- "From classic times onward theatre has been in almost every era the target of those who wished to silence it, fearing that it would lead its audiences to consider the possibility of other truths than those supported by the groups in power." p27.
Articles
- "Before the Nazis came to power, Hitler's brownshirts were disrupting performances of Brecht and Weill's 1930 opera Mahagonny, claiming that it brought the contamination of black and Jewish musical influences into the German opera house. Brecht dedicated the next 15 years of his writing - plays, film scripts, poetry - to the anti-fascist cause." - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2008/may/26/dontbashbrecht
Censorship: A World Encyclopedia
- "In 1923, when Adolf Hitler and General Erich von Ludendorff were planning a putsch against the Weimar Republic, they placed Brecht fifth on their list of those to be executed if the putsch succeeded: it did not." - p290
Brecht on Theatre
- "For us young people the theatre had one serious flaw. Neither its highly developed stage technique nor its dramaturgy permitted us to present on the stage the great themes of our times; as for example, the building up of a mammoth industry, the conflict of classes, war, the fight against disease, and so on." - p77
- “it has a purpose of ‘teaching’ of the spectator a certain quite practical attitude; we have to make it possible for him to take a critical attitude while he is in the theatre.” -p78
- "The rapid decline of artistic methods under the Nazi's seems to have taken place almost unnoticed." - p209
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