'Verwisch die Spuren!''. Bertolt Brecht's Work and Legacy: A Reassessment. (Amsterdamer Beitrage zur Neueren Germanistik)

369 Pages·2008·2.93 MB·English

by  Robert Gillett

“Verwisch die Spuren!”
Bertolt Brecht’s Work
and Legacy
A Reassessment
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Herausgegeben von
Norbert Otto Eke
Martha B. Helfer
Gerhard P. Knapp
Gerd Labroisse
“Verwisch die Spuren!”
Bertolt Brecht’s Work
and Legacy
A Reassessment
Edited by
Robert Gillett and Godela Weiss-Sussex
Amsterdam - New York, NY 2008
Die 1972 gegründete Reihe erscheint seit 1977 in zwangloser Folge in der
Form von Thema-Bänden mit jeweils verantwortlichem Herausgeber.
Reihen-Herausgeber:
Prof. Dr. Norbert Otto Eke
Universität Paderborn
Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, Warburger Str. 100, D - 33098 Paderborn,
Deutschland, E-Mail: [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Martha B. Helfer
Rutgers University
172 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel.: [phone], Fax: [phone], E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Gerhard P. Knapp
University of Utah
Dept. of Languages and Literature, 255 S. Central Campus Dr. Rm. 1400
Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Tel.: [phone], Fax [phone] (dienstl.)
bzw. Tel./Fax: [phone] (privat) E-Mail: [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Gerd Labroisse
Sylter Str. 13A, 14199 Berlin, Deutschland
Tel./Fax: [phone] E-Mail: [email protected]
Cover:
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Contents
Acknowledgements 7
Abbreviations 9
Introductory Note 11
Klaus-Detlef Müller (Tübingen): Der antiaristotelische Roman:
Brechts Beitrag zum Roman der klassischen Moderne 13
Peter Hutchinson (Cambridge): Uncomfortable, Unsettling,
Alienating: Brecht’s Poetry of the Unexpected 33
Martin Swales (London): “Theatre that shows…”? Reflections on
Brecht’s Importance as a Dramatist 49
Ernest Schonfield(London): Brecht and the Modern Picaresque 57
Marielle Sutherland(London): Brecht’s Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit:
A Stück Coming Unstuck? 77
Michael Patterson(Leicester): Brecht’s Debt to Theatrical
Expressionism 93
Frank Krause (London): Von Kaiser zu Brecht: Drama und Prosa 101
Steve Giles(Nottingham): Photography and Representation in
Kracauer, Brecht and Benjamin 115
Erdmut Wizisla(Berlin): Walter Benjamin und Bertolt Brecht:
Bericht über eine Konstellation 127
Ulrike Zitzlsperger(Exeter): Bertolt Brecht: Stadtraum und
Architektur 141
Andrew Webber(Cambridge): “Unbewohnbar und doch
unverlaßbar”: Brecht in and through Berlin 153
Tom Kuhn(Oxford): Poetry and Photography: Mastering Reality in
the Kriegsfibel 169
Ronald Speirs(Birmingham): Poetry in Dark Times: Brecht’s
Svendborger Gedichte 191
John White and Ann White(London): The Songs and Poems of
Brecht’s Furcht und ElendComplex 205
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Hans-Harald Müller(Hamburg): Brechts Leben des Galilei: Eine
Interpretation zweier Dramen 227
Stephen Parker(Manchester): Brecht and Sinn und Form:
Generating Cultural Capital in the Cold War 239
David Midgley(Cambridge): “Zwei Hände Erde”: Brecht on
Mortality 261
Karen Leeder(Oxford): “Des toten Dichters gedenkend”:
Remembering Brecht in Contemporary German Poetry 277
Martin Brady(London): Brecht in Brechtian Cinema 295
Godela Weiss-Sussex(London): “A Ridiculous Thing to Do”:
Yvonne Kapp and Brecht in Translation 309
Robert Gillett(London): Iconoclast or Acolyte? GG Plays BB 321
Authors in this Volume 345
Index 351
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Acknowledgements
This volume originated in a conference held at the University of London Institute
of Germanic & Romance Studies in February 2006. Thanks are due to Jane
Lewin, whose work in the preparation and organization of this conference was
invaluable, and to all who attended the conference for the animated and fruitful
discussions which have fed into several of the essays presented here.
The editors also wish to thank Michael Minden for his helpful comments
and Marielle Sutherland for her thorough and efficient proofreading. Both have
helped in important ways to bring about the final shape of the book.
For permission to print material from the Bertolt Brecht Archive we thank
the Bertolt Brecht Erben and the Suhrkamp Verlag.
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Abbreviations
BBA Bertolt Brecht Archiv
BFA Bertolt Brecht: Werke. Große kommentierte Berliner und
Frankfurter Ausgabe. Hg. von Werner Hecht, Jan Knopf, Werner
Mittenzwei und Klaus-Detlef Müller. 30 Bde. Berlin – Weimar:
Aufbau / Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1988–2000.
WBGB Walter Benjamin: Gesammelte Briefe. Hg. von Christoph Gödde
und Henri Lonitz. 6 Bde. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp
1995–2000.
WBGS Walter Benjamin: Gesammelte Schriften. Hg. von Rolf Tiedemann
und Hermann Schweppenhäuser. 7 Bde; in 14 Teilbänden.
Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1972–1989.