- Growing up in Imperial Germany, 1893-1914
- from patriotism to pacifism, 1914-1917
- call to socialism, 1917-1918 - the anti-war movement, the influence of Gustav Landauer, the January strike
- The Transformation - the drama as political action
- revolution in Bavaria - the Writers' Republic, November 1918 - May 1919
- high treason
- five years "honourable imprisonment", 1919-1924
- plays from a prison cell - "Masses and Man", "The Machine Wreckers", "Hinkemann", "Wotan Unchained", "The Swallow Book", "Mass Spectacles"
- public figure and political playwright - Toller in the Weimar republic, 1924-1930
- political theatre - theory and practice - "Hopple, Such is Life", "Draw the Fires"
- Russia and America - which world, which way? - America, Russia
- dress rehearsal for dictatorship, 1930-1935
- the first year of exile, 1933
- exile in London - PEN, pacifism and popular front, 1934-1936 - "No More Peace!"
- "Hitler - the Promise and the Reality" - Toller's North American lecture tour, 1936-1937
- Hollywood and after, 1937-1938 - "Pastor Hall"
- food for Spain, 1938-1939
- requiem.
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Playwright, socialist revolutionary, and political activist and organizer, Ernst Toller was one of the most celebrated German authors known to the English-speaking world from the 1920s to the Second World War. This biography presents Toller and his work in historical and literary context, from his birth into a German-Jewish family in the Polish part of the German Empire, through his political awakening in World War I to his political coming of age in the Bavarian Soviet Republic of 1918/19, as a result of which he served four years in prison. Dove goes on to show how Toller became on of the Weimar Republic's leading playwrights and an energetic early Cassandra, warning of the ride of fascism from the 1920s. Forced to leave Germany in 1933, he spent his exile years mainly in England, travelling to Soviet Russia and to the United States. He remained in the thick of exile activity, and continued writing plays until his death in may 1939.
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