Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)-Bibliography:

X	Works by Brecht:  Brecht, Bertolt. Gesammelte Werke in acht Banden. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1967-1982.   (CONTENTS: Bd. 1-3. Stücke -- Bd. 4. Gedichte -- Bd. 5-6. Prosa -- Bd. 7-8. -- Schriften -- Bd. [9]-[10]. Supplementband.) Also published in 20 volumes with 4 supplemental  volumes.)    Brecht, Bertolt. Werke. Große kommentierte Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag; Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1988-1998.    (CONTENTS: Bd. 1-10. Stücke 1-10 -- Bd. 11-15. Gedichte 1-5 -- Bd. 16-20. Prosa 1-5 -- Bd. 21-25. Schriften 1-5 -- Bd. 26-27. Journale 1-2 -- Bd. 28-30. Briefe 1-3. - Register).   Brecht in English translation.
X	Bibliographies:  Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv. Bestandsverzeichnis des literarischen Nachlaßes. Berlin : Aufbau-Verlag, 1969-1973.                               (CONTENTS: Bd. 1. Stücke -- Bd. 2. Gedichte -- Bd. 3. Prosa, Filmtexte, Schriften -- Bd. 4.                               Gespräche, Notate, Arbeitsmaterialien.    Grimm, Reinhold. Bertolt Brecht. 3rd. ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1971.    Hinderer, Walter. Brechts Dramen: neue Interpretationen. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1984.                               ("Auswahlbibliographie zu Bertolt Brecht und seinem dramatischen Werk," compiled by                               Christiane Bonert": p. [405]-445.)    Nellhaus, Gerhard. "Bertolt Brecht-Bibliographie." Sinn und Form/ Brecht Sonderheft I.  Berlin:  Rütten and                               Loening,1949.    Nubel, Walter. "Bertolt Brecht-Bibliographie." Sinn und Form/ Brecht Sonderheft II.  Berlin:  Rütten and Loening,                               1957.    Petersen, Klaus-Dietrich. Bertholt-Brecht-Bibliographie. Bad Homburg: Gehlen, 1968.    Seidel, Gerhard. Bibliographie Bertolt Brecht : Titelverzeichnis. Vol. 1  Berlin : Aufbau-Verlag, 1975-.                               (Projected in 4 vols.)
X	Biographies:   Cook, Bruce. Brecht in Exile. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983.    Esslin, Martin. Brecht, a Choice of Evils: a Critical Study of the Man, His Work, and His Opinions . 4th rev. ed.                               New York : Methuen, 1984.    Ewen, Frederic. Bertolt Brecht: His Life, His Art and His Times. Reissue ed. New York: Citadel Press, 1992.    Fuegi, John. Brecht and Company: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama. New York:                               Grove, 1994.    Hayman, Ronald. Brecht: a Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.    Hecht, Werner. Bertolt Brecht: Sein Leben in Bildern und Texten. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1978.    Hecht, Werner. Brecht Chronik: 1898-1956. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1997.    *Hill, Claude. Bertolt Brecht. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities, 1986. [1 videocassette: b&w ; 3/4 in.]    Lyon, James K. Bertolt Brecht in America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980.    Mittenzwei, Werner. Das Leben des Bertolt Brecht, oder Der Umgang mit den Weltratseln. Frankfurt a. M.:                               Suhrkamp, 1987.    Schumacher, Ernst and Renate. Leben Brechts in Wort und Bild. Berlin: Henschel, 1979.    Völker, Klaus. Bertolt Brecht: Eine Biographie. Munich: Hanser, 1976.                               (Brecht, a Biography. Translated by John Nowell. New York: Seabury Press, 1978.)    Volker, Klaus. Brecht-Chronik: Daten zu Leben und Werk. Munich: Hanser, 1971.                               (Brecht Chronicle. Translated by Fred Wieck. New York: Seabury, 1975.)
