Ernst Toller and German Society by Ellis Robert;

Author:Ellis, Robert;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2012-01-02T16:00:00+00:00

Oppressed by the disheartening experience that so harassed and bewildered him, Toller gave dramatic expression to his inner conflict in Masse Mensch, “one of the plays that made expressionism famous.”[187] Toller wrote the play in a two-day fit of creative activity and mesmeric urgency in his prison cell. As he explained to his producer:

Masses and Man in its entirety is an imaginative play which was sweated out of me at fever-heat in two and a half days. . . . Those two nights which I had to spend—one of the penalties of life in gaol—in a dark cell were abysses of anguish: I was, as it were scourged with images. In the morning I sat down at my table and did not stop until my fingers, numb, trembling, would work no longer. Nobody was allowed to come into my cell. I would not have it cleaned. In ungovernable anger I turned on my comrades who kindly wanted to help me or to ask me something. Afterwards I was like an emptied vessel; for days I lay in bed and scarcely knew what I had written.[188]

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