TOLLER, ERNST

ĕrnst tôlˈər, 1893–1939, German dramatist and poet of the expressionist school. He was imprisoned (1919–24) for participating in the Communist Bavarian revolution. In 1932 he left Germany, and in 1936 he went to New York City, where he later committed suicide. His plays of social protest include Die Wandlung (1919, tr. Transfiguration, 1935); Masse Mensch (1920, tr. Man and the Masses, 1924); Die Maschinen-stürmer (1922, tr. The Machine-Wreckers, 1923), based on the Luddite riots in England; Hinkeman (1924, tr. Brokenbow, 1926); and Pastor Hall (tr. 1939), about Martin Niemoeller. Schwalbenbuch [swallow book] (1923), a collection of lyric verse, and Briefe aus dem Gefängnis [letters from prison] (1935), an account of his imprisonment, appeared together in English translation as Look Through the Bars (1937).

See his autobiography, Eine Jugend in Deutschland (1933, tr. I Was a German, 1934); study by J. M. Spalek (1968).

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Character, Ideology, and Symbolism in the Plays of Wedekind, Sternheim, Kaiser, Toller, and Brecht
Book by M. Helena GonÇalves Da Silva; Modern Humanities Research Association, 1985
...second edition Leipzig, 1933 , p. 63. 2. Ernst Toller, Ausgewahlte Schriften Berlin, 1961 . 3. Ernst Toller, Prosa Briefe Dramen Gedichte Hamburg, 1961 . 4. Walter Sokel Ernst Toller, in Deutsche Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert...
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Ernst Troeltsch and Liberal Theology: Religion and Cultural Synthesis in Wilhelmine, Germany
Book by Mark D. Chapman; Oxford University Press, 2001
Subjects: Christianity And Politics--Germany--History And Criticism--20th Century, Liberalism (Religion)--Germany--History--20th Century, Liberation Theology--Germany--History--20th Century, Sociology, Christian--Germany--History--20th Century, Troeltsch, Ernst--1865-1923
...Troeltsch remarks of both Herrmanns and Hermelink Luther interpretation: Things could not have been contorted in a more mad (toller) and twisted fashion. (My translation.) In Bernhard Duhm (1847-1928), Prof. of OT in Gbttingen (1877); Prof...
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Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Book by Horatio Smith; Columbia university press, 1947
Subjects: Authors, European--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, European Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography, European Literature--Dictionaries
...Timmermans 1931 . J.-A. G Toller, Ernst 1893-1939, German dramatist...November revolution of 1918. Toller revealing autobiography...performed in Germany." Toller outstanding contributions...W. A. Willibrand, Ernst Toller, Product of Two...
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The Jewish Ethic and the Spirit of Socialism
Book by Adam M. Weisberger; Peter Lang, 1997
Subjects: Germany--Ethnic Relations, Jewish Socialists--Germany--Biography, Jews--Germany--Politics And Government, Socialism And Judaism, Socialism--Germany
...Socialism in the Works of Ernst Toller , Peter Lang, New...Schuld trage ..." Toller Ernst, Eine Jugend in Deutschland...Socialism , p. 146 . 117 Toller, Briefe aus dem Gefangnis...120 See, for example, Tollers letters to Tessa in Briefe...kein einziger Liebesbrief von Tollers Hand bekannt. War er einer...fahig ?" Rothe Wofgang, Toller, in Selbstzeugnissen und...
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Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism
Book by Paul Poplawski; Greenwood Press, 2003
Subjects: Modernism (Literature)--Encyclopedias
Toller, Ernst 1893 1939 Tollers art feeds off his experiences...Selected Bibliography Tollers works are available...Cecil. The Plays of Ernst Toller . Amsterdam: Harwood...Anarchism in the Dramas of Ernst Toller: The Realm of...
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Les Deux Discours Inedits d'Aragon Au 3eme Congres De la "League of American Writers", le 2 Juin 1939
Journal article by David A. Griffiths; The Romanic Review, 2001
Subjects: American literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Aragon, Louis--Addresses, essays, lectures, Aragon, Louis--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Authors, French--Addresses, essays, lectures, French poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Mayakovski, the great Soviet poet. Like Ernst Toller who has just killed himself, Essenin...cruelly smitten in the person of Ernst Toller, as if the tragedy of the exiled...coll. Blanche, Gallimard. Ernst Toller (1893-1939): ecrivain et dramaturge...
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Tennessee Williams's Tom Wingfield and Georg Kaiser's Cashier: A Contextual Comparison
Journal article by William Fordyce; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 34, 1998
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature--Social aspects, Kaiser, Georg--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Glass Menagerie (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Williams, Tennessee--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...the humanitarian, alluded to by Ernst Schurer. In discussing Die Erneuerung...Renate. German Expressionist Drama: Ernst Toller and Georg Kaiser. Macmillan Modern...New York: Funk, 1960. Schurer, Ernst. Georg Kaiser. Twaynes World Authors...
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Notes for Notes
Journal article by Dena J. Epstein; Music Library Association. Notes, Vol. 61, 2004
...Lotte Lehmann, Marlene Dietrich, Ernst Toller, Paul Hindemith, Otto Klemperer...Remarque, William Steinberg, and Ernst Toch. Of particular note are the...renowned composers such as John Cage, Ernst Krenek, and Alvin Lucier to the...
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John London, Ed. Theater under the Nazis
Journal article by Robert Hinkel; Comparative Drama, Vol. 35, 2001
Subjects: Theater under the Nazis (Book)
...Bertold Brecht, Max Reinhardt, Ernst Toller, Carl Zuckmeyer, Peter Weiss...Gerhard Hauptmann, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Wiechert, Richard Strauss, William...Hans Carossa, Gottfried Benn, Ernst Junger, and Walter von Molo...
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Book Notes
Journal article; Shofar, Vol. 25, 2007
Subjects: Books, Christianity, Christians, Court records, Documentary films, Essays, Holocaust, Jews, Motion pictures, Oral tradition, Political alliances, Politics, Religion, Remakes & sequels
...victories. This history covers the lives of Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Doblin, Hans Eisler, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Anna Seghers, Ernst Toller, Stefan Zweig and odiers. Jews and Non-Jews Fear...
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Anna Funder
Magazine article by Jonathan Derbyshire; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, September 26, 2011
Subjects: All That I Am (Novel), Authors, Funder, Anna, Writers
...Jewish assimilation. Yes. It is extraordinary when you think about it. My other narrator, the playwright Ernst Toller - the real Ernst Toller - did go with great enthusiasm into the First World War, and the Kaiser did say: "My dear Jews, welcome...
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What It Feels like to Be Brave
Magazine article by Kasia Boddy; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, September 19, 2011
Subjects: All That I Am (Novel)
...are two narrators. One is Ernst Toller, the most frequently...between the point of view of Toller, dictating amendments to his...Funder, and therefore Ruth and Toller, believe it is Dora who should...risking her life to smuggle Tollers papers out of Germany, negotiating...Lord Marley. Similarly, Toller, in this account, comes across...
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The Thing That Counts; A Review: Sean O'Casey
Magazine article by Sean O'Casey; New Statesman, Vol. 135, April 24, 2006
Subjects: Love on the Dole (Play)--Theater reviews, Theater--Theater reviews
...pap that will make them feverish and make them fat. Ernst Toller, in the Introduction he writes to his Seven Plays...too. And under the patronage that draws a hiss from Toller many of the greatest and finest works of art were born...
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Pint-Sized Punch: Mark Bryant Takes a Look at a Pioneering Magazine That Acted as a School for a Whole Generation of Cartoonists
Magazine article by Mark Bryant; History Today, Vol. 57, August 2007
Subjects: Lilliput (Periodical)--History, Lilliput (Periodical)--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Literary magazines--History, Literary magazines--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Literary newspapers and periodicals--History, Literary newspapers and periodicals--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
...writers arrived for their regular daily meeting it was passed around. The group comprised the German poet and dramatist Ernst Toller, the Austrian writer Arnold Zweig, the German novelist Leon Feuchtwanger, and the thirty-six-year-old Hungarian...
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Mind the Design
Magazine article by K. Michael Hays; Artforum International, Vol. 48, November 2009
Subjects: Architecture--Criticism and interpretation, Art, Modern--Criticism and interpretation, Modern art--Criticism and interpretation, Modernism (Art)--Criticism and interpretation
...a roster of guests that included philosophers Rudolf Carnap, Herbert Feigl, and Otto Neurath, as well playwright Ernst Toller and filmmaker Dziga Vertov. Instruction was now organized in collective, collaborative "vertical brigades" and...
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newspaper articles on: Toller Ernst  - 3 results

