The 2000 pages of this collection contain more than 1500 letters written to Brecht between 1933 and 1949. The letter writers include friends, colleagues and comrades, lovers and publishers and theater people, the topics range from intimate love letters and worries about lack of money, lack of papers and attempts to get out of Europe, to ideological disputes, anxieties about Nazi Anti-Semitism, the Stalinist evolution of the Soviet Union, and the war. Later letters convey the postwar reality of a Germany in ruins. This unique collection contains the totality of the exile experience. Rather than trying to turn its disparate themes and topics into a coherent narrative this essay introduces them in non-systematic and fragmentary fashion.

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