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 ...

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 ...

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.

Two poems showing a teenage Bertolt Brecht urging "real German men, of steel and iron" to resist a world "standing stiffly against us" have been attributed to the author for the first time, casting a ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Shadow puppets, otherworldly masks, taxidermy dioramas, from Greek epics to the Brothers Grimm: a new exhibition celebrates the fantastical tales that have passed through countries and cultures.