Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the Present

Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism #16

by Anthony Heilbut

A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholars—ranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, and Fritz Lang—who fled Hitler's Germany and how they changed the very fabric of American culture. In a new postscript, Heilbut draws attention to the recent changes in reputation and image that have shaped the reception of the German exiles.

Genres: History, Germany, Nonfiction, World War II, Philosophy, Music, Film

522 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 1983

About the author

Anthony Heilbut received his Ph.D. in English from Harvard University. He has taught at New York University and Hunter College and is the author of Exiled in Paradise, The Gospel Sound, and Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature. Heilbut is also a record producer specializing in gospel music and has won both a Grammy Award and a Grand Prix du Disque.

Reviews

[Owen Hatherley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well now this is a great book - up there with John Willett as one of the best on 'Weimar culture' and its outgrowths, politically astute, warm, often funny, compendious, and deserves to be better known imo!

[Bernie4444 · Rating 3 out of 5]

No new insight, but a good reference

This book has no new insight; no special slant or interests other than the fact that the people cited were in exile from the 1930s to today. There is nothing wrong with this book. Yet there is nothing to make it stand out from the crowd. Some of the people include Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Otto Preminger.