Twenty years ago, John Fuegi created an uproar with the scathing “Brecht & Co.,” which asserted with formidable documentation that one of the 20th century’s most revered playwrights was at best only ...

Bertolt Brecht is still celebrated worldwide today. His plays are performed in various Theaters around the world, his texts are read, the International Brecht Society publishes the Brecht Yearbook ...

Bertolt Brecht has written 36 shows including Die Sieben Todsünden (Lyricist), Mother (Playwright), Galileo (Playwright), The Good Woman of Setzuan (Playwright), Brecht on Brecht (Lyricist), Man is ...

The German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) inspired extremes of loyalty and antipathy. Brilliant, charismatic and seductive, he was professionally unreliable and personally deceptive.

Since the death of Bertolt Brecht in 1956 in East Berlin, the Soviet empire has collapsed, the Cold War was ended and the East German satrapy that Brecht fled to when he feared that his past might ...

Biographies these days seem to resemble dumbbells, made as much for physical exercise as for spiritual or intellectual enlightenment; they could also serve as doorstops or defensive weapons against ...

Did you know that Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage has been performed at the National Theatre in Addis Ababa since 2019? If you haven’t yet attended, we highly recommend you do so soon.

Revolutionary playwright Bertolt Brecht gets the standard-issue TV biopic treatment in this two-parter saved only by 'Reds'-style interviews. Buried within Heinrich Breloer’s superficial and plodding ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works and ideas of this great German playwright from the Weimar Republic to his exile under the Nazis and return to Berlin after World War Two. Show more Melvyn ...