EISLER/BRECHT War & Exile

Description

Hanns Eisler: music

A great composer who stopped his dodecaphonic work in order to write more effectively for the people - every individual can be moved when artistic problems are embraced and submerged in political problems. This emotion must shake people to their foundations.

Bertolt Brecht: texts

Here are texts and poems written in exile (in Scandinavia, then in USA). Written at the very moment when the ignominious beast was devouring the world. These texts contain fear, a modicum hope, but also something chilling. Events were unfolding even as these thoughts were being expressed...