by Bertolt Brecht · Suhrkamp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518101131
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«Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe» is the play by Bertolt Brecht, published by Suhrkamp in paperback (148 pages, in German).
The play moves the action to the slaughterhouses and the meat exchange of Chicago during a crisis of overproduction, where speculation leaves hundreds of workers unemployed. Johanna Dark, a soldier of the Salvation Army, tries to help the dismissed and ends up confronting the magnate Pierpont Mauler, in a portrait of class struggle under capitalism.
The copy corresponds to number 113 of the Edition Suhrkamp collection.
Recommended for readers of classical theatre and for scholars of twentieth-century German dramaturgy.
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.
