Overview

Volume 45 is focused on the theme ""Brecht Among Strangers,"" with articles on a range of artists who engage(d) with Brecht from perspectives involving being a stranger, strangeness, or being estranged. Published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House, the Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of Brecht's life and work and of topics of particular interest to him, especially the politics of literature and of theater in a global context. It includes a wide variety of perspectives and approaches and, like Brecht himself, is committed to the use value of literature, theater, and theory. Volume 45 is the first of two volumes dedicated to the proceedings of the 16th Symposium of the IBS, ""Brecht Among Strangers,"" held at Leipzig University in 2019. It features three sections: ""Among Strangers-Brecht's Figures of Strangeness,"" ""From East to West and Vice Versa-Geographic Interconnections,"" and ""Global Estrangements-Brecht in the Age of Globalization."" The articles cover a wide range of artists who engage(d) with Brecht and his work from such thematic perspectives - including Benno Besson, Arvind Gaur, Meng Jinghui, Mei Lan-fang, Peter Lorre, Koreya Senda, SIGNA, Konrad Swinarski, and Sergei Tretyakov - and link them to questions of alterity, dramaturgy, Gestus/gestures, pedagogy, realism, and singularity. The contributors include Gerda Baumbach, Aurelien Bellucci, Veronika Darian, Rico Dietzmeyer, Helen Fehervary, Zbigniew Feliszewski, Francesco Fiorentino, Anna Haeusler, Guenther Heeg, Eiichiro Hirata, Torben Ibs, Anja Kloeck, Nikolaus Mueller-Schoell, Astrid Oesmann, Patrick Primavesi, Tanja Prokic, Christoph Puengel, Kevin Rittberger, Sergei Romashko, Franziska Schubert, Melanie Selfe, Leonie Sowa, Kai Tuchmann, Lydia White, Noah Willumsen, and others.

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Author:   Professor Markus Wessendorf (Customer) ,  Günther Heeg ,  Dr Vera Stegmann (Contributor) ,  Micha Braun
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Camden House Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.634kg
ISBN:  

9780985195687

ISBN 10:   0985195681
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   20 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"List of Abbreviations Among Strangers-Brecht's Figures of Strangeness ""Ohne Halt und in großer Fahrt."" Brecht im Transit. Gestisch leben - Günther Heeg Theaterarbeit unter Fremden: Brechts Arbeit als Dramaturg - Nikolaus Müller-Schöll Strange(rs) Among Strangers. Some Remarks - Veronika Darian Singularity and Remainder: Brecht's Theater of Others - Lydia J. White Brecht's Reading of the Early Marx: The Alienation of Labor and the Dialectic of the Familar and the Strange - Melanie Selfe Wie im (falschen) Film: Brecht und die Arbeit mit nicht/professionellen Akteuren - Patrick Primavesi Ansätze zu einer Pädagogik der Fremdheit bei Brecht - Francesco Fiorentino From East to West and Vice Versa-Geographic Integration From Aesthetics to History: Brecht's Encounter with Mei Lanfang and Gestural Theater - Astrid Oesmann Der fremde Freund. Proben aus der Theaterarbeit von Benno Besson in der DDR - Gerda Baumbach and Rico Dietzmeyer and Christoph Püngel and Franziska Schubert Bertolt Brecht-ein dekadenter Künstler? Rekonstruktion einer Debatte von 1949 - Torben Ibs Speaking (of) Brecht in the East-West Conflict: Brecht's Changing Concepts of Gestus and the Invention of Gestic Speech in Germany in the 1970s - Anja Klöck ""Was nicht fremd ist, findet befremdlich!"" Swinarskis und Brechts Theatertheorien und -praxis - Zbigniew Feliszewski The Strange Name and Ambiguous Gestures of a Japanese Brechtian in the Social Combustion of Prewar Tokyo - Eiichiro Hirata Karambolage Gorki-Brecht-Tretjakow: Die Mutter als Roman/Theaterstück/Übersetzung - Sergei A. Romashko Brecht's Lorre: The Gentle Stranger - Helen Fehervary Global Estrangements-Brecht in the Age of Globalization Für eine Dramaturgie der Alterität-Zum Dramaturgie-Unterricht an der Pekinger Central Academy of Drama - Kai Tuchmann Liberté de circulation, toujours (Lecture-Performance) - Kevin Rittberger Abstraktion, Einfühlung, Fremdwerden: SIGNA mit Brecht, Brecht mit SIGNA - Anna Häusler and Tanja Prokic Politics of Dis-Estrangement: Brecht Is No Stranger in Asia Today - Aurélien Bellucci Flüchtlingsinterviews: Brecht im Gespräch 1935 - Noah Willumsen Book Reviews Annett Gröschner und Christian Hippe (Hrsg.). Laxheit in Fragen geistigen Eigentums. Brecht und Urheberrecht - Tom Kuhn Norman Roessler and Anthony Squiers (eds.). Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness, Social Theory and Performance - Lydia J. White Simon Critchley. Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us - Anna Street Gerd Dietrich. Kulturgeschichte der DDR - Matthias Rothe Jürgen Hillesheim. Zwischen Affirmation und Verweigerung. Bertolt Brecht und die Revolution - Florian Vaßen Nenad Jovanovic. Brechtian Cinemas: Montage and Theatricality in Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Peter Watkins, and Lars von Trier; Angelos Koutsourakis. Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema - Olivia Landry"

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MARKUS WESSENDORF is a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in Honolulu. GÜNTHER HEEG is the director of the Centre of Competence for Theatre (CCT) and a Professor Emeritus of Theater Studies at the University of Leipzig. VERA STEGMANN is Associate Professor of German at Lehigh University. MICHA BRAUN is a theater scholar and research manager at the University of Leipzig. OLIVIA LANDRY is Associate Professor of German in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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