Annual volume with contributions on writers and artists whose work
intersects with Brecht's from three thematic perspectives: Brecht in a
global age, women and Brecht, and Brecht's learning plays.
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, like Brecht himself, is committed to the concept of the use
value of literature, theater, and theory.
This is the second volume dedicated to the proceedings of the 16th
Symposium of the IBS, held at Leipzig University in 2019. The
contributions discuss artists whose work intersects with Brecht's from
three thematic perspectives: Brecht in a global age, women and Brecht,
and Brecht's learning plays. The artists include Utpal Dutt, Elisabeth
Hauptmann, Elfriede Jelinek, Peter Konwitschny, Siegfried Kracauer, Tom
Kühnel, Jürgen Kuttner, Heiner Müller, Rimini Protokoll, Margarete
Steffin, Teatro Due Mondi, Teatro Máquina, Tom Tykwer, and Hella
Wuolijoki. The articles cover a broad range of genres and topics, such
as crime and detective fiction; neo-noir television series; the learning
play according to and after Brecht; theater pedagogy; the migration
dilemma; and post-dramatic, refugee, and transcultural theater.