 
 
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The Flight from Hitler in the Years before the War
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 15, 2011
Subjects: Funder, Anna
...never exactly a lark to begin with -- the playwright Ernst Toller, once feted throughout the world, now largely forgotten...that out.) The narrative is shared alternately between Toller and Becker, the latter doing her reminiscing in 2001...
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thE VoICE of hIStoRY; Book of thE WEEk
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), September 16, 2011
Subjects: Books, Funder, Anna
...Dora Fabian, and the playwright Ernst Toller, were all real people. Their flight...Ruth and Dora) and New York (Ernst) has been previously documented...through the voices of Ruth and Ernst, to show how they struggled to keep...
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Literary Fiction
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 23, 2011
Subjects: Funder, Anna
...The narrative is shared between the Leftwing playwright Ernst Toller and Ruth, who met Funder as an old lady having moved to live...is Dora Fabian, a charismatic radical and here the love of Tollers life; at great personal risk she rescued his precious manuscripts...


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encyclopedia articles on: Toller Ernst  - 2 results

 
 
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Toller, Ernst
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TOLLER, ERNST ernst tol r, 1893 1939, German dramatist and poet of the expressionist school. He was imprisoned (1919 24) for participating in the Communist Bavarian revolution. In 1932 he left Germany, and in 1936 he went to New York City...
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Drama, Western
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and characters portrayed as types rather than individuals. Notable playwrights who wrote expressionist dramas include Ernst Toller and Georg Kaiser (German), Karel Capek (Czech), and Elmer Rice and Eugene ONeill (American). The 20th cent...


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