Bertolt Brecht 125 -- February 10, 2023

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Playwright and theatrical director Bertolt Brecht was born 125 yeats ago, on 10-February-1898. He was a pioneer of epic theater, which tried to make the audience experience alienation. He collaborated on musicals with Kurt Weill, The Threepenny Opera and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. He talked to the House Un-American Activities Committee, denying that he had ever been a communist.



Mack The Knife

 

Lotte Lenya Singing "Seeräuber Jenny" (Pirate Jenny)

 

ALABAMA SONG

Kameradschaft -- May 1, 2018

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Happy International Workers' Day to all.

In 1931, Austrian director GW Pabst directed Kameradschaft, a German-French co-production about workers in a coal mine who were separated by a gate when the mine was split between Germany and France after World War One.  A fire breaks out on the French side and management tries to contain it rather than put it out.  French miners become trapped and German miners break through the gate and rescue their comrades.  Sadly, the gate is put back at the end.

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