The Exiles

Actors, Artists and Writers Who Fled the Nazis for London

Daria Santini

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781788316903
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786726223
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern British History
• Index: History

London, 1934. Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner dominated the British theatre scene, poet and director Berthold Viertel shot two successful films for Gaumont British; two great actors from the Weimar era, Conrad Veidt and Fritz Kortner, became well-known faces in English-speaking cinema and the Hungarian journalist Stefan Lorant launched the first ever continental-style illustrated magazine for the British newspaper market.

Exploring a phase in the history of Anglo-German relations during which the émigrés from Hitler's Germany were making their influence felt in Britain, Daria Santini traces their presence in London from around 1933 to 1935 when these characters made their presence truly felt, all while the Nazi threat loomed on the horizon.

Index

Note: Photographs and images are indicated by page numbers in italics. Except where otherwise indicated, literary/creative works are listed under the name of the author/artist/creator.

Abdul the Damned (dir. Grune) here, here–here, here, here

Academic Assistance Council here, here, here, here

Adelphi Terrace House here, here

Adorno, Theodor W. here

Alber, Franz here

Alexander, Elias here

Altmann, Lotte here, here–here, here–here, here, here–here, here, here

Anderson, Wes, The Grand Budapest Hotel here

Anglo-German relations here

Anglophilia here, here–here

anti-Semitism in Austria here

anti-Semitism in Britain here, here, here, here. See also British Fascism

anti-Semitism in Germany. See also Nazi authorities and leadership

in academia here, here

book-burning here, here

concentration camps (see concentration camps)

dismissal of German-Jewish students here, here, here

as increasing here, here, here

Jewish actors and technicians banned here–here, here

Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service here

observed by McDonald here

portrayed in film (see Jew Süss (Feuchtwanger/dir. Mendes))

archbishop of Canterbury here, here

Architect’s Journal here

Architectural Review here

architecture and architects/firms

modernist (see under modernism)

Royal Institute of British Architects here, here–here

Asche, Oscar, Chu Chin Chow here–here

Asquith, Cynthia, on Barrie here, here–here

Association of Jewish Refugees here

Atget, Eugène, Old Paris here–here

Balcon, Michael here–here, here, here, here–here, here, here

Chu Chin Chow here–here

Jew Süss here–here (see also Jew Süss (Feuchtwanger/dir. Mendes))

The Man Who Knew Too Much here, here

Ballet Jooss here, here

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents 
• Figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• January–March
• April
• May–June
• July–September
• October–December
• Epilogue
• Sources
• Bibliography
• Index
• Imprint