Volume One: Life and Work
Life
The young Brecht
1. Werner Frisch and K.W. Obermeier, âSch¼lerzeitung Die Ernteâ, in Frisch and Obermeier, Brecht in Augsburg. Erinnerungen, Dokumente, Texts, Fotos (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 76)
2. Tom Kuhn, ââJa, damals waren wir Dichterâ: Hanns Otto M¼nsterer, Bertolt Brecht and the Dynamics of Literary Friendship, Brecht Yearbook, 21 (1996)
Brecht and the Weimar Republic
3. Philip Glahn, âSachlichkeitâ, in Glahn, Bertolt Brecht (London: Reaktion, 2014)
Brecht in Exile
4. James K. Lyon, ââChanging Countries More Often Than Shoesâ, in Lyon, Bertolt Brecht in America (London: Methuen, 1982)
Brecht in the GDR
5. Stephen Parker, âA Lifeâs Work Curtailed? The Ailing Brechtâs Struggle with the SED Leadership over GDR Cultural Policyâ, in Laura Bradley and Karen Leeder (eds.), Brecht and the GDR. Politics, Culture, Posterity (Rochester NY: Camden House, 2011)
6. Brecht, â[Eigenarten des Berliner Ensembles 2], in Brecht, Schriften, vol. 3 (Berlin and Frankfurt/Main: Aufbau and Suhrkamp, 1993)
Work
Plays:
Early/Weimar work
7. R. C. Speirs, âBrecht's Plays of the Weimar Periodâ, in Alan F. Bance, (ed.), Weimar Germany: Writers and Politics (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1982)
8. Herbert Ihering, â[Review of Drums in the Night]â, in Monika Wyss, Brecht in der Kritik (Munich: Kindler, 1977)
9. Monty Jacobs, â[Review of The Threepenny Opera]â , in Monika Wyss, Brecht in der Kritik (Munich: Kindler, 1977)
The Lehrst¼cke
10. Brecht, âZur Theorie des Lehrst¼cksâ, in Brecht, Schriften, vol. 2 (Berlin and Frankfurt/Main: Aufbau and Suhrkamp, 1993)
11. Andrzej Wirth, âThe Lehrst¼ck as Performanceâ, The Drama Review, 43: 4 (1999)
12. Durus, â[Review of The Measures Takenâ], in Monika Wyss, Brecht in der Kritik (Munich: Kindler, 1977)
Exile
13. Brecht, âThesen f¼r proletarische Literaturâ, in Brecht, Schriften, vol. 2 (Berlin and Frankfurt/Main: Aufbau and Suhrkamp, 1993)
14. Ehrhard Bahr, âBrechts Episches Theater als Exiltheaterâ, in Alexander Stephan, (ed.); Hans Wagener, (ed.), Schreiben im Exil: Zur sthetik der deutschen Exilliteratur 1933-1945 (Bonn: Bouvier, 1985)
15. Hans Ott, â[Review of Mother Courage and her Children]â , in Monika Wyss, Brecht in der Kritik (Munich: Kindler, 1977)
Return to Germany/Adaptations
16. David Barnett, âAdaptations for the Berliner Ensembleâ, in Brecht, Berliner Ensemble Adaptations (London: Bloomsbury, 2014)
17. Gerhard Wahnrau, â[Review of Mother Courage and her Children]â , in Monika Wyss, Brecht in der Kritik (Munich: Kindler, 1977)
18. Franz Schonauer, â[Review of Coriolan]â , in Monika Wyss, Brecht in der Kritik (Munich: Kindler, 1977)
Fragments