X	Biographical Materials: Bentley, Eric.  The Brecht Memoir. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1991.   Berlau, Ruth. Brechts Lai-Tu: Erinnerungen und Notate. Edited by Hans Bunge. Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1985.                               (Living for Brecht: the Memoirs of Ruth Berlau. Translated by Geoffrey Skelton. New York:                               Fromm International, 1987.)   Brecht, Walter. Unser Leben in Augsburg, damals: Erinnerungen. Frankfurt a. M.: Insel, 1984.  Eisler, Hanns. Gespräche mit Hans Bunge: Fragen Sie mehr über Brecht. Ed. by Hans Bunge. Leipzig: VEB                                Deutscher Verlag, 1975.  *Feinstein, Elaine. Loving Brecht. London: Hutchinson, 1992.    *Feuchtwanger, Lion. Success. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. New York: Viking, 1930.   *Fleißer, Marieluise. "Der Tiefseefisch" in Gesammelte Werke. 2nd ed. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1983-1989.   Goedhart, Gerda. Bertolt Brecht Portrats. Zurich: Arche, 1964.   Lyon, James K. Bertolt Brecht's American Cicerone: with an Appendix Containing the Complete Correspondence                                     between Bertolt Brecht and Ferdinand Reyher. Bonn: Bouvier, 1978.   Münsterer, Hans Otto. Bert Brecht: Erinnerungen aus den Jahren 1917-22. Zurich: Arche, 1963.                               (The Young Brecht. Translated by Tom Kuhn and Karen J. Leeder. London:                                Libris, 1992.)   Szczesny, Gerhard. Das Leben des Galilei und der Fall Bertolt Brecht. Frankfurt a. M.: Ullstein, 1966.                               (The Case against Bertolt Brecht, with Arguments Drawn from His Life of Galileo.                               Translated by Alexander Gode. New York: F. Ungar, 1969.)   United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from                               Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968. Edited by Eric                               Bentley. New York: Viking Press, 1971.   Witt, Hubert. Brecht as They Knew Him. Translated by John Peet. New York: International Publishers, 1974.   Friends and Associates:
X	Criticism and Interpretation:  General and Handbook: Benjamin, Walter. Versuche über Brecht. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1966.                               (Understanding Brecht.Translated Anna Bostock. London: NLB, 1973.)   Bentley, Eric.The Brecht Commentaries 1943-1986. 2nd ed. New York: Grove Press, 1987.   Bentley, Eric.The Playwright as Thinker: a Study of Drama in Modern Times. New York:                               Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967.   Brooker, Peter. Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics. New York: Croom Helm, 1988.   Brown, Russell E. Intimacy and Intimidation: Three Essays on Bertolt Brecht. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag, 1990.   Calabro, Tony. Bertolt Brecht's Art of Dissemblance. Wakefield, N.H.: Longwood Academic, 1990   Dickson, Keith A. Towards Utopia: a Study of Brecht. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.   Gray, Ronald D. Brecht the Dramatist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.   Hanssen, Paula. Elisabeth Hauptmann: Brecht's Silent Collaborator. Berne: Lang, 1995.   Hill, Claude. Bertolt Brecht. Boston: Twayne, 1975.   *Hill, Claude. Bertolt Brecht. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities, 1986. [1 videocassette: b&w ; 3/4 in.]   Knopf, Jan. Brecht-Handbuch: eine Asthetik der Widerspruche. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1980-1984.                               (Contents: <1> Theater.-- <2> Lyrik, Prosa, Schriften. Mit einem Anhang, Film.)   Mews, Siegfried, ed. A Bertolt Brecht Reference Companion. Westport, Conneticut: Greenwood Press, 1997.   Morley, Michael. Brecht: a Study. London: Heinemann, 1977.   Needle, Jan and Peter Thomson. Brecht. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.   Schoeps, Karl-Heinz. Bertolt Brecht. New York: F. Ungar, 1977.   Schopes, Karl-Heinz. Bertolt Brecht: LIfe, Work and Criticism. Fredericton, N.B., Canada: York Press, 1989.   Speirs, Ronald. Bertolt Brecht. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.   Suvin, Darko. To Brecht and Beyond: Soundings in Modern Dramaturgy. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes and Noble, 1984.   Willett, John. Brecht in Context: Comparative Approaches. London: Methuen, 1984.   Willett. The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: a Study from Eight Aspects. Rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1977.   