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Archive | A Last Interview with Brecht
Ronald Hayman A Last Interview with Brecht . This interview with Bertolt Brecht originally appeared in the November 1956 edition of The London Magazine. . There was no name by the door-bell, just the two letters B. B. The house was at the back of a courtyard off Chausseestrasse, which is a continuation of Friedrichstrasse, one of the busiest streets in East Berlin. Brecht occupied only half of the house, and I was led upstairs to his work-room …
On August 14, 1956, Bertolt Brecht, recognized as one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, disappeared. Olivier Neveux, author of the essay "Brecht et les males Temps Nouvelles", recounts the career and legacy of this legend of the theatre.
Perhaps he would have stayed in Switzerland if he had been allowed to. In November 1947, Bertolt Brecht returned to Europe from exile in the USA. Just a few days earlier, he had been questioned there by Senator McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee. He traveled via Paris to Zurich. Three of his plays had premiered at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich in 1941 and 1943: "Mother Courage and Her Children," "The Good Person of Szechwan," and "…
Born in Augsburg in 1898, Bertolt Brecht, poet, playwright, theater director, and one of the great innovators of 20th-century European theater, died in East Berlin on August 14, 1956, at just 58 years old. By then, he had lived through two world wars, the rise of Hitler, European exile, a stay in the United States marked by anti-communist suspicion, and the birth of the German Democratic Republic. His biography seems a synthesis of the political…
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