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Mynatt/Kapp Papers

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Title Mynatt/Kapp Papers
 
Creator Kapp | Yvonne | 1903-1999 | writer and activist
Mynatt | Margaret | 1903-1977 | writer and activist
 
Subject European literature
German literature
National literatures
 
Description

Papers of Margaret Mynatt and Yvonne Kapp, 1952-1987, comprising:
Articles, mainly by or about Bertolt Brecht, 1952-1982, with associated correspondence; Margaret Mynatt's correspondence with Walter Benjamin [photocopies]; Yvonne Kapp's correspondence with Helene Brecht-Weigel and the Bertolt Brecht Archiv, Berlin; correspondence of Mynatt and Kapp with Phyllis Rosner, Elisabeth Hauptmann and Ilse Warnber [sister of Elisabeth Hauptmann]
Papers of Yvonne Kapp, including minutes and papers of the Czech Refugee Trust Fund, [1938-1940]; correspondence, 1939-141, including letters written under the pseudonym Yvonne Cloud; hand-written copies of poems on the Communist Party; refugee papers selected by Dr Charmian Brinson, 1997; 3 volumes of press cuttings on the 'Internment Crisis', July-Sep 1940; obituaries of Kapp from The Independent, The Times and The Guardian, 1999
Papers of Margaret Mynatt including correspondence with Emmy Koenen; obituary of Wilhelm Koenen, 1963; correspondence and papers on the death of Elisabeth Hauptmann, 1973; photographs of Elisabeth Hauptmann; typescript Betrieffe eine irrefuhrende Darstellung, by Elisabeth Hauptmann [undated]; papers relating to Mynatt's father, John Charles Mynatt (Giovanni Minotti), 1903-1966; photographs of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel; theatre and concert programmes from the Berliner Ensemble, 1955-1967, and for productions of Brecht's works in London, 1963-1989.


 
Publisher Institute of Modern Languages
 
Date 2010-11-30
 
Type text
 
Format text/html
 
Identifier http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=5889&inst_id=31
 
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Researchers should apply to consult material at least forty-eight hours in advance by letter, facsimile, e-mail or telephone. The Library staff need a name and contact number, a concise and clear idea of the nature of the enquiry and a date and time for consultation.

Photocopies may be made, although this is at the discretion of the Librarian and is dependent on the nature of the material.