Word: leipzigers
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...decided it would be wisest to get away from Harwell. His father, a 75-year-old ex-Protestant minister, and pacifist, furnished a convenient pretext: he was making plans to move from his home in West Germany to the Russian zone, where he had been offered a professorship at Leipzig University. Fuchs reported his father's Red taint to the authorities at Harwell. It is not clear why he did so. He may have hoped that he would be quietly dismissed. Said Fuchs: "I did not have the courage to fight it out for myself . . ." But his superiors were...
...depressing," he said. "It makes you so suspicious you don't know whether to trust your own staff members." From Frankfurt came word of Klaus Fuchs's father. The old pacifist, now 75, had left two weeks ago to become professor of theology at the University of Leipzig in the Russian zone of Germany...
...Great Pain." He had gotten invitations to other bicentennial Bach festivals in Europe and the U.S. Among them: bids to play in Strasbourg with the great Bach organist, Albert Schweitzer, and in Leipzig's venerable Thomas-Kirche, where Bach himself had been cantor. He had turned them all down, although "It gave me great pain to refuse...
Walter Ulbricht, once a Leipzig woodworker, who became a Comintern agent during the Spanish Civil War, returned from Moscow to Germany with the Red army after the war, became Politburo member of Eastern Germany's Socialist Unity Party. Last month he stepped into the acting premiership of Eastern Germany when Premier Otto Grotewohl was reported ill. In imitation of Lenin, Ulbricht wears a trowel-like beard...
...used to study scores instead of his Latin, hiding them on his lap in the classroom. He studied piano, cello and violin ("The piano is the instrument I play least badly"), later studied composition at the Munich Conservatory. By the time he was 21 he was conducting at the Leipzig Opera House; at 29 he was general manager of the Bucharest Opera. In 1944, the Nazis interned both Jonel and his writer wife for refusing to declare themselves pro-German. Liberated at war's end by the British, the Perleas went to Italy. Jonel eventually got a job conducting...