BBC: "Ian McMillan searches for traces of the life of Kurt Schwitters, Dada artist and sound poet, who left Nazi Germany, was interned in the Isle of Man and spent his last years in Ambleside. He worked as a portrait painter but created some of his most radical work there - transforming a farm building into an environment called the Merzbarn, and writing an anti-Nazi satirical play, The Family Plot. Ian also hears his poetry, talks to those who knew him or know about him and stages a scratch performance of his play on a Windermere steamboat." Listen here
dradio.de: "John Heartfield wurde als Helmut Herzfeld 1891 in Berlin geboren. Aus Protest gegen die nationalistische Hetze anglisierte er seinen Namen 1916. Der Mitbegründer des Berliner Dada machte die klassische Kommunisten-Karriere der ersten Jahrhunderthälfte: Sowjetische Freundschaft, Exil wegen der Nazis, DDR-Kulturbund. Dem 1968 verstorbenen politischen Künstler widmet jetzt das Kunstmuseum Straßburg eine Ausstellung." Mehr