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#OTD 1956 – Bertolt Brecht, Aged 58, German poet, playwright, director. (b. 1898)

He moved to US to escape Nazis, wrote one Hollywood screenplay (Fritz Lang, Hangmen Also Die 1943), came under investigation by HUAC, testified, then left for East Germany, before being deported.

#OTD 1956 – Bertolt Brecht, 58, German poet, playwright. (b. 1898)

Life of Galileo * Mother Courage + Her Children * Good Person of Szechwan * Caucasian Chalk Circle * Mr Puntila + his Man Matti * Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

(1929 based John Gay's Beggar's [Threepenny] Opera)

"Brecht’s testimony is legendary. Asked did he write “Forward We’ve Not Forgotten” (from his play Decision), read in English translation, he responds, “No, I wrote a German poem, but that is very different from this thing,” provoking laughter in audience."

"In response to the question about his “revolutionary” writings, he responds: “I have written a number of poems, songs and plays in the fight against Hitler, and they can be considered revolutionary ...‘because I was for the overthrow of that government.”
openculture.com/2012/11/bertol…

"After the Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo struggling with his desire to give himself up as hostages are executed.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_…

Released Mar 1943 Dir: Fritz Lang Story Fritz Lang; Bertolt Brecht. Music Hanns Eisler

#BertoltBrecht

"Soon after the razing of #Lidice in 1942 towns in countries around the world were renamed, the world well aware of the atrocity.

#Mexico #Venezuela #Panama #Brazil #USA #UK all renamed towns, to ensure Lidice would never be forgotten?"
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice_ma…

#NowWatching "Waitstill and Martha Sharp, a Unitarian minister and his wife from #Massachusetts, who left their children in the care of their parish and committed to dangerous missions in Europe. Over two years they tried to help as many as they could .."
amazon.com/Defying-Nazis-…

“Beyond the #WW2 'cloak-and-dagger' suspense of my grandparents’ experience, it is a story of what #America meant to #refugees fleeing war-torn countries, to try to build new lives."

ushmm.org/online/watch/s…