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Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life 9781408155622, 9781474240000, 9781350053458, 9781408155639

Table of contents :
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Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Prelude: Eugen Brecht Goes out to Play
Part One: Lyrical Awakening
1. The Brechts 1898–1
2. Church, School, Sickness 1903–12
3. Precocity 1912–14
4. The Heroism and the Madness of War 1914–16
5. Bert Brecht and his Friends 1916–17
Part Two: Dramatic Iconoclast
6. To be the Greatest Dramatist 1917–18
7. The Medical Orderly and the Revolution 1918–19
8. The ‘Lost’ Brecht Sons 1919–21
9. Brecht in Love 1921
10. Cold Chicago 1921–2
11. The Theatrical Genius 1922–4
12. At the Watershed 1924–7
13. Monumental Success 1927–8
Part Three: Marxist Heretic
14. To be a True Comrade : Surviving the Storm as the Smallest Magnitude 1928–9
15. Government by Emergency Decree 1929–31
16. Solidarity with the Working Class 1931–3
17. Into Exile from Nazi Germany 1933
18. Svendborg 1933–4
19. London, Moscow and New York: Stanislavsky’s Pre-Eminence 1934–6
20. Anti-Fascism and the Show Trials 1936

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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was one of the most influential playwrights of the 20^th century. His seminal theoretical work on ‘epic theatre’ was key to shattering contemporary rules and aims of theatre.
Born in Augsburg, Bavaria, Brecht grew up during the Weimar Republic. World War One broke out when he was sixteen, but he avoided conscription by registering for a medical course at Munich university. Medical students were exempt from the draft. During his time in Munich, he also studied theatre.
Around 1920, Brecht took a part in the political cabaret of Karl Valentin, who became one of his main influences for the next few years. Brecht expressed continuing admiration and praise for Valentin’s work, which is characterised by dark humour and dadaism, an anti-bourgeois artistic movement. Around this time, Brecht became acquainted with the key figures of the contemporary Berlin cultural scene, including Arnolt Bronnen, with whom Brecht set up a joint company.
From fear of persecution, Brecht left Nazi Germany in 1933 after Hitler took power. He initially went to Denmark befor
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Bertolt Brecht(Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht)
Was Bertolt Brecht an emigrant? He didn’t see himself as such. Brecht constantly fought against the use of the term, which implies a freedom of choice that expellees were not given. In 1938, his friend and colleague Berthold Viertelwrote the following about him: “You don’t want to be a German political emigrant, just an expellee, chased away, whose thoughts, feelings and plans tirelessly circulate on German soil, on the German people. Their future becomes that of your own, and the present defiantly estranged.” (ed. trans.)
Before Brecht fled Germany in 1933, he was one of the best-known playwrights in Germany. In 1922 he celebrated the premiere of Inthe Jungle of Cities in Munich – but the second performance was interrupted by the Nazis and dropped shortly after. By the time the premiere of The Threepenny Opera took place, Brecht had also become well-known outside Germany.
Brecht was in hospital during the Reichstag fire on 27 February 1933. However, he managed to leave that same day and packed his most important things to