Erika and Klaus Mann: Escape to Life. Boston 1939
Erika and Klaus Mann: Escape to Life. Boston 1939
The first book written jointly by siblings Erika and Klaus Mann was published on 14 April 1939 by the Boston publishing company Houghton and Mifflin. Even the subtitle makes it clear that this book is about “German culture in exile”. With their “Who is Who in Exile”, the brother and sister wanted to show their American host country just who it was currently giving refuge to: celebrities such as Albert Einstein and Max Reinhardt, Bruno Walter and Franz Werfel, Lotte Lehmann and Elisabeth Bergner, to name just a few. However, the book is dedicated to “all the others” who are not mentioned by name, and aims to show that emigration from Germany became migration through Europe to the other continents. Its motto was supplied by the American journalist Dorothy Thompson:
“Practically everyone who before 1933 represented what we understood as German culture is now a refugee.”
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