Richard Dove Livres

Playwright, socialist revolutionary, and political activist and organizer, Ernst Toller was one of the most celebrated German authors known to the English-speaking world from the 1920s to the Second World War.

Exploring the intersection of culture and politics, this book delves into the experiences of five German-speaking actors who fled Nazi Germany and thrived in British theatre during World War II. Their emotional performances garnered critical acclaim, supported by prominent British theatre figures. The narrative highlights their contributions to British propaganda, including Martin Miller's satirical takes on Hitler and Lucie Mannheim's anti-Nazi rendition of 'Lilli Marlene,' reflecting the complexities of Anglo-German relations in a turbulent era.

"Aus einem früheren Leben" ist eine Gedichtsammlung von Richard Dove, die zwischen 1976 und 1986 entstand. Sie reflektiert gesellschaftliche Umbrüche in Großbritannien und greift antike sowie deutsche Einflüsse auf. Die deutsche Fassung wurde von namhaften Lyrikern übersetzt und zeigt die Vielfalt moderner deutschsprachiger Lyrik.

All Hitler’s political opponents in exile sought to devise plans for the post-war future of Germany, Austria or Czechoslovakia. This volume brings together the different, often divergent proposals of groups and individuals in British exile and evaluates their contribution to actual post-war developments.

"Among the 70,000 refugees from Nazi Germany who had entered Britain by 1939 were some of the leading literary personalities of the Weimar era. This book tells the stories of five emigre writers, two Austrian, three German - the Austrian and internationally known novelist Stefan Zweig, the leading Berlin theatre critic and essyist Alfred Kerr, the writer and poet Max Herrmann-Neisse, the radical, pacifist journalist Karl Otten, and the Austrian novelist and literary parodist Robert Neumann. All were banned from publishing in Germany from which they fled for their lives. Only Zweig was already known in Britain." "Using unpublished diaries, memoirs, letters and British government records, the author follows the difficult, often dramatic and tragic lives of these men and their families in their efforts to establish themselves in British society."--Jacket

Political changes between 1918 and 1939 had important implications for German writers. The essays in this volume focus on questions such as the writers' relationship to political parties and ideology, their treatment of the legacy of World War I, and their response to the rise of fascism.

Die Auswahl aus Michael Hamburgers dichterischem Werk zeigt die kontinuierliche Entwicklung seines Schaffens seit 1941. Chronologisch geordnet, thematisiert sie zentrale Motive wie Kunst und Leben, Stadt und Natur sowie Gewalt und Widerstand.