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Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

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This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation-effects in directing, acting, and writing, and discusses, among other works, The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, and Galileo. Also included is "A Short Organum for the Theatre," Brecht's most complete exposition of his revolutionary philosophy of drama.

Translated and edited by John Willett, Brecht on Theater is essential to an understanding of one of the twentieth century's most influential dramatists.

Mother Courage and Her Children (Penguin Classics)

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Mother Courage and Her Children is a classic in the repertory of Western theater. Written in response to the outbreak of World War II, this "chronicle play" of the Thirty Years War follows one of Brecht's most enduring characters, Courage, as she trails the armies across Europe, selling provisions from her canteen wagon. However, Courage pays the highest price of all. One by one, her children are devoured by violence, but she will not give up her livelihood-the wagon and the war.
The Threepenny Opera (Penguin Classics)

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Brutal, scandalous, perverted, yet humorous, hummable, and with a happy ending- Bertolt Brecht's revolutionary masterpiece The Threepenny Opera is a landmark of modern drama that has become embedded in the Western cultural imagination. Through the love story of Polly Peachum and "Mack the Knife" Macheath, the play satirizes the bourgeois of the Weimar Republic, revealing a society at the height of decadence and on the verge of chaos. Complemented with music by Kurt Weill, it was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz into the theater, and the song "Mack the Knife" became one of the most popular and widely recorded songs of the twentieth century.
Wir wissen, daß wir Vorläufige sind Zu Bertold Brecht (German Edition)

Horn Publishers

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„Doch die am ärgsten brennen / Haben keinen, der drum weint” 1
Die Verleugnung der Emotion in den frühen Gedichten Brechts. 2
„Und sie träumen von dem Baum, daß der unsterblich sei.” (31f) 18
Der Tod in Brechts frühen Gedichten 18
„Was für ein Glück für die Regierenden, daß die Menschen nicht denken” (Adolf Hitler). 32
„Wir wissen, daß wir Vorläufige sind Und nach uns wird kommen: Nichts Nennenswertes.” 44
Die Großstadt bei Bertolt Brecht 44
Der Begriff des Individuums in Brechts Drama und Dramentheorie 71
„Es schmeckt mir.” 100
Brechts Baal als Initiationsreise. 100
„Jeder Mann ist der beste Mann in seiner Haut” 121
Revolution und Individuum in Brechts Trommeln in der Nacht 121
„Der unerklärliche Ringkampf zweier Menschen” 136
Überleben als sportliche Leistung in Brechts Im Dickicht der Städte 136
Das Individuum verliert seine „Unteilbarkeit” durch seine ”Zuteilbarkeit”: 154
Zu Brechts „Mann ist Mann” 154
Der „Einzug der Menschheit in die großen Städte” 174
Bertolt Brechts Oper Mahagonny 174
Vorgeschichte und Utopie in der Parabel: ,Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti' 185
Episches Theater und Komödie 185
Ausstellung der Widersprüche in der Figurenspaltung 187
Vermittlung der Widersprüche im Spiel 187
Verfremdung der Entfremdung: ,Der gute Mensch von Sezuan' 190
1. Schwierigkeiten mit der Parabel 190
2. Die Rolle der Götter 191
Die Personenspaltung 193
Der ,offene' Schluß 194
Die Tuis von Weimar 196
Zu Brechts Fragmentarischen Tui-Roman 196
Die Wahrheit ist konkret 216
Bertolt Brechts Maßnahme und die Frage der Parteidisziplin 216
Bibliographie 245
Peter Horn war Professor an der Universität Kapstadt und ist seit seiner Emeritierung Professorial Research Associate an der Universität Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
Er forscht zur neueren deutschen Literatur, vor allem zu Kleist (z.B. Verbale Gewalt oder Kleist auf der Couch. Über die Problematik der Psychoanalyse von literarischen Texten. Athena Verlag 2009) Als Kindle Buch ist die Neuauflage von Heinrich von Kleists Erzählungen. Scriptor 1978 erhältlich. Demnächst: Kleist-Chronik. Athenäum 1980. Weitere Buchpublikationen: Im Liede wehet ihr Geist. Hölderlins Späte Hymnen. Athena Verlag 2012. Die Garne der Fischer der Irrsee. Zur Lyrik von Paul Celan. Athena Verlag 2011. Mit Anette Horn, „Ich lerne sehen“ Zu Rilkes Lyrik. Athena Verlag 2010
Mit Anette Horn (Hrsg.), Das Wissen der Weltbürger. Athena Verlag 2008
Writing my Reading. Essays on Literary Politics in South Africa. Amsterdam/Atlanta 1994. Kap der Guten Hoffnung. Gedichte aus dem Südafrikanischen Widerstand. Übersetzt und eingeleitet von Peter Horn. Athenäum 1980.
Außerdem veröffentlichte er Aufsätze zur Gegenwartsliteratur (als Kindle Buch: Das immer schon schwindende Bewußtsein und die Konstruktion des Seins), zur 68er Generation ( "Was verboten ist, stimmt. Was verboten ist, das bist du selber."), zu Kafka ( Der Sprache, der Macht entkommen),
Zu Walter Benjamin (Das Antlitz der Vergangenheit zugewendet), zu Brecht (Wir wissen, daß wir Vorläufige sind), zu Robert Musil, zu Christa Wolf (Gierig auf den Aschegeschmack der Worte), zur Kolonialliteratur (Die Fremden spielen mit.) und zur deutschen Klassik. Viele Aufsätze in Zeitschriften und Sammelbänden (z.B. zu Kant, Schopenhauer, Schiller, Jean Paul, Büchner, Ingeborg Bachmann, Uwe Timm, F.C.Delius usw.)
Peter Horn ist auch ein bekannter südafrikanischer Dichter.



