Tagebuch Mary Zwilgmeyer
Das Tagebuch wurde abgeschrieben und leicht kommentiert; auch wurden - auf Wunsch der Familie - ein kurze Einführung und ein Schlusswort verfasst.
Vollständiger Text als durchsuchbare PDF-Datei mit 608 Seiten als erster Anhang, danach folgen die Einzelseiten als Bilddateien (jpg).
Zwischen 1914 und 1918 hat Mary Zwilgmeyer ein Tagebuch ihrer Erlebnisse in Berlin geführt. Darin nahm die aus England stammende Frau, die mit einem Deutsche-Bank-Aufsichsratmitglied verheiatet war, einen besonderen Blickwinkel ein. Sie verfügte über sehr gute Verbindungen nach England und war zugleich gut vernetzt in der Berliner Gesellschaft.
Das Besondere an dem Tagebuch sind auch das Nachwort von 1928 sowie ein eigenständiger Artikel, der aus der Sicht der Autorin die Ereignisse der ersten Monate des Jahres 1933 schildert.
Abschrift und Kommentar von im Familienbesitz befindlichen Tagebüchern; der Abschrift lag eine maschinengeschriebenes Manuskript zu Grunde.
Tagebücher einer Deutsch-Engländerin
Diary
Berlin
English Translation
The diary was transcribed and lightly annotated; also - at the request of the family - a short introduction and a conclusion were written. Complete text as a searchable PDF file with 608 pages as the first attachment, followed by the individual pages as image files (jpg). || Between 1914 and 1918 Mary Zwilgmeyer kept a diary of her experiences in Berlin. In it, the woman from England, who was married to a member of the Deutsche Bank supervisory board, took on a special perspective. She had very good connections to England and at the same time was well connected in Berlin society. What is special about the diary is the afterword from 1928 and a separate article that describes the events of the first months of 1933 from the author's point of view. || || Transcription and commentary of family-owned diaries; the copy was based on a typed manuscript. || Diaries of a German-Englishwoman || Diaries || Berlin
CREATOR
Norbert Friedrich
DATE
1914 - 1933
LANGUAGE
deu || Deutsch
ITEMS
991
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
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