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A Part of Myself

Zuckmayer, Carl

Biographies & Memoirs

Harcourt

Der Hauptmann von Kopenick (Methuen's Twentieth Century German Texts) (View amazon detail page) ASIN: 0423825305

Der Hauptmann von Kopenick

Literature & Fiction

Routledge

. with dustjacket, 1970 clean bright copy

Secker Warburg

Both works in this volume – a play by Carl Zuckmayer (1896-1977) and an unusual contemporary study of Nazi Germany by Sebastian Haffner (1907-99) – bear testimony to the disturbing events that were to change German history in the aftermath of World War I. The abridged translation of The Devil’s General, which was approved by Zuckmayer himself, is about a World War I flier who commits suicide as he comes to realize the unintended havoc he has wrought in his obsession to fly. Sebastian Haffner, whose real name was Raimund Pretzel (which was changed with the publication of Germany: Jekyll and Hyde), remained a controversial journalist all his life, working for both left-wing and right-wing journals. The work excerpted here was written in 1940 when Haffner, reared in a liberal tradition, was in a British detention camp as an enemy alien.

The Devil's General/ Germany: Jekyll and Hyde (German Library)

HAFFNER, Sebastian

Komar, Ingrid

Wurdak, Virginia

David, Wilfrid

World Literature

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Both works in this volume - a play by Carl Zuckmayer (1896-1977) and an unusual contemporary study of Nazi Germany by Sebastian Haffner (1907-99) - bear testimony to the disturbing events that were to change German history in the aftermath of World War I. The abridged translation of The Devil's General, which was approved by Zuckmayer himself, is about a World War I flier who commits suicide as he comes to realize the unintended havoc he has wrought in his obsession to fly. 
Sebastian Haffner, whose real name was Raimund Pretzel (which was changed with the publication of Germany: Jekyll and Hyde), remained a controversial journalist all his life, working for both left-wing and right-wing journals. The work excerpted here was written in 1940 when Haffner, reared in a liberal tradition, was in a British detention camp as an enemy alien.

The Devil's General and Germany: Jekyll and Hyde (German Library)

Dramas & Plays

Continuum

A Part of Myself: Portrait of an Epoch

Da Capo Press

Released after fifteen years in prison, trapped in a bureaucratic maze, petty criminal Wilhelm Voight wanders 1910 Berlin in desperate, hazardous pursuit of identity papers. Luck changes when he picks up an abandoned military uniform in a fancy-dress shop and finds the city ready to obey his every command. At the head of six soldiers, he marches to the Mayor’s office, cites corruption and confiscates the treasury with ease. But still what he craves is official recognition that he exists. A nation heads blindly towards war as the misfit takes on the state in Ron Hutchinson’s savagely funny new version of Carl Zuckmayer’s The Captain of Köpenick, first staged in Germany in 1931.

The Captain of Köpenick (Oberon Modern Plays)

Oberon Books

Des Teufels General. Theaterstücke 1947 - 1949.

Fischer (S.), Frankfurt

Vermonter Roman.

Classics

Werkausgabe in zehn Bänden, 1920-1975 (German Edition)

Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag

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