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Selected Bibliography

I. English-language memoirs on Brecht
· Bentley, Eric. The Brecht Memoir. New York: PAJ Publications. 1985.


· Berlau, Ruth. Living for Brecht: The Memoirs. Edited by Hans Bunge, translated by Geoffrey Skelton. New York: Fromm, 1987.


· Münsterer, Hans Otto. The Young Brecht. Translated and introduction by Tom Kuhn and Karen J. Leeder. London: Libris, 1992. 


· Witt, Hubert,ed. Brecht as They Knew Him. Translated by John Peet. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1975. (contributions by Lenya, Hauptmann, Berlau, Eisler, Hurwicz, Dessau, Neher, etc.)


· Bunge, Hans. Brecht, Music and Culture: Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.



II. English-language biographies of Brecht
· Esslin, Martin. Brecht: A Choice of Evils. Revised edition. New York and London: Methuen, 1984.

 
· Ewen, Frederic. Bertolt Brecht: His Life, His Art and His Times. New York: Citadel, 1967. 


·  Fuegi, John. Bertolt Brecht: Chaos, According to Plan. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 


·  Fuegi, John. Brecht and Company: Sex, Politics and the Making of the Modern Drama. New York: Grove Press, 1994. 


·  Hayman, Ronald. Brecht: A Biography. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983. 


·  Lyon, James K. Bertolt Brecht in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. 


·  Parker, Stephen. Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life. London: Bloomsbury Methuen, 2014.


·  Völker, Klaus. Brecht: A Biography. Translated by John Nowell. London and Boston: Marion Boyars, 1979. 


·  Völker, Klaus. Brecht Chronicle. Translated by Fred Wieck. New York: Seabury, 1975.



III. German-language biographies of Brecht:
·  Berg, Günther and Wolfgang Jeske, Bertolt Brecht (Stuttgart und Weimar: Metzler, 1998).


·  Hecht, Werner. Brecht Chronik 1898-1956. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1997.


·  Knopf, Jan. Bertolt Brecht. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2006.


·  Mittenzwei, Werner. Das Leben des Bertolt Brecht oder Der Umgang mit den Welträtseln. 2 vols. Reprint of 1986 edition. Berlin: Aufbau, 1998.


·  Schumacher, Ernst and Renate. Leben Brechts in Wort und Bild. Berlin: Henschel, 1978.



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