Dresden : a city reborn / edited by Anthony Clayton and Alan Russell ; with a foreword by HRH The Duke of Kent.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clayton, Anthony, 1928- editor.

Russell, A. K. (Alan Keith), editor.

HRH The Duke of Kent, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Dresden.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On 13 February 1945 Dresden, one of the most beautiful and historic cities of Europe, was destroyed by British and American air raids. This book is the first comprehensive history in the English language of this important cultural and historical centre. The book traces the city's evolution from 1206 to its great baroque period under Augustus the Strong, and from the bombing to the present day. The story of Dresden supplies the reader with unique insights into the collapse of the old monarchic order, the resistance of citizens to the Nazi regime, as well as the reaction of the Church and the rise and fall of the GDR. It describes the post-war replanning of the city, from its ideological reshaping under Communism to the liberation of ideas and energies after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Experts in their fields tell the story of Dresden's great musical, artistic, architectural, literary and theatrical traditions, which are further illuminated by a series of personal memoirs from eye-witness accounts in 1945 to contemporary reflections by Lord Menuhin and others. Heavily illustrated and complete with a foreword from the Duke of Kent, Dresden: A City Reborn is an important text for all students of German history and art history.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Contents

List of Black and White Pictures

HRH The Duke of Kent

Foreword

Alan Russell

Dresden and the Dresden Trust

Anthony Clayton

Dresden, 1206-1918

including - Out of the Fire - the Enduring Friendship of Coventry and Dresden by Paul Oestreicher

Dresden, 1919-45

including - Always in Dresden - A Personal Memoir by Karl-Ludwig Hoch

Dresden and East Germany, 1945-90

including - The Battle to Conserve - Securing the Ruins of the Frauenkirche by Hans Nadler

John Soane

Dresden: its Destruction and Rebuilding, 1945-85

including - The Rebirth of Dresden, as Conceived by Gunter Just (1999) and Ingolf Rossberg (2006)

The Renaissance of Dresden after 1985

including - The Rebuilding of the Frauenkirche in Dresden by Eberhard Burger

Dresden's Architectural Traditions and its Surviving Heritage

Clare Ford-Wille

The Art Collections of Dresden

Derek McCulloch

Dresden: A Music Metropolis

Judith Purver

Dresden's Literary and Theatrical Traditions

concluding with - Dresden: City of Music and Culture by Yehudi Menuhin

New Beginnings: An Epilogue

Appendix 1: The House of Wettin in Dresden

Appendix 2: Worldwide Support for the Frauenkirche

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

List of Plates

Plate Section

eCopyright.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781845209445

1845209443

OCLC:

850161690