Books
- Tankred Dorst: Toller, edition suhrkamp, Suhrkamp Verlag, ISBN 3-518-10294-X
- Richard Dove: He was a German: a biography of Ernst Toller, Libris (London: 1990), ISBN 1-870352-85-8
- Werner Fuld/Albert Ostermaier(Hrsg.): Die Göttin und ihr Sozialist: Gristiane Grauthoff - ihr Leben mit Ernst Toller, Weidle Verlag, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-931135-18-7
- Michael Ossar: Anarchism in the dramas of Ernst Toller: the realm of necessity and the realm of freedom, State University of New York Press (Albany: 1980), ISBN 0873953932
- German Writers in French Exile, 1933-1940, by Martin Mauthner (London: 2007), ISBN 978-0853035411
His plays have been recently translated into English by Alan Pearlman.
The literary rights to the works of Ernst Toller were the property of the novelist Katharine Weber until the copyright expired on the last day of 2009 and the works of Ernst Toller entered the public domain.
The English dramatist Torben Betts has reworked Hinkemann and his play (entitled Broken) will be produced in the UK in 2011.
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