Heinz Zander Knihy

Die Geschichte von Doktor Faust ist der am reichsten angelegte und wirkungsmächtigste Mythos der Neuzeit. ISS7 druckte der Verleger Johann Spieß in Frankfurt die »Historia von D.]ohann Fausten«. Von ihr nahm das Fortleben dieses Mythos in der Weltliteratur wie in den anderen Künsten seinen Ausgang. Christopher Marlowes Tragödie, Lessing, Goethe und Thomas Mann sind die literarischen Hauptzeugen. Im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert entstehen bedeutende Gestaltungen des Stoffes für das Musiktheater.

Brecht's "Saint Joan of the Stockyards" explores the rampant speculation in meat and livestock against the backdrop of a crisis of overproduction. Set in the stockyards and meat market of Chicago, the play reveals the contradictions of society exacerbated by advanced capitalism. Johanna Dark, a Salvation Army soldier, witnesses the plight of workers excluded and starving due to the meat factories. In her quest to understand the reasons behind their exclusion, she encounters the meat king, Pierpont Mauler, who unsuccessfully tries to win her over to his cause. Ultimately, Johanna, also rejected by the poor, meets her demise in the stockyards. The play makes the "entangled processes" transparent, illustrating their underlying laws and using them as a means to drive the events forward.

Šťastné i nešťastné zážitky chýrečnej Moll Flandersovej, ktorá sa narodila v newgatskej väznici a nerátajúc detstvo, za šesťdesiat rokov prepestrého života, dvanásť rokov bola milostnicou, päťkrát sa vydala (z toho raz za svojho brata), dvanásť rokov bola zlodejkou, osem rokov žila vo Virgínii deportovaná za krádeže, napokon zbohatla a zomrela ako kajúcnica. Napísané podľa jej zápiskov.