Wulbern, Julian H. Brecht and Ionesco: Commitment in Context. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971.   Collections of  Essays: Bartram, Graham and Waine, Anthony, ed. Brecht in Perspective. London: Longman, 1982.   Demetz, Peter. Brecht: a Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962.   Giles, Steve and Rodney Livingstone, ed. Bertolt Brecht : Centenary Essays. (German Monitor ; no. 41.)                               Atlanta, Ga. : Rodopi, 1998.  Kleber, Pia and ColinVisser, ed. Re-interpreting Brecht: His Influence on Contemporary Drama and Film.                                 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.   Lyon, James K. and Hans-Peter Breuer, ed. Brecht Unbound. Presented at the International Bertolt Brecht                                 Symposium Held at the University of Delaware, February 1992. Newark: University of                                 Delaware Press,1995.   Mews, Siegfried, ed. Critical Essays on Bertolt Brecht. Boston: Hall, 1989.   Mews and Herbert Knust, ed. Essays on Brecht: Theater and Politics. Chapel Hill: University of                                 North Carolina Press, 1974. ["Brecht's works in English; a select bibliography": p. 227-229.]   Munk, Erika, ed. Brecht. New York: Bantam Books,1972.   Thomson, Peter, and Glendyr Sacks, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Brecht. Cambridge:                                 Cambridge University Press, 1994.   Weber, Betty Nance, and Hubert Heinen.  Bertolt Brecht. Political Theory and Literary Practice. Athens:                                 University of Georgia Press, 1980.   Film: Gersch, Wolfgang. Film bei Brecht: Bertolt Brechts praktische und theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit                                dem Film. Munich: Hanser, 1975.   Lellis, George. Bertolt Brecht, Cahiers du cinéma and Contemporary Film Theory. Ann Arbor:                                UMI Research Press, 1982.   Mueller, Roswitha. Bertolt Brecht and the Theory of Media. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.   Murray, Bruce Arthur. Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic: from Caligari to Kuhle Wumpe.                                Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.   Walsh, Martin. The Brechtian Aspect of Radical Cinema. Edited by Keith M. Griffiths. London:  British                                Film Institute., 1981.   Influence:  Berg-Pan, Renata. Bertolt Brecht and China. Bonn: Bouvier, 1979.   Bodek, Richard. Proletarian Performance in Weimar Berlin: Agitprop, Chorus, and Brecht. Columbia, SC:                               Camden House, 1997.                               ("We are the red megaphone!" Political Music, Agitprop Theater, Everyday Life and                               Communist Politics in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Ph. D. Dissertation.                               University of Michigan, 1990.)  Chick, Edson M. Dances of Death: Wedekind, Brecht, Dürrenmatt, and the Satiric Tradition. Columbia, S.C.:                                Camden House, 1984.   Ellis, Lorena. Brecht's Reception in Brazil.  New York: Lang, 1995.   Hill, Victoria Williams. Bertolt Brecht and Post-war French Drama. Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag                                 H.-D. Heinz, 1978.   Lyon, James K. Bertolt Brecht and Rudyard Kipling: a Marxist's Imperialist Mentor. The Hague:                                 Mouton, 1975.   Mayer, Hans.  Brecht. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1996.   Murphy, G. Ronald. Brecht and the Bible: a Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's                                 Drama of Mortality and the City. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.   Nagavajara, Chetana. Brecht and France. Berne: Lang, 1994.   Parmalee, Patty Lee. Brecht's America. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1981.   Reinelt, Janelle G. After Brecht : British Epic Theater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.   Rouse, John. Brecht and the West German Theatre: the Practice and Politics of Interpretation.                                 Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989.   Sieg, Katrin. Exiles, Eccentrics, Activists: Women in Contemporary German Theater. Ann Arbor:                                 University of Michigan Press, 1994.   Spalter, Max. Brecht's Tradition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967.   