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Special volume in the series "Musikkonzepte"
Hanns Eisler – Angewandte Musik
Edited by Ulrich Tadday
With papers by Johannes C. Gall, Maren Köster,
Thomas Phleps, Gerd Rienäcker and others
Verlag text+kritik
Munich 2012
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Hanns Eisler –
Ein Komponist ohne Heimat?
Edited by Hartmut Krones
Böhlau Verlag
Vienna 2012
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Daniel Brandenburg and Frieder Reininghaus (eds.)
Österreichische Musikzeitschrift – issue 4/2012
Hanns Eisler – Zuckerbrot und Peitsche
Böhlau Verlag
Vienna, August 2012
Enthält u. a. Beiträge von Frieder Reininghaus, Peter Deeg und Christian Glanz.
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Horst Weber
"I am not a Hero, I am a Composer"
Hanns Eisler in Hollywood

Olms Verlag
Hildesheim 2012
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Andrea F. Bohlman / Philip V. Bohlman
Hanns Eisler – "In der Musik ist es anders"
Jüdische Miniaturen, Vol. 126
Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag
Berlin 2012
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Tina Bucek
Frei aber bedeutungslos?
Das Dilemma der Kunst im 21. Jahrhundert
Eine ästhetische Spurensuche mit Hanns Eisler
Verlag Blaue Eule
Essen 2012
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Friederike Wißmann
Hanns Eisler – Komponist, Weltbürger, Revolutionär
Edition Elke Heidenreich bei C. Bertelsmann
Munich 2012
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Reading with Friederie Wißmann, discussion with Elke Heidenreich
on 6 September 2012, 7 pm, at Dussmann, Berlin.




Tore Vagn Lid
Gegenseitige Verfremdungen
Theater als kritischer Erfahrungsraum im Stoffwechsel zwischen Bühne und Musik
(The author of this book was responsible for the well-regarded staging of the didactic play Die Maßnahme by Brecht and Eisler. Eisler's approach to the music and theatre occupies a key position in the revised version of his dissertation.)
Peter Lang, Frankfurt/Main et al. 2011
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Hanns Eisler

Correspondence 1907–1943

Edited by Jürgen Schebera and Maren Köster

(= Hanns Eisler Complete Edition, Volume IX/4.1)

Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden et al., 2010

560 pages, €39.80

BV 348 / ISBN 978-3-7651-0348-3

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Albrecht Dümling (ed.)

Hanns Eisler (= querstand. musikalische konzepte 5/6)

Stroemfeld Verlag, Frankfurt/Main 2010

324 pages, €48

ISBN 978-3-87877-980-3

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Jochen Voit

Er rührte an den Schlaf der Welt. Ernst Busch. Die Biographie

An icon between pop and propaganda

Aufbau, Berlin 2010.

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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 ist one of 14 composers and around 30 musicians whose exile on the American west coast is investigated by Dorothy Crawford.

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William J. Buxton (ed.)

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

Communication, and the Humanities

Lanham: Lexington Books, 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 (pp. 132–152).

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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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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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