Index

Contents

List of figures xi

introduction 1
	Short History of the Project 1
	Method and Structure 3
	Chapter Breakdown: Form and Content 5
	A Preliminary Note on Names 6
	Archives and Sources 8

Part 1 1894-1933 9
	Locations: Berlin, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Helgoland, London

1	Assembling and Composing: Youth 11
	Circles, Poems 11
	Music, Towers 16

2 	Radio and Experiment: Weimar 21
		Interruption: Childhood and Radio 56
	
3 	Wires Cut and Crossed: 1933 123
		1933: Roll Call 138
	
Part 2 1933-1960 143
Locations: London, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Paris, Berlin, Yugoslavia

4	Exile Lite 145
	1933-1945 145
		Everyday Existence 145
		In the Land of the BBC 147 
		Hostilities 150
		Weak Signals from New York 158
		Opera Groupings 163
		To Be British 167
		Radio in the Mirror 168
		To not be British 171
		Water and War 177
		Ends or Beginnings (Dream Worlds) 179
			Interruption: Sleep and Dream 179
		Poetic Portraits (Roll Call) 183
	1945-1952 184
		Battling Legacies, Fighting Adorno 184
		Proposals, Suburbia 187
		Popular Voices, Translation Practice 189
		Germany in Ruins, Return to Frankfurt 191
		Return to the Tower 200
			Sleep Interruption: Sonic Dreams 202
		Newspaper Clippings 204
		Spies 208
			Interruption: Sleep History of the BBC 211
		Impossible Radio 218
5 Remigrant: Berlin 221
	Early 1950s 221
		Settling Back 221
		Dramatic Concerns 224
		Prospects for Socialism 229
		Roads Back, Roads Around 231
			Roll Call (Dream and Reality) 233
	Late 1950s 239
		German Dealing: Realities and Dreams 239
		Carousel of Jobs (Revisited) 242
		Poems Backwards and Forwards 247
		Correspondence Continued and Interrupted 248
		1960: Death Notice 249

Coda: 1960- 255

6 Afterlife Echoes 257


Notes 265
Index 295
Acknowledgements 313