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 ...

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 ...

No, Andrea: “Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.” The lines, Galileo responding to the parting words of his pupil, Andrea Sarti, who is furious and betrayed by his teacher’s recantation, are from ...

In 1940, Helsinki received an unexpected visitor: Bertolt Brecht. Eventually to be known as the most famous German playwright after Goethe, Brecht was also a committed communist on the run from the ...

A remarkable opera called Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny first took seed in the mind of its creators, the composer Kurt Weill and the playwright Bertolt Brecht, 88 years ago. Its story is so ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Bertolt Brecht and his second wife Helene Weigel had an unconventional marriage for their time. On a tour of their ...

It was typical of the Fluxus artist and composer-to-be George MacDiarmid that when he changed his surname to Brecht in 1945 – just before Bertolt Brecht premiered The Caucasian Chalk Circle in America ...

Barbara Brecht-Schall, the daughter of the playwright Bertolt Brecht, who has died aged 84, was possibly the world’s most notorious literary heiress – a scourge of directors, actors and designers who, ...

One hundred years ago, two coincidentally significant births occurred--births without which Western drama as we've known it in the century that's now almost over would not exist. In Czarist Russia, ...

For me, Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann were the two greatest German authors of the 20 th century, and Brecht, a believer in socialism – and a fighter for it – is admittedly closer to my heart than ...