Brecht on Film and Radio pdf

Bertolt Brecht: German writer, theater director and poet, and one of the most important theater writers in the twentieth century. Bertolt Brecht was born on February 10, 1898 in Augsburg, to a Protestant father and a Catholic mother. He wrote poetry and prose at the secondary level, and joined the Faculty of Medicine and Natural Sciences in Munich in 1917, in addition to attending lectures in literature, philosophy and art history. He moved to Munich to work as a theater consultant in the Chamber Theatre, after which he moved to Berlin to begin his directing and playwriting career. He was forced to flee to Denmark after Hitler took power in 1933 because of his anti-Nazi ideas. The escape followed successively the incursion of German forces until he reached the United States. The United States of America, then returned to his homeland in 1948 and took over the management of the German theater in East Berlin. Collective oppression, and the role of power in deciding fate, all within the framework of dramatic plots that are not without comic irony. He was awarded the East German National Prize in 1951 and the International Lenin Peace Prize in 1954. He was a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, then chaired it until his death, and also chaired the PEN Club in both Germany. Bertolt Brecht died in Berlin on August 14, 1956.

Brecht on Film and Radio pdf by Bertolt Brecht

From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century. Bertolt Brecht's hugely influential views on drama, acting and stage production have long been widely recognised. Less familiar, but of profound importance, are his writings on film and radio. From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together for the first time a selection of Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that fascinated him throughout his life and revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century. Marc Silberman's full editorial commentary sets Brecht's ideas in the context of his other work."I strongly wish that after their invention of the radio the bourgeoisie would make a further invention that enables us to fix for all time what the radio communicates. Later generations would then have the opportunity to marvel how a caste was able to tell the whole planet what it had to say and at the same time how it enabled the planet to see that it had nothing to say.