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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. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently bankrupt businessman who became too big for the banks to allow him to fail - as his former banker claims? Did he stumble into power while trying to make money, as suggested by the diary of his former slave? Across these different versions of Caesar's career in the political and economic...

An vielen Stellen des großen, im 20. Jahrhundert einzigartigen Werks von Bertolt Brecht finden sich kluge, durch sprachliche Schlichtheit und Präzision geprägte Ideen und Beobachtungen. Zahlreiche solcher Gedanken Brechts sind für sein Werk zentral und kehren an verschiedenen Stellen in ähnlicher, manchmal auch in gegensätzlicher Form wieder. Im vorliegenden Band geht es um Politisches, um Geld und Geschäfte, Endlichkeit und Tod, aber auch um Genuß und Sinnlichkeit, Kunst und Literatur - und immer wieder um die Liebe. Diese Lektüre für Minuten will erfreuen, belehren,...

Bertolt Brechts weltberühmtes Theaterstück erzählt die Geschichte des italienischen Universalgelehrten Galileo Galilei, eines Wissenschaftlers im Gewissenskonflikt zwischen Wahrheitsanspruch und Autorität, Auflehnung und Anpassung.

Im 17. Jahrhundert bewies Galilei durch seine astronomischen Beobachtungen, dass die Erde nicht der Mittelpunkt des Universums ist. Dies widersprach dem herrschenden ptolemäischen Weltbild und führte zum Konflikt mit der katholischen Kirche. Aus Angst vor Inquisition und Folter widerrief er schließlich seine Entdeckung.

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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 writing practice provide insight into the creation of his dramatic works of the period, the development of his political thinking and his...

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 unique bilingual edition allows students to compare the original German text with a translation by one of the world's leading playwrights, Tony Kushner.

In this play, a chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon. The...

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. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently bankrupt businessman who became too big for the banks to allow him to fail - as his former banker claims? Did he stumble into power while trying to make money, as suggested by the diary of his former slave? Across these different versions of Caesar's career in the political and economic...