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A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to power
In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of Heinrich Mann, “the best of Germany,” refusing to remain citizens in this new state that legalized terror and brutality.
Exiled across the world, they continued the fight against Nazism in prose, poetry, painting, architecture, film and theater. Weimar in Exile follows these lives, from the rise of national socialism to their return to a ruined homeland, retracing their stories, struggles, setbacks and rare victories.
The dignity in exile of Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, Hanns Eisler, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Anna Seghers, Ernst Toller, Stefan Zweig and many others provides a counterpoint to the story of Germany under the Nazis.
Jean-Michel Palmier
Jean-Michel Palmier was Professor of Aesthetics at Universit� Paris I, specializing in German artistic movements of the 1920s and 30s. He is the author of, among other works, L'Expressionnisme et les arts and Retour � Berlin. Weimar in Exile was awarded the Prix Eug�ne Piccard for a work of modern history by the Acad�mie Fran�aise.
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