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About Brecht
- Bertolt
Brecht in Augsburg - Discover Brecht's roots in Augsburg where he was
born and grew up until the early twenties; in German.
- Bertolt Brecht-Freedom
of Information Act (FBI) - Read the FBI's files on Brecht (369 pages)
from the 1940s.
- German
Exiles in Southern California - A brief description of Brecht's stay in
Southern California (1941-1947); click on Brecht.
- Unterrichtsmaterialien
(von Gymnasien in Deutschland), nach Brecht suchen
- Freie
Universität Berlin - Scholarly internet resources on Brecht (in German).
- Brecht-Dossier
im Bayrischen Rundfunk - various internet resources on Brecht.
- Hamburger
Bildungsserver Auskunft und Orientierung zu Brecht: auf Autoren, dann
Weimarer Republik und Brecht klicken.
- Biographical Material
- Playwrights:
Bertolt Brecht - This site contains a list of links to other sites about
Brecht, including biographical information as well as pages about his works.
- Brecht in Spanish: En
el centenario de Bertol Brecht - by Christina Pestaña Castro, including
information on his life, Marxism, Brecht's exile (and opposition to the Third
Reich), and Brecht in Spain. Information about Brecht in Spanish at Wikipedia.
- Brecht in Portuguese
a biographical summary
- Brecht
in Italia
- Brecht on National
Public Radio (USA) - An interview with John Fuegi, James K. Lyon, Carl
Weber, Siegfried Mews, and Tony Kushner, among others. To access the Brecht
site you must use the following links, February -> 10 -> and then scroll
to the bottom of the page to hear about Brecht's Anniversary. You need Real
Audio in order to listen to the program.
Texts by Brecht
Brechtian theory & methodology
- Brecht and Epic
Theater - A resource on Brecht's Epic Theater; both English and German.
- British Brecht
study site (in English), including a Brecht dictionary with entries for
central concepts Brecht introduced to theater and performance theory.
Film and video
- A Brecht filmography at the Internet
Media Database
- Facets Video in Chicago. Online mail-order;
several Brecht-related titles in stock (use search function; other titles
available by special order).
Brecht collaborators
- Kurt Weill
- Hanns Eisler
- Paul Dessau
- Paul Dessau site
- This site contains Paul Dessau's biography, some of his writings on film
music, and articles about him.
- A further Paul
Dessau page contains biographical material.
- Elisabeth Hauptmann
- Ruth Berlau
- Margarete Steffin
- A short biography of Steffin
from fembio.org.
- "Margarete Steffin: Prosa - Gedichte - Briefe", a cd production
by Ute Kaiser (voice) and Achim Tang (contrabass) www.nemu-records.com
- Helene Weigel
Publishers
- Suhrkamp Verlag, now in Berlin is
the publisher of Brecht in German.
- Brecht's works in English translation were published until 2006 mainly by
Methuen Publishing Ltd. These editions are now sold by A&C
Black Publishers Ltd. in London. (Use "brecht" in the search
function.)
- L'Arche Editeur in Paris (click
on 'catalogue' and then on 'Brecht'). L'Arche has been publishing Bertolt
Brecht and protecting his stage rights in French-speaking countries since
the 1950s. L'Arche also publishes in French Heiner Müller, Marieluise
Fleisser, and many other theater authors connected to Brecht.
- Einaudi (Milano) publishes Brecht in
Italian translation (ricerca rapida > brecht).
- Alianza Editorial publishes
"Biblioteca Brecht" in Spanish.
Book retailers
- The Brechtshop Augsburg
has an extensive catalog of books (including out-of-print editions) and other
Brecht-related merchandise.
- buchhandel.de: mail-order and the
"Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher" online (use the search functions).
- justbooks.de is a German online retailer
of second hand and rare books with an inventory of over 400,000 titles. They
also operate a shop in Düsseldorf. Another good place to search for hard-to-find
Brecht (or any German) editions.
- For Brecht's works and works on Brecht in English, try the Moonstruck
Drama Bookstore.
- http://www.buecher24.de This service
queries the price, shipping and the availability of German and English language
books
Performers & performances
- Brecht
auf deutschsprachigen Bühnen
- Some original set design sketches by Caspar Neher for Brecht/Weill
productions of "Threepenny Opera" (1928) and "Mahagonny"
(1930): http://www.universaledition.com/neher/
- I
Bertolt Brecht, a "a work-in-progress [...] combining drama (based
very loosely on Brecht's Mann ist Mann), music, political theory,
autobiography, etc."
- A historical listing of Brecht productions
on Broadway in New York City.
- Pirate Jenny, a multimedia theatre
project extrapolated from the from Threepenny Opera song.
- Photo gallery of Brecht plays at radfilms.com
- Beatrice Manley performs the role of Mother Courage in the first American
production (1956, Dir. Herbert Blau, San Francisco Actors Workshop), MP3 download
here.
General theater
Other Brecht Sites
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