#tania blixen

[pandora-books]

"In his love for her there was a kind dignity which rejected jealousy: he knew his passion to be of a different quality to that of any other man."

Isak Dinesen, from "Copenhagen Season," in Last Tales

[dabiconcordia]

Out of Africa

Now take back the soul of Denys Finch Hatton  who you have shared with us. He brought us joy, and we loved him well. He was not ours, he was not mine. Tania Blixen

[davidhudson]

Isak Dinesen, April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962.

[herzsinnverstand]

Matthias Möller: Buch des Monats Tania Blixen: Jenseits von Afrika Coac...

[bernamegeh]

Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind Kimdir

Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind (10 Haziran 1901, Weilheim – 17 Nisan 1970, Tutzing) Alman yazar, gazeteci ve çevirmen. Süddeutsche Zeitung gazetesinde siyaset editörü olan bir gazeteciydi. Kendi eserlerini yazmak dışında, Tania Blixen ve Herman Melville gibi yazarların eserlerini Almanca’ya çevirdi. Koku isimli romanıyla tanınan yazar Patrick Süskind’in babası, Erika ve Klaus Mann’ın ise okul…

[korrektheiten]

Anthropologie: Sind wir alle Afrikaner?

Compact:»Politisch korrekte Forscher behaupten, dass der Ursprung der Europäer auf dem schwarzen Kontinent liegt. Dabei wurde diese Theorie schon längst widerlegt, wie wie man dem an der Wahrheit orientierten Werk „Die Entschlüsselung der Indogermanen-Frage“ entnehmen kann. Hier mehr erfahren..  In Anlehnung an Tania Blixens bekannten Roman „Out of Africa“ („Jenseits von Afrika“) bezeichnen Prähistoriker und Anthropologen die [...] Der Beitrag Anthropologie: Sind wir alle Afrikaner? erschien zuerst auf COMPACT. http://dlvr.it/Sld9sq «

[bopinion]

Book of the month / 2021 / 01 January

I love books. Even though I hardly read any. Because my library is more like a collection of tomes, coffee-table books, limited editions... in short: books in which not "only" the content counts, but also the editorial performance, the presentation, the curating of the topic - the book as a total work of art itself.

Peter Beard

Peter Beard

Photography & Art / 2013 / Taschen publishing house

In the early 1960s, Africa was a country largely unknown to Western societies. Despite the colonial past of large parts of the continent, there was no tourist infrastructure whatsoever, and in the sub-Saharan zone there was hardly any socio-political stability to speak of. In other words: a dream for adventurers and individualists!

Peter Beard was born in New York City in 1938 and began taking photographs as a young man. Coming from a well-off family, he could afford to study art with Joseph Albers at Yale University. As a member of New York's high society, he was friends with Truman Capote and Bianca Jagger, for example, and worked artistically with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali, photographing fashion for Vogue and celebrities such as David Bowie and Francis Bacon on the side. His passion for photography was joined in 1961 by a passion for Africa - the combination of the two was to become his life's mission.

In 1961 Beard came to Kenya for the first time, met the Danish author and country expert Tania Blixen and bought a piece of land next to hers. He witnessed the population explosion in Kenya, which also meant the end of many resources and the threat to many animal species. The mass deaths of some 35,000 elephants in Tsavo National Park, which perished because they could no longer find enough food when pressed by humans, were formative for him. And he had his camera with him.

Beard had already written a diary in his youth. While "written" is not quite right, collage is more accurate, a style he now combined with photography. He used his photographs as a canvas, arranged contact sheets, newspaper clippings, postcards, and other collected objects, and embellished them with handwriting and typewriting, illustrating them with drawings and even animal blood. In this way, his life on the African continent became a synthesis of the arts: a mixture of photography, environmental activism and diary, which was published in exhibitions and books all over the world.

In doing so, Beard does not accuse, he simply lets the images work, combining beauty and cruelty. In his photographs, haute couture models feed giraffes under the Kenyan sun, and elephant carcasses bear witness to man's destruction of nature. Thus, a personal life became an artistic life's work, he takes the viewer on an adventure trip into his own world, which is so far from the spirit of the time of the ideal exotic destination. His pictures "tell of a life that was almost too big, almost too much for one individual" (GQ).

Over the years, my favorite publisher Taschen has developed a penchant for discovering the world in a slightly different way: from fantastic travel picture books to compilations from National Geographic's infinite archive to exclusive works by Sebastiao Salgado. It goes without saying that Peter Beard is a must-have. The 770-page tome with the name of the "author" as its title is my favorite, as it spans the entire life of the artist.

