Bertolt Brecht

Brecht and the Writer's Workshop (eBook, PDF)

Fatzer and Other Dramatic Projects
Redaktion: Kuhn, Tom; Ryland, Charlotte

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Brecht was never inclined to see any of his plays as completely finished, and this volume collects some of the most important theatrical projects and fragments that were always to remain 'works in progress'. Offering an invaluable insight into the writer's working methods and practices, the collection features the famous Fatzer as well as The Bread Store and Judith of Shimoda, along with other texts that have never before been available in English.

Alongside the familiar, 'completed' plays, Brecht worked on many ideas and plans which he never managed to work up even once for print or stage. In pieces like Fleischhacker, Garbe/Büsching and Jacob Trotalong we see how such projects were abandoned or interrupted or became proving grounds for ideas and techniques. The works collated here span over thirty years and allow the reader to follow Brecht's creative process as he constantly revised his work to engage with new contexts.

This treasure-trove of new discoveries is also annotated with dramaturgical notes to present readable and useable texts for the theatre.

The volume is edited by Tom Kuhn and Charlotte Ryland, with the translation and dramaturgical edition of each play provided by a team of experienced writers, scholars and translators.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474273299
• Artikelnr.: 54949861

Autorenporträt

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

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Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, explaining the status and appearance of the various projects
and setting them in the context, both of Brecht's literary development and
of German social and political history. Fleischhacker (1924-27) edited and
translated by Phoebe von Held and Matthias Rothe Fatzer: Downfall of an
Egoist (1926-30) edited and translated by Tom Kuhn: The Downfall of Johann
Fatzer The Bread Store (1929-30) edited and translated by Marc Silberman
Jacob Trotalong (mid to late 1930s) Edited and translated by Charlotte
Ryland The Judith of Shimoda (1940) edited and translated by Markus
Wessendorf Büsching (1950s) edited and translated by Marc Silberman