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Book SynopsisAlongside the usual wide-ranging lineup of research articles, volume 41 features an interview with Berliner Ensemble actor Annemone Haase and an extensive special section on teaching Brecht.Now published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House, the
Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of Bertolt Brecht's life and work and of topics of particular interest to Brecht, especially the politics of literature and of theater in a global context. It includes a wide variety of perspectives and approaches, and, like Brecht himself, is committed to the concept of the use value of literature, theater, and theory. Volume 41 features an interview with longtime Berliner Ensemble actor Annemone Haase by Margaret Setje-Eilers. A special section on teaching Brecht, guest-edited by Per Urlaub and Kristopher Imbrigotta, includes articles on creative appropriation in the foreign-language classroom (Caroline Weist), satire in
Arturo Ui and
The Great Dictator (Ari Linden), performative discussion (Cohen Ambrose), Brecht for theater majors (Daniel Smith), teaching performance studies with the
Lehrstück model (Ian Maxwell),
Verfremdung and ethics (Elena Pnevmonidou), Brecht on the college stage (Julie Klassen and Ruth Weiner), and methods of teaching Brechtian
Stückschreiben (Gerd Koch). Other research articles focus on Harry Smith's
Mahagonny (Marc Silberman), inhabiting empathy in the contemporary piece
Temping (James Ball), Brecht's appropriation of Kurt Lewin's psychology (Ines Langemeyer), and Brecht's collaborations with women, both across his career (Helen Fehervary) and in exile in Skovsbostrand (Katherine Hollander). Editor Theodore F. Rippey is Associate Professor of German at Bowling Green State University.
Trade ReviewOffers some keen insights into Brechtian strategy as pedagogic and performative practice and argues strongly for its relevance as a crux of engaging actively with the de- and re-construction of what it means to take a role in the processes of learning and deploying critical intelligence in the classroom and beyond. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *
Table of ContentsSPECIAL INTEREST SECTION: TEACHING BRECHT From Page to Stage and Classroom to Community: Teaching Brecht in the Twenty-First Century - Kristopher Imbrigotta From Page to Stage and Classroom to Community: Teaching Brecht in the Twenty-First Century - Per Urlaub Playing Brecht: Creative Appropriation in the Foreign Language Classroom - Caroline Weist Teaching to Interrupt: Satire in Brecht's Arturo Ui and Chaplin's The Great Dictator - Ari Linden Performative Discussion: Practicing Brechtian Praxis in the Classroom - Cohen Ambrose Brecht for Theater Majors: Teaching Epic Theater in a Play Analysis Course - Daniel Smith Teaching Performance Studies with Brecht's Lehrstu?ck Model: The Measures Taken - Ian Maxwell Verfremdung and Ethics in Brecht's Der Jasager / Der Neinsager - Elena Pnevmonidou Staging Brecht at Carleton: Students as Actors at a Liberal Arts College - Julie Klassen and Ruth Weiner Studieren und über Vertrautes staunen: Brechtsches Stückeschreiben durch Forschen und Bilden und Darstellen - Gerd Koch INTERVIEW 42 Jahre Berliner Ensemble: Gespräch mit Annemone Haase, 23. Juni 2016 in ihrer Wohnung in Berlin - Margaret Setje-Eilers NEW BRECHT RESEARCH Art Instead of Romance: Brecht's Collaborations with Women - Helen Fehervary Collaboration, Exile, and the Quotidian: Community on the Svendborg Sound, 1933-1939 - Katherine Hollander Brechts Adaptionen der Psychologie Kurt Lewins und ihre Weiterentwicklung fürs epische Theater - Ines Langemeyer Harry Smith and Mahagonny - Marc Silberman Inhabiting Empathy: Locating the Verfremdungseffekt in an Era of Immersion - James R, Ball III BOOK REVIEWS
