http://www.radio4all.net/program/65740Podcast for Program: Happy Birthday Bertolt BrechtWed, 23 Jan 2013 13:31:11 +0000240http://www.radio4all.net/program/65740Even though the German playwright, poet, director and theoretician of the stage was persecuted by the Nazi's, and then forced to leave his exile home in the US when he was accused of being a communist, he did become a major influence on visual and performance artists such as Jean Luc Godard, Robert Wilson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Augusto Boal, Pina Bausch, Dario Fo and many others. His most famous plays, the Threepenny Opera and the Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny were just two of over sixty plays. During the war years, Brecht became a prominent writer of the "Literature in Exile". He expressed his opposition to the National Socialist and Fascist movements in his most often performed plays: Mother Courage, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, and the Life of Galileo that he revised after the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of his most searing, funny, frightening and historically accurate plays against Hitler is the The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. The play presented all major Nazis, as well as their supporters, masked as members of a Mafia operation. The play followed precisely the stages of the Nazi's seizure of power and posed the most important question: Could Hitler's rise have been stopped?Maria GilardinWed, 23 Jan 2013 13:31:11 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/65740Even though the German playwright, poet, director and theoretician of the stage was persecuted by the Nazi's, and then forced to leave his exile home in the US when he was accused of being a communist, he did become a major influence on visual and performance artists such as Jean Luc Godard, Robert Wilson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Augusto Boal, Pina Bausch, Dario Fo and many others. His most famous plays, the Threepenny Opera and the Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny were just two of over sixty plays. During the war years, Brecht became a prominent writer of the "Literature in Exile". He expressed his opposition to the National Socialist and Fascist movements in his most often performed plays: Mother Courage, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, and the Life of Galileo that he revised after the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of his most searing, funny, frightening and historically accurate plays against Hitler is the The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. The play presented all major Nazis, as well as their supporters, masked as members of a Mafia operation. The play followed precisely the stages of the Nazi's seizure of power and posed the most important question: Could Hitler's rise have been stopped?Maria GilardinWed, 23 Jan 2013 13:31:11 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/65740Even though the German playwright, poet, director and theoretician of the stage was persecuted by the Nazi's, and then forced to leave his exile home in the US when he was accused of being a communist, he did become a major influence on visual and performance artists such as Jean Luc Godard, Robert Wilson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Augusto Boal, Pina Bausch, Dario Fo and many others. His most famous plays, the Threepenny Opera and the Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny were just two of over sixty plays. During the war years, Brecht became a prominent writer of the "Literature in Exile". He expressed his opposition to the National Socialist and Fascist movements in his most often performed plays: Mother Courage, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, and the Life of Galileo that he revised after the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of his most searing, funny, frightening and historically accurate plays against Hitler is the The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. The play presented all major Nazis, as well as their supporters, masked as members of a Mafia operation. The play followed precisely the stages of the Nazi's seizure of power and posed the most important question: Could Hitler's rise have been stopped?Maria GilardinWed, 23 Jan 2013 13:31:11 +0000http://www.radio4all.net/program/65740Even though the German playwright, poet, director and theoretician of the stage was persecuted by the Nazi's, and then forced to leave his exile home in the US when he was accused of being a communist, he did become a major influence on visual and performance artists such as Jean Luc Godard, Robert Wilson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Augusto Boal, Pina Bausch, Dario Fo and many others. His most famous plays, the Threepenny Opera and the Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny were just two of over sixty plays. During the war years, Brecht became a prominent writer of the "Literature in Exile". He expressed his opposition to the National Socialist and Fascist movements in his most often performed plays: Mother Courage, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, and the Life of Galileo that he revised after the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of his most searing, funny, frightening and historically accurate plays against Hitler is the The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. The play presented all major Nazis, as well as their supporters, masked as members of a Mafia operation. The play followed precisely the stages of the Nazi's seizure of power and posed the most important question: Could Hitler's rise have been stopped?Maria GilardinWed, 23 Jan 2013 13:31:11 +0000