John Willett

From the Review

January 12, 1995: Reading Brecht, Writing Brecht (letter)

May 31, 1984: 'Brecht in Context' (letter)

March 1, 1984: The Two George Groszes

George Grosz: An Autobiography translated by Nora Hodges

February 17, 1983: Berlin in the Light

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

Avant-Garde Photography in Germany, 1919-1939 by Van Deren Coke

May 28, 1981: Breaking Away

The Berlin Secession: Modernism and Its Enemies in Imperial Germany by Peter Paret

June 26, 1980: Art of a Nasty Time

Art in the Third Reich by Berthold Hinz, translated by Robert Kimber, by Rita Kimber

April 3, 1980: Looking for the Exit

Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske

September 2, 1971: The Quest for East Germany

The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf, translated by Christopher Middleton

Postwar German Literature by Peter Demetz

The Literature of East Germany by Theodore Huebener

Poetry in East Germany: Adjustments, Visions, and Provocations 1945-1970 by John Flores

June 18, 1970: Revolutionary Aesthetics

Literature and Revolution: A Critical Study of the Writer and Communism in the Twentieth Century by Jürgen Rühle, translated and edited by Jean Steinberg

Books by John Willett

Brecht in Context (1998)
Heartfield Versus Hitler (1997)
Art and Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, 1917-1933 (1996)
The Theatre of the Weimar Republic (1988)
Caspar Neher, Brecht's Designer (1986)
Brecht in Context: Comparative Approaches (1984)
The Weimar Years: A Culture Cut Short (1984)
The Theatre of Erwin Piscator (1979)
The New Sobriety 1917-1933: Art and Politics in the Weimar Period (1978)
Art and Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, 1917-1933 (1978)
The Theatre of Erwin Piscator: Half a Century of Politics in the Theatre (1978)
The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects (1977)
Expressionism (1970)