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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
Scholarly internet resources on Brecht, presented by the Freie Universität Berlin (in German)
Hamburger Bildungsserver Auskunft und Orientierung zu Brecht: auf Autoren, dann Weimarer Republik und Brecht klicken.
Biographical Material

Biographie: Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) - a chronology (in German) of Brecht's life with several photos and links.
Biography.com - a brief note in English
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1995 - hosted at Brandeis University

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.
Bertolt Brecht at the Case Western Reserve University. Must sign in to use.
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 in Türk
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.
Zu Brecht - Several essays by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek - in German. For English versions, try About Brecht, translated by Jorn Bramann.

Texts by Brecht

A comparison of two versions of Brecht's "Hauspostille", including texts of all the poems.
"Über Verführung", Brechts erotische Gedichte auf deutsch und spanisch
Material on Leben des Galilei / Life of Galileo (Haifa University).
Extensive information, photos, and audio excerpts for the Threepenny Opera (in English), developed by the Kurt Weill Foundation: www.threepennyopera.org
Material on Die Dreigroschenoper (Haifa University; listen to songs from Die Dreigroschenoper (auf deutsch)
Material on Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reichs / Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (Haifa University).
Material on Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Kurt Weill Foundation).
Classic Notes has material on the following plays by Brecht: Mother Courage, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Threepenny Opera, and Jungle of the Cities
An die Nachgeborenen Interpretation und Gedicht
Vier Brecht-Texte: DieTeppichweber von Kujan-Bulak ehren Lenin; Lob der Partei; Notwendigkeit der Propaganda; Das andere Deutschland / The Other Germany
A selection of full-text poetry and prose by Brecht in German
Zitate von Brecht
A few love poems by Brecht in German and English, by J. Beilharz

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
- Kurt Weill Foundation for Music (New York) - The KWF is a foundation chartered to preserve the legacies of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. It also administers Weill's copyrights.
Hanns Eisler

Internationale Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft (IHEG) - commemorated the 100th Birthday of Brecht's friend and collaborator, Hanns Eisler.
An American site: "Subject: Hanns Eisler", with extensive biographical and discographical information plus an online Eisler discussion forum.

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

Bio-bibliographical page with information on Hauptmann (in German).
Elisabeth Hauptmann Lesebuch and biography (in German)
Die Dreigroschenfrau, ein Feature des Westdeutschen Rundfunks

Ruth Berlau

Information about Red Ruth, a one-hour documentary available for purchase, based on John Fuegi's Brecht & Co.
Ruth Berlau biography at Wikipedia (in German)
Eine Berlau Webseite auf deutsch
A Berlau biographical summary in Danish

Margarete Steffin

A short biography of Steffin. Search authors under "s"
Steffin chronology
"Margarete Steffin: Prosa - Gedichte - Briefe", a cd production by Ute Kaiser (voice) and Achim Tang (contrabass) www.nemu-records.com

Helene Weigel

A Weigel biography.
A commemoration of Weigel's 100th birthday in 2000.
A filmography of Weigel's acting performances at the Internet Media Database.

Erwin Piscator
www.erwin-piscator.de
Information about one of the most important directors of political theater in 20th-century Germany; Piscator worked with Brecht in the late 1920s, and he staged some of the most controversial productions of Brecht plays during his long career.
For an annotated bibliography on Piscator's works and works about his political theater follow this link.

Publishers

Suhrkamp Verlag, in Frankfurt / Main 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.
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.

Journals

Dreigroschenheft - A quarterly journal in German devoted to Bertolt Brecht.

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

Books: info and reviews

The new five-volume "Brecht-Handbuch", edited by Jan Knopf, is published at Metzler Verlag. For information, see: www.metzlerverlag.de (use search function)
Brecht texts online: The Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden brought to you by Chadwyck-Healey and the Suhrkamp Verlag. Access by susbcription, free trial subscriptions.
For a bibliography on Brecht prepared by students at St. Mary's University, click here.
A review of Fuegi's "Brecht & Co." (1995), another "Brecht & Co." review by Bob Wake, and more information about Fuegi's book as well as Background on Fuegi and his book.

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
Zum Tode Giorgio Strehlers - An online article from the Berliner Zeitung about Giorgio Strehler.
Click here for an interview with David Pittu, who plays BB in a NYC musical about Weill & Lenya.

Theater reviews

Tabori's "stage collage" Brecht on Brecht (from The New York Times)
An updated version of Brecht's "Die Massnahme" (New York Times review of "Das Kontingent", 21 Nov. 2000)
Reviews from culturevulture.net of past productions: The Threepenny Opera at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco (Sept. 2 - Oct. 10 1999), Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin (Sept. 12, 1999 - May 10, 2000), The Life of Galileo at the Berkeley Repertory Theater (Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1999).

General theater

German Centre of the International Theatre Institute - A UNESCO-sponsored Institution with links to theater and dance websites in Germany, Europe and the USA.
The Virtual Library on theatre and drama
AITG - Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide

Other Brecht Sites

The Brecht-Forschungsstelle at the Staats- und Stadtbilbiothek Augsburg - with information on Brecht's biography and holdings of the library in Augsburg which can be found here.
Brecht-Haus Augsburg (Augsburg)
Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus One of Berlin's four literature houses, this one features regular programs related to Brecht, including the annual Brecht-Tage in February to commemorate his birthday.
Brecht-Weigel Haus in Buckow (Brecht's summer house - now a museum where he wrote his Buckower Elegien in the 1950s).
The Brecht Forum - The New York Marxist School; occasional programs on Brecht.
Casa Bertolt Brecht in Montevideo
Ein lehrreicher Unfall des Dichters Brecht
Bertolt Brecht's gravesite.
Portrait of the Artist- Based on an idea by James K. Lyon.
Brecht on Magic - "The first full-length socialist magic show" at the Magic for Socialism site by Ian Saville.
A parody of Brecht and Weill's "Pirate Jenny" song.

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