I Monographs

1) Hegel's Philosophy of Poetry. Bonn: Bouvier 1974 (Phil. - Diss., Bonn 1973)

2) Single-phase teacher training. On the theory and practice of monophasicity,

project orientation, exploratory strategy. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag - Verlag 1978.

3) Bertolt Brecht. Critique of Fascism. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1989.

4) Ed., together with Boldt et al: Carl von Ossietzky. Reader. Holding up a mirror to the times.

Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1989.

5) Ed., together with Boldt et al: Carl von Ossietzky: Complete Writings. Annotated

Oldenburg edition in 8 volumes. Here: Vol. 3; Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt 1994.

6) Ed., together with Bertram et al. (Carl von Ossietzky - Forschungsstelle): Carl von Ossietzky:

Sämtliche Schriften. Annotated Oldenburg edition in 8 volumes. Here: Vol. 8

(Index); Reinbek: Rowohlt 1994;

7) Ancient Myths. Kafka and Brecht. Würzburg: Königshausen u. Neumann 2006 (1st and 2nd ed.

ed.)

8) Hegel and Brecht. On the Dialectic of Freedom. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 2015

9) Myth of the nation. Bronnen and Brecht. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 2016

10) Minima Hegeliana. Brecht's mental images. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 2017

11) Goethe and Hegel. The essence of dialectics - the limits of the digital. Würzburg:

Königshausen u. Neumann 2020

12) Brecht as a philosopher. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 2021

1) Labour as the mediation between practical idea and material reality in Hegel.

(Paper presented at the International Hegel Congress, Lisbon 1977).

2) Aesthetic autonomy and the industrial world of work. On a current contradiction in

Hegel’s philosophy of art. In: Hegel-Jahrbuch 1977/78, pp. 303–309.

3) The Misery of Intuition. Theses on the methodological formation of categories in

reformed teacher training, using the example of exploration. In: Curriculum Reform and

Workers’ Interests, ed. by B. Bischoff et al., Cologne 1978, pp. 223–229.

4) Günter Alfs / Frank D. Wagner: Integrated Teacher Training. In: Fichten, Spindler,

Steinbrink (eds.): Theory and Practice. Oldenburg 1981, pp. 204–237.

5) The Dialectics of Exploration. In: Fichten, Spindler, Steinbrink (eds.): Science and

Teaching. Oldenburg 1982, pp. 268–300.

6) Inquiry as a Theoretical Link to Practice. In: Wolfgang Grams: General

School Teaching Practice. Criticism, Suggestions, Materials. Oldenburg 1986, pp. 82–83.

7) Masquerade. The Confessions of Arnolt Bronnen. (Lecture, Carl von Ossietzky –

Colloquium, Oldenburg 1982)

8) Curriculum reform and German teacher training. In: Juliane Eckhardt (ed.): Theory and

Practice of German Teaching. Contributions to Single-Phase German Teacher Training.

Oldenburg 1979, pp. 3–14.

9) Hitler and the Theatricality of Fascism. Brecht’s Anti-Fascist Discourse. In: ZfdPh,

Volume 101, Issue 4, 1982, pp. 561–583.

10) The Bourgeois Ideal of Art. Hegel’s Construction of Antiquity and Critique of Modernity. In:

ZfdPh, Volume 107 (special issue), 1988, pp. 101–116.

11) Three Forms of Remembrance. Ossietzky, Hitler, Chaplin. Uni-Info, 7/89.

12) The Mental Image. A Prose Form in W. Benjamin. Oldenburger Pre-Prints 113/90, 1990.

13) The World Reaction. Ossietzky’s Republican Anti-Fascism. In: Gerhard Kraiker / Dirk

Grathoff (eds): Carl von Ossietzky and the Political Culture of the Weimar Republic.

Oldenburg 1991; pp. 99–122.

14) The Riddle of the Sphinx. Hegel’s Egypt. In: ZfdPh, Vol. 113, No. 2, 1994, pp. 246–263.

15) Empedocles’s Shoe. In: Brecht Handbook. Vol. 2: Poems. Edited by Jan Knopf.

Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler 2001; pp. 284–286.

16) ‘The Führer Has Spoken’. In: Brecht Handbook, Vol. 2: Poems. Edited by Jan Knopf,

Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2001, pp. 201–204.

17) The Soldier from La Ciotat. In: Brecht Handbook, Vol. 3: Prose, Films, Screenplays. Edited

by Jan Knopf, Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2002, pp. 273–276.

18) Bravery. Brecht’s Wounded Socrates. In: Heinrich Mann Yearbook, Vol. 16/1998,

2000, pp. 115–132.

19) The Javameier. In: Brecht Handbook, Vol. 3: Prose, Films, Screenplays. Edited by Jan

Knopf, Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2002, pp. 36–40.

20) Barbara. In: Brecht Handbook, Vol. 3: Prose, Films, Screenplays, edited by Jan Knopf,

Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2002, pp. 102–106.

21) Aspects. Benjamin and Hegel. In: global benjamin. International Walter Benjamin

Congress 1992. Edited by Klaus Garber and Ludger Rehm, Munich: Fink 1999; Vol. 2,

pp. 1071–1088.

22) An Appeal to Reason. Thomas Mann’s ‘German Ansprache’ and Arnolt Bronnen’s

national attack in the crisis year of 1930. *Thomas Mann Yearbook*, 13 / 2000, pp. 43–56.

23) The Media Detective. From Poe’s ‘Rue Morgue’ via Doyle’s ‘The Adventures of Sherlock

Holmes’ to Brecht’s ‘Javameier’. In: Karin Tebben (ed.): Farewell to the Myth of

Mann. Cultural Concepts of Modernity. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 2002;

pp. 103–119.

