Bertolt Brecht Research Center Augsburg

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The Bertolt Brecht Research Center Augsburg is a scientific institute of the city of Augsburg .

General

The task of the institution, which was founded in 1991, is to expand the Brecht collection, which, with over 10,000 media units, is the second largest and most important in the world after the Brecht archive in Berlin. It is supplemented by a collection of rare daily newspapers from the Augsburg State and City Library , where the Brecht Research Center is located. The young Brecht published over sixty articles in these newspapers.

In addition to looking after scholars from Germany and abroad, the main task of the institute is to research Brecht's work and to develop what is happening through relevant editions and publications, as well as congresses and exhibitions.

There are collaborations with the University of Augsburg , the Brecht Archive in Berlin, the International Brecht Society , the Korean Brecht Society , the Brecht Center of the State Iwan Franko University in Zhytomyr (Ukraine), the National Shevchenko University in Kiev, the Borys-Grinchenko State University in Kiev and the University of Szczecin (Poland).

The Brecht Research Center Augsburg, through its director Jürgen Hillesheim, is co-editor of the Yearbooks of the International Brecht Society , the magazine Bertolt Brecht and the modern theater of the Korean Brecht Society, the Brecht booklet of the Brecht Center of the University of Zhytomyr , the bulletin of this university, from Ars et Scientia , the magazine of the Institute “Dramaturgy” of the same university and from Synopsis. Text - Context - Media , Borys-Grinchenko State University of Kiev. In addition, Brecht - work and context appears in this edition . A series of publications by the Brecht Research Center in Augsburg . This is the only scientific book series on the work of Bertolt Brecht in the world.

To date, the Brecht Research Center in Augsburg has published over forty individual editions, monographs, collections of articles and exhibition catalogs on Brecht's work and around 150 articles in books, magazines and lexicon.

Exhibitions

  • 1991: From the Augsburg Bible manuscript to Bertolt Brecht. Evidence of German literature from the Augsburg State and City Library.
  • 1998: Permanent exhibition on the life and work of Bertolt Brecht in the house where he was born (Brechthaus).
  • 2006: Brecht in book art and graphics.
  • 2013/2014: “And there in the light is Bert Brecht: Pure. Factual. Evil. ”The treasures of the Brecht collection of the Augsburg State and City Library.
  • 2018: Bertolt Brecht - born in Augsburg, arrived all over the world, based in Zhytomyr.
  • 2019: "... completely become a Bolshevik ..."? The Soviet Republic in 1919 as perceived by Bertolt Brecht.

International congresses

  • 1997: Caspar Neher - the greatest stage builder of our time.
  • 2006: Brecht and Death.
  • 2012: Alienations. A Bertolt Brecht phenomenon in music.
  • 2017: Bertolt Brecht. Between tradition and modernity.

Larger ongoing projects

  • Hillesheim, Jürgen: "The desire to get bigger and bigger ..." The motif of the tree in Bertolt Brecht's poetry. Will be released in 2020.
  • Hillesheim, Jürgen: "Everything has two sides ..." Brechts Schweyk and his archetypes. Appears in 2021 in: Germanoslavia 31-2021, 2.
  • Hillesheim, Jürgen: Illness as a Way to Poetry? Bertolt Brecht, the mother, his "anamnesis" and early medical history. To be published in 2021 in: Materia Medica Augustana. Augsburg medical history in a European network.
  • Hillesheim, Jürgen: Lotte Lenya and Bertolt Brecht. A biography. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, will be published on Lenya's and Brecht's 125th birthday, 2023.

Publications (only monographs, collections of articles, exhibition catalogs; selection)