Brecht Collected Plays: 2: Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins (World Classics) (Vol 2)

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Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.

This second volume of Brecht's Collected Plays brings together some of his most glittering Berlin successes including The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The Seven Deadly Sins, Man Equals Man and The Elephant Calf. The Threepenny Opera is the story of the mercurial beggar turned entrepeneur Peachum and his battles with the criminal Mac 'the Knife'; Mahagonny, an operatic satire on the search for an American capitalist utopia; The Seven Deadly Sins is a ballet with songs that predicts the downfall of the petty bourgeosie and was first performed as the Nazis planned their book burning exercise. Man equals Man is an exploration of the theory of equality and The Elephant Calf is a play within a play based on an Indian folk story.

The translators include W H Auden and Chester Kallman, Ralph Manheim, Gerhard Nellhaus and John Willett. The translations are ideal for both study and performance. The volume is accompanied by a full introduction and notes by the series editor John Willett and includes Brecht's own notes and relevant texts as well as all the important textual variants.


Brecht Collected Plays: 4: Round and Pointed Heads;Fear and Misery;S. Carrar's Rifles;Trial of Lucull;Dansen;How Much Is Your Iron? (World Classics)

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The long-awaited volume of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930's


Volume 4 of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930's, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as in Brecht's own life. Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in the Germany Brecht had to leave in 1933. The Trial of Lucullus, a starkly pacifist text originally written in response to a commission from Swedish radio, portrays the Roman general tried by the Underworld for his military triumphs. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, unique in Brecht's work, consists of some thirty short scenes of life under the Nazis between 1933 and 1938, designed for use by groups in exile. Señora Carrara's Rifles is based on J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea, but relocated by Brecht in the Spanish Civil War. Also included are two one-act plays, Dansen and How Much is Your Iron?, minor works designed for amateurs in Scandinavia, where the Brechts lived till spring 1941.

The volume includes an introduction and notes by Tom Kuhn and John Willett, as well as Brecht's own notes on the texts.



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