Product Description: This is an unusual book, telling a story which has hitherto remained hidden from history: the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Ludwig Steinherr is one of the most compelling new voices to have emerged in Germany since the late 1980s and this selection - the first to appear in English - from his 10 poetry collections published between 1985 and 2005 reflects the breadth and depth of his writing, ranging from its post-Celanian darkness to its insistence on light...read more

A collection of more than three hundred poems from over seven decades of work of a leading Austrian avant garde writer.

Product Description: Based on encounters, observations, and gleanings while traveling the world, this collection of Joachim Sartorius' eclectic and esoteric verse ranges in topic from the yellow cabs of Lagos and the horseshoes on Hitler's favorite steed to North African guards loading bottles of butane onto a trolley outside a crematorium...read more

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Product Description: Pervaded by a peaceful stillness, yet resoundingly powerful, these poems speak of the fear and confusion of living in a chaotic, meaningless world." (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work is an anthology of the poems of Ernst Meister, described by Walter Jens as "the tenderest epic poet imaginable." An inveterate outsider, from the start he was out of step, publishing his first book of what a reviewer called "Kandinsky poetry" months before the Nazis seized power...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive collection of Kruger's poems to appear in English. The poems are drawn from ten collections published over the last two decades. Kruger explores two themes in particular: the state of German culture and the fate of poetry in what Hegel termed the "Age of Prose"...read more

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Product Description: Ernst Toller's dramas are the product of reflection on his political experience. This study analyses his ideology of revolutionary Socialism and its articulation in his literary work. It adopts a chronological approach, placing great importance on primary sources...read more