19. Judith Wilke, âThe Making of a Document: An Approach to Brecht's "Fatzer" Fragmentâ, TDR 43: 4 (1999)
Poetry:
City poems
20. David Midgely, âThe Poet in Berlin: Brechtâs City Poetry of the 1920sâ, in Tom Kuhn and Karen Leeder (eds), Empedoclesâ Shoe (London: Methuen, 2002)
Exile poems
21. Tom Kuhn, ââVisit to a Banished Poetâ: Brecht's Svendborg Poems and the Voices of Exileâ in Ronald Speirs (ed.), Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile (Cambridge: Cambridge UP; 2000)
Sonnets
22. David Constantine, âBrechtâs Sonnetsâ, in Tom Kuhn and Karen Leeder (eds), Empedoclesâ Shoe (London: Methuen, 2002)
Later poetry
23. Karl H. Schoeps, âBrecht in Buckow: The Buckow Elegiesâ, Germanic Review, 61, 4 (1986)
Prose:
The novels
24. Klaus-Detlef M¼ller, âDer nichtaristotelische Roman: Brechts Beitrag zum Roma der klassischen Moderneâ, in Robert Gillett and Godela Weiss-Sussex (eds.), âVerwisch die Spuren!â. Bertolt Brechtâs Work and Legacy. A Reassessment (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008)
The short stories
25. Sonia Arribas, âThe Subject Herr Keuner: Towards a Brechtian Ethicsâ, Brecht Yearbook, 35 (2010)
Volume Two: Theory
Negotiating terminology
Epic
1. Fredric Jameson, âEpisch, or, the Third Personâ, in Jameson, Brecht and Method (London: Verso, 1998)
Dialectics
2. David Barnett, âDialectics and the Brechtian Traditionâ, Performance Research, 21:3 (2016)
Verfremdung
3. Brecht, âVerfremdung bestimmter Vorg¤nge durch eine Darstellungsart, die sonst Sitten und Gebr¤uche erfahren w¼rdenâ, in Brecht, Schriften, vol. 2 (Berlin and Frankfurt/Main: Aufbau and Suhrkamp, 1993)
4. Anthony Squiers, âA Critical Response to Heidi M. Silcoxâs âWhatâs Wrong with Alienation?ââ, Philosophy and Literature, 39: 1 (2015)
Gestus
5. Meg Mumford, âGetting the Gist of Gestusâ, in Mumford, Showing the Gestus, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Bristol, 1997
Fabel
6. Brecht, â[Die Fabel]â, in Brecht, Schriften, vol. 3 (Berlin and Frankfurt/Main: Aufbau and Suhrkamp, 1993)
7. Craig Kinzer, âBrecht, the âFableâ, and the Teaching of Directingâ, Brecht Yearbook, 16 (1991)
Historicization
8. Astrid Oesmann, âArt as the Speaker of Historyâ, in Oesmann, Staging History (Albany NY: State University of New York, 2005)
9. Brecht, âWie lerne ich das Lernen?â, in Brecht, Schriften, vol. 2 (Berlin and Frankfurt/Main: Aufbau and Suhrkamp, 1993)
Naivety
10. Karl-Heinz Schoeps, âFrom Distancing Alienation to Intuitive Naivet©: Bertolt Brechtâs Establishment of a New Aesthetic Categoryâ, Monatshefte, 81: 2 (1989)
Major theoretical writings
11. John J. White, âOn the Sociology of Operaâ (pp. 31-50) and âScheming Brechtâ (pp. 50-66), in White, Bertolt Brechtâs Dramatic Theory (Rochester NY: Camden House, 2004).
