Edinburgh German Yearbook 5 - Brecht and the Gdr: Politics, Culture, Posterity

Brecht's activities in the GDR, the regime's marginalizing response and posthumous appropriation of his legacy, and creative responses in the GDR and after.

List of contents

Introduction
Undogmatic Marxism: Brecht Rehearses at the Berliner Ensemble
Lateness and Late Style in Brecht's Last Poetry
A Life's Work Curtailed? The Ailing Brecht's Struggle with the SED Leadership over GDR Cultural Policy
Brecht and 17 June 1953: A Reassessment
Private or Public? The Bertolt Brecht Archive as an Object of Desire
Remembering Brecht: Anniversaries at the Berliner Ensemble
Brecht's Dependable Disciple in the GDR: Elisabeth Hauptmann
Musical Threnodies for Brecht
The Legacy of Brecht in East German Political Song
Fatzer's Footprints: Brecht's Fatzer and the GDR Theater
Reviving Saint Joan of the Stockyards: Speculation and Solidarity in the Era of Capitalism Resurgent

About the author

Laura Bradley, Karen Leeder

Product details

• Authors: Laura Bradley
• Assisted by: Laura Bradley (Editor), Karen Leeder (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2011
• EAN: 9781571134929
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-492-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 535 g
• Series: Edinburgh German Yearbook
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet