Voices from Exile (Amsterdamer Beiträge Zur Neueren Germanistik, 85)

The sixteen essays in this volume are a tribute to Hamish Ritchie's deep interest in exile as a literary and historical phenomenon. The first eight focus on the British and Irish context, including studies of Jürgen Kuczynski and his family, Martin Miller, Lilly Kann, Hermann Sinsheimer, Albin Stuebs, Ludwig Hopf and Paul Bondy, as well as contributions on the Association of Jewish Refugees and the exile experience as reflected in Klaus Mann's Der Vulkan . The following four contributions widen the discussion to encompass Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Yugoslavia by focusing on the diaries of Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum, the early poetry of Bertolt Brecht, and works by Vladimir Vertlib, Aleksandar Ajzinberg, and David Albahari. The historical dimension is deepened with contributions on William Joyce, Joseph Jonas, the marginalisation of the mass emigration of the Jews within German memory, and the 'exile' of princesses for whom until recent times marriage often meant a life far from home. Voices from Exile: Essays in Memory of Hamish Ritchie Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Permissions Preface Obituary 1: “Very Much a Family Affair”: The Kuczynski Family and British Intelligence 2: A Tale of Two Cities: The Actors Lilly Kann and Martin Miller in Berlin and London 1933–1945 3: “Sehnsucht ohne Wiederkehr”: Hermann Sinsheimer’s Exile Inside Germany and in London 4: “die Wiederentdeckung des Menschen”: Albin Stuebs and the Exile’s Return 5: “Und wir sind nicht vergessen”: Refugees and the Literary Representation of Exile from National Socialism 6: “He Was a Friend of the Greatest Geniuses of His Time – Indeed, He Was One of Them” – LudwigHopf (1884–1939) 7: A Grass Roots View of Prisoner of War Re-education: Paul Bondy’s Contribution to the Lecture Programme 8: Guardians of a Heritage: The Editors of the Association of Jewish Refugees Journal 9: The House Behind and the Space Within: Existential Dialogues in the Diaries of Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum 10: Mundus totus exilium: A Theme in Brecht’s Early Poetry, and its Consequences 11: Found in Translation: Vladimir Vertlib’s Early Prose and the Creative Process1 12: Narrating the Jews of Belgrade and the Second World War 13: William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw and the German Connection 14: Jewish Exile in German Memory 15: Princesses as Exiles? Foreign Consorts at European Courts 1550–1750 16: An Imperial German Consulate in Sheffield: Its Rise and Fall, 1892–1914 List of Contributors "The sixteen essays in this volume are a tribute to Hamish Ritchie's deep interest in exile as a literary and historical phenomenon. The first eight focus on the British and Irish context, including studies of Jürgen Kuczynski and his family, Martin Miller, Lilly Kann, Hermann Sinsheimer, Albin Stuebs, and Ludwig Hopf, as well as contributions on the Association of Jewish Refugees, the Büchergilde Gutenberg, and the exile experience as reflected in Klaus Mann's Der Vulkan. The following four contributions widen the discussion to encompass Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Yugoslavia by focusing on the diaries of Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum, the early poetry of Bertolt Brecht, and works by Vladimir Vertlib, Aleksandar Ajzinberg, and David Albahari. The historical dimension is deepened with contributions on William Joyce, Joseph Jonas, the marginalisation of the mass emigration of the Jews within German memory, and the 'exile' of princesses for whom until recent times marriage often meant a life far from home"-- Provided by publisher