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Brecht and Death addresses fundamental issues in Brecht's relationship to death: from his own personal approach to death to the complex ways that death is addressed or evaded in his major literary and theatrical works, as well as in his theoretical writings. Brecht's status as a revenant (a Wiederganger) in contemporary society is explored: the various ways in which 'Brecht' as a cultural signifier continues to exist over five decades after the death of Brecht as a person. Essays ask how a materialist and atheist like Brecht was or was not able to find consolation in aesthetic-political theories and practices that, for him, replaced religious beliefs and rituals that he rejected. The volume includes essays by some of the leading figures in international Brecht scholarship - among others, Jost Hermand, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Marc Silberman, Karen Leeder, and Tom Kuhn.

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Jurgen Hillesheim runs the Brecht research center at the state library in Augsburg and is author of a major recent study on the young Bertolt Brecht, as well as editor of the Brecht Yearbook 31. Mathias Mayer is professor of German at the University of Augsburg and author of numerous books on German and Austrian literature and culture. Stephen Brockmann is managing editor of the Brecht Yearbook and professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University. He is author, most recently, of Nuremberg: The Imaginary Capital.

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