"The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies."

Bertolt Brecht

[It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment]

"Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end." Immanuel Kant

Bertolt Brecht, Stories Of Mr Keuner

the silmarillion, "of beren and lúthien," j.r.r. tolkien // hadestown, "come home with me (reprise)," anaïs mitchell // to noise making (sing), hozier // the return of the king, j.r.r. tolkien // hadestown, "doubt comes in," anaïs mitchell // the svenborg poems, bertolt brecht // the silmarillion, "of the return of the noldor," j.r.r. tolkien

Bertolt Brecht

In the dark times, will there also be memes?

Yes, there will be memes. About the dark times.

yes, all things end, but we still have art

"This, I feel, is the advantage to creating art at this point in time: When we realize that we are temporary, we are facing our self-destruction, we are realizing our fate and we must confront it. Art is the only sensible primal response to an outlook of possible destruction." - Keith Haring

[bertolt brecht || unkown || dead poets society (1989), dir. peter weir || all things end, hozier || andrew garfield in an interview for 'the believer' || free, florence + the machines || give yourself permission to be creative, ethan hawke || dead poets society (1989), dir. peter weir || road to hell (reprise) hadestown]

Hella Guth (1908-1992) — The Threepenny Opera [woodblock, 1933]

bertolt brecht, “o you great trees there in the hollow places”

“Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.”

— Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

he'd be causing so much drama on tumblr if he was around today he'd do numbers on here

Bertolt Brecht, Questions from a Worker Who Reads

Bertolt Brecht

Gli affamati — Mattia Insolia

Happy birthday, Bertolt Brecht! (February 10, 1898)

A tremendously important playwright and poet, Bertolt Brecht is best known as the father of epic theatre. Born in Augsburg, Bavaria to a middle class family. He turned to radical politics as a student, nearly being expelled for his strident anti-militarism in the midst of World War I. During the years of the Weimar Republic, Brecht familiarized himself with Marxism and wrote a number of agitprop plays supportive of communism and the Soviet Union. Brecht helped to pioneer the epic theatre movement, noted for its emphasis on promoting self-reflection and critical analysis. His most famous play, The Threepenny Opera, which he wrote with Kurt Weill, satirizes capitalist society through the lens of an adaptation of the classic Beggar's Opera. Fleeing Nazi Germamy in 1933, he eventually came to America, where he worked until the Red Scare blacklisted him. Afterwards, he made his way to East Germany. He died in 1956.

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it."

Alman şiirinin ve tiyatrosunun en önemli isimleri arasında kabul edilen; Alman şair, tiyatro yazarı ve yönetmeni Bertolt Brecht'i aramızdan ayrılışının 67. yılında saygıyla anıyoruz.

Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin playing chess, Svendborg, 1934-1938 [Broomberg and Chanarin]