“I’ll show the world how it is – but how it really is.” In this book, Breloer turns this Brechtian manifesto on Brecht himself. And so, instead of introducing us to the classic author, he presents the human being, in the exciting, novel-like story of a life.
After his wild, anarchical beginnings as a poet and dramatist, after the global success of “The Threepenny Opera,” his flirtation with the communist party, his flight from the Nazis and his exile in America, Brecht turned the Berliner Ensemble on the Schiffsbauerdamm into an international success, became a point of heated political dispute in the divided Germany and is now heralded as a classic author the world over.
Over the course of decades, Breloer talked to Brecht’s companions – to lovers, family members and friends, his allies and those he spurned – wrote a magnificent book about it and made a film about Brecht’s life.
