Marcuse, Ludwig, 1894-1971. Ludwig Marcuse papers, 1925-1984 (bulk 1933-1950). - View Resource (original) (raw)

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Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

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Brecht was a German dramatist and poet. Karl Korsch was a Marxist theoretician. From the description of Correspondence with Karl Korsch, 1934-ca.1954. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122556373 From the guide to the Bertolt Brecht correspondence with Karl Korsch, ca. 1934-1954., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Reyersbach was a pediatrician with special training in endocrinology and rheumatic diseases; she came to the U.S. in ...

Von Hofe, Harold, 1912-2011

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The son of German musicians who immigrated to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, Harold von Hofe was born in Plainsfield, NJ, on April 23, 1912. In 1939, after earning a bachelor's degree from New York University and a doctorate from Northwestern University, von Hofe relocated to Los Angeles and took a job teaching German at USC. He became a professor and served as chair of USC's German department from 1945-1956 (as well as from 1963-68 and 1971-74). Von Hofe's scholarly work foc...

Mann, Heinrich, 1871-1950

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Heinrich Mann, one of the foremost German writers of the twentieth century, lived almost penniless and seemingly forgotten in Los Angeles for nearly a decade before his death in 1950. Heinrich Mann was the elder brother of Nobel Prize winning novelist Thomas Mann. Despite his name and literary stature, Heinrich Mann remained virtually unknown in this country. By contrast, in pre-Hitler Germany, Heinrich had been both respected by fellow writers and popular with readers, perhaps even more so than...

Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942

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Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was one of the most prolific and popular European authors in the years before World War II. He wrote plays, poetry, and fiction, but his most popular works were highly fictionalized biographies of well-known historical figures. His central themes were nostalgia and humanism. From the description of Stefan Zweig letter and pamphlet, 1929-1932. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51589995 Austrian writer. From...

Marcuse, Ludwig, 1894-1971

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Marcuse was among the German-speaking émigrés with whom Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel had social contact in southern France in 1938 and 1939; he emigrated to the U.S. in 1939. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, ca. 1943-1944. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863913 ...

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x000173 German author. From the description of Land of good will : typewritten article signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609625 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Bad Tölz, to Herr Fischer, his publisher, 1909 Aug. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607913 From the description...

Neumann, Robert

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Alderman; Mayor of the City of Gold Coast, 1974. From the description of Letter. 1974. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225718559 ...

Walter, Bruno, 1876-1962

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Elsa Walter (née Wirthschaft, previous married name Korneck) was an opera singer and Bruno's wife; they were married from around 1900 until Elsa's death, which was apparently in 1945. Delia Reinhardt, an opera singer whom Walter had mentored, was a close friend of Walter. McLane was a friend of Alma Mahler who communicated with Alma upon Walter's death; she lived in Calif. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, and Franz Werfel, 1911-1960. (Universit...

Mahler, Alma

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Alma Mahler, daughter of painter Emil Jakob Schindler and singer Anna Bergen, grew up in Vienna, studied music, and married composer Gustav Mahler. After his death in 1911, she married architect Walter Gropius in 1915. She and writer Franz Werfel fled Nazi Germany in 1937 for France and settled in California in 1940. From the description of Alma Mahler's birthday book, 1949. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 48912134 Born Alma Maria Schindler, Al...

Feuchtwanger, Marta.

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Marta Feuchtwanger was born Marta Loeffler on December 21, 1891 in Germany. In 1912 she married German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger and went with him into exile during WWII. First they lived in Southern France in Sanary-sur-mer but had to flee in 1940, escaping to the United States. Marta and Lion moved to Los Angeles in early 1941 where they eventually bought a house at 520 Paseo Miramar. During WWII the Feuchtwanger's house became a well-known gathering place for German-speaking exiles and ...

Kesten, Hermann, 1900-1996

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Kesten was a Galician-born, German-Jewish writer and publisher who had fled Germany in 1933 and eventually emigrated to the U.S. in 1940, where he was active in the work of the Emergency Rescue Committee, in New York City. Alfred Wolfenstein was a German Expressionist poet, as well as dramatist and prose writer, who, threatened by arrest in 1933, had fled to Prague, and in 1939 to France. When German troops occupied Paris he was imprisoned for a short time, escaped, and lived thereafter on the r...

Zweig, Arnold, 1887-1968

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Arnold Zweig was born in Prussia, was raised in Germany, and lived for a time in Palestine. His novels and plays, with themes of injustice and anti-war, were popular in the former German Democratic Republic. He returned to Germany from the Middle East after World War II and found a new audience in East Germany. From the description of Arnold Zweig letter to R. Toole Stott, 1944 Dec. 31. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 52316277 Zweig fled German...