Bertolt brecht biography kurzfassung

  • Bertolt Brecht was still a young author when he was commissioned to write his first educational play, entiteld Lindberghflug (Lindbergh's Flight).
  • * Brecht entwickelte sich zu einem überzeugten Kommunisten · * wurde ihm die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft aberkannt · * Er.
  • Bertolt Brecht, generally regarded as the most influential politically engaged left-wing playwright of the twentieth century, died in

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    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest European playwrights of the twentieth century. The aim of Bertolt Brecht () was to make the familiar ‘strange’: with plays such as Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle he wanted his audience not to sit back but to engage, observe and discover the contradictions in life, and act on what they learnt. He developed this approach in turbulent times, from Weimar Germany to the rise of the Nazis, to exile in Scandinavia and America and then post-war life in East Berlin, and he has since inspired dramatists around the world.

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    Laura Bradley Professor of German and Theatre at the University of Edinburgh

    David Barnett Professor of Theatre at the University of York

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    Tom Kuhn Professor of Twentieth Century German Literature, Emeritus Fellow of St Hugh's College, University of Oxford

    Producer: Simon Tillotson In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio production

    Reading list:

    David Barnett, Brecht in Practice: Theatre, Theory a

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    Bertolt Brecht: Kaelbermarsch [March of the Calves], typescript ()

    The lyricist Bertolt Brecht wrote the satirical song Kälbermarsch[March of the Calves] in September , during his French exile. Later, Brecht incorporated it into his playSchweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg[Schweyk in the Second World War], which he wrote between and It is a bitter parody of theHorst-Wessel-Lied [Horst Wessel song], which was originally a battle song of the SA, the Nazi’s paramilitary wing, and then became the official anthem of the Nazi Party. In March of the Calves, Brecht decried the unconditional obedience of the German soldiers under the Nazi soldiers are described as calves that, as a faceless group, shun personal responsibility and go to their death without challenging the dictatorship. It fryst vatten likely that Brecht wrote the song for anti-fascist radio broadcasts.

    Line by line, he parodies the Nazi anthem. Brecht turns “Die Fahne hoch. Die Reihen dicht geschlossen” [The flag on high. The ranks t

  • bertolt brecht biography kurzfassung

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    Bertolt Brecht

    Bertolt Brecht was still a young author when he was commissioned to write his first educational play, entiteld Lindberghflug(Lindbergh’s Flight), for the Kammermusikfest (chamber music festival) of Baden-Baden in , but he was also an established one thanks to the popularity of his The Threepenny Opera (). Inspired by the previous year’s Atlantic crossing by the American Charles Lindbergh, Brecht used the play to express his ideas about the democratic use of new radio technology. It was intended not only to entertain but also to actively involve audiences, for example by contributing prepared vocal music passages.

    Brecht incorporated his pedagogical ruminations on the media landscape three years later into a speech entitled: Der Rundfunk als Kommunikationsapparat (Radio as Communications Apparatus). He was particularly vocal about what he saw as the need to break the rigid, one-way broadcaster-listener dynamic. Alongside the incorporation of experimenta