Bertold Brecht put Marxist collectivism and dialectical materialism into his art as few other Western writers. His avidness for money? No matter. The German poet-playwright belied any doubts about his ...
When the cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century comes to be written, among its most distinctive and durable landmarks may be the musical plays of two young Germans driven from ...
What might be a suitable 21st-century response to socialists Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s last collaboration The Seven Deadly Sins, first performed in 1933 in the shadow of Nazism? Outdated? A ...
It’s a pretty safe bet that, if you walked up to 10 people on the street and asked them who Brecht and Weill were, you’d get at least eight blank stares. Maybe two people would recognize the pair’s ...
On her stunning new CD The German Projekt, which features jazz-imbued arrangements of classic songs by Brecht-Weill and Friedrich Hollaender and which is being released on May 12, singer Andrea Fultz ...
The culture of Weimar Germany is at its most provocative and profound in this scintillating portrait of its leading theatrical luminaries. Novelist and film maker Katz explores the partnership, ...
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