Berlin in Lights

Download or read book Berlin in Lights written by Graf Harry Kessler and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vibrantly bringing to life the frenetic, constantly changing mood of Germany and Europe between the wars, Berlin in Lights is a fascinating collection of diaries written by German aristocrat Harry Kessler, a diplomat and publisher who moved easily among the world of art, politics, and society. Kessler's diaries encompass an extraordinary variety of people from Einstein, Josephine Baker, and Bertolt Brecht to Virginia Woolf, Jean Cocteau, and Andre Gide, to name a few. Recording firsthand the agonizing collapse and death of Weimar Germany and the arrival of the Nazis, as well as the artistic and cultural movements that flourished then, his diaries beautifully encapsulate the tumultuous years between the two world wars. Book jacket.