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• I'm still here

  • Maarten Van Dijk

  This volume of the Brecht Yearbook makes available the text of a newly discovered concluding scene for the play Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches  ( Fear and Misery of the Third Reich ). Other contributions are documentary essays about Brecht’s life, work, and colleagues, including interviews with Martin Pohl and Barbara Brecht-Schall; essays on teaching and performing Brecht’s work, including accounts of productions in South Africa and Watts (Los Angeles); and a selection of theoretical contributions on reception and intertextuality. Also included are a discussion forum and book reviews.Distributed for the International Brecht Society.

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• New essays on Brecht

  • Maarten Van Dijk

  This volume of the Brecht Yearbook brings together new insights into Brecht's sources as well as new interpretations of his writings and updates on his reception. Biographical contributions include a letter from Brecht's daughter Barbara Brecht-Schall, a conversation with friends of Brecht's collaborator Hanns Eisler, and newly identified background material to Fear and Misery in the Third Reich. Reports on Brecht's reception cover a staging of Galileo at the Berlin Ensemble, a modernized version of Die Massnahme in Frankfurt/Main under the title Das Kontigent, and Brecht in Australia. Critical interpretations range from performance issues such as Gestus, masks, and staging gender to close readings of poems and plays to more general reflections on Brecht's relationship to modernism, the philosophical dimension of his theater practice, and his presence in the internet. The volume closes with reviews of recent scholarly publications about Brecht and twentieth-century theater.Distributed for the International Brecht SocityIn English and GermanISSN 0734-8665

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• Helene Weigel 100

  • Maarten Van Dijk

  Volume 25 of The Brecht Yearbook celebrates the centenary of Helene Weigel, one of the great actresses of the twentieth century, founder and artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble, key artistic personality in the German Democratic Republic, and wife of Bertolt Brecht. Important Brecht scholars, friends, and collaborators of Weigel examine her multifaceted career in articles and interviews. A special "Forum" section is devoted to the exchange of letters between Brecht, Steffin, and Arnold Zweig, edited by Heidrun Loper.Distributed for the International Brecht SocietyIn English and GermanISSN 0734-8665

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• Political intimacies

  • Friedemann J. Weidauer

  These articles and documents shed light on how the life and work of Bertolt Brecht transcend the private/public dichotomy. In addition, the volume contains articles on teaching Brecht, editorial practice, music, irony, and the influence of Brecht on film. The articles are accompanied by materials from the Brecht Archive in Berlin, and the volume includes reviews of the most important recent publications in Brecht scholarship.

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• Where extremes meet: rereading Brecht and Beckett

  • Antony Tatlow

  For about thirty years in the middle of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht dominated Western theater by virtue of their difference. Beckett represented a theater of the absurd and Brecht a theater of political commitment, each defining the other by their incompatibilities. Only their successors began to question the dichotomies and to draw on both their legacies. This volume looks back at the common ground of these two their modernism and its legacy, their innovations in new media, the ways they directed their own work, and the shape of their thinking and writing. This territory is explored from the various perspectives of directors, dramaturgs, actors, and theorists in these contributions from a 2001 symposium at the University of Dublin.Distributed for the International Brecht SocietyIn English and German

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• Distance and proximity

  • Theodore F. Rippey

  • 326pagine
  • 12 ore di lettura

  The Brecht Yearbook is a venue for discussion about aspects of theater and literature that were of particular interest to Bertolt Brecht, especially the politics of literature and the politics of theater in a global context. This volume features a dossier on writer-actor-director Manfred Karge (pictured left), unpublished documents from the Brecht Archive in Berlin, new research articles on Brecht, and reviews of recent books. Article topics include Brecht and Adorno in Los Angeles, Celan and Brecht, and transcultural aspects of epic theater.

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• Mahagonny.com

  • Marc Silberman

  One of the most radical, controversial works ever created by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, the opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is a devastating critique of capitalism. This volume includes twenty-nine essays in English and German that address Mahagonny from multiple perspectives: context, text, utopia, music, and the continuing influence of this opera more than three quarters of a century after its creation. The volume also contains original material by Brecht and an essay on Brecht in India. Distributed for the International Brecht Society ISSN 0734-8665

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