ADDRESS:

EDUCATION:

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Professor of German, 1993-present
Chair, 1999-2003
Associate Chair, 1992-94, 1997-98
Associate Professor of German, 1988-1993
Affiliate Professor: Theater and Drama; Communication Arts

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Guest Professor, Summer 1996 (Internationale Sommerkurse)

Freie Universität Berlin

Guest Professor, Spring 1995; Spring 1999

University of California, Los Angeles

Visiting Bicentennial Professor, Spring 1989

University of Texas, San Antonio

Associate Professor of German, 1986-1988
Assistant Professor of German, 1976-1986

Indiana University, Bloomington

Visiting Assistant Professor of German, 1975-1976

FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS:

2008: International Institute Conference Grant for “Screening the War in Germany” (November 2008)
2007: Digital Resources Grant, UW Memorial Library (PI for digitization of Brecht Yearbook, vols. 1-32 / 1971-2007)
2004-06: Digital Resources Grant, UW Memorial Library (for online database of Brecht=s Works in English Translation: A Bibliography)
2003-08: Kellett Award for Excellence in Research, UW Graduate School
2004: Borchard Fellowship
2004: Fellow of the daVinci Center for Research in the Arts, Univ. of California, Irvine
2003: Research Fellow, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin
2002: Humboldt-Stiftung Senior Research Fellow
2001: AATG-DAAD Short-term Research Grant
1998: Co-Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on ABrecht in Berlin@
1995-97: Vilas Associate Research Fellow, UW
1997: Humanities Fellow, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (Washington, D.C.)
1991: Humboldt-Stiftung Conference and Travel Grant
1991: DAAD Short-term Research Grant
1987-88: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellow
1985: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellow
1985: American Philosophical Society Research Grant
1984: Texas Commission for the Humanities
1982: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellow
1981: NEH Summer Grant
1980: DAAD Study Stipend

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

(recent)

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES:

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

German Cinema: Texts in Context (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995) xvii + 322 pages.

Heiner Müller, Forschungsberichte zur DDR-Literatur 2 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1980), 127 pages.

Literature of the Working World: A Study of the Industrial Novel in East Germany (Bern/Frankfurt: H. Lang, 1976), 118 pages.

Edited Volumes and Special Issues:

20 The Art of Hearing, selected proceedings from the conference “Modernism’s Multiple Media,”
Monatshefte Vol. 98, No. 2 (Summer 2006)

19 Cold-War German Cinema, Film History Vol. 18, No. 1 (February 2006)

18 Mahagonny.com, The Brecht Yearbook 29. Selected Proceedings of the 11th IBS Symposium. Co-edited with Florian Vaßen (Pittsburgh: International Brecht Society, 2004), 450 pages.

17 Rethinking Peter Weiss. Proceedings of the 30th Wisconsin Workshop. Co-edited with Jost Hermand (New York: Peter Lang, 2000; second, paperback printing, 2001), 201 pages.

16 Brecht on Film and Radio. A Critical Edition. Trans. and ed. with introduction and line commentaries (London: Methuen, 2000; second, paperback printing 2001), xvi + 277 pages + 8 plates.

15 Brecht 100 <=> 2000, Brecht Yearbook 24. Co-edited with John Rouse and Florian Vassen (Waterloo, CA: International Brecht Society, 1999), 402 pages.

14 “Bertolt Brecht Centenary: Brecht Today,” co-edited with Jost Hermand, Monatshefte Vol. 90, No. 3 (Fall 1998)

13 Bertolt Brecht, Collected Short Stories. Ed. and trans. by John Willett and Ralph Manheim. With introduction and notes by Marc Silberman and Shuhsi Kao (New York: Arcade Publishers, 1998), 242 pages.

12 Contentious Memories: Looking Back at the GDR. Proceedings of the 28th Wisconsin Workshop. Co-edited with Jost Hermand (New York: Peter Lang, 1998; second, paperback printing, 2000), 251 pages.

11 drive b: Brecht 100 (Berlin: Theater der Zeit and International Brecht Society, 1997), 177 pages.

10 What Remains? East German Culture and the Postwar Public. AICGS Research Report No. 5 (Washington, D.C.: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 1997; 2nd ed. 2000), 100 pp.

