The friendship between Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht was a “conspiratorial rapport”. By Gavin Jacobson The first meeting between Walter Ben­jamin and Bertolt Brecht did not go well. It took place ...

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.

Brecht’s Muses seem never to have shunned him: he penned roughly 2000 poems, in a panoply of registers, in manifold identities and personae, on all aspects of human apprehension. The selection in Love ...

German playwright and poet Brecht, who was born 125 years ago, was banned by the Nazis. The author of "The Threepenny Opera" remains popular worldwide to this day. On February 10, 2023, German author ...

“I felt a creative spirit the first time I walked in this house,” says Rina Welles of the 1921 Santa Monica house that was once home to renowned German playwright Bertolt Brecht. “I liked the energy.” ...

1.Verfremdungseffekt is an integral aspect of Brechtian theatre. How would you translate this German term, a device that makes the audience insistently aware that what they’re watching is a fiction? 2 ...

Literary estates are renowned for switching on and switching off the flow and availability of works. It might involve permissions and vetoing, contracts and copyright duration changes, and how to ...

Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard repertory. By Zachary Woolfe Brecht’s 1944 play “The Caucasian Chalk ...

On February 10, 2023, German author Bertolt Brecht would have turned 125. His native city of Augsburg is honoring him with a festival under the motto "Brecht's People." The playwright, who was ...