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  • The Threepenny Opera
    Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill
    One of Bertolt Brecht’s best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Operawas first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill’s music...
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    22,79 €

  • Paris Commune 150
    Bertolt Brecht / Karl Marx / V.I. Lenin
    On 18 March 1871, the people of Paris opened the door to utopia. Over 72 days, the workers built new institutions and advanced the practice of democracy. The forces of counterrevolution regrouped, marched on the city, and defeated the Commune on 28 May. Two days later, Karl Marx delivered an address to the International Workingmen’s Association, a text later published as The Ci...
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    12,26 €

  • Bertolt Brecht’s Refugee Conversations
    Bertolt Brecht / Romy Fursland
    Published in English for the first time, Refugee Conversations is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire. Written swiftly in the opening years of the Second World War, the dialogues have an urgent contemporary relevance to a Europe once again witnessing populations on the move. The premise is simple: two refugees from Nazi Germany meet in a railway ca...
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    47,74 €

  • Bertolt Brecht’s Refugee Conversations
    Bertolt Brecht
    Published in English for the first time, Refugee Conversations is a delightful work that reveals Brecht as a master of comic satire. Written swiftly in the opening years of the Second World War, the dialogues have an urgent contemporary relevance to a Europe once again witnessing populations on the move. The premise is simple: two refugees from Nazi Germany meet in a railway ca...
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    154,88 €

  • Brecht and the Writer’s Workshop
    Bertolt Brecht
    Brecht was never inclined to see any of his plays as completely finished, and this volume collects some of the most important theatrical projects and fragments that were always to remain ’works in progress’. Offering an invaluable insight into the writer’s working methods and practices, the collection features the famous Fatzer as well as The Bread Store and Judith of Shimoda, ...
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    51,68 €

  • Brecht and the Writer’s Workshop
    Bertolt Brecht
    Brecht was never inclined to see any of his plays as completely finished, and this volume collects some of the most important theatrical projects and fragments that were always to remain ’works in progress’. Offering an invaluable insight into the writer’s working methods and practices, the collection features the famous Fatzer as well as The Bread Store and Judith of Shimoda, ...
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    166,66 €

  • Brecht on Performance
    Bertolt Brecht
    Now available in Bloomsbury Revelations series, Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht’s principal writings about the craft of acting and realising texts for the stage. It crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing and illuminates the practice of this hugely influential director and dramati...
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    44,19 €

  • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
    Bertolt Brecht
    Here’s some advice:Don’t ever underestimate Arturo.You’ll be found out and stopped, eventually,Just like I stopped this fuckin’ treacheryAnd better late than never. Now ya seeWhat happens when ya fuck with me, ya lousyRat-fuck bastards?Chicago. A city of jazz and gangsters, prohibition and poverty. Amongst the murk of the Great Depression, there’s room for a small time crook li...
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    20,17 €

  • Bertolt Brecht’s Me-ti
    Bertolt Brecht / Antony Tatlow
    Bertolt Brecht’s Me-ti, which remained unpublished in his own lifetime, now appears for the first time in English. Me-ti counselled against ’constructing too complete images of the world’. For this work of fragments and episodes, Brecht accumulated anecdotes, poems, personal stories and assessments of contemporary politics. Given its controversial nature, he sought a disguise, ...
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    47,38 €

  • Bertolt Brecht’s Me-ti
    Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht’s Me-ti, which remained unpublished in his own lifetime, now appears for the first time in English. Me-ti counselled against ’constructing too complete images of the world’. For this work of fragments and episodes, Brecht accumulated anecdotes, poems, personal stories and assessments of contemporary politics. Given its controversial nature, he sought a disguise, ...
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    193,72 €

  • The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar
    Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht’s extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar’s efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned biography, confronted by a baffling range of contradictory views. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently bankrupt businessman who became too big for the banks to allow him to fa...
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    141,04 €

  • The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar
    Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht’s extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar’s efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned biography, confronted by a baffling range of contradictory views. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently bankrupt businessman who became too big for the banks to allow him to fai...
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    42,08 €

  • Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht
    Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre - the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky - and Germany’s greatest poet of the last century, but the playwright was also a dazzling writer of stories. Storytelling permeated his art as a dramatist; fundamentally in his plays he was a storyteller. This volume collects...
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    41,48 €

  • Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht
    Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre - the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky - and Germany’s greatest poet of the last century, but the playwright was also a dazzling writer of stories. Storytelling permeated his art as a dramatist; fundamentally in his plays he was a storyteller. This volume collects...
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    140,44 €

