"External" and "internal" emigration in G. Kaiser's works

Among the late works of G. Kaiser, a renowned dramatist of German expressionism, there are plays in which protest and anti-fascist ideas found both implicit and explicit expression. During his "internal emigration" (1933-1938) Kaiser moved the action of his plays into distant epochs and foreign lands, his focus theme being the survival of those who love each other in spite of the vicissitudes of fate. During his "external" emigration in Switzerland (1938-1945) Kaiser reproduced the real war and the problems of human dependence on the authority under a totalitarian regime. In Kaiser's "Greek" plays the artist undertakes a search for utopian ways of achieving social harmony.