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Manfred Wekwerth and Gisela May during rehearsals of Mother Courage and Her Children (1978). Mother Courage and Her Children (German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin. [1]
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht [a] (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long ...
" Kinderhymne" (Children's Hymn) is a poem by Bertolt Brecht, written in 1950 and set to music by Hanns Eisler in the same year. History
Weigel became the artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble on 16 February 1949. [citation needed] She is best remembered for creating several Brecht roles, including: Pelagea Vlassova, The Mother of 1932; Antigone in Brecht's version of the Greek tragedy; the title role in his civil war play, Señora Carrar's Rifles; and the iconic Mother Courage.
Mr Puntila and His Man Matti (German: Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti) is an epic comedy by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It was written in 1940 and first performed in 1948 . The story describes the aristocratic land-owner Puntila's relationship to his servant , Matti, as well as his daughter, Eva, whom he wants to marry ...
Brecht, in his typical anti-realist style, uses the device of a "play within a play".The "frame" play is set in the Soviet Union around the end of the Second World War.It shows a dispute between two communes, the Collective Fruit Farm Galinsk fruit growing commune and the Collective Goat Farmers, over who is to own and manage an area of farm land after the Nazis have retreated from a village ...
Children's Crusade, Op. 82, subtitled a Ballad for children's voices and orchestra [1] is a composition by Benjamin Britten.He completed it in 1969, setting Bertolt Brecht's poem Kinderkreuzzug 1939 [] for children's choir with some solo parts, keyboard instruments and an array of percussion, to be performed mainly by children.
Bertolt Brecht and the Art of Dissemblance. Longwood Academic, 1990. Calico, Joy. Brecht at the Opera. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Benjamin, Walter. 1928. "Program for a Proletarian Children's Theater". Trans. Susan Buck-Morss. Performance 1.5 (March / April 1973): 28–32. Trans. from Über Kinder, Jungend und Erziehung.