Barbara von Bechtolsheim
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Barbara von Bechtolsheim
Barbara von Bechtolsheim studied Literature, Philosophy and Psychology in Munich and Stanford. She teaches Literature and Cultural Studies at various universities and researches the creativity of couples. As a literary translator, she acts as intermediary between American and German culture in many different ways.
Barbara von Bechtolsheim studied Literature, Philosophy and Psychology in Munich and Stanford. She teaches Literature and Cultural Studies at various universities and researches the creativity of couples. As a literary translator, she acts as intermediary between American and German culture in many different ways.
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2023
Barbara von BechtolsheimYear of Publication: 2023
Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher
Hannah Arendt, a highly acclaimed philosophical author, and Heinrich Blücher, a man with revolutionary ambitions, met in Paris in 1936 as political outcasts, she because of her Jewishness and he on the grounds of his previous involvement with socialism and communism. While Arendt had been raised in Königsberg in a Jewish family of high standards, in which political optimism and...
Year of Publication: 2022
Barbara von BechtolsheimYear of Publication: 2022
Creative Couples
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, Susan Sontag and Annie Leibowitz, John Cage and Merce Cunningham … Barbara von Bechtolsheim introduces twenty couples from the worlds of music, art and literature and talks about how creativity inspires relationships and how love in turn inspires artistic creation. The lives of many of these...