Although set pieces had long been known and loved, this collection struck anew, and the feuilleton was enthusiastic:

"An impressive monograph and an excellent opportunity to learn about and appreciate the full range of Peter Beard's remarkable life and work." (State Magazine, London)

"This XXL volume is the ultimate work on the oeuvre of this artist of the century." (Foto Magazine, Hamburg)

"This extravagant and excellent book is itself a work of art." (L'Express, Paris)

"Sprawling is Peter Beard's world of thought, one that cares for no boundaries, opening up a mythical realm, set between Soho and Savannah. A book in which one can and will lose oneself." (ORF, Vienna)

"The rush of images on the pages quickly draws you into (...) a world in which Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol belong just as much as the animal life of the Savannah, world politics, supermodel eroticism and painting. Big was this world, exciting and glamorous. It is equal parts pop art and Hemingway romance." (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)

Beard's pictorial power is matched by a creative editorial team that explains, classifies, and comments. In addition to his Kenyan wife Nejma, they are gallery owner David Fahey, authors Owen Edwards and Steven M. L. Aronson, and art director Ruth Ansel. It's an academic setting that should be curiously abhorrent to the artist himself, who says, "My whole life has been about escaping art academy. Art academy teaches you exactly the opposite of art. I'm not a person who suffers from that. I'm just of the opinion that you should just do things and try them without giving them a lot of thought beforehand."

Peter Beard would have had his birthday the day before yesterday, but passed away last April: he was found dead at Camp Hero State Park, a nature preserve near Montauk, after having been missing for three weeks. So, in a way, he remained true to himself and his adventurous spirit to the very end.

Here is the link to Peter Beard's website:

https://peterbeard.com

[detroitlib]

Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) 

Danish author, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen, who wrote works in Danish, French and English. She also at times used the pen names Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.

Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, an account of her life while living in Kenya, and for one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into Academy Award-winning motion pictures. She is also noted for her Seven Gothic Tales, particularly in Denmark. (Wikipedia)

From our stacks: 1.-2. Cover detail and title page detail from Seven Gothic Tales By Isak Dinesen. With an Introduction By Dorothy Canfield. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934.  3.-4. Title page detail and cover detail from Winter’s Tales. Isak Dinesen. Random House, 1942.

[museenkuss]

Which books have you been buying? ✨

A summary of the last few weeks✨

Vladimir Nabokov — Pale Fire

Fortnum&Mason — Time for Tea

Edith Wharton — House of Mirth

Die Neue Frau (Insel anthology)

Sasha Marianne Salzmann — Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein

Tania Blixen — Babettes gæstebud (tr. Ulrich Sonnenberg)

Annie Ernaux — Les années (tr. Sonja Finck)

Banana Yoshimoto — N.P. (tr. Annelie Ortmanns-Suzuki)

[newloverofbeauty]

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I Know of a Cure for Everything: 

 Salt Water . . . 

 Sweat, or Tears, 

 or the Salt Sea.

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Tania Blixen

[scheidungsgrund]

I know of a cure for everything: salt water. [...] in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Tania Blixen, "The Deluge at Norderney" in "Seven Gothic Tales"

[con-una-lettera]

Karen Blixen a suo fratello Thomas S.l., 1 aprile 1926 Caro Thomas, [...] credo che per me sia stata una gran disgrazia crescere in quella famiglia, in quell’ambiente, in quella ‘concezione del mondo’ nella quale sono nata. [...] La loro grande, illimitata bontà, il loro affetto per me, la loro serie di lunghe premure, per me non sono stati altro che una serie di sventure che hanno reso impossibile ogni mio tentativo di oppormi. Ti ricordi che abbiamo parlato dello strano potere che la mamma aveva su di noi [...], quello di rendere impossibile ogni critica e ogni protesta, di rendere inconcepibile anche nel nostro intimo la possibilità che la mamma potesse sbagliare, e che se sbagliava sarebbe stato meglio contrastarla; questa singolare facoltà ha avuto un influsso fatale sulla mia vita. La scrittrice danese Karen Christentze Dinesen, baronessa von Blixen-Finecke  è stata una scrittrice danese, nota con vari pseudonimi, il più famoso dei quali è Karen Blixen; pubblicò opere anche con il nome di Isak Dinesen (suo cognome di nascita), Tania Blixen, Pierre Andrèzel e Osceola. Il tema del conflitto tra la Blixen e la madre e, più in particolare, con il ramo materno della sua famiglia (i borghesi e rigidi Westenholz) è uno di quelli su cui la scrittrice più ritorna nel suo epistolario.

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Wenn Gott dich strafen will, erhört er deine Gebete - frei nach Tania Blixen (hier: Piekenbrock, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSxOKjlD6jq/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Translation:

The solution for everything is saltwater: sweat, tears or the ocean

- Tania Blixen

[bm2ab]

Arrivals & Departures - 17 April 1885 Celebrate Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke Day Pen names: [Isak Dinesen] [Tania Blixen] [Osceola] [Pierre Andrézel]

Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote works in Danish and English. She is best known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries, and Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries. She also published works using the aliases Osceola and Pierre Andrézel.

Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, an account of her life while living in Kenya, and for one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into Academy Award-winning motion pictures. She is also noted, particularly in Denmark, for her Seven Gothic Tales.

Blixen was considered several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.