Joachim Fest Reihenfolge der Bücher

A quiet, proud, often painful, always clear-eyed memoir...It deserves wide attention in the English-speaking world. It is illuminating of the man, of the times he lived through, and also of a rare kind of moral resolve, both sobering and inspiring.' Rachel Seiffert, Guardian Few other historians have shaped our understanding of the Third Reich as Joachim Fest. Fierce and intransigent, German-born Fest was a relentless interrogator of his nation's modern history. His analysis, The Face of the Third Reich, his biographies of Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer and his descriptions of the last days in the Fuhrer's bunker have all reached a worldwide audience of millions. But how did the young Fest, born in 1926, personally experience National Socialism, the Second World War and a catastrophically defeated Germany? In Not I, the memoir of his childhood and youth, Joachim Fest chronicles his own extraordinary early life, providing an intimate portrait of those dark years of conflict. Whether describing his Catholic home in a Berlin suburb, his father's resistance of the regime and subsequent teaching ban, his own expulsion from school, or Aunt Dolly's introductions to the operatic world, these are the long-awaited personal reflections of a born observer the exactitude of whose prose is as sharp as the memories he describes.

Slavný, již zesnulý německý publicista ve své neméně slavné knize s autobiografickými prvky podává zcela neotřelou analýzu nacismu. Kniha osloví každého, koho zajímá, čím žili zejména mladí lidé v předválečném a válečném Německu.

Zwanzig Jahre ist Joachim Fest als Herausgeber für das Feuilleton der «Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung» verantwortlich gewesen. In dieser Eigenschaft hat er «das Kulturleben des Landes in hohem Maße geprägt« (Marcel Reich-Ranicki). Immer wieder hat er nicht nur durch engagierte Interventionen bei kulturellen Streitfragen – etwa zu Rainer Werner Fassbinders Theaterstück «Die Stadt, der Müll und der Tod» – von sich reden gemacht, sondern auch durch kenntnisreiche Beiträge zu Schriftstellern, Malern und Architekten. Dabei interessierte er sich besonders für das Verhältnis eines Künstlers zu seiner Zeit, zur Politik und überlieferten Formensprache seiner Gattung; aber auch dafür, wie sich die moderne Gesellschaft insgesamt zur kulturellen Überlieferung stellt. Dass Fests ebenso scharfsinnige wie nuancierte Antworten auf diese Fragen von bleibendem Wert sind, zeigen die hier versammelten Texte. «Es ist schwer, vom ungeheuer weiten Bildungshorizont des glänzenden Stilisten unbeeindruckt zu bleiben.» dpa

One of the New York Times Books Review's 100 Notable Books of 2014! A portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stance Few writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His biography of Adolf Hitler has reached millions of readers around the world. Born in 1926, Fest experienced firsthand the rise of the Nazis, the Second World War, and a catastrophically defeated Germany, thus becoming a vital witness to these difficult years. In this memoir of his childhood and youth, Fest offers a far-reaching view of how he experienced the war and National Socialism. True to the German Bildung tradition, Fest grows up immersed in the works of Goethe, Schiller, Mörike, Rilke, Kleist, Mozart, and Beethoven. His father, a conservative Catholic teacher, opposes the Nazi regime and as a result loses his job and status. Fest is forced to move to a boarding school in the countryside that he despises, and in his effort to come to terms with his father’s strong political convictions, he embarks on a tireless quest for knowledge and moral integrity that will shape the rest of his life and writing career.