New York and London.

A Journey After The Great War
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-96026-076-9
Verlag: Berlinica Publishing UG

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 258 g

Reihe: Weimarer Autoren in Amerika

After the First World War, the Berlin theater critic Alfred Kerr travels to America and Great Britain. Kerr, who calls New York the “greatest city in the world”, visits the Broadway theaters and Wall Street, marvels at the subway, Times Square and Grand Central Station. He writes about Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, talks to the satirist Henry Louis Mencken, the railroad magnate W. Averell Harriman - banking partner of the Bush family - and Adolph Ochs, the publisher of the New York Times. In London, he meets the poet George Bernard Shaw. But the book, written concisely and wittily, is much more than just a travelogue. After the war, when the mood in America and England became extremely hostile towards Germany, when German professors were dismissed and propaganda films agitated against Germany, Kerr is on a mission to explore the situation and ask for understanding and help for the fragile Weimar democracy.

Zielgruppe

Englischsprechende Erwachsene

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kerr, Alfred

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bance, Alan

Über Autor(innen)

Kerr, Alfred
Alfred Kerr, born in Breslau in 1867, was a German-Jewish writer and journalist. He wrote for Der Tag, the Breslauer Zeitung, the Berliner Tageblatt and the Frankfurter Zeitung and was editor of the art magazine Pan. Kerr, known for his ironic, terse, film-like style and his long-running dispute with Karl Kraus, was one of the most influential theater critics of his time until the Nazis came to power. He wrote books on drama, travel stories from Corsica and Algeria, as well as Yankee Land - a journey through America and Walther Rathenau. Memoirs of a Friend. In 1933, after the book burning, he fled to Prague and then to London. He died in 1948 during a lecture tour in Hamburg. This book was written after a trip after the First World War.

Bance, Alan
Alan Bance, b. London 1939. BA UCL 1961, PhD Cambridge 1968, Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Southampton, UK, has taught at the universities of Graz, Austria; Strathclyde and St Andrews, Scotland; Cologne, Germany and Keele, England. His many publications include The German Novel, 1945-1960 (1980) Heinz, and Theodor Fontane: The Major Novels (1982) Cambridge. Translations include Brigitte Hamann's Winifred Wagner (2005) Granta, (2006 )Harcourt); Sigmund Freud’s Wild Analysis (2002) Penguin, and Alfred Kerr’s I Went to England: A British Journal 1935-40 (2024) Lang. Alan lives in Southampton, UK and has two daughters, Georgia and Miriam. He recently celebrated his diamond wedding to Sandra née Davis.