Jo Mihaly: Speech at the farewell event of the Kulturgemeinschaft der Emigranten in Zürich (1945)
The dancer and writer Jo Mihaly knew well that the lives of many emigrants were marked not just by material need. They also experienced a kind of “spiritual privation”.
Johannes R. Becher: Der Glücksucher und die sieben Lasten (1938)
Johannes R. Becher was the most-published German-speaking exile author in Moscow.
Johannes R. Becher's membership card of the All-Union Radio Committee of the USSR (1942)
The author Johannes R. Becher emigrated to the Soviet Union and worked from March 1942 as a writer for the Soviet State Radio, the All-Union Radio Committee.
Johannes Urzidil: Letter to Felix Weltsch, (1945)
Johannes Urzidil and Felix Weltsch knew each other from the days of the "Prague Circle,“ long before the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939. Urzidil, who was active as an author, publisher, and a translator, was able to flee a few months earlier than Weltsch to the USA, via Great Britain.
John Grane [i.e. Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz]: Der Reisende (The man who took trains), Typescript (1938/39)
In November 1938, author Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, who was living in Brussels at the time, began writing his novel “Der Reisende” (The man who took trains) under the profound influence of the news of the November pogroms. He finished it just a few weeks later.
John Heartfield: Book Cover of the Inventors’ Scrapbook (Lindsay Drummond, 1947)
Because of the bad state of his health, graphic artist John Heartfield was released from an English detention centre in August 1940, after which he started looking for work. He held talks for the Freie Deutsche Kulturbund [Free German League of Culture] and designed sets for plays.
John Heartfield: Durch Licht zur Nacht (1933)
Durch Licht zur Nacht (tr. Through Light to Night) was one of the first photomontages produced for the left-wing newspaper, the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (AIZ) by the graphic artist John Heartfield after fleeing to exile in Prague.
John Heartfield: Göring, der Henker des Dritten Reichs (September 1933)
A blood-stained Hermann Göring in a butcher's apron is standing in front of the burning Reichstag. This was the September 1933 cover page of the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (AIZ), which was published by Willi Münzenberg.
John Heartfield: Montage for the poetry collection Und sie bewegt sich doch! Freie Deutsche Dichtung (1943)
In 1943, the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain published a poetry anthology titled Und sie bewegt sich doch! Freie Deutsche Dichtung. The anthology included works by Wieland Herzfelde, Johannes R.
John Heartfield: Reservations (1939)
At the beginning of his time in exile in Britain, the graphic artist John Heartfield worked for various British newspapers. He produced photomontages on current events in which he commented on the Nazis and the course of the war.
