Brecht and company: sex, politics, and the making of the modern drama
"The result of twenty-five years of research on three continents, Brecht and Company is a revolutionary portrait of one of the world's greatest theater artists - and the people upon whom he built his reputation. Bertolt Brecht is regarded by many as the most influential figure in twentieth...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "The result of twenty-five years of research on three continents, Brecht and Company is a revolutionary portrait of one of the world's greatest theater artists - and the people upon whom he built his reputation. Bertolt Brecht is regarded by many as the most influential figure in twentieth-century theater; the director Peter Brook has argued that "all theater work today at some point starts with or returns to his achievement." In this first full biography of the Brecht circle, John Fuegi confirms Brecht's rank as a world-class theater director, but also shows why much of the writing can no longer be attributed to Brecht alone." "Brecht's first violent, homoerotic plays, though noisily provocative failures at the box office, brought him praise from adventurous critics. In Berlin in the 1920s, Brecht found someone who would change not only his life but world theater: Elisabeth Hauptmann, who wrote over 80 percent of The Threepenny Opera in exchange for time in Brecht's life and in his bed. Yet her name often disappeared from the printed text, as well as from other plays and poems. Disappointed and disaffected, Hauptmann was supplanted by the passionate, tubercular Margarete Steffin, who contributed crucially to such classics as Mother Courage and The Good Woman of Setzuan. With Steffin's death in 1941, Brecht's career as a playwright virtually ended, though other works, begun with her, were finished with the aid of the uninhibited and politically committed Danish director and author Ruth Berlau." "Fuegi traces the evolution of Brecht's parasitic relationships and aggressive ambition through close analysis of diaries, letters, and drafts of the literary works, revealing a man who was personally dazzling, a genius at assembling and "The story of Brecht's artistic thefts is told against a backdrop of his equivocal politics through the turbulent times: from the 1932 New Year's party with members of Germany's virulent right wing, to his refusal to acknowledge Stalin's murderous purges, to his shocking break before the House Un-American Activities Committee, to his frequent anti-Semitism, to the privilege and ease he enjoyed in a repressive East Germany." "Brecht and Company will irrevocably change our understanding of one of the world's great writer-directors, even as it presents us with three new artists of enduring stature: Elisabeth Hauptmann, Margarete Steffin, and Ruth Berlau."--BOOK JACKET |
| Beschreibung: | Engl. Ausg. u.d.T.: Fuegi, John: The life and lies of Bertolt Brecht |
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Preface xiii
1 Once upon a Time in Bavaria (1898 1914) 1
2 "Sweet and Proper Death" (1914 17) 16
3 "The World Has Laws Only to Be Trampled On" (1917 18) 28
4 "In the Most Significant Moments of the Revolution This
Renowned 'Organizational Talent' Is the First to Fail"
(1918 19) 45
5 "Cold as a Dog, a Great Being with No Human Feeling"
(1919 20) 54
6 "Why Can't the Jews Be Got out of the Way?" (1920 21) 66
7 "The Still Recognized Führer . in His
Augsburg Headquarters" (1921 22) 79
8 "Down with the Goddamned Jewish Sow,
Murder Walther Rathenau" (1922) 100
9 "What Concern Is It of Yours That People Are Starving?"
(1923 24) 112
10 "Jabyourknifeintohimjackhiphiphurrah" (1923 24) 122
($)ll "A Woman Must Give Up a Lot" (1924 25) 137
12 "The Corpses That Fell around Hirn Did Not Bother Hirn"
(1925 26) 153
/O)13 "Let the Tips of Your Fingers Stroke the Tips of Her
U*' • Breasts" (1926 27) 169
14 "The Pawnbroker . . . Took Anything That Might Be
Useful to Hirn from Right and Left" (1927 28) 190
15 "A Robot That Stood There, Used to Coldness of the
Emotions" (1928 29) 204
X CONTENTS
16 "His Pain at His Weakness, His Inability to Systematize
Anything, Was Almost Physical" (1928 29) 219
17 "We'll Have to Get Rid of Them" (1929 30) 232
18 "Evil Ingredients, Very Finely Distributed, of Reactionary
Thinking Grounded in Senseless Authority" (1930) 245
19 "Should Fascism Come to Power, It Will Ride over Your
Skulls and Spines Like a Terrific Tank" (1931) 255
20 "It Was Hitler's Best Time. His Neck Was Still Slender
Then and Radiated Sensuality." (1931 32) 265
21 "Moscow Is Convinced the Road to Soviet Germany Lies
through Hitler" (1932) 274
22 "Let Us Speak Quite Frankly with One Another, Herr
Brecht, You Have Lived a Very Rieh Life at My Expense"
(1933) 289
23 "There Are Friends One Can Run over with a 1,000 Ton
Freight Train" (1933) 300
24 "You Have Achieved a Masterwork, Old Muck" (1933 35) 314
25 "I Do Not Want to Get Involved in Any of Your
Hierarchical Games, No Matter How Fine" (1935 36) 329
26 "A Quagmire of Infamous Crimes. All of the Scum . . . ,
All the Parasites . . . Were All Nested Together" (1936 37) 341
27 " 'Is This Signature Yours?' 'I Put It There, after Torture
. . . Terrible Torture.' " (1937 38) 350
28 "Master, What Grounds Do You Have for Your Antipathy
toward Women?" (1938 39) 363
29 "How Can a Tiny Tree Blossom When So Much Snow Falls
on It?" (1939 41) 376
30 "I Saw That without Me He Really Didn't Get Anything
Done" (1941) 387
31 "I and My People . . . Firmly Believe Your Wise Plan:
Hitler Is Not Going to Attack Us in 1941" (1941) 398
32 "As Long As They Are Fighting, the War Will Stay away
Forever from Our Shores" (1941^3) 412
33 "He's Behaved, in the Worst Word I Can Find, Like a
'Hitlerite' " (1943) 424
CONTENTS XI
34 "For a Moment I Crossed My Fingers for Hitler" (1943 45) 436
