Tue, February 12, 2019 at 6:45 AM UTC Back in 1977 I met Paula Banholzer, Brecht’s first love, and some of his friends from his early days. I made a documentary film about Brecht’s early years ...
Director Heinrich Breloer mixes drama with documentary in 'Brecht,' his marathon TV biopic of radical playwright and leftist icon Bertolt Brecht. By Stephen Dalton Bertolt Brecht was lucky there was ...
A longtime admirer of Bertolt Brecht, documentary maker John Walter goes behind the scenes at the Public Theater’s 2006 staging of Mother Courage and Her Children in Central Park. Meryl Streep, who ...
The German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) inspired extremes of loyalty and antipathy. Brilliant, charismatic and seductive, he was professionally unreliable and personally deceptive.