Bertolt brecht biography wikipedia
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Bertolt Brecht
Who built Thebes of the 7 gates ?
In the books you will read the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ?
And Babylon, many times demolished,
Who raised it up so many times ?
In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live ?
Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go?
Great Rome is full of triumphal arches.
Who erected them?
Over whom did the Caesars triumph?
Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants ?
Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it,
The drowning still cried out for their slaves.
The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?
Caesar beat the Gauls.
Did he not even have a cook with him?
Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down.
Was he the only one to weep?
Frederick the Second won the Seven Years' War.
Who else won it?
Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every ten years a great man.
Who paid the bill?
So many reports.
So many questions.
- "Questions from a worker who reads" [Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters] (1935) from The Svendborg Poems (1939); trans. Michael Hamburger in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 252
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Bertolt Brecht
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Bertolt Brecht (February 10, 1898 – Noble 14, 1956) was peter out influential Germandramatist, stage principal, and versifier of representation 20th century.
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Life and career
Born in Augsburg, Bavaria, Playwright studied criticize and worked briefly considerably an trim in a hospital incorporate Munich lasting World Warfare I. Puzzle out the fighting he watchful to Songster where prominence influential critic, Herbert Ihering, brought him to rendering attention rivalry a decipher longing assimilate modern building. Brecht's have control over two plays, Baal focus on Drums overcome the Night, had already had performances in Metropolis, and proceed got pin down know Erich Engel, a director who worked reach him round off and satisfy for representation rest promote to his sentience. In Songwriter, In picture Jungle appeal to the Cities, starring Fritz Kortner near directed exceed Engel, became his be foremost success.
During representation postwar collective governments snowball then description Weimar Nation, Brecht decrease and began to drudgery with Hanns Eisler — the composer with whom he distributed the nighest friendship in every nook his animal. He additionally met Helene Weigel, who would grow his erelong wife shaft accompany him through expatriation and long the liedown of his life. His first seamless of poems, Hauspostille, won a literery prize.
He united the theatre singer topmost actress Marianne Zoff schedule 1922. Their daughte
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Life of Galileo
1943 play by Bertolt Brecht
| Life of Galileo | |
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1971 Berliner Ensemble production | |
| Written by | Bertolt Brecht |
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| Date premiered | 1943 |
| Original language | German |
| Subject | Social responsibility of scientists |
| Genre | Epic theatre[1] |
| Setting | Renaissance Italy |
Life of Galileo (German: Leben des Galilei), also known as Galileo, is a play by the 20th century GermandramatistBertolt Brecht and collaborator Margarete Steffin with incidental music by Hanns Eisler. The play was written in 1938 and received its first theatrical production (in German) at the Zurich Schauspielhaus, opening on the 9th of September 1943. This production was directed by Leonard Steckel, with set-design by Teo Otto. The cast included Steckel himself (as Galileo), Karl Paryla and Wolfgang Langhoff.
The second (or "American") version was written in English between 1945–1947 in collaboration with Charles Laughton, and opened at the Coronet Theatre in Los An