Bertold Brecht put Marxist collectivism and dialectical materialism into his art as few other Western writers. His avidness for money? No matter. The German poet-playwright belied any doubts about his ...

The German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) inspired extremes of loyalty and antipathy. Brilliant, charismatic and seductive, he was professionally unreliable and personally deceptive.

It’s a pretty safe bet that, if you walked up to 10 people on the street and asked them who Brecht and Weill were, you’d get at least eight blank stares. Maybe two people would recognize the pair’s ...

On her stunning new CD The German Projekt, which features jazz-imbued arrangements of classic songs by Brecht-Weill and Friedrich Hollaender and which is being released on May 12, singer Andrea Fultz ...

For devotees of cultural history, Central Europe between 1890 and 1940 offers unparalleled opportunities for study. The German and Austrian empires, Europe’s last two hierarchical societies, fractured ...

“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?” had an especially amusing ring to it Sunday night at Evanston’s Theo Ubique Theatre, as Bertolt Brecht’s “The Threepenny Opera” ...