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Artistic Collaboration, Exile, and Brecht

A New Intellectual History, 1900-1950

"A revealing history of the intimate group around Bertolt Brecht which produced some of the most important works of 20th-century drama, literature, and theory while in exile from Nazi Germany. De-centering Brecht and contextualizing him in a group of peers which included Helene Weigel, Karin Michaëlis, Margarete Steffin, and Walter Benjamin, this book investigates how they understood their collaborative work in the context of their commitments to fighting fascism and building socialism. It reveals not just how the group worked but how they understood that work as an embodiment of their evolving ideas about socialism, antifascism, and collectivity"-- Provided by publisher.