worlds collide

[Justin Schwartz]

I adore Brecht. The Mannheim-Willett translations are not bad, much better 
than the Bentley. He's hard to beat in German, though. He is  real master of 
German prose and poetry. Like all good drama, Brecht plays better than he 
reads. I love Weill's music, too. Speaking just for myself, the Threepenny 
Opera was literally a transforming moment in my life. --jks


>
>On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Catherine Driscoll wrote:
>
> > of 'political' 'folk' 'music'. I find brecht clunky and dull.
>
>A problem of translation, no doubt. Brecht can still be enormous fun, but
>it takes a bit of digging to get at what Heiner Mueller called "der boese
>Brecht" (the evil Brecht, i.e. who had no truck with one-party states
>wherever they might be).
>
>And then there's Mueller himself, who almost single-handedly innovated
>Eurotheater ("Hamletmachine", "Life of Gundling", "Germania Death in
>Berlin").
>
>-- Dennis
>

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