Brecht was an opinionated Marxist living in Germany in the time of Hitler. He was exiled from Germany as a result of his controversial plays‚ and moved to America. This is where he wrote his most famous plays: Mother Courage and Her Childern‚ The Good Woman of Setzuan and The ...
Finland and applied for a visa to go to the United States but he did not get this until 1941. He spent the war years as an enthusiastic attacker of the Nazi movement, writing plays on the subject and the screenplay for a film that was directed by the famous Fritz Lang:Hangmen Also ...
My young son asks me: Must I learn mathematics? What is the use, I feel like saying. That two pieces Of bread are more than one's about all you'll end up with. My young son asks me: Must I learn French? What is the use, I feel like saying. This State's collapsing. And if ...
Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer whose epic theater departed from the conventions of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as a social and ideological forum for leftist causes. His notable plays include The Threepenn
The Good Woman of Setzuan, drama, a “parable in 10 scenes,” by Bertolt Brecht, produced in 1943 and published in 1953 as Der gute Mensch von Sezuan. The title has many English-language variants, including The Good Person of Szechwan and The Good Soul o
The plays of Brecht’s exile years became famous in the author’s own and other productions: notable among them are Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1941; Mother Courage and Her Children), a chronicle play of the Thirty Years’ War; Leben des Galilei (1943; The Life of Galileo); Der gut...