Edinburgh German Yearbook 5: Brecht and the Gdr: Politics, Culture, Posterity

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571134921
• ISBN13: 9781571134929
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"