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Kurt Weill Photos & Media

Kurt Weill: Berlin, ca. 1929 (photo: Thiele)

Kurt Weill: Dessau, ca. 1901

Kurt Weill: Dessau, ca. 1901

Kurt Weill: Dessau, ca. 1910 (photo: Clasen)

Kurt Weill: Dessau, ca. 1910 (photo: Clasen)

Kurt Weill: Dessau, 1916

Kurt Weill: Leipzig, 1919 (photo: Hoenisch)

Kurt Weill: Berlin, ca. 1925 (photo: Becker and Maass)

Kurt Weill: Berlin, ca. 1925 (photo: Becker and Maass)

Kurt Weill: Dresden, 1926

Kurt Weill: Dresden, 1926

Kurt Weill: Berlin, ca. 1929 (photo: Thiele)

Kurt Weill: Berlin, ca. 1929 (photo: Thiele)

Kurt Weill: Kassel, 1930 (photo: MAP)

Kurt Weill: Kassel, 1930 (photo: MAP)

Kurt Weill: Paris, 1933 (photo: Hoyningen-Huene)

Kurt Weill: Paris, 1933 (photo: Hoyningen-Huene)

Kurt Weill: Salzburg, ca. 1935

Kurt Weill: Salzburg, ca. 1935

Kurt Weill: Hollywood, 1937

Kurt Weill: Hollywood, 1937

Kurt Weill: New City, 1942

Kurt Weill: New City, 1942

Kurt Weill: New City, 1946 (photo: Karsh)

Kurt Weill: New City, 1946 (photo: Karsh)

Kurt Weill: New City, ca. 1945 (photo: Engel)

Kurt Weill: New City, ca. 1949 (photo: Chapman-Rasponi)

Kurt Weill: New City, ca. 1949 (photo: Chapman-Rasponi)

Audio

Excerpt from Interview with Weill: What Makes Weill "Weill"?
Intermission interview from Metropolitan Opera broadcast, 10 December 1949: Kurt Weill discusses his musical characteristics

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Weill Performs "Speak Low"
Tryout recording for the musical One Touch of Venus performed by Kurt Weill, 1943

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Excerpt from Interview with Weill: "I'm An American!"
Broadcast 9 March 1941 on NBC Blue Network (radio); Kurt Weill recounts his feelings on arriving in New York Harbor

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Weill Performs "Westwind"
Tryout recording for the musical One Touch of Venus performed by Kurt Weill, 1943

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Excerpt from Interview with Weill: Street Scene and Puccini
Intermission interview from Metropolitan Opera broadcast, 10 December 1949: Kurt Weill discusses the similarities between his "Broadway opera" Street Scene and the operas of Giacomo Puccini

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Videos

Weill and Brecht

Footage of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht during rehearsals for Die Dreigroschenoper in 1928, with a cameo by Lotte Lenya; also includes a short clip of Weill and Brecht from 1927 around the premiere of Mahagonny Songspiel

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Weill Introduces Der Jasager

Kurt Weill introduces the "school opera" Der Jasager before a concert performance in Paris, 1932

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Weill on "Welt im Film"

Kurt Weill appears in a German newsreel, 1949, and expresses hope that his Broadway works will be staged in Germany

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Weill on The Swift Show

Kurt Weill plays piano on The Swift Show in 1949 as host Lanny Ross and Martha Wright sing “Here I’ll Stay” from Love Life

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For questions about these images or information about reprint rights, please write to wlrc@kwf.org.

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