Plays:
Baal, Drums in the Night, The Beggar, A Wedding, Driving Out a Devil, Lux in Tenebris, The Catch, In The Jungle of Cities, Edward II, Man Equals Man, Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer, The Elephant Calf, Little Mahagonny, The Threepenny Opera, The Flight across the Ocean, The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent, Happy End, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, He Said Yes / He Said No, The Decision, Saint Joan of the Stockyards, The Exception and the Rule, The Mother, Kuhle Wampe, The Seven Deadly Sins, Round Heads and Pointed Heads, The Horatians and the Curiatians, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, Señora Carrar's Rifles, Life of Galileo, How Much Is Your Iron?, Dansen, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Trial of Lucullus, Mr Puntila and his Man Matti, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Hangmen Also Die, The Visions of Simone Machard, The Duchess of Malfi, Schweyk in the Second World War, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Antigone, The Days of the Commune, The Tutor, Die Verurteilung des Lukullus, Report from Herrnburg, Coriolanus, Joan of Arc, Turandot, Don Juan, Trumpets and Drums
Theoretical works: "The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre" (1930), "The Threepenny Lawsuit" (written 1931; published 1932), "The Book of Changes" (fragment also known as Me-Ti; written 1935-1939), "The Street Scene" (written 1938; published 1950), "The Popular and the Realistic" (written 1938; published 1958), "Short Description of a New Technique of Acting which Produces an Alienation Effect" (written 1940; published 1951), "A Short Organum for the Theatre" ("Kleines Organon für das Theater", written 1948; published 1949), The Messingkauf Dialogues (Dialogue aus dem Messingkauf, published 1963)
Collaborators and associates:
Berliner Ensemble,
Helene Weigel,
Elisabeth Hauptmann,
Margarete Steffin,
Ruth Berlau,
Erwin Piscator,
Emil Burri,
Lion Feuchtwanger,
Arnolt Bronnen,
Herbert Ihering,
Slatan Dudow,
Fritz Lang,
G W Pabst,
Erich Engel,
Carl Weber,
Benno Besson,
Ruth Berghaus,
Kurt Weill,
Paul Hindemith,
Hanns Eisler,
Paul Dessau,
Caspar Neher,
Teo Otto,
Karl von Appen,
Walter Benjamin,
John Willett,
Eric Bentley,
Ralph Manheim,
Lotte Lenya,
Charles Laughton,
Peter Lorre,
Ernst Busch,
Therese Giehse,
Angelika Hurwicz,
Carola Neher,
Alexander Granach,
Oskar Homolka,
Fritz Kortner,
Wolfgang Langhoff,
Theo Lingen,
Erwin Faber,
Hans Schweikart,
Sorrel Carson
Bertolt Brecht's Details
Status:
Married
Zodiac Sign:
Aquarius
Children:
Proud parent
Bertolt Brecht : "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." Posted at 5:57 PM Jun 10, 2008 view more
About me: Bertolt Brecht (1898 – 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. A seminal theatre practitioner of the twentieth century, Brecht's achievement is equally significant in dramaturgy and in theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble—the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife and long-time collaborator, the actress Helene Weigel—with its internationally acclaimed productions.
From his late twenties Brecht remained a life-long committed Marxist who, in developing the combined theory and practice of his 'epic theatre', synthesized and extended the experiments of Piscator and Meyerhold to explore the theatre as a forum for political ideas and the creation of a critical aesthetics of dialectical materialism. Brecht's modernist concern with drama-as-a-medium led to his refinement of the 'epic form' of the drama (which constitutes that medium's rendering of 'autonomization' or the 'non-organic work of art'—related in kind to the strategy of divergent chapters in Joyce's novel Ulysses, to Eisenstein's evolution of a constructivist 'montage' in the cinema, and to Picasso's introduction of cubist 'collage' in the visual arts). In contrast to many other avant-garde approaches, however, Brecht had no desire to destroy art as an institution; rather, he hoped to 're-function' the apparatus of theatrical production to a new social use. In this regard he was a vital participant in the aesthetic debates of his era—particularly over the 'high art/popular culture' dichotomy—vying with the likes of Adorno, Lukács, Bloch, and developing a close friendship with Benjamin. Brechtian theatre articulated popular themes and forms with avant-garde formal experimentation to create a modernist realism that stood in sharp contrast both to its psychological and socialist varieties. "Brecht's work is the most important and original in European drama since Ibsen and Strindberg," Raymond Williams argues, while Peter Bürger insists that he is "the most important materialist writer of our time."
An 'nem schönen blauen Sonntag
liegt ein toter Mann am Strand
und ein Mensch geht um die Ecke
den man Mackie Messer nennt.
Und Schmul Meier bleibt verschwunden
und so mancher reiche Mann
und sein Geld hat Mackie Messer
dem man nichts beweisen kann.
Jenny Towler ward gefunden
mit 'nem Messer in der Brust
und am Kai geht Mackie Messer
der von allem nichts gewußt.
Und das große Feuer in Soho
sieben Kinder und ein Greis
in der Menge Mackie Messer den
man nichts fragt und der nichts weiß.
Und die minderjähr'ge Witwe
deren Namen jeder weiß
wachte auf und war geschändet
Mackie welches war Dein Preis!
Wachte auf und war geschändet
Mackie welches war Dein Preis!
Who I'd like to meet: Creative colaborators: Elisabeth Hauptmann, Margarete Steffin, Ruth Berlau, Slatan Dudow, Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler, Paul Dessau, Caspar Neher, Teo Otto, Karl von Appen, Ernst Busch, Lotte Lenya, Peter Lorre, Therese Giehse, Angelika Hurwicz, and beloved Helene Weigel.
From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other. -- Emily Matthews --
May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope;
Gérard Philipe, French Romantic Actor. ( 4 décembre 1922 - 25 novembre 1959). Superstitieux, il modifia son nom pour que celui-ci compte treize lettres...
Sharing with you this wonderful artist we miss so much in France... Much Love to you ♥
und MacHeath der hat ein Messer
