by Bertolt Brecht · Suhrkamp Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518101056
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«Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti» is the play by Bertolt Brecht, published by Suhrkamp in paperback, in German.
The action centres on the relationship between the landowner Puntila and his chauffeur Matti. When Puntila is drunk he is affable and generous; sober, however, he becomes hard and authoritarian. The play uses this contrast to satirise the morality of the upper class and the exploitation of servants, combining popular comedy and social criticism.
The play bears the subtitle «Volksstück» and belongs to the Edition Suhrkamp series, number 105. This edition was published in 1965.
A classic of twentieth-century theatre, present in study programmes of German literature.
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.
