Events & Calendars Exhibition Opening Lectures/Conversation: "Bertolt Brecht's Paper War: Exile in America 1941-1947"

Eighty years after his exile in the U.S. began, the exhibition titled Bertolt Brecht's Paper War looks through Brecht’s glasses with contemporary eyes; reflects on his views of the "American Way of Life" during the time of Roosevelt, Truman and McCarthy; and brings together Brecht's writing and the newspaper clippings he used for inspiration. By juxtaposing these elements in an exhibition, co-curators Grischa Meyer and Holger Teschke pay homage to Brecht’s montage format, expanding and renewing an aesthetic point of view while infusing contemporary context and understanding into the works. Andrea Simon's film Salka Viertel, Every Sunday forms part of the exhibition, along with Peter Voigt's 2004 film Die Hinterlassenschaft (A Legacy).

TODAY Five College Professors Jonas Rosenbrück and Karen Remmler join Grischa Meyer and Andrea Simon in a public lecture/discussion, with reception to follow.
All are welcome.

For further information and content warning please visit: Bertolt Brecht's Paper War Exhibition at https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/german/news-events