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贝托尔特布莱希特：德国作家、戏剧导演和诗人，二十世纪最重要的戏剧作家之一。贝托尔特布莱希特 于 1898 年 2 月 10 日出生于奥格斯堡，父亲是新教徒，母亲是天主教徒。他在中学阶段写诗和散文，并于 1917 年加入慕尼黑的医学和自然科学学院，此外还参加了文学、哲学和艺术史的讲座。后移居慕尼黑，在室内剧院担任戏剧顾问，后移居柏林开始导演和编剧生涯，1933年希特勒上台后因反纳粹思想被迫逃往丹麦。逃亡之后，德军先后入侵，直到他到达美国。美国，然后于1948年回到家乡，接管了东柏林的德国战区的管理。集体压迫，以及权力的作用在决定命运的过程中，一切都在不无讽刺意味的戏剧情节框架内。他于 1951 年获得东德国家奖，并于 1954 年获得国际列宁和平奖。他曾是柏林艺术学院的成员，之后一直担任该学院的主席直至去世，同时还担任了两个德国的笔会主席。贝托尔特布莱希特于 1956 年 8 月 14 日在柏林去世。

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This German play was written in 1939 and was first produced in Zurich in 1941. In America, it was published in English right away (1941, by New Directions) but did not reach Broadway till 1963 – in a memorable production directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Anne Bancroft. It had, of course, by that time been produced to much acclaim all over the world. When Bertolt Brecht directed the play in Munich (1950), Eric Bentley, Assistant Director, at his bidding started to translate the play into English. He was eventually to make several different English versions of it. The most interesting of these is published here. It was a collaboration with the eminent French composer Darius Milhaud. Together they made this remarkable contribution to musical theatre.