I am beginning to see articles about a new novel imagining the life of German director G. W. Pabst. Lichtspiel, by the internationally acclaimed German writer Daniel Kehlmann, is already being termed a "masterpiece." (As of now, the book is not available in the United States.)
The novel largely focuses on the years in which the Austrian-born Pabst, unable to leave Germany, continued making films while the Nazi regime was in power. Pabst's earlier life, including the years in which he made films with Garbo, Asta Nielsen, and Louise Brooks, is depicted in flashbacks.
Here are links to articles about the new book in the Berliner Morgenpost, the Basler Zeitung, NZZ Magazin, and Falter. Notably, each of these (and other) reviews make mention of "„Die Büchse der Pandora“ die US-amerikanische Schauspielerin Louise Brooks."
Kehlmann's novel Die Vermessung der Welt (translated into English as Measuring the World, 2006) is the best selling book in the German language since Patrick Süskind's Perfume was released in 1985. According to The New York Times, it was the world's second-best selling novel in 2006.
His subsequent novels reached the number one spot on German bestseller list, and each were translated into English. Interestingly, Kehlmann collaborated with Jonathan Franzen and Paul Reitter on Franzen's 2013 book The Kraus Project, a book of translations of Karl Kraus's essays. Notably, in 1904, Kraus aided Frank Wedekind in his first ever staging in Vienna of his controversial play Pandora's Box, which was later turned in a film directed by Frank Wedekind and starring Louise Brooks.
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| Louise Brooks, second from left, with G.W. Pabst, far right (though he was a leftist). |
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