Bertolt-Brecht-Erben
Chausseestrasse 15
10115 Berlin
Germany
Tel. 49 - 30 / 20057 18 00
Fax 49 - 30 / 20057 18 33
The office of the Brecht Erben in Berlin answers questions regarding legal rights to and licensing of Brecht material for production purposes in all media.
Performance Rights Inquiries for English-language Productions of Brecht
If you seek professional or amateur performance rights for Brecht titles within
the Methuen Drama list please read the following guidelines:
1. Methuen Drama titles include a caution notice and the performance rights contact details on the imprint page of the book (at the very front of the publication). Please check here first for the information you will require. Please remember to obtain permission to perform before starting your rehearsals.
2. Brecht performance inquiries should be directed as follows:
UK professional: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd: www.alanbrodie.com
UK amateur: Samuel French Ltd: www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk
US/Canada professional and amateur: Jerold Couture, Fitelson, Lasky, Aslan and Couture, 551 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10176, USA (tel: + 212 586 4700 / email: dramalex@aol.com)
Inquiries for Brecht’s & Weill’s The Threepenny Opera should be sent to Universal Edition Ltd, 48 Great Marlborough Street, London, W1F 7BB (tel: 020 7437 5205 / fax: 020 7439 2897 / email: deirdre.bates@mdslondon.co.uk or colin.green@mdslondon.co.uk)
The Methuen Drama list is now distributed by A & C Publishers in London:
www.acblack.com/search.asp
(enter BRECHT in the search interface to find all titles).
Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv
Scholars and writers who wish to quote unpublished material from the Brecht
Archive must receive written permission through the Archive (see address
below). Anyone quoting from published Brecht material is subject to copyright
law and "fair use" standards in the country of publication and should notify
the publisher to obtain copyright permission.
Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv
in der Stiftung der Akademie der Künste Berlin-Brandenburg
Dr. Erdmut Wizisla, Director
Chausseestrasse 125
10115 Berlin
Germany
Tel. 49 - 30 / 20057 18 00
Fax 49 - 30 / 20057 18 33
Hours: open by appointment
A German description of the Brecht Archive written by the director, Dr. Erdmut Wizisla, can be found at the following link.
The Brecht Archive, together with the Helene Weigel Archive, includes over 356,000 documents, among which there are over 200,000 manuscripts of Brecht and his various collaborators (e.g., Elisabeth Hauptmann, Margarete Steffin, Ruth Berlau, Walter Benjamin, Hanns Eisler, Paul Dessau, and Caspar Neher), as well as photographs, 20,000 books (including Brecht's personal library of 3,500 volumes), about 110,000 newspaper and journal articles, program booklets of Brecht productions, theater posters, production photos, tape and record recordings, and films.
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Brecht-Weigel-Gedenkstätte
der Stiftung Archiv der Akademie der Künste
Chausseestrasse 125
10115 Berlin
Germany
Tel. 49 - 30 / 2830570 - 44
Fax 49 - 30 / 2830570 - 33
A German description of the Brecht-Weigel-Gedenkstätte written by the director of the Brecht-Archiv, Dr. Erdmut Wizisla, can be found at the following link.
Since 1978 the Brecht-Weigel apartment in the Chausseestrasse has been open to the public. A tour through the rooms offers visitors a view of their living conditions after they returned from exile to the GDR. The furniture and the library are maintained in the original condition. Public tours (maximum 8 people) are available Tuesdays through Saturdays (click here for opening hours). The gravesites of Brecht and Weigel, near those of Hegel, Fichte, and Heinrich Mann, are located next door at the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof.
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The
Brecht-Forschungsstelle at the Staats- und Stadtbilbiothek Augsburg
This website is the portal for information on Brecht's biography
and holdings of the library in Augsburg which can be found here.
Brecht-Weigel-Haus Buckow
Bertolt-Brecht-Str. 29
15377 Buckow
Tel. 33466 / 467
In 1952 Brecht and Weigel leased the estate of the "Eiserne Villa", built in 1910/11 in the idyllic lakeside spa of Buckow and located about 45 minutes by car east of Berlin in the Märkische Schweiz. Here Brecht wrote the Buckower Elegien and conferred with many of his friends and co-workers from the Berliner Ensemble. Weigel continued to use the residence til her death. Since 1977 part of the grounds and one of the houses has open to the public as a museum devoted to Brecht and Weigel.
Pages about the house, giving dates, addresses and phone numbers can be found at:
http://www.kultur-in-mol.de/brechtweigelhaus/
and http://www.maerkische-schweiz.com/kultur/brecht.php
Arbeitsstelle Bertolt Brecht (ABB)
am Institut für Literaturwissenschaft der Universität Karlsruhe
Leiter: Dr. Jan Knopf
Kronenstr. 30
76133 Karlsruhe
Tel. 721 / 608-2644
Fax 721 / 608-8082
http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~brecht/
Established in 1989, the Arbeitsstelle focuses its attention mainly on the editing of the new 30-volume edition of Brecht's Werke (Suhrkamp and Aufbau), in particular the five volumes of poetry and the three volumes of short prose. It has a library of about 1200 volumes, including all the essential secondary literature on Brecht as well as pertinent reference works, and an ever growing computer database of Brecht texts and commentaries for the edited volumes of the Werke.