9 Brecht Then and Now / Brecht damals und heute, The Brecht Yearbook 20. With guest editor John Willett and co-managing editor Maarten van Dijk (Madison: International Brecht Society, 1995), 435 pages.

8 Focus: Margarete Steffin, The Brecht Yearbook 19 (Madison: International Brecht Society, 1994), 388 pages.

7 German Studies and the GDR, Monatshefte Vol. 85, No. 3 (Fall 1993)

6 The Other Brecht II, The Brecht Yearbook 18 (Madison: International Brecht Society, 1993), 243 pages.

5 The Other Brecht I, The Brecht Yearbook 17. With guest editors Hans-Thies Lehmann and Renate Voris (Madison: International Brecht Society, 1992), 283 pages.

4 Revolution 1989: Whither Brecht? The Brecht Yearbook 16 (Madison: International Brecht Society, 1991), 174 pages.

3 Teaching German Media, Monatshefte Vol. 82, No. 3 (Fall 1990)

2 Essays on Brecht, The Brecht Yearbook 15 (Madison: International Brecht Society, 1990), 243 pages.

1 Interpretationen zum Roman in der DDR. Edited with introduction and bibliography (Stuttgart: Klett Verlag, 1980), 174 pages.

Articles and book chapters:

68 "January 1932: The Threepenny Lawsuit,” Jennifer Kapczynski and Michael Richardson, eds., A New History of German Cinema (Rochester: Camden House, forthcoming 2008).

67 “Whose Revolution? The Subject of Kuhle Wampe,” Noah Isenberg, ed., A Companion to Weimar Cinema (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2008).

66 “Spuren der Zeitgeschichte in Zukunftsphantasien früher DDR-Gegenwartsromane,” in Erhard Schütz, Hrsg., Zeitgeschichte in der Literature nach 1945 (forthcoming Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008).

65 “What’s New? Allegorical Representations of Renewal in DEFA’s Early Youth Films,” in William Rasch and Wilfried Wilms, eds., German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins (Palgrave-Macmillan, forthcoming 2008).

64 “Alemanha,” in Allesandra Meleiro, ed., A Indústria Cinematográfica Mundial, Vol. 5 (Sao Paolo: Escrituras Editora, forthcoming 2007).

63 “The First DEFA Fairy-Tale Films: Cold-war Fantasies of the 1950s,” translated, shortened and updated version of 55 (below), in John E. Davidson and Sabine Hake, eds., Take Two: Fifties Cinema in Divided Germany (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007), 106-119.

62 “Brecht’s Epitaphic Writing,” Stephen Brockmann et al., eds., Brecht and Death, The Brecht Yearbook 32 (Pittsburgh: International Brecht Society, 2007), 93-105.

61 “Brecht is dead! Brecht is dead?” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Vol 5, No. 3 (www.logosjournal.com, Fall 2006), www.logosjournal.com/issue_5.

60 “Brecht’s Gestus: Staging Contradictions,” Jürgen Hillesheim, ed., The Young Mr. Brecht, The Brecht Yearbook 31 (Pittsburgh: International Brecht Society, 2006), 318-335.

59 “Die Tradition des politischen Theaters in Deutschland,” Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 23/24 (June 2006), 13-21. Also online: www.bpb.de/publikationen/PXNF1E,0,0,Die_Tradition_des_politischen_Theaters_in_Deutschland.html

58 “Learning from the Enemy: DEFA-French Co-productions of the 1950s,” Film History, Vol. 18, No. 1 (February 2006), 21-45.

57 “Mixed Messages: Schrift im expressionistischen Film,” Justus Fetscher und Inge Münz-Koenen, Hrsg., Pictogrammatica: Die visuelle Organisation der Sinne in den Medienavantgarden (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2006)..

56 “Introduction to Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany” and “Introduction to The Second Heimat: Chronicle of a Generation” (Chicago: Facets, 2005 and 2006), two 20-minute interview films for DVD boxed editions.

55 “Hauff-Verfilmungen der fünfziger Jahre: Märchen und postfaschistischer Medienwandel,” Ernst Osterkamp, Andrea Polaschegg und Erhard Schütz, Hrsg., Wilhelm Hauff oder die Virtuosität der Einbildungskraft (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2005), 238-262.

