Papers of Caspar and Erika Neher relating to Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1947-1961.

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Papers of Caspar and Erika Neher relating to Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1947-1961.

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Correspondence, notes, and a script. Finally, the collection also contains: 1) a typescript copy (on Lenya's typewriter) of a letter apparently from Brecht (or Helene Weigel?) to Neher, 2) a page (fragment) in Caspar's hand in which he is apparently responding to Lenya's solicitation of recollections--this being on the verso of the letter from Lenya to him dated 21 Feb. 1961, 3) a carbon of the typescript of the added (spoken) scene for act 2 of Die Bürgschaft (opening line: Hier muss der Komissar vorbeikommen), and 4) a cover letter and photocopying bill.

9 letters.1 telegram.1 script.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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SNAC Resource ID: 6725671

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Neher, Erika

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Weill, Kurt

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As a result of the success of his Broadway musical Lady in the dark in 1941, German-born composer Kurt Weill and his wife, the singing actress Lotte Lenya, were able to buy "Brook House," in Rockland County, New York, moving there during their sixth year in the United States. From Brook House, and a couple of addresses in Los Angeles during his trips there, Weill kept in touch, until a month before his death, with his parents, who had emigrated to Israel in 1935. From the description...

Lenya, Lotte

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Born in Austria, Lenya became an actress in Zürich, then moved to Berlin where she met and married Kurt Weill. They emigrated to the U.S. in 1935, where Lenya lived until her death a few months after this interview was recorded. From the description of An oral history interview with Lotte Lenya / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Alan Rich, New City, N.Y., 1981 : recording and transcript. (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison). WorldCat record id: 12258368...

Neher, Caspar

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Caspar Neher, who became one of the leading stage designers in Europe from the 1920's until his death in 1962 and was in his youth a schoolmate and friend of Bertolt Brecht, began his career by collaborating with the young author, and later collaborated repeatedly with Brecht and Weill--with both together and each separately. Among the stage designs for which he achieved renown are those for Die Dreigroschenoper, in which he worked together with both of them--and in whic...