Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism Volume 41

by Ehrhard Bahr

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520257952
• ISBN13: 9780520257955
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"