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− | '''Bertolt Brecht''' (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, | + | {{Infobox artist |
+ | |birth_date = {{birth date|1898|2|10|mf=y}} | ||
+ | |birth_place = Augsburg, Bavaria, German Empire (today Germany) | ||
+ | |death_date = {{Death date and age|1956|8|14|1898|2|10|mf=y}} | ||
+ | |death_place = East Berlin, East Germany (today Germany) | ||
+ | |web = [[UbuWeb::http://www.ubu.com/sound/brecht.html|UbuWeb Sound]], [[Aaaaarg::http://aaaaarg.fail/maker/53107021334fe07269202cee|Aaaaarg]], [[Wikipedia::http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht|Wikipedia-DE]] | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | '''Bertolt Brecht''' (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, 1898–1956) was a German poet, playwright, theatre director, and Marxist. | ||
− | == | + | ==Publications== |
− | (in German unless noted) | + | (in German unless noted otherwise) |
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9326 "Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner"], in ''Kalendergeschichten'', 1949, pp 113-126. | * [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9326 "Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner"], in ''Kalendergeschichten'', 1949, pp 113-126. | ||
− | ** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9326 "Anecdotes of Mr Keuner"], trans. Yvonne Kapp and Michael Hamburger, in ''Tales from the Calendar'', 1961, pp 110-124. ( | + | ** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9326 "Anecdotes of Mr Keuner"], trans. Yvonne Kapp and Michael Hamburger, in ''Tales from the Calendar'', 1961, pp 110-124. {{en}} |
+ | * [http://nonsite.org/article/brecht-dossier "Brecht Dossier: Six Essays on Painting and Theater"], ''Nonsite'' 10 (Fall 2013). Extracts. {{en}} | ||
; Collected works | ; Collected works | ||
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* ''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. | * ''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. | * ''Arbeitsjournal 1938-1955'', 3 vols., ed. Werner Hecht, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1993. | ||
+ | * ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/26e28436af000f5d27d1dcee7a2da697#0.01 Brecht on Film and Radio]'', ed. & trans. Marc Silberman, Methuen, 2000; Bloomsbury, 2014. {{en}} | ||
* ''Sämtliche Stücke in einem Band'', Komet, 2002. | * ''Sämtliche Stücke in einem Band'', Komet, 2002. | ||
* ''Die Gedichte in einem Band'', Suhrkamp: Frankfurt am Main, 2002. | * ''Die Gedichte in einem Band'', Suhrkamp: Frankfurt am Main, 2002. | ||
− | * ''Poetry and Prose'', ed. Reinhold Grimm with Caroline Molina y Vedia, Continuum, 2003. | + | * ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/f3aff59102aefe3886bfc7f5c972de48#0.01 Poetry and Prose]'', ed. Reinhold Grimm with Caroline Molina y Vedia, Continuum, 2003. {{en}},{{de}} |
+ | * ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/f5603e80e4df049722dab327aee8a331#0.01 Brecht on Art and Politics]'', eds. Tom Kuhn and Steve Giles, Methuen Drama, 2003; Bloomsbury, 2014. {{en}} | ||
+ | * ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/bc8061c92bcb6bfbf6fad29f103cf66f#0.01 The Collected Short Stories]'', intro. Marc Silberman, eds. John Willett and Ralph Manheim, Bloomsbury, 2015. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ; Bibliographies | ||
+ | * [http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/BrechtGuide Brecht's Works in English: A Bibliography], by the International Brecht Society and the Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv. | ||
==Literature== | ==Literature== | ||
− | * 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 | + | * 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. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1124658] {{en}} |
+ | * Martin Esslin, ''Brecht: The Man and His Work'', Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1961, [https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24588901M/ OL]. {{en}} | ||
+ | * 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. {{fr}} | ||
+ | ** "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, [http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/51c5856f6c3a0e090c5f0500]. {{en}} | ||
+ | ** "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. | * Walter Benjamin, ''Versuche über Brecht'', Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1966. | ||
− | ** ''[[Media:Benjamin_Walter_Understanding_Brecht.pdf|Understanding Brecht]]'', London/New York: Verso, 1998. | + | ** ''[[Media:Benjamin_Walter_Understanding_Brecht.pdf|Understanding Brecht]]'', London/New York: Verso, 1998. {{en}} |
− | * Louis Althusser, in ''Écrits philosophiques et politiques. Tome II'', Paris: Stock/IMEC, 1995, pp 541- | + | * 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. {{fr}} |
** [http://theoriealspraxis.blogsport.de/andere/louis-althusser-ueber-brecht-und-marx/ "Über Brecht und Marx"], ''Berliner Debatte'' 4 (2001), pp 52-59. | ** [http://theoriealspraxis.blogsport.de/andere/louis-althusser-ueber-brecht-und-marx/ "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. {{en}} |
− | * E. Etkind, ''Bertolt Brecht'', Leningrad, 1971. | + | * ''[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/German/German-idx?type=browse&scope=German.BrechtYearbook The Brecht Yearbook / Brecht-Jahrbuch]'', International Brecht Society, 1971-2009. 34 vols. {{en}},{{de}} |
− | * Roswitha Mueller, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9521 Bertolt Brecht and the Theory of Media]'', 1989. | + | * E. Etkind, ''Bertolt Brecht'', Leningrad, 1971. {{ru}} |
− | * Fredric Jameson, ''Brecht and Method'', Verso, 1998. | + | * ''Screen'' 16:4: "Brecht Event", London, Winter 1975. [http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/4.toc] {{en}} |
− | * Carol Martin, Henry Bial (eds.), ''[http:// | + | * ''[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/German/German-idx?type=browse&scope=German.BrechtComm Communications from the International Brecht Society]'', International Brecht Society, 1977-93. 34 vols. {{en}},{{multi}} |
+ | * Roswitha Mueller, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9521 Bertolt Brecht and the Theory of Media]'', 1989. {{en}} | ||
+ | * Fredric Jameson, ''Brecht and Method'', Verso, 1998. {{en}} | ||
+ | * Carol Martin, Henry Bial (eds.), ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=CB6BD1F3070D7C0A3AFF4781A1A1CC9D Brecht Sourcebook]'', Routledge, 2000. {{en}} | ||
* Erdmut Wizisla, ''Walter Benjamin und Bertolt Brecht – Die Geschichte einer Freundschaft'', Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 2004. | * Erdmut Wizisla, ''Walter Benjamin und Bertolt Brecht – Die Geschichte einer Freundschaft'', Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 2004. | ||
− | ** ''[http:// | + | ** ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?nametype=orig&md5=6A4160DEA6AB5011B5E4056F86381080&open=0 Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht: The Story of a Friendship]'', trans. Christine Shuttleworth, Yale University Press, 2009. {{en}} |
− | * [http:// | + | * Hubert van den Berg, [http://hdl.handle.net/10593/8643 "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. {{en}} |
− | + | * [http://nonsite.org/issue-10-affect-effect-bertolt-brecht ''Nonsite'' 10: "Affect, Effect, Bertolt Brecht"], Fall 2013. {{en}} | |
− | + | * Stephen Parker, ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/552c446e334fe05073af2a7d Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life]'', Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014. Biography. {{en}} | |
− | * [http:// | ||
− | * [http:// | ||
− | [[Category:Epic theatre | + | [[Category:Epic theatre]] [[Category:Marxist aesthetics]] {{featured article}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Brecht, Bertolt}} |
− | [[Category:Marxist aesthetics |
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February 10, 1898 Augsburg, Bavaria, German Empire (today Germany) |
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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
(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
- 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)
- 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)