Der Band versammelt Lekturen gegenwartiger und historischer Konstellationen in Theater, Text und Kunst, die Echo als Figur und Phanomen nachspuren. Im antiken Mythos ist die Nymphe Echo zur ohnmachtigen Wiederholung fremder Rede verdammt. Sie wird zum Sinnbild eines defizitaren, vom Anderen abhangigen Wesens. Doch birgt der Widerhall mehr in sich, verweist er doch auf das widerstandige Moment einer Zergliederung jedes "eigentlichen" Ausdrucks. Echos koerperlose Stimme gemahnt an die Medialitat der Kommunikation, das Entgleiten des Sinns, die Grenzen der Mitteilbarkeit und die Ambivalenzen einer Aneignung der Vergangenheit. Damit aber wohnt ihr ein entschieden theatrales Element inne. Echo wird als eigene Praxis wirksam.

Annual volume with contributions on writers and artists whose work intersects with Brecht's from three thematic perspectives: Brecht in a global age, women and Brecht, and Brecht's learning plays. Published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House, the Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of Brecht's life and work and of topics of particular interest to him, especially the politics of literature and of theater in a global context. It, like Brecht himself, is committed to the concept of the use value of literature, theater, and theory. This is the second volume dedicated to the proceedings of the 16th Symposium of the IBS, held at Leipzig University in 2019. The contributions discuss artists whose work intersects with Brecht's from three thematic perspectives: Brecht in a global age, women and Brecht, and Brecht's learning plays. The artists include Utpal Dutt, Elisabeth Hauptmann, Elfriede Jelinek, Peter Konwitschny, Siegfried Kracauer, Tom Kuhnel, Jurgen Kuttner, Heiner Muller, Rimini Protokoll, Margarete Steffin, Teatro Due Mondi, Teatro Maquina, Tom Tykwer, and Hella Wuolijoki. The articles cover a broad range of genres and topics, such as crime and detective fiction; neo-noir television series; the learning play according to and after Brecht; theater pedagogy; the migration dilemma; and post-dramatic, refugee, and transcultural theater.