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Weimar on the Pacific - German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism (Paperback)
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Weimar on the Pacific - German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism (Paperback)
Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism, 41
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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 Pacific" is the first book to examine these artists
and intellectuals as a group. Ehrhard Bahr studies selected works
of Adorno, Horkheimer, Brecht, Lang, Neutra, Schindler, Doblin,
Mann, and Schoenberg, weighing Los Angeles's influence on them and
their impact on German modernism. Touching on such examples as film
noir and Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus," Bahr shows how this
community of exiles reconstituted modernism in the face of the
traumatic political and historical changes they were living
through.
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