Exiles
Subtitle: Actors, Artists and Writers Who Fled the Nazis for London
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781788316903
Subjects: Germans, great britain; Great britain, foreign relations, germany; Germany, foreign relations, great britain
Description: "London, 1934. Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner dominated the British theatre scene, poet and director Berthold Viertel shot two successful films for Gaumont British; two great actors from the Weimar era, Conrad Veidt and Fritz Kortner, become well-known faces in English-speaking cinema and the Hungarian journalist Stefan Lorant launched the first ever continental-style illustrated magazine for the British newspaper market. Exploring a phase in the history of Anglo-German relations during which the émigrés from Hitler's Germany were making their influence felt in Britain, Daria Santini traces their presence in London from around 1933 to 1935 when these characters made their presence truly felt, all while the Nazi threat loomed on the horizon."--Bloomsbury Publishing.