EislerMitteilungen

The Eisler-Mitteilungen are published by the International Hanns Eisler Society on behalf of the Hanns and Steffy Eisler Foundation, and sent free of charge to all members of the International Hanns Eisler Society.

You can request a free sample copy from us by email. The majority of contributions are German-language only, English translations of their content below are for information only.

New: Issue 54 / Eisler and Death

Contents:
– Interviews with the new HEGA chief editors Thomas Phleps and Georg Witte
– Maren Köster on the edition of Eisler correspondence
– Knud Breyer on the upcoming edition of Eisler's orchestral music
– Peter Deeg on lost and rediscovered Eisler autographs
– Gerd Rienäcker on personal encounters with Hanns Eisler
and more
48 pages, April 2012

Issue 50 / "The 50th Issue"

Contents:

– Reader survey: which issue was of particular interest to you?

– Juan Allende-Blin poses "Questions for Hanns Eisler"

– Günter Mayer on Eisler's political understanding (part 1)

– Obituary on Günter Mayer

– Brazil's landless discover Hanns Eisler

– Review of the London Eisler conference

and more

48 pages, October 2010

Issue 49 / Eisler in England

Contents:

– Correspondence between Charlotte and Georg, Hanns and Louise Eisler

– Albrecht Dümling on Edward Clark

– Peter Schweinhardt on Eisler's British film work

– Programme and abstracts of the Hanns Eisler conference in London

– Oliver Dahin on English-language Eisler literature

– Jane Manning on Eisler's vocal music in practice

– Gerd Rienäcker on Manfred Grabs

and more

48 pages, April 2010

Issue 48 / Eisler and the Piano

Contents (excerpt):

– Christoph Keller on Eisler's piano sonatas

– Albrecht Dümling on Eisler's keyboard instruments

– Performer survey

– Ulrike Wintersteller on the reception of Eisler's early piano music

– Nelly Koetsier on Eisler's pedagogic piano music

– A newly-discovered piano piece by Hanns Eisler

– Thomas Ahrend on Eisler's Variations for Piano

– Peggy Klemke on the GDR music controversies in 1952

– Obituary for Gert Mattenkoltt (1942-2009)

48 pages, April 2009

Issue 47 / Music for Films

Contents (excerpt):

– Roberto Kolb on a live performance of Eisler's film music in Mexico

– Johannes C. Gall on new sources to The Grapes of Wrath

– Tobias Faßhauer on Eisler's music to Niemandsland

– Oliver Dahin on new performance material for Nuit et brouillard

– Peter Deeg on rarely-seen Eisler films (Dans les rues, Jealousy, Krizova Trojka)

– Review of the film music symposium 2008 in Berlin

– All Eisler films at a glance (with VHS and DVD sources)

– Dieter B. Herrmann: Conversations with Hanns Eisler

– Review of the Eisler symposium and exhibition in Vienna

48 pages, April 2009

Issue 46 / Eisler and 1968

Contents (excerpt):

– Albrecht Dümling on Eisler's role in the "awakenings" of 1968

– Günter Mayer on Eisler reception and "battle over material" in the GDR before 1968

– Eisler und die 68er – a survey with contributions from Nicolaus A. Huber, Konrad Boehmer, Luca Lombardi, Wolfgang Fritz Haug (über Johannes Hodek), Hans-Werner Heister, Jürgen Schebera, Christina Hoffmann-Möller, Hartmut Fladt, Gerd Rienäcker, Christoph Keller, Wolfgang Hufschmidt and Stefan Litwin

– Georg Eisler on his father

– Eisler in Salzburg 2008

48 pages, October 2008

Issue 45 / Eisler in the Choir

Contents (excerpt):

– Manfred Grabs on Eisler's workers' choruses

– Press review Die Maßnahme / Mauser (Volksbühne Berlin)

– The "worker's chorus" at the Volksbühne

– Review of the EislerTage 2008

– Interview with choral director Horst Zimmermann

– Hartmut Fladt on his Eisler Chorus arrangements

– Records of the Berlin Schubert Chorus

– David with Sonja Kehler

– Who was Manfred Grabs?

48 pages, May 2008

Heft 44 / Eisler in the Theatre

Contents (excerpt):

– Klaus Völker on Eisler's music for the stage

– Michael Gross on his arrangement of the Mutter music

– Peter Schweinhardt on Eisler's score Höllenangst

– Interviews with Manfred Wekwerth and Gisela May

– Roter Pfeffer Bremen: theatre with children and young people

– Jürgen Schebera on Josef Schmid

– Roland Kluttig on Eisler's music for the didactic play Die Maßnahme

– Eisler's school reports

– In memoriam Mordecai Bauman

48 pages, November 2007

Heft 43: The Eisler Siblings

Contents (excerpt):

– Albrecht Dümling on the Eisler siblings

– Chronicle of the Eisler siblings

– Jürgen Schebera on the "Gerhart Eisler affair"

– Gerhard Müller on Gerhart Eisler, the "conciliator"

– From Gerard Friedlander's memoirs

– Georg Knepler 100

48 pages, February 2007

Older Issues

Issue 42

Eisler and the Netherlands

October 2006

Issue 41

Brecht's Death and the Year 1956

June 2006

Issue 40

Lou

(on the 100th birthday of Louise Eisler-Fischer)

February 2006

Issue 39

Eisler and Tucholsky

October 2005

Issue 38

Nuit et brouillard

June 2005

Issue 37

Eisler and Switzerland

February 2005

Issue 36

10 Years of the International Hanns Eisler Society

October 2004

Issue 35

Editing Eisler

June 2004

Issue 34

A Musical Home?

February 2004

Issue 33

Eisler in Vienna

Oktober 2003

Issue 32

Adorno-Eisler

Juni 2003

Issue 31

Hanns Eisler 1933 and 1953

February 2003

Issue 30

50 Years Johann Faustus

October 2002

Issue 29

Film Music by Eisler

June 2002

Issue 28

Heiner Goebbels: Eislermaterial

February 2002