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Über Nacht haben Militarismus und Kriegsertüchtigung wieder die Kontrolle über das öffentliche Leben übernommen. Noch gestern hatte man den Ewigen Frieden in der Verfassung beurkundet und sich stolz gebrüstet, bei den "Lehren aus der Geschichte" alle anderen zu überflügeln. Doch jetzt bläst dieselbe Fraktion zur Hetze gegen die "Lumpenpazifisten", bringt Militainment zur besten Sendezeit und setzt eine gigantische Aufrüstung der Waffenarsenale ins Werk. Die angestrebte Weltmeisterschaft gilt nunmehr dem Sektor der Totmach-Industrien. Ernst Tollers bittere Komödie "Nie wieder Friede" (1934/36) klärt uns auf, wie so etwas möglich ist. Das falsche Friedensplakat trug auf seiner Rückseite immer schon die Parole für neue Kriegsabenteuer: "Man muß es nur umdrehen." Ob Kosmopolitismus oder nationale Weltgeltung, ob Freiheitspredigt oder autoritäre Staatspolitik, ob Krieg oder Frieden - das entscheidet sich stets an der jeweiligen Lageeinschätzung der Besitzenden und Herrschenden. Zu folgen ist den Einflüsterungen der Kriegsprofiteure. Wer wird beim Experiment zur Kriegstauglichkeit der Erdenbewohner gewinnen: Soldatenkaiser Napoleon oder Franziskus aus Assisi? Der Verfasser des hochaktuellen Bühnenstücks war linker Pazifist mit jüdischer Herkunft. Damit passte er gleich dreimal ins Feinbildvisier der Nazis. 1933 setzte NS-Deutschland Toller auf die allererste Ausbürgerungsliste und warf seine Werke ins Feuer. Nach neun Jahrzehnten sollten wir die "verbrannten Bücher" wieder unter die Leute bringen, denn der Militarismus scheint unausrottbar zu sein. Zu den Beigaben dieser friedensbewegten Edition gehören acht Kapitel aus Tollers Autobiographie "Eine Jugend in Deutschland" (1933), eine Schluß-Szene des Dramas "Hinkemann" (1923) und die Warnung des Schriftstellers vor dem deutschen Faschismus in der "Weltbühne" vom Oktober 1930. Ein Band der edition pace, herausgegeben von Peter Bürger

This is the first critical, contextualized edition in English of Eine Jugend in Deutschland (1933), the remarkable autobiographical account of Ernst Toller (1893-1939), one of the most important German writers of the first half of the twentieth century. Toller was a celebrated poet and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the most significant and innovative playwright of the Weimar Republic. Completed at the beginning of Toller's exile from Nazi Germany, Eine Jugend in Deutschland gives a remarkable account of his childhood as the son of Jewish merchants in Eastern Prussia under Kaiser Wilhelm II, his studies in France, his eager service at the Western Front during World War I, his conversion to pacifism, his activism in the German Revolution of 1918-19 and leadership in the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, his trial for high treason, and his incarceration as a political prisoner of the Weimar Republic. Toller's work, both acclaimed and controversial, left its mark on his contemporaries and is still inspiring writers today. Featuring a vibrant new translation, thorough annotation, and appendix materials on the literary, political, and biographical contexts of the work, this edition will make Toller's great work of autofiction accessible to contemporary readers.

