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2020-05-24 06:41:34
A rare interview with Max Brod
Kafka’s friend, polymath, composer, theatrical dramaturg. Riveting interview.
2020-01-23 16:32:00
From Saturday 25th January on Operavision, "the last operetta of the Weimar Era", Jaromír Weinberger's Spring Storm (Frühlingsstürme) commissioned for Berlin’s Admiralspalast, which poremiered a few days before January 30th 1933, when Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany, thereby ending the creative floutrish that marked the early years of the 20th century. To prepare I've been revisting Weinberger's Švanda dudák a Czech libretto by Miloš Kareš, which premiered in Prague in 1927 followed by the German premiere in Breslau in 1928, in a translation by Max Brod. Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer was a smash hit, particularly in German speaking countries. Boosey & Hawkes describes it thus: "The strikingly folksy and yet anything but old-fashioned opera that makes enormous demands on the performers. It is not a “comic opera” for light voices and a mere municipal theater orchestra. The great conductors of the time, such as Erich Kleiber and Clemens […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-05-21 12:32:55
Germany Is Returning Stolen Papers Of Kafka Executor Max Brod To Israel
“[The handover] will end a decade-long struggle to retrieve the missing Brod papers which, according to Israel’s National Library, were stolen 10 years ago in Tel Aviv. The documents, letters and memoirs re-emerged in 2013, when two Israelis approached the German Literary Archives in Marbach, and private collectors, with a huge collection of unpublished documents […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-08-24 11:29:42
Eva Hoffe, Heir At Center Of Court Battle Over Kafka’s Papers Dead At 85
Eva’s mother, Esther (Ilsa) Hoffe, was the secretary of Kafka’s friend and executor, Max Brod, and she inherited Brod’s archive when he died. After Esther’s death, the National Library of Israel, citing the term’s of Brod’s will, sued Eva for the papers, leading to a long string of litigation.
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