The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 50

Professor Elena Pnevmonidou, Professor Markus Wessendorf (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2025 | Paperback original
Camden House Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64014-199-5 (ISBN)

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The Brecht Yearbook, published by Camden House on behalf of the International Brecht Society, is the central scholarly forum for the study of Brecht's life and work and of topics relevant to him.

Embracing a variety of perspectives and approaches, the yearbook is committed to the concept of the use-value of literature, art, performance, and theory in a global context. Volume 50 begins with a conversation about the first major collection of interviews with Brecht and a chronicle of the publication history of the 30-volume edition of Brecht's works. The contributions featuring new research cover a wide range of topics related to Brecht, including his use of "pastology," racialization in his early plays, the 1932 production of The Mother as a campaign against Nazi misogyny, the first English-language productions of Señora Carrar's Rifles in 1938, and an unrealized African-American production of The Threepenny Opera in the early 1940s. This section also includes articles about the Brecht circle involved in the French chanson of the 1930s, the first French translation of the Short Organon for the Theatre in 1955, Brechtian aspects of Navid Kermani's interreligious dialogues, Mark Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism," and the connection of Brecht's ideas to a pedagogy of revolution.

Edited by Elena Pnevmonidou and Markus Wessendorf. Book reviews edited by Noah Willumsen. Contributors: Martin Brady, Robert Cohen, Laura Ginters, Helen Hughes, Torben Ibs, Liam Johnston-McCondach, Sabrina Kanthak, Sabine Kebir, Jan Knopf, Sean Larson, Jakob Ribič, Hanife Schulte, Vera Stegmann, and Noah Willumsen.

ELENA PNEVMONIDOU is Associate Professor in the Department of German and Slavic Studies and Director of the European Studies program at the University of Victoria. MARKUS WESSENDORF is a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in Honolulu. VERA STEGMANN is Associate Professor of German at Lehigh University.

Editorial
List of Abbreviations

Interview
Noah Willumsen (Berlin) und Torben Ibs (Leipzig)
Brecht im Interview? Ein Gespräch über seine Interviews

Chronicle
Jan Knopf (Karlsruhe)
"Phui, böser Hecht!" Vom "Jahrhundertunternehmen" (1985) zur Schmierenwissenschaft (2024): Absteigende Chronik der Großen Brecht-Ausgabe (GBA)

New Brecht Research
Sabrina Kanthak (Munich)
Durch "Ver-Anderung" zu einer neuen Öffentlichkeit: Rezeption und Differenz bei Trommeln in der Nacht und Im Dickicht

Sean Larson (New York)
Brecht's Fatzer Fragments and the Pedagogy of Revolution: A Historical View

Hanife Schulte (London)
Responding to Election-Time Misogyny: The Adaptation, Production, and Performances of The Mother in Weimar Berlin (1930-1932)

Sabine Kebir (Berlin)
Kulturelle Aneignung: Ethnizität und Universalität in Brechts hegelianisch-globalisiertem Theater

Laura Ginters (Sydney)
Singing Back to Brecht: The Early Production History of Señora Carrar's Rifles in Australia and the United States

Robert Cohen (New York)
Das französische Chanson der 1930er Jahre und der Brechtkreis

Liam Johnston-McCondach (Oxford)
Theoretical Translations: The Short Organon in France

Vera Stegmann (Bethlehem, PA)
Wonder Beyond Belief: Strategies of Estrangement in Navid Kermani's Interreligious Dialogues

Martin Brady (London) and Helen Hughes (Guildford)
Brecht's Pastology and Its Afterlife in the GDR

Jakob Ribič (Ljubljana)
Dialectical Theater at the End of History

Book Reviews

Robert Cohen (New York)
Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Bd. 9/II.
Hrsg. von Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Frigga Haug, Peter Jehle, Wolfgang Küttler und Oliver Walkenhorst

Curtis Swope (San Antonio)
Todd Cronan. Red Aesthetics: Rodchenko, Brecht, Eisenstein

Benedetta Bronzini(Modena)
Heiner-Müller-Jahrbuch 1. Hrsg. von Norbert Otto Eke, Janine Ludwig und Florian Vaßen

Jasper Schagerl (Bremen)
Thomas Irmer. René Pollesch-Arbeit. Brecht. Cinema. Interviews und Gespräche

Marten Weise (Berlin)
David Barnett. Theatricality, Playtexts and Society

Notes on the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Brecht Yearbook
Co-Autor	Emeritus Reader Martin Brady, Benedetta Bronzini, Professor Emeritus Robert Cohen
Zusatzinfo	10 b/w illus.
Verlagsort	Columbia, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-64014-199-5 / 1640141995
ISBN-13	978-1-64014-199-5 / 9781640141995
Zustand	Neuware