Bertolt Brecht
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February 10, 1898 Augsburg, Bavaria, German Empire (today Germany) |
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Died |
August 14, 1956 East Berlin, East Germany (today Germany) | (aged 58)
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Bertolt Brecht (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, 1898–1956) was a German poet, playwright, theatre director, and Marxist.
Publications[edit]
(in German unless noted otherwise)
- "Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner", in Kalendergeschichten, 1949, pp 113-126.
- "Anecdotes of Mr Keuner", trans. Yvonne Kapp and Michael Hamburger, in Tales from the Calendar, 1961, pp 110-124. (English)
- "Brecht Dossier: Six Essays on Painting and Theater", Nonsite 10 (Fall 2013). Extracts. (English)
- Collected works
- Versuche, 1-8, Potsdam, 1930-33.
- Versuche, 9-15, Frankfurt am Main/Berlin/Weimar, 1949-77.
- Stücke 1-14. Gedichte 1-10. Prosa 1-5. Schriften zum Theater 1-7. Schriften zur Kunst und Literatur 1-3. Schriften zur Politik und Gesellschaft [Erste Brecht-Gesamtausgabe in 40 Bänden], Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1953-76.
- Schriften zum Theater, 7 vols., ed. Werner Hecht, 1963-64. [1]
- Schriften zur Kunst und Literatur [Bd. 18-20], 3 vols., 1967-68.
- Stücke 1-14. Gedichte 1-10. Prosa 1-5. Schriften zum Theater 1-7. Schriften zur Kunst und Literatur 1-2. Schriften zur Politik und Gesellschaft 1-2 [Erste Brecht-Gesamtausgabe in 40 Bänden], Berlin and Weimar, 1955-78.
- Gesammelte Werke in 8 Bänden, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1967; Supplementband 1, 1969; Supplementband 2, 1982.
- Gesammelte Werke in 20 Bänden, Schriften zur Politik und Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1967; Supplementbände 1-2, 1969; Supplementbände 3-4, 1982.
- Briefe, ed. Guenther Glaeser, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1981.
- Werke. Große kommentierte Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe [GBA], 30 vols., eds. Werner Hecht, Jan Knopf, Werner Mittenzwei and Klaus-Detlef Mueller, Berlin/Weimar/Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1988-2000.
- Arbeitsjournal 1938-1955, 3 vols., ed. Werner Hecht, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1993.
- Brecht on Film and Radio, ed. & trans. Marc Silberman, Methuen, 2000; Bloomsbury, 2014. (English)
- Sämtliche Stücke in einem Band, Komet, 2002.
- Die Gedichte in einem Band, Suhrkamp: Frankfurt am Main, 2002.
- Poetry and Prose, ed. Reinhold Grimm with Caroline Molina y Vedia, Continuum, 2003. (English),(German)
- Brecht on Art and Politics, eds. Tom Kuhn and Steve Giles, Methuen Drama, 2003; Bloomsbury, 2014. (English)
- The Collected Short Stories, intro. Marc Silberman, eds. John Willett and Ralph Manheim, Bloomsbury, 2015.
- Bibliographies
- Brecht's Works in English: A Bibliography, by the International Brecht Society and the Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv.
Literature[edit]
- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Beyond Bourgeois Theatre", trans. Rima Dell Reck, TDR 5:3 (March 1961), pp 3-11; repr. in Brecht Sourcebook, eds. Carol Martin and Henry Bial, Routledge, 2000, pp 47-54. Excerpts of the lecture Théatre epique et théatre dramatique given at the Sorbonne in the Spring of 1960. [2] (English)
- Martin Esslin, Brecht: The Man and His Work, Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1961, OL. (English)
- Louis Althusser, "Le 'Piccolo', Bertolazzi et Brecht (Notes sur un théâtre matérialiste)", Esprit 30:12 (December 1962), pp 946-965; repr. in Althusser, Pour Marx, Paris: François Maspero, 1965, pp 129-152. (French)
- "The 'Piccolo Teatro': Bertolazzi and Brecht: Notes on a Materialist Theatre", trans. Ben Brewster, in Althusser, For Marx, London: Allen Lane, 1969, pp 129-151; London and New York: Verso, 2005, pp 129-151, [3]. (English)
- "Das Piccolo Teatro – Bertolazzi und Brecht. Bemerkungen über ein materialistisches Theater", in Althusser, Für Marx, ed. Frieder Otto Wolf, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2011, pp 161-190.
- Walter Benjamin, Versuche über Brecht, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1966.
- Understanding Brecht, London/New York: Verso, 1998. (English)
- Louis Althusser, "Sur Brecht et Marx" [1968], in Écrits philosophiques et politiques. Tome II, ed. François Matheron, Paris: Stock/IMEC, 1995, pp 541-548. Talk given at the Piccolo Teatro de Milan on 1 April 1968. (French)
- "Über Brecht und Marx", Berliner Debatte 4 (2001), pp 52-59.
- "On Brecht and Marx", trans. Max Statkiewicz, in Warren Montag, Louis Althusser, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 136-149. (English)
- The Brecht Yearbook / Brecht-Jahrbuch, International Brecht Society, 1971-2009. 34 vols. (English),(German)
- E. Etkind, Bertolt Brecht, Leningrad, 1971. (Russian)
- Screen 16:4: "Brecht Event", London, Winter 1975. [4] (English)
- Communications from the International Brecht Society, International Brecht Society, 1977-93. 34 vols. (English),(multiple languages)
- Roswitha Mueller, Bertolt Brecht and the Theory of Media, 1989. (English)
- Fredric Jameson, Brecht and Method, Verso, 1998. (English)
- Carol Martin, Henry Bial (eds.), Brecht Sourcebook, Routledge, 2000. (English)
- Erdmut Wizisla, Walter Benjamin und Bertolt Brecht – Die Geschichte einer Freundschaft, Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 2004.
- Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht: The Story of a Friendship, trans. Christine Shuttleworth, Yale University Press, 2009. (English)
- Michael Schwaiger, Bertolt Brecht und Erwin Piscator. Experimentelles Theater im Berlin der zwanziger Jahre, Vienna, 2004.
- Hubert van den Berg, "On the Shoreline of Utopia. Bertolt Brecht and the Topos of Swimming", in Visualizing Utopia, eds. Mary Kemperink and Willemien Roenhorst, Leuven: Peeters, 2007, pp 121-143. (English)
- Nonsite 10: "Affect, Effect, Bertolt Brecht", Fall 2013. (English)
- Stephen Parker, Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014. Biography. (English)