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...Nuremberg, Communists and Fascists (National Socialist Workers party) met for a debate which terminated in a free-for-all. Spectators amused themselves by pitching beer mugs and stones into the throng, injuring 70 contestants, among them three Fascist aldermen. Police charged and dispersed the rioters with truncheons and fire hose...
...Nuremberg. In July and August Wagner's Meistersinger given in its original setting...
...Meistersinger (German). It is hard to tell whether the story of the cobbler and the city clerk of Nuremberg who loved a girl who loved neither of them would have been better or worse if Wagner's immortal but cinematically difficult music had been recorded around it. The poetry, of course, is in the music rather than the anecdote. This poetry is lost, but the silent Meistersinger moves with a light-footedness impossible in grand opera. Clearly these capable German actors like their. material and understand it. They play the old roles slyly, fast and broadly -the whimsical Hans...
Mann of Buddenbrooks. In the early 18th Century the House of Mann was great in the woolen draping trade at Nuremberg, ancient, free and most glamorous of German cities. Novelist Mann has told in his Buddenbrooks, aptly dubbed "The German Forsyte Saga," of the rise and decline of a great merchant family almost precisely like his own. His father was a Senator and twice Mayor of Lübeck, the Hanseatic Capital where Thomas was born 54 years ago, when Hanseatic troops still dipped their colors at a Mann's approach...
...editions which are on display are grouped according to the century in which they were printed, but at the same time an effort has been made to include the works of as many countries as possible. In the Fifteenth Genuine Germany is represented by the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493, a large folio Latin, illustrated by fine wood cuts the people and scenes of the times...