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  First World War.com - Prose & Poetry - Ernst Toller
Toller was born in Samotschin in 1893 and schooled at Bromberg, where he began his literary career with a series of local newspaper articles and then poetry.
Toller was found guilty in 1919 of high treason in supporting Kurt Eisner's declaration of a Bavarian Socialist Republic and the failed Spartakist rising of January 1919.
Toller was fortunate to escape the death penalty and was the beneficiary of intervention on his behalf by Max Weber and Thomas Mann.
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 Oscar Fischer: The Suicide of Ernst Toller (August 1939)
Toller was a representative of a certain type of the German intelligentsia – and even by his death Toller represented precisely this type just as he did during his life-time.
Ernst Toller’s suicide is not the first of such cases in the German emigration.
Toller could no longer raise himself above the crumpled walls of his ethical pathos and his pacifistic faith in humanity, and as far as his eye could see in the circles in which he moved, there was hopelessness and decay, helplessness and rot.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/newspape/ni/vol05/no08/fischer.htm   (1136 words)

  
 Michael Matthews:Toller
Ernst Toller was born on 1st December 1893 - into a Jewish family in Samotschin in what at that time was the Prussian province of Posen.
The political questions with which he concerned himself until his death are disturbingly topical today: the problem of the pacifism, which for him arose from the fact that under certain circumstances violence can be as inevitable as it is morally unacceptable; the protection of human rights, the rise of the radical right.
The music for Ernst Toller — Requiem for an Idea was written with financial assistance from the Manitoba Arts Council, whose support is gratefully acknowledged.
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 Ernst Toller
Toller, like most Germans, accepted that it was his duty to join the German Army and defend the Fatherland.
Toller was charged with "attempted treason" but was released in May 1918 and returned to the German Army.
Toller hoped that he would be given the freedom to write films that dealt with political issues such as the rise of fascism in Europe.
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 the biography of Ernst Toller - life story
Ernst Toller was born in Samotschin, Poland, on 1st December 1893.
In 1919 Toller was sentenced to five years in prison for his support of Kurt Eisner's declaration of a Bavarian Socialist Republic.
When Toller also saw that communists and socialists were being persecuted in the concentration camps, he was persuaded to leave Germany.
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Ernst Toller during the stay in the prison at
Ernst Toller was a German intellectual Jew, who played a crucial role during the Spartakist revolt in the years 1918 - 1920.
Toller saw no other way out but to take his life.
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 Toller Ernst: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Ernst Zinner, Alte Sonnenuhren an Europaischen...Press, 1986), 85.
And under the patronage that draws a hiss from Toller many of the greatest and finest works of art were born...
TOLLER, ERNST ernst tol r, 1893 1939, German dramatist and poet of the expressionist school.
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 Ernst Toller - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Toller, Ernst (1893-1939), German playwright, born in Samotschin (now Szamocin, Poland), and educated at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich....
Ernst, Max (1891-1976), German-born French artist, who was a seminal figure in both Dada and surrealism.
Ernst, Richard Robert, born in 1933, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize winner.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ernst Toller
Ernst Toller (December 1, 1893 – May 22, 1939) was a German Communist playwright, best known for his expressionist plays.
Toller was involved in the 1919 Munich Soviet Republic along with other leading anarchists—such as B.
Toller moved to New York City in 1936, where he lived with a group of artists and writers in exile, including Klaus Mann, Erika Mann, and Therese Giehse.
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 Michael Matthews: Toller Suite
In it writer Per Brask has used excerpts from Toller's writings as an entry point for a consideration of the meaning of the author's life and death.
The political questions with which he concerned himself until his death are worryingly topical today: the problem of the pacifism, which for him arose from the fact that under certain circumstances violence can be as inevitable as it is morally unacceptable; the protection of human rights, the rise of the radical right.
It has not been my intention to give an account of the life and times of Ernst Toller — though that certainly would be an interesting project — nor to interrogate, as they say, his plays.
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 Ernst Toller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ernst Toller was born in Samotschin, Posen, Prussia (now Poland) in 1893.
Toller recalled of the incident, "It was terrible and inhuman.
Ernst Toller: Eine Jugend in Deutschland, ISBN 3-499-14178-7
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 Ernst Toller Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
From the time he was invited as a young student to attend a conference called by the publisher Eugen Diederichs during World War I until his suicide in 1939, the expressionist playwright Ernst Toller was rarely off the front pages of German or foreign newspapers.
Toller's works were translated into languages ranging from Bulgarian and Esperanto to Gujarati and Japanese, and his plays were performed in Moscow, Sarajevo, Tallinn, Riga, Copenhagen, Tokyo, London, Paris, Buenos Aires, Helsinki, Urbana, Brooklyn, Berkeley, Princeton, and Poughkeepsie.
Toller was born in Samotschin, Germany (now Szamocin, Poland), on 1 December 1893.
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 Biographie: Ernst Toller, 1893-1939
Dezember: Ernst Toller wird in Samotschin (heute: Szamocin, Polen) als Sohn des jüdischen Kaufmanns Max Toller geboren.
Toller zieht nach Heidelberg, flieht von dort aber aus politischen Gründen nach Berlin, wo er mit Kurt Eisner zusammentrifft, dem er nach München folgt.
Während der Haft schreibt Toller seine wichtigsten expressionistischen Dramen, wie "Masse Mensch" und "Der deutsche Hinkemann", in denen er seine durch die Kriegserlebnisse erlangte pazifistische Haltung umsetzt.
