Professor Markus Wessendorf

The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 36 Professor Markus Wessendorf

"The Brecht Yearbook" is a venue for discussion about aspects of theater and literature that were of particular interest to Bertolt Brecht, especially the politics of literature and the politics of theater in a global context. The Volume "Brecht in / and Asia" contains twenty-six essays based on presentations given at Brecht in/and Asia, the thirteenth Symposium of the International Brecht Society (IBS), which was held at the University of Hawai i at Manoa in 2010. Themes covered include Brecht in India; contemporary Chinese theater; the Chinese Brecht; tradition, Brecht, and political theater; Brecht between imperialism and postcolonialism, orient and occident; Fritz Bennewitz s intercultural Brecht productions; and Brecht( s) adaptations."