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Harry Kessler, the Count of Weimar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Michael H. Kater
Affiliation:
Canadian Centre for German and European StudiesYork University, Toronto

Abstract

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Type
Review Article
Copyright
Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 2004

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References

1. See Kessler's, best-known book, Walther Rathenau: Sein Leben und sein Werk (Berlin-Grunewald, 1928).Google Scholar

2. Pfeiffer-Belli, Wolfgang, ed., Harry Graf Kessler: Aus den Tagebüchern, 1918–1937 (Frankfurt am Main, 1961, republished 1982)Google Scholar; paperback reissue Munich, 1965.

3. Kessler, Charles, ed., Berlin in Lights: The Diary of Count Harry Kessler (1918–1937) (New York, 1999).Google Scholar An earlier version, introduced by Otto Friedrich, was published in 1971. For instance, the 1999 edition that was to hand for this review begins with Kessler's diary entry of 6 November 1918 (Berlin in Lights, 3), whereas the German one begins only with 9 November (Pfeiffer-Belli, Kessler [1965], 9).

4. See, for instance, entry for 11 June 1937, in Kessler, , Berlin in Lights, 457.Google Scholar

5. Ibid., 231.

6. Easton, Laird M., The Red Connt: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler (Berkeley, 2002), 332.Google Scholar

7. Barzantny, Tamara, Harry Graf Kessler und das Theater: Autor, Mäzen, Initiator, 1900–1933 (Cologne, 2002), 152.Google Scholar

8. Hofmannsthal cited ibid., 187, n. 251.

9. Ibid., 199.

10. Ibid., 201.