Maarten Van Dijk Livres

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

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

Celebrating Bertolt Brecht's centenary year, this volume presents selected papers from the 1998 International Brecht Society Symposium in San Diego. The contributors discuss theatre and politics, alienation effects and gestus, Brecht's poetry, Brecht and music, revisiting the Lehrstuck, and Brecht in the Americas.

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.

This collection focuses on the intersections of Bertolt Brecht’s work with that of other writers and artists, examining in particular questions of collective creation. Further essays discuss production, Brecht and the Jews, and connections with artists as diverse as Eisler, Felsenstein, Busoni, Anna Seghers, Breughel, and Shakespeare. A selection of theoretical essays, a discussion forum, and book reviews conclude the volume. Many of the essays are based on papers from the Ninth Symposium of the International Brecht Society held in Augsburg, Germany, in March, 1995. Distributed for the International Brecht SocietyIn English and German