Exilliteratur bertolt brecht biography
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Bertolt Brecht(Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht)
Was Bertolt Brecht an emigrant?
Exilliteratur bertolt brecht biography
He didn’t see himself as such. Brecht constantly fought against the use of the term, which implies a freedom of choice that expellees were not given. In 1938, his friend and colleague Berthold Viertelwrote the following about him: “You don’t want to be a German political emigrant, just an expellee, chased away, whose thoughts, feelings and plans tirelessly circulate on German soil, on the German people.
Their future becomes that of your own, and the present defiantly estranged.” (ed.
Exilliteratur bertolt brecht biography deutsch
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Before Brecht fled Germany in 1933, he was one of the best-known playwrights in Germany. In 1922 he celebrated the premiere of Inthe Jungle of Cities in Munich – but the second performance was interrupted by the Nazis and dropped shortly after.
By the time the premiere of The Threepenny Opera took place, Brecht had also become well-known outside Germany.
Brecht was in hospital during the Reichstag fire on