"Escape to life" : German intellectuals in New York : a compendium on exile after 1933 / edited by Eckart Goebel and Sigrid Weigel ; assisted by Jerome Bolton ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goebel, Eckart.

Weigel, Sigrid.

Bolton, Jerome.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exiles' writings, German--History and criticism.

Exiles' writings, German.

Germans--New York (State)--New York.

Germans.

New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (564 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. Stripped of their German citizenship by the Nazi-regime, these public figures either stayed in the New York area or moved on to California and other places. This compendium, adopting the title of a famous volume published by Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals' thinking when it was translated into another language and addressed to an American audience. Among the individuals presented in this volume, are such prominent names as T.W. Adorno, H. Arendt, W. Benjamin, E. Bloch, B. Brecht, S. Kracauer, the Mann family, S. Morgenstern, and E. Panofsky. The authors of the essays in this compendium were free to choose the angle (biography, theory, politics) or aspect (a single work, a personal constellation) deemed best to illuminate the given intellectual's work. Acclaimed NYC photographer Fred Stein, a German-Jewish refugee from Dresden, produced numerous portraits of exiled intellectuals and artists. A selection of these compelling portraits is reproduced in this book for the first time.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction / Goebel, Eckart / Weigel, Sigrid

"Sticking to our language" / "an unserer Sprache festhalten:" Adorno in NYC / Erdle, Birgit R.

Adorno's Monsters / Lezra, Jacques

Sounding Through - Poetic Difference - Self-Translation: Hannah Arendt's Thoughts and Writings Between Different Languages, Cultures, and Fields / Weigel, Sigrid

From Königsberg to Little Rock: Hannah Arendt and the Concept of Childhood / Weissberg, Liliane

Erich Auerbach's Second Exile / Barck, Karlheinz

Walter Benjamin's Farewell to Europe / Liska, Vivian

No Place Yet: Ernst Bloch's Utopia in Exile / Schmieder, Falko

Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Losey, and Brechtian Cinema / Cohen, Robert

"Without knowing America, you cannot say anything valid about democratic politics." Hermann Broch and the Ethics of Exile / Weidner, Daniel

"Lesen Sie before the letter:" Oskar Maria Graf in New York / Stockhammer, Robert

Eclipse of Reason: Max Horkheimer's New York Lectures, 1944 / Goebel, Eckart

I'm Not There: New York as Displaced Psychogeography in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage / Jennings, Michael W.

Bodies: Ernst H. Kantorowicz / Fleming, Paul

Siegfried Kracauer: The Film Historian in Exile / Kaes, Anton

Identifying the Impulse: Alfred Lion Founds the Blue Note Jazz Label / Braese, Stephan

A Flaschenpost Recast: Leo Löwenthal's Late Writings / Bolton, Jerome

On An Eastward Trajectory Toward Europe: Karl Löwith's Exiles / Gasche, Rodolphe

Ethics of Imagination: On Erika Mann's Works in Exile / Kassner, Jonathan

You Can't Go Home Again: Exiles in Klaus Mann's The Volcano / Behrmann, Nicola

Voyage with Don Quixote: Thomas Mann between European Culture and American Politics / Reulecke, Anne-Kathrin

The Returns of Herbert Marcuse / Siegel, Elke

Exile is a Flop: Soma Morgenstern over Central Park / North, Paul

Stranger in Paradise: Erwin Panofsky's Expulsion to the Academic Parnassus / Beyer, Andreas

The Flight Into Orgonomy: Wilhelm Reich in New York / Hamilton, John T.

Reinventing the Canonical: The Radical Thinking of Jacob Taubes / Treml, Martin

"Almost American:" Ernst Toller Abroad / Stachel, Thomas

"Inter, but not national:" Vile´m Flusser and the Technologies of Exile / Smith, Chadwick

Fred Stein (1909-1967): A Retrospective / Freer, Dawn

Portraits / Stein, Fred

About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Edition:

Reproduction of: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2012

ISBN:

9781283857581

1283857588

9783110258684

3110258684

9783112204160

3112204166

OCLC:

796384310