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The
Brecht Yearbook 30/ Das Brecht-Jahrbuch Volume 30
Who Was Ruth Berlau?
/ Wer War Ruth Berlau?
Edited by Stephen Brockmann
One of the most controversial aspects of Brecht scholarship
in the last two decades has been Bertolt Brecht's relationship
with the many women in his life.
Who Was Ruth Berlau? is devoted primarily to the life
and work of Bertolt Brecht's collaborator and lover Ruth Berlau,
the Danish actress and journalist who accompanied Brecht and
his family on their epic journey from Finland across the Soviet
Union and the Pacific Ocean, as Brecht sought to escape Nazi
Germany. In addition to contributions by leading scholars on
Berlau and her relationship to Brecht-scholars including Sabine
Kebir, Hans Christian Nørregard, Franka Köpp, and
Grischa Meyer—this volume also makes available, for the
first time, Brecht's and the great exile filmmaker Fritz Lang's
scenario "Never Surrender," a recently discovered preliminary
stage of the work on Lang's classic 1943 anti-Nazi film Hangmen
Also Die. Included are sections on contemporary theater in
Great Britain, Hungary, and Brazil; music, theater, and politics;
and the Brechtian Lehrstück and the concept of Gestus. Roughly
half of the contributions to Volume 30 are in English and half
are in German.
Stephen Brockmann
is professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University and the
managing editor of the Brecht Yearbook. He is the author
of, among others, Literature and German Reunification and
German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour.
Distributed for the International Brecht
Society
For more information contact our publicity
manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
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July 2005
400 pp. 6 x 9 12 b/w illus.
In German and English
ISSN: 0734-8665
ISBN: 978-0-9718963-3-8
Paper $39.00 s
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