{"id":106636,"date":"2019-11-22T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T20:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=106636"},"modified":"2019-11-22T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T20:31:11","slug":"brecht-yearbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/22\/brecht-yearbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor publishes yearbook highlighting key figure in political theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at M\u0101noa Theatre<\/a> Professor Markus Wessendorf<\/strong> has published another volume of the international Brecht Yearbook<\/em>, Das Brecht-Jahrbuch\/The Brecht Yearbook 44<\/em><\/a>, for the International Brecht Society. Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), a German playwright, poet, director and theorist, was a seminal proponent of 20th-century modern drama as well as a key figure in the development of political theatre.<\/p>\n

Highlights of this volume include a special section on various dramatic fragments by Brecht that were only recently translated into English (Fatzer, Fleischhacker<\/em>) as well as several essays on comedic devices in Brecht’s work and contemporary theatre.<\/p>\n

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“Das Brecht-Jahrbuch\/The Brecht Yearbook<\/em> is an interesting challenge for me because I get to edit in both English and German (the articles published in the yearbook are in English or German),” said Wessendorf. “Interestingly, the work of Bertolt Brecht has recently seen a resurgence in the English-speaking world, probably also because of globalization and the increasing search by many people for alternatives to capitalism.”<\/p>\n

Wessendorf’s history with The Brecht Yearbook<\/em><\/h2>\n

In 2011, Wessendorf guest-edited volume 36 of The Brecht Yearbook<\/em> that included the proceedings of a conference on “Brecht in\/and Asia” that he had organized at 糖心视频<\/abbr> M\u0101noa in May 2010.<\/p>\n

When Wessendorf was asked to serve as the main editor of The Brecht Yearbook<\/em> in 2016, he agreed to do it for the next five years. The current volume that was just published is the third one that Wessendorf has edited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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