- Author(s)
- Hans Bunge, Hans Eisler
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Date of Publication
- 23/10/2014
- Language(s)
- English
- Format
- Hardback
- ISBN-10
- 1472524357
- ISBN-13
- 9781472524355
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- eBay Product ID (ePID)
- 209391965
Publication Data
- Place of Publication
- London
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Imprint
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Content Note
- 5 bw integrated illus
Dimensions
- Weight
- 548 g
- Width
- 138 mm
- Height
- 216 mm
- Spine
- 22 mm
- Pagination
- 312
Credits
- Translated by
- Paul Clements,Sabine Berendse
- Volume editor
- Paul Clements, Sabine Berendse
Description
- 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 - Doblin'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' - Holderlin Conversation 8 On
Stupidity in Music I - Holderlin Conversation 9 Hans Mayer's book
on Brecht - Brecht and Georg Lukacs Conversation 10 The Music to
Schweyk in the Second World War - On Stupidity in Music II Conversation
11 Holderlin 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
- Author Biography
- 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 Gesprache mit Hans Bunge - Fragen Sie
mehr uber Brecht. Sabine Berendse, the daughter of the late Hans Bunge,
is a Librarian and Information Specialist in Cardiff, Wales, and a
freelance translator. 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.