The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 44

Annual volume, this time featuring special sections on Brecht's dramatic fragments and on comedy in post-Brechtian theater, along with a variety of other contributions.

List of contents

BRECHT, GÜNTER KUNERT, AND EDGAR LEE MASTERS
Brecht-Masters-Kunert - Gerrit-Jan Berendse
Übersetzung von Edgar Lee Masters' "The Hill" aus der Spoon River Anthology mit Brechts handschriftlichen Korrekturen - Günter Kunert
BRECHT'S DRAMATIC FRAGMENTS
Fragments for a Dialectic of Resistance: Fatzer, Keuner, and the Revolution - André Fischer
In the Stockyards of Finance: Brecht's Aesthetics of Fragmentation in Fleischhacker - Phoebe von Held
The David Fragments in Performance - Nicholas E. Johnson and David Shepherd
PURE JOKE: THE COMEDY OF THEATER SINCE BRECHT
Introduction: Pure Joke - Christian Kirchmeier and Katrin Trüstedt
". . . All Questions Remain Open": On the Epilogue of The Good Person of Szechwan and Bertolt Brecht's Poetics of Interpretation - Christian Kirchmeier
Affirmation and Alienation: The Comedy of Heiner Müller's Hamletmaschine - Katrin Trüstedt
Early Modern Characters in the Late Modern Age: On the Return of the "Chorus of Comedy" in Contemporary Performance Practices after Brecht - Nikolaus Müller-Schöll
Reiner Spaß? Komödie als Real-Satire - Uwe Wirth
NEW BRECHT RESEARCH
Die Schulden des Herrn Julius Caesar: Brechts Historie der Kreditökonomie - Burkhardt Wolf
Post-Communist Irony: Bertolt Brecht's Mr. Keuner in Heiner Müller's Interviews - Stephan Pabst
Di dray groschn opere: Bertolt Brecht on the Yiddish Stage - Corina L. Petrescu
Brechts Rezeption Mao Tse-tungs in zwei Gedichten - Xue Song
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About the author

Markus Wessendorf

Product details

• Authors: Markus Weßendorf
• Assisted by: Markus Weßendorf (Editor), Professor Markus (Customer) Wessendorf (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2019
• EAN: 9780985195670
• ISBN: 978-0-9851956-7-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 416 g
• Illustrations: 12 b/w illus.
• Series: Brecht Yearbook
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Deutsch, Theaterwissenschaft, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Literature - Classics / Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism