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 ...

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This very early play of Brecht’s is almost notorious for its impenetrability. It is a brave company and a brave director who will take it on ... Split Moon and Peter Sturm have done so triumphantly.

Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright, director, and poet who is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century theatre. Born on February 10, 1898, in Augsburg, Germany, ...

In 1931 German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht met a young actor, a woman called Margarete Steffin, with whom he was to become both intimately and intellectually involved. They met at a play ...

IN JULY 1956, a few weeks before the Berliner Ensemble's first British tour, Bertolt Brecht died of a stroke. He left instructions to the actors at his Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in East Berlin. The ...

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.

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 ...

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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.