Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny () is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht.

Famous writers and composers who have created works about her include: William Shakespeare ( Henry VI, Part 1 ), Voltaire ( The Maid of Orleans ), Friedrich Schiller ( The Maid of Orleans ), Giuseppe Verdi ( Giovanna d ' Arco ), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( The Maid of Orleans ), Mark Twain ( Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc ), Arthur Honegger ( Jeanne d ' Arc au bûcher ), Jean Anouilh ( L ' Alouette ), Bertolt Brecht ( Saint Joan of the Stockyards ), George Bernard Shaw ( Saint Joan ), Maxwell Anderson ( Joan of Lorraine ), and Leonard Cohen ( Joan of Arc ).

* Arturo Ui ( 1963 )-Styne contributed incidental music to this Bertolt Brecht play

Brandauer had resisted questions about how his production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's classic musical comedy about the criminal MacHeath would differ from earlier versions, and his production featured Mack the Knife in a three-piece suit and white gloves, stuck to Brecht's text, and avoided any references to contemporary politics or issues.

Bertolt Brecht, W. H. Auden, André Breton, Louis Aragon and the philosophers Antonio Gramsci and Walter Benjamin are perhaps the most famous exemplars of this modernist form of Marxism.

Two other significant modernist dramatists writing in the 1920s and 1930s were Bertolt Brecht and Federico García Lorca.

* Bertolt Brecht.

" Alabama Song " was written and composed by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in 1927, for their opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny ( Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ); " Back Door Man " was written by Willie Dixon and originally recorded by Howlin ' Wolf.

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui ( original German title: Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui ) is a play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, originally written in 1941.

Category: Plays by Bertolt Brecht

The Threepenny Opera () is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher.

The eldest daughter of the Karplus family, Margarete, or Gretel, moved in the intellectual circles of Berlin, where she was acquainted with Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht and Ernst Bloch, each of whom Adorno would become familiar with during the mid-20s ; after fourteen years, Gretel and Theodor were married in 1937.

In November 1941 Adorno followed Horkheimer to what Thomas Mann called " German California ," setting up house in a Pacific Palisades neighborhood of German emigres which included Bertolt Brecht and Arnold Schoenberg.

The project was based on a German folktale called Der Freischütz, with Wilson responsible for the design and direction, Burroughs for writing the book, and Waits for music and lyrics, which were heavily influenced by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.

The album is also notable for containing a number of covers of songs by other artists, including The Ramones (" The Return of Jackie and Judy " and " Danny Says "), Daniel Johnston (" King Kong "), Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (" What Keeps Mankind Alive "), and Leadbelly (" Ain't Goin ' Down to the Well " and " Goodnight Irene "), as well as renditions of works by poets and authors admired by Waits, such as Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac and a previously released duet with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse entitled " Dog Door ".

Its members also belonged to other art movements and groups during the Weimar Republic era, such as architect Walter Gropius ( founder of Bauhaus ), and Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht ( agitprop theatre ).

Original German poster for The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill ( 1928 ).

The theatres of Berlin and Frankfurt am Main were graced with drama by Ernst Toller, Bertolt Brecht, cabaret, and stage direction by Max Reinhardt and Erwin Piscator.

The avant-garde theater of Bertolt Brecht and Max Reinhardt in Berlin was the most advanced in Europe, being rivaled only by that of Paris.

* Bertolt Brecht – playwright ( The Threepenny Opera )

** Bertolt Brecht, German playwright ( Threepenny Opera ) ( b. 1898 )

* August 31 – The Threepenny Opera () by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill opens at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin.

* February 10 – Bertolt Brecht, German writer ( d. 1956 )

* September 29 – Drums in the Night ( Trommeln in der Nacht ) becomes the first play by Bertolt Brecht to be staged, at the Munich Kammerspiele.

