Some of the writings here are as they were edited and published in printed form, some have been taken from Nick’ s files on his computer. None of them has been edited for their publication on this website, except to follow a consistent orthography.
Some background to Nick Jacobs’s writings can be found here.
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1967
review: ‘Marx and Mr Taylor’, Labour Monthly, October 1967, pp. 471–4
1970
translation: Georg Lukács, Lenin: a study on the unity of his thought, London: New Left Books, 1970
1972
translation: Wolfgang Abendroth, A short history of the European working class, London: New Left Books, 1972 [co-translator]
1973
review: Walter Benjamin, Understanding Brecht, in: Artery, no. 6, 1973
1974
1976
review: Raymond Williams, Keywords, in: Tribune, 13 February 1976
review: George Plekhanov, Art and society, in: Tribune, 5 March 1976
review: Bertolt Brecht, Poems 1913–1956, translated and edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim
article: ‘Brecht and the emotions’, Marxism Today, June 1976, pp. 188–
review: David Meakin, Man and work: literature and culture in industrial society, in: Comment, 20 June 1976
review: John Cornford, Understand the weapon, understand the wound: selected writings of John Cornford, edited by Jonathan Galassi, in: Red Letters, winter 1976, p. 17
1977
edition: Bertolt Brecht in Britain, London: TQ Publications, 1977 [compiled and edited by NJ and Prudence Ohlsen: catalogue for the exhibition of this title at the National Theatre, London]
review: Rosa Leviné-Meyer, Inside German communism, and Larissa Reissner, Hamburg at the barricades, in: Tribune, 1977
review: S.S. Prawer, Karl Marx and world literature, and: Raymond Williams, Marxism and literature, in: Tribune, 5 August 1977, p. 4
article: ‘Walter Benjamin: the Marxist critic’, in: Comment, 12 November 1977
1978
review: Nicos Hadjinicolaou, Art history and class struggle, in: Tribune, 17 March 1978
review: Aesthetics and politics: Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, in: Comment, 19 August 1978
article: ‘The German Social Democratic Party school in Berlin, 1906–1914’, in: History Workshop Journal, no. 5, spring 1978, pp. 179–87
1983
review: Julian Roberts, Walter Benjamin, and Richard Wolin, Walter Benjamin: an aesthetic of redemption, in: New Statesman, 20 May 1983
review: E.H. Carr, The twilight of the Commintern, 1930–35, London: Macmillan, 1982, in: Tribune, 29 April 1983, p. 12
1984
review: John Willett, Brecht in context, in: New Statesman, 3 February 1984, p. 22
review: Lee Congdon, The young Lukács, and Istvan Eörsi (editor), Georg Lukács: record of a life, in: New Statesman, 16 March 1984, p. 24
review: Ben Fowkes, Communism in Germany under the Weimar Republic, and John Willett, The Weimar years, in: New Statesman, 4 May 1984
review: Elizabeth Wilkinson (editor), Goethe revisited, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Selected poems, edited by Christopher Middleton, in: New Statesman,
1985
review: Wolfgang Leppmann, Rilke: a life, and: J.F. Hendry, The sacred threshold: a life of Rainer Maria Rilke, in: New Statesman, 25 June 1985
1986
review: David Meakin, Man and work: literature and culture in industrial society, in: Comment, 20 June 1976
review: Martin Green, Mountain of truth: the counterculture begins, Ascona, 1900–1920, in: New Statesman, 15 July 1986, p. 30
review: Rosemary Ashton, Little Germany: exile and asylum in Victorian England, in: New Statesman, 12 September 1986
review: Edward Timms, Karl Kraus, Apocalyptic satirist: culture and catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna, in: New Statesman, 28 November 1986
1988
review: Mark Rutherford, The revolution in Tanner’s Row [1887], in: History Workshop Journal, no. 26, August 1988, pp. 203–4
1992
review: Michael Ermarth (editor), Kurt Wolff: a portrait in essays and letters, in: Times Literary Supplement, 6 March 1992, p. 8?
1994
translation: Theodore Fontane, ‘Cricket at the Oval’ (1852), in: Gillian Darley and Andrew Saint (editors), The chronicles of London, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994
1998
2000?
review: Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Mein Leben, Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1999, in: ?
2001
article: ‘A world ends’ [on Jakob van Hoddis], The Jewish Quarterly, autumn 2001, pp. 49–51
2004
obituary: Charlotte Jolles, The Independent, 2 February 2004
2006
article: ‘Dear Bertolt’, Times Literary Supplement, 26 May 2006, p. 15
2009
2010
translation: Hans Fallada, Wolf among wolves, London: Penguin Books, 2010 (translation of 1938 by Philip Owens, completed by NJ and Thorsten Carstensen)
review: Hans Fallada, Ewig auf der Rutschbahn: Briefwechsel mit dem Rowohlt-Verlag, edited by Michael Tötterberg and Sabine Buck, and: Hans Fallada, In meinem fremden Land: Gefängnistagebuch 1944, edited by Jenny Williams and Sabine Lange, in: Modern Languages Review, vol. 105, no. 3, 2010, pp. 911–14
review: Jean-Michel Palmier, Walter Benjamin: Lumpensammler, Engel und bucklicht Mannlein: Aesthetik und Politik bei Walter Benjamin, in: Times Literary Supplement, 1 October 2010, p.
2011
article: ‘Bertolt Brecht and Johann Peter Hebel: a footnote’, Oxford German Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 58–61
translation: Johann Peter Hebel, ‘A nobelwoman’s sleepless night’, Oxford German Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 113–14
obituary: Stanley Mitchell, The Guardian, 30 November 2011
2012
translation: Hans Fallada, Once a jailbird, London: Penguin Books, 2012 (translation of 1934 by Eric Sutton, completed by NJ and Gardis Cramer von Laue, with Linden Lawson)
review: Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel, Briefe 1923–1956, edited by Erdmut Wizisla, in ?
