International Brecht Society

1) The IBS is planning its 17th Symposium in Tel Aviv (Israel) from Dec. 11-16, 2022. CfP in English and in German available here. Submissions due Feb. 28, 2022.

2)The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 46 (2021) will be published in November 2021. Click here for details.

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

4) Interview mit dem Brecht-Meisterschüler B.K. Tragelehn hier zu sehen (91 Minuten, auf deutsch).

New Brecht books

Susanne Schmieden, Paradoxa über Politik und Theater (Transcript Verlag, 2021: open access)

Georges Didi-Huberman, Imaginer recommencer (Paris: Fabula, 2021)

Dieter Henning, Zu politischen Positionierungen bei Bertolt Brecht (Königshausen & Neumann, 2021)

Frank D. Wagner, Brecht als Philosoph (Königshausen & Neumann, 2021)

Bertolt Brecht: Notizbücher 16-20 (1924-26), hrsg. von Martin Koelbel und Peter Villwock (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2021).

Stephen Brockmann, ed.: Bertolt Brecht in Context (New York/London: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

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

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

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 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.

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

The IBS is organizing Baustelle Brecht/Müller IV at the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus Berlin on Dec. 2-3, 2021. Deadline for proposals is Sept. 1, 2021. Read the CfP in German & English here.

The IBS is sponsoring a panel on Brecht and the Police at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, scheduled for Jan. 6-9, 2022, in Washington DC. Session 582 is scheduled as a virtual session on Sat., Jan. 8, 5:15-6:30 pm.

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/December 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/Dezember 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)