Blueprint by Theresia Enzensberger

Blueprint by Theresia Enzensberger

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Fast-paced and highly topical, Theresia Enzensberger's story depicts a young woman in the throes of life: from brutal conflicts between right and left, to a pair of young lovers leaping into a river at night, almost one hundred years ago.

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Blueprint by Theresia Enzensberger

Luise Schilling is young, inquisitive and has a promising future ahead of her. At the beginning of the turbulent twenties, she arrives at Weimar's Bauhaus University. She takes classes with professors such as Gropius and Kandinsky and throws herself into the dreams and ideas of her epoch. Luise has ambitions of achieving a great deal in life - but little of it has to do with paying homage to great men. First, she falls in love with the dazzling art student Jakob, then with the politicised graphic artist, Hermann. But these are just two of the figures she meets during a heady period. From technology to art, communism to the avant-garde, populism to the youth movement, Luise encounters the social utopias that still shape us to the present day. As if looking at the headlines of today's newspapers, what becomes clear is that the greater fight for freedom never stops at our own individual lives.
This powerful novel tells a story of a time past that feels eerily reflective of the present * Sunday Times *
A coming-of-age story about a female Bauhaus student in the 1920s, exploring themes of politics, expectation and ownership of art * Red *
Bringing to life the Bauhaus movement (which is now in its 100th year), this book follows student Luise as she starts university in 1920s GermanyFull of dreams, she soon gets caught up in a cult-like spiritual group * Elle *
Theresia Enzensberger studied Film and Film Studies at Bard College in New York and writes as a freelance journalist for the FAZ, FAS, ZEIT Online, Krautreporter and Monopol. In 2014, she founded the award-winning BLOCK Magazine. Blueprint is her first novel. Theresia Enzensberger lives in Berlin.
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ISBN 13 9780349700823
ISBN 10 0349700826
Title Blueprint
Author Theresia Enzensberger
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Dialogue
Year published 2019-08-01
Number of pages 240
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.