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“But it was not as a poet that Brecht came to be known, either in the Berlin of his time or in the wider world.”
“If so, Bertolt Brecht could have filled that role for Vladimir Nabokov.”
“Mehring was accused in different newspapers of promoting both pro-Jewish agitation and antisemitic hate speech.”
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“In this sense, Mehring’s play is echoing Einstein’s critique of the wealthy German Jews who disdained their poorer Eastern cousins.”
““In the evening saw Brecht’s Dreigroschenoper , music by Weill,” he wrote in his diary entry for September 27.”
““A fascinating production, with rudimentary staging in the Piscator manner and proletarian emphasis (apache style).”
“It’s hard to define from a distance exactly what was so special about those early performances of The Threepenny Opera .”
““The Jew is the cause and beneficiary of our slavery.”
“_______________________________ From Berlin Before and After: A Cautionary Mirror for Our Times by Wendy Lesser.”
“Like Shylock with his Jessica, Kaftan has a daughter named Jessi whom he adores.”
“It was set among criminal types in Chicago rather than London, but with similarly lovable/hateful characters presented in a similarly sardonic mode.”
“Though he never became an official Party member, Brecht was known to sympathize with the Soviet revolutionary cause, and he was to manifest those class sympathies in most of his writing.”
“He is after all a human being!’ That is not a human being, it is a monster.”
“The script itself is filled with the language of its time and place, including Berliner gutter slang and high-society clichés, casino speech and capitalist jargon, spoken Yiddish and literary German.”
“Only four or five years older than Brecht, Erwin Piscator had been a major force in the development of the Weimar era’s “epic theater,” the dramatic form which Brecht ultimately took over as his own.”
“As Grosz put it when speaking with Harry Kessler (in a conversation that took place at that same party where Kessler first met Brecht), “Reality as such does not interest me…what I aspire to is the fabulous.”
“Yet how much worse has the Jew done to our mother Germany, and is still doing today!” This was shocking, but of course it was meant to be.”
“Yes, Goebbels’ language was certainly hateful, but no thinking person read such stuff.”
“On the other hand, they wanted the freedom to depart from reality into the satiric and the metaphorical.”
“In his capacity as the Berliner Zeitung am Mittag ’s cultural reporter, Billie Wilder published a column on October 22, 1928, about visiting The Threepenny Opera ’s fiftieth performance, where he observed that the “opera’s enduring appeal owes to a fusion of outrageous wit and social criticism.” He pointed out, correctly, that “Kurt Weill’s music is a large part of that appeal,” and concluded by saying: “There was as much applause for this fiftieth performance as there had been for the first.” About a month earlier, the aesthetically choosy Count Harry Kessler had also attended the show.”
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“Still, his left-wing politics did not prevent him from concerning himself with aesthetic matters as well.”
“And who better to come up with it than Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill?”