The Messingkauf/Buying Brass
12. Martin Puchner, The drama of ideas : platonic provocations in theater and philosophy
(New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
Me-ti
13. Antony Tatlow, âIntroductionâ in Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti: Book of Interventions in the Flow of Things - to be edited by David Barnett
Theatre Work
14. Detlev Sch¶ttker, âBrechts Theaterarbeit: Ein Grundlagenwerk und seine Ausgrenzungenâ, Weimarer Beitr¤ge, 53: 3 (2007)
Brecht and other media
Radio
15. Patrick Primavesi, âApparat ohne Zuschauer? Zur Dekonstruktion des Mediums in Brechts Ozeanflugâ, Brecht Yearbook, 24 (1999)
Film
16. Angelos Koutsourakis, âUtilizing the âIdeological Antiquityâ: Rethinking Brecht and Film Theoryâ Monatshefte, 107: 2 (2015)
Music
17. Kim H. Kowalke, âBrecht and Music: Theory and Practiceâ, in Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, second edition (Cambridge: CUP, 2006)
Brecht in the information age
18. Dorothee Ostmeier, âBertolt Brecht and the Internetâ, Brecht Yearbook, 26 (2001)
The play of ideas
The Bible
19. G. Ronald Murphy, Brecht and the Bible: A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama Mortality and the City (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1980)
Shakespeare
20. David Barnett, âBrecht as Great Shakespearean: A Lifelong Connectionâ, in Ruth Morse (ed.), Great Shakespeareans, vol. 14 (London: Bloomsbury, 2013)
Marxism, Productivity and Usefulness
Capitalism
21. Oesmann, Astrid, âTracing the crimes of capitalism: from Mahagonny to Nazi Germanyâ, Brecht Yearbook, 29 (2004)
The natural sciences
22. Katharina Brinkert, âBrecht und die Naturwissenschaften â" die Naturwissenschaften und Brecht?â, in Christian Hippe and Volker I?brucker (eds.), Brecht und Naturwissenschaften (Berlin: Verbrecher, 2017)
Thought from the Far East
23. Markus Wessendorf, âBrechtâs Materialist Ethics between Confucianism and Mohismâ Philosophy East and West, 66: 1 (2016)
Genre:
Comedy/humour
24. Ralf Simon, âZur poetisches Anthropologie der Kom¶die in Brechts Messingkaufâ, Brecht Yearbook, 24 (1999)
25. Brecht, âOn Humourâ, in Brecht, Bertolt Brechtâs Me-ti (London: Bloomsbury, 2016)
Tragedy
26. Sean Carney, âModern Tragedyâ and âBrechtian Tragedyâ, in Carney, Brecht and Critical Theory (London: Routledge, 2005)
Gendered performance/feminism
27. Elin Diamond, âBrechtian Theory/ Feminist Theory: Toward a Gestic Feminist Criticismâ, TDR 32: 1 (1988)
Post-colonial Brecht
28. Marc Silberman, âA Postcolonial Brecht?â, Brecht Yearbook, 36 (2011)
Volume Three: Practice
Brecht as theatre director and documenter
Weimar Republic
1. Edward Braun, âBrechtâs Formative Yearsâ, in Braun, The Director and the Stage (London: Methuen, 1982)
Switzerland/GDR/Berliner Ensemble
2. Bruno C. Duarte, âRhythm and Structure: Brechtâs Antigone in performanceâ, Performance Philosophy, 2: 2 (2017) online
3. Brecht, â[Originale Auffassungen zu Brechtst¼cken]â, in Brecht, Schriften, vol. 3 (Berlin and Frankfurt/Main: Aufbau and Suhrkamp, 1993)
4. David Barnett, âUndogmatic Marxism. Brecht as Director at the Berliner Ensembleâ, in Laura Bradley and Karen Leeder (eds.), Brecht and the GDR. Politics, Culture, Posterity (Rochester NY: Camden House, 2011)
Brecht and the actor
5. Brecht, âAnweisungen and die Schauspielerâ, in Brecht, Schriften, vol. 2 (Berlin and Frankfurt/Main: Aufbau and Suhrkamp, 1993)
6. John Rouse, âBrecht and the Contradictory Actorâ, Theatre Journal, 36: 1 (1984)
Brecht and documentation
Modelbooks
