Alongside the usual wide-ranging lineup of research articles, volume 41
features an interview with Berliner Ensemble actor Annemone Haase and an
extensive special section on teaching Brecht.
Now published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House, the
Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of Bertolt
Brecht's life and work and of topics of particular interest to Brecht,
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 concept of the use value of
literature, theater, and theory.
Volume 41 features an interview with longtime Berliner Ensemble actor
Annemone Haase by Margaret Setje-Eilers. A special section on teaching
Brecht, guest-edited by Per Urlaub and Kristopher Imbrigotta, includes
articles on creative appropriation in the foreign-language classroom
(Caroline Weist), satire in Arturo Ui and The Great Dictator (Ari
Linden), performative discussion (Cohen Ambrose), Brecht for theater
majors (Daniel Smith), teaching performance studies with the Lehrstück
model (Ian Maxwell), Verfremdung and ethics (Elena Pnevmonidou), Brecht
on the college stage (Julie Klassen and Ruth Weiner), and methods of
teaching Brechtian Stückschreiben (Gerd Koch). Other research articles
focus on Harry Smith's Mahagonny (Marc Silberman), inhabiting empathy in
the contemporary piece Temping (James Ball), Brecht's appropriation of
Kurt Lewin's psychology (Ines Langemeyer), and Brecht's collaborations
with women, both across his career (Helen Fehervary) and in exile in
Skovsbostrand (Katherine Hollander).
Editor Theodore F. Rippey is Associate Professor of German at Bowling
Green State University.
