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Ernst Busch: Chronicle in Songs, Ballads and Cantatas from the first half of the 20th century (Ernst Busch: Chronik in Liedern, Balladen und Kantaten aus der ersten Halfte des 20. Jahrhundrets)
Series of illustrated booklets with 45 rpm records. In German.

12 items:

Bertolt Brecht: Legenden, Lieder, Balladen - 1914-1924
Bertolt Brecht: Legenden, Lieder, Balladen - 1925-1934
Die Goldenen Zwanziger Jahre
Johannes R. Becher -Kleine Chronik
Erich Kastner
Erich Kastner liest Kastner
Der Deutchen Freiheit Morgengruss Bauernkrieg 1525 Weberaufstand 1844
Frank Wedekind - Spottlieder
Majakowski Eisler Lieder
Hanns Eisler / Kurt Tucholsky Fromme Gesange He! Republik
Hanns Eisler / Kurt Tucholsky Ist das von Gestern?
Hanns Eisler / Kurt Tucholsky An Preussichen Kaminen

From Wikipedia:
Ernst Busch (22 January 1900 – 8 June 1980) was a German singer and actor.

Busch originated from a Kiel worker family. He started in life as a shipyard worker before he decided to make use of his acting and singing talent.

Busch first rose to prominence as an interpreter of political songs, particularly those of Kurt Tucholsky, in the Berlin Kabarett scene of the 1920s. He starred in the original 1928 production of Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, as well as the subsequent 1931 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. He also appeared in the movie Kuhle Wampe.

A lifelong communist, Busch fled Nazi Germany in 1933, accompanied by his wife, Eva Busch, and with the Gestapo on his heels, initially settling in the Netherlands. By 1938 they had divorced, without acrimony, as their lives diverged. Eva settled in Paris while Ernst initially made his home in the Soviet Union where he worked with Gustav von Wangenheim on the 1935 film "Kämpfer" ("Fighters"). In 1937 he joined the International Brigades to fight against the Nationalists in Spain. His wartime songs were then recorded and broadcast by Radio Barcelona and Radio Madrid. After the Spanish Republic fell to General Franco, Busch migrated to Belgium where he was interned during the German occupation and later imprisoned in Camp Gurs, France and Berlin. Freed by the Red Army in 1945, he settled in East Berlin, where he acted in the first play to be produced in the American-occupied zone, Robert Ardrey's Thunder Rock. He would go on to start his own record label and work with Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator at the "Berliner Ensemble". A beloved figure in the German Democratic Republic, he is best remembered for his performance in the title role of Brecht's Life of Galileo and his recordings of workers songs, including many written by Hanns Eisler. He also made a memorable recording of "Peat Bog Soldiers".