German émigré colonies in Hollywood recreated the Weimar literary world in exile

Evidence

I was sitting here in the middle of the Weimar Republic: with Reinhardt and Jessner and Kortner and Deutsch; with Thomas Mann, Berthold Viertel and Bruno Frank … and every year more literature arrived, so that we were soon as complete as we had been in Sanary shortly before. You don’t feel such a foreigner when you’re surrounded by friends who are also foreigners. And even if some of them weren’t friends, at least they weren’t enemies. I hardly realized there were any Americans here. And I felt that a poor person isn’t quite as poor in Los Angeles as in New York. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1212

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on ch16-22’s exile narrative — here the émigré solidarity is rendered as ‘expulsion into paradise.’ — connects to: Hollywood studio nominal contracts secured German exile visas and incomes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1211; Postwar Frankfurt University saw hostile encounters between returnees and émigrés — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1744; The Hollywood film industry drew émigré composers to Los Angeles. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1213

Broader Connections

• Hollywood studio nominal contracts secured German exile visas and incomes #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1211
• The Hollywood film industry drew émigré composers to Los Angeles. #exemplifies (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1213
• Postwar Frankfurt University saw hostile encounters between returnees and émigrés #expands (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1744