When Hermann Broch began the work of completing and publishing his first major literary work, the trilogy Die Schlafwandler, in the early 1930s, French and English were the two languages into which he wanted his work to be...
Der radikale Zivilisationsbruch, die Zukunft und Verteidigung der Demokratie, der Kampf gegen Totalitarismus und Massenwahn, der Einsatz für Menschenrechte sowie das utopische Potential einer Literatur, die antike und...
This essay analyzes three later films of Arnold Fanck: S.O.S Eisberg (1933), Die Tochter des Samurai (1937) and Ein Robinson (1940). Best known for the classical mountain films (Bergfilme) which he, along with LeniRiefenstahl...
The radical rupture in civilization, the future and defense of democracy, the fight against totalitarianism and mass hysteria, the commitment to human rights, and the utopian potential of literature – these were the topics that...
Hermann Broch was a prolific letter writer and spent much of his life explaining and promoting his thoughts and ideas in letters. These letters show his belief that his work was worth communicating to others and that he was...
