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CGardne05759171: What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? --Bertolt Brecht
campustheatre: The sly melodies of composer Kurt Weill and the daring of dramatist Bertolt Brecht come together on-screen under the direction of German auteur G. W. Pabst (Pandora’s Box) in this classic adaptation of the Weimar-era theatrical sensation.
DictatorWatch: When the houses of the great collapse
Many little people are slain.
Those who have no share in the fortunes of the mighty
Often have a share in their misfortunes.
The plunging wagon
Drags the sweating beasts with it into the abyss ~ Bertolt Brecht,
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
AllOnFire: People who understand everything get no stories.
- Bertolt Brecht
xiaodouya88698: The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines, all depend on political decisions. — Bertolt Brecht
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
_8Mira8_: "The tattered cord
can again become knotted.
It holds
but it is torn.
Perhaps we'll face
each other again
but there,
where you left me,
you'll not meet me
again."
Bertolt Brecht
jupitterlarsen: This week on A 5-Minute Hour we drop by Bertolt Brecht’s former home in Santa Monica. Please comment, like, and subscribe.
blakandblack: “A man who doesn’t know the truth is just an idiot, but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook.”
~Bertolt Brecht~
CryptoCesar26: Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes
-Bertolt Brecht
MattLabor: ANDREA: Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero.
GALILEO: No. Unhappy is the land in need of heroes.
-- Bertolt Brecht, “The Life of Galileo”
Here's hoping this is all these heroes are to be used for.
Which (with unsurprising surprise) is something everyone can agree on.
MattLabor: ANDREA: Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero.
GALILEO: No. Unhappy is the land in need of heroes.
-- Bertolt Brecht, “The Life of Galileo”
Here's hoping this is all these heroes are to be used for.
Which (with unsurprising surprise) is something everyone can agree on.
MattLabor: ANDREA: Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero.
GALILEO: No. Unhappy is the land in need of heroes.
-- Bertolt Brecht, “The Life of Galileo”
Mizjessicaking: It's time for a brand new 5 Minute Hour! This week Crank Sturgeon makes some noise. I work on a new primitive folk doll. We drop by Bertolt Brecht’s former home in Santa Monica. Oh, and Colin still really, really doesn’t like tea bags, or tea-balls!
NoisyDelivery: This week on A 5-Minute Hour we drop by Bertolt Brecht’s former home in Santa Monica. Please comment, like, and subscribe. Thank you…!!!
__philosopherr: In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.
-Bertolt Brecht, motto to Svendborg Poems, 1939
AvanzareAvanti: “Art is not a mirror for reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
- Bertolt Brecht
jnaneswari1: "I am not unjust, but I am not courageous. They pointed out their world to me today, I saw the hand that pointed; it was bloody...."
Bertolt Brecht
XianSkr: "In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times." Bertolt Brecht
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
vkarev: Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes.
Galileo: No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.
-- Bertolt Brecht, "Life of Galileo"
Guardiaoscura: “In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.”
— Bertolt Brecht
Wex_WD: The Good Person of Szechwan.
By Bertolt Brecht.
iam_nyakoi: Relevance of Bertolt Brecht's play "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" in Kenyan society today.(Retweet⚠️)
This book is a powerful political allegory that explores themes of justice, power, and the role of the individual in society. Although the play was written in the 1940s,...
alibraryimplies: In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times
—svendborg poems, bertolt brecht
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
djmgaffneyw4: Peter Lorre acted for Bertolt Brecht in Berlin.
aliner: We for our part feel well and truly done.
- Bertolt Brecht
velvetg86947520: “To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.”
― Bertolt Brecht
Topmember: “I can’t abide injustice.”
― Bertolt Brecht
AlexandraErin: The Ballad of Mack the Teeth from the Tricuspid Opera by Bertolt Brecht.
jupitterlarsen: This week on A 5-Minute Hour Crank Sturgeon makes some noise. Jessica makes another one of her folk dolls. We drop by Bertolt Brecht’s former home in Santa Monica. Colin still really, really doesn’t like tea bags! Please comment, like, and subscribe.
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
tldps4: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
Jornmungandr: HE THINKS HE BERTOLT BRECHT OR SOMETHING
notskz1: The Good Person of Szechwan | Bertolt Brecht | Play | English theatre | German dramatist | capitalism, greed, corruption, goodness, humanity vs the divine, women, dual identities
IlyasKamavi: Food come first and then morality........
Bertolt Brecht
TaffetaV: Book finds: Hardcover copy of Hollywood Babylon, The Outlaw Bible of American Essays, 2 poetry collections, and a illustrated book about Bertolt Brecht’s Berlin
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
DE_ED_62: "And peace is
don't be hungry
don't be cold
do not be afraid."
Bertolt Brecht
AsiaPost3: Bertolt Brecht: Transcending borders, times through theatre
SlacksNylon: This, The last interview of Hannah Arendt, has much to indicate the position of our politics in 2020- 2023. Take particular note on her quoting Bertolt Brecht. Rather ominous I feel, and succinctly familiar.
__jimh: They call me Bertolt Brecht because my marriage dissolved as a result of alienation of affection
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
tldps4: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
anildirects: Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
- Bertolt Brecht
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
CGardne05759171: What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? —Bertolt Brecht
clamatoes: Not a Bertolt Brecht guy, not a fan of that whole Weimar [gesturing futilely] thing, not for me. Real dead area in my German studies throughout high school and college
idrrajdeep: A cautionary tale about autocracy and dictatorship that is controlling intellect and humanity in the name of nationalism.Based on the work of Bertolt Brecht the play Ulki is even more relevant in the contemporary society.
