Interned in camps that spread across the globe from Shanghai to the United States of America to the Isle of Man, they became strangers in a foreign land and often the only link they had to their former lives were letters exchanged with friends and family.
Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria -- .
This volume focuses on the contribution of German-speaking refugees from Nazism to the performing arts in Britain, evaluating their role in broadcasting, theatre, film and dance from 1933 to the present. It contains essays evaluating the role of refugee artists in the BBC German Service, including the actor Martin Miller, the writer Bruno Adler and the journalist Edmund Wolf. Miller also made a career in the English theatre transcending the barrier of language, as did the actor Gerhard Hinze, whose transition to the English stage is an instructive example of adaptation to a new theatre culture. In film, language problems were mitigated by the technical possibilities of the medium, although stars like Anton Walbrook received coaching in English. Certainly, technicians from Central Europe, like the cameraman Wolf Suschitzky, helped establish the character of British film in the 1950s and 1960s. In dance theatre, language played little role, facilitating the influence in Britain of dance practitioners like Kurt Jooss and Sigurd Leeder. Finally, evaluating the reverse influence of émigrés on Germany, two essays discuss Erich Fried's translations of Shakespeare and Peter Zadek's early theatre career in Germany.
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Berthold Jacob war einer der bekanntesten deutschen Journalisten und Pazifisten der Weimarer Republik, der als Anti-Nazi und Jude schon 1932 Zuflucht in Straßburg fand. Im März 1935 wurde er durch die Gestapo über die schweizerisch-deutsche Grenze entführt und in Berlin verhaftet, was internationales Aufsehen erregte. Mit einer gründlichen Einführung versehen, enthält der vorliegende Band bisher unbekannte und unveröffentlichte Briefe und andere Dokumente, die eine detaillierte Chronik der Bemühungen der Freunde im Exil entwerfen, Jacob aus seiner Berliner Haft zu befreien. Zugleich wirft das Buch ein neues Licht auf die schwierigen, nervenaufreibenden Lebensumstände antinazistischer Exilanten in den Emigrationsländern Europas.