-Westernhagen describes what motivates him and what made him the person he is today. He recalls the Germany of his childhood, his early stage appearances in the sixties and later during a period of youth revolt, as well as the beginnings of a new kind of music that would change the world.

»The audience can tell if you’re genuine or not, be it an audience of three or thousands.«
Marius Müller-Westernhagen

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Toni Sepeda

Toni Sepeda

Toni Sepeda (1942–2020) taught literature and art history at the University of Maryland for many years, the same institution where Donna Leon used to work. She has co-authored an American guide to Venice. One of her university lecture series was dedicated to Brunetti's Venice.

Isidor
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Shelly Kupferberg

Isidor

Dr. Isidor Geller has made it: he is a highly respected business man, an advisor to the Austrian government, a multi-millionaire, an opera lover, art collector and, after two failed marriages, is in a relationship with a beautiful singer. He has come a long way: from a shtetl in the furthest, most impoverished recesses of Galicia to the most elite circles of Viennese society. 
No one can touch him now, Isidor is sure of that – and certainly not those vulgar National Socialists.
But in 1938, everything changes from one day to the next.

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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Ulrich Weber

Friedrich Dürrenmatt. A Biography

A true humanist, his thematic roots reached back to Antiquity, his speculative scientific and philosophical mind many decades into the future. The book gives a portrait of the young artist coming into his own, when he is propulsed into fame by his very first comedy (It Is Written) just after World War II.

Ulrich Weber tells the story of Dürrenmatt’s life (including his love of astronomy, physics, painting, football and dogs), the genesis of his works and of the cosmic mind, whose probing questions accompany us well into the 21st century.

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Marlon Brando
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Jörg Fauser

Marlon Brando

Another genre in which Fauser revolutionized everything that went before.

With an afterword by German writer and DJ Franz Dobler.

»I always saw Brando as a rebel – a naive way of looking at it, for sure; what is a rebel anyway? In a world crawling with revolutionaries, the rebel is a man of the past, a conservative. That may be. For so many people of today, the earth seems like a thing of the past, and like Brando, when in doubt I’ll stick with the earth.«

Fauser and Brando – two ruptured souls united by more than just their ability to getting back up when knocked down.

»This is a book about the shadow between idea and reality.«
Jörg Fauser

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Face to Face
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Thomas David

Face to Face

Interviews are an art form in and of themselves – the German journalist Thomas David talks in depth with the great figures of English-language literature of the past twenty years.

Featuring a foreword by Graham Swift.

Thomas David has been in a continuing conversation with contemporary writers since the mid-1990s. He has interviewed big names on individual novels, their writing practice and the social and political subjects of their times. The result is a book on what is essential, not just in writing but also in life.

Thomas David in conversation with
John Banville, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Bret Easton Ellis, Patricia Highsmith, John Irving, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Ottessa Moshfegh, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, James Salter, Zadie Smith, Muriel Spark, Graham Swift and William Trevor.

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Rainer Brambach - Ich wiege 80 Kilo, und das Leben ist mächtig
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Isabel Koellreuter, Franziska Schürch

Rainer Brambach – A Biography

This unusual Swiss artist’s biography is marking the 100th anniversary of Rainer Brambach’s birth. It is not only knowledgably researched but also entertainingly presented and featuring a picture section. At his death in 1983, the poet Rainer Brambach left behind some 140 poems and two dozen short stories – not a large body of work, but an outstanding, very distinct and refreshingly unacademic one. Deported from Switzerland, deserted from the Reich Labour Service and eventually arrested in Switzerland, the former painter, decorator and later gardener was an exceptional phenomenon in the country’s post-war literary scene. He reached his creative apex in the 1950s and 60s, when his poems appeared regularly in the prestigious literary journal Akzente – alongside the work of Enzensberger, Bachmann, Celan, Canetti and other great names of the era. Brambach was also a very close friend to his mentor, the poet Gunter Eich, his wife Ilse Aichinger and the writer and publisher Hans Bender. Franziska Schurch and Isabel Koellreuter have sifted through memories of colleagues and fellow travellers, archives and Rainer Brambach’s literary output. The result is a multi-layered and fascinating biography of an eloquent Swiss poet’s unusual life.

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Ein gutes Leben ist die beste Antwort
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Friedrich Dönhoff

A Good Life Is the Best Revenge

A book about a man who will not let anyone keep him down: neither as a German Jew in Europe nor as a homosexual in America.

Two generations separate them, but a friendship unites them: Friedrich Dönhoff (45) and Gerald B. Rosenstein, known as Jerry (86). In summer 2013 they set off on a road trip from Amsterdam to Bensheim, following the path of Jerry’s childhood and youth. A few weeks later they meet up again in San Francisco, where Jerry has lived since 1949.

Because Jerry wants to tell his story. After spending his whole life dodging questions about his past, he now wants to tell the account of what he survived as a Jew in Germany, Holland and Auschwitz – how he coped as a homosexual in the USA and how he found his inner freedom.

In Friedrich Dönhoff he has an attentive listener, one who writes his story without any trace of pathos, but with a great deal of sensitivity.

With a picture section.

English translation available.

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Reise an den Rand des Universums
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Urs Widmer

Journey to the Edge of the Universe

»First we dream of the future, then we live it, and in the end, once this lived future is in the past, we recount it to ourselves.«

This autobiography is special: it stops where others usually begin. Urs Widmer's years as a child, as a young man, as a student, as an editor. His family home, friends, his first loves, his wife May. Family history and family myths. School, teachers. Holidays, travel. Basel, Montpellier, Greece, Paris. The banal and the dramatic at a time when history was being written: World War II, the Cold War, the sixties. And, again and again, his parents, the ever-present shadows in his work. Even though these memories often deal with the tragic, their vitality and vividness are unsurpassable.

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