Dear colleagues
We are delighted to announce the publication of vol 5 of the Edinburgh
German Yearbook:
Brecht and the GDR: Politics, Culture, Posterity
ed. by Laura Bradley and Karen Leeder
Camden House, ISBN 9781571134929
£40
More details of this and earlier volumes available at:
http://www.camden-house.com/store/viewitem.asp?idproduct=13769
Contents:
Introduction (Laura Bradley)
I. Brecht in the GDR
Undogmatic Marxism: Brecht Rehearses at the Berliner Ensemble (David Barnett)
Lateness and Late Style in Brecht's Last Poetry (Karen Leeder)
A Life's Work Curtailed? The Ailing Brecht's Struggle with the SED
Leadership over GDR Cultural Policy (Stephen Parker)
Brecht and 17 June 1953: A Reassessment (Patrick Harkin)
II. The Management of Brecht's Legacy
Private or Public? The Bertolt Brecht Archive as an Object of Desire
(Erdmut Wizisla)
Remembering Brecht: Anniversaries at the Berliner Ensemble (Laura Bradley)
Brecht's Dependable Disciple in the GDR: Elisabeth Hauptmann (Paula Hanssen)
III. Creative Responses to Brecht's work
Musical Threnodies for Brecht (Joy H. Calico)
The Legacy of Brecht in East German Political Song (David Robb)
Fatzer's Footprints: Brecht's Fatzer and the GDR Theater (Moray McGowan)
Reviving Saint Joan of the Stockyards: Speculation and Solidarity in
the Era of Capitalism Resurgent (Loren Kruger)
Earlier volumes of Edinburgh German yearbook:
Vol 1: Cultural Exchange in German Literature (ed. Eleoma Joshua and
Robert Vilain)
Vol 2: Masculinity and German Culture (ed. Sarah Colvin and Peter Davies)
Vol 3: Constructions of Cultural Heritage in the GDR (ed. Matthew
Philpotts and Sabine Rolle)
Vol 4: Disability in German Literature, Film and Theatre (Ed. Eleoma
Joshua nd Michael Schillmeier)
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Professor Peter Davies
Chair of Modern German Studies
Division of European Languages and Cultures
University of Edinburgh
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George Square
Edinburgh
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