»Prussian Modernity: From the End of Splendour and a New Architecture 1918-1933«: After the First World War, Wilhelminian historicism was worn out, and Prussia, its provinces and cities set out on the path to a new style of architecture. Prussian modernism was committed to the common good, was groundbreaking in terms of technology and design, and in this respect surpassed all other states in the German Empire. Politicians and mayors, architects and building officials were involved - not the Bauhaus.
»Richard von Kühlmann. Memoirs and Political Correspondence 1904 to 1918«: Markus Bußmann has unearthed the memoirs of Richard von Kühlmann, one of the ablest diplomats of the Second German Empire and foreign secretary in 1917/18. They were written in the early 1930s, but never published. They complement the memoirs published by Kühlmann in 1948. In the second part of this edition Winfried Baumgart adds a collection of documents by Kühlmann's pen for the years 1904 to 1918 and preserved in the [...]
