Author : Thomas Strand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0914476440
Questions to Brecht
Thomas Strand
Questions To Brecht
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Questions (After Brecht)
Karen Knorr
Author : Karen Knorr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 191040148X
Questions (After Brecht) by Karen Knorr Pdf
Karen Knorr photographed the building site of the disused Parisian Art-Deco Department store, La Samaritaine, in the summers of 2017 and 2018. In this new book, the resulting photographs, transformed with solarisation and infused with playful fantasy and surrealism are accompanied by lines from Brecht?s poem: 'Questions from a Worker Who Reads' (1935).
961 Questions of Bertolt Brecht
L Dale Richesin
Author : L Dale Richesin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983901199
961 Questions of Bertolt Brecht by L Dale Richesin Pdf
This study will examine all of Brecht's plays, including some of us most well known, Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage, and Caucasian Chalk Circle, as well as his more obscure works.
Bertolt Brecht in America
James K. Lyon
Author : James K. Lyon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781400855902
Bertolt Brecht in America by James K. Lyon Pdf
This colorful account of Bertolt Brecht's move from Germany to America during the Hitler era explores his activities as a Hollywood writer, a playwright determined to conquer Broadway, a political commentator and activist, a social observer, and an exile in an alien land. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921)
David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson
Author : David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780567685674
Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921) by David J. Shepherd,Nicholas E. Johnson Pdf
This volume offers an examination of Brecht's largely forgotten theatrical fragments of a life of David, written just after the Great War but prior to Brecht winning the Kleist Prize in 1922 and the acclaim that would launch his extraordinary career. David J. Shepherd and Nicholas E. Johnson take as their starting point Brecht's own diaries from the time, which offer a vivid picture of the young Brecht shuttling between Munich and the family home in Augsburg, surrounded by friends, torn between women, desperate for success, and all the while with 'David on the brain'. The analysis of Brecht's David, along with his notebooks and diaries, reveals significant connections between the reception of the Biblical David and one of Germany's most tumultuous cultural periods. Drawing on theatrical experiments conducted with an ensemble from Trinity College Dublin, this volume includes the first ever translation of the David fragments in English, an extensive discussion of the theatrical afterlife of David in the early twentieth century as well as new interdisciplinary insights into the early Brecht: a writer entranced by the biblical David and utterly committed to translating the biblical tradition into his own evolving theatrical idiom.
Brecht and East Asian Theatre
Anthony Tatlow,Tak-wai Wong
Author : Anthony Tatlow,Tak-wai Wong
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9622090680
Brecht and East Asian Theatre by Anthony Tatlow,Tak-wai Wong Pdf
This book contains unique information about Bertolt Brecht and East Asian theatre. It focuses in particular on China and offers first and detailed accounts of important Brecht productions from those directly involved. Hence it grants remarkable insight into the problems of modern Chinese theatre and its relationship to Western theatre and into possible future developments. The book also throws light on Brecht's work and suggests ways of 're-producing' Brecht in the West. It consists of papers presented at a Hong Kong conference by distinguished Western critics (John Willett, Klaus Volker) and prominent practitioners of the theatre in China - directors (Huang Zuolin, Chen Yong), stage designers, translators and scholars. There are also accounts of Brecht productions in Japan and India, which form a stimulating contrast with the Chinese experience. With a wealth of practical examples, the book enables us to appreciate how theatre develops within different social structures. Presenting examples of cultural affinity and cultural disjunction, it also makes a useful contribution to intercultural study.
Heinz-Uwe Haus and Brecht in the USA
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe,Heinz-Uwe Haus
Author : Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe,Heinz-Uwe Haus
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527538955
Heinz-Uwe Haus and Brecht in the USA by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe,Heinz-Uwe Haus Pdf
Heinz-Uwe Haus was the first renowned director from the German Democratic Republic to (be allowed to) direct in the USA. This book presents relevant material written in relation to his productions, specifically of Bertolt Brecht’s plays. This includes Haus’s notes for his casts, announcements of the productions in the media, newspaper reviews and academic articles about the productions, conference contributions, and reflections by cast members (both professional actors and university faculty) and designers (set, costume, light, music). The material on the productions is then discussed in the contexts of approaches to directing, actor training, the academic debate of Brecht in the USA, and historical and biographical dimensions. A conversation with Haus as the final chapter of the book further contextualises the material brought together here.
An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht
Anthony Squiers
Author : Anthony Squiers
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789401211819
An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht by Anthony Squiers Pdf
This book presents Brecht’s thought in the context of a revolutionary Marxist aesthetic and explores his vision of consciousness as it relates to historical materialism, the dialectic of enlightenment, social ontology, epistemology and ethics.
Brecht in Practice
David Barnett
Author : David Barnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408186022
Brecht in Practice by David Barnett Pdf
David Barnett invites readers, students and theatre-makers to discover new ways of apprehending and making use of Brecht in this clear and accessible study of Brecht's theories and practices. The book analyses how Brecht's ideas can come alive in rehearsal and performance, and reveals just how carefully Brecht realized his vision of a politicized, interventionist theatre. What emerges is a nuanced understanding of Brecht's concepts, his work with actors and his approaches to directing. The reader is encouraged to engage with his method which sought to 'make theatre politically', in order to appreciate the innovations he introduced into his stagecraft. Barnett provides many examples of how Brecht's ideas can be staged, and the final chapter takes a closer look at two very different plays: one written by Brecht and one by a playwright with no acknowledged connection to Brecht. Through an interrogation of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Patrick Marber's Closer, Barnett asks how a Brechtian approach can enliven and illuminate production.
