A youth in Germany / Ernst Toller ; translated by Eoin and Eva Bourke ; edited and introduced by Christiane Sch̲nfeld and Lisa Marie Anderson ; with appendix materials compiled and translated by Christiane Sch̲nfeld, Lisa Marie Anderson, and Eva Bourke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toller, Ernst, 1893-1939, author.

Contributor:

Schönfeld, Christiane, editor.

Anderson, Lisa Marie, editor.

Series:

Broadview editions

Standardized Title:

Jugend in Deutschland. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Toller, Ernst, 1893-1939.

Toller, Ernst.

Authors, German--20th century--Biography.

Authors, German.

Genre:

autobiographies (literary genre)

Autobiographies

Biographies

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

295 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, [2024]

Summary:

"This is the first critical, contextualized edition in English of Eine Jugend in Deutschland (1933), the remarkable autobiographical account of Ernst Toller (1893-1939), one of the most important German writers of the first half of the twentieth century. He was a celebrated poet and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the most significant and innovative playwright of the Weimar Republic. His critically acclaimed and societally controversial work left its mark on many of his contemporaries and is still inspiring writers today. Completed at the beginning of Toller's exile from Nazi Germany, Eine Jugend in Deutschland gives a remarkable account of his childhood as the son of Jewish merchants in Eastern Prussia under Kaiser Wilhelm II, his studies in France, his eager service at the western front during World War One, his conversion to pacifism, his activism in the German Revolution of 1918-1919 and leadership in the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, his trial for high treason, and his incarceration as a political prisoner of the Weimar Republic."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translation of: Eine Jugend in Deutschland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Toller, Ernst, 1893-1939. Jugend in Deutschland. English. Youth in Germany.

ISBN:

9781554816170

1554816173

OCLC:

1413227710