Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Brecht in the GDR
6. Undogmatic Marxism: Brecht Rehearses at the Berliner Ensemble 25
7. Lateness and Late Style in Brecht’s Last Poetry 45
8. A Life’s Work Curtailed? The Ailing Brecht’s Struggle with the SED Leadership over GDR Cultural Policy 65
9. Brecht and 17 June 1953: A Reassessment 83
10. II. The Management of Brecht’s Legacy
11. Private or Public? The Bertolt Brecht Archive as an Object of Desire 103
12. Remembering Brecht: Anniversaries at the Berliner Ensemble 125
13. Brecht’s Dependable Disciple in the GDR: Elisabeth Hauptmann 145
14. III. Creative Responses to Brecht’s Work
15. Musical Threnodies for Brecht 163
16. The Legacy of Brecht in East German Political Song 183
17. Fatzer’s Footprints: Brecht’s Fatzer and the GDR Theater 201
18. Reviving Saint Joan of the Stockyards: Speculation and Solidarity in the Era of Capitalism Resurgent 223