  • From the Augsburg Bible manuscript to Bertolt Brecht. Evidence of German literature from the Augsburg State and City Library and the Augsburg University Library. Edited by Helmut Gier and Johannes Janota. Weissenhorn 1991.
  • Brecht, Bertolt: Dearest Bi. Letters to Paula Banholzer. Edited by Helmut Gier and Jürgen Hillesheim. Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • The young Brecht. Aspects of his thinking and creating. Edited by Helmut Gier and Jürgen Hillesheim. Wuerzburg 1996.
  • Brecht, Bertolt: Bertolt Brechts The harvest. The Augsburg school magazine and its most important author. Edited by Jürgen Hillesheim and Uta Wolf. Augsburg 1997.
  • Caspar Neher - the greatest stage builder of our time. Edited by Christine Tretow and Helmut Gier. Opladen / Wiesbaden 1997.
  • Greed, Helmut / Hillesheim, Jürgen: Brechthaus. An accompanying book for the permanent exhibition in Bertolt Brecht's birthplace in Augsburg. Augsburg 1998 (in English 2002).
  • Thinking means changing ... "Memories of Brecht. Ed. By Joachim Lang and Jürgen Hillesheim. Augsburg 1998.
  • Hillesheim, Jürgen: Augsburger Brecht Lexicon. People - institutions - scenes. Wuerzburg 2000.
  • Ders .: Brecht - beer - evidence. The ballad vom Liebestod and the Augsburg Hare Brewery. Augsburg 2001.
  • Ders .: Bertolt Brecht's Augsburg stories. Biographical sketches and pictures. Augsburg 2004 (2nd edition 2005).
  • Ders .: "I always have to write poetry". On the aesthetics of the young Brecht Würzburg 2005.
  • Häussler, Volkmar: Brecht in book art and graphics. Exhibition from the holdings of the Augsburg State and City Library and the Volkmar Häußler Collection. Edited by Helmut Gier. Augsburg 2006.
  • Brecht, Bertolt: "As I remembered from a novel ..." Earliest poetry. Edited by Jürgen Hillesheim. Frankfurt / Main 2006.
  • Young Mr. Brecht Becomes a Writer / The young Mr. Brecht becomes a writer. Edited by Jürgen Hillesheim. Wisconsin 2006.
  • Hillesheim, Jürgen / Witzler, Ralf: Brecht and the accident: About the poet's father and how he dealt with his death. Augsburg 2007.
  • Brecht and Death / Brecht and Death. Edited by Jürgen Hillesheim, Mathias Mayer and Stephen Brockmann. Wisconsin 2007
  • End, limit, end? Brecht and death. Edited by Stephen Brockmann, Mathias Mayer and Jürgen Hillesheim. Wuerzburg 2008.
  • Hillesheim, Jürgen: Bertolt Brecht - First love and war. With a previously unknown text and unpublished photos. Augsburg 2008.
  • Ders .: "I instinctively leave gaps here ...". Bertolt Brecht's pre-Marxist epic theater. Wuerzburg 2011.
  • Alienations. A Bertolt Brecht phenomenon in music. Edited by Jürgen Hillesheim. Freiburg 2013.
  • Hillesheim, Jürgen: Bertolt Brecht's house mail. Introduction and analysis of all poems. Wuerzburg 2013.
  • On the other hand: "I have music under my skin ..." Bach, Mozart and Wagner with early Brecht. Freiburg 2014.
  • And there in the light is Bert Brecht: Pure. Factual. Böse. "The treasures of the Brechtsammlung of the State and City Library Augsburg. Ed. By Helmut Gier and Jürgen Hillesheim. Augsburg 2014.
  • You have to try to establish yourself in Germany! "Brecht in the twenties. Ed. By Jürgen Hillesheim. Würzburg 2015.
  • Hillesheim, Jürgen: Life and poetry at the beginning of the 20th century. Bertolt Brecht's time in Augsburg. Zhytomyr 2016 (in Ukrainian).
  • Ders .: That's how they did it with something made of flesh and bone ... "A spectacular murder case and a poem by Bertolt Brecht. Würzburg 2016.
  • From Baal to Baal. Twenty-five studies - twenty-five years of the Brecht Research Center in Augsburg. Edited by Helmut Koopmann. Wurzburg 2017.
  • Bertolt Brecht. Between tradition and modernity. Edited by Jürgen Hillesheim. Augsburg 2018.
  • Bertolt Brecht - born in Augsburg, arrived all over the world, based in Zhytomyr. Exhibition catalog. Edited by Mykola Lipisivitskyi, Jürgen Hillesheim and Karoline Sprenger . Zhytomyr 2018.
  • "... completely become a Bolshevik ..."? The Soviet Republic in 1919 as perceived by Bertolt Brecht. Catalog for the exhibition from March 1 to April 26, 2019 in the Augsburg State and City Library. Edited by Jürgen Hillesheim and Karl-Georg Pfändtner. Augsburg 2019.
  • Hillesheim, Jürgen: Between affirmation and denial. Bertolt Brecht and the revolution. Wuerzburg 2019.
  • 25 years of the Bertolt Brecht Prize. Edited by Jürgen Hillesheim and Uwe Wittstock. Augsburg 2020.

Literature (selection)

  • “Upwards from year to year.” The Brecht Research Center under Jürgen Hillesheim turns 25th on a successful model. In: Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, September 30, 2016.
  • Hoffmann, Anna Rebecca: Remembering Literature. For remembrance work in literary museums and memorials. Bielefeld 2018, pp. 223–227, 304–307.

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