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Other songwriters picked up the beat, the nationalized publishing house rushed their efforts into print, and reluctant bandleaders began to climb on the wagon. Even that old turkey-trotter Gerart Eisler turned up to grace a Lipsi demonstration, and his comments suggested that there might be further refinements to come. "Somehow, 80% to 90% of all popular songs deal with love," complained Gerart. "One can create very comical political lyrics...
...good Communist can still go to church in East Germany-provided his reasons are purely esthetic. A worried young comrade had asked the Communist youth paper, Junge Welt, whether a "true materialist" was doing right in listening to concerts and classical music in church. Replied Propagandist Gerhart Eisler in the manner of a Red Emily Post...
...Communist for 26 of his 58 years, he fled before Hitler's conquering armies to safety in the U.S., returned to East Germany after World War II. as did his Communist friends Gerhart and Hanns Eisler,* to revile the country that had granted him asylum. "Kantor," as he was called, put out a highbrow Marxist review called Ost und West, and peddled the rest of his poison in the Soviets' German-language newspaper Tägliche Rundschau. The Tägliche Rundschau saluted Kantor, the saturnine lecturer on German literature at East Berlin's Humboldt University...
...Comrade,' he said, 'This is the line.' 'Do you mean,' I said, 'that you just sat down and dreamed this up on the typewriter?' He said I shouldn't talk that way to a comrade." When Glaser killed the story, Eisler called him on the carpet and told him he "had insufficient political development and still had bourgeois traits...
...representing a Communist front came in to demand a front-page story on a money-raising women's bazaar-and with a banner headline, too. In his simple bourgeois way, Managing Editor Glaser scoffed: "You can't have an eight-column line on a bazaar." But, after Eisler intervened, that was just how the story...