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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) -- Professor Peter Davies Chair of Modern German Studies Division of European Languages and Cultures University of Edinburgh David Hume Tower George Square Edinburgh EH8 9JX Tel: 0131 650 3632 [log in to unmask] -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.