Marc Silberman

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Marc Silberman (* 1948 ) is professor of modern German literature and German film history at the University of Wisconsin – Madison .

Life

Marc Silberman received his PhD from Indiana University in 1975 and has taught at the University of Wisconsin in Madison since 1988. His specialty is Germany in the 20th century with a focus on the period after the Second World War. At the same time, he belongs to the Faculty of Theater and Drama and is involved in the UW Center for the study of social structures and social change. He published on the history of German cinema, Bertolt Brecht and political theater as well as GDR literature and culture.

From 1990 to 1995 he published the “Brecht Yearbook” and was still active as a translator of literary texts from German into English.

Fonts

  • “Hauff films from the fifties: fairy tales and post-fascist media change,” Ernst Osterkamp, ​​Andrea Polaschegg and Erhard Schütz, eds., Wilhelm Hauff or the virtuosity of the imagination (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2005), 238-262.
  • Marc Silberman (Ed.): Mahagonny.com. The Brecht Yearbook 29. Co-editor Florian Vaßen, Pittsburgh: International Brecht Society 2004, 540 pp.: Ill., Notes; 23 cm, article partly German, partly English, ISBN 0-9718963-2-1
  • “Popular Cinema, National Cinema, and European Integration,” Agnes Müller, ed., German Pop Culture (University of Michigan Press, 2004), 151-164.
  • “Heiner Müller's continuation of the Brechtian dialectic: The Horatier,” Christian Schulte and Brigitte Maria Mayer, eds., The text is the coyote: Heiner Müller inventory (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​2004), 197-
  • Bertolt Brecht; Marc Silberman (Ed.): Brecht on Film and Radio. A Critical Edition. Trans. And ed. With introduction and line commentaries. London (Methuen) 2000, 277 pp.: Ill.; 22 cm, ISBN 0-413-72760-2
  • Marc Silberman (Ed.): German Cinema: Texts in Context. Contemporary film and television series. Detroit (Wayne State UP) 1995, 322 pp. ISBN 0-8143-2560-2
  • Marc Silberman: Heiner Müller. Research reports on GDR literature 2. Amsterdam (Rodopi) 1980; 127 p .; ISBN 90-6203-603-1
  • Paul Cooke and Marc Silberman (Eds.): Screening war: perspectives on German suffering. Screen cultures: German film and the visual. Rochester, NY: Camden House 2010, 304 pp.: Ill .; 24 cm, ISBN 978-1-57113-437-0
  • Marc Silberman (ed.); Jost Hermand (Ed.): Contentious memories: looking back at the GDR. German life and civilization; Vol. 24, New York et al. a. (Lang) 2000, approx. 250 pages; 23 cm, ISBN 0-8204-5254-8
  • Marc Silberman (ed.); Jost Hermand (Ed.): Rethinking Peter Weiss. German life and civilization; Vol. 32 New York a. a. (Lang) 2000, 199 S.: Ill.; 24 cm, partly German, partly English, ISBN 0-8204-5819-8 kart.
  • Bertolt Brecht; John Willett (ed.); Ralph Manheim (ed.); Yvonne Kapp (translation): Collected stories, Works of Bertolt Brecht (with a new introduction by Marc Silberman and Shuhsi Kao); New York (Arcade) 1998, 242 pp., ISBN 1-55970-402-0
  • Marc Silberman (Ed.): Drive b: Brecht 100. Arbeitsbuch. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 1997, 176 pp.; : Ill.; 29 cm, ISBN 3-9805945-0-5 (Theater of Time); 0-9682722-0-7 (The Brecht Yearbook)
  • Marc Silberman (ed.); The International Brecht Society (Ed.): Focus: Margarete Steffin. Madison (Univ. Of Wisconsin Press) 1994; 388 pp.: Ill.; 23 cm; The Brecht yearbook 19, partly German, partly English, ISBN 0-9623206-6-8
  • Marc Silberman (Ed.): On the novel in the GDR. LGW interpretations. Stuttgart (Klett) 1980, 174 pp.; ISBN 3-12-395900-7

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personal data
SURNAME Silberman, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1948