Word: paulus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hannah writes it, life with Paulus (as he was known in German) was something like Cabaret played out in a seminary drawing room-or bedroom...
...Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald of Germany's intellectual set, bouncing from Berlin to Marburg to Dresden on a wave of popularity amid the desperate decadence of the Weimar Republic. Both had been married before. Tillich's first wife was carrying another man's child when Paulus, a front-line chaplain, returned from the disasters of World War I. Hannah was still married to her first husband and was carrying his child when she packed up and left to be with Tillich...
Even after marrying Paulus in 1924, Hannah did not exactly become a paragon of virtue herself. She dallied with their male friends and an academic assistant, and even got Tillich's explicit permission for one liaison. Hannah also experimented with-and rejected-lesbianism and at times unsuccessfully tried to interest Paulus in a joint sexual arrangement with another couple...
...menage a quatre may have been too limiting for Paulus. From the beginning he had established his independence. On the evening of his wedding to Hannah he went off to revel with a bachelor friend, winding up the night -talking, he said-in a strange girl's room. Tillich acknowledged his "demons," but gave them rather free rein...
...Canadian vacation, shortly after the Tillichs' 1933 move to the U.S., a friend who had accompanied them found his wife, nude, with Paulus on the roof of their lodgings. Some liaisons were more lasting; one of Tillich's more permanent paramours lived across the street from the couple in Manhattan...