{"product_id":"berta-lask-thomas-muntzer-play-commentaries","title":"Berta Lask - Thomas Müntzer. Play + Commentaries","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"block-bfaab0aa62975326df81\" data-border-radii='{\"topLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"topRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0}}' data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large\"\u003eOne hundred years ago, playwright Berta Lask (1878–1967) was commissioned by the German Communist Party to write a play marking the quatercentenary of the German Peasants’ War. She agreed, staging the reappearance of its leader Thomas Müntzer — who awakens every hundred years to address the present, represented in the prologue as a cast of striking proletarians to whom he tells his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn the play, Lask poses a basic question: What would Thomas Müntzer see if he woke up today? A list accrues: Climate breakdown, imperialism, gendered oppression, earthquakes, genocide, impending fascism. Capitalism didn’t dig its own grave. Rather, the dead oppressors of previous centuries have been resurrected, planted in new bodies, tooled with new modes of bondage, within uneven spatial domination and temporal disjunction. Thomas Müntzer, with all of its time travel and its modes of resurrection, addresses the present from a past multiplied.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eFor the first time, Lask’s play has been translated for a print edition alongside a set of commentaries and interventions: on everything from the “proletarian problem play” to rainbows and bundles of twigs; from Albrecht Dürer’s monument to the slain peasants to Paul Robeson’s rendition of “Joe Hill”; from revolutionary violence to tragic commemoration. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eTranslated by Sam Dolbear with Loren Goldman, Esther Leslie, Joey Simons and Charlotte Thießen, both volumes are edited by Sam Dolbear. The second, commentaries, volume includes contributions by Caroline Adler, Joseph Albernaz, Hunter Bivens, Shane Boyle, Rebecca Comay, Sam Dolbear, Loren Goldman, Danny Hayward, Disha Karnad Jani, Sam Keogh, Henrike Kohpeiss, Esther Leslie, Huw Lemmey, Peter Linebaugh, Hussein Mitha, Vesa Oittinen, Hannah Proctor, Daniel Reeve, Ashkan Sepahvand, O. L. Silverman, Joey Simmons, Kerstin Stakemeier, virgil b\/g taylor, and Alberto Toscano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eDesigned by Ott Kagovere, the two A4 size volumes are wrapped in a poster by artist Sam Keogh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eEdited by Sam Dolbear\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eEnglish edition\u003cbr\u003e21 x 29,7 cm (softcover)\u003cbr\u003e92 +112 pages (ill.)\u003cbr\u003eISBN : 978-952-65646-9-2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-743046afe5aacd4f84a4\" data-block-type=\"5\" class=\"sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image sqs-text-ready\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1746656644634_109\" class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1746656644634_108\" data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\" class=\"image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-site-default individual-animation-site-default individual-text-animation-site-default animation-loaded\"\u003e\n\u003cfigure id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1746656644634_107\" class=\"sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1746656644634_106\" data-animation-role=\"image\" class=\"image-block-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1746656644634_105\" class=\"sqs-image-shape-container-element\n              \n          \n        \n              has-aspect-ratio\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sam Dolbear","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51968881688878,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2263\/4647\/files\/BLTM_0.jpg?v=1776502412","url":"https:\/\/3ssstudios.com\/products\/berta-lask-thomas-muntzer-play-commentaries","provider":"Bungee Space by 3standardstoppage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}