Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Exilliteratur writers

German Exilliteratur (German pronunciation: [ɛˈksiːl.lɪtəʁaˌtuːɐ̯], exile literature) is the name for works of German literature written in the German diaspora by refugee authors who fled from Nazi Germany, Nazi Austria, and the occupied territories between 1933 and 1945. These dissident writers, poets and artists, many of whom were of Jewish ancestry and/or held anti-Nazi beliefs, fled into exile in 1933 after the Nazi Party came to power in Germany and after Nazi Germany annexed Austria by the Anschluss in 1938, abolished the freedom of press, and started to prosecute authors and ban works.

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  1. Bertolt Brecht

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works and ideas of this great German playwright from the Weimar Republic to his exile under the Nazis and return to Berlin after World War Two.

    25 April 2024

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    Featuring: Laura Bradley, David Barnett, Tom Kuhn

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    CultureModernist theatreMarxist theoristsGerman Marxist writersProtestants in the German ResistanceGerman opera librettistsExilliteratur writersGerman literary criticsGerman theatre directorsBurials at the Dorotheenstadt CemeteryNaturalised citizens of AustriaGerman male poets, German male dramatists and playwrights

  2. Hannah Arendt

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Hannah Arendt who examined totalitarianism and politics and, when covering the Eichmann trial, explored 'the banality of evil'.

    2 February 2017

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    Featuring: Lyndsey Stonebridge, Frisbee Sheffield, Robert Eaglestone

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    PhilosophySocial philosophersPhilosophy writersFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesPhilosophers of historyPhilosophers of culturePhilosophers of sciencePhilosophers of lawGerman political philosophersExistentialistsPolitical philosophersJewish agnosticsPhilosophers of technologyWomen religious writers20th-century German philosophersHeidelberg University alumniMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersAmerican political philosophersExilliteratur writersGerman agnosticsGerman Ashkenazi JewsJewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United StatesGerman women philosophersAmerican philosophers of educationPrinceton University faculty20th-century American essayists20th-century American women writers20th-century German women writers20th-century American philosophers20th-century German non-fiction writersJewish existentialistsThe New School facultyScholars of antisemitismUniversity of Marburg alumniGerman philosophers of education, German ethicistsGerman Zionists, American Ashkenazi Jews, American agnostics, American ZionistsUniversity of Chicago faculty, Intellectual historians

  3. Walter Benjamin

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable philosopher and critic whose ideas, developed in the 1930s, became highly influential after his death while escaping the Holocaust.

    10 February 2022

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    Featuring: Esther Leslie, Kevin McLaughlin, Carolin Duttlinger

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    PhilosophyPhilosophers of literatureGerman male non-fiction writersJewish philosophersGerman male essayistsGerman philosophers of historyGerman philosophers of artGerman philosophers of cultureJewish socialistsGerman philosophers of language20th-century German philosophersHumboldt University of Berlin alumniGerman Marxist writersExilliteratur writersGerman literary critics20th-century German male writersGerman philosophers of technologyWriters from Berlin