Tatlow, Antony and  Tak-Wai Wong, ed. Brecht and East Asian Theatre: the Proceedings of a                                Conference on Brecht in East Asian Theatre. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University                                Press, 1982.   Tatlow, Antony. The Mask of Evil: Brecht's Response to the Poetry, Theatre and Thought of China and                                 Japan: a Comparative and Critical Evaluation. Berne: Lang, 1977.    Major Plays:                              [The Materialien series by Suhrkamp Verlag]   Fischer, Gerhard. The Paris Commune on the Stage: Valles, Grieg, Brecht, Adamov. Frankfurt a. M.:                         Lang, 1981.   Hinton, Stephen, ed. Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.   Kaufmann, Hans. Bertolt Brecht: Geschichtsdrama und Parabelstück. Berlin: Rütten and  Loening, 1962.   Kitching, Laurence Patrick Anthony. Der Hofmeister: a Critical Analysis of Bertolt Brecht's                        Adaptation of Lenz's Drama. Munich: Fink, 1976.   Kleber, Pia. Exceptions and Rules: Brecht, Planchon, and "The Good Person of Szechwan." Frankfurt a. M.:                        Lang, 1987.   Milfull, John. From Baal to Keuner: the "Second Optimism" of Bertolt Brecht. Frankfurt a. M.:                        Lang, 1974.   Schumacher, Ernst. Drama und Geschichte. Berlin, Henschel, 1965.   Schumacher. Die dramatischen Versuche Bertolt Brechts, 1918-1933. Reprint. Berlin: Das                         europaische Buch,1977.   Speirs, Ronald. Brecht's Early Plays. London: Macmillan, 1982.   Subiotto, Arrigo. V. Bertolt Brecht's Adaptations for the Berliner Ensemble. London: Modern Humanities                          Research Association, 1975.   Thomson, Peter. Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.   Weber, Betty Nance.  Brechts "Kreidekreis", ein Revolutionsstück: eine Interpretation: mit Texten aus                         dem Nachlaß. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1978.   White, Alfred D. Bertolt Brecht's Great Plays. London : Macmillan, 1978.   Poetry: Thomson, Philip John. The Poetry of Brecht: Seven Studies. Chapel Hill: University of North                          Carolina Press, 1989.   Whitaker, Peter. Brecht's Poetry: a Critical Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.   Political Views: Arendt, Hannah. Men in Dark Times. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.   Bloch, Ernst, et al. Aesthetics and Politics. Ed. by Ronald Taylor. London : NLB, 1977.   Lunn, Eugene. Marxism and Modernism: a Historical Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin, and Adorno.                          Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.   Giles, Steve. Bertolt Brecht and Critical Theory: Marxism, Modernity, and the Threepenny Lawsuit.                           New York: Lang, 1997.   *Grass, Gunter. The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising: a German Tragedy. Translated by Ralph Manheim.                           New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.   Ley, Ralph. Brecht as Thinker: Studies in Literary Marxism and Existentialism. Normal, Illinois :                           Applied Literature Press, 1979.   Pike, David. Lukács and Brecht. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.    Prose: Jeske, Wolfgang. Bertolt Brechts Poetik des Romans. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1984.   Müller, Klaus-Detlef. Brecht-Kommentar zur erzählenden Prosa .Munich: Winkler, 1980.   Theory: Barthes, Roland. Critical Essays. Translated by Richard Howard. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1972.  Brown, H. M. Leitmotiv and Drama: Wagner, Brecht, and the Llimits of 'Epic' Theatre. Oxford:                        Clarendon Press, 1991.   Eaton, Katherine Bliss. The Theater of Meyerhold and Brecht. Westport, Conneticut: Greenwood Press, 1985.   Gilbert, Michael John Tyler. Bertolt Brecht's Striving for Reason, Even in Music: a Critical Assessment.                        New York: Lang, 1988.   Kiebuzinska, Christine Olga. Revolutionaries in the Theater : Meyerhold, Brecht, and  Witkiewicz.                         Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1988.   Steinweg, Reiner. Das Lehrstück: Brechts Theorie einer politisch-asthetischen Erziehung.                         Stuttgart: Metzler, 1972.   Wiles, Timothy J. The Theater Event: Modern Theories of Performance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.   Wright, Elizabeth. Postmodern Brecht: a Re-presentation. London: Routledge, 1989.
