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IBS and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul are collaborating on the 14th IBS Symposium in Porto Alegre (Brazil) from May 20-23, 2013 on the topic of "The Creative Spectator: Collision and Dialogue".  Deadline for your abstracts is July 27, 2012; send them to: ppgacbrecht[at]ufrgs.br
The Symposium website is:
http://brechtportoalegre.com/
where you can find the Call for Papers in English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Please share this information with interested colleagues and students!

Die IBS und die Bundesuniversität von Rio Grande do Sul arbeiten zusammen, um das 14. Symposium zum Thema "Der kreative Zuschauer: Karambolage und Dialog" vom 20.-23. Mai 2013 in Porto Alegre (Brazil) zu veranstalten.  Abgabetermin für Ihre Vorschläge ist der 27. Juli 2012; schicken Sie Ihr Abstract an: ppgacbrecht[at]ufrgs.br
Die Symposium-Webseite ist:
http://brechtportoalegre.com/
wo Sie den "Call for Papers" auf Englisch, Deutsch, Portugiesisch, und Spanisch finden.
Bitte teilen Sie diese Auskunft an interessierte Kollegen und Studenten mit.

Brecht in/and Asia / Brecht in/und Asien. Friedemann Weidauer, Markus Wessendorf, ed. The Brecht Yearbook / Brecht-Jahrbuch 36 (2011) is now available from University of Wisconsin Press. For volume contents of these selected proceedings from the IBS Symposium in Honolulu in May 2010, please click here: Brecht in/and Asia // Brecht in/und Asien

IBS is now on Facebook.

Questions about English-language performance rights of Brecht's plays? Click here for more details.

Der erste Band (Bd. 7: Notizbücher 24 und 25 - 1927-1930) in einer auf 14 Bände projizierten Ausgabe von Brechts Notizbüchern ist jetzt in Suhrkamp Verlag erschienen: http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/notizbuecher-bertolt_brecht_41971.html

To view/download a .pdf file for information about the Methuen Brecht edition with English translations from A&C Black, click here.

Brecht's Works in English: A Bibliography
Check this new website with over 2,600 entries if you are looking for Brecht's plays, poems, songs, stories, or essays in English translation: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/BrechtGuide/

The digital Brecht Yearbook, vols. 1-31 (1971-2006) / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch digital, Bd. 1-31 (1971-2006):http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/German.BrechtYearbook

KURT WEILL FOUNDATION GRANT PROGRAM – Deadline 1 November
Each year the Kurt Weill Foundation Grant Program awards financial support to not-for-profit organizations for performances of Kurt Weill’s musical works, to individuals and not-for-profit organizations for scholarly research projects, and to not-for-profit organizations for educational initiatives directly related to Weill and/or Lotte Lenya.
For more information and guidelines, see:  http://www.kwf.org/kwf/grants-a-prizes/grant-program
or call New York City: (212) 505-5240

 


Announcements

The IBS at the Modern Language Association convention in Boston, Jan. 3-6, 2013:

Session 1: Brecht and Celan
Moderator: Marc Silberman (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Celan Our Brecht.
Robert Kaufman (University of California, Berkeley)

“Not Only Cold”: The Motif of Snow in the Poetry of Brecht and Celan.
Elena Pnevmonidou (University of Victoria)

Speaking and Being Silent: Celan’s Dialog with Brecht in his Late Works.
Ulrich Plass (Wesleyan University)

Respondent: Paul Peters (McGill University)

Session 2: Brecht – Müller – Language
(A collaboration between the IBS and the MLA Division of 20th Century German Literature)

Moderator: Paula Hansen (Webster University, St. Louis)

Translating Tragedy in Brecht’s Marlowe and Müller’s Shakespeare.
Astrid Oesmann (University of Iowa)

Who Is Afraid of Metaphors? Brecht’s and Müller’s Adaptations of the Horatii.
Juliette Brungs (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Conduct According to Keuner: Heiner Müller’s Interviews.
Stephan Pabst (Universität Jena)

Respondent: Janine Ludwig (Dickinson College / Universität Bremen)

New Book

Brecht scholar Darko Suvin has just published the following: Darko Suvin: A Life in Letters. Ed. by Phillip Wegner. Paradoxa, 2011. Contact: info [at] paradoxa.com, or P.O. Box 2237, Vashon Island, WA 98070, USA.
The volume contains a 100+ page section with essays on Brecht and theater (Life of Galileo, concept of stance or "Haltung", on Jameson's Brecht and Method, and intercultural theater).