Weimar on the Pacific : German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism

Weimar on the Pacific : German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism / Ehrhard Bahr.

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 liv...

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Main Author: Bahr, Ehrhard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
Series:Weimar and now ; 41.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Modernism (Aesthetics) > California > Los Angeles.
Germans > California > Los Angeles > Intellectual life.
Jews, German > California > Los Angeles > Intellectual life.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Intellectual life
Germans > Intellectual life
Jews, German > Intellectual life
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Literatur
Exil
Geistesleben
Weimarer Republik
Exilschriftsteller
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
California > Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Calif.
Kalifornien
Deutschland
Deutsche.
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