Brecht, BertoltBiblio.com
Brecht, BertoltBiblio.com
Bertolt Brecht: Schriften 1 2 3 4 and 5
359862Berlin und Weimar / Frankfurt am Main: Aufbau-Verlag / Suhrkamp Verlag. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine lot of six 6 volumes of the works of the German novelist critic poet and playwrite Bertolt Brecht. Handsomely bound in burgundy cloth over boards with sharp and distinct black-stamped "b" to front covers and gilt titling also sharp and distinct and with bound-in silk linen bookmarks quite fine. Tightly bound clean unmarked of interior. The set of six 6 volumes two being bound in two volumes is comprised of the following: Schriften 1 1992 1914-1933 6 7-828 7 pp.; Schriften 2 Teil 1 1993 1933-1942 6 7-605 pp.; Schriften 2 Teil 2 1993 1933-1942 607-1168 4 pp.; Schriften 3 1993 1942-1956 6 7-627 4 pp. and with a torn half-title; Schriften 4 1991 Texte zu Stucken 8 9-605 4 pp.; Schriften 5 1994 Theatermodelle Katzgraben - Notate 1953 Schriftenverzeichnis zu Band 21-25 7 8-650 3 pp. From his Wikipedia entry "Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht 10 February 1898 - 14 August 1956 known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht was a German theatre practitioner playwright and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924 where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Being long-immersed in Marxian thought and practice during his formative years Brecht eventually fled Germany in 1933 as the Nazis rose to power and settled first in Scandinavia then in Southern California. In 1947 he was surveilled upon by the H.U.A.C. and was forced to flee again. Accused of being a Communist the day after testifying "he returned to Europe eventually settling in East Berlin where he co-founded the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator actress Helene Weigel."Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Aufbau-Verlag / Suhrkamp Verlag hardcover
