The 19th IBS Symposium / Das 19. IBS-Symposium
Brecht among Strangers / Brecht unter Fremden
Leipzig, 19-23 June 2019 / 19.-23. Juni 2019
Call for Papers: English / Deutsch
More information here.
The Brecht Yearbook
1) Brecht Yearbook 42, "Recycling Brecht," with selected papers from the June 2016 Oxford Symposium, has now appeared with Camden House publishing. See the table of contents.
2) The new editor of the Brecht Yearbook has been appointed by the IBS President for a five-year term: Prof. Markus Wessendorf, who teaches in the Dept. of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai'i in Manoa. His term begins with vol. 43 (2018). Please click on the "Brecht Yearbook" tab above for further details.
3) Call for articles for the Brecht Yearbook 44 / 2019: special section on Brecht's dramatic fragments.
Communications from the IBS
The IBS journal has shifted from a print publication to a freely accessible online journal / blog. Click here to see our new internet presence, updated about every 4-5 months!
Das Brecht-Archiv / The Brecht Archive (Berlin)
Check the new website of the Brecht Archive at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin: http://www.adk.de/de/archiv/archivabteilungen/bertolt-brecht-archiv/
Here you can also get access to the library holdings of the Brecht-Archive (OPAC) as well as the archival holdings (Archivdatenbank):
https://www.adk.de/de/archiv/bibliothek/archivbibliothek-bertolt-brecht-archiv.htm
New Brecht books
Ela Gezen, Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literatur: Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation after 1960 (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018)
Klassikers: Brecht Studien (Berlin: Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2018)
Günther Heeg, Recycling Brecht: Materialwert, Nachleben, Überleben (Berlin: Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2017)
Erdmut Wizisla, Benjamin und Brecht. Denken in Extremen (Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 2017)
Christian Hippe / Annett Gröschner, Hrsg., Laxheit in Fragen geistigen Eigentums. Brecht und Urheberrecht (Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag, 2017)
Martin Kölbel und Peter Villwock, Hrsg., Bertolt Brecht: Notizbücher - Band 3: 1921 (Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2017)
Frank D. Wagner, Minima Hegeliana. Brechts Denkbilder (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017)
Christian Hippe / Volker Issbrücker, Hrsg., Brecht und die Naturwissenschaften (Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag, 2017).
Nenad Jovanovic, Brechtian Cinemas: Montage and Theatricality in Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, Peter Watkins, and Lars von Trier (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2017).
Joerg Esleben with Rolf Rohmer and David G. John, Fritz Bennewitz in India: Intercultural Theatre with Brecht and Shakespeare (Toronto: Toronto UP, 2017).
Milena Massalongo, Florian Vassen, Bernd Rupping (Hrsg.), Brecht gebrauchen: Theater und Lehrstück - Texte und Methoden. Milow: Schibri Verlag, 2017.
Questions about performance rights of Brecht's plays should be directed at the German Brecht publisher, Suhrkamp Verlag: suhrkamp.de/theater-verlag/vertragsanfragen_898.html
For English-language performance rights, here.
Drama Online is a new subscription portal for Internet access to the works of major playwrights, including Bertolt Brecht in English translation. For information, see:
http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/
and click search for "Brecht"
Brecht's Works in English: A Bibliography
Check this new website with over 2900 entries if you are looking for Brecht's plays, poems, songs, stories, or essays in English translation: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/BrechtGuide/
The digital Brecht Yearbook, vols. 1-35 (1971-2010) / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch digital, Bd. 1-35 (1971-2009): http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/German.BrechtYearbook
KURT WEILL FOUNDATION GRANT PROGRAM – Deadline 1 November
Financial support worldwide to not-for-profit organizations for performances of musical works by Kurt Weill and Marc Blitzstein, to individuals and not-for-profit organizations for scholarly research pertaining to Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, and Marc Blitzstein, and to not-for-profit organizations for relevant educational initiatives. For more information, see: http://www.kwf.org/pages/grants-a-prizes.html