Texts in English by Hanns Eisler

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These writings are taken from Hanns Eisler – Musik und Politik – Schriften 1924-1948, ed. Günter Mayer (1973: VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig) © Stephanie Eisler. I have only edited Eisler's original text where necessary to aid comprehension. I have also translated some of Günter Mayer's background notes (November 2000). Please note that page turns in the DDR edition are inserted into the online texts on the principle that |#498-9| means the boundary between page 498 and 499.

• Background notes to Eisler's writings in conjunction with his interrogation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (Günter Mayer, 1973) 27k

• Labor, Labor Movement and Music. Speech to the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (1938) 51K

• Music for the Film (1939)

• Success and Value in Music (1939) 12k

• Modern Music and the Movies I/II (1939) 11k

• Why is Modern Music so Difficult to Understand? Introduction to proposed book for Oxford University Press (1940)

• Paper for the Writers' Congress at UCLA (1943)

• Contemporary Music and the Film I (1943/4)

• Contemporary Music and the Film II (1943/4)

• Preface to book based on research from the Film Music Project (1944)

• Contemporary Music and Fascism (1944) 17k

• Statements to the House Committee on Un-American Activities (1947 — I · II · III ·

• Fantasia in G-Men) and on leaving the USA (1948) 53κ

• Extension of ‘Statements and Refutations’ (1947) 33K