Dr. Tom KUHN

Geb. 1957, Professor - Lecturer: Fellow seit 1990, Oxford, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (Fachgebiet) - C18-20 German literature (Lehrgebiet)

Kontaktinformationen:

University of Oxford - Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Oxford - 47 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF

St Hugh's College

Andere dienstliche Anschrift St Hugh's College

Forschungsgebiete

Besondere Forschungsgebiete

Drama of the 1920s and 1930s
Exile
#Brecht
Drama since 1960

Aufsätze und Beiträge

‘“Auf der Flucht“: the motif of flight in the works of Brecht‘, in Festschrift for R.N.N. Robertson (2022)
'Brecht and photography’, in: Bertolt Brecht in Context, ed. Stephen Brockmann (2020)
‘Gedichte – Fragmente’, and other contributions, in Brecht und das Fragment, ed. Astrid Oesmann and Matthias Rothe (2020)
‘Brecht’s Poems in English: the old and the new’, German Life & Letters 67:1 (January 2014)
‘Brecht reads Bruegel: Verfremdung, gestic realism and the second phase of Brechtian theory’, Monatshefte 2012
‘Das Epische und das Nomadische: das Bildmaterial zum Kaukasischen Kreidekreis’, in Bild und Bildkünste bei Brecht [Brecht-Tage 2010], ed. Christian Hippe (Berlin: Matthes und Seitz 2011), pp. 99-124
‘Poetry and Photography: Mastering Reality in the Kriegsfibel’, in Bertolt Brecht: A Reassessment of his Work and Legacy, ed. Robert Gillett and Godela Weiss-Sussex (Amsterdam: Rodopi 2008), pp. 169-189
'Three models of the poem–picture relationship in the work of Bertolt Brecht’, in The Text and its Context: Studies in Modern German Literature and Society presented to Ronald Speirs on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, ed. Nigel Harris and Joanne Sayner (Oxford etc: Peter Lang 2008), pp. 133-151
‘Beyond death: Brecht’s Kriegsfibel and the uses of tradition’, The Brecht Yearbook 32, ed. Stephen Brockmann (Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press 2007), pp.66-90
'"Was besagt eine Fotografie?" Early Brechtian Perspectives on Photography', The Brecht Yearbook 31 (2006), 261-283
'Four new Herr Keuner stories and a short reflection on the constitution’, translated and introduced, Modern Poetry in Translation, New Series No.22 (2006), pp. 33-37
'"Unsichere Gesellen": Crossing borders with Heine and Brecht', in Bejahende Erkenntnis. Festschrift für T.J. Reed, edited by Kevin F. Hilliard, Ray Ockenden and Nigel F. Palmer (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer 2004), pp.193-207
'Brecht and Willett: Getting the gest', The Brecht Yearbook 28, ed. Stephen Brockmann (Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press 2003), pp.261-273
with David Constantine, 'Brecht at the BBC', Modern Poetry in Translation, New Series No.22 (2003), pp.100-03
'Brecht als Lyriker', in: Brecht-Handbuch: Gedichte, ed. Jan Knopf (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002), 1-21
'“Auch für Fremde vorteilhaft”: Brecht’s lyric poetry’. In Bertolt Brecht: Critical Approaches ed. Nadia Valavani (Athens: STACHI Publications 2002), pp.271-312
'Visit to a banished poet: Brecht's Svendborg Poems and the voices of exile', in: Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile, ed. Ronald Speirs (Cambridge: CUP 2000), 47-65

'Ovid and Brecht: topoi of poetic banishment', The Brecht Yearbook, 24 (1999), 162-175
'Notions of Collaboration'. In: Bertolt Brecht: Centenary Essays, ed. Steve Giles and Rodney Livingstone (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1998), pp.1-18
'Politisches Exil und poetische Verbannung in einigen Gedichten Bertolt Brechts'. In: Deutschsprachige Exillyrik von 1933 bis zur Nachkriegszeit, ed. Jörg Thunecke (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi 1998), pp.25-38
'Under the Crooked Cross: Brecht’s Furcht und Elend at the BBC'. In: 'England? Aber wo liegt es?' Deutsche und österreichische Emigranten in Großbritannien 1933-1945, edited by C. Brinson, R. Dove, M. Malet and J. Taylor, = Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies (University of London) vol.64 (Munich: Iudicium 1996), pp.181-191
'"Ja, damals waren wir Dichter". Hanns Otto Münsterer, Bertolt Brecht und die Dynamik literarischer Freundschaft'. In: Der junge Brecht. Aspekte seines Denkens und Schaffens, ed. Helmut Gier and Jürgen Hillesheim (Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 1996), pp.44-64
'"Ja, damals waren wir Dichter": Hanns Otto Münsterer, Bertolt Brecht and the dynamics of literary friendship', The Brecht Yearbook 21, ed. Maarten van Dijk (Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press 1996), pp.49-66
'German Exile Drama on the English Stage: Satire and censorship, comedy and compromise'. In: Between Two Languages: German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain, 1933-45, edited by William Abbey, Charmian Brinson, Richard Dove and others, = Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik Nr.308, and Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies (University of London) vol.59 (Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz 1995), pp.117-134
‘Forms of Conviction: The problem of belief in anti-fascist plays by Bruckner, Toller and Wolf’. In: German Writers and Politics 1918-1939, edited by Richard Dove and Stephen Lamb (London: Macmillan 1992), pp.163-177
‘ “Napoleon greift daneben”. Antifaschistische Dramen im Umgang mit der Geschichte’. In: Theater und Drama im Exil 1933-1945, edited by Edita Koch and Frithjof Trapp, = Exil-Sondernummer 2 (Maintal 1991), pp.251-267
‘The Politics of the Changeable Text: Furcht und Elend des III. Reiches and the new Brecht edition’, Oxford German Studies 18/19 (1989-90), pp.132-149
‘From a Lost Chapter of German Drama’, German Life and Letters, 41 (Oct. 1987), pp.59-71.

Dissertation (Titel) Literary Form and Politics in German Exile Drama, 1933-1939

Dissertation - Jahr der Publikation 1985

Übersetzungen

The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht (2019)
Fatzer (in Brecht and The Writer's Workshop - s.u.)
Brecht. Love Poems (2015)
Brecht: Turandot (2003)
Round Heads and Pointed Heads (2001)
and various other writings
(with K.J. Leeder) H.O. Münsterer, The Young Brecht (1992).

Herausgebertätigkeit

Bertolt Brecht, Refugee Conversations (2019)
(with C. Ryland), Brecht and The Writer's Workshop (incl. Fatzer) (2018)
(with David Barnett), The Brecht Yearbook 42: Recycling Brecht (2018)
(with S. Giles, M Silberman), Brecht on Performance and Brecht on Theatre (2015)
(with C. Ryland), Bertolt Brecht, The Good Person of Szechwan, Methuen Student Edition, (2009)
(with D. Constantine) Brecht: Plays 8 (2003)
(with S. Giles) Brecht on Art and Politics (2003)
(with K. Leeder), Empedocles' Shoe: Re-reading the Poems of Bertolt Brecht (2002)
(with J. Willett) Brecht: Plays 4 (2001)
Peter Handke, Plays 1 (1997)
(with K.J. Leeder) Hanns Otto Münsterer. The Young Brecht (1992).

Forschergruppen, Forschungsprojekte

Brecht's theoretical writings
Brecht's poetry in translation
Brecht and visual art
siehe: http:/ / brecht. mml. ox. ac. uk/ welcome-writing-brecht

Stipendien various

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen MA, DPhil (Oxon); Fellow of St. Hugh's College

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