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Edinburgh German Yearbook 5 - Brecht and the GDR: Politics, Culture, Posterity (Hardcover, New)
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Edinburgh German Yearbook 5 - Brecht and the GDR: Politics, Culture, Posterity (Hardcover, New)
Series: Edinburgh German Yearbook
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Brecht's activities in the GDR, the regime's marginalizing response
and posthumous appropriation of his legacy, and creative responses
in the GDR and after. The avant-garde writer and director Bertolt
Brecht left the West for good in 1949, returning to East Berlin and
founding the Berliner Ensemble. While he quickly became identified
internationally as the cultural figurehead of the young socialist
state, his relationship with the authorities was always complex,
and he was increasingly marginalized by restrictive and
authoritarian structures of power. It was only after his death that
the regime sought to elevate him as a socialist classic - a shift
that entailed the selective appropriation of his legacy and the
development of authorized modes of interpretation and performance.
Poets, theorists, dramatists, and directors soon reacted against
what they saw as the stagnation of Brecht's critical impetus: they
began to subject his work to his own treatment, using his texts as
a source of material and taking his methods to more radical
conclusions. EGYB 5 explores the multiple, contradictory impulses
behind these broad paradigm shifts and behind Brecht's activities
in the GDR. It investigates the tensions engendered by his
co-option as a socialist classic, and the range of creative
responses his works have inspired, both in the GDR itself and in
reaction to its demise. Contributors: David Barnett, Laura Bradley,
Joy Calico, Paula Hanssen, Patrick Harkin, Loren Kruger, Karen
Leeder, Moray McGowan, Stephen Parker, David Robb, Erdmut Wizisla.
Laura Bradley is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of
Edinburgh. Karen Leeder is Professor of Modern German Literature
and a Fellow of New College, University of Oxford.
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