
Benjamin and Brecht
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In this groundbreaking work, Erdmut Wizisla explores what this relationship meant for them personally and professionally, as well as the effect it had on those around them. From the first meeting between Benjamin and Brecht to their experiences in exile, these eventful lives are illuminated by personal correspondence, journal entries and private miscellany-including previously unpublished materials-detailing the friends' electric discussions of their collaboration. Wizisla delves into the archives of other luminaries in the distinguished constellation of writers and artists in Weimar Germany, which included Margarete Steffin, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Hannah Arendt. Wizisla's account of this friendship opens a window on nearly two decades of European intellectual life.
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- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Publisher's Note
- Chronology of the Relationship
- Time chart and map of Benjamin's and Brecht's main locations in Europe
- I. A Significant Constellation
- May 1929
- A Quarrel Among Friends
- II. The Story of the Relationship
- First Meeting, A Literary Trial, Dispute over Trotsky, 1924-29
- Stimulating Conversations, Plans for Periodicals, 'Marxist Club', 1929-33
- Exile, Detective Novel, Chess, 1933-40
- III. 'Krise und Kritik'
- Project for a Journal
- Contributors
- Topics: Crisis, Criticism, Method, Role of Intellectuals
- Ambition and Failure
- IV. Benjamin on Brecht
- Agreement
- 'Laboratory of Versatility'
- V. Brecht on Benjamin
- 'Expert Opinions'
- 'Useful to Read'
- Four Epitaphs
- Appendix: Documentation and Minutes of 'Krise und Kritik'
- Endnotes
- List of Abbreviated Titles and Sources
- List of Works Cited
- Acknowledgements and Permissions
- Annotated Name Index
- Index of Works by Bertolt Brecht
- Index of Works by Walter Benjamin
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