Word: leipzig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manner, with coldly precise and mathematically measured accents. Defying convention, Richter brought a dynamic new approach to his Bach reading. His performances proved so brilliantly illuminating that he was offered the top job in the world of German Protestant church music, Bach's own post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig; Richter refused so he could stay in Munich, where he developed a fine 100-voice Bach choir. Gradually the critics became disenchanted. Richter, they felt, had slipped into sentimentality; worse, he seemed to be reaching too far out for effects and succeeding only in distorting the master. After one disastrous...
After he was demobilized as a warrant officer in the German Wehrmacht, Siegfried Schmutzler began to study theology, and in 1954 was ordained an Evangelical minister in St. Peter's Church in the East German city of Leipzig. The students of Leipzig University were his special concern; he volunteered to serve as minister to the Evangelical Studentengemeinde. This organization was no more political than a campus branch of the Y.M.C.A., but after the Hungarian massacre last year, the Reds grew jumpy about any non-Communist student organization-especially one with so opiniated a pastor...
Like all young Hungarian scientists in those days. Teller took his Ph.D. in Germany (University of Leipzig). When Hitler took power in 1933, Teller was at Gottingen, pursuing research in the molecular structure of matter. With the anti-Semitism that darkened his childhood raging about him again, he eagerly grabbed at a British rescue mission's offer of a lecturer's post at London University. Two years later he moved on to the U.S. to take up a physics professor's duties at the District of Columbia's George Washington University...
...Friends in the German national association of manufacturers got him such jobs as surveying "The Total Headwear Requirements of Bombed-Out Persons." Convinced after Stalingrad that Hitler must lose, Erhard drafted weighty studies of postwar economic prospects. One such report fell into the hands of Karl Goerdeler, the Leipzig mayor who was scheduled to take over the government if the plot to assassinate Hitler had succeeded in July 1944. Goerdeler's judgment: "The man must become minister...
...mass rally" at the Leipzig stadium (last filled to its 100,000 capacity at a Protestant church day in 1954), Khrushchev was soaked by a drenching rain that broke as he entered the arena. "This is not the welcome we had planned for the glorious Soviet leader," wailed the East German TV announcer. Though trumpets blared, fireworks exploded and uniformed Communist youth groups marched, the Communist TV cameras inadvertently gave the show away by panning slowly across thousands of empty seats. After that, embarrassed East German Communists gave up live TV coverage of the Khrushchev tour, and set about organizing...