A play about a young man who becomes radicalized and joins a group of revolutionaries, only to find himself torn between his ideals and his loyalty to his family.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A landmark of the Weimar Republic, Ernst Toller's Hoppla, We're Alive! is one of the founding works of what would later be come to known as the epic theater and a powerful portrait of a fragile democracy at war with itself, inevitably corrupted from within by the rising forces of capitalism and fascism. Karl Thomas, a participant in the failed Soviet-style revolutions of 1918, has spent the past eight years in a mental hospital. Released into the Germany of 1927, Karl Thomas encounters each of his former comrades in a world where all of the lessons of the first world war and the revolution seem to have been forgotten. Building to a powerful and tragic climax, Toller's play has lost none of its power to shock, provoke, and awaken readers. This translation, adapted from its performance at La Mama in the fall of 2019, is an attempt to reconcile the play's multiple extant drafts and divided meanings. In the winter of 1939, 12 years after he had staged this play in Weimar Berlin, Piscator was invited to open the Dramatic Workshop at the New School, long a home for artists and intellectuals in exile. Under Piscator's leadership, the Dramatic Workshop would come to be perhaps themes influential theater school in the United States, instrumental in the careers of Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Harold Clurman, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Marlon Brando, and Judith Malina. Earlier that spring, Piscator met for coffee with Toller to discuss a future project. Two days later, on May 22, 1939, Toller hanged himself, in what was then the Mayflower Hotel off Central Park West.Berlinica Publishing offers English-language books from Berlin, German; fiction, non-fiction, travel guides, history about the Wall and the Third Reich, Jewish life, art, architecture and photography, as well as travel guides and cookbook. It also offers documentaries and feature films on DVD, as well as music CDs. Berlinica caters to history buffs, Americans of German heritage, travelers, and artists and young people who love the cutting-edge city in the heart of Europe. Berlinica cooperates with Berlin-based publishing houses. Berlinica's current and upcoming titles include "Our West Berlin," by various authors, also five translated books by famed Weimar author Kurt Tucholsky as well as Harold Poor's landmark biography of Tucholsky, two translated plays by Ernst Toller, and two American travel stories by Alfred Kerr and Roda Roda, soon to be followed by Egon Erwin Kisch's "Paradise America".In the non-fiction department, we have "Rocking the Wall," the Bruce-Springsteen-book and "Burning Beethoven," about German Americans in World War I, both by Erik Kirschbaum, also "Mark Twain in Berlin," by Andreas Austilat, "Berlin 1945: World War II: Photos of the Aftermath," by Michael Brettin, "The Berlin Wall Today," a full-color guide to the remnants of the Wall, by Michael Cramer, "Berlin in the Cold War," about post-World War II history, the comprehensive guide "Jews in Berlin," by Andreas Nachama, Julius Schoeps, Hermann Simon, and "A Place they Called Home," edited by Donna Swarthout about Jews returning to Germany.We also offer "The Berlin Cookbook," a full-color collection of traditional German recipes by Rose Marie Donhauser, the picture book "Wings of Desire," by Lothar Heinke, "Martin Luther's Travel Guide," by Cornelia Dömer, "Leipzig! The City of Books und Music," by Sebastian Ringel, and "Berlin For Free," a guide for the frugal traveler by Monica Maertens.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A landmark of the Weimar Republic, Ernst Toller's Hoppla, We're Alive! is one of the founding works of what would later be come to known as the epic theater and a powerful portrait of a fragile democracy at war with itself, inevitably corrupted from within by the rising forces of capitalism and fascism. Karl Thomas, a participant in the failed Soviet-style revolutions of 1918, has spent the past eight years in a mental hospital. Released into the Germany of 1927, Karl Thomas encounters each of his former comrades in a world where all of the lessons of the first world war and the revolution seem to have been forgotten. Building to a powerful and tragic climax, Toller's play has lost none of its power to shock, provoke, and awaken readers. This translation, adapted from its performance at La Mama in the fall of 2019, is an attempt to reconcile the play's multiple extant drafts and divided meanings. I would like to thank the rest of the LUDZ collective (Lloyd Huber, set and projections designer, Ulrich Lehman, dramaturg, and Zishan Ugurlu, director) for their vision and faith in bringing Hoppla its first North American production. In the winter of 1939, 12 years after he had staged this play in Weimar Berlin, Piscator was invited to open the Dramatic Workshop at the New School, long a home for artists and intellectuals in exile. Under Piscator's leadership, the Dramatic Workshop would come to be perhaps themes influential theater school in the United States, instrumental in the careers of Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Harold Clurman, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Marlon Brando, and Judith Malina. Earlier that spring, Piscator met for coffee with Toller to discuss a future project. Two days later, on May 22, 1939, Toller hanged himself, in what was then the Mayflower Hotel off Central Park West.Berlinica Publishing LLC is a multi-media publishing house based in New York City; with its sister company Berlinica Publishing UG based in Berlin. Berlinica offers English-language books from Germany, fiction and non-fiction, mostly about history, also as e-books. Upcoming is "Our West-Berlin" and "Springtime in America," by Roda Roda, the first book of a series by Weimar writers in the new world. Berlinica titles include Kurt Tucholsky's books "Berlin! Berlin!," "Germany? Germany!," "Rheinsberg," "Hereafter," and "Prayer After the Slaughter," a series of dramas from the Weimar Republic, a book about Mark Twain in Berlin, "Berlin 1945" with historic black-and-white pictures from the Soviet Army archives and "Berlin in the Cold War" . Berlinica also offers the comprehensive history book "Jews in Berlin" as well as "A Place They Called Home," about the children of German Jews returning. We sell "The Berlin Wall Today," a full-color guide to the remnants of the Wall by Michael Cramer and "The Berlin Cookbook," a full-color collection of traditional German recipes. Our program also includes the music CD "Berlin-mon amour," by chanteuse Adrienne Haan, and two documentaries on DVD, "The Red Orchestra," by Berlin-born artist Stefan Roloff and "The Path to Nuclear Fission," by New York filmmaker Rosemarie Reed. Berlinica also sells books beyond Berlin, namely a travel guide to Martin Luther and a book on the 1000-year anniversary of Leipzig.