54 “Popular Cinema, National Cinema, and European Integration,” Agnes Müller, ed., German Pop Culture (University of Michigan Press, 2004), 151-164.

53 “Heiner Müllers Fortschreibung der Brechtschen Dialektik: Der Horatier,” Christian Schulte und Brigitte Maria Mayer, Hrsg., Der Text ist der Coyote: Heiner Müller Bestandsaufnahme (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2004), 197-210.

52 “Heiner Müllers Brecht,” Hans-Thies Lehmann, ed., Das Heiner Müller Handbuch (Stuttgart und Weimar: Metzler, 2003), 136–146.

51 “Revolution, Power, and Desire in Ernst Lubitsch’s Madame Dubarry,” in Dietrich Scheunemann, ed., Expressionist Film: New Perspectives (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003), 73-85.

50 “Political Cinema as Oppositional Practice: Weimar and Beyond,” Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz Göktürk, eds., The German Cinema Book (London: British Film Institute, 2002), 165-172.

49 “Brechts frühe Drehbücher,” Jan Knopf, ed., Das Brecht-Handbuch, Vol. 3 (Stuttgart und Weimar: Metzler, 2002), 421-32.

48a “Brecht Today” (in Greek), Nadia Valavani, ed., Bertolt Brecht: Critical Approaches (Athens, Greece: Stachi Publications, 2002), 27-53.
48b Second edition (Athens, Greece: Polytropon Publishing, 2004), 27-53.

47a “Gestus,” in Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Hrsg., Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Vol. 5 (Berlin and Hamburg: Argument Verlag, 2001), 660-669.

47b “Gestus,” shortened and revised, in Gerd Koch und Marianne Streisand, Hrsg., Wörterbuch der Theaterpädagogik (Hannover: Schibri, 2003), 127-129.

46 “Bilder einer Revolution: Weimarer Filme zur Französichen Revolution,” in Jahrbuch zur Kultur und Literatur der Weimarer Republik 6 (Munich: Edition Text & Kritik, 2001), 235-262.

45 “European Cinema in the 90s: Whither Germany?” in Gerhard Fischer und David Roberts, Hrsg., Schreiben nach der Wende: Ein Jahrzehnt deutscher Literatur, 1989 – 1999 (Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2001) 317-30.

44 “Germany,” in Gorham Kindem, ed., The International Movie Industry (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), 206-222.

43a “Brecht-Ehrungen: Eine Übung zur Vorschau auf einen Rückblick,” Thomas Jung, Hrsg., Zweifel - Fragen - Vorschläge: Bertolt Brecht anläßlich des Einhundertsten (Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 1999), 13-29.
43b Slightly revised in 100 Jahre Brecht. Ringvorlesung aus Anlass des 100. Geburtstages Bertolt Brechts (Berlin: Humboldt-Universität, 1999), 180-200.

42 "Scattered Questions after the End of the GDR," in “Gegenwartsbewältigung: The GDR after the Wende,” Michigan Germanic Studies 21.1-2 (Spring/Fall 1995; published Summer 1998), 178-183.

41 "Whose Story Is This? Rewriting the Literary History of the GDR," Jost Hermand and Marc Silberman, eds., Contentious Memories: Looking Back at the GDR (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), 25-57.

40 “Problematizing the “Socialist Public Sphere”: Concepts and Consequences,” Marc Silberman, ed., What Remains? East German Culture and the Postwar Public. AICGS Humanities Program Report Vol. 5 (Washington, D.C.: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 1997), 1-37.

39 "Sind wir die Nachgeborenen? Wie und wozu feiert man 100 Jahre Brecht?" Eeva Mustonen, ed., Auf den Spuren Brechts im Finnischen Exil (Helsinki: Teatterin tiedotuskeskus, 1997) 133-39.

38 "Brecht and Film," Siegfried Mews, ed., A Bertolt Brecht Reference Companion (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 1997), 197-219.

37 "The Actor's Medium: On Stage and in Film," Modern Drama Vol. 39, Nr. 4 (Winter 1996): 558-65.

36 "What is German in the German Cinema," Film History Vol. 8, Nr. 3 (Fall 1996): 297-315.

