Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Kafka, Childhood, and History 5
6. The Black, White, and Gray Zones of Schindler’s List: Steven Spielberg with Primo Levi 23
7. Nexus Forum: A German Life Edited and Introduced by Brad Prager
8. Perspectives on A German Life 55
9. “No False Remorse”: A Workshop with Florian Weigensamer, Director of A German Life (2016) 57
10. Only Skin Deep 67
11. A Brunhilde for Our Time: Eliding the Questions in A German Life 71
12. Hitler’s Helpmates 75
13. Zooming in on Moral Guilt: A German Life as an Artistic Public Trial 79
14. Framing the Beldame in A German Life and Blind Spot 85
15. Special Section on George Tabori Edited and Introduced by Martin Kagel
16. Introduction to the Special Section on George Tabori 91
17. Waiting for The Cannibals: George Tabori’s Post-Holocaust Play 103
18. “Sacrifice is the test for loyalty, Goldberg.” Sacrifice and the Passion of Christ in George Tabori’s Comedy The Goldberg-Variations 137
19. “Empathy for the Entire Spectrum of Selves and Others”: George Tabori’s Humanism 151
20. A Triple Act of Translation: George Tabori and Brecht on Brecht 165
21. My War Story: Tabori, Brecht, and Vietnam 177
22. My Life with George 189
23. Some Observations by an American Acting in the German Theater (1984) 195