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 ...

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 ...

Audiences across Derry, Letterkenny and Sligo are being urged not to miss Stage Beyond's ambitious new production of The ...

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 ...

Forgoing Brecht’s usual distanciation, Anna Jordan’s new translation and Michelle Terry’s lovable performance bring out the humanity of a woman doing what’s necessary to keep herself and her family al ...

When you translate a play, you enter into a very intense and complex relationship with the playwright. Sometimes you feel as if you have invited them into your home. It's not always an agreeable ...

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 ...

Tristram Fane Saunders has been writing for The Telegraph since 2015, mostly covering literature, radio and comedy. He was a Senior Commissioning Editor for The Telegraph until 2023, and he now edits ...

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.

Mark Gatiss plays a Charlie Chaplin-like dictator in a timely Royal Shakespeare Company revival. By Houman Barekat Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has ...