Alle meine Gedichte sind durch die Wirklichkeit angeregt und haben darin Grund und Boden. Von Gedichten aus der Luft gegriffen, halte ich nichts, schreibt Goethe im September 1823 an Eckermann. Gelegenheit, so will man meinen, macht Poesie. - Brechts lyrisches Werk ist in der deutschen Literaturgeschichte allenfalls mit dem Goethes vergleichbar, und zwar sowohl quantitativ als auch qualitativ. Alle lyrischen Spielarten waren Brecht von Jugend an vertraut, zahlreiche seiner ber zweitausendfnfhundert Gedichte von der Hauspostille bis zu den Buckower Elegien sind Meisterwerke von bleibendem...
Alle meine Gedichte sind durch die Wirklichkeit angeregt und haben darin Grund und Boden. Von Gedichten aus der Luft gegriffen, halte ich nichts, schr...
"Der Packer Galy Gay in Kilkoa geht aus, einen Fisch zu kaufen, und gerät unter die Soldaten einer englischen Maschinengewehr abteilung, die ihren vierten Mann beim Einbruch in eine Pagode verloren haben. Sie verwandeln ihn, damit nichts bemerkt wird, in diesen vierten Mann. Galy Gay wird Jeraiah Jip. Erst nennt er sich so, zuletzt ist er es. Wer am Morgen als beschauliches Individuum auszog, marschiert am Abend als Nummer unter Tausenden, als Kollektivbegriff, als Soldat nach Tibet. Mann ist Mann. Damit es so weit kommt, wird er wie eine Maschine, wie ein Auto abmontiert und neu...
"Der Packer Galy Gay in Kilkoa geht aus, einen Fisch zu kaufen, und gerät unter die Soldaten einer englischen Maschinengewehr abteilung, die ihren vi...
Der ursprüngliche Titel Spartakus verweist auf den historisch-politischen Zusammenhang: die Revolution von 1918. In der Hauptfigur, dem aus dem Krieg heimgekehrten, von seiner Verlobten verlassenen Artilleristen Kragler, zeichnete Brecht den "falschen Proletarier", den "fatalen Revolutionär, der die Revolution sabotierte, den Lenin heftiger bekämpfte als die offenen Bourgeois". Kragler, Proletarier und Revolutionär aus betrogener Liebe, wendet, als die Geliebte zu ihm zurückkehrt, der Revolution den Rücken, wird wieder zum privatisierenden Bourgeois.
Der ursprüngliche Titel Spartakus verweist auf den historisch-politischen Zusammenhang: die Revolution von 1918. In der Hauptfigur, dem aus dem Krieg...
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeare's Richard III and Goethe's Faust - Brecht's compelling parable continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today.
Written during the Second World War in 1941, the play was one of the Berliner Ensemble's most...
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a witty an...
Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim, James Stern, Tania Stern, W. H. Auden
Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that resources should go to those who will make best use of them. Thanks to the rascally judge, Azdak, one of Brecht's most vivid creations, this story has a happy outcome: the child is entrusted to the peasant Grusha, who has loved and nurtured it.
Published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition features an extensive introduction, Brecht's...
Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solo...
Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim, Ralph Manheim, John Willett, John Willett, Ralph Manheim
Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's unforgettable music - one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz to the theatre - it became a popular hit throughout the western world.
Published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition features extensive notes and commentary including an introduction to the...
Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm i...
In this 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 Berlin production of 1949, with Helene Weigel as Mother Courage, marked the foundation of the Berliner Ensemble.
Considered by many to be one of the greatest anti-war plays ever written and Brecht's masterpiece, this edition published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series offer a full introduction. A powerful example of...
In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her c...
In this savage and witty parable written in exile in 1941, Brecht recasts the rise of Hitler as a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. This prizewinning translation by Ralph Manheim skilfully captures the wide range of parody and pastiche in the original - from Richard III to Al Capone, from Mark Antony to Faust - without diminishing the horror of the real-life Nazi prototypes.
In this savage and witty parable written in exile in 1941, Brecht recasts the rise of Hitler as a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the cit...
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature.
Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht's greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific...
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology features an extensive introductio...
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 a gift that enables her to set up her own business. But her goodness brings ruin and she must disguise herself as a man in order to muster sufficient ruthlessness to survive.
Published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition features an introduction and extensive notes and textual...
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 ...