Klaus Modick: Sunset, novel (2011)
In his novel Sunset, Klaus Modick deals with the friendship between the writers Lion Feuchtwanger and Bertolt Brecht. The narrative begins with the news of Brecht’s death and the invitation to his funeral, which reach Feuchtwanger in his villa in California.
Kohner Agency advertisement for Felix Bressart (1945)
Felix Bressart, who made his way to the USA in 1938 via stops in Switzerland, Austria and France, was lucky: he was one of the few émigré actors on the books of the newly established Paul Kohner Agency who readily found engagements upon alighting in the New World.
Kolisch-Quartett: Vierter Satz aus Arnold Schönbergs Streichquartett Nr. 4 op. 37, Tonaufnahme, 1937
The violinist Rudolf Kolisch, head of the Kolisch Quartet, wrote in this enthusiastic manner to the composer Arnold Schönberg. The Kolisch Quartet had already performed the premiere of a string quartet by Schönberg nine years earlier.
Konrad Püschel: list of names (around 1972)
Searching for Bauhaus alumniOn the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Bauhaus Building in Dessau in 1976 and in order to plan colloquiums, the former Bauhaus student and later professor at the University for Architecture and Civil Engineering in Weimar, Konrad Püschel, collected the addresses of former Bauhaus teachers and students. Under the heading “Bauhaus teachers and students who evaded fascism by emigrating to (knowlege gap): USA, Israel, France, South Africa“ he created an overview of the countries to which his former teachers and classmates had emigrated.
Konrad Wachsmann: factory building design for the General Panel Corporation (around 1945)
On 8 August 1944, the architects Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann successfully registered a patent for their prefabrication General Panel System (GPS) during their exile in America. The so-called “Wachsmann-Knot”, a metallic connecting node, was used to join wooden panels.
Konrad Wachsmann: L’ affaire X, autobiographical notes, 1980
Architect Konrad Wachsmann wrote his memoirs about his flight from Nazi Germany in 1980 in Californian exile. On six pages, he describes the various stations of exile, with the years in France outlined very impressively in particular.
Konrad Wachsmann: Letter to his mother (8 February 1935)
The architect Konrad Wachsmann sent this letter to his mother in February 1935 from Italian exile; she was living in German at that point. Wachsmann had gone to Italy in 1932 on a scholarship from the Villa Massimo.
Konrad Wachsmann: telegram to Jerome Hard (14 January 1941)
On 14 January 1941, the architect Konrad Wachsmann sent this telegram to the American Jerome Hard. The US consulate in Marseille had offered Wachsmann and his fiancée Anna Krauss quota visas if both could present at the same time a notarized affidavit of sponsorship and a notarized affidavit of support.
Kuno Fiedler: Photograph of the Mann family in Munich 1932
The photograph shows the family of the author Thomas Mann on 14 October 1932 in front of the patio door of his house in Poschinger Straße in Munich. Standing next to the author and his wife Katia are their two eldest children Erika (1st from right) and Klaus (1st from left) and the two youngest, Elisabeth (2nd from left) and Michael (3rd from left).
Kurt Gerron: Letter to Paul Kohner (24 January 1938)
For any artist whose primary tool is language, the use of the native tongue carries particular existential importance. Wordplay, allusions and double entendres are only truly ever mastered by a native speaker.
