Nature Park Travel - Europe off the beaten track

You can buy here a - German Language - Dessau City Map including hiking, cycling trails, a map of the surroundings and Woerlitz park posted by a German bookseller via Abebooks UK or via Abebooks US/Canada.

The Dessau-Woerlitz Garden Kingdom was the first landscape garden created outside of England. You find a comprehensive, illustrated overview on the creation of the park in the exhibition catalogue 'For the Friends of Nature and Art: The Garden Kingdom of Prince Franz von Anhalt-Dessau in the Age of Enlightenment' available via Abebooks UK or via Abebooks US/Canada.

In 1938 the New York Museum of Modern Art showed the Bauhaus for the first time in the USA. You can by reprints and originals of the exhibition catalogue 'Bauhaus 1919-1928' edited by Walter Gropius, Ise Gropius and Herbert Bayer via Abebooks UK or via Abebooks US/Canada.

By texts and many illustrations the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation explains the fascination of Dessau's Bauhaus Building in detail: 'The Dessau Bauhaus Building 1926-1999'. You can order the book via the international booksellers' network Abebooks UK, Abebooks US/Canada, Amazon UK or Amazon US.

Munich photographer Hans Engels traveled from Germany to Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Barcelona and Zurich for the pictures in "Bauhaus Architecture" showing less known buildings by the Bauhaus masters, teachers and students from 1919 to 1933. You can order the picture book via Amazon UK, via Amazon US, Abebooks UK or Abebooks US/Canada.

In 1938 the New York Museum of Modern Art showed the Bauhaus for the first time in the USA. You can buy reprints and originals of the exhibition catalogue 'Bauhaus 1919-1928' edited by Walter Gropius, Ise Gropius and Herbert Bayer via Abebooks UK, via Abebooks US/Canada, Amazon US or Amazon UK.

'Bauhaus 1919-1933' by Magdalena Droste and the Berlin Bauhaus Archive is a coffetable book published by Taschen, available via Abebooks UK or via Abebooks US/Canada, Amazon US or Amazon UK.

You find all of Bauhaus, from Germany to the US, in Hans Wingler's: 'Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago. You can buy the comprehensive 658 illustrated pages via Abebooks UK or via Abebooks US/Canada, Amazon UK or Amazon US.

Weills' mix of vanguard music and jazz, klezmer and tango, intellect and pop, musical and political content is still intriguing:

You can buy records of Weill's music posted from Germany via jpc.de, his songs sung by his wife and partner Lotte Lenya, by Caterina Valente, by Nick Cave, Lou Reed und Teresa Stratas, by Marianne Faithfull and by Anja Silja.

Kurt Weill's Music is also available via amazon.com or via amazon.co.uk

The Jewish philosopher of the enlightenment Moses Mendelssohn was born in Dessau in 1729. He went to Berlin when he was 14 years old. In 1743 he married Fromet Guggenheim, his sons Joseph and Abraham were bankers, his daughter Dorothea was married to the Romantic writer Friedrich Schlegel, his grandchildren were the composers Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Fanny Hensel ...

'The Mendelssohns. Three generations of genius' by Herbert Kupferberg tells the story of the Mendelssohn family. The book is available via Abebooks UK or via Abebooks US/Canada, via amazon.com or via amazon.co.uk.

Weills' mix of vanguard music and jazz, klezmer and tango, intellect and pop, musical and political content is still intriguing

You can buy records of Weill's music posted from Germany via jpc.de, his songs sung by his partner Lotte Lenya, by Caterina Valente, by Nick Cave, Lou Reed und Teresa Stratas, by Marianne Faithfull and by Anja Silja.

Kurt Weill's Music is also available via amazon.com or via amazon.co.uk