Commitment and the illusion of power, Richard Dove and Stephen Lamb; artists, intellectuals and the German independent Socialist party - some preliminary reflections, Richard Sheppard; Rene Schickele and the 1918 revolution, Margaret Rogister; Kurt Tucholsky's analysis of the 1918-19 revolution, Ian King; Ernst Toller - the redemptive power of the failed revolutionary, Frank Trommler; Weimar and the political film - from Die Weber to Kuhle Wampe, John Warren; from social fascism to popular front - Communist Party policy as reflected in the works of Freidrich Wolf, Anna Seghers and Willi Bredel 1928-38, Anthony Grenville; politics and the war novel - the politcal conception reception of novels about the World War I, Hans-Harald Muller; Militant Humanism - a concept of the third way in exile 1933-45, Thomas Koebner; literary exile in Great Britain, J.M. Ritchie; forms of conviction - the problem of belief in anti-fascist plays by Bruckner, Toller and Wolf, Tom Kuhn; Ernst Toller and the exigencies of exile, N.A. Furness; Ernst Toller and Ireland, Joachim Fischer; adventurism, propaganda or commitment? German writers in the Spanish Civil War, Alexander Ostmann.
