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The Brandenburg countryside has long been an escape for the Berlin literati. Follow the footsteps of four major figures in these three-day trips.

BERLIN—For me, Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann were the two greatest German authors of the 20th century, and Brecht, a believer in socialism—and a fighter for it—is admittedly closer to my heart than Mann. In my three different U.S.

Christopher Plummer, suave Canadian actor best known as von Trapp in The Sound of Music – obituary A gifted classical actor on stage, he was disdainful of his best-known film role, which he said he was ‘dying to send up’ Plummer: liked playing ‘larger-than-life characters’ Credit: Martin Pope Christopher Plummer, the Oscar-winning Canadian actor, who has died aged 91, achieved fame in the early 1950s in a succession of Shakespearean roles, but was best remembered, to his lasting irritation, for his sentimental portrayal of Captain Georg von Trapp in the film musical The Sound of Mus...