Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Londoners have television in their homes, pubs and clubs. France has constructed an Eiffel Tower transmitter, expects to telecast to the public within a few months. Germans have television-equipped telephone service between Berlin and Leipzig, can ring up faces as well as voices. But in the U. S., where the radio industry is private and the broadcasters have to play the game with their own chips, caution has kept television in the laboratory experimental stage...
...Northeast Quarter" of Berlin, where tenements are tall and rations short, a worn old woman last year passed her 70th birthday in public oblivion. Ten years before, as one of the most powerful living woman artists, she had been honored with a big retrospective exhibition. Five years before, she had been director of the Graphic Arts department of the Berlin Academy. But the canons of Nazi art were such that, though she continued to work, Kathe Kollwitz had no more exhibitions in Germany after...
Last week a rumor of Kathe Kollwitz' arrest in Berlin coincided with the opening of three simultaneous exhibitions of her work in Manhattan. Whether or not the rumor was a bit of gratuitous promotion, visitors to the three shows needed no prodding to deplore Nazi treatment of the artist. No abstractionist. Kathe Kollwitz is a weighty, marvelously skilled draftsman in the great 19th-Century line. It is her subject matter, always proletarian, bitterly naturalistic and sorrowful, that rules her out of the "Strength through Joy" school...
...Magic Flute I enquired of every eminent German musician I met as to what he knew about Kubatzki. None of them even knew the name. I rang up every opera house in Germany until I found her at Leipzig. She came up and sang to me in Berlin. After she had sung ten bars it was quite clear that here was the most promising singer of her type since Destinn. She ought to be one day the greatest Brünnhilde and Isolde of her generation...
Born. To Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Germany's club-footed Propaganda Minister, and Magda Goebbels; their fifth child, a daughter; in Berlin...