"Brecht Yearbook 48 features a section on Brecht's and Heiner Mueller's engagement with modern living, a group of essays on ""Brecht Post-2020,"" and additional new Brecht research on various topics. The Brecht Yearbook, published on behalf of the International Brecht Society, is the central scholarly forum for the study of Brecht's life and work and of topics relevant to him. Volume 48 opens with an article on the research that informed the 2022 exhibition Brecht's Paper War. The next section examines Brecht's and Heiner Mueller's engagement with modern living: from the housing question in the 1920s to the dramaturgical function of furniture to dialectical stage-auditorium configurations in the early GDR. The following section on ""Brecht Post-2020"" explores dramaturgical approaches to the learning play under pandemic conditions as well as the ""spectrological"" aspects of Drums in the Night. Additional new research includes essays on the critical edition of Brecht's notebooks, his reception in fascist Italy, the ambivalence of the heroic in his work, the prioritization of political parable over avant-garde aesthetics in Round Heads and Pointed Heads, boxing as inspiration for epic theater, Hegelian aspects of Refugee Conversations and The Measures Taken, and the working alliance of Brecht and Kurt Weill.
Edited by Markus Wessendorf.
Contributors: Fanti Baum, Luke Beller, Manuel Clancett, Daniel Cuonz, Fritz Hennenberg, Matthew Hines, Alba Knijff, Sophie Koenig, Grischa Meyer, Marie Millutat, Zafiris Nikitas, Cornelia Ortlieb, Matthias Rothe, Kumars Salehi, Francesco Sani, Stephan Strunz, Lara Tarbuk, Raffaella Di Tizio, Julia Weber, Marten Weise, Noah Willumsen, Claus Zittel."
"Editorial List of Abbreviations Research for an Exhibition Grischa Meyer (Berlin) Bertolt Brecht's Paper War - Reading Newspapers during Wartime Working with Brecht and Müller: ""Dwelling in the Empty Center"" Noah Willumsen (Berlin), Sophie König (Berlin), and Marten Weise (Frankfurt am Main) introduction: Leben im Falschen: Wohnen bei Brecht und Müller Stephan Strunz (Dresden) Wider die Deskription: Brecht und der Diskurs des Wohnungselends Lara Tarbuk (Berlin) ""Man muss versuchen, sich einzurichten in Deutschland!"": Zur Bedeutung der Möbel in Trommeln in der Nacht und Die Hochzeit Marie Millutat (Berlin) Einrichten und Einkleben: Brechts Collagewerkstatt im Exil Cornelia Ortlieb (Berlin) interlude i: Wohnen im Schreiben oder Kein Schreibtisch nirgends Julia Weber (Berlin) interlude ii: ""Wohnen in der leeren Mitte"": Zu einem Topos aus Heiner Müllers Medeamaterial Luke Beller (Baltimore) ""I Can Go Hungry Everywhere"": Brecht, Mr. Keuner, and Cosmopolitanism Matthew Hines (Cambridge, UK) Models of Socialist Drama in the Early GDR: The Dialectical Audience and the Spatial Metaphor in The Correction by Inge and Heiner Müller Fanti Baum (Frankfurt am Main) literary essay: Das Einnehmen der Mitte für ihre Freiräumung-eine Wohnfibel gegen das bürgerliche Leben Brecht Post-2020: Part 2-Pandemic Learning Plays and the Logic of the Specter Francesco Sani (Leicester) The Lehrstück as a Digital Space for Dialectics: Robinson Crusoe on His Deserted Island (2021) Zafiris Nikitas (Thessaloniki) Brechtian Future(s): Life of Galileo as a Pandemic Lehrstück Alba Knijff (Barcelona) Structural Undecidability and the Logic of the Specter in Bertolt Brecht's Drums in the Night New Brecht Research Claus Zittel (Stuttgart) Im Dickicht der Texte: Brechts Nachlass im Lichte der neuen kritischen Edition seiner Notizbücher Raffaella Di Tizio (Rome) Brecht's Reception in Italy at the Time of Fascism Daniel Cuonz (St. Gallen) Unglücklich der Held, dessen Land ihn nötig hat: Zur Ambivalenz des Heroischen bei Bertolt Brecht und zu ihrer Aktualität Matthias Rothe (Minneapolis) Round Heads and Pointed Heads and the End of Avantgarde Manuel Clancett (Lüneburg) Feine Raufereien. Brecht und die Evidenz des Boxens Kumars Salehi (Canton, NY) Too Dialectical by Half: Brecht as a Reader of Hegel Fritz Hennenberg (Leipzig) Hier Brecht-dort Weill: Bedeutung und Deutung eines Arbeitsbunds Book Reviews Patrick Eiden-Offe (Berlin) Georg Lukács. Texte zum Theater. Hrsg. von Jakob Hayner und Erik Zielke Anja Hartl (Innsbruck) Susanne Schmieden. Paradoxa über Politik und Theater: Zur Bedeutung der Gegenmeinung bei Denis Diderot und Bertolt Brecht Fadi Skeiker (Philadelphia) Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and Robert Myers (eds.). The Theatre of Sa'dallah Wannous: A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual Joseph Prestwich (Cambridge, UK) Anja Hartl. Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama: Dialectical Theatre Today Ramona Mosse (Zurich) Martin Revermann. Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics Notes on the Contributors"
MARKUS WESSENDORF is a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in Honolulu.
