Officers of the International Brecht Society

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Editorial

pp ix-xi

List of Abbreviations

pp xii-xii

Brecht, Günter Kunert, and Edgar Lee Masters

Brecht–Masters–Kunert

pp 1-4

Übersetzung von Edgar Lee Masters’ “The Hill” aus der Spoon River Anthology mit Brechts handschriftlichen Korrekturen

pp 5-13

Brecht’s Dramatic Fragments

Fragments for a Dialectic of Resistance: Fatzer, Keuner, and the Revolution

pp 14-37

In the Stockyards of Finance: Brecht’s Aesthetics of Fragmentation in Fleischhacker

pp 38-59

The David Fragments in Performance

pp 60-80

Pure Joke: The Comedy of Theater since Brecht

Introduction: Pure Joke

pp 81-83

“. . . All Questions Remain Open”: On the Epilogue of The Good Person of Szechwan and Bertolt Brecht’s Poetics of Interpretation

pp 84-101

Affirmation and Alienation: The Comedy of Heiner Müller’s Hamletmaschine

pp 102-121

Early Modern Characters in the Late Modern Age: On the Return of the “Chorus of Comedy” in Contemporary Performance Practices after Brecht

pp 122-137

Reiner Spaß? Komödie als Real-Satire

pp 138-157

New Brecht Research

Die Schulden des Herrn Julius Caesar: Brechts Historie der Kreditökonomie

pp 158-177

Post-Communist Irony: Bertolt Brecht’s Mr. Keuner in Heiner Müller’s Interviews

pp 178-201

Di dray groschn opere: Bertolt Brecht on the Yiddish Stage

pp 202-221

Brechts Rezeption Mao Tse-tungs in zwei Gedichten

pp 222-240

Book Reviews

Ela E. Gezen. Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature: Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation after 1960

pp 241-245

Marvin Carlson. Shattering Hamlet’s Mirror: Theatre and Reality

pp 245-248

Anna Teresa Scheer. Christoph Schlingensief: Staging Chaos, Performing Politics and Theatrical Phantasmagoria

pp 249-254

Erdmut Wizisla (Hrsg.). Benjamin und Brecht: Denken in Extremen

pp 254-257

Günther Heeg (Hrsg.). Recycling Brecht: Materialwert, Nachleben, Überleben

pp 257-260

Matt Cornish. Performing Unification: History and Nation in German Theater after 1989

pp 261-264