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Hanssen, Paula
Elisabeth Hauptmann
Brecht's Silent Collaborator
Series: New York University Ottendorfer Series - Volume 46
Year of Publication: 1995
Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., New York, Paris, Wien, 1995. 173 pp.
ISBN 978-3-906753-11-9 pb.
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Weight: 0.240 kg, 0.529 lbs
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Book synopsis
Elisabeth Hauptmann, contributing author to Bertolt Brecht's Three Penny Opera, the opera Mahagonny, as well as to a series of Chinese poems and the «Lehrstücke» Der Jasager and Die Maßnahme and many others, has been absent from most Brecht scholarships. Manuscripts from the «Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv» and «Literaturarchiv der Akademie der Künste» substantiate Hauptmann's influence. Her reticence in matters of credit served to obfuscate her importance to Brecht's production. This work examines Brecht's and Hauptmann's lifelong collaboration and attempts to adjust Hauptmann's image of secretary to her rightful place as editor and fellow author.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
The Author: Paula Hanssen began researching Elisabeth Hauptmann in Brecht's works as a graduate student finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois/Urbana. She received a Dissertation Research Grant from the University of Illinois for her research in Berlin in 1989-1990. Paula Hanssen lives with her husband and daughter in St. Louis and teaches at St. Louis University and Webster University. She has published: «Elisabeth Hauptmann: Schriftstellerin, Dramaturgin, Muse» in the anthology Was für eine Frau! Portraits aus Ostwestfalen/Lippe 1992.
Reviews
«øDas Buch trägt! eine Materialfülle und neue Fakten über Hauptmann als Mitarbeiterin und Autorin zusammen und øbietet! daher unentbehrliche Information für weitere Untersuchungen an. Gelungen ist es hier, Hauptmann aus dem Schatten zu holen, in den sie von der bisherigen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung gestellt wurde.» (Angelika Führich, The Brecht Yearbook)
Series
New York University Ottendorfer Series, Neue Folge. Vol. 46
Edited by Volkmar Sander