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A list of some works of Bertolt Brecht.

Fiction

Plays and screenplays

Entries show: English-language translation of title (German-language title) [year written] / [year first produced][1]

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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.[2] 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.[3]

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  • 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?

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  1. ↑ The translations of the titles are based on the standard of the Brecht Collected Plays series (see bibliography, primary sources). Chronology provided through consultation with Sacks 1994 and Willett 1967, preferring the former with any conflicts.
  2. ↑ Note: Several of Brecht's poems were set by his collaborator Hanns Eisler in his Deutsche Sinfonie, begun in 1935, but not premiered until 1959 (three years after Brecht's death).
  3. ↑ Bertolt Brecht, Poems 1913–1956, ed. by John Willett, Ralph Manheim, and Erich Fried (London: Eyre Methuen, 1976), p. 507.
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