Contents

pp v-vi

List of Abbreviations

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-22

I - Brecht in the GDR

pp 23-24

Undogmatic Marxism: Brecht Rehearses at the Berliner Ensemble

pp 25-44

Lateness and Late Style in Brecht’s Last Poetry

pp 45-64

A Life’s Work Curtailed? The Ailing Brecht’s Struggle with the SED Leadership over GDR Cultural Policy

pp 65-82

Brecht and 17 June 1953: A Reassessment

pp 83-100

II - The Management of Brecht’s Legacy

pp 101-102

Private or Public? The Bertolt Brecht Archive as an Object of Desire

pp 103-124

Remembering Brecht: Anniversaries at the Berliner Ensemble

pp 125-144

Brecht’s Dependable Disciple in the GDR: Elisabeth Hauptmann

pp 145-160

III - Creative Responses to Brecht’s Work

pp 161-162

Musical Threnodies for Brecht

pp 163-182

The Legacy of Brecht in East German Political Song

pp 183-200

Fatzer’s Footprints: Brecht’s Fatzer and the GDR Theater

pp 201-222

Reviving Saint Joan of the Stockyards: Speculation and Solidarity in the Era of Capitalism Resurgent

pp 223-242