"In the scores of his dramas and operas" "Arnold Schoenberg describes what and how everything should be done on stage, he describes even noises." ""I wanted" it says in a letter to Anton Webern," ""to leave to the new dominators of the theater arts, the directors, as little as possible, and also conceive the choreography as far as I can." "Because all this is much in disorder today and the unruliness of these supporting organs and their unscrupulousness are only surpassed by their lack of culture and their impotence."" "In the score of the "Accompanying Music to a Cinematic Scene" however" "Schoenberg only writes the caption: "Menacing danger," "Fear, Catastrophe"." "Unimaginable elsewhere, the cinematic scene consists only of the so-called accompanying music." "Menacing danger, fear, catastrophe." "Schoenberg wrote that music from October 15, 1929 to February 14, 1930." "Only four years later he would leave Europe, and he died July 13, 1951 in Los Angeles in exile." "Born in Vienna in 1874, he had until 1933 divided his life between Vienna und Berlin." "Menacing danger, fear, catastrophe." "In 1923, the painter Wassily Kandinsky who was already a close friend to Schoenberg before World War I invited him to come to Weimar to help in creating an artistic and intellectual center at the Bauhaus." "Schoenberg replied:" "... it cannot be." "For I have at last learnt the lesson that has been forced upon me during this year, and I shall not ever forget it." "It is that I am not a German, not a European, indeed perhaps scarcely even a human being (at least, the Europeans prefer the worst of their race to me), but I am a Jew." "I am content that it should be so!" "Today I no longer wish to be an exception;" "I have no objection at all to being lumped together with all the rest." "For I have seen that on the other side" "(which is otherwise no model so far as I'm concerned, far from it) everything is also just one lump." "I have seen that someone with whom I thought myself on a level preferred to seek the community of the lump;" "I have heard that even a Kandinsky sees only evil in the actions of Jews and in their evil actions only the Jewishness, and at this point I give up hope of reaching any understanding." "It was a dream." "We are two kinds of people." "Definitively!" "... when I walk along the street and each person looks at me to see whether I'm a Jew or a Christian," "I can't very well tell each of them that I'm the one that Kandinsky and some others make an exception of although of course that man Hitler is not of their opinion." "And then even this benevolent view of me wouldn't be much use to me, even if I were, like blind beggars, to write it on a piece of cardboard and hang it round my neck for everyone to read." "Must not a Kandinsky bear that in mind?" "Must not a Kandinsky have an inkling of what really happened when I had to break off my first working summer for 5 years, leave the place I had sought out for peace to work in, and afterwards" "couldn't regain the peace of mind to work at all." "Because the Germans will not put up with Jews!" "Is it possible for a Kandinsky to be of more or less one mind with others instead of with me?" "But is it possible for him to have even a single thought in common with HUMAN BEINGS who are capable of disturbing the peace in which I want to work?" "Is it a thought at all that one can have in common with such people?" "And: can it be right?" "It seems to me:" "Kandinsky cannot possibly have even such a thing as geometry in common with them!" "That is not his position, or he does not stand where I stand!" "I ask:" "Why do people say that the Jews are like what their black-marketeers are like?" "Do people also say that the Aryans are like their worst elements?" "Why is an Aryan judged by Goethe, Schopenhauer and so forth?" "Why don't people say the Jews are like Mahler," "Altenberg, Schönberg and many others?" "What every Jew reveals by his hooked nose is not only his own guilt but also that of all those with hooked noses who don't happen to be there too." "But if a hundred Aryan criminals are all together, all that anyone will be able to read from their noses is their taste for alcohol, while for the rest they will be considered respectable people." "And you join in that sort of thing and "reject me as a Jew"." "Did I ever offer myself to you?" "Do you think that someone like myself lets himself be rejected!" "Do you think that a man who knows his own value grants anyone the right to criticize even his most trivial qualities?" "Who might it be, anyway, who could havesuch a right?" "In what way would he be better?" "Yes, everyone is free to criticize me behind my back, there's plenty of room there." "But if I come to hear of it he is liable to my retaliation, and no quarter given" "How can a Kandinsky approve of my being insulted;" "how can he associate himself with politics that aim at bringing about the possibility of excluding me from my natural sphere of action;" "how can he refrain from combating a view of the world whose aim is" "St Bartholomew's nights in the darkness in which the little placard saying that I'm exempt" "no one will be able to read!" "You will call it a regrettable individual case if I too am affected by the results of the anti-Semitic movement." "But it isn't an individual case, that is, it isn't merely accidental." "On the contrary, it is all part of a plan that, after first not being respected on the ordinary conventional road," "I now have to go the long way round through politics into the bargain." "Of course:" "these people, to whom my music and my ideas were a nuisance, could only be delighted to find there is now one more chance of getting rid of me for the time being." "My artistic success leaves me cold, you know that." "But I won't let myself be insulted!" "What have I to do with communism?" "I'm not one and never was one!" "What have I to do with the Elders of Zion?" "All that means to me is the title of a fairytale out of a Thousand and One Nights, but not