Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

List of Abbreviations

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp 1-4

Part I - Berlin 1873–1897

pp 5-6

1 - Headwaters

pp 7-16

2 - Mentors

pp 17-30

3 - Liftoff

pp 31-46

Part II - Wesel 1897–1902

pp 47-48

4 - New Beginnings

pp 49-58

5 - Reger

pp 59-74

6 - “I’d like finally to get on with it!”

pp 75-88

Part III - Leipzig 1903–1918

pp 89-90

7 - A Berliner in (Little) Paris

pp 91-105

8 - Off the Organ Bench

pp 106-118

9 - Trouble in Paradise

pp 119-131

10 - “In my naïveté”

pp 132-148

11 - Emmi Leisner

pp 149-156

12 - Deaths and Transfigurations

pp 157-170

Part IV - Intermezzo: Leipzig 1918–1920

pp 171-172

13 - Decision Point

pp 173-188

14 - Portraits in Ambivalence

pp 189-206

Part V - Leipzig 1920–1929

pp 207-208

15 - On the Road and at the Negotiating Table

pp 209-221

16 - Politics I

pp 222-231

17 - “When the days of darkness come”

pp 232-241

18 - Colleagues

pp 242-252

19 - The Treadmill

pp 253-265