Volume 45 is focused on the theme "Brecht Among Strangers," with
articles on a range of artists who engage(d) with Brecht from
perspectives involving being a stranger, strangeness, or being
estranged.
Published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House, the
Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of
Brecht's life and work and of topics of particular interest to him,
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 use value of literature,
theater, and theory.
Volume 45 is the first of two volumes dedicated to the proceedings of
the 16th Symposium of the IBS, "Brecht Among Strangers," held at Leipzig
University in 2019. It features three sections: "Among
Strangers-Brecht's Figures of Strangeness," "From East to West and Vice
Versa-Geographic Interconnections," and "Global Estrangements-Brecht in
the Age of Globalization." The articles cover a wide range of artists
who engage(d) with Brecht and his work from such thematic perspectives
-- including Benno Besson, Arvind Gaur, Meng Jinghui, Mei Lan-fang,
Peter Lorre, Koreya Senda, SIGNA, Konrad Swinarski, and Sergei Tretyakov
-- and link them to questions of alterity, dramaturgy, Gestus/gestures,
pedagogy, realism, and singularity. The contributors include Gerda
Baumbach, Aurélien Bellucci, Veronika Darian, Rico Dietzmeyer, Helen
Fehervary, Zbigniew Feliszewski, Francesco Fiorentino, Anna Häusler,
Günther Heeg, Eiichiro Hirata, Torben Ibs, Anja Klöck, Nikolaus
Müller-Schöll, Astrid Oesmann, Patrick Primavesi, Tanja Prokic,
Christoph Püngel, Kevin Rittberger, Sergei Romashko, Franziska Schubert,
Melanie Selfe, Leonie Sowa, Kai Tuchmann, Lydia White, Noah Willumsen,
and others.
