Лучшие книги Бригитты Хаманн

Бригитта Хаманн (1940–2016) – ученый и автор многих биографий исторических персонажей, вершивших судьбы Австрии и всего мира. Материалы для книги об Адольфе Гитлере и его пребывании в Вене в 1907–13 гг. писательница собирала почти двадцать лет, скрупулезно исследуя источники и обнаружив целый ряд неизвестных документов. Как утверждает Хаманн, сам характер диктатора сложился именно в годы полунищенских мытарств в столице Австро-Венгрии. В среде музыкантов, поэтов и художников, прославивших Вену начала века, не нашлось места бездарному и завистливому провинциалу Гитлеру. Зато он усвоил здесь ненависть ко всему инородному и неистовое желание объединиться под немецким знаменем, страсть к демагогии и жажду управлять общественным сознанием.

Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known to her family as Sisi, belongs to a famous love story of European royalty - in 1853 the Emperor Franz Josef, the most eligible bachelor in Europe, fell in love with her at first sight when she was fifteen; they were married the next year. On the surface, it was a fairytale marriage, all the more poignant, with hindsight, because her death signalled the twilight years of the Habsburg Empire.

At the time of its first publication in 1988, Brigitte Hamann's biography, which tells Elisabeth's story from her birth as a member of the Bavarian nobility to her assassination at the hands of an Italian anarchist, led to a revised and deeper understanding of Elisabeth. During her lifetime she was idolised solely for her grace and beauty; now, for the first time, the Empress was portrayed as a stronger character, bitter at her marriage, seeking independence, and struggling against the powerful influence of her mother-in-law, the Archduchess Sophie. Researched by a respected historian, this is the definitive account of Elisabeth's life, death and legacy.

Tracing the life of "Sissi" Empress of Austria, Brigitte Hamann paints a portrait of a highly-gifted, clear-sighted and unconventional personality. The volume contains extracts from Elisabeth's diaries and includes relevant pictures from original pictorial documentation.

Already a critically acclaimed bestseller in Germany and in Austria, Hitler's Vienna explores the critical, formative years which Hitler spent in Vienna, painting a fascinating portrait of the development of his ideas and career against the social, cultural, and political climate of the capitol of the Hapsburg Empire.
Hitler's Vienna was not the artistic and intellectual center normally associated with Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Arthur Schnitzler, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Instead, it was a cauldron of fear and indignation, a city teeming with the little people who rejected Viennese modernity as too international, too Jewish, and too libertine. Indeed, Hitler's Vienna was a breeding ground for obscure political theories, usually propagated by disadvantaged men living together in hostels. To them, being better in this multinational city meant belonging to the noble German people. Brigitte Hamann compellingly depicts the undercurrent of disturbing social and political ideologies that permeated this city of civil unrest. Drawing on previously untapped resources, she gives us the fullest account ever rendered of the young fuhrer.
Hitler's Vienna reveals the vital connection between Hitler's indoctrination into the devastating racial politics that swept Germany's multinational state and the hotbed of nationalistic activity that was Vienna in the early 20th century. It is a profoundly important addition to present Hitler scholarship.

Die Wagners sind - ähnlich wie die Familie Mann - ein kleiner Kosmos für sich. Bei Richard Wagner und den Seinen mischen sich Genie und Größenwahn, Kunst und Politik, Weltanschauung und Geschäftssinn auf unverwechselbare Weise. Brigitte Hamann gibt einen Überblick über die Geschichte der Familie - vom Gründervater bis in die jüngste Zeit.