Bertolt Brecht Journals, 1934-55Bloomsbury Publishing, 14.07.2016 - 576 Seiten "Those who dismiss Brecht as a yea-sayer to Stalinism are advised to read these journals and moderate their opinion." (Paul Bailey, Weekend Telegraph)
"A marvellous, motley collage of political ideas, domestic detail, artistic debate, poems, photographs and cuttings from newspapers and magazines, assembled, undoubtedly for posterity by one of the great writers of the century" (New Statesman and Society) |
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... Eisler for the Theatre Union's production of The Mother, there was a new League of American Writers headed by Waldo Frank, with Odets, Michael Gold, Langston Hughes and other Leftists. This was to be affiliated to Moscow's MORP. It ...
... Eisler, Piscator, Burian, Tretiakov, Gorelik and Auden. Unhappily names like these were almost as remote from the new Soviet orthodoxy – with its nineteenthcentury art models, its Stanislavskyan theatre, its neoclassical architecture ...
... Eisler had already given up his role in Soviet musical life and was working in New York. * Unlike his Moscow initiation by Piscator and Tretiakov in 1935, Brecht's New York visit in the autumn of that year had not been a happy ...
... Eisler's Hollywood Songbook he seems always to be aiming at the conventional American portals to fame: Broadway and the movies. Meantime his real progress is taking place on the other side of the Atlantic, with the production of his big ...
... Eisler brothers, whom their sister Ruth Fischer had denounced to the FBI a little wildly along with Brecht. This final association with the 'Hollywood nineteen', which threw him together with just those naturalist writers of whom he was ...
Inhalt
24 | |
July 1941 to 5 November 1947 | 40 |
December 1947 to 20 October 1948 | 46 |
October 1948 to 18 July 1955 | 47 |
Editorial Notes | 56 |
Select Bibliography | 57 |