Bertolt Brecht - Böcker

Bertolt Brechts Krigets ABC , som första gången utgavs 1955, är ett försök att lära ut "konsten att läsa bilder", att göra det möjligt att navigera och kritiskt reflektera över krigets mediala bildflöde. Därför vikten av ett montagearbet...

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Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) blev i 1920-talets Tyskland känd som fränt radikal lyriker och dramatiker. Efter Hitlers maktövertagande tvingades han lämna landet och under åren 1933–1947 levde han i exil, fö...

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No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies ...

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Unter Brechts bekannten, vielgelesenen und vielgespielten Werken ist dies das bekannteste und meistzitierte. Zupackende Spielhandlung, aggressiver Witz und Kurt Weills Musik haben hier auf Dauer einen Nimbus geschaffen, wie ihn nur wenige Texte de...

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In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by o...

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Even in Germany, the scope and force of Bertolt Brechts poetry did not become apparent until long after his death and today, many of his more than 2,000 poems have never appeared in English. Love Poems, the first volume in a monumental undertaking...

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Bertolt Brecht (1898?1956) blev i 1920-talets Tyskland känd som fränt radikal lyriker och dramatiker. Efter Hitlers maktövertagande tvingades han lämna landet och under åren 1933?1947 levde han i exil, först i Danmark, sedan i Sverige och slutlige...

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In 1952, Hannah Arendt hailed Bertolt Brecht as "beyond a doubt the greatest living German poet and possibly the greatest living European playwright." His plays, widely taught and studied, are searing critiques of civilizations run amok....

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Die Bände der Reihe EinFach Deutsch ... verstehen beziehen sich auf traditionelle und¿moderne literarische Werke, die häufig in der Schule gelesen werden und¿auch für Prüfungen¿von Bedeutung sind.¿ Sie richten sich vor allem an Schülerinnen und Sc...

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This version of Brecht's great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapting the original rather than offering a clo...

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Die Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek hat sich längst einen Namen gemacht. Als :Arbeitstexte für Schule und Studium9 präsentiert der Suhrkamp Verlag diese Zusammenarbeit mit dem Schulbuchverlag Cornelsen. Doch nicht nur prüfungsgepeinig...

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Der erste Band der Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek - Arbeitstexte für Schule und Studium" bietet Bertolt Brechts Leben des Galilei zusammen mit einem Kommentar, der alle für das Verständnis des Werks erforderlichen Informationen enth&...

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Text und Kommentar in einem Band. In der Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek erscheinen literarische Hauptwerke aller Epochen und Gattungen als Arbeitstexte für Schule und Studium. Der vollständige Text wird ergänzt durch anschaulich geschrieb...

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The play is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus mountains of Georgia, and retells the tale of King Solomon and a child claimed by two mothers. A chalk circle i...

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This play, written during Brecht's exile to the United States and set in pre-Communist China, is a parable of a young woman torn between obligation and reality, between love and practicality, and between her own needs and those of her friends...

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A billingual collection showing the range of Brecht's poetry, from the early Manual of Piety to the late Songs, Poems, and Choruses, including songs from his theater works. Translated and introduced by H.R. Hays.

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"A major Brecht play in an outstanding translation with an expert and up-to-date preface." -Eric Bentley "...a fine translation...Jones has handled Brecht's meters with great skill." -Choice

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This book is written in German, writing stories about basic human problems and universally human actions.

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Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that res...

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The Lehrstucke (or 'learning-plays') lie at the heart of Brechtian theatre. Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic upheaveal in Germany and the period of Brecht's most sharply Communist works, the...

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Brecht's most important treatise on theatre The Messingkauf dialogues are the longest but in some ways the most light hearted of all Brecht's discussions of theatre. Here Actor, Actress, Dramaturg (or literary adviser) and Electrician ar...

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Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a m...

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In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by o...

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Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city&...

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This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, s...

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Brecht's famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify their existence. They find Shen Teh, a good...

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In this version of the story of Joan of Arc, Brecht transforms her into 'Joan Dark', a member of the 'Black Straw Hats' (a Salvation Army-like group) in twentieth century Chicago. The play charts Joan's battle with Pierpon...

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"Those who dismiss Brecht as a yea-sayer to Stalinism are advised to read these journals and moderate their opinion." (Paul Bailey, Weekend Telegraph) Brecht's "Work Journals" cover the period from 1938 to 1955, the years ...

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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...

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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.Volume One of Brecht's Collected Plays contains Brech...

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