Also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, this is a sequence of twenty-four realistic sketches showing how "ordinary" life under the Nazis was subtly permeated by suspicion and anxiety. Written in exile in Denmark and first staged in 1938 it was inspired in part by his recent …  mehr→

Brecht's "Work Journals" cover the period from 1938 to 1955, the years of exile in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and America, and his return via Switzerland to East Berlin. His criticisms of the work of other writers and intellectuals are perceptive and polemic, and the accounts of his own …  mehr→

Tagebuch einer Reise in das heutige Kaliningrad. Eine Wiederbegegnung.Viele Leser hatten sich nach dem Report „Suche nach Karalautschi“ (1984) an die Autorin gewandt. Nun folgt sie einer Einladung des Kaliningrader Kulturfonds. …  mehr→

Im Telefon wisperte es, so wie man es vor einer Theatervorstellung hinter dem Vorhang hört, was einen sehr gespannt und neugierig macht. - „Fang du an!“ - „Nein, du!“ - „Los, mach schon!“ - „Heißen Sie wirklich Simsallabim“, fragte eine Stimme. Es war eine kleine Stimme, und dünn war sie …  mehr→

The Lehrst cke (or 'learning-plays') lie at the heart of Brechtian theatre.Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic upheaveal in Germany and the period of Brecht's most sharply Communist works, these short plays show an abrupt rejection of most of the …  mehr→

Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This translation by Michael Hofmann was published to coincide with the UK tour by English Touring Theatre in 2006. …  mehr→

Bertolt Brecht's extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar's efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned biography, confronted by a baffling range of contradictory views. …  mehr→

Brecht's famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify their existence. They find Shen Teh, a good-hearted but penniless prostitute, and make her …  mehr→

Eine Liebesgeschichte. Als Johannes merkt, da könnte irgendwas werden mit Irene, da ergreift er allerhand merkwürdige Vorsichtsmaßnahmen. …  mehr→