X	Periodicals: Das Brecht-Jahrbuch/TheBrecht Yearbook .[IBS. searchable index]   Communications from the International Brecht Society .[IBS]   Gestus. [Brecht Society of America]   Special Issues:   Screen. 15,2 (1974); 16,4 (1975-76).   Yale/Theatre. 6,2 (1975); Theater. 25,2(1994).   The Tulane Drama Review. 6,1(T13, 1961);12,1(T37, 1967);12,2(T38, 1968)
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X	Production: Directing: Berlau, Ruth, et al, ed. Theaterarbeit. 6 Aufführungen des Berliner Ensembles. Dresden: VVV                           Dresdner Verlag, 1952. 3rd ed. Berlin: Henschel, 1967.   Fuegi, John. Bertolt Brecht: Chaos, According to Plan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.   Fuegi, John. The Essential Brecht. Los Angeles: Hennessey and Ingalls, 1972.   Hurwicz, Angelika. Brecht inszeniert: Der kaukasische Kreidekreis. Velber bei Hannover: Friedrich                           Verlag, 1964.   Jones, David Richard. Great Directors at Work: Stanislavsky, Brecht, Kazan, Brook. Berkeley:                           University of California Press, 1986.   Mitter, Shomit. Systems of Rehearsal: Stanislavsky, Brecht, Grotowski, and Brook. London: Routledge, 1992.   Rülicke-Weiler, Käthe.Die Dramaturgie Brechts: Theater als Mittel der Veranderung. Berlin, Henschel, 1966.   Music:  Adorno, Theodor and Hanns Eisler. Composing for the Films. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1947.                          Reprint. Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Athlone Press, 1994.   Betz, Albrecht. Hanns Eisler Political Musician. Translated by Bill Hopkins. Cambridge: Cambridge                          University Press, 1982.   Drew, David. Kurt Weill: a Handbook. London: Faber and Faber, 1987.   Fowler, Kenneth. Received Truths: Bertolt Brecht and the Problem of Gestus and Musical Meaning.  New York:                          AMS Press, 1991.   Gilbert, Michael John Tyler. See Theory.   Hennenber, Fritz, ed. Brecht-Liederbuch. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1984.   Lucchesi, Joachim and Ronald K Shull. Musik bei Brecht. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1988.   Shull, Ronald K. Music and the Works of Bertolt Brecht: a Documentation. Ph. D. Dissertation,                          University of Kansas, 1986.   Reviews: Ihering, Herbert. Bert Brecht hat das dichterische Antlitz Deutschlands verändert : gesammelte Kritiken zum                                   Theater Brechts. Edited by Klaus Völker. Munich: Kindler, 1980.   Schumacher, Ernst. Brecht-Kritiken. Berlin: Henschel, 1977.   Wyss, Monika. Brecht in der Kritik: Rezensionen aller Brecht-Uraufführungen, sowie ausgewählter deutsch- und                                   fremdspracher Premieren. Munich: Kindler, 1977.   Scenic Design: Appen, Karl von. Karl von Appen: Altes und Neues, Bilder und Texte. Berlin: Berliner Ensemble, 1975.   Willett, John. Caspar Neher, Brecht's Designer. London: Methuen, in association with the Arts                          Council of Great Britain, 1986.   Stage History: *Brecht on Stage. Cicero, Illinois: Roland Collection of Films on Art, 1989. [1 videocassette (25 min.): b&w with color                         sequence. 1/2  in.]   Eddershaw, Margaret. Performing Brecht. London: Routledge, 1996.   Hiley, Jim. Theatre at Work: the Story of the National Theatre's Production of Brecht's Galileo. London:                         Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.   Jacobs, Nicholas and Prudence Ohlsen, ed. Bertolt Brecht in Britain. London: IRAT Services/                         TQ  Publications, 1977.   *McCann, David R., ed. The Theater of Bertolt Brecht: as Performed by the Berliner Ensemble.                         Glendale, California: KaiDib Films International, 1971. [46 slides : b&w ; 2x2 in. & teacher's guide]   Niessen, Carl, ed. Brecht auf der Buhne. Cologne: Institut für Theaterwissenschaft der Universität Köln, 1959.   Pintzka, Wolfgang. Helene Weigel, Actress: a Book of Photographs. Translated by John Berger and Anna Bostock.                         Leipzig : VEB Offizin Andersen Nexö, 1961.