Das Berliner Ensemble
Am Bertolt-Brecht-Platz
10117 Berlin
Kasse: 282 08 155
Fax: 284 08 151
berlinerensemble@bln.de
For a short description of the Berliner Ensemble's history in English, click here.
Korean Brecht Society
Prof. Dr. Gil-Ung KIM
Dept. of German Language and Literature
Sungshin Women's University
Dongsun-Dong 3Ga 249-1, Sungbuk-Gu
136-742 Seoul
Korea
Tel. (0082) (0)2 - 920-7630 (Buero), (0082) (0)16 - 376-7543 (Handy)
Fax. (0082) (0)2 - 920-2032
E-mail: suleica@sungshin.ac.kr
http://www.brecht-zentrum-korea.org/
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Russian Brecht Society
c/o Vladimir Koljazin (Vice-President)
Rotert-Str. 9-111
Moscow 129374
Russia
Tel./Fax 182 99 88
Brecht-Freunde Augsburg
c/o A.B. von Stettensche Stiftung
Am Katzenstadel 18
86152 Augsburg
Denmark
Brecht-Haus Svendborg
(Brechts Wohndomizil während der Exilzeit - das Haus kann zu Wohn- und
Studienzwecken gemietet werden)
Aage Bernt Jensen
Kommune Radhuset, 5700 Svendborg, Denmark
http://www.svendborg-bib.dk/biblio/Brecht/Brecht_ger.asp
Hassing, Rudy
(Dänische Brecht-Forschung)
Bülowvej 30 a, 1870 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Tel.: 0045/353/72530
Norregaard, Hans Christian
(Dänische Brecht-Forschung)
Eckersbergsgade 18, 2100 Kopenhagen, Denmark
Germany
Bert Brecht Kreis Augsburg e.V.
(Literarischer Verein)
Dr. Helmut Gier, Erich Maiberger
Schaezlerstra§e 25, 86152 Augsburg, Deutschland
Tel.: 0049/821/324-2738
Fax: 0049/821/324-2127
http://www.alg.de/mitglied/a-zmitgl/b-mitgli/bert-brecht-krei.html
Brecht Shop
Obstmarket 11
86152 Augsburg
Tel.: 821/518804
Fax: 821/39136
http://www.buchhandlung-am-obstmarkt.de
Bertolt-Brecht-Forschungs- und GedenkstŠtte
(Museum, Archiv, Bibliothek)
Dr. Jürgen Hillesheim
Schaezlerstrasse 25, 86152 Augsburg, Deutschland
Tel.: 0049/821/324-2741
Fax: 0049/821/324-2127
Brecht Gedenkstätte
(Museum [Geburtshaus], Wiedereröffnung am 10. Februar 1998)
Öffnungszeiten: Mi-So 10-16 Uhr
Auf dem Rain 7, 86150 Augsburg, Deutschland
Tel.: 0049/821/324-2779
Fax: 0049/821/324-2127
Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
Benutzerdienst der Handschriftenabteilung
Schillerhöhe 8-10, 71672 Marbach/Neckar, Deutschland
Tel.: 0049/7144-848-0
Fax: 0049/7144-848-490
Museum@ala-marbach.de
http://www.dla-marbach.de/
Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof, Berlin
Zwischen Chausseestrasse 125 (Brecht-Haus) und dem französischen Friedhof
(Begräbnisstätte von Bertolt Brecht, Helene Weigel, Johannes R. Becher,
Ruth Berlau, Hanns Eisler, Elisabeth Hauptmann, Heiner Müller)
Evangelische Friedhofsverwaltung
Anschrift: Chausseestrasse, 10115 Berlin, Deutschland
0049/30/2826119
Dreigroschenkeller Restaurant, München
Lilienstrasse 2 - Eingang Zeppelinstrasse, 81669 München, Deutschland
Tel.: 0049/89/4890290
Fax: 0049/89/48901827
bm939357@muenchen.org
Elisabeth-Hauptmann-Archiv
Archivabteilung Literatur
Robert-Koch-Platz 10, 10115 Berlin, Deutschland
Tel.: 0049/30/30884-0
Fax: 0049/30/30884-102
Gesellschaft für Theaterpädagogik e.V.
(Forschung und Praxis der Lehrstück-Arbeit)
Prof. Dr. Gerd Koch
Sieglindestrasse 5, 12159 Berlin, Deutschland
Tel.: 0049/30/8516153
Fax: 0049/30/2166411
Koch@asfh-berlin.de
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