Refuge and Reality

Feuchtwanger and the European Émigrés in California
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-420-1945-4
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 61, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: German Monitor

This volume brings together papers by scholars from Germany, the USA, France, England and Ireland given at the first International Feuchtwanger Conference, held in Los Angeles in 2003. Some of Lion Feuchtwanger’s novels from his exile in the United States are analyzed here, as are the lives of Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger and their contacts in the German émigré world in California. In addition, two papers focus on aspects of Bertolt Brecht’s and Alfred Döblin’s lives as emigrants in California. This volume is of interest to students of exile studies, of German refuge in the USA and of modern German literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Dochartaigh, Pól

Stephan, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Pól O’DOCHARTAIGH and Alexander STEPHAN: Foreword
Wulf KOEPKE: Hitler in Hollywood. Lion Feuchtwangers Abschied von Deutschland im Spiegel von Die Brüder Lautensack
Arnold PISTIAK: Das Vermächtnis des historischen Dichters. Anmerkungen zu Jefta und seine Tochter
Pól O’DOCHARTAIGH: The Present Sense of an Historical Novel: Feuchtwanger’s Waffen für Amerika
Ian WALLACE: Hangmen also die. Varieties of Collaboration
David MIDGLEY: Döblin in Hollywood
Daniel AZUÉLOS: Lion Feuchtwanger und Franz Werfel in der jüdischen Exilzeitschrift Aufbau oder Schriftsteller zwischen Engagement und künstlerischer Selbstbehauptung
Alexander STEPHAN: Neues vom FBI zu Lion Feuchtwanger?
Marje SCHUETZE-COBURN: Feuchtwanger’s Relocation to Southern California: Frustrations & Successes
Jeffrey B. BERLIN: [.] permit me to say that you are an ideal publisher. Ben W. Huebsch of the Viking Press (New York) – Unpublished Correspondence with European Authors in Exile, with special attention to Feuchtwanger
Glossary of Feuchtwanger Titles
Index
Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Pól O’Dochartaigh is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Among his recent publications are Germany since 1945 (Basingstoke and New York, 2004) and Julius Pokorny, 1887-1970: Germans, Celts and Nationalism (Dublin, 2004).

Alexander Stephan is Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar and Senior Fellow at the Mershon Center for the Study of International Security at Ohio State University, USA. Among his numerous publications are ‘Communazis’. FBI Surveillance of German Emigré Writers (New Haven, 2000; German Stuttgart, 1995), Anna Seghers: ‘Das siebte Kreuz’. Welt und Wirkung eines Romans (Berlin, 1997) and Die deutsche Exilliteratur 1933-1945. Eine Einführung (Munich, 1979).