Who was Ruth Berlau?/ Wer war Ruth Berlau? The Brecht Yearbook 30/ Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 30

One of the most controversial aspects of Brecht scholarship in the last two decades has been Bertolt Brecht's relationship with the many women in his life. Who Was Ruth Berlau? is devoted primarily to the life and work of Bertolt Brecht's collaborator and lover Ruth Berlau, the Danish actress and journalist who accompanied Brecht and his family on their epic journey from Finland across the Soviet Union and the Pacific Ocean, as Brecht sought to escape Nazi Germany. In addition to contributions by leading scholars on Berlau and her relationship to Brecht-scholars including Sabine Kebir, Hans Christian Norregard, Franka Kopp, and Grischa Meyer-this volume also makes available, for the first time, Brecht's and the great exile film-maker Fritz Lang's scenario "Never Surrender," a recently discovered preliminary stage of the work on Lang's classic 1943 anti-Nazi film Hangmen Also Die. Included are sections on contemporary theater in Great Britain, Hungary, and Brazil; music, theater, and politics; and the Brechtian Lehrstuck and the concept of Gestus. Roughly half of the contributions to Volume 30 are in English and half are in German.Brockmann, Stephen is the author of 'Who was Ruth Berlau?/ Wer war Ruth Berlau? The Brecht Yearbook 30/ Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 30', published 2005 under ISBN 9780971896338 and ISBN 097189633X.