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The internment diary of Austrian composer Hans Gal (1890-1987) with a biographical study of his life and career. Includes a CD of first recordings of three of his works from the period. The Austrian composer Hans Gal (1890-1987) was one of many Jewish refugees who fled to Britain from Hitler's Third Reich only to find themselves interned in prison camps in Britain as 'enemy aliens' - the result of Churchill's panic decision to 'collar the lot'. Gal thus spent five months over the summer of 1940 in internment camps - first in Donaldson's Hospital in Edinburgh, then at Huyton, near Liverpool, and finally in the Central Promenade Camp on theIsle of Man. Many of Gal's fellow internees went on, like Gal himself, to become shaping forces in the intellectual life of Britain - but in captivity this colourful parade of characters had to put up with bureaucratic inertia and the indifference of their captors to their undeserved fate. The diary Gal kept during his captivity vividly describes the difficulties the internees had to overcome to live as normal a life as possible. Gal's contribution, of course, was music, and the CD with this book presents first recordings of the Huyton Suite he wrote for two violins and flute (the only instruments available to him), the satirical review What a Life! composed on the Isle of Man and the piano suite he drew from it. Introductory chapters by Gal's daughter and by Richard Dove present a biographical survey of Gal's life and career and an examination of British internment policy; the Foreword is bythe distinguished economist Sir Alan Peacock, who studied composition with Gal. Together they throw light on one of the more shameful British responses to the threat of Nazi invasion.
Musik hinter Stacheldraht ist ein fesselnder Bericht aus erster Hand uber funf Monate Internierungshaft. Hans Gal, oesterreichischer Komponist, und andere mitbetroffene Fluchtlinge des Dritten Reiches werden 1940 zunachst in Huyton bei Liverpool und spater auf der Isle of Man als "feindliche Auslander" interniert. Diese Haftlinge bilden eine bunte Mischung bedeutender Persoenlichkeiten, die spater eine besondere Stellung sowohl im intellektuellen als auch im kulturellen Leben Grossbritanniens und zum Teil auch im internationalen Geistesleben einnehmen und wie Figuren in einem Roman aus den Seiten dieses Tagebuchs hervortreten. Es ist ein tragikomisches menschliches Drama, erschutternd und erheiternd zugleich, hoechst lesenswert und letztlich ein Denkmal des menschlichen Geistes und der Kraft der Musik, die den Stacheldrahtzaun geistig uberwinden. Dem Buch liegt eine CD mit Hans Gals Huyton Suite (geschrieben fur die einzigen damals vorhandenen Instrumente) und mit der ersten Rekonstruktion seiner Musik fur die Lager-Revue What a Life bei, ausserdem enthalt es eine allgemeine historische Einfuhrung in die britische Internierungspolitik wahrend dieser kritischen Periode des 2. Weltkriegs und eine biographische Einfuhrung in das Leben Hans Gals.
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