Hier hat der Autor, Jahrgang 1935, Erfahrungen eines Lebens in Versen gefasst und zusammengefasst. Und er hat eine ganz besondere Botschaft: Rettet die Clowns! …  mehr→

Sibylla Schwarz ist, zumindest in Deutschland, zu Unrecht fast vergessen. Ihre Poesie reflektiert die harte Zeit inmitten des Dreißigjährigen Krieges, von dem sie weder den Anfang noch das Ende erlebte. …  mehr→

Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti, which remained unpublished in his own lifetime, now appears for the first time in English. Me-ti counselled against 'constructing too complete images of the world'. For this work of fragments and episodes, Brecht accumulated anecdotes, poems, personal stories and …  mehr→

The most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language The seventh volume of Brecht's Collected Plays contains the plays which Brecht wrote during his six-year stay in the United States from 1942 to 1948. …  mehr→

This second volume of Brecht's Collected Plays brings together some of his most glittering Berlin successes including The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The Seven Deadly Sins, Man Equals Man and The Elephant Calf. The Threepenny Opera is the story of the …  mehr→

The fifth volume in the Brecht Collected Plays series brings together two of Brecht's best-known and most frequently performed and studied plays: Life of Galileo and Mother Courage and Her Children. Galileo, which examines the conflict between free inquiry and official ideology, contains …  mehr→

This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century's most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and politics. Here are a cross-section of Brecht's wide-ranging thoughts which offer us an extraordinary window onto the …  mehr→

From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century. …  mehr→

presents a selection of Brecht's principle writings for actors and directors and is suitable for acting schools, directors, actors, students and teachers of Theatre Studies. Through these texts Brecht provides a general practical approach to acting and to realising texts for the stage …  mehr→