Bertolt Brecht - Education Scotland

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THE WORLD WIDE WEB
http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/Theatre/
The Homepage of the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. Go to ‘search’ and
type ‘brecht’, or ‘weill’, etc., and there are extracts from critical studies and
histories. For example, the site has taken an extract from Douglas Jannan’s Kurt
Weill: An Illustrated Biography, a great still from Threepenny Opera in 1928 and a
contemporary review from The Times (naming Brecht as ‘Kurt’, curiously).
http://www.goethe.de/eindex.htm
The Homepage of the Goethe-Institut. Goethe-Instituts exist to promote and to
foster mutual understanding through the awareness and appreciation of German
culture, thought and achievement.
Goethe-Instituts all over the world created websites to celebrate Brecht’s
centenary in 1998. Ninety-six Goethe-Instituts currently have websites. Few of the
Brecht centenary exhibitions still exist; the sites change their pages to move on
to more pressing business – look out for new exhibitions at the sites (Kurt Weill
and Helene Weigel both celebrate their centenaries in 2000).
The Goethe-Institut of Hong Kong (at http://www.goethe.de/os/hon/enbb100/
enbbex2.htm) seems to have kept its online Brecht centenary exhibition and
texts, certainly up to early 2000. (The São Paolo Goethe-Institut has done the
same, though in Portuguese.)
The Goethe-Institut of London (http://www.goethe.de/gr/lon/enindex.htm)
currently has an exhibition by Exeter College Foundation Arts students who have
responded in fine arts to plays by Brecht. It is advisable to visit from time to time
to see what is new. You can also post enquiries.
Glasgow has its own Goethe-Institut at: http://www.goethe.de/gr/gla
http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/pads.html
The Performing Arts Data Service (PADS) at Glasgow University is a vast,
staggering directory of theatre resources with links to just about everywhere of
interest.
The PADS Theatre Directory can take you to http://www.siue.edu/PROJECT2000
in which you can see scenic, costume and lighting designs from productions
across the world.
There are photographs from an Argentinian The Life of Galileo from 1995–6,
Happy End from the University of Michigan, Mother Courage from a 1985
production at the University of Denver and The Threepenny Opera in two forms:
one from the University of Cincinnati and one from Brandeis University (these
photographs can even be blown up for better resolution).
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