Modernizm na wygnaniu
Modernism in Exile

Summary/Abstract: Erhard Bahr’s book, Weimar on the Pacific, focuses on German exiles living in Los Angeles during World War II, but it differs from previous scholarship in the area of exile studies. According to Bahr, the works of exiles can be read in terms of a “crisis of modernism” – a phenomenon in the context of the historical experience of these years. Bahr focuses on “the ruptures within modernism around 1933”, which he considers as the crisis of modernism and modernity. For some German exile artists in Southern California, this crisis, personal suffering and the shadow of the Holocaust, provoked a retreat from modernism, or an attempt to re-work modernism (in High Modernism). This he demonstrates in close readings of Berthold Brecht’s Galileo, Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus and Theodor Adorno’s Philosophy of New Music.

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