PART I. LIFE. The young Brecht. 1. Student Magazine : The Harvest / Werner Frisch and K.W. Obermeier -- 2. “Ja, damals waren wir Dichter” : Hanns Otto Münsterer, Bertolt Brecht and the Dynamics of Literary Friendship / Tom Kuhn -- Brecht and the Weimar Republic. 3. Sachlichkeit (Objectivity) / Philip Glahn -- Brecht in Exile. 4. ‘Changing Countries More Often Than Shoes' / James K. Lyon -- Brecht in the GDR. 5. A Life's Work Curtailed? : The Ailing Brecht's Struggle with the SED Leadership over GDR Cultural Policy / Stephen Parker -- Characteristics of the Berliner Ensemble / Bertolt Brecht -- PART II. WORK. Plays : Early/Weimar work. 7. Brecht's Plays of the Weimar Period / R. C. Speirs -- 8. Review of “Drums in the Night” / Herbert Ihering -- 9. Review of “The Threepenny Opera” / Monty Jacobs -- The Lehrstücke. 10. On the theory of the Lehrstück / Bertolt Brecht -- 11. The Lehrstück as Performance / Andrzej Wirth -- 12. Review of “The Decision” / Durus -- Exile. 13. Thesis for Proletarian Literature / Bertolt Brecht -- 14. Brecht’s Epic Theater as a Theatre of Exile / Ehrhard Bahr -- 15. Review of “Mother Courage and her Children” / Hans Ott -- Return to Germany/Adaptations. 16. Adaptations for the Berliner Ensemble / David Barnett -- 17. Review of “Mother Courage and her Children” / Gerhard Wahnrau -- 18. Review of “Coriolanus” / Franz Schonauer -- Fragments. 19. The Making of a Document : An Approach to Brecht's "Fatzer" Fragment / Judith Wilke -- Poetry : City poems. 20. The Poet in Berlin : Brecht's City Poetry of the 1920s / David Midgely -- Exile poems. 21. ‘Visit to a Banished Poet’ : Brecht's “Svendborg Poems” and the Voices of Exile / Tom Kuhn -- Sonnets. 22. Brecht's Sonnets / David Constantine -- Later poetry. 23. Brecht in Buckow : “The Buckow Elegies” / Karl H. Schoeps -- Prose : The novels. 24. The Anti-Aristotelian Novel : Brecht’s Contribution to the Novel of Classic Modernity / Klaus-Detlef Müller -- The short stories. 25. The Subject Herr Keuner : Towards a Brechtian Ethics / Sonia Arribas.