Bit of WWII émigré history (Los Angeles, Arnold: theatre, architects, rebates)

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Alex Ross writes about the writers - as opposed to the cinema émigrés who are better known. Different from the usual émigré articles these days, right?


The Haunted California Idyll of German Writers in Exile
Wartime émigrés in L.A. felt an excruciating dissonance between their circumstances and the horrors unfolding in Europe.
In the nineteen-forties, the West Side of Los Angeles effectively became the capital of German literature in exile. It was as if the cafés of Berlin, Munich, and Vienna had disgorged their clientele onto Sunset Boulevard. The writers were at the core of a European émigré community that also included the film directors Fritz Lang, Max Ophuls, Otto Preminger, Jean Renoir, Robert Siodmak, Douglas Sirk, Billy Wilder, and William Wyler; the theatre directors Max Reinhardt and Leopold Jessner; the actors Marlene Dietrich and Hedy Lamarr; the architects Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra; and the composers Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Seldom in human history has one city hosted such a staggering convocation of talent.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...&utm_brand=tny