2013
translation: Peter Huchel, ‘Europe Nineteenhundredandsad’ [1931], PN Review, 210 (vol. 39, no. 4), March–April 2013, pp. 17–18
article: ‘Notes on Two European Scholars of William Hale White: Hans Klinke and Ursula Buchmann’, Bunyan Studies, no. 17, 2013
article: ‘Hans Fallada – What Now? Fallada’s English-language Renaissance’, Intralinea, 2013
2014
review: Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove, A Matter of intelligence: MI5 and the surveillance of anti-Nazi refugees, 1933–50, in: Camden New Journal, 2014
review: Arthur Hugh Clough, Mario Magno, Dipsychus, and other poems, in: Camden New Journal, 21 August 2014
review: Sabine Berendse and Paul Clements (editors), Brecht, music and culture: Hanns Eisler in conversation with Hans Bunge, in: Camden New Journal, 2014
review: Stephen Parker, Bertolt Brecht: a literary life, in: Camden New Journal, 2014
translation: Hans Fallada, Iron Gustav: a Berlin family chronicle, London: Penguin Books, 2014 (translation of 1940 by Philip Owens, completed by NJ and Gardis Cramer von Laue; note on translation by NJ)
translation: ‘Introduction to the French translation of The autobiography of Mark Rutherford, translated and introduced by Pierre Leyris, Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1989’, Newsletter of the Mark Rutherford Society, 2014
2015
review: Anthony Coles, John Heartfield: ein politisches Leben, in: Angermion, vol. 8, no. 1, 2015, pp. 180–3
translation: Heinrich von Kleist, ‘Anecdotes and stories’, PN Review, 222, vol. 41, no. 4, March–April 2015, pp. 45–7
2016
review: Anna Nyburg, Émigré: the transformation of art publishing in Britain, in: History Workshop Journal, no. 82, 2016, pp. 290–2
translation: Peter Huchel, ‘The Jewish cemetery at Sulzburg’ [1974], PN Review, 228 (vol. 42, no. 4), March–April 2016, pp. 22–4
translation and introduction: Joseph Suschitzky, ‘ “German books in seven rooms”: memoirs of Libris (London) Ltd, 1945–71’ [2004], The Book Collector, 2016
2017
review: Rüdiger Safranski, Goethe: life as a work of art, in: Angermion, vol. 10, no. 1, 2017, pp. 193–7 [extended version, in: Logos, vol. 17, no. 2, 2018
review: Richard Dove, Foreign parts: German and Austrian actors on the British stage, 1933–1960, Cambridge: Legenda, 2017, in: Camden New Journal, 2017
review: John Green, A political family: the Kuczynskis, Fascism, espionage and the Cold War, in: Camden New Journal, 22 June 2017
review: Claire Tomalin, A life of my own, in: Camden New Journal, 2017
review: Gareth Stedman Jones, Karl Marx: greatness and illusion, in: The Political Quarterly, vol. 88, no. 2, 2017, pp. 325–7
obituary: Arthur Boyars, The Independent, 14 August 2017
2019
story: The curse of the Ring: The Ring of the Niebelung by Richard Wagner – the story told in prose
translation and introduction: Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O–, London: Pushkin Press, 2019 (with introduction by NJ)
edition and introduction: W.W. Jacobs, The grey parrot and other stories, Richmond: Alma Books, 2019 (with introduction by NJ)
2020
review: Catrine Clay, The good Germans: resisting the Nazis, 1933–1945, in: Camden New Journal, 17 December 2020
review: Jeremy Adler, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in: Camden New Journal, 2020
review: John Green, Willi Münzenberg: fighter against Fascism and Stalinism, in: Camden New Journal
review: Simon Parkin,The island of extraordinary captives, in: Camden New Journal, 2020
review: Andy Croft, The years of anger: the life of Randall Swingler; Richard Knott, The secret war against the arts: how MI5 targeted left-wing writers and artists, 1936–1956, in: Camden New Journal, 2020
review: Sybil Oldfield, The Black Book: Britons on the Nazi hit list, in: Camden New Journal, 2020
review: Giles Tremlett, The International Brigades: Fascism, freedom and the Spanish Civil War, in: Camden New Journal, 19 November 2020
review: Sonia Combe, La loyauté à tout prix: les floués du ‘socialisme réel’, in: Times Literary Supplement, 3 January 2020, p. 34
2021
review: Ines Newman, with Charmian Brinson and Rachel Dickson, Internment in Britain in 1940: life behind the wire, in: Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 201–3
review: Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove, Working for the war effort: German-speaking refugees in British propaganda during the Second World War, in: Camden New Journal, 11 November 2021
review: Norman Ohler, The infiltrators: the lovers who led Germany’s resistance against the Nazis, London: Atlantic Books, 2020, in: Camden New Journal, 4 March 2021
2022
review: Colin Chambers (editor), I saw democracy murdered: the memoir of Sam Russell, journalist, in: Camden New Journal, 14 July 2022
undated
‘Fallada’, Germanlit.org,
https://sites.google.com/site/germanliterature/20th-century/fallada
‘Georg Heym’, Germanlit.org
https://sites.google.com/site/germanliterature/20th-century/heym-georg
unpublished
Adelbert von Chamisso’s The strange story of Peter Schlemihl
Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Portrait of Rigoletto, the man
Shakespeare’s Richard II
Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in Lübeck
review: Barry Millington, Richard Wagner: the sorcerer of Bayreuth
Nicholas Jacobs: writings and publishing 