  • Brecht on Performance
    Bertolt Brecht
    Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht’s principal writings for directors and theatre practitioners, and is suitable for acting schools, directors, actors, students and teachers of Theatre Studies. Through these texts Brecht provides a general practical approach to acting and to realising texts for the stage that crystallises and makes ...
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    59,91 €

  • Brecht on Performance
    Bertolt Brecht
    Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht’s principal writings for directors and theatre practitioners, and is suitable for acting schools, directors, actors, students and teachers of Theatre Studies. Through these texts Brecht provides a general practical approach to acting and to realising texts for the stage that crystallises and makes ...
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    206,25 €

  • Berliner Ensemble Adaptations
    Bertolt Brecht / Wolfgang Sauerlander
    This volume contains Brecht’s post-1950 adaptations of world dramatic classics for the Berliner Ensemble. Brecht’s remodeled versions show all of the great dramatist’s characteristic preoccupations: hatred of personal greatness, admiration of the people and hatred of war unless waged on behalf of the people who, to him, were the embodiment of wisdom and good sense.The Tutoris a...
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    56,32 €

  • Fear and Misery in the Third Reich
    Bertolt Brecht / Bertolt Deceased Brecht / Eric Bentley / Eric Professor Bentley
    Brecht presents the vivid and changing scene of Hitler’s war machine. There is a worker who only mumbles 'Heil Hitlers' and a S.A. man whose suspicion of him is enough to mark him for life. There is an assaulted Jew who did no wrong and a judge who has a tragic inclination to be just. There are a mother and father who have good cause to fear that their son has informed on them....
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    17,87 €

  • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
    Bertolt Brecht / Jennifer Wise
    Described by Brecht as ’a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all’, Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a fictional, small-time Chicago gangster’s takeover of the city’s greengrocery trade in the 1930s. The satirical allegory combines Brecht’s Epic style of theatre with black comedy and overt didacticis...
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    20,36 €

  • The Good Soul of Szechuan
    Bertolt Brecht / David Translator Harrower
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    20,36 €

  • Mr Puntila and His Man Matti
    Bertolt Brecht
    Written in 1940 during Brecht’s exile in Finland, Puntila is one of his greatest creations - to be ranked alongside Galileo and Mother Courage. A hard-drinking Finnish landowner, Puntila suffers from a divided personality: when drunk he is human and humane; when sober, surly and self-centred. The play contains some of the best comedy Brecht wrote for the theatre.This translatio...
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    18,75 €

  • Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
    Bertolt Brecht
    Brecht’s operatic play produced with Hauptmann, Neher and Weill was first staged in 1930. The story is that three criminals create the city of Mahagonny. Drinking, gambling, prize-fights and similar activities are the sole occupation of the inhabitants, and money rules. Mahagonny is threatened by a hurricane at the end of Act 1, which despite much anticipation and causing much ...
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    18,77 €

  • The Good Woman of Setzuan
    Bertolt Brecht
    This play written during Brecht’s exile to the United States and set in pre-Communist China is a parable of a young woman torn between obligation and reality between love and practicality and between her own needs and those of her friends and neighbours. ...
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    14,82 €

  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle
    Bertolt Brecht
    A morality masterpiece, The Caucasian Chalk Circle powerfully demonstrates Brecht’s pioneering theatrical techniques. This version by Frank McGuinness was published to coincide with the National Theatre’s production which toured the UK in 2007.A servant girl sacrifices everything to protect a child abandoned in the heat of civil war. Order restored, she is made to confront the ...
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    20,30 €

  • Brecht on Film
    Bertolt Brecht / Marc Silberman
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    77,16 €

  • Saint Joan of the Stockyards
    Bertolt Brecht
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    20,23 €

  • Mother Courage and Her Children
    Bertolt Brecht / John Willett / Michael Hofmann
    Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht’s best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This translation by Michael Hofmann was published to coincide with the UK tour by English Touring Theatre in 2006.In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War of the seventeenth century, Mother Courage follows the armies back and f...
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    20,36 €

  • Brecht On Art And Politics
    Bertolt Brecht / Laura Bradley
    This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century’s most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and politics. Here are a cross-section of Brecht’s wide-ranging thoughts which offer us an extraordinary window onto the concerns of a modern world in four decades of economic and political disorder. The book is desig...
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    33,53 €

  • Poetry and Prose
    Bertolt Brecht
    Long in preparation and in considerable demand, here are the essential poems and prose of one of the giants of 20th century world literature. Following an authoritative introduction by Reinhold Grimm, the volume includes German and English poems on facing pages. ...
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    68,32 €

  • Brecht Collected Plays
    Bertolt Brecht
    Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht’s classic plays from the 1930sVolume 4 of Brecht’s Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as in Brecht’s own life. Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy...
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    38,29 €


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