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21-22 February, The Grand Method. Brecht without Guarantees

 

In Bertolt Brecht’s work, “The Great Method” was usually read as a cipher for Marxist dialectics. However, viewed from the present day, his thinking is more reminiscent of innovators such as Antonio Gramsci or Stuart Hall than Hegel.

For Brecht, “The Great Method” is not a Marxist law of nature or philosophy of progress, but a “practical doctrine”: a tool for achieving the ability to act under constantly changing conditions. Brecht’s program thus appears as “without guarantees” or “without warranties” and as a methodological challenge: curatorial, artistic, scientific, practical, political. For the Brecht Festival under Julian Warner’s artistic direction, this meant from day one: when society changes, festival visitors and their traditional histories and customs become more diverse, technological means develop and material conditions change, the understanding of theater inevitably changes. The festival and audience took this realization into account when a parade carried the Brecht carpet from the Golden Hall across the Ulrichsbrücke to Lechhausen, local politics were turned into a wrestling match in the wedding hall of the Alevi community and the Lederle was transformed into a power club. What does it mean curatorially, culturally and politically to act according to the motto “Brecht without guarantees”?

The conference is part of the Brechtfestival taking place in Augsburg on 21 February until 2 March 2025.

 

 

Location: Café Tür an Tür, Wertachstraße 29, 86153 Augsburg

Time:

Friday, February 21, 2025, 1:00 p.m.,

Saturday, February 22, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Registration by February 13, 2025 HERE.

 

Concept & organization: Julian Warner & Prof. Dr. Moritz Ege (Professor of Popular Cultures / Empirical Cultural Studies with a Focus on Everyday Cultures)

In cooperation with the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities global:dis-connect of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and the Institute for Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Research (ISEK) of the University of Zurich.