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illustration book of the year seven times. Peter has also won the Golden Bear Award at the 1980 West Berlin Film Festival for best-animated short. Peter Sis was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia May 11, 1949. He attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Arts in London. Peter recently lives in New York City with his current wife Ten-y Lajtha. Ten-y is a documentary-film editor. Their baby daughter, Madeline, is said to be the one to…

They played various works of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Spohr, Schumann, Joachim Raff and Wagner. Dvo??k?s time in Prague also gave him a chance to explore and enrich his musical experience, through events such as hearing Liszt conduct his own works in 1858 and attending concerts conducted by Hans von B?low with Clara Schumann as soloist in 1859. In addition, Dvo??k…

Was that so? After escaping and arriving to Prague, occupied by Nazis, Kovaly had no real place to go. The friends that were still there after she had been deported, were the only people she could turn to for help. Few of them took her in for a brief time so that she could eat and be on her way. Most…

His success led to an opera company in Prague to commission Don Giovanni, who was a triumph in Prague. He was delighted to receive a commission from a Viennese theater for a German opera. Two months before he died, The Magic Flute was premiered to resounding praise in Vienna (Kamien, 212). The quality of Mozart’s music…

of the Painted Churches! My mother, the inquisitive person she is, searched the town up on the Internet. We were planning on traveling to Prague, Czech Republic in a month, and, coincidentally, she found out that original Czech settlers in the Hill Country had built the Churches. My mother’s wheels immediately started churning- Why not get a preview of Prague? My brother and I were not huge fans of this idea. We had traveled to far off places such as Turkey and India and bustling cities like…

Letters to Milena). Franz Kafka hardly found anything soporific. An underlying need to be punished and a sense of guilt for no probable reason followed Kafka his entire life. Franz Kafka, a writer with an anomalistic style, was born on July 3, 1883 in Prague. According to Biography.com Kafka struggled with an olio of health issues his whole life. Insomnia, migraines, boils, anxiety, and depression riddled his existence. Kafka believed these woes were rooted in his relationship with his…

The Confluence of European Ideology in Franz Kafka’s Fiction Abstract: Franz Kafka one of the major German language novelist and short story writer was born on July 3, 1883 at Prague. His posthumous works brought him fame not only in Germany, but in Europe as well. By 1946 Kafka’s works had a great effect abroad, and especially in translation. Apart from Max Brod who was the first commentator and publisher of the first Franz Kafka biography, we have Edwin and Willa Muir, principle English…

In Under A Cruel Star, Heda Margolius Kovaly recounts her life through the Holocaust up to the invasion of Prague by the Russians where she discovers the horrors of human nature and the two emotions, fear and hope, that influence how people react when put in situations like Heda’s. Many lessons can be taken from her book which explain why humanity was like it was and still is and how to change. “Now I had to cope with a worse enemy, human fear and indifference” (Page 28). If one thing I was…

Theresienstadt ghetto in late 1944” (Reiser). Shortly after she found herself in a line of 1,000 women waiting to be gassed. Ruth managed to get put on a labor transport going to Lenzing concentration camp. “Liberated by American troops, Ruth returned to Prague [and] was the sole survivor of her family”…

1. Born in Weil der Stadt, Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire which now known as Germany on the 27th December 1517. His father was a mercenary soldier and his mother was a daughter of landowner. His father left home for the last time when Johannes was five, and is believed to have died in the war in the Netherlands. Johannes died on 15th November 1630 in Regensburg now known as Germany. 2. Attended a local school in his early years, graduated in 1589 from the Latin and grammar school. He was…