Канонизираната революция: Бертолт Брехт и реформирането на зрителския поглед
Canonised Revolution: Bertolt Brecht and the Reformation of the Spectatorial Gaze

Summary/Abstract: The article examines Bertolt Brecht’s theatre as a radical transformation of theatrical production, space, acting, and spectatorship. Drawing on Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, it explores the tension between political engagement, aesthetic autonomy, and propaganda. It pays particular attention to Gestus and the alienation effect as strategies that reveal behaviour and social relations as historically conditioned and therefore changeable. Examples from Mother Courage and Her Children, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle demonstrate how Brecht’s theatre reorganises the spectator’s position from identification towards observation and critical judgment. The article also considers the paradox of the canonised revolution, arguing that Brecht’s legacy remains productive only when its critical function is reactivated rather than stylistically reproduced.

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