35 "`Family Troubles': A Generational View of Heiner Müller's Role in the GDR," Gerhard Fischer, ed., Heiner Müller: ConTEXTS and HISTORY (Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1995), 55-69.

34 "Post-Wall Documentaries: New Images from a New Germany?" Cinema Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Winter 1994): 22-41.

33 "Was bedeutet Übersetzen? Überlegungen zu Texten von Heiner Müller," Armin Paul Frank et al., eds., Übersetzen, Verstehen, Brücken bauen: Geisteswissenschaftliches und literarisches Übersetzen im internationalen Kulturaustausch (Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1993), 214-221.

32 "German Studies and the GDR: Too Near, Too Far," Monatshefte Vol. 85, Nr. 3 (Fall 1993): 265-274.

31 "Speaking with Silence. The GDR Author and the New Germany," German Politics and Society 29 (Summer 1993), 83-103.

30 "The Fascist Discourse in the Cinema: A Reading of Eduard von Borsody's Wunschkonzert (1940)," Ingeborg Hoesterey and Ulrich Weisstein, eds., Intertextuality: German Literature and Visual Art from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century (Columbia, SC: Camden, 1993), 188-200.

29 "Wolfgang Staudte: Rotation (Germany 1949)," Joachim Schmitt-Sasse, ed., Filmästhetik gegen Faschismus. Faschismus und Antifaschismus im Film (Münster: Maks, 1993), 137-152.

28 "A Postmodernized Brecht?" Theatre Journal Vol. 45, No. 1 (March 1993), 1-19.

27 "Imagining History: Weimar Images of the French Revolution," Bruce Murray and Christopher Wickham, eds., Framing the Past: The Historiography of German Cinema and Television (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992), 99-120.

26 "Shooting Wars. German Cinema and the Two World Wars," Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds., 1914/1939: German Reflections of the Two World Wars (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992), 116-136.

25 "Whose Revolution Was It? Stalinism and the Stasi in the Former GDR," GDR Bulletin Vol. 18, Nr. 1 (Spring 1992), 21-24.

24 "Zarah Leander in the Colonies," Knut Hickethier and Siegfried Zielinski, eds., Medien/Kultur. Schnittstellen zwischen Medienwissenschaft, Medienpraxis und gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation (Berlin: Volker Spiess, 1991), 247-253.

23a "Narrating Gender in the GDR: Hermann Zschoche's Bürgschaft für ein Jahr (1981)," The Germanic Review Vol. 66, No. 1 (Winter 1991), 25-33.
23b Reprint in Terri Ginsberg and Kirsten Thompson, eds., Perspectives on the German Cinema (New York: G.K. Hall, 1996).

22 "Teaching German Media: An Introduction," Monatshefte Vol. 82, No. 3 (Fall 1990), 235-245 (and Appendices, 319-322)

21 "Late Pabst - The Last Ten Days (1955)," Eric Rentschler, ed., The Films of G.W. Pabst (New Brunswick/London: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 208-216, 268-270.

20 "Remembering History: The Filmmaker Konrad Wolf," New German Critique 49 (Winter 1990), 163-191.

19 "Media Studies in Research and Teaching," Friedrich Knilli and Rainer Matzker, eds., Germanistische Medienwissenschaft: Die Rolle der Medien in der Auslandsgermanistik, Reihe C des Jahrbuchs für internationale Germanistik (Bern/Frankfurt/New York/Paris: Lang, 1989), 66-81.

18 "Heiner Müller's Der Lohndrücker, 1988," Theater (Yale) Vol. 19, No. 3 (Summer/Fall 1988): 22-34.

17a "The Politics of Representation: Brecht and the Media," Theatre Journal Vol. 39, No. 4 (December 1987), 448-460.
17b Reprinted as "Die Politik der Darstellung. Brecht und die Medien," Inge Gellert and Barbara Wallburg, eds., Brecht 90. Schwierigkeiten mit der Kommunikation? Kulturtheoretische Aspekte der Brechtschen Medienprogrammatik (Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag, 1991), 90-104.

16 "Writing What - For Whom? Vergangenheitsbewältigung in GDR Literature," German Studies Review Vol. 10, No. 3 (October 1987), 527-538.

15 "Erinnern - Erzählen - Filmen: Die Filme von Konrad Wolf," Medium Film - das Ende der Literatur, Akten des VII. Internationalen Germanisten Kongresses, Bd. 10 (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1986), 339-352.

