This volume of the Brecht Yearbook brings together new insights into Brecht's sources as well as new interpretations of his writings and updates on his reception. Biographical contributions include a letter from Brecht's daughter Barbara Brecht-Schall, a conversation with friends of Brecht's collaborator Hanns Eisler, and newly identified background material to Fear and Misery in the Third Reich. Reports on Brecht's reception cover a staging of Galileo at the Berlin Ensemble, a modernized version of Die Massnahme in Frankfurt/Main under the title Das Kontigent, and Brecht in Australia. Critical interpretations range from performance issues such as Gestus, masks, and staging gender to close readings of poems and plays to more general reflections on Brecht's relationship to modernism, the philosophical dimension of his theater practice, and his presence in the internet. The volume closes with reviews of recent scholarly publications about Brecht and twentieth-century theater.

Distributed for the International Brecht Socity
In English and German
ISSN 0734-8665