Weimar on the Pacific :: German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism /

In the 1930s and '40s, LA became a cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodor W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who were fleeing Nazi Germany. This book is the first to examine their work and liv...

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Main Author: Bahr, Ehrhard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
Series:Weimar and now ; 41.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:In the 1930s and '40s, LA became a cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodor W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who were fleeing Nazi Germany. This book is the first to examine their work and lives.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 358 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-346) and index.
ISBN:9780520933804
052093380X
9780520257955
0520257952

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