Bertolt Brecht Quotes
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
Brecht, Bertolt. The Threepenny Opera. Translated by John Willett and Ralph Manheim, Arcade Publishing, 1994, Act 2.
His interviewer had asked him what he, as a cultural critic and a political essayist, thought of Donald Trump’s campaigning style.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known professionally as Bertolt 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 Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the so-called V-effect.
