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By Erdmut Wizisla

ISBN-10: 0300156448

ISBN-13: 9780300156447

Erdmut Wizisla’s groundbreaking paintings explores for the 1st time the $64000 friendship among Walter Benjamin, the acclaimed critic and literary theorist, and Bertolt Brecht, one of many 20th century’s such a lot influential theater artists and poets, in the course of the the most important interwar years in Berlin.

From the 1st assembly among Benjamin and Brecht to their reviews in exile, the occasions during this friendship are illuminated by way of own correspondence, magazine entries, and notes—including formerly unpublished materials—from the friends’ electrical discussions of shared initiatives. as well as exploring correspondence among the 2, Wizisla offers records through colleagues who formed and shaded their dating, together with Margarete Steffin, Theodor Adorno, and Hannah Arendt.

Wizisla indicates us the attention-grabbing ideological exchanges among Benjamin and Brecht, together with the 1st account of Berlin Marxist magazine deliberate for 1931. The mins of its conferences checklist the involvement of Benjamin and Brecht, and provide a window onto the discussions on literature and politics that came about lower than the expanding danger of the German left’s political defeat. Wizisla’s exam of the friendship among Benjamin and Brecht, artists on the top in their artistic powers in the course of a time of significant political main issue, throws mild on approximately 20 years of eu highbrow lifestyles.

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20 If there was in Benjamin, as he wrote to Max Rychner in 1931, total negation of the ‘complacency of bourgeois scholarship’,21 there was the same rejection in Brecht of the complacency of bourgeois theatre. What happened on 1 May 1929 that distressed Brecht so deeply came at the high point of his career and certainly had little to do with his plans at that time. At any rate, he left no doubt that the resounding success of The Threepenny Opera the year before already pointed to the overdue transformation of the theatre.

P. ) 17 i a significant constellation intended for publication. After a meeting between Bloch and Benjamin, at which the latter had described his relationship with Brecht, Bloch wrote to Kracauer (probably in the summer or early autumn of 1929): Benjamin, with whom I spent two hours yesterday, is his impossible self again. The [bad] weather did not last long. I got him to the point of formulating the spell cast over him by Brecht. He is completely in the dark about its causes, which are after all private, highly private.

I would prefer not to do this in writing but I am forced to do so. You of all people, who never uttered a word of complaint about my apparently leaving you in the lurch by not coming, who always understood my commitments and never stood in my way, have every right to ask me how I can allow myself to cross the border imposed on us and interfere in your personal affairs. Certainly you are right from your own point of view, but I also have objective things to defend in you, and I will try to do so as best I can.

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