Hanns Eisler was Arnold Schönberg's favourite pupil. He worked intensively with Bertolt Brecht
and composed the GDR's national anthem. Veronika Eberhart's artistic study focuses on the years
1938 to 1948 which the composer spent together with his wife Lou(ise) in exile in Los Angeles.
Shortly after their arrival the two became the focus of FBI investigations. They were bugged
and followed. In 1947 Eisler was finally called before the House Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC) and a year later he and his wife were deported from the USA. The book
contains images from Eberhart's latest film Garten sprengen (2022) and a series of new
sculptural and photographic works that can be seen in her exhibition at the IKOB Museum of
Contemporary Art in Belgium. Veronika Eberhart is an artist filmmaker and musician.
