Bernhard Heisig Książki

This new Student Edition, featuring the classic John Willett translation of the play, includes an introduction by Katherine Hollander, which explores the following: * Contexts (Thirty Years War, 1618-1648; World War II and exile; sources; influential figures such as Brecht, Margarete Steffin, Helene Weigel and Karin Michaelis) * Themes (war; nature; capitalism) * Dramatic devices (epic theatre) * Production history and critical reception * Academic debate (Marxist, feminist and postmodernist) * Further study Widely regarded as Brecht's best work, Mother Courage and her Children was written in 1938-9 and received its premiere in Zurich in 1941. Mother Courage - a canteen woman serving with the Swedish Army during the Thirty Years War (1618-48) - follows the armies, selling provisions and liquor to the troops. Both her sons die in the war and her dumb daughter, Kattrin, is mortally wounded as she beats a drum to warn the town of Halle of an impending attack. Yet, all the while, Mother Courage continues her travels with her wagon, indomitably businesslike, calculating how she can make material profit from the war and turn conflict into capital.

Written in 1836, Woyzeck is often considered to be the first truly modern play. The story of a soldier driven mad by inhuman military discipline and acute social deprivation is told in splintered dialogue and jagged episodes, which are as shocking and telling today as they were when first performed, almost a century after the author's death, in Munich 1913. This edition contains introductory commentary and notes by Laura Martin from the University of Glasgow. METHUEN DRAMA STUDENT EDITIONS are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires. A well as the complete text of the play itself, this volume contains: · A chronology of the play and the playwright's life and work · an introductory discussion of the social, political, cultural and economic context in which the play was originally conceived and created · a succinct overview of the creation processes followed and subsequent performance history of the piece · an analysis of, and commentary on, some of the major themes and specific issues addressed by the text · a bibliography of suggested primary and secondary materials for further study.

German

Bernhard Heisig, 1925 in Breslau geboren, eine der großen Ausnahmeerscheinungen der deutschen Kunst nach 1945, wird hier in 100 ausgewählten Bildern in einem von Rüdiger Küttner herausgegebenen Band vorgestellt. Retrospektiv und zugleich auf die neuesten Bilder bezogen bündelt der Band Heisigs Malerei bis 2010 in einer faszinierenden Zusammenschau. Die Bilder werden von Künstlern, Kennern, Sammlern und Liebhabern kommentiert, darunter von Eduard Beaucamp, Hartwig Ebersbach, Hubertus Giebe, Eckhart Gillen, Herwig Guratzsch, Christoph Hein, Johannes Heisig, Petra Maisak, Harald Metzkes, Hans-Jürgen Papies, Dieter Ronte und Eberhard Roters. Es entsteht eine geistige Reproduktionsebene von höchster Individualität und Vielschichtigkeit, die den Band neben der großen Kraft der Heisigschen Bilder, neben dem Erlebnis des Betrachtens, zum Vademecum der Nachdenklichkeit werden lässt. Eine beschreibende Kurzbiographie und ein Überblick über die Heisig-Literatur runden das Bild über Werk und Wirkung des großen Künstlers ab.