Brecht Dialog

For the 70th anniversary of Bertolt Brecht’s birth, international Brecht experts, including directors Giorgio Strehler, Benno Besson and Juri Ljubimov, got together for a one-week Brecht Dialog at the Berliner Ensemble o

Brecht Urfaust

Documentary images of scenes filmed at the Berliner Ensemble, during one of the final rehearsals.

Brecht and Co

Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.

Hundert Jahre Brecht

Banco Brecht

Bertolt Brecht - Images and Model

Here meet personal memory, working knowledge, research interests and anecdotes together to vivid memory about the most important German dramatist of the 20th century. When the director Peter Voigt, former assistant direc

Brecht - Die Kunst zu leben

He wanted to revolutionize theater practice and at the same time social awareness: Today Brecht, who was born in Augsburg in 1898 and died in East Berlin in 1956, is one of the most important playwrights of the 20th cent

Tonnerre de Brecht

A production of a Brecht play gets out of hands.

Bertolt Brecht - Flüchtlingsgespräche

Break the Power of the Manipulators

Documentary by Helke Sander, in collaboration with Harun Farocki (among others), about the campaign of the West German New Left against the publishing house Springer, particularly its control and manipulation of the new

Brecht und das Berliner Ensemble

Documentary about Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble.

Performance of Sorts with Brecht

“Theatre theory for film, or not: Brecht (an interrogation/performance: a ghost trio for two).” (Gidal). Taking the form of a multi-part dialogue in which Gidal’s translations of Brecht are spoken, Gidal stages an interr

Testimonials - Black Brecht: What If Brecht Were Black?

Bertolt Brecht - Love, Revolution and Other Dangerous Things

Brecht′s 100th birthday is being celebrated on 10 February, 1998. A good enough opportunity to examine his life closely again. The film director Jutta Brueckner is mainly concerned here with the question of the kind of p

Typewriting (Pertaining to Stefan Brecht)

Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film

Following the phenomenal success of “The Threepenny Opera”, the film industry wants to win over the celebrated author. But Bertolt Brecht is not prepared to play by their rules. His concept of the “Threepenny Film” is ra

A Vida de Bertolt Brecht

My Name Is Bertolt Brecht - Exil in USA

Brecht & Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023

Theater director Thomas Ostermeier stages Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's timelessly magnificent "Threepenny Opera" with the ensemble of the Comédie Française in Aix-en-Provence, based on a new translation of the origina

Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment

Co-director Cornelia Geiser sits by a window on an easy chair reading aloud a few verses by Corneille, then a somewhat longer excerpt from Brecht - each writer referencing Rome but really condemning injustice in his own