He Was a German: A Biography of Ernst Toller

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Playwright, socialist revolutionary, and political activist and organizer, Ernst Toller was one of the most celebrated German authors known to the English-speaking world from the 1920s to the Second World War. Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction I Growing up in Imperial Germany II From Patriotism to Pacifism III Call to Socialism IV The Transformation: Drama as Political Action V Revolution in Bavaria: The Writers’ Republic VI High Treason VII Five Years ‘Honourable Imprisonment’ VIII Plays from a Prison Cell IX Public Figure and Political Playwright: Toller in the Weimar Republic X Political Theatre: Theory and Practice XI Russia and America: Which World, Which Way? XII Dress Rehearsal for Dictatorship XIII The First Year of Exile XIV Exile in London: PEN, Pacifism and Popular Front XV ‘Hitler: the Promise and the Reality’ - Toller's North American Lecture Tour XVI Hollywood and After XVII Food for Spain XVIII Requiem Note on Sources Notes Bibliography Name Index