Fear And Misery Of The Third Reich

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472515234
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear and Misery of the Third Reich written by Bertolt Brecht and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, this is a sequence of twenty-four realistic sketches showing how "ordinary" life under the Nazis was subtly permeated by suspicion and anxiety. Written in exile in Denmark and first staged in 1938 it was inspired in part by his recent trip to Moscow where he had been researching tasks for the anti-Nazi effort.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear and Misery in the Third Reich written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is Brecht's series of 24 inter-connected playlets that describe events which took place in German households before his own exile in 1936. They describe the suspicion and anxiety experienced by people as the power of Hitler grew.

Author : John J. White
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571133739
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bertolt Brecht's Furcht und Elend Des Dritten Reiches written by John J. White and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First thorough treatment in English of one of Brecht's most important antifascist works.

Author : Astrid Oesmann
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791483606
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging History written by Astrid Oesmann and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Brecht's use of the theatre as a public arena for political change.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plays: Fear and misery of the Third Reich. Mother Courage and her children. The good person of Szechwan written by Bertolt Brecht and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350077089
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brecht on Performance written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in Bloomsbury Revelations series, Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings about the craft of acting and realising texts for the stage. It crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing and illuminates the practice of this hugely influential director and dramatist. The volume is in two parts. The first features an entirely new commentated edition of Brecht's dialogues and essays about the practice of theatre, known as the Messingkauf, or Buying Brass, including the 'Practice Pieces' for actors (rehearsal scenes for classics by Shakespeare and Schiller). The second contains rehearsal and production records from Brecht's work on productions of Life of Galileo, Antigone, Mother Courage and others. Edited by an international team of Brecht scholars and including an essay by director and teacher Di Trevis examining the practical application of these texts for theatres and actors today, Brecht on Performance is a wonderfully rich resource. The text is illustrated with over 30 photographs from the Modelbooks.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802150981
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These six plays represent the best and most humorous of Brecht's shorter works. The Jewish Wife is from the Fear and Misery in the Third Reich cycle of one-act plays, which, along with In Search of Justice and The Informer, chromicles the hardships of life in Nazi Germany. The Exception and the Rule, one of Brecht's most popular short works, grimly depicts the consequences of the mutually dependent -- yet inevitable inequitable -- relationship between the priviledged and the poor; it is included here with The Measures Taken and The Elephant Calf. Though all of these ales of horror, ad Eric Bentley calls them, have tragic undertones, they are also infused with farcical absurdities and cosmic irony so characteristic of Brecht's work.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 9780413390301
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Threepenny Opera written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. It focuses on the feud between Macheaf - an amoral criminal - and his father in law, a racketeer who controls and exploits London's beggars and is intent on having Macheaf hanged. Despite the resistance by Macheaf's friend the Chief of Police, Macheaf is eventually condemned to hang until in a comic reversal the queen pardons him and grants him a title and land. With Kurt Weill's unforgettable music - one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz to the theatre - it became a popular hit throughout the western world. Published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series in a trusted translation by Ralph Manheim and John Willett, this edition features extensive notes and commentary including an introduction to the play, Brecht's own notes on the play, a full appendix of textual variants, a note by composer Kurt Weill, a transcript of a discussion about the play between Brecht and a theatre director, plus editorial notes on the genesis of the play.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear and Misery in the Third Reich written by Bertolt Brecht and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Volker Ullrich
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631498282
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich written by Volker Ullrich and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[G]ripping, immaculately researched . . . In Mr. Ullrich’s account, the murderous behavior of the Reich’s last-ditch loyalists was not a reaction born of rage or of stubbornness in the face of defeat—common enough in war—but of something that had long ago tipped over into the pathological." —Andrew Stuttaford, Wall Street Journal The best-selling author of Hitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany. In a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945—Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Führer’s suicide did not instantly end either Nazism or the Second World War in Europe. Far from it: the eight days that followed were among the most traumatic in modern history, witnessing not only the final paroxysms of bloodshed and the frantic surrender of the Wehrmacht, but the total disintegration of the once-mighty Third Reich. In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society’s descent into Hobbesian chaos. In the town of Demmin in the north, residents succumbed to madness and committed mass suicide. In Berlin, Soviet soldiers raped German civilians on a near-unprecedented scale. In Nazi-occupied Prague, Czech insurgents led an uprising in the hope that General George S. Patton would come to their aid but were brutally put down by German units in the city. Throughout the remains of Third Reich, huge numbers of people were on the move, creating a surrealistic tableau: death marches of concentration-camp inmates crossed paths with retreating Wehrmacht soldiers and groups of refugees; columns of POWs encountered those of liberated slave laborers and bombed-out people returning home. A taut, propulsive narrative, Eight Days in May takes us inside the phantomlike regime of Hitler’s chosen successor, Admiral Karl Dönitz, revealing how the desperate attempt to impose order utterly failed, as frontline soldiers deserted and Nazi Party fanatics called on German civilians to martyr themselves in a last stand against encroaching Allied forces. In truth, however, the post-Hitler government represented continuity more than change: its leaders categorically refused to take responsibility for their crimes against humanity, an attitude typical not just of the Nazi elite but also of large segments of the German populace. The consequences would be severe. Eight Days in May is not only an indispensable account of the Nazi endgame, but a historic work that brilliantly examines the costs of mass delusion.