International Brecht Society

1)The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 45 (2020) was published in November 2020. See the table of contents here.

2) Call for Articles / Aufruf für Beiträge, BY 47 (2022): "Brecht Post-2020" / "Brecht nach 2020".

3) Das Brecht-Archiv / The Brecht Archive (Berlin)

Check the website of the Brecht Archive at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin: http://www.adk.de/de/archiv/archivabteilungen/bertolt-brecht-archiv/

Here you can also get access to the library holdings of the Brecht-Archive (OPAC) as well as the archival holdings (Archivdatenbank):

https://www.adk.de/de/archiv/bibliothek/archivbibliothek-bertolt-brecht-archiv.htm

New Brecht books

Florian Vassen, "einfach zerscheissen": Brecht-Material. Lyrik - Prosa - Theater - Lehrstück (Milow: Schibri Verlag, 2021)

Anja Hartl, Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama: Dialectical Theatre Today (London: Bloomsbury, 2021)

Brecht probt Galilei. 1955/56. Originaltonaufnahmen, ausgewählt und kommentiert von Stephan Suschke mit einem musikalischen Feature von Joachim Werner (Berlin: speak low-Verlag, 2020).

Jürgen Hillesheim, Das Motiv des Baumes in der Lyrik Bertolt Brechts (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2020).

David Barnett, ed., Bertolt Brecht: Critical and Primary Sources, 3 vols. (London: Bloomsbury, 2020).

Wei Zhang, Chinese Adaptations of Brecht: Appropriation and Intertextuality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Prateek, Brecht in India: The Poetics and Politics of Transcultural Theatre (London: Routledge, 2020).

Darko Suvin, Brecht's Communist Manifesto Today: Poetry, Utopia, Doctrin (Delhi: Aakar Books, 2020)

Questions about performance rights of Brecht's plays should be directed to the German Brecht publisher, Suhrkamp Verlag: suhrkamp.de/theater-verlag/vertragsanfragen_898.html

For English-language performance rights, here.

Brecht's Works in English: A Bibliography

Check this new website with over 4200 entries if you want to know whether there is an English version of Brecht's plays, poems, songs, stories, or essays: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/BrechtGuide/

KURT WEILL FOUNDATION GRANT PROGRAM – Deadline 1 November

Financial support worldwide to not-for-profit organizations for performances of musical works by Kurt Weill and Marc Blitzstein, to individuals and not-for-profit organizations for scholarly research pertaining to Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, and Marc Blitzstein, and to not-for-profit organizations for relevant educational initiatives. For more information, see: https://www.kwf.org/pages/grant-program.html

Announcements

CfP: Brecht, Race, and Capitalism’s Global Crises

German Studies Association

Sept. 30 – Oct. 3, 2021, Indianapolis, IN

Click here for details.

IBS Election

Every two years elections for the steering committee of the International Brecht Society take place. The nominees for 2020 and 2021 have been elected. The next election takes place in November 2021.

Alle zwei Jahre findet die Wahl des Vorstands der Internationalen Brecht-Gesellschaft statt. Die Kandidatenliste für 2020 und 2021 wurde gewählt. Die nächste Wahl findet im November 2021 statt.

President: Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Vice President: Micha Braun (Universität Leipzig, BRD)
Co-editors of 'Communications': Jack Davis (Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri) and Kristopher Imbrigotta (University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington)
Secretary/Treasurer: Sylvia Fischer (Berlin, BRD)