24) The Trophies of Lucullus. In: Brecht Handbook, Vol. 3: Prose, Films, Screenplays,

edited by Jan Knopf, Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2002, pp. 329–333.

25) Brecht’s Ancient Myths. In: Heinrich Mann Yearbook, Vol. 16/1998, 2000, pp. 89–114.

26) Food Culture. In: Brecht Handbook, Vol. 3: Prose, Films, Screenplays, edited by Jan Knopf,

Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2002, pp. 361–365.

27) Doubting the Myth. In: Brecht Handbook, Vol. 3: Prose, Films, Screenplays, edited by

Jan Knopf, Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2002, pp. 186–191.

28) Death on Mount Etna. Hölderlin and Brecht’s Empedocles Legend. In: ZfdPh, Vol. 119,

2000, Issue 4, pp. 589–600.

29) Few know today. In: Brecht Handbook, Vol. 3: Prose, Films, Screenplays, edited by

Jan Knopf, Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2002, pp. 231–236.

30) The Wounded Socrates. In: Brecht Handbook, Vol. 3: Prose, Films, Screenplays, ed.

by Jan Knopf, Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2002, pp. 313–319.

31) Caesar and His Legionnaire. In: Brecht Handbook, Vol. 3: Prose, Films, Screenplays. Edited

by Jan Knopf, Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2002, pp. 378–385.

32) The Sirens of Odysseus. Versions of Myths in Kafka and Brecht. Oldenburg: BIS-

Verlag 2000 (Lectures – Speeches – Reports of the Oldenburg Library Society, No. 36).

33) Oedipus the Demon: One Eye Too Many. On Brecht’s Doubts about an Ancient Myth. In:

Dreigroschenheft 2026 (in preparation)

34) An Uncanny Work – Brecht on Hegel. In: Birte Giesler, Eva Kormann, Ana Kugli, Gaby

Pailer (eds.), Occasionally: Brecht. Commemorative volume for Jan Knopf marking the 15th

of the Bertolt Brecht Research Centre (ABB), Heidelberg 2004, pp. 31–48.

35) Brecht as a Philosopher. In: Reinhard Schulz (ed.), Philosophy in Literary and

aesthetic Forms. Oldenburg: until 2005, pp. 101–130.

36) Brecht as a Philosopher. In: Brecht-Heft No. 4 (2014), University of Zhytomyr (Ukraine)

37) ‘Natura animi mortalis’. Brecht’s Reference to Death in Antiquity. In: Brockmann et al. (eds.): End, Boundary, Conclusion? – Brecht and Death. Würzburg 2008, pp. 53–68.

38) Brecht’s Interpretation of Hegel’s Logic. In: ZfdPh Vol. 134, Issue 4 (2015), pp. 599–616

39) Brecht’s Interpretation of Hegel. The satirical thought-images in the ‘Tuiroman’ and the humorous

dialectic in the ‘Refugee Conversations’. In: Christian Hippe (ed., On Brecht’s

Novels. Berlin 2015; pp. 147–174

40) Farewell to Brecht. Bronn’s national journey through Weimar. In: Jürgen Hillesheim

(ed.), ‘One must try to settle in Germany!’ Brecht in the

1920s. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2015; pp. 33–54

41) Total Delusion. (from: *Minima Hegeliana. On Brecht’s Conceptual Images). In:

Dreigroschenheft, Issue 1/2016

42) The Best of All Worlds. (from: Minima Hegeliana. On Brecht’s Conceptual Images) In:

Dreigroschenheft, Issue 2/2016

43) The Gallery of Ghosts. (from: Minima Hegeliana. On Brecht’s ‘Denkbilder’). In:

Dreigroschenheft, Issue 3/2016

44) Humour as a Remedy. (from: Minima Hegeliana. On Brecht’s ‘Denkbilder’). In:

Dreigroschenheft, Issue 4/2016

45) The Great Logic. (from: Minima Hegeliana. On Brecht’s ‘Thought-Images’) In:

Dreigroschenheft, Issue 1/2017

46) The Uncanny Work. (from: *Minima Hegeliana. On Brecht’s *Denkbilder*). In:

*Dreigroschenheft*, Issue 2/2017

47) Pythagoras’ Oxen. (from: *Minima Hegeliana. On Brecht’s *Denkbilder*). In

Dreigroschenheft, Issue 3/2017

48) Minerva’s Owl. (from: Minima Hegeliana. On Brecht’s ‘Denkbilder’). In

Dreigroschenheft, Issue 4/2017

49) Nationalism. On Brecht’s Radical Critique. In: Zbigniew Feliszewski (ed.):

Bertolt Brecht in System Conflicts. Production – Reception – Impact. Göttingen: Brill

V u R 2026; pp. 313–335

50) Invisibility. Kant’s ‘thing-in-itself’ in Brecht’s interpretation for us. In: *Dreigroschenheft*,

Issue 2/2024

51) The City of the Eternally Blind. Brecht’s Cassandra Project. In: Dreigroschenheft, Issue 2/2025

52) Brecht as a Chameleon. In: Dreigroschenheft, Issue 4/2024

53) The Hegel–Goethe Alliance. A alianca Hegel-Goethe. In: Revista

Estudos Hegeliana (São Paulo) 2026; pp. 51–76

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Bonn 1971. in: Archiv f. Geschichte d. Philosophie 1974, Heft 3.

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Problems - Tasks. Freiburg i.Br.1972. In: Das Argument 83 (1973), pp. 953-955

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7) Ana Kugli; Feminist Brecht? On the relationship between the sexes in Bertolt Brecht's work.

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