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Eisler-Mitteilungen

The Eisler-Mitteilungen is published triannually and is sent free of charge to all members of the Society; it reports “Eisleriana” from around the world, such as performances, scholarship and publications as well as miscellaneous news and reviews. The editorial staff are Albrecht Dümling, Peter Deeg und Peter Schweinhardt. The Eisler-Mitteilungen can also be ordered by non-members through the Society’s administrative office as well as the Pfau-Verlag in Saarbrücken.

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Book Series "Eisler-Studien"

Hanns Eislers Johann Faustus - Symposion

Eisler-Studien Band 1 - ed. by Peter Schweinhardt

The "Eisler Studies" are launched

The new series of writings by Eisler begins with a theme that is just as timely and engrossing as it was fifty years ago: Hanns Eisler's failed and aborted opera "Johann Faustus." The essays of the Berlin Congress of 2002 shed light on different aspects of Eisler's ambitious project, starting with Eisler's readings and moving on to the musical conception. Other essays present Eisler's "Faustus" in the context of the cultural-political concept of a "German national opera" and establish connections to the political situation shortly before the uprisings in East Germany in 1953.

The "Faustus" theme remains up-to-date in 2006 as well: Friederike Wissmann and Gert Mattenklott, the editors of "Johann Faustus" in the "Hanns Eisler Complete Edition" (HEGA) are preparing their work report as Volume 2 of the "Eisler-Studien."

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