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Author:   Hans Bunge ,  Sabine Berendse ,  Paul Clements ,  Sabine Berendse
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781472524355

ISBN 10:   1472524357
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   23 October 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes to the German edition by Hans Bunge Translator’s note Conversation 1 14 Ways of Describing Rain – Meetings between Brecht and Arnold Schoenberg, Charlie Chaplin and Thomas Mann – Brecht and Music Conversation 2 Galileo – Hollywood Elegies – Brecht and Feuchtwanger – Brecht and Music for the Theatre – Schweyk in the Second World War Conversation 3 Brecht on Arnold Schoenberg – Gestic Music – The Caucasian Chalk Circle – Döblin’s 65th Birthday Party Conversation 4 Music for The Private Life of the Master Race – Prologue to Galileo – Eisler and the House Committee on Un-American Activities – The Mother in New York – Brecht and Stefan Zweig – Bajazzo Conversation 5 Brecht’s Hexameters for the Communist Manifesto – Was Brecht a Marxist? – Brecht’s Method of Verfremdung Conversation 6 ‘To Those Born Later’ – Boogie-Woogie – Eisler on Religion – Galileo Conversation 7 ‘Hotel Room 1942’ – Hölderlin Conversation 8 On Stupidity in Music I – Hölderlin Conversation 9 Hans Mayer’s book on Brecht – Brecht and Georg Lukács Conversation 10 The Music to Schweyk in the Second World War – On Stupidity in Music II Conversation 11 Hölderlin Poems – On Stupidity in Music III Conversation 12 Eisler on Classical Literature, on the Function of Art, on Cybernetics and on Napoleon Conversation 13 Serious Songs – Eisler’s Plans for a Symphony Conversation 14 Eisler and Bunge Compare Their Experiences as Soldiers Afterword: For the First Edition of the ‘Conversations’ by Stephan Hermlin Notes Appendix Index

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Eisler's conversations with Hans Bunge about Brecht focus on their time together in Hollywood as well as on the building of a 'magnificent' new social republic. For Eisler, the 'be-all and end-all' of their work was to 'educate the teacher!' ... The most fascinating and perplexing aspect of the conversations turns on the effort to 'study the effect of art on human beings.' ... The lesson of the great modernists was the lesson of socialism. In other words, ending capitalism was the precondition for making and understanding great art. -- Todd Cronan, Emory University, USA Radical Philosophy 189

Eisler's conversations with Hans Bunge about Brecht focus on their time together in Hollywood as well as on the building of a 'magnificent' new social republic. For Eisler, the 'be-all and end-all' of their work was to 'educate the teacher!' ... The most fascinating and perplexing aspect of the conversations turns on the effort to 'study the effect of art on human beings.' ... The lesson of the great modernists was the lesson of socialism. In other words, ending capitalism was the precondition for making and understanding great art. -- Todd Cronan, Emory University, USA Radical Philosophy 189 The important achievement of the translators ... is to have made available to the English-speaking world a landmark volume published almost forty years ago -- Ian Wallace Eisler-Mitteilungen

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Hanns Eisler was an Austrian composer. A Schoenberg pupil and committed Marxist, he was one of the great distinctive musical personalities of the twentieth century. Hans Bunge was assistant director and dramaturg at the Berliner Ensemble in Germany in the 1950s and later became first director of the Brecht Archive. He published his conversations with Eisler in Germany under the title Gespräche mit Hans Bunge – Fragen Sie mehr über Brecht. Sabine Berendse, the daughter of the late Hans Bunge, is a Librarian and Information Specialist in Berlin, Germany. Paul Clements was Principal of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, UK, for twelve years until his retirement in July 2008. He has taught, acted and directed in the UK, Canada and Scandinavia.

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