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 Ernst Toller - Wikipedia
Toller begann Jura und Philosophie zu studieren, wurde aber schon bald von Prof.
Ernst Toller wurde nach der Niederschlagung der Räterepublik durch rechtsextreme Freikorpsverbände und Reichswehr, 1919 als Mitglied einer Regierung der Münchner Räterepublik zu 5 Jahren Festungshaft verurteilt, die zum größten Teil im Gefängnis Niederschönenfeld verbüßte.
Seine Asche wurde jahrelang von niemandem abgeholt und wurde zu einem unbekannten Zeitpunkt in einem schlichten Sammelurnengrab billigster Ausführung bestattet.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ernst_Toller   (828 words)

  
 Toller, Ernst - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Toller, Ernst, 1893-1939, German dramatist and poet of the expressionist school.
He was imprisoned (1919-24) for participating in the Communist Bavarian revolution.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Toller, Ernst" at HighBeam.
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 Amazon.fr : The Plays of Ernst Toller: A Revelation: Livres en anglais: Cecil W. Davies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This book is the fullest and most detailed study yet published in English of Ernst Toller's plays and their most significant productions.
The plays are seen as eminently stage-worthy while worth lies in Toller's use of language, both in prose and inverse.
The reader is led to appreciate why Toller was regarded as the most outstanding German dramatist of his generation until, after his death in 1939 his reputation was overlaid by that of Brecht.
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 Amazon.ca: Toller: Plays One: Books: Ernst Toller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ernst Toller was the most prominent of the German Expressionist playwrights.
Transformation is a poetic distillation in stations of the author's conversion from patriot to pacifist in the First World War.
With Hoopla We're Alive!, Toller espoused "new sobriety" and presented a contemporary political cross-section of Berlin.
www.amazon.ca /Toller-Plays-One-Ernst/dp/1840021950   (258 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Ernst Toller (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Ernst Toller (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Ernst Toller[ernst tOl´ur] Pronunciation Key, 1893–1939, German dramatist and poet of the expressionist school.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Ernst Toller
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 The Passion of Ernst Toller (The Nation, April 4, 1934)
The Passion of Ernst Toller (The Nation, April 4, 1934)
The Autobiography of Ernst Toller." This autobiography, which Ernst Toller has recently published as his declaration of faith in the teeth of National Socialism, is likely to leave some readers a little bewildered.
It tells of a typical middle-class German-Jewish boyhood characterized by the usual German-Jewish racial amnesia, of a youth in the trenches and a long convalescence which permitted him to meditate on the meaning of what he saw and to write poetry which attracted the attention of Thomas Mann.
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 Ernst Barlach Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
When plays of the expressionist Ernst Barlach were first performed in the 1920s in major cities of the Weimar Republic, no less a critic than Thomas Mann compared Barlach favorably to the young playwright Bertolt Brecht, then much in vogue, and praised the folk-song-like, dark power of Barlach's Der tote Tag (The Dead Day, 1912).
Barlach's reputation as the most interesting playwright of the expressionist movement is attested to by the fact that more studies were devoted to his work than to that of Carl Sternheim, Georg Kaiser, or Ernst Toller.
During the 1920s, two of his plays, Die echten Sedemunds (1920; translated as The Genuine Sedemunds in Three Plays, 1964) and Der blaue Boll (1926; translated as The Blue Boll in Three Plays), had successful, long runs in the expressionist staging of Jürgen Fehling and Leopold Jeßner.
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 Corpses In The Woods - Ernst Toller Poems - Poems and Poetry
Corpses In The Woods - Ernst Toller Poems - Poems and Poetry
The air poisoned by the stink of corpses
Send "Corpses In The Woods" poem by Ernst Toller to a friend
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 Books by Ernst Toller, compare prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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Previously Unpublished Poems of German Playwright Ernst Toller (1893-1939) : A Critical Translation
I Was a German : The Autobiography of Ernst Toller.
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 Amazon.ca: I Was a German: The Autobiography of Ernst Toller.: Books: Ernst Toller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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I Was a German: The Autobiography of Ernst Toller.
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 Search Results for ernst toller letters from prison - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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Others may arise with books that are now out of print, or for some reason do not have an ISBN associated with them.
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 Plays of Ernst Toller; Author: Davies, Cecil; Paperback
A detailed study in English of Ernst Toller's plays and their most significant productions.
Particular productions directed by Karl-Heinz Martin, Jurgen Fehling and Edwin Piscator are analyzed because of their obscuring or distortion of Toller's intentions, according to the author.
Prices subject to change to be advised on confirmation of order.
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 Textbooks by Ernst Toller - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I Was a German: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary (European Sources) by Ernst Toller
Toller Plays One: Transformation, Masses Man, Hoppla, We're Alive!
No more peace!: A thoughtful comedy by Ernst Toller
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 Spring - Ernst Toller Poems - Poems and Poetry
Spring - Ernst Toller Poems - Poems and Poetry
What do I care for my own troubles?
Send "Spring" poem by Ernst Toller to a friend
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 AddALL.com - browse and compare book price: Ernst Toller
AddALL.com - browse and compare book price: Ernst Toller
Publisher: Consortium Book Sales and Dist - Published Date: 09/01/1996 - Paperback
Previously Unpublished Poems of German Playwright Ernst Toller (1893-1939): A Critical Translation
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