Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (MIT Press, 1999), 285, 286.
Buck-Morss, Dialectics of Seeing, 286.
Jean-Michel Palmier, Weimar in Exile: The Antifascist Emigration in Europe and America (Verso, 2017), 3.
Leon Trotsky, My Life (Dover Publications, 2007), 212, 213.
Katherine Eaton, “Brecht’s Contacts with the Theater of Meyerhold,” Comparative Drama 11, no. 1 (Spring 1977): 3–21.
Aleksandr Bogdanov, “The Proletarian and Art” (1918), in Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism 1902–1934, ed. John E. Bowlt (Viking Press, 1976), 176, 177.
Walter Benjamin, “Berlin Chronicle,” in Selected Writings, Volume 2, Part 2, 1931–1934, ed. Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith (Belknap Press, 1999), 614.
Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street and Other Writings, trans. Edmund Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter (NLB, 1979), 45.
Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times (Harvest Books, 1968), 167. Original sentence: “And there is indeed no question but that his friendship with Brecht—unique as here the greatest living German poet met the most important critic of the time, a fact both were fully aware of—was the second and incomparably more important stroke of good fortune in Benjamin's life.”
Please see Margarita Miglāne, Silvija Freinberga, Marija Adamova, Anna Lācis, Anna Lācis. (Liesma, 1973); Beata Paskevica, In der Stadt der Parolen: Asja Lācis, Walter Benjamin und Bertolt Brecht (Klartext Verlag, 2006).
Margarita Miglāne, Silvija Freinberga, Marija Adamova, and Anna Lācis Anna Lācis (Rīga: Liesma, 1973), 23.
Asja Lācis, “A Memoir,” trans. Jack Zipes, Performance 1, no. 5 (March–April, 1973): 24–27.
Lācis, “A Memoir.” Original book: Asja Lācis, Revolutionär im Beruf: Berichte über proletarisches Theater, über Meyerhold, Brecht, Benjamin und Piscator, ed. Hildegard Brenner (Munich: Rogner & Bernhard, 1971, 1976).
Walter Benjamin, “Program for a Proletarian Children’s Theater,” trans. Rodney Livingstone, in Selected Writings Volume 2, Part 1, 1927–1930, ed. Howard Eiland, Michael W. Jennings, and Gary Smith (Belknap Press, 2005), 201–7.
“Signals from Another World: Proletarian Theater as a Site for Education: Texts by Asja Lācis and Walter Benjamin, with an Introduction by Andris Brinkmanis,” South Magazine, no. 9 (Documenta 14, 2017) →.
Anna Lācis, Dramaturģija un Teātris. Brehts, Piskators, Laicēns, Grigulis, Brodele (Latvijas Valsts Izdevniecība, 1962), 235.
Anna Lācis, Dramaturģija un Teātris: Brehts, Piskators, Laicēns, Grigulis, Brodele (Riga: Latvijas Valsts Izdevniecība, 1962), 234.
Bertolt Brecht, Brecht on Theater, ed. Marc Silberman, Steve Giles, and Tom Kuhn (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), 57.
Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (Belknap Press, 2016), 204. Original quote from Lācis, Revolutionär im Beruf.
Lācis, Revolutionär im Beruf, 45–46.
Quoted in Eiland and Jennings, Walter Benjamin, 204.
Walter Benjamin, “Naples,” in Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978), 166–67.
Benjamin, One-Way Street and Other Writings, 68–69.
Walter Benjamin, “Moscow Diary,” October, no. 35 (Winter 1985), 121.
Miglāne, Freinberga, Adamova, and Lācis, Anna Lācis, 45–46.
Eiland and Jennings, Walter Benjamin, 332–33.
Helen Fehervary, “Art Instead of Romance: Brecht’s Collaborations with Women,” in The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 41, Urlaub Per, Imbrigotta Kristopher, and Rippey Theodore F., eds (Boydell & Brewer, 2017) 185–197
Quoted in Erdmut Wizisla, Benjamin and Brecht: The Story of a Friendship (Verso, 2016), 15.
Brecht, Brecht on Theater, 145.
Quoted in Wizisla, Benjamin and Brecht, 10.
“Signals from Another World,” South Magazine.
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, ed. Howard Eiland (Belknap Press, 2003), 933.
The author thanks Adele Bea Cipste (New York University Abu Dhabi) for her help in fact-checking and co-editing this text.