14 "Semper fidelis: Staudte's The Subject," Eric Rentschler, ed., German Film and Literature: Adaptations and Transformations (New York/London: Methuen, 1986), 146-160.

13 "Schreiben als öffentliche Angelegenheit: Lesestrategien des Romans Hundejahre," Manfred Durzak, ed., Zu Günter Grass: Geschichte auf dem poetischen Prüfstand (Stuttgart: Klett, 1985), 80-95.

12 "The Ideology of Form: The Film as Narrative," Sigrid Bauschinger et al., eds., Film and Literature: Literarische Texte und der neue deutsche Film (Bern: Francke Verlag, 1984), 197-209.

11 "How Women See Themselves," Klaus Phillips, ed., New German Filmmakers (New York: F. Ungar, 1984), 320-334.

10a "The Ideology of Re-Presenting the Classics: Filming Der zerbrochene Krug in the Third Reich," The German Quarterly Vol. 57, No. 4 (1984), 590-602.
10b Reprinted as "Kleist in the Third Reich: Ucicky's The Broken Jug," Eric Rentschler, ed., German Film and Literature: Adaptations and Transformations (New York/London: Methuen, 1986), 87-102.

9 "Industry, Text and Ideology in Expressionist Film", Stephen Bronner and Douglas Kellner, eds., Passion and Rebellion. The Expressionist Heritage (South Hadley, MA/London: Bergin, 1983), 374-383.

8a "Film and Feminism in Germany Today" (together with Renny Harrigan), Special Section of Jump Cut 27 (Spring 1982), 41-53. Part II, "German Film Women", Jump Cut 29 (Spring 1984), 49-64.
8b Reprint of four interviews in Sandra Frieden et al., eds., Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions (Providence and Oxford: Berg, 1993), I:111-114, 163-165, 205-207, II: 253-258.

7 "Soll und Haben. Überlegungen zum Roman der DDR," Manfred Durzak, ed., Deutsche Gegenwartsliteratur (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1981), 495-516.

6 "Women Filmmakers in West Germany. A Catalog," Camera Obscura 6 (Fall 1980), 123-152. Part II (Fall 1983), 130-145.

5 "Cine-Feminists in West Berlin," Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Special Issue on German Film (Spring 1980), 217-232.

4 "Brecht Reception in the GDR," Theatre Journal, Special Issue on German Theatre (March 1980), 95-105.

3 "Der Erzähler als Erzieher. Erkenntnis und Autorität in Der Aufenthalt," Marc Silberman, ed., Interpretationen zum Roman in der DDR (Stuttgart: Klett Verlag, 1980), 152-167.

2 "Vorbemerkung," Marc Silberman, ed., Interpretationen zum Roman in der DDR (Stuttgart: Klett Verlag, 1980), 5-22.

1 "Fünf Interviews mit Berliner Filmerinnen" (zusammen mit Jutta Phillips), Ästhetik und Kommunikation 37 (October 1979), 115-127.

Short articles and review essays:

33 “The Victor Cohen Collection at the Bertolt Brecht-Archive, Berlin: A Public Interview of Robert Cohen by Marc Silberman (New York University, 30 March 2006),” The Brecht Yearbook 32 (Pittsburgh: International Brecht Society, 2007), 1-6.

32 Guest Editor’s Note, “The Art of Hearing,” Special Issue, Monatshefte, Vol. 98, Nr. 2 (Summer 2006), 173-174.

31 Vorwort / Introduction, co-authored with Florian Vassen, “Können uns und euch und niemand helfen”: Die Mahagonnisierung der Welt, eds. Gerd Koch, Florian Vassen, and Doris Zeilinger (Frankfurt am Main: Brandes und Apsel, 2006), 7-14 [revised version of Nr. 29].

30 Editorial, Film History, Vol. 18, No. 1 (February 2006), 3-5.

29 “Introduction/Vorwort: Mahagonny.com,” co-authored with Florian Vassen, Brecht Yearbook 29 (Pittsburgh: International Brecht Society, 2004), 15-21.

28 “Neuigkeiten von der International Brecht Society.” Dreigroschenheft: Informationen zu Bertolt Brecht 4 (2004): 56-57.

