Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism
- ISBN-10
- 0520257952
- ISBN-13
- 9780520257955
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 358
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-08-08
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Ehrhard Bahr
Description
In the 1930s and '40s, LA became a cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodor W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who were fleeing Nazi Germany. This book is the first to examine their work and lives.
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