"Escape to Life": German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium on Exile after 1933

Published by De Gruyter 2012

"Escape to Life"

German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium on Exile after 1933

Edited by: Eckart Goebel and Sigrid Weigel

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110258684

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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.

A compendium on exile in and about the city of New York
With contributions on, among others, Thomas Mann, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer
Includes portrait photographies by Fred Stein, incl. Marlene Dietrich, Albert Einstein and Alfred Döblin

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Eckart Goebel, New York University, USA; Sigrid Weigel, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
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Introduction Eckart Goebel and Sigrid Weigel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
“Sticking to our language” / “an unserer Sprache festhalten:” Adorno in NYC Birgit R. Erdle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Adorno’s Monsters Jacques Lezra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Sounding Through – Poetic Difference – Self-Translation: Hannah Arendt’s Thoughts and Writings Between Different Languages, Cultures, and Fields Sigrid Weigel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
From Königsberg to Little Rock: Hannah Arendt and the Concept of Childhood Liliane Weissberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Erich Auerbach’s Second Exile Karlheinz Barck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Walter Benjamin’s Farewell to Europe Vivian Liska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
No Place Yet: Ernst Bloch’s Utopia in Exile Falko Schmieder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Losey, and Brechtian Cinema Robert Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
“Without knowing America, you cannot say anything valid about democratic politics.” Hermann Broch and the Ethics of Exile Daniel Weidner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
“Lesen Sie before the letter:” Oskar Maria Graf in New York Robert Stockhammer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Eclipse of Reason: Max Horkheimer’s New York Lectures, 1944 Eckart Goebel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
I’m Not There: New York as Displaced Psychogeography in Uwe Johnson’s Jahrestage Michael W. Jennings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Bodies: Ernst H. Kantorowicz Paul Fleming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Siegfried Kracauer: The Film Historian in Exile Anton Kaes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Identifying the Impulse: Alfred Lion Founds the Blue Note Jazz Label Stephan Braese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
A Flaschenpost Recast: Leo Löwenthal’s Late Writings Jerome Bolton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
On An Eastward Trajectory Toward Europe: Karl Löwith’s Exiles Rodolphe Gasche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Ethics of Imagination: On Erika Mann’s Works in Exile Jonathan Kassner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
You Can’t Go Home Again: Exiles in Klaus Mann’s The Volcano Nicola Behrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
Voyage with Don Quixote: Thomas Mann between European Culture and American Politics Anne-Kathrin Reulecke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
The Returns of Herbert Marcuse Elke Siegel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
Exile is a Flop: Soma Morgenstern over Central Park Paul North Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	414
Stranger in Paradise: Erwin Panofsky’s Expulsion to the Academic Parnassus Andreas Beyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
The Flight Into Orgonomy: Wilhelm Reich in New York John T. Hamilton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
Reinventing the Canonical: The Radical Thinking of Jacob Taubes Martin Treml Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
“Almost American:” Ernst Toller Abroad Thomas Stachel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
“Inter, but not national:” Vile´m Flusser and the Technologies of Exile Chadwick Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
Fred Stein (1909–1967): A Retrospective Dawn Freer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	510
Portraits Fred Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	521
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	547

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Literary Studies, Cultural Studies), Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 553
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 30
Keywords: German Exile Literature; New York / Literary History

eBook

Published: May 29, 2012
ISBN: 9783110258684

Hardcover

Published: May 18, 2012
ISBN: 9783110258677

Paperback

Published: October 17, 2013
ISBN: 9783110332063