Word: leipzig
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...Manhattan gun collector, heard about its existence while attending a conference in Rome last year. Lindsay launched what proved to be elaborate negotiations to get the book into the hands of competent printers and copied. The result is a superb facsimile edition of 39 prints, published last year in Leipzig and now in New York as The Hunting Book of Wolfgang Birkner (Winchester Press and October House...
Herbert Schnabel's tastes run to handmade gold cuff links. He drives a Soviet-built Chaika, the same make as Communist Chief Walter Ulbricht's. He probably earns about $125,000 a year (before stiff taxes) as president of Lucie Kaiser K.G., near Leipzig. East Germany's largest semiprivate women's fashion firm, it employs 370 workers, has annual sales of $3,000,000 and exports 65% of its product, for which Schnabel has won the Medal of the German Democratic Republic. Schnabel dates his prosperity from 1960 when, to raise capital for expansion, he sold...
...have the makings of another. But where Johnson's austere prose was deeply ingrained with the drab, isolated atmosphere of East Germany not long after the war, Fries turns out to be a far more frivolous and cosmopolitan creature. His first novel is officially set in Leipzig, Fries and his characters, though, seem to belong to the new international Brüderschaft of the educated, disenchanted young, who uneasily share pop culture and rock music with peers from Vladivostok to Valpara...
Though they do not know it at first, they would be just as itchily and angrily at home nearly anywhere else as they are in dreary old Leipzig. Fries' hero, Arlecq, escapes to West Berlin in search of Oobliadooh, a storied dreamland delineated in song by Dizzy Gillespie, a prince of bebop. Sickened by the banalities of Communist bureaucracy, Arlecq looks forward to the delights of the West (or "the WEST," as he put it). When he finally does reach Oobliadooh, he finds things just as unsatisfactory as they were back home. "I must insist on a little more...
...fortunes declined at Cothen after Prince Leopold married an unmusical wife. In a monumental miscalculation, Bach accepted the post of choirmaster at Leipzig's St. Thomas Church. The salary and social status were lower, the living conditions drearier, and the duties more onerous. Besides being responsible for the music in two Leipzig churches, Bach had minor chores at two others, even had to teach catechism and act as proctor to choirboys. His family obligations were increasing too. After the death of Barbara, he had married a professional singer named Anna Magdalena Wilcken in 1721; she became stepmother...