one that refers to anything remotely as worthy of belief." "Wouldn't I too necessarily know something of the Elders of Zion?" "Or do you think that I owe my discoveries, my knowledge and skill, to Jewish machinations in high places?" "Or does Einstein owe his to a commission from the Elders of Zion?" "I don't understand it." "For all that won't stand up to serious examination." "And didn't you have plenty of chance in the war to notice how much official lying is done, indeed that official talk is all lies." "How our brain, in its attempt to be objective, shuts down on the prospect of truth forever." "Didn't you know that or have you forgotten?" "Have you also forgotten how much disaster can be evoked by a particular mode of feeling?" "Don't you know that in peace-time by a railway-accident in which four people were killed, everyone was horrified," "and that during the war one could hear people talking about 100,000 dead without even trying" "to picture the misery, the pain, the fear, and the consequences?" "Yes, and that there were people who were delighted to read about as many enemy dead as possible;" "the more, the more so!" "I am no pacifist;" "being against war is as pointless as being against death." "Both are inevitable, both depend only to the very slightest degree on ourselves ..." "In the same way the shift in the social structure that is now going on isn't to be lodged to the guilty account of any individual." "It is written in the stars and is an inevitable process." "The middle classes were all too intent on ideals, no longer capable of fighting for anything, and that is why the wretched but robust elements are rising up out of the abysses of humanity in order to generate another sort of middle class, fit to exist." "It's one that will buy a beautiful book printed on bad paper, and starve." "This is the way it must be, and not otherwise - can one fail to see that?" "And all this is what you want to prevent?" "And that's what you want to hold the Jews responsible for?" "I don't understand it!" "Are all Jews communists?" "You know as well as I do that that isn't so." "The Jews do business, as business-men." "But if they are a nuisance to their competitors, they are attacked; only not as business-men, but as Jews." "As what then are they to defend themselves?" "But I am convinced that they defend themselves merely as business-men, and that the defense as Jews is only an apparent one." "I.e., that their Aryan attackers defend themselves when attacked in just the same way, even though in somewhat other words and by adopting other (more attractive?" ") forms of hypocrisy;" "and that the Jews are not in the least concerned with beating their Christian competitors, but only with beating competitors!" "And that the Aryan ones are in exactly the same way out to beat any competitors;" "and that any association is thinkable among them if it leads to the goal, and every other contradiction." "Nowadays it is race;" "another time I don't know what." "And a Kandinsky will join in that sort of thing?" "But what is anti-Semitism to lead to if not to acts of violence?" "Is it so difficult to imagine that?" "You are perhaps satisfied with depriving Jews of their civil rights." "Then certainly Einstein, Mahler, I and many others, will have been got rid of." "But one thing is certain:" "they will not be able to exterminate those much tougher elements thanks to whose endurance Jewry has maintained itself for 20 centuries unaided against the whole of mankind." "Those you will not be able to exterminate." "For these are evidently so constituted that they can accomplish the task that their God has imposed on them:" "To survive in exile, uncorrupted and unbroken, until the hour of salvation comes!" "But" " Brecht wonders - how can anyone tell the truth about Fascism, unless he is willing to speak out against capitalism, which brings it forth?" "What will be the practical results of such truth?" "Those who are against Fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of barbarism, are like people who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf." "They are willing to eat the calf, but they dislike the sight of blood." "They are not against the property relations which engender barbarism; they are only against barbarism itself." "They raise their voices against barbarism, and they do so in countries where precisely the same property relations prevail, but where the butchers wash their hands before weighing the meat." "Outcries against barbarous measures may be effective as long as the listeners believe that such measures are out of the question in their own countries." "Certain countries are still able to maintain their property relations by methods that appear less violent than those used in other countries." "Democracy still serves in these countries to achieve the results for which violence is needed in others, namely, to guarantee private ownership of the means of production." "The private monopoly of factories, mines, and land creates barbarous conditions everywhere, but in some places these conditions do not so forcibly strike the eye." "Barbarism strikes the eye only when it happens that monopoly can be protected only by open violence." "KZ architect acquitted" "Circumstantial evidence at Auschwitz trial not sufficient" "The great Vienna Auschwitz trial against the KZ architects Walter Dejaco and Fritz Ertl took seven weeks, the jury debated six hours, before it on Friday announced the verdict:" "The main issue, whether the two accused are guilty of involvement in mass murder by designing the construction plans for the gas chambers and crematoria was unanimously denied." "Also, the further question regarding complicity were- incaseoftheaccusedErtl on the grounds of emergency command - negated." "Similarly Dejaco, regarding the accused individual murders, was declared not guilty." "Both defendants were acquitted." "Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompanying Music to a Cinematic Scene" "Subtitles:" "Karagarga"