Volume 30, Number 2 · February 17, 1983
Berlin in the Light
By John Willett
Berlin 1910-1933
by Eberhard Roters, with Janos Frecot, by Sonja Günther, by Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg, by Ulrich Gregor, by Arno Paul, translated by Margerite Mounier
Rizzoli, 284 pp., $60.00
Avant-Garde Photography in Germany, 1919-1939
by Van Deren Coke
Pantheon, 168 pp., $30.00; $15.95 (paper)
In October 1928, with The Threepenny Opera playing to full houses at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm and the Wall Street crash still a year away, Berlin's public utility companies organized a week's festivities to establish their city as the new ville lumière. Five composers, one of them Kurt Weill, were set to write pieces on the theme of 'Berlin in the light' for a band concert directed by the eminent avant-garde conductor Hermann Scherchen on the Wittenbergplatz. Brecht wrote a text to inspire Weill, which has just been published for the first time and may be rendered roughly as follows:
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