Volume 45 is focused on the theme "Brecht Among Strangers," with articles on a range of artists who engage(d) with Brecht from perspectives involving being a stranger, strangeness, or being estranged. Published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House, the Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of Brecht's life and work and of topics of particular interest to him, especially the politics of literature and of theater in a global context. It includes a wide variety of perspectives and approaches and, like Brecht himself, is committed to the use value of literature, theater, and theory. Volume 45 is the first of two volumes dedicated to the proceedings of the 16th Symposium of the IBS, "Brecht Among Strangers," held at Leipzig University in 2019. It features three sections: "Among Strangers-Brecht's Figures of Strangeness," "From East to West and Vice Versa-Geographic Interconnections," and "Global Estrangements-Brecht in the Age of Globalization." The articles cover a wide range of artists who engage(d) with Brecht and his work from such thematic perspectives - including Benno Besson, Arvind Gaur, Meng Jinghui, Mei Lan-fang, Peter Lorre, Koreya Senda, SIGNA, Konrad Swinarski, and Sergei Tretyakov - and link them to questions of alterity, dramaturgy, Gestus/gestures, pedagogy, realism, and singularity. The contributors include Gerda Baumbach, Aurelien Bellucci, Veronika Darian, Rico Dietzmeyer, Helen Fehervary, Zbigniew Feliszewski, Francesco Fiorentino, Anna Hausler, Gunther Heeg, Eiichiro Hirata, Torben Ibs, Anja Kloeck, Nikolaus Muller-Schoell, Astrid Oesmann, Patrick Primavesi, Tanja Prokic, Christoph Pungel, Kevin Rittberger, Sergei Romashko, Franziska Schubert, Melanie Selfe, Leonie Sowa, Kai Tuchmann, Lydia White, Noah Willumsen, and others.

About the Author
MARKUS WESSENDORF is a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in Honolulu. GUENTHER HEEG is the director of the Centre of Competence for Theatre (CCT) and a Professor Emeritus of Theater Studies at the University of Leipzig. VERA STEGMANN is Associate Professor of German at Lehigh University. MICHA BRAUN is a theater scholar and research manager at the University of Leipzig. OLIVIA LANDRY is Associate Professor of German in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.


Book Information
ISBN 9780985195687
Author Professor Markus Wessendorf
Format Paperback
Page Count 390
Imprint Camden House Inc
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g