* " Resolution ", a poem by Bertolt Brecht

* Tui ( intellectual ), a neologism coined by Bertolt Brecht to describe a type of intellectual, as depicted in his play Turandot

The distancing effect, more commonly known ( earlier ) by John Willett's 1964 translation the alienation effect or ( more recently ) as the estrangement effect (), is a performing arts concept coined by playwright Bertolt Brecht " which prevents the audience from losing itself passively and completely in the character created by the actor, and which consequently leads the audience to be a consciously critical observer.

The term agitprop gave rise to agitprop theatre, a highly-politicized leftist theatre originated in 1920s Europe and spread to America ; the plays of Bertolt Brecht being a notable example.

In more recent times, it has been associated with the poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, whose Verfremdungseffekt (" alienation effect ") was a potent element of his approach to theater.

His turn to Marxism in the 1930s was partly due to the influence of Bertolt Brecht, whose critical aesthetics developed epic theatre and its Verfremdungseffekt ( defamiliarisation, alienation ).

Writers and techniques frequently mentioned in relation to the Theatre of the Absurd include the 19th-century nonsense poets, such as Lewis Carroll or Edward Lear ; Polish playwright Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ; the Russians Daniil Kharms, Nikolai Erdman, and others ; Bertolt Brecht's distancing techniques in his " Epic theatre "; and the " dream plays " of August Strindberg.

* 1957: Deutsche Sinfonie ( after texts of Bertolt Brecht and Ignazio Silone ); Bilder aus der Kriegsfibel ; " Die Teppichweber von Kujan-Bulak " (" The Carpetweavers of Kujan-Bulak ", with Brecht ); " Lied der Tankisten " ( text by Weinert ); " Regimenter gehn "; " Marsch der Zeit " (" March of Time ", after Mayakovsky ); Three Lieder ( after Mayakovsky and Peter Hacks ); " Sputnik-Lied " (" Sputnik Song ", text of Kuba )

In the late 1920s, the young and short () actor moved to Berlin, where he worked with German playwright Bertolt Brecht, including a role in Brecht's Mann ist Mann and as Dr. Nakamura in the musical Happy End ( music by composer Kurt Weill ), alongside Brecht's wife Helene Weigel and co-stars Carola Neher, Oskar Homolka and Kurt Gerron.

The German director and dramatist Bertolt Brecht developed detailed storyboards as part of his dramaturgical method of " fabels.

The German modernist Bertolt Brecht based his epic play The Mother ( 1932 ) on Gorky's novel of the same name.

In April 2007, he was also involved in The Big Brecht Fest at the Young Vic Theatre in London celebrating the work of German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, where a series of newly-translated versions of some of his short plays were performed.

Erisso was a ballerina for the Max Reinhardt Company during her early years, and danced in productions of works by the German theatrical duo Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.

Across the border in Austria, Arnold Schoenberg innovated a form of twelve-tone music that used rhythm and dissonance instead of traditional melodies and harmonies, while Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht collaborated on some of the great works of German theater, including Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Three-Penny Opera.

However, Moisiu did not keep up with the German Expressionist and epic theatre movement initiated by directors like Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht.

East German theatre was strongly dominated in its early years by Bertolt Brecht, who brought back a lot of artists from the antifascist resistance and reopened Theater am Schiffbauerdamm with his Berliner Ensemble.

He also translated works by Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Honoré de Balzac, and Paul Éluard from French, Bertolt Brecht and Rolf Hochhuth from German, Ivan Goncharov and David Samoilov from Russian, and Alice in Wonderland, Macbeth and Othello from English.

Dialectical theatre is a label that the German modernist theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht came to prefer to Epic theatre near the end of his career to describe the type of theatre that he had developed earlier in his career.

Described as " the theatre's greatest living poet " since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht.

Müller died in Berlin of throat cancer in 1995, acknowledged as one of the greatest living German authors and the most important German language dramatists since Bertolt Brecht.

The only twentieth century German dramatist who holds the same status is Bertolt Brecht.