27 “Remembering Bertolt Brecht: The End of the Commemorative Year.” Communications from the International Brecht Society Vol. 27, Nr. 2 (December 1998): 36-40.

26a (with Jost Hermand) “Brecht Today: Introduction.” Monatshefte Vol. 90, Nr. 3 (Fall 1998): 296-99.
26b Reprint in Dreigroschenheft 1 (1999): 5-7.

25 Entries on “Cinema” (183-84), “Rainer Werner Fassbinder” (298-99), “Werner Herzog” (458), “Alexander Kluge” (559), “Volker Schlöndorff” (886), “Hans-Jürgen Syberberg” (982), “Margarethe von Trotta” (1015-16), in Dieter K. Buse and Juergen C. Doerr, eds., Modern Germany: An Encyclopedic of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990 (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998).

24 (co-author Shuhsi Kao) “Introduction” and revised notes, Bertolt Brecht, Collected Short Stories. Ed. and trans. by John Willett and Ralph Manheim (New York: Arcade Publishers, 1998), vii-xi, 227-240.

23a “Gert Neumann: Bio-bibliography,” in Hermand and Silberman, eds., Contentious Memories: Looking Back at the GDR (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), 13-24.
23b Updated and expanded (with Walter Schmitz) in Gert Neumann, Verhaftet: Dresdner Poetikvorlesung 1998 (Dresden: Thelem Universitätsverlag, 1999), 133-48.

22 “Graduate Seminar in German Literature: Historisierung der DDR-Literatur,” GDR Bulletin 24 (Spring 1997): 43-45.

21 "Gedenkjahr Brecht," Dreigroschenheft 4 (Oktober 1996): 11-12.

20 "Introduction to Jochen Berg's Strangers in the Night," Contemporary Theatre Review Vol. 4, Nr. 2 (1995): 125-127.

19 Note on "Brecht's Usefulness Today," in James K. Lyon and Hans-Peter Breuer, eds., Brecht Unbound (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995), 312.

18 Review essay on “New Film History," Monatshefte, Vol. 97, No. 2 (Summer 1995): 236-244.

17 "Developments at the Berliner Ensemble," Communications Vol. 24, Nr. 1 (May 1995): 13-14.

16 Brechts Collaborators, Theater (Yale) Vol. 25, Nr. 2 (Winter 1994): 37-38.

15 Eric Rohmer's La Marquise d'O (1975), Program Notes: A Century of French Cinema Film Festival, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Fall 1994)

14 Entries "Leopold Jessner" and "Heiner Müller," in John Frick and Stephen Vallillo, eds., Theatrical Directors: A Biographical Dictionary (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994), 203-205 and 279-281.

13 "Das ist die Verpapstung von Brecht" (protocol of a discussion with E. Brenner, I. Gellert, J. Berg, F. Dieckmann, F. Raddatz and M. Silberman), in Inge Gellert, ed., Nach Brecht (Berlin: Argon, 1992), 135-159.

12 "Thoughts on Brecht after the Wall," Program Notes: International Symposium "Brecht Unbound," University of Delaware (1992)

11 "Hermann Kant: Die Aula," entry in Imma Klemm, ed., Deutscher Romanführer (Stuttgart: Kröner Verlag, 1991), 273-274.

10 "Hamlet," Program Notes: Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern (1989)

9 "Cinema and the French Revolution," Program notes for national film retrospective (1989).

8 "Heiner Müller and The Slaughter: An Introduction," Theater (Yale) Vol. 17, No. 4 (Spring 1986): 19-21.

7 Review essay of Robert C. Holub, Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction, New German Critique 33 (Fall 1984): 249-254.

6 Review essay on “Holocaust studies from Germany,” The German Quarterly Vol. 57, No. 4 (1984): 693-697.

5 "Introduction to the Film Germany in Autumn," Discourse 6 (Fall 1983): 48-52.

