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Mahagonny
at Kurfürstendamm-Theater, Berlin. Produced by Brecht and Caspar Neher.
1932
Release of
Kuhle Wampe
film. 17 January:
Die Mutter (The Mother)
première, Berlin. 11 April:
St Joan of the Stockyards
broadcast, Berlin.
1933
All publications and productions in Germany interrupted.
SCANDINAVIA
1933
June: Anna-Anna
ou les Sept Péchés Capitaux
première at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris. Brecht’s only ballet. His last major work with Kurt Weill,
Die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins)
.
1934
First (and only completed) novel:
Der Dreigroschenroman (Threepenny Novel
). Second book of poems:
Lieder Gedichte Chore (Songs Poems Choruses
) (with Eisler). Writing of
Die Horatier und die Kuriatier (The Horatü and the Curiatü
), Brecht’s last ‘Lehrstück’.
1935
June: speech to International Writers’ Congress in Defence of Culture, Paris. 19 November:
Die Mutter
in English, New York.
1936
July: first number of
Das Wort
(Moscow) edited by Brecht, Feuchtwanger and Bredel. 4 November:
Die Rundk
ö
pfe und die Spitzk
ö
pfe (Round Heads and Pointed Heads)
première, Copenhagen. (The notes on this play contain the first known mention of ‘Verfremdung’, or alienation.)
1937
16 October:
Senora Carrar’s Rifles
première, Paris.
1938
First (and only) two volumes of
Malik
edition of Collected Plays. May:
Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches (Fear and Misery in the Third Reich)
première, Paris, produced by Dudow.
1939
March: final number of
Das Wort
. Third book of poems:
Svendborger Gedichte (Svendborg Poems)
.
1940
12 May: Das Verh
ö
r des Lukullus (The Trial of Lucullus) broadcast, Beromünster
.
1941
19 April:
Mother Courage
première, Zurich Schauspielhaus.
USA
1942
Release of film
Hangmen also Die
.
1943
4 February:
The Good Person of Szechwan
première, Zurich Schauspielhaus. 9 September:
Galileo
première, Zurich Schauspielhaus.
1945
June:
Private Life of the Master Race
(adaptation of
Furcht und Elend)
in English, San Francisco and New York.
1946
15 October:
The Duchess of Malfi
is staged on Broadway.
1947
August:
Galileo
(second version; translated by Brecht and Laughton) in Hollywood.
ZURICH
1948
First: (and only) volume of short stories:
Kalendergeschichten (Tales from the Calendar
). February:
Antigone
première, Chur (Switzerland); produced by Brecht and Neher; Helene Weigel’s first professional appearance since 1933. 4 May: student production of
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
in English, Northfield (Minnesota). 5 June:
Herr Puntila und sein Knecht (Mr Puntila and his Man Matti)
première, Zurich Schauspielhaus.
BERLIN
1949
11 January:
Mother Courage
at Deutsches Theater, East Berlin; produced by Brecht and Engel, with Helene Weigel. 12 November: Herr
Puntila und sein Knecht
at Deutsches Theater, produced by Brecht and Engel; first production of the Berliner Ensemble. Publication of the
Versuche
resumed. ‘Kleines Organon fur das Theater’ (‘Short Organum for the Theatre’), Brecht’s chief theoretical work, appears in a special number of
Sinn und Form
(Potsdam).
1950
15 April: Lenz’s
Der Hofmeister (The Tutor)
in Brecht’s adaptation, at Deutsches Theater; produced by Brecht, with Berliner Ensemble. 8 October:
Mother Courage
in Munich Kammerspiele, produced by Brecht.
1951
First selected poems:
Hundert Gedichte (A Hundred Poems)
. 10 January:
Die Mutter
at Deutsches Theater; produced by Brecht, with Berliner Ensemble. 17 March:
Das Verh
ö
r des Lukullus
, opera version by Paul Dessau, given trial performance in East Berlin State Opera. August:
Hermburger Bericht (Report from Herrnburg)
première at World Youth Festival in East Berlin. 12 October:
Die Verurteilung des Lukullus (The Condemnation of Lucullus)
put into State Opera’s repertoire after changes to title, score and text.
1952
16 November:
Senora Carrar’s Rifles
at Deutsches Theater, with Berliner Ensemble.
1953
First two volumes of
Stücke
, or Complete Dramatic Works. 17 May: Erwin Strittmatter’s
Katzgraben
at Deutsches