Opinion | ‘I Applied for Asylum Within American Pop Culture’

Opinion | ‘I Applied for Asylum Within American Pop Culture’

Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Helmut Newton, Marlene Dietrich, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff escaped. They survived. But geniuses like Wilder and Newton never came back. German culture afterwards was, apart from painting and sculpture, mostly boring moralistic bullshit. And the best writers like Günter … Read more