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Père Lachaise Cemetery, 16 Rue du Repos, 75020 Paris, Francia
Harry Clemens Ulrich Graf Kessler (23 May 1868 – 30 November 1937) was an
Anglo-German count, diplomat, writer, and patron of modern art. English
translations of his diaries "Journey to the Abyss" (2011) and "Berlin in
Lights" (1971) reveal anecdotes and details of artistic, theatrical, and
political life in Europe, mostly in Germany, from the late 19th century
through the collapse of Germany at the end of World War I until his death in
Lyon in 1937.
His homosexuality, which inevitably made him a psychological outsider, undoubtedly influenced his insight and critique of Wilhelmian culture.[3]
On 7 November 1932, in Berlin, Count Harry Kessler had dinner with the French novelist Roger Martin du Gard, among others. Kessler recorded the Frenchman’s impressions in his diary: It is his first visit and what fascinates him most is the life in the streets, ‘la Rue de Berlin’. The people he sees there seem to him quite different from those in Paris; the future is reflected in their looks. The new man, the man of the future, is being created in Germany … Martin du Gard is much impressed with the fine appearance of the German race. The handsome boys and beautiful young girls are, to him, a reincarnation of ancient Greece.
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