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Oliver Hilmes (born 1971 in Viersen, Germany) is a German author who has written several historical biographies. His study of Cosima Wagner, the daughter of the 19th century composer Franz Liszt and his biography of Alma Mahler a Viennese-born socialite, have been translated into English. Education Oliver Hilmes studied history, political science and psychology at Marburg University, the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Potsdam. He earned his doctorate with a dissertation on the history of the 20th century and has worked since 2002 for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been active as personal adviser to the general manager on such projects as the introduction of the Berlin Philharmonic's Education Program and the conversion of the orchestra into a foundation. Work Oliver Hilmes achieved prominence through his biographies of Alma Mahler-Werfel, Cosima Wagner, Franz Liszt and Bavarian King Ludwig II. Tilman Krause, the literary critic of the German daily newspaper “Die Welt” described him in 2007 as the “Wunderkind among the German biographers”. Oliver Hilmes is on the board (from 1996–2013 as executive director) of the Karg-Elert Society, which promotes the study of the artistic and academic works of composer and music theoretician Sigfrid Karg-Elert. In 2016 he discovered the residency card of Richard Friedländer, a German Jew, in Berlin's residence archives, which affirms that Magda Goebbels was his biological daughter. Awards 2008: Geisteswissenschaften International – Preis zur Förderung der Übersetzung geisteswissenschaftlicher Literatur for: Herrin des Hügels. Das Leben der Cosima Wagner (Siedler) 2013: Prix des Muses (prix spécial du jury) for: Cosima Wagner. La maîtresse de la colline (Perrin) 2018: William Hill Sports Book of the Year (Shortlist) for: Berlin 1936. Sixteen Days in August (The Bodley Head) 2019: The Sporting Club General Outstanding Book of the Year 2019 for: Berlin 1936. Sixteen Days in August (The Bodley Head) Publications Berlin 1936. Sechzehn Tage im August. Siedler, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8275-0059-5 Malevolent Muse: The Life of Alma Mahler. Northeastern University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1555537890. Cosima Wagner: The Lady of Bayreuth. Yale University Press, 2010, ISBN 0300152159. Ludwig II.: Der unzeitgemäße König. Siedler, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-388680-898-4. Liszt: Biographie eines Superstars. Siedler, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-88680-947-9. Cosimas Kinder: Triumph und Tragödie der Wagner-Dynastie. Siedler, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-88680-899-1. Im Fadenkreuz. Politische Gustav Mahler-Rezeption 1919–1945. Eine Studie über den Zusammenhang von Antisemitismus und Kritik an der Moderne. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-631-51041-1. Der Streit ums „Deutsche“. Alfred Heuß und die Zeitschrift für Musik. Von Bockel, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-932696-43-3. Mit Gustav Mahler in Viersen. In: Elke Heidenreich (Ed.), Ein Traum von Musik, 46 Liebeserklärungen. Edition Elke Heidenreich bei C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-58014-1. External links Authors Website References. Discover the Oliver Hilmes popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Oliver Hilmes books.
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Imbeciles
Adam CohenLonglisted for the 2016 National Book Award for NonfictionOne of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government ster...
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The Homeric Hymns
Homer & Jules CashfordComposed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. They recount the key episodes in the lives of ...
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Little Women
Louisa May AlcottMeg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there’s tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweetnatured Beth always puts others first, and finally there’s Amy, the youngest and m...
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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy, Dennis Taylor & Patricia InghamJude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have le...
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Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens & Andrew Sanders'There's no writing against such power as this one has no chance' William Makepeace ThackerayA compelling depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, Dombey and Son explores t...
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The Supreme Court
Jeffrey Rosen & Thirteen/WNETA leading Supreme Court expert recounts the personal and philosophical rivalries that forged our nation's highest court and continue to shape our daily livesThe Supreme Court is th...
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The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice & Surendranath TagoreSet on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband...
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The Disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth
Leonard GoldbergIn the third book of this criticallyacclaimed series, Sherlock Holmes' daughter faces a new unsolvable mystery with spies and a threat to the crown. Joanna and the Watsons receiv...
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Images from Works of Oliver W. Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.It includes various images as a part of literature that is a part of Georg Ebers's work. The images are a part from his novels and other works that he worked upon and wrote.
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The Works Of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.A collection of literary works of Oliver Wendell holmes. Literature is at once the most intimate and the most articulate of the arts. It cannot impart its effect through the senses...
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The Metaphysical Club
Louis MenandThe Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History. A national bestseller and "hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant" (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book...
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Seeking the Cure
Ira RutkowA timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accou...
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Building the Yellow Wall
Uli HesseWINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019Towards the beginning of the twentyfirst century, Borussia Dortmund were on the verge of going out of business. Now they are a...
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Plain Tales from the Hills
Rudyard KiplingOriginally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For t...
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King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Roger Lancelyn GreenKing Arthur is one of the greatest legends of all time. From the magical moment when Arthur releases the sword in the stone to the quest for the Holy Grail and the final tragedy of...
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De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
Oscar Wilde & Colm TóibínDe Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Tóibín.At the start of 1895,...
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Savage Peace
Ann HagedornWritten with the sweep of an epic novel and grounded in extensive research into contemporary documents, Savage Peace is a striking portrait of American democracy under stress. It i...
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Patriotic Gore
Edmund WilsonFeaturing critical and biographical portraits of notable figures of the American Civil War, Patriotic Gore remains one of Edmund Wilson's greatest achievements. Considered one of t...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes - Volume IV
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes Volume IV Oliver Wendell Holmes, american physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author (18091894) This ebook presents «The Poetical...
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The Dante Club
Matthew PearlNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Before The Dante Chamber, there was The Dante Club: “an ingenious thriller that . . . brings Dante Alighieri’s Inferno to vivid, even unsettling life.”Th...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, the 1893 three-volume set in a single file
Oliver Wendell HolmesAccording to Wikipedia: "Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer. During his lifet...
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Sevens Heaven
Ben RyanSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018The uplifting, feelgood autobiography of Ben Ryan, the coach of the Olympic goldmedal winning Fijian rugby team It is ...
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The Great Dissent
Thomas HealyA gripping intellectual history reveals how Oliver Wendell Holmes became a freespeech advocate and established the modern understanding of the First AmendmentNo right seems more fu...
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American Studies
Louis MenandAt each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, ...
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The Price of Principle
Alan DershowitzIn his fiftieth book, The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences, Alan Dershowitz#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most influential leg...
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Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.2 works of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (18411935) This ebook presents a collection of 2 wo...
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ... reflecting upon all my comrades that were d...
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The History of Tom Jones
Henry Fielding, Alice Wakely & Tom KeymerA foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daug...
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Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.This is a collection of all the works of literature by Oliver Wendell Holmes, which is indeed the complete collection of his work through his entire life. It has been compiled by H...
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Mansfield Park
Jane Austen'Full of the energies of discord sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion and vanity' Margaret DrabbleJane Austen's profound, ambiguous third novel is the story of...
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Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens'Among the most powerful things Dickens ever did in fiction' GuardianGreed has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and nam...
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The Dante Chamber
Matthew PearlMemories, fears, the fog of nightmares...Five years after a series of Danteinspired killings stunned Boston, a politician is found in a London park with his neck crushed by an enor...
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The Nun
Denis DiderotIn 1758 Diderot's friend the Marquis de Croismare became interested in the cause célèbre of a nun who was appealing to be allowed to leave a Paris convent. Less than a year later, ...