Bertolt Brecht Journals, 1934-55

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Bloomsbury Publishing, 14.07.2016 - 576 Seiten
"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 of exile in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and America, and his return via Switzerland to East Berlin. His criticisms of the work of other writers and intellectuals are perceptive and polemic, and the accounts of his own writing practice provide insight into the creation of his dramatic works of the period, the development of his political thinking and his theories about epic theatre. Also integrated into the journals are Brecht's immediate reactions to and commentary upon the events of the period: his political exile's view of the course of World War II and his account of the House Un-American Activities committee.

"A marvellous, motley collage of political ideas, domestic detail, artistic debate, poems, photographs and cuttings from newspapers and magazines, assembled, undoubtedly for posterity by one of the great writers of the century" (New Statesman and Society)

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... Hollywood as writers and actors. The result was that when he arrived in Los Angeles in the summer of 1941 there were few American friends waiting for him, let alone prospective editors, producers and publishers. Nor did he need to worry ...
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... Hollywood Songbook he seems always to be aiming at the conventional American portals to fame: Broadway and the movies. Meantime his real progress is taking place on the other side of the Atlantic, with the production of his big ...
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... Hollywood nineteen', which threw him together with just those naturalist writers of whom he was apt to be critical, did not strike him at the time as all that important, and his entry about the hearing is barely longer than his ...
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... Hollywood, where the previous Elegies had been written – he found that he still felt uneasy in his country, whose Nazi past was not all that remote. Like Eisler, and in the end for related reasons, he had too many questions to ask. He ...
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... hollywood). film, especially the silent film, needed an unexpectedly large amount of action (consumed a large amount of expression). psychologists at the time were discovering behaviourism, psychology seen through the eye of a camera ...

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Inhalt

April 1939 to 19 March 1940
24
July 1941 to 5 November 1947
40
December 1947 to 20 October 1948
46
October 1948 to 18 July 1955
47
Editorial Notes
56
Select Bibliography
57
Urheberrecht

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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.

John Willett (1917-2002) was the greatest English language authority on Brecht the writer and man of the theatre. The foremost translator and editor of Brecht's drama, poetry, letters, diaries, theatrical essays and fiction, Willett produced a dozen volumes for Methuen Drama on the greatest modern German writer.

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TitelBertolt Brecht Journals, 1934-55
Diaries, Letters and Essays
Autor/inBertolt Brecht
Übersetzt vonHugh Rorrison
Mitwirkende PersonenJohn Willett
VerlagBloomsbury Publishing, 2016
ISBN1408162008, 9781408162002
Länge576 Seiten
  
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