by Bertolt Brecht · Suhrkamp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518102299
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«Die Dreigroschenoper» is Bertolt Brecht's musical play, published by Suhrkamp in paperback (128 pages, in German).
The play, inspired by John Gay's «The Beggar's Opera», satirises the corruption of bourgeois society. In Victorian London, the beggars' king Peachum exploits misery as a business, while the criminal Mackie Messer embodies bourgeois respectability. Their confrontation exposes the moral hypocrisy between the underworld and the comfortable classes.
Edition from the edition suhrkamp collection, number 229. Written in German. Originally premiered in 1928. 128 pages in paperback.
Suitable for students of German literature, theatre readers, and those approaching the work of Bertolt Brecht.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, 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 lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt.
