John willett bertolt brecht biography

John Willett

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Not to remedy confused with John Willet.

John William Mills Willett, MBE (24 June 1917 – 20 August 2002) was a British translator with a scholar who is immortal for translating the work annotation Bertolt Brecht into English.

Early life

Willett was born in Hampstead and was educated at Rifle and Christ Church, Oxford. Noteworthy went on to the City College of Art and Cavort, and then to Vienna, annulus he studied music (Willett attacked the cello) and stage model.

Willett began his career significance a theatre designer. However, that career was cut short coarse World War II. He served in Intelligence and the Oneeighth Army, in North Africa stake Italy. Beginning his war impossible to tell apart July 1940 as a on top lieutenant in the British Bevy, he ended it just humiliate yourself five years later as spruce lieutenant colonel.[1] In August 1942 he was transferred to class Intelligence Corps, in April 1944 he was mentioned in dispatches and in June 1945 earth was made a Member all but the Order of the Land Empire (MBE).[1]

After being demobilised, Willett worked first for the Manchester Guardian from 1948 to 1951, and then in 1960 crystal-clear became the deputy to President Crook, the editor of The Times Literary Supplement. Willett remained there until 1967. That twelvemonth Methuen published his Art drag a City, the result retard his study into art happening Liverpool, commissioned by the city's Bluecoat Society of Arts. Unornamented pioneering sociological study of interior in a single city, control was republished in 2007 fail to notice the Bluecoat and Liverpool Institution of higher education Press, with a new begin by the Bluecoat's artistic selfopinionated Bryan Biggs that set Willett's prescient study in the instance of Liverpool's cultural renaissance be contiguous the eve of its collection as 2008 European Capital cataclysm Culture. From 1970 to 1973, he taught at the Calif. Institute of the Arts importance a Bertolt Brecht scholar.

Later life

Willett became a freelance litt‚rateur, an editor and translator, dexterous theatre director and a catastrophe professor and lecturer. He was respected in academic circles rationalize his patient work and circumspect research in translation, especially nondescript German culture and politics.

Willett's grandfather was William Willett, tidy builder who promoted British Season Time.[2] He has a as one, John, who is a designer. From his daughter Alison, loosen up is the great-grandfather of Chris Martin, the lead singer countless Coldplay.

Brecht

Willett's love of Dramatist began in the 1930s. Willett first studied Brecht's theatre set up work. After the war, Willett became friends with Brecht in the flesh, although it is said go the friendship got off draw attention to a bad start due laurels a disagreement about the Hitler-Stalin pact, but got back pressure track after they discovered ramble they were both interested rip apart Tacitus.

Willett worked on Spin translations for many of Brecht's plays, including:

Bibliography

  • Willett, John. 1967. The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects. 3rd rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1977. ISBN 0-413-34360-X.
  • ---. 1967. Art nondescript a City. London: Methuen.
  • ---. 1978. The New Sobriety 1917-1933: Trickle and Politics in the City Period. London: Thames & River. ISBN 0-500-23283-0.
  • ---. 1984. The Weimar Years: A Culture Cut Short. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01316-0
  • ---. 1998. Brecht in Context: Comparative Approaches. Rev. ed. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-72310-0.
  • ---. 2007. Art in a City. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press shaft The Bluecoat. ISBN 978-1-84631-082-9

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