Bertolt Brecht's job
The Bertolt Brecht (ABB) position at the Institute for German Studies (formerly Institute for Literary Studies ) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (formerly University of Karlsruhe ) has existed since 1989. The task at that time was characterized by the edition of the large annotated Berlin and Frankfurt editions of Brecht's works in 30 volumes (GBA) as a joint edition of the West German Suhrkamp Verlag and the East German Aufbau Verlag . The editors were Werner Hecht and Werner Mittenzwei as well as Klaus-Detlef Müller and Jan Knopf .
After the Berlin Brecht Center was closed in 1990/1991, ABB developed into the center of Brecht research in German-speaking countries and an important point of contact for Brecht researchers at home and abroad.
Stocks
ABB has a (private) special library on Bertolt Brecht, which contains around 1400 volumes. Among them are the previous editions of Brecht's Collected Works, some, e.g. Some valuable first editions, the essential secondary literature on Brecht and many reference works (from folklore to the Bible Concordance to criminal encyclopedias, sports encyclopedias or dictionaries on economics, philosophy, etc.). In addition, ABB has the extremely extensive material on its premises that was necessary for the edition of the poetry (five volumes) and the short prose (three volumes). The vast majority of the material comes from the Bertolt Brecht Archive (BBA) in Berlin: copies of the text (for internal use) that have been made available to ABB as permanent loans. In addition, there are the first prints, mostly in copies that were collected from all over the world, contemporary documents (from all over world history) that were necessary for the commentary (history of origin), sources and templates that concern the world literature processed by Brecht (from ancient China and from classical antiquity to Shelley , Shakespeare to Sinclair , Mao Zedong or Johannes R. Becher ), which were also needed for the commentary. These holdings could be supplemented in 2000 by purchasing all the material that Werner Hecht and his staff at the Brecht Center of the GDR used for both his work on the GBA (volumes 21-27) and his monumental Brecht Chronicle. This collection of documents on Brecht's work, which has been expanded to include further material from Berlin (on the biography, the writings and the various journals that Brecht has kept), is based on the latest research and is - both in terms of its scope, as well as in terms of its completeness - unique.
Projects
Work on the large annotated Berlin and Frankfurt edition of Brecht's works in 30 volumes (GBA)
In addition to editing and reviewing activities, ABB is involved in the edition by developing eight volumes (poems 1–5, prose 3–5). The first three volumes appear in 1988, including Gedichte 1 (Volume 11) from Karlsruhe. With the publication of the register volume in 2000, the work on the GBA is completed, there are 33 partial volumes with approx. 20,000 pages.
Work on the Brecht handbook
At a three-day conference in Karlsruhe in May 1999, the scientific advisory board for the Brecht-Handbuch project in five volumes (14 scientists from three countries) decided on the final implementation of the project. Editing and editing are in ABB. Volume 5 of the Brecht Handbook will appear in September 2003. With it, the project is completed. 61 scientists from eight countries worked on the Brecht handbook. You have written over 250 articles on over 2500 pages. Brecht thus received the status of the second great poet alongside Goethe. On September 22nd, Suhrkamp Verlag, Aufbau-Verlag and Verlag JB Metzler are jointly organizing a Brecht evening at the Academy of Arts in Berlin to present the special edition of the GBA and the Brecht handbook to the public. Jan Knopf , among others, will speak , Joachim Lucchesi and Erdmut Wizisla .
Brecht's work in the Suhrkamp base library
In close cooperation with the Suhrkamp Verlag, 13 volumes of the Suhrkamp Basis Library on Brecht's work at the ABB are created in freelance work. In November 2003 the first volume of the '' Caucasian Chalk Circle '' appeared, in 2006 the series was completed with '' Mahagonny ''.
International Relations
The ABB is now internationally known and is welcomed by many guests from the USA, China, Japan, Korea, India and the like. a. visited and also, z. Sometimes used as a place of work for a long time (Humboldt fellows). The leader received u. a. Invitations to Korea, Japan, China (several times each), India, Chile, Ukraine, Italy, Greece, Belgium, France, England and Denmark. Relations with Korea and the Korean Brecht Society there with a Bertolt Brecht Center Korea opened in 2007 are particularly close . Several joint book publications have been realized with this company. Three symposia, two of which were chaired by ABB, took place in Seoul between 1991 and 1998. There is also a partnership agreement between Chosun University in Kwang-ju and ABB.
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