4 Review essay of Julian Petley, Capital and Culture: German Cinema 1933-1945, Jump Cut 23 (Fall 1980): 34-35.

3 Review essay on "Women and the Law in West Germany," New German Critique 14 (Spring 1978): 154-158.

2 Review essay of C. McClelland and S. Scher, Postwar German Culture, New German Critique 15 (Fall 1978): 188-192.

1 Review essay of Ingeborg Gerlach, Bitterfeld, New German Critique 8 (Spring 1976): 187-191.

Literary translations:

13 Gert Neumann, "Blackout," in Hermand and Silberman, eds., Contentious Memories: Looking Back at the GDR (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), 5-11.

12 Jochen Berg, Strangers in the Night (A Play), Contemporary Theatre Review Vol. 4, Nr. 2 (1995): 129-149.

11 Heiner Müller, "The Geste of Citation. Three Points (on Philoctotes)," in Heiner Müller, Germania, ed. Sylvere Lotringer (New York: Foreign Agents Series, 1990), 177.

10 Heiner Müller: "Isolated Texts Waiting for History," in Heiner Müller, Germania (New York: Foreign Agents Series, 1990), 239-240.

9 Heiner Müller, "The Block Gnaws at the Wall," in Heiner Müller, Germania (New York: Foreign Agents Series, 1990), 119-123.

8a Heiner Müller, "To Use Brecht Without Criticizing Him Is to Betray Him," Theater (Yale) Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring 1986), 31-33.
8b Reprinted as "Brecht vs. Brecht," in Heiner Müller, Germania (New York: Foreign Agents Series, 1990), 124-133.

7 Heiner Müller, "A Letter," Theater (Yale) Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring 1986), 29-30.

6 Heiner Müller, "The Slaughter. Scenes from Germany" (with Helen Fehervary and Guntram Weber), Theater (Yale) Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring 1986), 23-29.

5 Herbert Achternbusch, "America," Semiotexte IV/2 (1982), 6-15.

4a Heiner Müller, "Obituary", Semiotexte IV/2 (1982), 66-70.
4b Reprinted in Heiner Müller, Germania (New York: Foreign Agents Series, 1990), 180-183.

3 Heiner Müller, "Cement" (with Helen Fehervary and Sue-Ellen Case), New German Critique 16 (Winter 1979), Supplement. Performed at the Berkeley Stage (1979) and at the Sussex Underground Theatre (England, 1980).

2 Heiner Müller, "Mauser" (with Helen Fehervary), New German Critique 8 (Spring 1976), 122-149. Performed at the Austin Theater Group (1975) and at the West Six Theater (London, 1985).

1 Heiner Müller, "The Horation" (with Helen Fehervary), Minnesota Review NS 6 (Spring 1976), 40-50.

Other translations:

11 Erdmut Wizisla, “Victor N. Cohen’s Brecht Collection,” The Brecht Yearbook 32 (Pittsburgh: International Brecht Society, forthcoming July 2007), 9-15.

10 Hartmut Krug, “The Theatre Landscape in Germany,” International Theatre Institute, ed., The World of Theatre: An Account of the World’s Theatre Season (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2006), 126-134.

9 Ekkehard Schall, AMy School of the Theater,@ (including translator=s commentary and notes) The Brecht Yearbook 28 (2003), 75-109.

8 Traute Schölling, "On With the Show? The Transition to Post-Socialist Theatre in Eastern Germany," Theatre Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1 (March 1993), 21-33.

7 Gertrud Koch/Heide Schlüpmann, "The Female Spectator. Contexts and Directions," Camera Obscura 20-21 (September 1990), 209-212; 279-282.

6 Petra Haffter, "The Association of Women Film Workers," Jump Cut (March 1985), 66.

5 Peter Uwe Hohendahl, "Critical Theory, Public Sphere and Culture: Jürgen Habermas and His Critics,@ New German Critique 16 (Winter 1979), 89-119. Reprinted in Hohendahl, Institutions of Criticism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982), 242-280.

4 "Invisible Adversaries (Valie Export)," Camera Obscura 3-4 (Summer 1979), 219-224.

3 Peter Uwe Hohendahl, "Introduction to Reception Aesthetics," New German Critique 10 (Winter 1977), 29-63.

2 Wolf-Dieter Narr, "Threats to Constitutional Freedoms in West Germany," New German Critique 8 (Spring 1976), 20-41 (co-translator: Dave Harris).

1 Rainer Nägele, "Aspects of the Reception of Heinrich Böll," New German Critique 7 (Winter 1976), 45-68.