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Bertolt Brecht
German poet, playwright, and theatre director (–)
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Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht[a] (10 February – 14 August ), 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 , where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the Verfremdungseffekt.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in , Brecht fled his home country, initially to Scandinavia. During World War II he moved to Southern California where he established han själv as a scree
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The Shipwreck of History: Bertolt Brecht’s “War Primer”
Roy Scranton reviews Bertolt Brecht’s “War Primer.”
War Primer bygd Bertolt Brecht. Verso, pages.
“in the future it will perhaps be difficult to understand the impotence of the peoples in these wars of ours.”
— Bertolt Brecht, journal, June 14,
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VERSO’S NEW EDITION of Bertolt Brecht’s War Primer is an artifact rik and strange. It comprises 85 photos Brecht collected between and while he was a flykting in exile from Nazi Germany, on the move from Denmark to Sweden to Finland and finally, by way of Moscow and the Trans-Siberian Railroad, to Los Angeles, where he settled in Santa Monica among a community of German intellectual émigrés. It is a period almost lost to us now (though you can see Brecht’s modest Santa Monica home at Twenty-sixth Street on Google Street View), not because of a lack of historical knowledge — Stuart Jeffries’s Grand Hotel Abyss, also from Verso, is only the most recent in a shelf
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Manual of War: on Bertolt Brecht’s War Primer
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Epigrams for the Age of Reproducible Images
When War Primer (Kriegsfibel) first appeared in English nearly two decades ago, its Second World War-era photo-epigrams (fotoepigramme, as Brecht dubbed them) would take readers into a core sample of the twentieth century’s unparalleled violence. A compelling use of the epigram alongside newspaper war photography, War Primer’s image-poems each dialectically exemplify a moment of conflict during the war. Chiseled rhyming quatrains, a form borrowed from Kipling and rendered expertly by translator and scholar John Willet, separate an epic of World War II into instances, some familiar. Others confound expected patterns. The book is a verbal-visual montage of irony, discord, and hope. Like a child’s primer on letters, animals, or, from