Charles Bonnet
Charles Bonnet , 1720-93, Swiss naturalist and philosopher. He drew attention to parthenogenesis in aphids, but his theories were highly fanciful and unscientific. His books include Traité d'insectologie (1745) and Contemplation de la nature (1764-65).
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Previously Unpublished Poems of Ernst Toller (1893-1939): A Critical Translation.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Previously Unpublished Poems of Ernst Toller (1893-1939): A Critical Translation. Ed. and...forty poems, not otherwise of easy access, establishes Ernst Toller as a poet beyond his three major published collections...
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An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Artist against the Third Reich." Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938, by Peter...Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Toller, and Erich Maria Remarque fled Germany...Artist Against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938, Peter Paret...
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Engagierte Literatur zwischen den Weltkriegen.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...ROLF SELBMANN, and THORSTEN UNGER. (Schriften der Ernst-Toller-Gesellschaft, 4) Wurzburg: Konigshausen &...or disparagement. The focus of the symposium of the Ernst-Toller-Gesellschaft held in Neuburg an der Donau in 2001...
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`Peace' satire timely, playful, but pessimistic
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/14/1991; ; 691 words
; ...The German Expressionist playwright Ernst Toller wrote his anti-war satire, "No...radicalism often landed him in prison, Toller committed suicide in New York at...but war can be promptly delivered. Toller wouldn't have been a bit surprised...
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THE CRITICS: Lessons of the cast struggle
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/20/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...The National Theatre production of Ernst Toller's The Machine Wreckers is just...s last revival at this address, Toller's play is a brooding drama of passion...hard at characterising the text. Toller, however, inspired by Marx's...
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Obituary: Frank Allaun Manchester MP and authentic voice of the left
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/29/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Front by Remarque . . . and plays like Draw the Fires by Ernst Toller and Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara. In particular I...decency? The Press Lords have much to answer for. As Ernst Toller once said: "Murderers are hanged for their crimes...
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Journey of No Return: Five German-Speaking Literary Exiles in Britain, 1833-1945.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Britain from Nazi Germany after 1933. In his fine study of Ernst Toller, He Was a German (London: Libris, 1990), he demonstrated the importance of Toller's years in exile, proving that there was indeed life...
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Die Reise nach Deutschland.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Britain from Nazi Germany after 1933. In his fine study of Ernst Toller, He Was a German (London: Libris, 1990), he demonstrated the importance of Toller's years in exile, proving that there was indeed life...
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Committed Account
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/14/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...production of The Machine Wreckers, the 1922 play by Ernst Toller. Byron's scathing maiden speech in the House of Lords...case with Cassius and Brutus in Julius Caesar. But in Toller's play there's too great an imbalance. Wibley...
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John London, ed. Theater under the Nazis.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Bertold Brecht, Max Reinhardt, Ernst Toller, Carl Zuckmeyer, Peter Weiss...Gerhard Hauptmann, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Wiechert, Richard Strauss, William...Hans Carossa, Gottfried Benn, Ernst Junger, and Walter von Molo...
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Ernst Toller
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ernst Toller The German playwright Ernst Toller (1893-1939) was one of the best-known of the dramatists of the expressionist school. Ernst Toller was born on Dec. 1, 1893, at Samotschin near Bromberg...
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Toller, Ernst
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Toller, Ernst (1893–1939), German poet...Guild , and also less pessimistic, since Toller, in the person of his hero Jim Cobbett...and stable body of intelligent men. But Toller's later plays, of which Hoppla, wir...
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Boulting, Roy and John
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Pastor Hall, was inspired by Martin Niemoller, the Nazi-defying German clergyman, via a play by ex-Expressionist Ernst Toller. With commentary by Eleanor Roosevelt added, it created a furor in isolationist America. Thunder Rock, adapted Robert...
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Expressionism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Expressionism, movement that began in Germany in about 1910, and is best typified by the plays of Georg Kaiser and Ernst Toller . The term was first used in 1901 by Auguste Hervé to describe some of his paintings conceived in reaction...
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Johnson, Eyvind
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...saying. In Berlin, Johnson associated with Austrian avant – garde painter Oskar Kokoschka, radical poet Ernst Toller, and other revolutionary artists. He also met many political refugees who fled to western Europe to seek asylum...
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