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Öffentliche Einsamkeit.

Das deutschsprachige Lied und seine Komponisten im frühen 20. Jahrhundert

Edited by Michael Heinemann and Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen

with Carmen Ottner

Verlag Dohr, Cologne 2009

Contains an essay on Eisler's Hollywooder Liederbuch by Joachim Lucchesi

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Dorothy Lamb Crawford

A Windfall of Musicians
Hitler's Émigrés and Exiles in Southern California

Yale University Press, 2009

Hanns Eisler is one of 14 composers and a total of some 30 musicians whose exile on the American West Coast Dorothy Crawford investigates.

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William J. Buxton (Ed.)

Patronizing the Public: American Philanthropy's Transformation of Culture,

Communication, and the Humanities

Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, 2009

Includes an essay "An Art of Fugue of Film Scoring: Hanns Eisler's Rockefeller Foundation-Funded Film Music Project (1940-1942)" by Johannes C. Gall (p. 132-152).

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Philip V. Bohlman (Ed.)

Jewish Musical Modernism – Old and New

The enclosed CD includes numerous songs by Hanns Eisler.

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Peter Diezel (Hrsg.)

Erwin Piscator – Briefe. Paris, New York 1936–1939

3 part volumes (2.1 / 2.2 / 2.3)

Berlin: Siebenhaar, 2009

Includes many letters from Erwin Piscator to Hanns Eisler.

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Dieter B. Herrmann

"Ich bin mit jedem Lob einverstanden"

Hanns Eisler im Gespräch 1960–1962

Leipzig: Salier Verlag, 2009

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Breixo Viejo

Música moderna para un nuevo cine.

Eisler, Adorno y el Film Music Project

Madrid: Akal Música, 2008.

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Peter Schweinhardt (ed.)

Kompositionen für den Film. Zu Theorie und Praxis von Hanns Eislers Filmmusik

With essays by Thomas Ahrend, Oliver Dahin, Tobias Faßhauer, Johannes C. Gall, Guido Heldt, Roberto Kolb, David Neumeyer & James Buhler, Barry Salmon, Peter Schweinhardt, Breixo Viejo and Amy Lynn Wlodarski.

(=Eisler-Studien, Volume 3)

Wiesbaden et.al.: Breitkopf & Härtel, 2008.

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Dieter B. Herrmann

Astronom in zwei Welten – Autobiographie

Includes a chapter "Freundschaft mit Hanns Eisler"

Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2008.

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The author's interviews with Hanns Eisler will be published in early 2009 by the Leipzig-based publisher Salier-Verlag.

Christian Glanz:

Hanns Eisler – Werk und Leben

Edition Steinbauer, Vienna 2008.

Paperback, c. 240 pages, 26,50 Euro

ISBN: 978-3-902494-30-6

The author works at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts.

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Fritz Henneberg

Hanns Eisler [chinese translation]

Peking: People's Music Publishing House, 2008.

ISBN: 978-7-103-03234-3

Ende. Grenze. Schluss? Brecht und der Tod, edited by Stephen Brockmann, Mathias Mayer and Jürgen Hillesheim (= Der neue Brecht, edited by Jan Knopf und Jürgen Hillesheim, Band 5), Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008. With an essay by Peter Deeg: "Pawels Tod war nicht geplant. Neue Quellen zur Uraufführung des Stücks Die Mutter in der Fassung von Brecht, Eisler und Weisenborn" (p. 175–186).

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