As a jazz musician, filmmaker, anthropologist, sexologist, and crime novelist, the boundlessly curious German autodidact Ernest Borneman exemplified the conflicting cultural and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. In this long-awaited English translation, acclaimed historian Detlef Siegfried chronicles Borneman’s journey from a young Jewish Communist in Nazi Berlin to his emergence as a celebrated (and reliably controversial) transatlantic polymath. Through an innovative struct...

Die erste Biografie Ernest Bornemans zum 100. Geburtstag des berühmten Jazzkritikers, Dokumentarfilmers und Sexualwissenschaftlers am 12. April 2015. Borneman, Jungkommunist mit jüdischem Familienhintergrund, emigrierte 1933, sechs Wochen vor dem Abitur, nach London. Sein Geld verdiente er durch Jobs in der Filmbranche, als Journalist und Schriftsteller. Während des Krieges wurde er als »feindlicher Ausländer" inhaftiert und in Kanada interniert. Dort arbeitete er ab 1941 für das National ...

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.Volume One of Brecht's Collected Plays contains Brecht's first performed stage works. Baal is inspired by Brecht's student life in Augsburg and follows the life of a young poet on the rocky road to inspiration; Drums in the Night was written in response to Brecht's experience as a me...