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Collaborative session sponsored by the International Brecht Society and Division of 20th-Century German Literature at the Modern Language Association Convention, 3-6 Jan. 2013, Boston, MA
Brecht – Heiner Müller – Poetry – Language
There are many connections between Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller: Müller emulated Brecht as a role model, he extended his work through adaptations or with alternative projects, and as a young lyric poet he also positioned himself vis-à-vis this mentor. We seek papers that examine how Müller’s poetry “translates” Brecht’s poetic language as a mode of textual expression / expansion. Brecht advised those who read his poetry that one should “not forget his main work was in the theater”; this holds equally for Müller. If we take the advice seriously, it suggests that as poets both were attracted to a spoken German that had for centuries drifted apart from the written language. Beyond thematic connections, here we suggest a new way to focus on Müller’s continuation of Brecht’s work.
Send 200 word abstracts by March 9 to:
Marc Silberman (mdsilber@wisc.edu) and Leslie Morris (morri074@umn.edu)
Presenters must become members of the Modern Language Association by April 1, 2012 to participate in the convention session (www.mla.org)
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