German literary critics
A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's goals and methods.
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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
Featuring: Laura Bradley, David Barnett, Tom Kuhn
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 playwrightsWalter 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
Featuring: Esther Leslie, Kevin McLaughlin, Carolin Duttlinger
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