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foreword to the first two volumes of his collected
Stücke
in 1954 (too late for the first printing), has been split into its component sections, of which that on
Man equals Man
will follow in the next volume. It can be reconstituted by reading it in the order indicated, starting with (i), the section on
Drums in the Night
.
    The German text used throughout, unless otherwise stated, is that of the
Gesammelte Werke
(or Collected Works) edited by Elisabeth Hauptmann and a team comprising Werner Hecht, Rosemarie Hill, Herta Ramthun and Klaus Völker, and published by Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt-am-Main, in 1967. This is referred to as GW, plus the appropriate subdivision:
Stücke
(plays),
Schriften zum Theater
(writings on the theatre), and so on. When the same terms (
Stücke
, for instance, as above) are used without the prefix GW they refer to the earlier collected edition issued by the same publisher from 1953 on. Particulars of other sources are given in full where reference is made to them. We would like to thank the editors and publisher for the help which they have given with various queries. The Brecht Archive in East Berlin has been generous in supplying material, and we are grateful for the support given us from the outset by Stefan S. Brecht.
    THE EDITORS

Chronology
1898
10 February: Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht born in Augsburg.
BAVARIA
1914
17 August: first contribution to
Augsburger Neueste Nachrichten
.
1919
21 October: first theatre criticism for
Augsburger Volks-wille
.
1921
6 September: first short story in
Der neue Merkur
(Munich).
1922
5 September: first contribution to
Berliner
Börsen-
Courier
. 30 September:
Trommeln in der Nacht (Drums in the Night)
première, Munich. Publication of plays
Baal
and
Trommeln in der Nacht
. December:
Trommeln in der Nacht
at Deutsches Theater, Berlin.
1923
9 May:
Im Dickicht (der Städte) (In the Jungle of Cities)
première, Munich. 8 December:
Baal
première, Leipzig.
1924
18 March:
Edward II
première, Munich, Brecht’s first production.
BERLIN
1924
29 October: Im
Dickicht
at Deutsches Theater, Berlin. October:
Edward II
at Staatstheater, Berlin.
1926
14 February:
Baal
at Deutsches Theater, produced by Homolka and Brecht. 25 September:
Mann ist Mann (Man equals Man)
première, Darmstadt. December:
Die Hochzeit (A Respectable Wedding)
première, Frankfurt.
1927
First book of poems:
Die Hauspostille (Sermons for the Home
). 23 March: Mann
ist Mann
broadcast, Berlin, with Helene Weigel. 17 July:
Mahagonny
(‘Songspiel’) première, Baden-Baden. First collaboration with Kurt Weill. Produced by Brecht. 14 October: radio adaptation of
Macbeth
broadcast, Berlin. 27 November: article in the
Frankfurter Zeitung
on the ‘Epic Theatre’. December:
Im Dickicht der St
ä
dte
(revised version) at Darmstadt.
1928
5 January: Mann
ist Mann
at the Volksbühne, Berlin. 31 August:
Threepenny Opera
première, Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin.
1929
July:
Lindberghflug (Flight over the Ocean)
and
Badener Lehrstück (The Baden-Baden Cantata)
premières, at Baden-Baden. Both produced by Brecht. First ‘Lehrstücke’ (or didactic pieces). September:
Happy End
première, Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, produced by Brecht.
Berliner Requiem
with Weill broadcast during summer.
1930
First three issues of Brecht’s
Versuche
, or miscellaneous collected writings, including first notes on the plays. 9
March: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) première, Leipzig Opera. 23 June: Der Jasager (He Who Said Yes) première, Berlin
. 10 December:
Die Massnahme (The Decision)
première, Berlin. First collaboration with Hanns Eisler. First outspokenly Communist work.
1931
Release of
Threepenny Opera
film. 16 January: first contribution to
Die Rote Fahne
(Berlin). 30 January: radio adaptation of
Hamlet
broadcast, Berlin. 6 February: Mann
ist Mann
(revised version) at Staatstheater, Berlin. Produced by Brecht. 21 December:
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt