Weimar on the Pacific German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism

Name: Weimar on the Pacific German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism
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ISBN: 9780520257955

ISBN-10: 0520257952

ISBN-13: 9780520257955

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ehrhard Bahr

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In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals--including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg--who had fled Nazi Germany. During their years in exile, they would produce a substantial body of major works to address the crisis of modernism that resulted from the rise of National Socialism. Weimar Germany and its culture, with its meld of eighteenth-century German classicism and twentieth-century modernism, served as a touchstone for this group of diverse talents and opinions. Weimar on the Pacificis the first book to examine these artists and intellectuals as…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 382
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Ehrhard Bahris distinguished professor emeritus of German at UCLA.



List of Illustrations


List of Abbreviations


Preface


Introduction



The Dialectic of Modernism



Art and Its Resistance to Society: Theodor W. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory



Bertolt Brecht's California Poetry: Mimesis or Modernism?



The Dialectic of Modern Science: Brecht's Galileo



Epic Theater versus Film Noir: Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang's Anti-Nazi Film Hangmen Also Die



California Modern as Immigrant Modernism: Architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph M. Schindler



Between Modernism and Antimodernism: Franz Werfel



Renegade Modernism: Alfred Doblin's Novel




The Political Battleground of Exile Modernism: The Council for a Democratic Germany



Evil Germany versus Good Germany: Thomas Mann's




A "True Modernist": Arnold Schoenberg


Conclusion: The Weimar Legacy of Los Angeles


Chronology


Appendices I-V



Addresses of Weimar Exiles and Exile Institutions in Los Angeles



Filmography: Hangmen Also Die



Text of the Kol Nidre



Lord Byron's "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"



Text of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor of Warsaw


Bibliography


Index