Routledge Revivals: Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics (1988)
Peter Brooker
Author : Peter Brooker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351996044
Routledge Revivals: Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics (1988) by Peter Brooker Pdf
First published in 1988, this books argues with received accounts to reclaim Brecht’s emphasis on his self-described ‘dialectical theatre’, re-examining firstly the concepts of Gestus and Verfremdung and their realisation in Brecht’s poetry in terms of his attempt to consciously apply the methods of dialectical materialism to art and cultural practice. The author also takes issue with the customary view of Brecht’s career and politics which sees him as compromising either with Communist party dogma or bourgeois aesthetics, to find developing parallels between Brecht’s political and artistic though and the critical dialectics of Marx, Lenin and Mao. This development is examined in later chapters in relation to the early and late plays, The Measures Taken and Days of the Commune as well as in relation to Brecht’s changed circumstances in the years of war-time exile and in post-war East Germany.
Brecht, Broadway and United States Theater
J. Chris Westgate
Author : J. Chris Westgate
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443810180
Brecht, Broadway and United States Theater by J. Chris Westgate Pdf
Not long after the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, Bertolt Brecht’s name was on the lips of many writing about Broadway. Invoked knowingly—but not always knowledgeably—“Brecht” became something between marketing strategy and erudite justification for another season of Broadway musicals, another ignominy endured by the German playwright whose epic theater has only seldom been understood in the United States. To say that Brechtian and Broadway theatrical traditions represent divergence of philosophy, method, or ambition is to indulge—with the whimsy of Mark Twain—in understatement. Nevertheless, many references to Brecht since 2001 imply compatibility instead of contradiction—a confusion or corruption that suggested the need of looking closely at what Brecht wrote and intended in his epic theater more than seventy years after his first—and, unfortunately, typical—experience with United States theater. Beginning with the 1935 production of The Mother and moving through recent productions of political theater, including The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Urinetown: The Musical, and My Name is Rachel Corrie, this anthology considers the encounters of Brecht and Broadway in terms of dramaturgy, performance, and reception. The essays in this anthology explore the political, cultural, and economic constraints shaping many of the encounters of Brecht and Broadway in U.S. theater history. This means looking at how, in many cases, epic theater has been co-opted and commodified by Broadway and what that commodification reveals about the culture of theater. Simultaneously, this means theorizing how epic theater finds—or can find—ways of providing a necessary bulwark against Broadway escapism, and what this suggests for the future of political theater in the U.S. What results is a dialectical history tracing Brecht’s encounters with Broadway, a history that opens-up and debates the complicated and often conflicted influence of Bertolt Brecht on United States theater. “Dr. Westgate's book on Brecht and Broadway is an excellent study of the reception of Brecht's work in the American theater and academe. Brecht, along with Moliere; Ibsen and Chekhov, is one of the most frequently performed playwrights in translation in America. A thorough investigation of the trajectory of Brecht stagings on Broadway has long been overdue. I am very grateful that Dr. Westgate has taken on the task and arrived at such a splendid result. The book is a must reading for any serious Brecht scholar.” —Carl Weber, Stanford Drama Department, Collaborator with Brecht at the Berliner Ensemble, Director of many Brecht stagings in the U.S. “This is a provocative collection of essays outlining the sometimes unexpected connections between Brecht and the Broadway theatre. Like Brecht himself, these essays are playful, argumentative, and productively dialectical in their contradictions. The book is both entertaining and educational, and bound to provoke healthy debate. I recommend it as a demonstration of the ongoing relevance of Brechtian theories of theatre to the analysis of mainstream commercial theatre." —Sean Carney, Associate Professor, McGill University
Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile
Ronald Speirs
Author : Ronald Speirs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521782155
Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile by Ronald Speirs Pdf
Bertolt Brecht, one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century, was also a poet of distinction. This volume is the first comprehensive study devoted to his most important collection of political poetry, the Svendborg Poems. The contributors analyse Brecht's work critically and historically, discussing it in relation to questions of poetics, political commitment, exile, propaganda, rhetoric, and the scope and limitations of political poetry. Links are also drawn with the work of German, Soviet and English poets of the period, and with later Germany poets.
Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life
Stephen Parker
Author : Stephen Parker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408155639
Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life by Stephen Parker Pdf
This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, including Brecht's medical records, Parker offers a rich and enthralling account of Brecht's life and work, viewed through the prism of the artist. Tracing his extraordinary life, from his formative years in Augsburg, through the First World War, his politicisation during the Weimar Republic and his years of exile, up to the Berliner Ensemble's dazzling productions in Paris and London, Parker shows how Brecht achieved his transformative effect upon world theatre and poetry. Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life is a powerful portrait of a great, compulsively contradictory personality, whose artistry left its lasting imprint on modern culture.
Re-interpreting Brecht
Pia Kleber,Colin Visser
Author : Pia Kleber,Colin Visser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521429005
Re-interpreting Brecht by Pia Kleber,Colin Visser Pdf
This volume offers a fresh appraisal of the importance of Bertolt Brecht's theory and practice through the documentation of his influence on other dramatists and directors, the examination of how his plays have been interpreted on stage and how his theories have been modified by his followers, and through a selection of the most challenging recent critical approaches to his work. Consideration is also taken of Brecht's influence on contemporary film criticism and his importance for feminist film and theatre. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of drama, literature, German studies and film.
The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 44
Markus Wessendorf
Author : Markus Wessendorf
Publisher : Camden House (NY)
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780985195670
The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 44 by Markus Wessendorf Pdf
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.