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
iMoGalore: People who understand everything get no stories.
- Bertolt Brecht
DennisRaphael01: All three finales from the Threepenny Opera
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil, 1928
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
tldps4: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
cylocyziruzu: Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht
robertsnickc: “To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.”
~ Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956
Naarhiwaal: You who will emerge from the flood
In which we have gone under
Remember
When you speak of our failings
The dark time too
Which you have escaped.
Bertolt Brecht: To Those Born Later
acentolunar: “There are men that fight one day and are good, others fight one year and they’re better, and there are those who fight many years and are very good, but there are the ones who fight their whole lives and those are the indispensable ones”.
-Bertolt Brecht
poetry__project: In The Measures Taken, Bertolt Brecht leads us to question the nature of solidarity and sacrifice, as we follow the four agitators' mission to spread class consciousness, to organize labor movements, and to overthrow the evils of capitalist society.
poetry__project: written by Bertolt Brecht
staging and concept by Jurrell Lewis and Lucas Kane
directed by Lucas Kane
performed by Malachi Brown, Ava Kaplan, Nashwa Zaman, Adi Blaustein Rejto, and Kaiden Talesh
DannyBraverman: Spectator writer David Hare might want to familiarise himself with the work of Bertolt Brecht or at some point catch West Side Story to see what good political theatre looks like.
orlarwahlay: Who does not know the truth, is simply a fool... Yet who knows the truth and calls it a lie, is a Criminal.
~ Bertolt Brecht
DennisRaphael01: The canalization of a river
The grafting of a fruit tree
The education of a person
The reconstruction of a state.
These are all instances of a fruitful critique
And they are also
Instances of art.
Bertolt Brecht – On the Critical Attitude (1945/2019)
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
KumarsSalehi: I believe John Cusack is one of our greatest living posters, overlooked by observers of liberalism and connoisseurs of irony despite routinely tweeting poetry that sounds like if Bertolt Brecht was a drunk MSNBC host
DennisRaphael01: “Thinking is one of the greatest pleasures of the human race.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Galileo
DennisRaphael01: The canalization of a river / The grafting of a fruit tree / The education of a person / The reconstruction of a state.
These are all instances of a fruitful critique / And they are also / Instances of art.
Bertolt Brecht – On the Critical Attitude (1945/2019)
robertsnickc: “To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.”
~ Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956
larryagross: Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
librarybookbot: ‘In the dark times, will there also be singing? / Yes, there will be singing. / About the dark times.’
— bertolt brecht, Motto
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
fraskyfizzle: People who understand everything get no stories.
- Bertolt Brecht
Leftist_Dankism: The Good Person of Szechwan - Bertolt Brecht
A really interesting play about how our environment shapes our morals and actions, filled with themes of love, greed, envy and struggle.
KalishRichard: Silence is support. Only strong opposition can stop what’s happening. Bertolt Brecht made that point clearly in “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,” showing how silence and cowardice cleared the way for Hitler’s rise.
LMaischak: A reminder, a propos of Biden's refugee and asylum policies.
Bertolt Brecht, 1940/41
On Humans and Passports
contentmo: People who understand everything get no stories.
- Bertolt Brecht
mariachong: “It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.” —Bertolt Brecht
MugeOskay: In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.
Bertolt Brecht
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
tldps4: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
iluvbutts247: dustin hoffman looks like bertolt brecht in this movie
protector918364: gcse theatre studies were so unserious i just found my old paper that i got full marks on and one of the questions was 'name 4 facts about bertolt brecht' and my 15 year old ass put down 'he made people think with his work' and got the mark
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
andrew_neal7: “Robbing a bank is a crime but founding one even more so”
Bertolt Brecht
BillingbotCrit: Ivo Van Hove's production at the Almeida is a pale imitation of Bertolt Brecht's in 1966
0xisabelle: “art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” — bertolt brecht
nnamdikanaga: I dunno what’s going on here but,
Mother Courage and her Children
Bertolt Brecht, 1939
AllOnFire: People who understand everything get no stories.
- Bertolt Brecht
reytheama: In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.
▪️Motto by Bertolt Brecht
DennisRaphael01: Perpetuating the utopia of health behaviourism: A case study of the Canadian Men’s Health Foundation’s Don’t Change Much initiative
"Little changes are the enemies of great changes."
-- Bertolt Brecht
alinanawaz_ch05: "Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but to see quickly how to make them good." — Bertolt Brecht. "
rlwldnj: Why be a man when you can be a success? (Bertolt Brecht)
VoicesForAston: and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations."
Bertolt Brecht
joe_messina: “Those who are against fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of barbarism, are like people who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf.”
Bertolt Brecht
JeanSaucisse6: Gn!
'You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.'
- Bertolt Brecht
A king without distraction
tim_orwah: "He who fights can lose. He who doesn't fight has already lost." ~ Bertolt Brecht
a6ruled_WFH: I asked ChatGPT to write a poem about Brexit in the style of Bertolt Brecht. Now I’m not saying it’s a *good* poem, but…
YogiScottL: “The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”
~ Bertolt Brecht