7. Kristopher Imbrigotta, âCouragemodell: Detail and Arrangement of a Model Bookâ, in Imbrigotta, Framing Brecht: Photography and Experiment in the Modellb¼cher, âArbeitsjournaleâ, and âKriegsfibelâ, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Madison, Wisconsin
8. Photography/the image
Tom Kuhn, âWas besagt eine Fotografie?â Early Brechtian Perspectives on Photographyâ, Brecht Yearbook, 31 (2006)
Brechtâs relationships with practitioners
Erwin Piscator
Caspar Neher
9. Susanne de Ponte, âStilmittel einer B¼hne Caspar Nehers f¼r das epische Theater von Brechtâ, in de Ponte, Caspar Neher. Bertolt Brecht. Eine B¼hne f¼r das epische Theater (Munich: Henschel, 2006)
Helene Weigel
10. Brecht, âHelene Weigelâ, in Brecht, Schriften, vol. 2 (Berlin and Frankfurt/Main: Aufbau and Suhrkamp, 1993)
11. Patrick Primavesi, âGestalt und Entstaltung der Weigel in Texten Brechtsâ, Brecht Yearbook, 25 (2000)
Karl Korsch
12. Douglas Kellner, âBrecht's Marxist Aesthetic: The Korsch Connectionâ, Betty Nance Weber, Hubert Heinen, Iring Fetscher, and Frank Trommler, Bertolt Brecht: Political Theory and Literary Practice (Athens; U of Georgia P; 1980)
Walter Benjamin
13. Erdmut Wizisla, âWalter Benjamin und Bertolt Brecht: Bericht ¼ber eine Konstellationâ, in Robert Gillett and Godela Weiss-Sussex (eds.), âVerwisch die Spuren!â. Bertolt Brechtâs Work and Legacy. A Reassessment (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008)
Kurt Weill
14. Michael Morley, ââSuiting the Action to the Wordâ: Some Observations on Gestus and Gestische Musikâ, in Kim H. Kowalke (ed.), A New Orpheus: Essays on Kurt Weill (New Haven: Yale UP, 1986)
Hanns Eisler
15. Albrecht D¼mling, âEisler/Brecht oder Brecht/Eisler?â, in Albrecht Riethm¼ller (ed.), Brecht und seine Komponisten (Laaber: Laaber, 2000)
Paul Dessau
16. Paul Dessau and Hella Freud Bernays, âComposing for BB: Some Commentsâ, TDR, 12: 2 (1968)
Brechtâs female collaborators
17. Sabine Kebir, âOpferhaltung oder Tarnung? Die Bescheidenheit der Elisabeth Hauptmannâ, in Kebir, Ich fragte nicht nach meinem Anteil. Elisabeth Hauptmanns Arbeit mit Bertolt Brecht (Berlin: Aufbau, 1997)
18. Wolfgang Jeske, ââ...jetzt habe ich ihm wieder Fl¶he ins Ohr gesetztâ: Anmerkungen zu Margarete Steffin, âHauslektorinâ bei Brechtâ, Brecht Yearbook, 19 (1994)
19. Grischa Meyer, âBerlau fotografiert bei Brecht--eine Zusammenarbeit (mehr oder weniger)â, Brecht Yearbook, 30 (2005)
Brechtâs assistants in the theatre
20. Brecht, âAushang [3]â, in Brecht, Schriften, vol. 3 (Berlin and Frankfurt/Main: Aufbau and Suhrkamp, 1993)
21. Interviews with Claus and Wera K¼chenmeister and with Egon Monk, in Joachim Lang and J¼rgen Hillesheim (eds.), âDenken hei?t ver¤ndernâ¦â. Erinnerungen an Brecht (Augsburg: Maro, 1997)
Global Brecht
Europe
22. David W. Price, âThe Politics of the Body: Pina Bausch's âTanztheaterââ, Theatre Journal, 42: 3 (1990)
23. Agnieszka Karch, âTheatre for the People: The Impact of Brechtian Theory on the Production and Performance of 1789 by Ariane Mnouchkineâs Theatre du Soleilâ, Opticon1826, 10 (2011), online
Asia
24. Antony Tatlow, âBrecht's East Asiaâ, Brecht Yearbook, 36 (2011)
25. Amal Allana, âBrecht: A Participant in the Process of Nation-Buildingâ, Brecht Yearbook, 36 (2011)
Africa
26. Brian Crow, âAfrican Brechtâ, Research in African Literatures, 40: 2 (2009)
North America
27. Peter W. Ferran, âNew Measures for Brecht in Americaâ, Theater,; 25: 2 (1994)
South America
28. Diane Taylor, âBrecht and Latin America's âTheatre of Revolutionââ, in Carol Martin and Henry Bial (eds.), Brecht Sourcebook (London: Routledge, 2000)
29. Steven K. Smith, âActivist theater: from Brecht through Boalâ, Brecht Yearbook, 30 (2005)