35 "The Jews Have Now Had Their Six Million Deaths, Now
They Should Give [Us] Some Peace" (1945) 451
( J , |36 "I Am Jealous, So Jealous That the Devil's Fire Is Burning
\J All over in My Body" (1946 47) 467
37 "No, No, No, No, No, Never" (1947) 478
38 "We No Longer Stand before a Choice between Peace and
War, but between Peace and Annihilation" (1947 48) 487
39 "Possibly the Most Powerful Scene, Emotionally, in
Twentieth Century Drama" (1948 49) 500
40 "A Small Hole of a Room" (1949) 509
41 "He Despises Us Women Deeply" (1949 50) 518
42 "I Regard Myself As a Criminal. I Am a Jew." (1951 53) 530
43 "They Have Taken My Name out with Chemicals. Out of a
Handwritten Letter of Lenin!" (1953 54) 546
44 "Should I Wander around like a Wreck, Muttering His
Poems to the Survivors?" (1954 55) 562
45 "He Sat on a Chair Placed at a Great Distance from Human
Beings" (1954 56) 574
46 "Organized Schizophrenia" (1956) 595
47 "The Progress of the Consciousness of Freedom" 610
Acknowledgments 623
Notes 627
Photo Credits 699
Index 703 |
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| spelling | Fuegi, John 1936- Verfasser (DE-588)118062425 aut Brecht and company sex, politics, and the making of the modern drama John Fuegi 1. ed. New York Grove Press 1994 XX, 732, [32] S. Ill. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Engl. Ausg. u.d.T.: Fuegi, John: The life and lies of Bertolt Brecht "The result of twenty-five years of research on three continents, Brecht and Company is a revolutionary portrait of one of the world's greatest theater artists - and the people upon whom he built his reputation. Bertolt Brecht is regarded by many as the most influential figure in twentieth-century theater; the director Peter Brook has argued that "all theater work today at some point starts with or returns to his achievement." In this first full biography of the Brecht circle, John Fuegi confirms Brecht's rank as a world-class theater director, but also shows why much of the writing can no longer be attributed to Brecht alone." "Brecht's first violent, homoerotic plays, though noisily provocative failures at the box office, brought him praise from adventurous critics. In Berlin in the 1920s, Brecht found someone who would change not only his life but world theater: Elisabeth Hauptmann, who wrote over 80 percent of The Threepenny Opera in exchange for time in Brecht's life and in his bed. Yet her name often disappeared from the printed text, as well as from other plays and poems. Disappointed and disaffected, Hauptmann was supplanted by the passionate, tubercular Margarete Steffin, who contributed crucially to such classics as Mother Courage and The Good Woman of Setzuan. With Steffin's death in 1941, Brecht's career as a playwright virtually ended, though other works, begun with her, were finished with the aid of the uninhibited and politically committed Danish director and author Ruth Berlau." "Fuegi traces the evolution of Brecht's parasitic relationships and aggressive ambition through close analysis of diaries, letters, and drafts of the literary works, revealing a man who was personally dazzling, a genius at assembling and "The story of Brecht's artistic thefts is told against a backdrop of his equivocal politics through the turbulent times: from the 1932 New Year's party with members of Germany's virulent right wing, to his refusal to acknowledge Stalin's murderous purges, to his shocking break before the House Un-American Activities Committee, to his frequent anti-Semitism, to the privilege and ease he enjoyed in a repressive East Germany." "Brecht and Company will irrevocably change our understanding of one of the world's great writer-directors, even as it presents us with three new artists of enduring stature: Elisabeth Hauptmann, Margarete Steffin, and Ruth Berlau."--BOOK JACKET Brecht, Bertolt <1898-1956> Brecht, Bertolt <1898-1956> - Amis et relations Brecht, Bertolt <1898-1956> Friends and associates Brecht, Bertolt 1898-1956 (DE-588)118514768 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1900-2000 Écrivains allemands - 20e siècle - Biographies Authors, German 20th century Biography Literaturproduktion (DE-588)4167882-5 gnd rswk-swf Freundeskreis (DE-588)4132270-8 gnd rswk-swf (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Brecht, Bertolt 1898-1956 (DE-588)118514768 p Freundeskreis (DE-588)4132270-8 s Literaturproduktion (DE-588)4167882-5 s 1\p DE-604 HBZ Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=006532722&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | Brecht and company sex, politics, and the making of the modern drama |
| title_auth | Brecht and company sex, politics, and the making of the modern drama |
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| title_full | Brecht and company sex, politics, and the making of the modern drama John Fuegi |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Brecht and company sex, politics, and the making of the modern drama John Fuegi |
| title_short | Brecht and company |
| title_sort | brecht and company sex politics and the making of the modern drama |
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| topic | Brecht, Bertolt <1898-1956> Brecht, Bertolt <1898-1956> - Amis et relations Brecht, Bertolt <1898-1956> Friends and associates Brecht, Bertolt 1898-1956 (DE-588)118514768 gnd Écrivains allemands - 20e siècle - Biographies Authors, German 20th century Biography Literaturproduktion (DE-588)4167882-5 gnd Freundeskreis (DE-588)4132270-8 gnd |
| topic_facet | Brecht, Bertolt <1898-1956> Brecht, Bertolt <1898-1956> - Amis et relations Brecht, Bertolt <1898-1956> Friends and associates Brecht, Bertolt 1898-1956 Écrivains allemands - 20e siècle - Biographies Authors, German 20th century Biography Literaturproduktion Freundeskreis Biografie |
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