Katherine Hollander is Lecturer in Poetry and History, Tufts University, USA. She is a historian, Brecht scholar, and poet, author of My German Dictionary (2019), and editor of a student edition of Mother Courage (Methuen Drama 2022).

Katherine Hollander is a superb poet and a superb historian, and both of these gifts are at work here. She writes beautiful and exact sentences, she has capacious imaginative sympathy, and when we are done with her book, oversimplifications have been cleared away, and everything she considers has been newly illuminated: Brecht and each of his co-workers, exile, authorship, collaboration. For thinking about all these things we have to start fresh, and we have to start here.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. A Swan In Disguise: Vienna, 1900-1917Chapter 2. The Weimar Constellation: Berlin, 1900-1933Chapter 3. Green Islands: Experiments in Exile, 1908-1933Chapter 4. A Home at the End of the World: Svendborg, 1933-1936Chapter 5. Producing Something with the Others’ Talents: Svendborg, 1936-1938Chapter 6. Four Doors to Escape Through: Flight and Loss, 1938-1941Chapter 7. More Light: Hollywood and Berlin, 1941-1950ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Katherine Hollander is Lecturer in Poetry and History, Tufts University, USA. She is a historian, Brecht scholar, and poet, author of My German Dictionary (2019), and editor of a student edition of Mother Courage (Methuen Drama 2022).

Katherine Hollander is a superb poet and a superb historian, and both of these gifts are at work here. She writes beautiful and exact sentences, she has capacious imaginative sympathy, and when we are done with her book, oversimplifications have been cleared away, and everything she considers has been newly illuminated: Brecht and each of his co-workers, exile, authorship, collaboration. For thinking about all these things we have to start fresh, and we have to start here.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. A Swan In Disguise: Vienna, 1900-1917Chapter 2. The Weimar Constellation: Berlin, 1900-1933Chapter 3. Green Islands: Experiments in Exile, 1908-1933Chapter 4. A Home at the End of the World: Svendborg, 1933-1936Chapter 5. Producing Something with the Others’ Talents: Svendborg, 1936-1938Chapter 6. Four Doors to Escape Through: Flight and Loss, 1938-1941Chapter 7. More Light: Hollywood and Berlin, 1941-1950ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Katherine Hollander is Lecturer in Poetry and History, Tufts University, USA. She is a historian, Brecht scholar, and poet, author of My German Dictionary (2019), and editor of a student edition of Mother Courage (Methuen Drama 2022).

Katherine Hollander is a superb poet and a superb historian, and both of these gifts are at work here. She writes beautiful and exact sentences, she has capacious imaginative sympathy, and when we are done with her book, oversimplifications have been cleared away, and everything she considers has been newly illuminated: Brecht and each of his co-workers, exile, authorship, collaboration. For thinking about all these things we have to start fresh, and we have to start here.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. A Swan In Disguise: Vienna, 1900-1917Chapter 2. The Weimar Constellation: Berlin, 1900-1933Chapter 3. Green Islands: Experiments in Exile, 1908-1933Chapter 4. A Home at the End of the World: Svendborg, 1933-1936Chapter 5. Producing Something with the Others’ Talents: Svendborg, 1936-1938Chapter 6. Four Doors to Escape Through: Flight and Loss, 1938-1941Chapter 7. More Light: Hollywood and Berlin, 1941-1950ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex