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'''Bertolt Brecht''' (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, 10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, theatre director, and Marxist. | '''Bertolt Brecht''' (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, 10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, theatre director, and Marxist. | ||
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* ''Poetry and Prose'', ed. Reinhold Grimm with Caroline Molina y Vedia, Continuum, 2003. (in English and German) | * ''Poetry and Prose'', ed. Reinhold Grimm with Caroline Molina y Vedia, Continuum, 2003. (in English and German) | ||
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* 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. (in English). Excerpts of the lecture ''Théatre epique et théatre dramatique'' given at the Sorbonne in the Spring of 1960. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1124658] | * 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. (in English). Excerpts of the lecture ''Théatre epique et théatre dramatique'' given at the Sorbonne in the Spring of 1960. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1124658] | ||
* Walter Benjamin, ''Versuche über Brecht'', Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1966. | * Walter Benjamin, ''Versuche über Brecht'', Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1966. | ||
Revision as of 01:27, 20 June 2014
Bertolt Brecht (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, 10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, theatre director, and Marxist.
Works
(in German unless noted)
- By Brecht
- "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. (in 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.
- 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. (in English and German)
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. (in English). Excerpts of the lecture Théatre epique et théatre dramatique given at the Sorbonne in the Spring of 1960. [2]
- Walter Benjamin, Versuche über Brecht, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1966.
- Understanding Brecht, London/New York: Verso, 1998. (in English)
- Louis Althusser, in Écrits philosophiques et politiques. Tome II, Paris: Stock/IMEC, 1995, pp 541-556. (in French). Talk given at the Piccolo Teatro de Milan on 1 April 1968.
- "Über Brecht und Marx", Berliner Debatte 4 (2001), pp 52-59.
- "Das Piccolo Teatro – Bertolazzi und Brecht. Bemerkungen über ein materialistisches Theater", in Althusser, Für Marx, Frankfurt am Main, 2011.
- E. Etkind, Bertolt Brecht, Leningrad, 1971. (in Russian)
- Roswitha Mueller, Bertolt Brecht and the Theory of Media, 1989. (in English)
- Fredric Jameson, Brecht and Method, Verso, 1998. (in English)
- Carol Martin, Henry Bial (eds.), Brecht Sourcebook, Routledge, 2000. (in 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. (in English)
- "Brecht Dossier: Six Essays on Painting and Theater", Nonsite 10 (Sep 2013). (in English). Extracts.
