Reading and conversation
Los Angeles 1939–1945: Exile for German-Jewish artists such as Leopold Jessner, Alexander Granach, Fritz Kortner, and Alfred Döblin. Famous in Germany, but mostly “nameless” in the US, they struggle with language barriers, poverty, and odd jobs—while others, such as Thomas Mann, reside in mansions.
Image gallery
Their meeting place was the Jewish Club of 1933, where they used readings and theater to take a stand against cultural ignorance and Nazi sympathies. Susanne Schädlich focuses on this almost forgotten chapter of exile culture: the “cabaret of the nameless.”
Susanne Schädlich is a writer and literary translator. In 2009, she published the Spiegel bestseller “Immer wieder Dezember. Der Westen, die Stasi, der Onkel und ich” (December Again and Again: The West, the Stasi, My Uncle, and Me). This was followed by the novels “Westwärts soweit es nur geht” (As Far West as Possible) and “Herr Hübner und die sibirische Nachtigall” (Mr. Hübner and the Siberian Nightingale). Her most recent publication is “Briefe ohne Unterschrift – wie eine Radiosendung die DDR herausforderte” (Letters Without a Signature: How a Radio Program Challenged the GDR).
(IN GERMAN)
Dates
November 2025
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