Bertolt Brecht/Works

Fiction

• Stories of Mr. Keuner (Template:Interlanguage link)
• Threepenny Novel (Dreigroschenroman, 1934)
• The Business Affairs of Mr. Julius Caesar (Template:Interlanguage link, 1937–39, unfinished, published 1957)

Plays and screenplays

Entries show: English-language translation of title (German-language title) [year written] / [year first produced]

• Baal 1918/1923
• Drums in the Night (Trommeln in der Nacht) 1918–20/1922
• The Beggar (Der Bettler oder Der tote Hund) 1919/?
• A Respectable Wedding (Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit) 1919/1926
• Driving Out a Devil (Er treibt einen Teufel aus) 1919/?
• Lux in Tenebris 1919/?
• The Catch (Der Fischzug) 1919?/?
• Mysteries of a Barbershop (Mysterien eines Friseursalons) (screenplay) 1923
• In the Jungle of Cities (Im Dickicht der Städte) 1921–24/1923
• The Life of Edward II of England (Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England) 1924/1924
• Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer (Der Untergang des Egoisten Johnann Fatzer) (fragments) 1926–30/1974
• Man Equals Man also A Man's A Man (Mann ist Mann) 1924–26/1926
• The Elephant Calf (Das Elefantenkalb) 1924–26/1926
• Little Mahagonny (Mahagonny-Songspiel) 1927/1927
• The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) 1928/1928
• The Flight across the Ocean (Der Ozeanflug); originally Lindbergh's Flight (Lindberghflug) 1928–29/1929
• The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent (Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis) 1929/1929
• Happy End (Happy End) 1929/1929
• The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) 1927–29/1930
• He Said Yes / He Said No (Der Jasager; Der Neinsager) 1929–30/1930–?
• The Decision/The Measures Taken (Die Maßnahme) 1930/1930
• Saint Joan of the Stockyards (Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe) 1929–31/1959
• The Exception and the Rule (Die Ausnahme und die Regel) 1930/1938
• The Mother (Die Mutter) 1930–31/1932
• Kuhle Wampe (screenplay, with Ernst Ottwalt) 1931/1932
• The Seven Deadly Sins (Die sieben Todsünden der Kleinbürger) 1933/1933
• Round Heads and Pointed Heads (Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe) 1931–34/1936
• The Horatians and the Curiatians (Die Horatier und die Kuriatier) 1933–34/1958
• Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches) 1935–38/1938
• Señora Carrar's Rifles (Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar) 1937/1937
• Life of Galileo (Leben des Galilei) 1937–39/1943
• How Much Is Your Iron? (Was kostet das Eisen?) 1939/1939
• Dansen (Dansen) 1939/?
• Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) 1938–39/1941
• The Trial of Lucullus (Das Verhör des Lukullus) 1938–39/1940
• The Judith of Shimoda (Die Judith von Shimoda) 1940
• Mr Puntila and his Man Matti (Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti) 1940/1948
• The Good Person of Szechwan (Der gute Mensch von Sezuan) 1939–42/1943
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui) 1941/1958
• Hangmen Also Die! (credited as Bert Brecht) (screenplay) 1942/1943
• The Visions of Simone Machard (Die Gesichte der Simone Machard) 1942–43/1957
• The Duchess of Malfi 1943/1943
• Schweik in the Second World War (Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg) 1941–43/1957
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Der kaukasische Kreidekreis) 1943–45/1948
• Antigone (Die Antigone des Sophokles) 1947/1948
• The Days of the Commune (Die Tage der Commune) 1948–49/1956
• The Tutor (Der Hofmeister) 1950/1950
• The Condemnation of Lucullus (Die Verurteilung des Lukullus) 1938–39/1951
• Report from Herrnburg (Herrnburger Bericht) 1951/1951
• Coriolanus (Coriolan) 1951–53/1962
• The Trial of Joan of Arc at Rouen, 1431 (Der Prozess der Jeanne D'Arc zu Rouen, 1431) 1952/1952
• Turandot (Turandot oder Der Kongreß der Weißwäscher) 1953–54/1969
• Don Juan (Don Juan) 1952/1954
• Trumpets and Drums (Pauken und Trompeten) 1955/1955

Theoretical works

• The Modern Theater Is the Epic Theater (1930)
• The Threepenny Lawsuit (Der Dreigroschenprozess) (written 1931; published 1932)
• The Book of Changes (fragment also known as Me-Ti; written 1935–1939)
• The Street Scene (written 1938; published 1950)
• The Popular and the Realistic (written 1938; published 1958)
• Short Description of a New Technique of Acting which Produces an Alienation Effect (written 1940; published 1951)
• A Short Organum for the Theater ("Kleines Organon für das Theater", written 1948; published 1949)
• The Messingkauf Dialogues (Dialoge aus dem Messingkauf, published 1963)

Poetry

Brecht wrote hundreds of poems throughout his life. He began writing poetry as a young boy, and his first poems were published in 1914. His poetry was influenced by folk-ballads, French chansons, and the poetry of Rimbaud and Villon.Template:Citation needed The last collection of new poetry by Brecht published in his lifetime was the 1939 Svendborger Gedichte.

Some of Brecht's poems Template:Div col

• 1940
• A Bad Time for Poetry
• Alabama Song
• Children's Crusade
• Children's Hymn
• Contemplating Hell
• From a German War Primer
• Germany
• Honoured Murderer of the People
• How Fortunate the Man with None
• Hymn to Communism
• I Never Loved You More
• I want to Go with the One I Love
• I'm Not Saying Anything Against Alexander
• In Praise of Communism
• In Praise of Doubt
• In Praise of Illegal Work
• In Praise of Learning
• In Praise of Study
• In Praise of the Work of the Party
• Legend of the Origin of the Book Tao-Te-Ching on Lao-Tsu's Road into Exile
• Mack the Knife
• Mary
• My Young Son Asks Me
• Not What Was Meant
• O Germany, Pale Mother!
• On Reading a Recent Greek Poet
• On the Critical Attitude
• Parting
• Template:Interlanguage link (Questions from a Worker Who Reads)
• Radio Poem
• Reminiscence of Marie A.
• Send Me a Leaf
• Solidarity Song
• The Book Burning (The Burning of the Books)
• The Exile of the Poets
• The Invincible Inscription
• The Mask of Evil
• The Sixteen-Year-Old Seamstress Emma Ries before the Magistrate
• The Solution
• To Be Read in the Morning and at Night
• To Posterity
• To the Students and Workers of the Peasants' Faculty
• Template:Interlanguage link (To Those Born After)
• United Front Song
• War Has Been Given a Bad Name
• What Has Happened?