Ernst¿Toller was a revolutionary, poet and playwright engagé, president for six days of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, best known for his Expressionist plays Hoppla! We're Alive, Man of the Masses and Machine Breakers. In his day Ernst Toller (1893-1939) was as renowned as the young Bertolt Brecht. High profile persona non grata in 1933 when the Nazis came to power, Toller fled to London, went on a lecture tour to the U.S. in 1936, and tried to make a go of it as a screenwriter in Los Angeles. Dispirited, despondent upon learning that his brother and sister had been sent to a concentration camp, and convinced that the world as he knew it had succumbed to the forces of darkness, Toller was found dead by hanging, a presumed suicide, in his room at the Hotel Mayflower on May 22, 1939. Conceived in the German theatrical tradition of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz's The Soldiers and Georg Büchner's Woyzeck, Toller's devastating tragedy Hinkemann is a painfully poetic plaidoyer for the overlooked vision and voice of the victim.

Gedichte der Gefangenen: Ein Sonettenkreis, wurde als bedeutendes Werk in der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgemäßen Format für aktuelle und zukünftige Generationen neu herausgeben. Dieses gesamte Buch wurde neu abgetippt, neu gestaltet und neu formatiert. Da diese Bücher nicht aus gescannten Kopien bestehen, ist der Text lesbar und klar.

Vormorgen aims to collect all of Ernst Toller''s poetic works in a single volume; the first to appear in nearly a century.This edition, in German and English, includes Toller''s three principle poetic works: Vormorgen, The Poems of the Imprisoned, and The Book of Swallows, as well as his scattered, uncollected poems. Toller was a Jewish anarchist working in Munich, and was briefly the president of the Bavarian Soviet Republic (M├╝nchner R├ñterepublik / Munich Worker''s Republic), which was predominantly organized by poets and playwrights, so it''s often been referred to as the regime of coffeehouse anarchists.The occupation began peacefully, with the anarchists occupying Munich without firing a shot, but was ended brutally a month later, on May Day, when the Freikorps were sent in. Over 600 people were killed, half of which were citizens killed in street fighting. Some were sentenced to death by firing squad, others were sentenced to prison. Ernst Toller was sent to Niedersch├╢nenfeld prison for five years, where he began working on the majority of his poems. When he was released, he was exiled to the UK, and later to the States. While living in New York, he received word that his mother and sister were sent to concentration camps, and he took his life in 1939.

ERNST TOLLER WAS A GERMAN LEFT-WING PLAYWRIGHT, BEST KNOWN FOR HIS EXPRESSIONIST PLAYS. HE SERVED IN 1919 FOR SIX DAYS AS PRESIDENT OF THE SHORT-LIVED BAVARIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC, AND WAS IMPRISONED FOR FIVE YEARS FOR HIS ACTIONS. DURING HIS DAYS IN THE PRISON TOLLER WROTE LETTERS TO HIS FRIENDS WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVE LITERARY PIECE . THESE LETTERS FROM TOLLER ARE TRANSLATED BY V.S.KHANDEKAR .

Eine Jugend in Deutschland ist eine Autobiographie von Ernst Toller. Der Autor erinnert sich seines Lebens bis zum Jahr 1924. Der Weg Ernst Tollers vom deutschen Bürgerlichen zum revolutionären Sozialisten wird glaubhaft nachgezeichnet. Nicht zuletzt ist es der Kontrast von der leichtlebigen Jugendzeit des Autors zu seinen grauenvollen Erlebnissen im Schützengraben, die den Leser mitfühlen lassen. Seine komödiantische Erzählhaltung gibt Toller auch nicht bei bitterernsten Themen wie der Münchner Räterepublik auf. Stellenweise wird etwa nach dem Motto erzählt: die sozialistische Revolution in München - ein bayrisches Bauerntheater. Eingeschobene Dialoge lockern die Faktenvielfalt auf. Das Werk enthält teilweise anrührende Kurzporträts von Tollers Weggefährten und Beobachtungen des Gefängnisalltags in Niederschönenfeld. Beachtlich sind die zahlreich eingestreuten trefflichen Kurzcharakteristiken zu Personen der Zeitgeschichte, u.a. Adolf Hitler. Ernst Toller (1893-1939) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Politiker und linkssozialistischer Revolutionär. Bereits während seiner Haft und mehr noch danach wurde er vor allem mit seinen Dramen als einer der maßgeblichen Vertreter des literarischen Expressionismus in der Weimarer Republik bekannt.

This is the fascinating autobiography of Ernst Toller. Ernst Toller (1893 - 1939) was a German left-wing playwright, best known for his expressionist plays. He also famously served for six days in 1919 as the President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, later being imprisoned for his actions. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in twentieth-century European history. Contents include: "Childhood", "A Student in France", "War", "At the Front", "An Attempt to Forget Revolt", "Strike", "The Military Prison", "The Lunatic Asylum", "Revolution", "The Bavarian Soviet Republic", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.